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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We like to make it confusing for em...I work on the railway, and used to be on the trains that connected Stanstead Airport with the Midlands and the North West.
On the departure screens at the train station at Stanstead, you could only get trains to two places:
1] London Liverpool Street
2] Liverpool Lime Street
Now people who have just stepped off a plane walk into the station headed for our glamourous capital city are confronted with this:
The London trains usually had "Liverpool St" on the front,
The Merseyside bound ones had "Liverpool L St" on the front.
So, i know that the Tourists are told that Stanstead is some way out of London, and that our trains here are shite, but how i wondered how many of them thought that a five hour journey was taking the piss somewhat, what the fuck a big murial of John Lennon as the Mona Lisa was doing just outside Liverpool Station, and why they couldnt see Big Ben on the skyline...
(, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 0:27, Reply)
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