Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Dec 25th 2007, 11:00 pm
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Dec 27th 2007, 3:31 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Similar to the OP:
*some babble about how she likes the English accent*
"Do you speak French?"
Me: "No..?"
"What, you don't speak French?"
Me: "Um..no..?"
"Why, what language do they speak in England?"
And then the most annoying one I get all the time when I'm referred to:
".....he's from London"
London is not synonymous with England!!! from Nottingham dammit
*some babble about how she likes the English accent*
"Do you speak French?"
Me: "No..?"
"What, you don't speak French?"
Me: "Um..no..?"
"Why, what language do they speak in England?"
And then the most annoying one I get all the time when I'm referred to:
".....he's from London"
London is not synonymous with England!!! from Nottingham dammit
Dec 27th 2007, 8:02 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Ok - so maybe there is some hope for the future generations.
On visiting the US to see my Niece a couple of years ago (she was 4), I was making lunch and said "I'm peckish" to which she replied "No you're not Auntie C, you're ENGLISH"
V. cute - also she was convinced that I lived at the airport as that's where she always came to collect me!!
On visiting the US to see my Niece a couple of years ago (she was 4), I was making lunch and said "I'm peckish" to which she replied "No you're not Auntie C, you're ENGLISH"
V. cute - also she was convinced that I lived at the airport as that's where she always came to collect me!!
Dec 27th 2007, 8:10 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Don't mind some of us. We're the ones you see in the 40's movies, hanging around the bar, fag in the mouth, and a drink in the hand, with the air of been there, done it / seen it all.
Dec 27th 2007, 8:12 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Me: on a rant about how football has more right to be called football than american football because there actually is some hitting of the ball with the foot.
Husband: Well, the name football has nothing to do with the foot does it? Because the British'football' is spelt F-U-T ball: nothing to do with the foot!!! (said with some authority)
Me: Errr- wtf??
I think all he's ever watched is mexican 'futball'.
Husband: Well, the name football has nothing to do with the foot does it? Because the British'football' is spelt F-U-T ball: nothing to do with the foot!!! (said with some authority)
Me: Errr- wtf??
I think all he's ever watched is mexican 'futball'.
Dec 27th 2007, 8:12 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Similar to the OP:
*some babble about how she likes the English accent*
"Do you speak French?"
Me: "No..?"
"What, you don't speak French?"
Me: "Um..no..?"
"Why, what language do they speak in England?"
And then the most annoying one I get all the time when I'm referred to:
".....he's from London"
London is not synonymous with England!!! from Nottingham dammit
*some babble about how she likes the English accent*
"Do you speak French?"
Me: "No..?"
"What, you don't speak French?"
Me: "Um..no..?"
"Why, what language do they speak in England?"
And then the most annoying one I get all the time when I'm referred to:
".....he's from London"
London is not synonymous with England!!! from Nottingham dammit
And that would be 'FutBol'.
Dec 27th 2007, 10:20 pm
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Been accused of many things in my life - but that one's a first ;-)
Dec 28th 2007, 12:33 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Boots assistant today in Norwich UK.
I open my wallet that has my California D/L showing, to pay, and this proves that us Brits are just as dopey....Well not all of us
Girlie Assitant:
"Oh you've got a California ID!! I always wanted to go Australia but my husand won't fly that far"
And we thought we had problems in the US.
I open my wallet that has my California D/L showing, to pay, and this proves that us Brits are just as dopey....Well not all of us
Girlie Assitant:
"Oh you've got a California ID!! I always wanted to go Australia but my husand won't fly that far"
And we thought we had problems in the US.
Last edited by Poppy girl; Dec 28th 2007 at 2:01 am.
Dec 28th 2007, 1:52 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Boots assistant today in Norwich UK.
I open my wallet that has my California D/L showing, to pay, and this proves that us Brits are just a dopey....Well not all of us
Girlie Assitant:
"Oh you've got a California ID!! I always wanted to go Australia but my husand won't fly that far"
And we thought we had problems in the US.
I open my wallet that has my California D/L showing, to pay, and this proves that us Brits are just a dopey....Well not all of us
Girlie Assitant:
"Oh you've got a California ID!! I always wanted to go Australia but my husand won't fly that far"
And we thought we had problems in the US.
Never underestimate the power of education or lack of it! I suppose the trendy move away from the old style Geography lessons has a lot to answer for.
Dec 28th 2007, 10:12 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Boots assistant today in Norwich UK.
I open my wallet that has my California D/L showing, to pay, and this proves that us Brits are just as dopey....Well not all of us
Girlie Assitant:
"Oh you've got a California ID!! I always wanted to go Australia but my husand won't fly that far"
And we thought we had problems in the US.
I open my wallet that has my California D/L showing, to pay, and this proves that us Brits are just as dopey....Well not all of us
Girlie Assitant:
"Oh you've got a California ID!! I always wanted to go Australia but my husand won't fly that far"
And we thought we had problems in the US.
Dec 28th 2007, 3:39 pm
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Last visit back to Blighty I stood there like an idiot sorting out money for the waiting shopkeeper looking at all these wiered coins and then spoke to him in my English accent, must have thought I was from the funny farm or something.
Dec 28th 2007, 3:43 pm
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
I'm not too keen on getting into a situation where a group of people hear me talk over here in my Brit accent as I'm not exactly the most extraverted of people and hope to get through to my grave as quietly as possible!
Dec 29th 2007, 1:09 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Whenever I get a call from a call center in India/Phillipines, etc., I always ask them if they are calling from a foreign country. Ninety percent of the time they say they are calling from "San Antonio, Texas." It's the standard lie.
I then ask them "What is the capital of Texas?"
One of 3 things usually happens:
1. There is a long silence, and they hang up.
2. They say "Dallas."
3. They say "let me get my supervisor."
Since I have been asking this question, about 5 years now, I have never had a correct answer.
I then ask them "What is the capital of Texas?"
One of 3 things usually happens:
1. There is a long silence, and they hang up.
2. They say "Dallas."
3. They say "let me get my supervisor."
Since I have been asking this question, about 5 years now, I have never had a correct answer.
Dec 29th 2007, 3:41 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Whenever I get a call from a call center in India/Phillipines, etc., I always ask them if they are calling from a foreign country. Ninety percent of the time they say they are calling from "San Antonio, Texas." It's the standard lie.
I then ask them "What is the capital of Texas?"
One of 3 things usually happens:
1. There is a long silence, and they hang up.
2. They say "Dallas."
3. They say "let me get my supervisor."
Since I have been asking this question, about 5 years now, I have never had a correct answer.
I then ask them "What is the capital of Texas?"
One of 3 things usually happens:
1. There is a long silence, and they hang up.
2. They say "Dallas."
3. They say "let me get my supervisor."
Since I have been asking this question, about 5 years now, I have never had a correct answer.