Stupid TouristsWhat's the stupidest thing you've ever heard a tourist say? Ever heard an American talking about visiting "Scotchland, England", or (and this one is actually real) a Japanese couple talking about the correct way to say Clapham is actually Clatham, as "ph" sounds are pronounced "th". Which has a certain logic really. UPDATE: Please, no more Loogabarooga stories. It's getting like, "and I opened my eyes and my mum had left me a cup of tea!"
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chthonic, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 16:31)
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In France, which is rubbish (fnar!),the people in charge of naming stuff decided that the most sensible and tourist-friendly thing to do would be to name train stations not after the city they're actually IN, but after the city at the end of the line that passes through them. Morons.
Hence you have Gare de Lyon in Paris, Gare de Paris in Lyon, one very confused English guy wandering around Lyon like a complete twunt asking how to get to the Champs Elysees, and lots of smugly amused baguette-munchers making facetious comments like 'go straight on at the boulangerie, and it's 400 miles on your left - you can't miss it. He-haw, he-haw, he-haw!'
(I'm not telling you who the ig'nant belming Limey fuckwad on the end of all this scything Gallic wit was, because it was me.)
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grey kid is breakdancing to save a community centre, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 16:53,
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