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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Yanks againNo let me preface this message by saying that I do now live in America (in New York to be exact) and I love most of the Americans I have met here - they are intelligent, interested in the outside world and let me get away with a lot of shit just cos they love my accent. Hurrah.
Anyway, I was backpaking through Europe with my best mate and one sunny day we decided to go to Auschwitz. We had an excellent tour guide and were suitably shocked by the mountains of shoes, hair and suitcases on display right in front of us for all to see with their own eyes. Except for one American woman, who kept her camcorder in front of her face, and looked at EVERYTHING through the little fold out tv bit. Everything.
If not stupidity, then a general unwillingness to deal with the real world if it was not in the confines of a tv screen.
(, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 17:37, Reply)
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