The best one yet!!!
#1
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 and told her 'no, I am English'... she replies very rudely and with a very matter of fact attitude and says 'WELL you don't sound like any english person I have ever heard'. She basically accused me of lying
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 it really wasn't all a dream.
It is now the running joke at work about me being Scandinavian.
Ash
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 and told her 'no, I am English'... she replies very rudely and with a very matter of fact attitude and says 'WELL you don't sound like any english person I have ever heard'. She basically accused me of lying
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 it really wasn't all a dream.
It is now the running joke at work about me being Scandinavian.
Ash
#2
Re: The best one yet!!!
Originally Posted by Ash UK/US
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 and told her 'no, I am English'... she replies very rudely and with a very matter of fact attitude and says 'WELL you don't sound like any english person I have ever heard'. She basically accused me of lying
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 it really wasn't all a dream.
It is now the running joke at work about me being Scandinavian.
Ash
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 and told her 'no, I am English'... she replies very rudely and with a very matter of fact attitude and says 'WELL you don't sound like any english person I have ever heard'. She basically accused me of lying
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 it really wasn't all a dream.
It is now the running joke at work about me being Scandinavian.
Ash
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!
#3
Re: The best one yet!!!
Originally Posted by Ash UK/US
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 and told her 'no, I am English'... she replies very rudely and with a very matter of fact attitude and says 'WELL you don't sound like any english person I have ever heard'. She basically accused me of lying
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 it really wasn't all a dream.
It is now the running joke at work about me being Scandinavian.
Ash
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 and told her 'no, I am English'... she replies very rudely and with a very matter of fact attitude and says 'WELL you don't sound like any english person I have ever heard'. She basically accused me of lying
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 it really wasn't all a dream.
It is now the running joke at work about me being Scandinavian.
Ash
Don't worry I've been asked was I German when I said no I was asked what language I was speaking
#4
Re: The best one yet!!!
Originally Posted by Ash UK/US
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 and told her 'no, I am English'... she replies very rudely and with a very matter of fact attitude and says 'WELL you don't sound like any english person I have ever heard'. She basically accused me of lying
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 it really wasn't all a dream.
It is now the running joke at work about me being Scandinavian.
Ash
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 and told her 'no, I am English'... she replies very rudely and with a very matter of fact attitude and says 'WELL you don't sound like any english person I have ever heard'. She basically accused me of lying
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 it really wasn't all a dream.
It is now the running joke at work about me being Scandinavian.
Ash
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.
Last edited by britontour; Nov 7th 2005 at 3:45 am.
#5
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Re: The best one yet!!!
Originally Posted by Ash UK/US
she replies very rudely and with a very matter of fact attitude and says 'WELL you don't sound like any english person I have ever heard'.
"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.
#6
Re: The best one yet!!!
Originally Posted by Ash UK/US
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 and told her 'no, I am English'... she replies very rudely and with a very matter of fact attitude and says 'WELL you don't sound like any english person I have ever heard'. She basically accused me of lying
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Re: The best one yet!!!
Originally Posted by Manc
I guess she never watched Byker Grove as a kid then.
Hang on a minute!!! Is Ash a geordie?
#8
Re: The best one yet!!!
Originally Posted by Thydney
Don't worry I've been asked was I German when I said no I was asked what language I was speaking
The ignorance of some people never ceases to amaze me.
Ash
#9
Re: The best one yet!!!
Originally Posted by rushman
Hang on a minute!!! Is Ash a geordie?
Ash
#10
Re: The best one yet!!!
Originally Posted by Ash UK/US
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 and told her 'no, I am English'... she replies very rudely and with a very matter of fact attitude and says 'WELL you don't sound like any english person I have ever heard'. She basically accused me of lying
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 it really wasn't all a dream.
It is now the running joke at work about me being Scandinavian.
Ash
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 and told her 'no, I am English'... she replies very rudely and with a very matter of fact attitude and says 'WELL you don't sound like any english person I have ever heard'. She basically accused me of lying
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 it really wasn't all a dream.
It is now the running joke at work about me being Scandinavian.
Ash
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!
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.
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Re: The best one yet!!!
[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 !!!???!!!
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 !!!???!!!
#12
Re: The best one yet!!!
Originally Posted by Ash UK/US
she asks 'are you Scandinavian?'
That woulda stumped her...
Just yesterday I was TOLD, "I can tell your from Australia".... Grrrrrr... hee hee
#13
Re: The best one yet!!!
Just tell them your from Tanganiyka... I found it kills the conversation stone dead ...
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Re: The best one yet!!!
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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Re: The best one yet!!!
Originally Posted by Ray
Just tell them your from Tanganiyka... I found it kills the conversation stone dead ...
Works for you Ray but it was Tanzania when most of us were born