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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Not a stupid tourist (we were the tourists), just a stereotypically unworldly ShermanOn tour with my band in deepest Louisiana, we stopped at a truck stop at around 2am to take advantage of the staff being a bit jaded and sleepy by stuffing our pockets with trucker speed (proper ephedrine pills) and key rings with religious slogans.
The (rather cute) young lady on the till was a little flirtatious: 'I jest luhrve the way y'all tawk! Where're y'all frahm?'
'London, in England'
'Did y'all drive all the way heah?'
No. Not unless someone's figured out a way to make a trans-Siberian journey and helicopter airlift for a proper full-on rock-n-roll US tour bus cost less than 8 flights to JFK and bus hire, you fucking retard.
The scariest bit of the trip was either the drummer nearly being shot when he tried to open the wrong hotel door in the middle of nowhere in Montana, or the moment we realised that the huge pump-action shotgun hung over the counter at another truck stop (in New Mexico this time) was the first prize in the local beauty contest(!)
The funniest bit was chucking Graham from Blur in the hotel pool beacuse he was crying and saying he wanted his mum.
(, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 14:43, Reply)
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