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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urgggg.Ugh, I have quite a few of these stories, though I won't torture you all with them:
-Going southbound on the Northern Line when a (english!) girl yelled 'DOES THIS GO TO STAINES?'. It probably wouldn't have been so bad had this not been the tube, which has maps of the route plastered ALL OVER THE PLACE.
-I used to live in Iceland, and would go with my parents to visit family in America. Some of the questions I used to get there were terrible, such as 'ICELAND?! WHAT STATE IS THAT IN?!' and 'Is it true that Greenland is icy and Iceland is green?!!??!?!'. Whyyyyyy. I also used to get calls from people in the states attempting to get through to their son in the military or whatever, completely not understanding the concept of time zones and being unable to absorb the fact that it can indeed be 3 in the morning when it's only 8 pm in western america. *cries*
(, Mon 11 Jul 2005, 15:27, Reply)
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