The best one yet!!!
 

OK so we have all had the are you from Austraila question but this one took the biscuit (cookie for you yanks)...

So I am helping this customer at work and when I am almost done she asks 'are you Scandinavian?' I look at her with a confused look :confused: and told her 'no, I am English'... she replies very rudely and with a very matter of fact attitude and says 'WELL :mad: you don't sound like any english person I have ever heard'. She basically accused me of lying :confused:

But not to worry I spoke to my mum the next day and she assures me I was born in England and did spend the first 24 years of my life there :rolleyes: it really wasn't all a dream.

It is now the running joke at work about me being Scandinavian.

Ash :)

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To which yoy could have replied equally puzzled "No, I don't do I? Funny, wonder how that happened?"

Aside, I love playing the silly 'talk loudly in public and make people stare' game. Took me a minute to realise why it wasn't working on a recent trip to Blackpool though! :D

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Don't worry I've been asked was I German :eek: when I said no I was asked what language I was speaking :confused:

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So far Australian and Irish, I told one person I was from England and he proceed to name places I'd never heard of, then I realised he was talking about New England.

Didn't think I'd need my Spanish over here but a couple of times its come in quite handy when I've stopped at a shop. They looked at me blank when I spoke in English, soon change when asked in Spanish.

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You should've replied
"Thats because all the English people you have heard are really Scandinavians and too polite to tell you what a f**king ignorant **** you are"!!!!!!


Then thought about a change in career as you have about 2 minutes of employment left.

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I guess she never watched Byker Grove as a kid then.

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Hang on a minute!!! Is Ash a geordie?

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I have been asked if I am german too and swiss and austrian... however in the 3 years that I have lived here it is the first time I have been accused of lying about my accent.
The ignorance of some people never ceases to amaze me.

Ash :)

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Not quite although I guess I have/had a bit of a geordie twang... i lived in durham in the UK.

Ash :)

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I've had Scandinavain quite a lot too!
I had the delivery guy at work swear he thought I was Swedish. A bum asked me if I was Norweigan, then had an Australian ask me whereabouts in Australia I was from! :confused:
Also once when I was in Newark Airport I said "tuna sandwich" in the english way ie, "choona" and had a complete fricking stranger who was walking past, tell me I needed to take English Lessons! If I wasn't with my boss I would've been tempted to kick him in the nads. :mad:

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[QUOTE=britontour]So far Australian and Irish, I told one person I was from England and he proceed to name places I'd never heard of, then I realised he was talking about New England.

That's okay-I AM New England born and bred, and I have had people ask me, when I mention that my husband is English, if I am English too !!!???!!! :rolleyes: :confused:

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You should simply have said, NO and asked her - "Where is that" ?

That woulda stumped her...

Just yesterday I was TOLD, "I can tell your from Australia".... Grrrrrr... hee hee :beer:

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Just tell them your from Tanganiyka... I found it kills the conversation stone dead ...

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I was at the docs the other day with my daughter who was wearing a union jack t shirt and had a union jack patch on her jeans. After a while chatting about ailments and so forth the doctor said, "now, let me guess...where are you guys from.....er...let me see...South Africa?"

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Works for you Ray but it was Tanzania when most of us were born :D