EPTMe: "42nd and Broadway"
Tourists: "I'm sorry I don't understand"
Me: "Just look for the bright lights"
Funny things tourists ask. - Page 2
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TheFish7
United States2824 Posts
Me: "42nd and Broadway" Tourists: "I'm sorry I don't understand" Me: "Just look for the bright lights" | ||
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solidbebe
Netherlands4921 Posts
On June 22 2012 01:16 AmericanUmlaut wrote: So I was talking about javascript with my mechanic, and he totally didn't know the difference between 0, null, undefined and false. What a maroon. Edit: If the point of your thread wasn't to make people who didn't know something that shouldn't be terribly obvious to them look stupid, why end the post with "...tourists"? The point of the OP is to tell a story about a stupid question some stupid tourists asked, except the question wasn't all that stupid, so now you're getting mocked a bit. I think that's a reasonable response. I was discussing quantum mechanics with my plummer, suddenly this guy turns around and tells me he doesn't know what a complex separable Hilbert space is.. what a scrub, kicked him out immediately. | ||
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La1
United Kingdom659 Posts
people need to lighten up ! I am sure i have asked some proper dumb questions whilst being a tourist... I definantly know i have got lost in london a few times because of station names and ending up on LONNNNNNNNNG walks >.> | ||
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autoexec
United States530 Posts
Crazy but true. | ||
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Analysis
Netherlands15 Posts
On June 22 2012 01:21 Derez wrote: All the questions I'm getting from tourists are about where the nearest coffeeshop is. And they are always suprised when I dont know. For some reason all the british tourists here think that all dutchmen constantly smoke pot day in day out.. :D EDIT: red light district is also a popular one. | ||
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JieXian
Malaysia4677 Posts
On June 22 2012 01:08 huStl.e wrote: They had a map for the area (north edinburgh/south queensferry) that labelled the body of water the bridges crossed as the firth of forth i wouldn't go to the niagra falls and ask why the maid of the mist is called such or go to barcelona and ask why they built a really long bench. They didn't ask why it was called Forth, they were looking for the "other bridges" ....tourists. and that doesn't help your cause either. It's nice that you were polite to them but that line especially gave everyone the impression of whats going on in your head. Seriously I too was confused while reading the OP about you being trolled. I had to google a bit to find out why it was a funny question to you. Also, notice how everyone defending the OP has a UK tag. Personally, I don't mind laughing at tourists at all, if they were geniunely stupid. Like how the "Reggae Bar" right in Chinatown is always filled with white guys. And amusingly one white woman was laughing her ass off and taking a photo of the whole scene. | ||
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kafkaesque
Germany2006 Posts
I wanted to order a bubbly water, asked a friend of mine how to say that "bubbly" part in English and proceeded to order water with jizz in it. | ||
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huStl.e
United Kingdom104 Posts
On June 22 2012 01:40 JieXian wrote: They didn't ask why it was called Forth, they were looking for the "other bridges" and that doesn't help your cause either. It's nice that you were polite to them but that line especially gave everyone the impression of whats going on in your head. Seriously I too was confused while reading the OP about you being trolled. I had to google a bit to find out why it was a funny question to you. Also, notice how everyone defending the OP has a UK tag. Personally, I don't mind laughing at tourists at all, if they were geniunely stupid. Like how the "Reggae Bar" right in Chinatown is always filled with white guys. And amusingly one white woman was laughing her ass off and taking a photo of the whole scene. i think i had intended to put a rolleyes style smiley or something at the end of that post and i was only trying to think up situations to compare also im seeing a pattern of those who attacking my post have the US tag (not saying every us post has been this way before some shitstorm i can see coming my way) i wonder what would happen if i perhaps claimed i thought they were new zealanders or australians or something. | ||
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Daitakk
77 Posts
On June 22 2012 01:08 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: OP, "fourth" and "forth" are called homophones, meaning that they're words that sound very similar to one another, yet have different meanings. They were just tourists that made an innocent mistake, no need to be a bigot. | ||
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VenomBRA
Netherlands168 Posts
So, a guy who was drunk or high or both approaches me as I was walking home from the Central Station in Amsterdam. Drunk: "Do you guys speak American?" Me and this girl look at each other confused. "Uhh, yeah?" Drunk: "Do you guys mind if I hang out with you Canadians for a while? Because that guy back there is following me and I think he wants to mug me" (We're both not from Canada and have no clue why he would think that) We look back and there is nobody behind us, the street is completely empty. "Uh... Yeah, sure" So he walks by our side for like 2 minutes, then thanks us for helping him escape the imaginary guy and goes away. | ||
semioldguy
United States7488 Posts
I realize that squirrels may not run rampant in all corners of the world, but was completely taken aback by this question regardless. | ||
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kittensrcute
United States617 Posts
I travel a lot, so I never really get to be on the side of tourists asking me things. And I also try to avoid doing very touristy things whilst on vacation or travel, ie: I hate group tours of things. I always find it amusing when American tourists speak English very slowly and deliberately to try and help non English speakers understand. I guess if they do speak a little English then it works but when they don't it's funny to observe. | ||
bonifaceviii
Canada2890 Posts
On June 22 2012 01:53 semioldguy wrote: Tourist: "Are those squirrels?" I realize that squirrels may not run rampant in all corners of the world, but was completely taken aback by this question regardless. I was kind of surprised that my brother-in-law from South Africa most wanted to see, of all Canadian animals, a chipmunk when he was last here. It was cute. | ||
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Antiochus
Canada548 Posts
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ShatterZer0
United States1843 Posts
I love tourists, they're so cute xD | ||
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BGrael
Germany229 Posts
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Fumanchu
Canada669 Posts
On June 22 2012 01:56 Antiochus wrote: I try to convince americans that Toronto is the capital of Canada, trust me I should know, I live there. Thx for that Canadian Bacon...... Once when I was working at Value Village some Japanese tourist came in and started pointing around the store wildly while thrusting his hips back and forth. It took me a while, but it turns out he was looking for the bathroom. | ||
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Mr.Faces
United States121 Posts
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Eisregen
Germany967 Posts
some minutes later he asked me: "where do you live." Me: "in this city!" He: "Where were you born??" Me: "in this city!" He: "Oh, you're german?" Lolz, tbh, I didnt think he was being stupid, actually he flattered me a bit <3 Ohoh, another funny thing actually... In Germany, depending on where you grew up, one may speak a more or less heavy dialect. I am living in southern germany and so we speak a dialect here. One day, a guy in his car stopped beneath us and asked for the way. Well, we told him were to drive to 3 times...he looked kinda confused and started once again with: "Do you speak english??" xD Damn german tourists! | ||
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Hnnngg
United States1101 Posts
On June 22 2012 01:27 solidbebe wrote: I was discussing quantum mechanics with my plummer, suddenly this guy turns around and tells me he doesn't know what a complex separable Hilbert space is.. what a scrub, kicked him out immediately. I was discussing plumbous ions with my barber, suddenly this guy turns around and tells me he doesn't know what the difference between and ionization and oxidation number is.. what a scrub, kicked him out of his barbershop immediately. I don't have any funny stories, no such thing as tourists in Iowa. | ||
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