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I just wanted to take this oppertunity to rant about tourists. Why are they soooooo dumb???????????????????????????????? an american tourist was heard to remark about windsor castle- "sure its a great castle but why was it built so close to the airport?":headbang:

Obviously so the leprechauns could watch the planes come in.

I just wanted to take this oppertunity to rant about tourists. Why are they soooooo dumb???????????????????????????????? an american tourist was heard to remark about windsor castle- "sure its a great castle but why was it built so close to the airport?":headbang:

Didn't the Scots have airports around then? :D

windsor is in england not in ireland:p

You don't know the half of it. I live in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Whenever I'm downtown (especially in the summer), I always have fun misdirecting and misinforming the foreign tourists.

I remember one Australian family that wanted to find the National Arboretum (which I think is a dump - it's too poorly maintained for anyone to really be interested in going there).

So I gave them directions that would take them to Glen Echo Park. Of course, they still thought they were going to the Arboretum...

Hehehehe...what a stupid noob...[The castle guy]

Well.... an American tourist once told me that the Germans only built Neuschwanstein because they were envious of Cinderella's castle at Disneyland. :rolleyes:

windsor is in england not in ireland:p

Turns map around the other way ...

Well.... an American tourist once told me that the Germans only built Neuschwanstein because they were envious of Cinderella's castle at Disneyland. :rolleyes:

The thing that really bothers the tour guides at that castle is the individuals in the crowd who always remind them that the castle was used in the filming of the movie, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".

It's something that the tour guides would rather not be reminded of.

Personally, I like the castle at the bottom of the hill better.

This joke is so old...

This joke is so old...

So's your mum, but you don't hear her customers complaining.:p :D

I remember a tourist pointing at Fife from Dundee and asking if it was France...

Tourists can be really stupid... Fortunately, however, you can always tell them apart from the locals by the way they dress and act, so you know who to snipe at.

I have had tourists stop me on Broadway in New York (when I lived there) who asked me if this was the same Broadway as the one the shows got produced on... I mean, if it had been on West Broadway or East Broadway I wouldn't take it so badly, but on a street with the very same name?... They must have been British.

I have had tourists stop me on Broadway in New York (when I lived there) who asked me if this was the same Broadway as the one the shows got produced on... I mean, if it had been on West Broadway or East Broadway I wouldn't take it so badly, but on a street with the very same name?... They must have been British.

Maybe they just wanted to check that they hadn't ended up in Broadway Newark, NJ by mistake?

I just wanted to take this oppertunity to rant about tourists. Why are they soooooo dumb????????????????????????????????
Americans notwithstanding, lookup 'Fundamental Attribution Error" and you'll find your answer.

The Windsor castle/airport joke is so old, even Price Phillip has used it on TV...

Tourists tend not to ask me questions, appart from when i was on holiday in Dorset then people started asking me stuff...

Maybe they just wanted to check that they hadn't ended up in Broadway Newark, NJ by mistake?
Well, I mean, if you're asking that right across from a huge 55-story building still under construction, near a fountain with a huge statue of Christopher Columbus, near Central Park and a subway station with the words "59th Street-Columbus Circle", with the Citigroup building and other huge skyscrapers towering in the background, are you really going to think you're in Newark? :rolleyes: :p

...are you really going to think you're in Newark? :rolleyes: :p

As a tourist you are not going to know these things.

If I were to whisk you across the Atlantic and to drop you on Sauciehall Street would you know where you were even if you saw the street sign?

As a tourist you are not going to know these things.

If I were to whisk you across the Atlantic and to drop you on Sauciehall Street would you know where you were even if you saw the street sign?
o a Glasgow lad i think... erm tourists are assholes i hate them, i hate them all so much! they come here and take up all the space and make the quees longer in the shops...

You don't know the half of it. I live in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Whenever I'm downtown (especially in the summer), I always have fun misdirecting and misinforming the foreign tourists.

I remember one Australian family that wanted to find the National Arboretum (which I think is a dump - it's too poorly maintained for anyone to really be interested in going there).

So I gave them directions that would take them to Glen Echo Park. Of course, they still thought they were going to the Arboretum...

I shall spite an American tourist as revenge for that.

As a tourist you are not going to know these things.

If I were to whisk you across the Atlantic and to drop you on Sauciehall Street would you know where you were even if you saw the street sign?

Ah but we have those nice handy blue lumps of plastic to tell you where you are (or rahter attempt to tell you where everything else is).
The again Sausage roll street isn't exactly packed with land marks (and no the Garage doesn't count).

As a tourist you are not going to know these things.

If I were to whisk you across the Atlantic and to drop you on Sauciehall Street would you know where you were even if you saw the street sign?
No, but I could find out within minutes. I'd simply ask for directions to the nearest library, where it would say on the top "<insert name of city here> Public Library"... :rolleyes:

its low blood sugar from eating way off your regular schedule. plus jet-lag

both things make you temporarily stupid

No, but I could find out within minutes. I'd simply ask for directions to the nearest library, where it would say on the top "<insert name of city here> Public Library"... :rolleyes:

No need to do that, just look at the bins...

Well, I mean, if you're asking that right across from a huge 55-story building still under construction, near a fountain with a huge statue of Christopher Columbus, near Central Park and a subway station with the words "59th Street-Columbus Circle", with the Citigroup building and other huge skyscrapers towering in the background, are you really going to think you're in Newark? :rolleyes: :p

I might. I don't know where the f--- Newark is.

No need to do that, just look at the bins...
Oh, I see. ^.^

Maybe they just wanted to check that they hadn't ended up in Broadway Newark, NJ by mistake?
If they had any common sense they'd know they weren't in Newark because nobody had asked them if they were looking for crack in the past five minutes.

I might. I don't know where the f--- Newark is.
In the Northeastern part of New Jersey, near Jersey City. Here's a picture of it so you know what to avoid if you ever visit the great Garden State.
http://www.skypic.com/newyork/1-8341.jpg

In the Northeastern part of New Jersey, near Jersey City. Here's a picture of it so you know what to avoid if you ever visit the great Garden State.

The fact that i'm being told to avoid it makes it sound all the more interesting to visit. :p

I will be visiting New York in a year or so, though. For humor's sake, I'll have to ask if i'm on Broadway, Newark when i'm there.

The fact that i'm being told to avoid it makes it sound all the more interesting to visit. :p

I will be visiting New York in a year or so, though. For humor's sake, I'll have to ask if i'm on Broadway, Newark when i'm there.
Well, it is interesting if you like $5 blowjobs from crack whores and heroin addicts asking you for spare change. Just kidding. It's a city with some problems, but it's reputation is far worse than reality. You want to see a real mess visit Camden, NJ. It's the only town where I've had to fight the scalpers selling tickets to a concert rather than just tell them I don't want to buy a ticket.

I saw a CNN special on a 4th of July where they were interviewing people in New York. Turns out that a couple tourists from the state of Georgia were getting fundamental facts on the revolution wrong...

Well, it is interesting if you like $5 blowjobs from crack whores and heroin addicts asking you for spare change. Just kidding. It's a city with some problems, but it's reputation is far worse than reality. You want to see a real mess visit Camden, NJ. It's the only town where I've had to fight the scalpers selling tickets to a concert rather than just tell them I don't want to buy a ticket.

Haha. I'm already tempting fate by visiting countries I probably shouldn't, so I might pass. :p

I'm in Belfast, Northern Ireland and I've been told by a few American tourists that I speak very good English (presumably they assumed my native language is Irish, which is actually spoken natively by only about 3% of the whole of Ireland). The second time this was said to me, I replied with something like, "Thank you, so do you! I'd love to learn some American if you have a few minutes!" This statement was lost on them.

I'm in Belfast, Northern Ireland and I've been told by a few American tourists that I speak very good English (presumably they assumed my native language is Irish, which is actually spoken natively by only about 3% of the whole of Ireland). The second time this was said to me, I replied with something like, "Thank you, so do you! I'd love to learn some American if you have a few minutes!" This statement was lost on them.

Hehehehe :D

I'm in Belfast, Northern Ireland and I've been told by a few American tourists that I speak very good English (presumably they assumed my native language is Irish, which is actually spoken natively by only about 3% of the whole of Ireland). The second time this was said to me, I replied with something like, "Thank you, so do you! I'd love to learn some American if you have a few minutes!" This statement was lost on them.
See, they were morons. I would have taught you a few words in the New Jersey dialect of American.

See, they were morons. I would have taught you a few words in the New Jersey dialect of American.

Cuppa cawfee anna bagel?

Oh, we get some doozy's here in Sydney... I'll concede that the place can be daunting if you're not familiar with it.

There's so many fracking one-way streets and non-trafficable lanes (courtesy the mess that is the Cross-City Tunnel, officially the BIGGEST mistake the NSW government has made to date) there are. Oh, and the best part hasn't even begun yet! Our country is in the process of changing over to an alpha-numeric system...

For example, it's very easy to end up in a bus lane near Central Station (a very nice station by the way, worth a quick look). My mate likes it more than Grand Central in New York. Mind, it is quite big. Central has 25 operating platforms. 23 of those are above ground...

Oh, and if you can't find your way to the bridge, just follow the signs. It's a destination in itself, so all signs pointing towards it just say BRIDGE.

Opera House is visible from the bridge, but it's worth a look up close.

DCD: lol. :D

Cuppa cawfee anna bagel?
beggel in my part of Jersey. Not bagel. Also in the southern and parts of central NJ we drink wudder, not water.

I'm in Belfast, Northern Ireland and I've been told by a few American tourists that I speak very good English (presumably they assumed my native language is Irish, which is actually spoken natively by only about 3% of the whole of Ireland). The second time this was said to me, I replied with something like, "Thank you, so do you! I'd love to learn some American if you have a few minutes!" This statement was lost on them.
In Pittsburgh...

"How long did it take you to drive from Belfast?"

Oh, we get some doozy's here in Sydney... I'll concede that the place can be daunting if you're not familiar with it.

There's so many fracking one-way streets and non-trafficable lanes (courtesy the mess that is the Cross-City Tunnel, officially the BIGGEST mistake the NSW government has made to date) there are. Oh, and the best part hasn't even begun yet! Our country is in the process of changing over to an alpha-numeric system...

For example, it's very easy to end up in a bus lane near Central Station (a very nice station by the way, worth a quick look). My mate likes it more than Grand Central in New York. Mind, it is quite big. Central has 25 operating platforms. 23 of those are above ground...

Oh, and if you can't find your way to the bridge, just follow the signs. It's a destination in itself, so all signs pointing towards it just say BRIDGE.

Opera House is visible from the bridge, but it's worth a look up close.


I found my way around there mostly fine when I visited. It wasn't too bad, but I find Melbourne's easier, though.

Lost tourists don't bother me in the least, and I think it's kinda weak to give them misleading directions. "Haha-you don't live here." Whatever, dude, they tried to get out there and see something beyond thier doorstep and I don't hold that against them and if they don't know how to get around an unfamiliar town that's to be expected. No need to be a dick.

Having said that, I live in a tourist town and the tourists can be irratating in other ways. Here there is a breed of tourists that are hostle to the locals like we're in the way of their beach-those guys are assholes. Also, a great deal of our town is based in local flavor-otherwise we're much like the other miles and miles of California coastline, but they come here and head straight to Borders and Starbucks, by passing the three large local bookstores and numerous local coffee shops. Almost no locals go to the chain stores because a)we're allll about the local and b) thier better. When you travel, check out where the locals go because they know, dammit. And, if your going to travel, fuckin' travel-don't just go to a different branch of the same shit you got at home...

I found my way around there mostly fine when I visited. It wasn't too bad, but I find Melbourne's easier, though.

The CBD's a killer though if you're driving and aren't familiar with it. Not a problem for me, as when I do go in there, I catch the train in. SOOOO much easier.

What's Melbourne like, by the way? I've always wanted to get down there, but never have...

The CBD's a killer though if you're driving and aren't familiar with it. Not a problem for me, as when I do go in there, I catch the train in. SOOOO much easier.

Yeah, I don't drive myself.

What's Melbourne like, by the way? I've always wanted to get down there, but never have...

Really easy to get around, even if you're not at all familiar with it. The CBD is a grid, and trams run down every major street.

The train service is a little sucky sometimes, but I hear Sydney has bigger problems. I get on fine relying almost solely on public transport anyway, so it can't be all bad.

Well.... an American tourist once told me that the Germans only built Neuschwanstein because they were envious of Cinderella's castle at Disneyland. :rolleyes:

I SO wish Neuschwanstein was my house. :(

I SO wish Neuschwanstein was my house. :(
You'd have to pay a fortune to keep it clean and in repair though...

Yeah, I don't drive myself.



Really easy to get around, even if you're not at all familiar with it. The CBD is a grid, and trams run down every major street.

The train service is a little sucky sometimes, but I hear Sydney has bigger problems. I get on fine relying almost solely on public transport anyway, so it can't be all bad.

Yeah, Sydney's basically at the point where they either need to put up or shut up.

Unfortunately, it would seem they've decided to shut up.
:(

Things are a bit more reliable now with the new timetable, but they had to actually CUT services. And 15 V-Set carriages (electric interurban carriages, what they use for Newcastle, the Blue Mountains, and Kiama, nice ones too considering their age).

Me, I think it's time they put up and started building a Metro. I think Sydney's finally reached the critical mass needed.

One would work at least in the Eastern Suburbs.

You'd have to pay a fortune to keep it clean and in repair though...

It'd be well worth it. :D

German people are so cool. They build awesome castles!

Even as a tourist, you may also find that other tourists can be quite annoying.

I don't know about you, but, I found American tourists when I was over seas visiting Paris (I love the city!), I was on a small bus tour with 1 other Canadian and 5 Americans. The elderly couple were very nice, however, the Texas 3 were a pain in the ass. They kept making incredibly stupid remarks. I honestly couldn't believe that the couple from Illinois were from the same country as the Texas 3.

We don't have tourists in Davis, CA because the eccentric locals scare them off, but the freshmen at the university are fun. Especially when they have class in 3 minutes and don't know where their building is or the fact that it's across campus. Can tell them to take routes that will get them lost because only people who've been there know about the routes. Or send them on routes that will send them into the busiest routes while the busses are also running. More fun than tourists, I think, because they're also quite gullible, and you can get free lunches off of them later in the year.

We don't have tourists in Davis, CA because the eccentric locals scare them off, but the freshmen at the university are fun. Especially when they have class in 3 minutes and don't know where their building is or the fact that it's across campus. Can tell them to take routes that will get them lost because only people who've been there know about the routes. Or send them on routes that will send them into the busiest routes while the busses are also running. More fun than tourists, I think, because they're also quite gullible, and you can get free lunches off of them later in the year.
I used to go to Sac State (I dropped out and later graduated from UC Santa Cruz). I still have a half-assed twitch that I'm supposed to view you guys as rivals, though. I've always imagined it, though, as the small ass dog that barks at the big ass dog on the safe side of the fence where the big dog doesn't even notice. Commuter colleges have a hard time making rivaleries stick.

It'd be well worth it. :D

German people are so cool. They build awesome castles!Big mistake. Neuschwanstein was built by Bavarians, which aren't really Germans, as every true German or Bavarian would point out to you ;)

Big mistake. Neuschwanstein was built by Bavarians, which aren't really Germans, as every true German or Bavarian would point out to you ;)

Oh well, Germans are cool anyway! ;)

I quite like tourists, actually, as I just like being helpful. And I like languages, so it's an opportunity to flex the linguistic muscles.

I used to go to Sac State (I dropped out and later graduated from UC Santa Cruz). I still have a half-assed twitch that I'm supposed to view you guys as rivals, though. I've always imagined it, though, as the small ass dog that barks at the big ass dog on the safe side of the fence where the big dog doesn't even notice. Commuter colleges have a hard time making rivaleries stick.Yeah, from my experience, UC Davis likes to think that it's a one way rivalry. Except with the annual football game. Davis makes a big deal because it's felt that if Davis win, the school's putting Sac State in it's place. Definitely some arrogance on Davis' part, but it seems kinda, for lack of a better work, "earned", considering Davis is consistenly ranked in or near the top 10 public universities in the nation, plus we do alot more in grad. studies. CSUS is still a nice school, I actually had a cousin graduate from there and have nothing against it.

Yeah, from my experience, UC Davis likes to think that it's a one way rivalry. Except with the annual football game. Davis makes a big deal because it's felt that if Davis win, the school's putting Sac State in it's place. Definitely some arrogance on Davis' part, but it seems kinda, for lack of a better work, "earned", considering Davis is consistenly ranked in or near the top 10 public universities in the nation, plus we do alot more in grad. studies. CSUS is still a nice school, I actually had a cousin graduate from there and have nothing against it.
Yeah, it's alright I guess. Just having grown up there I couldn't handle one more of those damnable summers.

In Pittsburgh...

"How long did it take you to drive from Belfast?"LOL - that's classic :D

Yeah, it's alright I guess. Just having grown up there I couldn't handle one more of those damnable summers.I always like the weather. Almost never more than 110 degrees F/43 degrees C in the summer, plus low humidity, small rainy season, almost never snows. I can walk around in a t-shirt and jeans year round.

You know, its ironic that we complain about stupid tourists, but when we go to foreign lands, we ARE those stupid tourists.

This one tourist has the best quotes evah...

*Do you still throw spears at each other?
-on meeting Aborigines in Australia

*If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

*How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them to pass test?
-Asking a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland

*We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.

*You can't have been here that long, you haven't got a pot belly.
-To a Briton in Hungary

*If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.
- addressing British students during a 1986 visit to China

*Aren't most of you descended from pirates?
- To an islander in the Cayman Islands.

*You managed not to get eaten, then?
-To a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea.

*You look like you're ready for bed!"
-To the President of Nigeria, who was dressed in traditional robes.

I always like the weather. Almost never more than 110 degrees F/43 degrees C in the summer, plus low humidity, small rainy season, almost never snows. I can walk around in a t-shirt and jeans year round.
Yeah, see-that ain't right. At 2AM it's 80 degrees because the pavement still hasn't cooled down. Not fit for man or beast, but I guess some people dig it. Give me the coast where the temp is always between 85 and 60.

This one tourist has the best quotes evah...

*Do you still throw spears at each other?
-on meeting Aborigines in Australia

*If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

*How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them to pass test?
-Asking a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland

*We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.

*You can't have been here that long, you haven't got a pot belly.
-To a Briton in Hungary

*If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.
- addressing British students during a 1986 visit to China

*Aren't most of you descended from pirates?
- To an islander in the Cayman Islands.

*You managed not to get eaten, then?
-To a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea.

*You look like you're ready for bed!"
-To the President of Nigeria, who was dressed in traditional robes.
Ah, our wonderful Duke of Edinburgh...

Ah, our wonderful Duke of Edinburgh...
Bingo!
My personal favourite. Why hold back..?!?

I haven't had too many bad experiences with tourists/being a tourist, except when I worked in a restaurant in a beach town in California.. it seemed like a significant percentage of European tourists were vegetarian, which I don't have any problem with, but they'd never believe me when I'd tell them the loaves of bread were meat-free. You'd get a complementary loaf no matter what you'd order, so many of them would order a salad or something, and ask their waitress whether the bread had any animal products in it.. I'd get called out, since I was the baker, and I'd often end up explaining the whole process and each of the ingredients.. the locals would mostly take my word for it and keep the loaf or rolls, while foreign tourists would almost always listen patiently and then send it back. :p

No, but I could find out within minutes. I'd simply ask for directions to the nearest library, where it would say on the top "<insert name of city here> Public Library"... :rolleyes:

Many cities don't name their public libraries after the city. Victoria, for example, often names their branches after famous people (Emily Carr, Nellie McClung, Bruce Hutchinson etc) or the parts of town in which they reside (Central, Oak Bay, Esquimalt etc).

I just love watching idiots at the Horse Guards.

You are not allowed across the line.

I repeat

You are not allowed across the line.

It's hilarious to watch when someone tries to cross.

When I visited Ireland this summer, I maintained myself in the most polite way possible - my apologies to the more obnoxious tourists...

LOL - that's classic :D

Click me. (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=belfast+pennsylvania&hl=en)

Why do tourists come to Scotland wearing shorts? In Autumn!!?

Why do tourists come to Scotland wearing shorts? In Autumn!!?

On account of the tropical climate, of course. What else would they wear? :confused:

On account of the tropical climate, of course. What else would they wear? :confused:

So then why do none of the lady-tourists wear bikiniis :( ?

Why do tourists come to Scotland wearing shorts? In Autumn!!?

Because they're harder than the Scots with their namby-pamby trouser wearing ways?

So then why do none of the lady-tourists wear bikiniis :( ?

Modesty? Or maybe fear of malaria? After all, it's not easy putting repellant on all parts of your back, as compared to the legs, which are pretty easy to reach.

I just wanted to take this oppertunity to rant about tourists. Why are they soooooo dumb???????????????????????????????? an american tourist was heard to remark about windsor castle- "sure its a great castle but why was it built so close to the airport?":headbang:
What was he thinking?? The castle came first!

I just wanted to take this oppertunity to rant about tourists. Why are they soooooo dumb???????????????????????????????? an american tourist was heard to remark about windsor castle- "sure its a great castle but why was it built so close to the airport?":headbang:

Seriously? the best one i heard was "why're they called beefeaters?"

You don't know the half of it. I live in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Whenever I'm downtown (especially in the summer), I always have fun misdirecting and misinforming the foreign tourists.

I remember one Australian family that wanted to find the National Arboretum (which I think is a dump - it's too poorly maintained for anyone to really be interested in going there).

So I gave them directions that would take them to Glen Echo Park. Of course, they still thought they were going to the Arboretum...
We don't have tourists in Davis, CA because the eccentric locals scare them off, but the freshmen at the university are fun. Especially when they have class in 3 minutes and don't know where their building is or the fact that it's across campus. Can tell them to take routes that will get them lost because only people who've been there know about the routes. Or send them on routes that will send them into the busiest routes while the busses are also running. More fun than tourists, I think, because they're also quite gullible, and you can get free lunches off of them later in the year.

Well if it feel good do it I suppose.... :confused:

You know, its ironic that we complain about stupid tourists, but when we go to foreign lands, we ARE those stupid tourists.

I've actually just got back from visiting my girlfriend in France (well, got back last night). Though I was there out of tourist season there were still a few incidents that make me feel ashamed of being anglaise.

frex, we were in a charcuterie and a woman came in, pointed at something and then in the chaviest voice I have ever heard shouted "I'll have two of those please." A couple of other incidences of Brit-abroad arrogance.

Though there is a difference between really stupid statements and honest inquries. Such as "Oh my god, they have oranges this far north!" as one person I know heard an American woman exclaim. Quite different from asking where something is because you are from out of town.

I always like the weather. Almost never more than 110 degrees F/43 degrees C in the summer, plus low humidity, small rainy season, almost never snows. I can walk around in a t-shirt and jeans year round.

"I like leaving California, you know, for the weather. They don't have weather there. Just hot and sunny, every fucking day. What are you? A fucking lizard?"

-the late, great, Bill Hicks

Didn't the Scots have airports around then? :D

windsor is in england not in ireland:p

LOL!

Years ago, when I was still living in Edinburgh, one of our teachers delighted us with the story of the tourists who were trying to find their way to the Royal Scottish Museum. The conversation went as follows:

Local: "Well, you know where Haymarket train station is?"

Tourist: "Yes!"

Local: "Well, it's not there. Do you know where the Scott Memorial is?"

Tourist: "Yes!"

Local: "Well, it's not there, either. Do you know where the Castle is?"

Tourist: "Of course"

Local: "Well, it's closer to the castle, but it's not there either. Do you know where Holyrood is?"

Tourist: "Yes...."

Local: "That's a little bit further away again... Do you know where the Portrait Gallery is?"

Tourist: "No"

Local: "Ah well, it doesn't matter, because it's not there either...."

Obviously so the leprechauns could watch the planes come in.

hey! im the one who incessantly mentions leprechauns!

Well, I mean, if you're asking that right across from a huge 55-story building still under construction, near a fountain with a huge statue of Christopher Columbus, near Central Park and a subway station with the words "59th Street-Columbus Circle", with the Citigroup building and other huge skyscrapers towering in the background, are you really going to think you're in Newark? :rolleyes: :p


Considering that the theaters are all further down, mostly in the high forties and into the thirties, no, not a stupid question.

They were probably trying to figure out how to get to the theaters.

This isn't so much because they are a tourist, but. A chicago mom and her son were sitting at a table next to me in a Thai restaurant. For a reason unknown to me the mom asked the young waitress "So....you're from thailand," the waitress was a little taken aback she said, "No, I'm from Hong Kong" This riled me a bit, since you don't have to be from thailand to serve thai food.:rolleyes:

Tourists can be really stupid... Fortunately, however, you can always tell them apart from the locals by the way they dress and act, so you know who to snipe at.

I have had tourists stop me on Broadway in New York (when I lived there) who asked me if this was the same Broadway as the one the shows got produced on... I mean, if it had been on West Broadway or East Broadway I wouldn't take it so badly, but on a street with the very same name?... They must have been British.
There's a street right over from mine called Broadway...

There's also a Hollywood St a bit further down.

And I live in Hamilton.

I was once asked if it was the same empire state building that king kong climbed.

I said yes. I then told them that they had the big monkeys bones in the natural history museum, if they cared to look.

There's a street right over from mine called Broadway...

There's also a Hollywood St a bit further down.

And I live in Hamilton.

Almost everywhere in the english speaking world has a broadway. The town I grew up in the north east of england had one.

I said yes. I then told them that they had the big monkeys bones in the natural history museum, if they cared to look.

Is that the same place they keep the stuffed remains of Godzilla?

Almost everywhere in the english speaking world has a broadway. The town I grew up in the north east of england had one.

Indeed, there is even one in Manchester.

My trip to the Louvre last summer...

Overheard while in a large group of people admiring The Crowning of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David:
Tourist 1: Why are there so many people here? what's it a painting of?
Tourist 2: I dunno, some pope or something

Overheard while admiring Lady Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix:
Yet another clueless american tourist: "I bet that's Joan of Arc!"

:headbang: I hate clueless people from my country...

My trip to the Louvre last summer...

Overheard while in a large group of people admiring The Crowning of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David:
Tourist 1: Why are there so many people here? what's it a painting of?
Tourist 2: I dunno, some pope or something

Overheard while admiring Lady Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix:
Yet another clueless american tourist: "I bet that's Joan of Arc!"

:headbang: I hate clueless people from my country...

On that subject, I have heard lots on tour guides at places named in the Da Vinci Code are getting annoyed with tourists asking about features of the book as if they are fact.

I remember this Italian tourist staring at a roundabout in town durring the race (I'm in Indianapolis). I tapped himon the shoulder and said, "We can watch rednecks drive in scircles all year round here!"

damn, the oranges one is a classic!