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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Merkins aint so bad reallyYears ago ... so many years ago it makes me feel REALY old
Mid 80's, I worked behind the bar in a central Cardiff pub, where, as Cardiffians know, a pint of good old Brains bitter was refered to as a "pint 'o light"
I used to take huge pleasure, when the merkins arrived in our establishment, and ordered "2 small light beer's" (i.e 2 halves of some "merkin bud lite stuff") with serving them up with 2 big foamy pints of Welsh bitter.
And then while they were politely sat at their table obviously not getting on at all well with the beers, I would pass by and ask "is everything ok, how is the beer", to which, to their credit they always looked embarresed and mumbled "geee .. just fine thanks"
Not one of em ever drank more than a 1/4 of a pint.
but they were always polite ... if a little shell shocked, so merkins ain't so bad really
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RadG Drinking Mojitos in the sun, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 19:28,
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