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 in a foreign land, be careful who you think can't understand...Yeah, yeah...poet, didn't know it.
I'll 'fess up immediately and tell you that I'm American. Not only that, but I live in LA. (Shoot me now.) The attempt at saving grace here is that my girlfriend is English. Immediately losing whatever footing British cred might have given: we went to a SUPER trashy, LA, new money, 'hip-hop' club because they had an open bar party that for some reason I was invited to (no, don't even think it!). We were obviously the odd couple out in this situation...at least we think, until we see a pack of about 8 super pasty girls, easily 10 lbs overweight for their manner of dress and we start kind of snickering to ourselves (as you do when drunk on free vodka) about their immodest flab display, fake nails and Burberry. We were doing our best to not be heard, but, at the time, we had learned a new word during our (at that time) recent trip to London: chav. We definitly have chavs in America, and this 8-headed chav machine really took the cake. They noticed that we were looking at them and one of them says something to my girlfriend who is immediately horrified that they are English. So we join them and one of the chav-monster's 8 heads whipped around and asked us what we had been talking about. Being drunk, I replied, "do you know what a chav is?" Needless to say, they pissed off straight away.
It's Friday...is that rhyming day?
(, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 23:13, Reply)
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