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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This is Cambridge. You're SUPPOSED to be intelligent!!!!OK, this isn't really about a stupid tourist, more a stupid foreign student.
I did my master's degree at Cambridge University in 2001/02. For those who don't know this, Cambridge as an institution hasn't yet moved into the 20th Century, let alone the 21st.
One of the quaint little traditions Cambridge has are "bedders". Bedders are people who come round your hall of residence and clean your room, collect and replace your bedding and clean your kitchen (since "gentlemen" can't be expected to do such things...)
Anyway, one day the bedder came round to my room, muttering under her breath about one of the students down the hall (an American - oh come on people, at least pretend to be surprised!).
This student (also doing a Masters degree, so already has four years of university life behind her) had asked the bedder "how do you work a match?". The bedder thought she had misheard her, but no, she asked again, how do you work a match!
How the hell do you manage to get to the age of 22 without ever once having witnessed a match being struck, let alone doing it yourself? This girl smoked for feck's sake!
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 20:41, Reply)
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