Stupid TouristsWhat's the stupidest thing you've ever heard a tourist say? Ever heard an American talking about visiting "Scotchland, England", or (and this one is actually real) a Japanese couple talking about the correct way to say Clapham is actually Clatham, as "ph" sounds are pronounced "th". Which has a certain logic really. UPDATE: Please, no more Loogabarooga stories. It's getting like, "and I opened my eyes and my mum had left me a cup of tea!"
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chthonic, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 16:31)
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Yet another 'Americans say the funniest things' onePart of my degree required me to spend some time on the small Scottish island of Kerrera, near Oban. At the South end of the island the ruins of a 16th century castle stand at the top of cliffs made from conglomerate (think sandstone with lots of rounded cobble-sized rocks mixed into it). These cliffs are probably about 20m high, and the rock stretches for about 200m either side of the castle.
I'd just finished lunch at the base of the cliffs, when an American family came wandering past. They'd obviously noted the conglomerate, because I heard the mother remark to her husband and son, "Look, you can even see where they poured the concrete for the castle foundations".
I casually strolled off to the next headland, trying not to burst out laughing with the thought of 16th century working pouring 20m thick concrete from wooden buckets.
(, Sat 9 Jul 2005, 22:51, Reply)
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