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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Damn tourists!Age 7, on a long family holiday to the USA from Glasgow, we stayed over in Las Vegas. To be honest, most of the Yanks we met were OK, with the notable exception of the pizza shop clerk who had the following exchange with my eldest sister:
'Hey, nice shoes. Where did you get them?'
'Scotland'
'I've never heard of that shoe shop!'
But anyway, the cream on the cake was a group of Dutch tourists who were staying in the same hotel as us when we were en route to San Francisco from LA. Upon hearing our Scottish accents they asked us, in perfect English (why I love most of the continent - they all want to speak English to you and don't care when I massacre their language :) whether all Scottish people are like Braveheart.
We didn't have the heart to tell them that we didn't, so we told them that we only dressed up like this when we wanted to go on holiday.
I have pleasant visions of the same tourists turning up in the Gorbals and asking a local where Mel Gibson was.
(, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 10:53, Reply)
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