Really Dumb questions you've been asked about the UK

[Mags 112]

(oh, and I commend to all that scene at the end of "Love Actually" where the American girls are making the Brit guy say stuff and then cooing over his sexy Brit voice. A few of our Brit friends didn't believe American girls would do that - but c'mon, a lot of them do! That scene cracks me up every time!)

Well, all the girls at my son's school repeatedly keep asking him to say stuff, just so they can hear his accent. And I've lost count of the amount of people who say to me "oh my god, I just LOVE your accent!".

My son loves it of course.....any attention from girls is good attention...right?

[TimsDaisy 0]

No - but then again, the same percentage don't know that West Virginia isn't western Virginia, so at least we're ignorant equally.

OMG - tell me about it! I CANNOT tell you the number of times I've had THIS conversation....

Q - Where are you from?

A - West Virginia.

Q - Oh, where in WV? I've been to Roanoke........

Haha! I didn't even note you were FROM WV when I said that (I lived there ever-so-briefly in 2004). So where in WV do you live? I was in Point Pleasant and Ripley in, uh, west West Virginia

[cheeky^Wolf 0]

I just got back from Walmart and had an encounter at the deli which I thought might amuse the brits.

There were 2 women next to me in line, I ordered my stuff, heard them whispering to eachother and heard the word accent, so turned and smiled.

Her: Where are you from, you have such a pretty accent

Me: England

Her: OMGGGGG I could listen to you all day etc etc etc

Me: Thanks

Her: I just got back from Disneyworld and my family thought it was so funny cos I was going up to English families and saying (in a poor british accent) "Alright, hows it going?" and they were asking where I was from and I was laughing saying Pittsburgh!!!

Can you imagine how annoying this would be??! I'm surprised she didn't get punched.

[meauxna 15]

Probably because most American tourists in the UK don't set foot outside the city.

*cough* thankfully *cough*

Oh good. I knew I was special when my first real UK visit was to Cosham...

[Dr_LHA 3]

Probably because most American tourists in the UK don't set foot outside the city.

*cough* thankfully *cough*

Oh good. I knew I was special when my first real UK visit was to Cosham...

Cosham! What a wonderful place to visit. Where I'm from (Southsea) we call Cosham "The North".

[TimsDaisy 0]

Probably because most American tourists in the UK don't set foot outside the city.

*cough* thankfully *cough*

Why thankfully?

How much better would our foreign policy be if we all traveled more? Worlds, better, I think. I know my world-perspective has altered dramatically since I began traveling more. I don't think I was an ignorant hick before, but obviously, experiencing is much different than reading about a country and a culture, etc. And you have to get really into a country before you get it, right?

I'd remove the coughs and replace "thankfully" with "unfortunately" because I think most American's priority of travel and recreation takes an unfortunate second-place to work. And even when we do take time off, we only get to one or two big cities in another country, rather than diving in and learning about the people in a meaningful way.

Edited March 19, 2007 by TimsDaisy

[Mags 112]

No - but then again, the same percentage don't know that West Virginia isn't western Virginia, so at least we're ignorant equally.

OMG - tell me about it! I CANNOT tell you the number of times I've had THIS conversation....

Q - Where are you from?

A - West Virginia.

Q - Oh, where in WV? I've been to Roanoke........

Haha! I didn't even note you were FROM WV when I said that (I lived there ever-so-briefly in 2004). So where in WV do you live? I was in Point Pleasant and Ripley in, uh, west West Virginia

Point Pleasant...isn't that where the Mothman hails from?

[Dr_LHA 3]

Why thankfully?

Because American tourists are so awfully annoying,. In fact the only thing worse than an American tourist, in terms of being obnoxious, brash, insensitive of one's culture, complaining constantly about the food, being an inappropriately loud, blundering and generally irratating thing, is a British tourist.

Edited March 19, 2007 by dr_lha

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I'm in Tokyo at the moment - trust me, the Americans aren't worse than anyone else. I overheard a British woman complaining about waiting a cup of "proper tea." Your in F8cking Japan lady, I think their tea is just as "proper" as yours.

[Dr_LHA 3]

Did I not say that British tourists were worse than Americans?

[flutter95 4]

Oh my yes british tourists are terrible....my mother made me cringe so much:

"...all I want is a proper cup of tea"

"do you have a pen? oh he doesn't understand D-O- Y-O-U- H-A-V-E-A-P-E-N? PEN?!?!" then makes circle shapes in the air

[Dr_LHA 3]

Oh my yes british tourists are terrible....my mother made me cringe so much:

"...all I want is a proper cup of tea"

"do you have a pen? oh he doesn't understand D-O- Y-O-U- H-A-V-E-A-P-E-N? PEN?!?!" then makes circle shapes in the air

The good tourists always take tea bags (and pens) with them of course. I personally never stray into a foriegn country without a ziplock bag of PG Tips. Of course the next trick is finding someone who knows how to boil water.

[LVA 0]

I have been asked if we have sliced bread in the UK!! Also does it snow over there

[meauxna 15]

Why thankfully?

Because American tourists are so awfully annoying,. In fact the only thing worse than an American tourist, in terms of being obnoxious, brash, insensitive of one's culture, complaining constantly about the food, being an inappropriately loud, blundering and generally irratating thing, is a British tourist.

lol, we had the same observation after a few days in the Baja last month...

[flutter95 4]

You can also tell a British a mile away with scary white skin in scary "holiday shorts" and bad hats, sandals with socks....."bum bags" too