Conversation KillersThatNiceMan asks: Have you ever been talking with people down the pub when somebody throws such a complete curveball (Sample WTF moment: "I wonder what it's like to get bummed") that all talk is stopped dead? Tell us!
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 12 May 2011, 12:53)
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HmIn a bar in Asuncion, Paraguay, in 2000 my friend and I were at a slight loss due to lack of Spanish / Guarani and were helped by a friendly old man of European extraction. Conversing in a mixture of Portuguese, halting German and English he told us all about the country and what sights to see etc etc etc. My friend piped up, asking if he was from Paraguay (there is a sizeable German Mennonite community in Paraguay dating from at least the 1900s)? His reply? "Oh no, I spent some time in Russia and Poland but then I had to move over here due to legal and political difficulties in 1945."
(, Wed 18 May 2011, 12:38, 1 reply)
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