When in Rome.....act like a twat..
Now, I know that not all Americans are stupid. My uncle is an American, and he is a very knowledgeable man. However, it is quite a large country.

Anyway, picture the scene: It is late summer, 2007. Myself and Mr Anodyne are in Rome on holiday. We sit down at a pavement cafe-type-thing to grab some tea. We are sat next to three young American ladies who are probably in their early twenties. Now, neither me or Mr Anodyne speak Italian, but we are trying to be polite and have learned a few phrases so we can order things and so on (until about 0.2 seconds into the conversation until the waiters realise we are English and rescue us).

I digress. The waiter went up to the table of Yanks and asked them what they would like to order (in English). Quoth the first American - "No, no, no! We want to order in EYE-TAHHHLIAN". So the waiter obliges and repeats himself, this time in Italian. So the girl looks at him, holding the menu to face him and pointing at it, whilst speaking in her slowest 'talking to the retarded' voice, and says "I - would - like - the - RAY-VIH-OH-LIH". In English. That was how she ordered in Italian. So did the other two.


On another note, I went to the dentist (just in time to miss the last QOTW) with no toothache, and left with the most blinding pain I've ever been in. Which is still continuing. I can't eat, sleep or talk, but I am actually more annoyed that I missed the last question. Goddamn bitch dentist.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Sun 21 Mar 2010, 14:58, 1 reply)

Thank you
For realizing that because we are such a big country, we get more idiots.

As Mark Twain once noted, we lose more fools on Independence Day due to celebrations (fireworks and such) that we now need more than one Independence Day as the country as grown.
(ChiTown Guy Dating when 35+: sane, single, attractive - pick 2, Sun 21 Mar 2010, 18:30, closed)