Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Dec 20th 2007, 12:22 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Dec 20th 2007, 1:38 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Dec 20th 2007, 3:08 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
I guess the stupidest question ever was
"what is that language you are speaking?"
(one of my colleagues typed that up in a log we keep of stupid things customers say!
)Also:
Him: You don't get trucks this big in England do you?
Me: Yes
Him: NO YOU DONT!!!!!
Me: emmm...ok
And I love being told on a daily basis: "you're not from round here!"
No sh*t Sherlock!!!!!
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Dec 20th 2007, 6:05 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
^^^ Loved that!
I guess the stupidest question ever was
"what is that language you are speaking?"
(one of my colleagues typed that up in a log we keep of stupid things customers say!)
Also:
Him: You don't get trucks this big in England do you?
Me: Yes
Him: NO YOU DONT!!!!!
Me: emmm...ok
And I love being told on a daily basis: "you're not from round here!"
No sh*t Sherlock!!!!!
I guess the stupidest question ever was
"what is that language you are speaking?"
(one of my colleagues typed that up in a log we keep of stupid things customers say!
)Also:
Him: You don't get trucks this big in England do you?
Me: Yes
Him: NO YOU DONT!!!!!
Me: emmm...ok
And I love being told on a daily basis: "you're not from round here!"
No sh*t Sherlock!!!!!
"Do you have eggplant in England"
"Yes - but we call them aubergines" (why did I do that)
"Are they the same though?"
"Yes - just a different name...."
"Do they taste the same?"
...."yes"....
"Do they look the same?"
GGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Dec 20th 2007, 6:29 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
My favorite is
Store clerk ' Are you from The UK?'
Me 'yes'
Clerk ' I have a friend lives in Bir-ming-ham, do you know them?'
Me; 'Is it Dave with the short brown hair?'
Clerk ' OMG! you do know him, wow that's like, totally amazing?'
Clerk' What's your name? I'm going to call him and let him know'
Me ' shaking head and walking away......'
Store clerk ' Are you from The UK?'
Me 'yes'
Clerk ' I have a friend lives in Bir-ming-ham, do you know them?'
Me; 'Is it Dave with the short brown hair?'
Clerk ' OMG! you do know him, wow that's like, totally amazing?'
Clerk' What's your name? I'm going to call him and let him know'
Me ' shaking head and walking away......'
Dec 20th 2007, 6:36 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
The other one I get every year....
Yank "Are you going home for Thanksgiving?"
Me "No....it's not a holiday in England"
Yank "REALLY????" vvvvvvv surprised screech at end of word
Me (very patiently) "well....it's all about the pilgrims isn't it....they're the Brits that got away, why would we celebrate....."
Cue either blank looks or laughs depending on IQ
Yank "Are you going home for Thanksgiving?"
Me "No....it's not a holiday in England"
Yank "REALLY????" vvvvvvv surprised screech at end of word
Me (very patiently) "well....it's all about the pilgrims isn't it....they're the Brits that got away, why would we celebrate....."
Cue either blank looks or laughs depending on IQ
"Do you celebrate Independence Day in England?"
Dec 20th 2007, 6:53 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
(Heaven help them if I used Lakeland dialect on them. I suspect they would then guess I'm from Mars!)
Dec 20th 2007, 7:03 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Oh wait, just thought of a couple. Might have mentioned them before in a similar thread but here goes. The wifes dad (who is a f ookin Dr!!!) while watching a doco about princess di's demise asked me: So, is that why they got divorced then? Totally seriously. My beer went down my nose!!!! Did big ears divoirce her coz she got killed in a car wreck.
During another doco about Pearl Harbour: So, I guess that's what started WW2 then? That was when I began to have some rather nagging doubts about this place
During another doco about Pearl Harbour: So, I guess that's what started WW2 then? That was when I began to have some rather nagging doubts about this place
Dec 20th 2007, 7:14 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
I am always mistaken for an Aussi, Irish, German or Polish. I am constantly asked if im from London, seems most of the folk ive met havent heard of anywhere else or just make the assumption even though i sound nothing like a Londoner....but bizzarley I have been asked when I have told them im from England if England is in London....!
Dec 20th 2007, 7:24 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Hey - just got another one....
"Do you have eggplant in England"
"Yes - but we call them aubergines" (why did I do that)
"Are they the same though?"
"Yes - just a different name...."
"Do they taste the same?"
...."yes"....
"Do they look the same?"
GGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
"Do you have eggplant in England"
"Yes - but we call them aubergines" (why did I do that)
"Are they the same though?"
"Yes - just a different name...."
"Do they taste the same?"
...."yes"....
"Do they look the same?"
GGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
you've obviously met my neighbours son
Dec 20th 2007, 7:27 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Not a question at all, but after an event in Chicago we were being taken back to our respectice hotels in a coach and the driver announced that he would take us to see "the oldest house in Chicago - a real piece of history."
I got some serious frowns for my laughter when we got their and he proudly said: "There you are, folks - 1865!"
(And how come the great fire of Chicago isn't as famous as the Pudding Lane equivalent? Did nobody care, perhaps?! )
I got some serious frowns for my laughter when we got their and he proudly said: "There you are, folks - 1865!"
(And how come the great fire of Chicago isn't as famous as the Pudding Lane equivalent? Did nobody care, perhaps?!
)
Dec 20th 2007, 7:32 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
It took my Mother-in-Law-to-be (which she now is) quite a while to forgive me after the first Thansgiving dinner I had with them, several years ago.
I told them "This year there is particular reason for giving thanks. Queen Elizabeth has announced that as long as the Americans will behave themselves she will have you back." (At least the F-in-L-to-be found it amusing!)
I told them "This year there is particular reason for giving thanks. Queen Elizabeth has announced that as long as the Americans will behave themselves she will have you back." (At least the F-in-L-to-be found it amusing!)
Dec 20th 2007, 8:30 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Not a question at all, but after an event in Chicago we were being taken back to our respectice hotels in a coach and the driver announced that he would take us to see "the oldest house in Chicago - a real piece of history."
I got some serious frowns for my laughter when we got their and he proudly said: "There you are, folks - 1865!"
(And how come the great fire of Chicago isn't as famous as the Pudding Lane equivalent? Did nobody care, perhaps?! )
I got some serious frowns for my laughter when we got their and he proudly said: "There you are, folks - 1865!"
(And how come the great fire of Chicago isn't as famous as the Pudding Lane equivalent? Did nobody care, perhaps?!
)
Dec 20th 2007, 8:36 am
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Re: Friday fun - stupidest thing you've been asked since you've been here...
Not a question at all, but after an event in Chicago we were being taken back to our respectice hotels in a coach and the driver announced that he would take us to see "the oldest house in Chicago - a real piece of history."
I got some serious frowns for my laughter when we got their and he proudly said: "There you are, folks - 1865!"
(And how come the great fire of Chicago isn't as famous as the Pudding Lane equivalent? Did nobody care, perhaps?! )
I got some serious frowns for my laughter when we got their and he proudly said: "There you are, folks - 1865!"
(And how come the great fire of Chicago isn't as famous as the Pudding Lane equivalent? Did nobody care, perhaps?!
)One of the statements was that Queen Elizabeth would accept all of the states back into her commonwealth, except for Ohio because she didn't like the sound of it. There were other various funny remarks about learning to spell Favourite and say words such as Aluminum, Data, Privacy, Status and Schedule properly
Raised a few laughs, but also it also raised some pretty nasty responses too.....
Sometimes I wonder where their sense of humour is.