Facebook fails

[Pork]

C2james said:

LiamB said:

that cant be real.

I would say the same a few years back, then I met some of my American counterparts. One asked if I knew the Queen (OK, do you know the President then?) and another said London was an Island.

I firmly believe the above could very easily be genuine.

[Alfanatic]

Pork said:

C2james said:

LiamB said:

that cant be real.

I would say the same a few years back, then I met some of my American counterparts. One asked if I knew the Queen (OK, do you know the President then?) and another said London was an Island.

I firmly believe the above could very easily be genuine.

Some years ago I was buying coffee in an airport in Huntsville, Alabama. The shopkeeper noticed that my accent (South African) wasn't local. He wanted to guess. "Down south" was his first attempt. Yeah, good start... Then there was a period of serious chin scratching and concentration. I used the interval to enjoy my coffee. "South Carolina" he ventured. No, further south than that. A fair bit to the east, too.

Another person I came across knew I was from South Africa, and at some point ran off into another room in their house and returned a few moments later with a globe. They spun it around, stopped it on Africa, and then pointed at the country all the way down at the bottom of Africa. "I didn't realise it was all the way down there!" she said happily. I just couldn't pass up this opportunity and said that I thought the name kind of gives it away...

Neither were idiots though, just ignorant about some country afew thousand miles away that briefly became a useful quiet ally when the USA wanted communism out of Angola. Both were pleasant conversations with people genuinely interested in hearing about this far away land that I had travelled from, and about my pet lion, and why am I not black?

[Bolognese]

[matchmaker]

LiamB said:

I'm struggling with this. I hope it's not for real as I can't imagine how anyone so monumentally ignorant (even by Yank standards) can breathe unaided

[Silver Smudger]

Alfanatic said:

... and about my pet lion, and why am I not black?

[Zoobeef]

Bolognese said:

Not sure its a fail :/

[Rostfritt]

Alfanatic said:

Both were pleasant conversations with people genuinely interested in hearing about this far away land that I had travelled from, and about my pet lion, and why am I not black?

Should ask them why they don't live on reservations.

[Meoricin]

Zoobeef said:

Not sure its a fail :/

It isn't, so is in the wrong thread. But it definitely made me laugh

[reggie82]

C2james said:

that cant be real.

I remember being in Amsterdam many years ago, I got chatting to an American girl who was in the US army.

I told her I was from London, after about half an hour of chatting she commented that my English was really good, and did I learn it at school. She was really shocked to find out we speak English in London.

Then she asked me if we have an army too.

Never under-estimate how little some Americans know about other countries!

[jamesson]

reggie82 said:

She was really shocked to find out we speak English in London.

I had something similar. Got talking to a group of Americans, whilst in America, and was asked if I was having any trouble with the English language.

One of my cousins who is English, but was brought up in the USA and has an American accent, was commented on by a friend, when her origins were discovered, that it must be great to speak two languages. Not sure what language she thinks is spoken in England.

I've also been asked by an American if England was anywhere near Russia.

[TaRD]

Vieste said:

LiamB said:

Tard.

It wasn't me.

[Kenty]

[Morningside]

Bolognese said:

Oh very good.

[Mikeyplum]

Kenty said:

[ZesPak]

Not really facebook, but this one made me laugh:

[rhinochopig]

Mikeyplum said:

Kenty said:

Indeed, it's a long time I've cried with laughter at one of these

[tommy vercetti]

[VxDuncan]

jamesson said:

I had something similar. Got talking to a group of Americans, whilst in America, and was asked if I was having any trouble with the English language.

One of my cousins who is English, but was brought up in the USA and has an American accent, was commented on by a friend, when her origins were discovered, that it must be great to speak two languages. Not sure what language she thinks is spoken in England.

I've also been asked by an American if England was anywhere near Russia.

Last ime I was out there "gee I LOVE your accent! Where are you from, Canada?" I'm pretty damn English sounding.

[RockDoctor]

[tommy vercetti]