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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When I was icklemy parents took me and my brother and sister to visit the tower of London. I will never forget our Mum shouting at us because we laughed at an American woman who, seeing a vase in a glass case, told her child :
"This is the vaize that was given to the Queen when she was coronated."
Also, an American tourist in Plymouth once asked me where he could get "a yellowcab". I hailed a conveniently passing black Hackney carriage and he gave me a tenner for my trouble!
edit : Almost forgot, my mate Frank went to Florida for three weeks.
A barmaid told him "you speak real good American - what part of France are you from?"
He's from Leeds.
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finnbar has officially retired, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 12:51,
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