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As a teenager, I worked in a French restaurant in a French-speaking area of Canada. Our complimentary bread basket was comprised exclusively of baguette slices. One late evening, an American couple sat down at a table in my section. I greeted them and served them drinks. As per procedure, I brought them a bread basket after they had ordered. The wife looked at the bread with disdain and asked if she could be served "normal American bread"... Some people should never be allowed to travel more than 100 miles away from their birthplace.
Good grief 🤦🏻♂️
Clearly it was proper bread and didn't have enough sugar in it.
So they go to another country, and expect to be served the same that in their own country, why make the trip then? Better stay at home!
What else can you expect from somebody who saw real proper bread for the first time in her life.
The Spanish expression is _no tendrían que poder salir de casa sin bozal,_ "they shouldn't be let out of the house without a muzzle".
Well, I am Spanish. I have lived in Spain for decades. However, I have a decent level of English, as well as French. About five years ago, I met a couple of Karens in the Plaza Mayor of my city, who showed clear signs of desperation. I approached them and politely asked them (in English) if they needed help. The oldest of them said "Oh, thank God, someone who speaks something understandable. Here everyone seems to speak the same incomprehensible language, no one warned us about this"... I said "Yes, madam, in Spain we have been speaking Spanish for a thousand years, and we are perfectly capable of understanding each other. And, believe me, this is not some conspiracy to make you suffer."
The youngest one also complained: "All the stores have prices in euros, no one accepts good American dollars"...at that moment I remembered that in these cases it is much better to say goodbye than to be kicked out.
Good grief. People are special.
Estos son encuentros que te dejan maravillado por años. A quién se le ocurre viajar a otro país sin saber los datos más elementales del lugar. 😅
Efectivamente, no tienen remedio.
They're going to pray to their Deity Donald Trump and ask him to invade Spain to make them speak English and impose using the dollar!!!🤣🤣🤣
A geography and cultural awareness course should be required to give some people a passport!🤣🤣
I live in Tokyo, and overheard an american tourist LOUDLY complained " why nobody's talking in English and why everything's in written in a weird-looking alphabets instead of a normal ones". Sigh.
Good grief.
I subscribe to a couple of travel channels from Japanese guys and I am frankly impressed with how much English I see in the signs and announcements there.
😂😂
That is why in England one restaurant owner put a sign outside his restaurant saying "Americans only allowed accompanied by an adult"
@@margaretaltink7152 🤣🤣🤣
Translation of sign on bridge in China: "Capacity: 10 people or 3 Americans"
I'm Spanish and I do confirm Spain is full of Spaniards. It's infuriating.
I wish there were more locals here so we could comunicate in a civilized proper local language such as American.
Hola 👋 Soy una de esas puñeteras españolas que vive en España. Luego se preguntan del por qué del #TouristsGoHome
That's not my experience. After 8 years living and working in US I came back saying ok, instead of "vale". People thought I was showing off and since then I'm a hibrid, not 100 per cent anything.
The only good thing about it, foreigners don't mess with me because understand English 😂...They can't give me 💩🥳
@@Lyrielonwind Pero alma cándida... no te das cuenta de que está bromeando? El es español, habla español y está en España. Era una IRONÍA. Por cierto, el idioma español en todas sus variantes es absolutamente civilizado y adecuado, se habla como lengua materna en toda América (si, antes de que los ingleses colonizaran lo que hoy es USA, es esas tierras se hablaba español además de las lenguas nativas. hay pueblos en US donde los ancianos hablan español sin ser inmigrantes, sino como lengua ancestral), en paises de Africa, distintas islas repartidas por todo el globo y Filipinas, además de en Europa. No es una lengua colonial impuesta, sino lengua materna ya que España no hizo colonias sino virreinatos, donde todos los locales tenían el estatus de Español con los mismos derechos y no estaba mal visto en absoluto los matrimonios mixtos. Muy distintos a los colonos de norteamérica, que se dedicaron a arrebatar tierras y exterminar a los locales. Ahora tienen la desvergúenza de hacer de menos a los latinos y tratarlos de inmigrantes, sin recordar que esa tierra no les pertenecía a sus antepasados, que fueron los invasores
@@irenegonser Bien, cariño, en toda América me parece um poco... Como decir? Españolito demás! A no ser que Brasil se haya marchado de América a otro continente! Cuánto a tus virreinatos, no me creo que hayan sido un grande éxito en la nación Inca o Maya! Puede ser que el exterminio de un pueblo sea una buena forma de integración, pero tengo algunas dudas!
@@manuelpinto7293 ¿De que exterminio hablas? Fijate si funciono bien la integracion, que entre la nobleza española hay cientos de descendientes de Moctezuma, ultimo rey Inca. ¡Hasta se reconocio a la nobleza Inca como iguales! Ahora mirate a ver donde andan los descendientes de Geronimo o Toro Sentado...
Argentinian here, tourists from England, “some, not all” visit Argentina, and they believe, arg, is a topical country, and end up buying winter clothes because they arrive in the middle of July on a 10 degrees Celsius, special after been in Brazil 😂, and they didn’t understand why people on the plane before arrival were wearing puffer jackets. Most US, and English people order tequila in bars thinking is like Mexico, when in Argentina people hardly ever drink tequila. And they complain about the Argentinian Spanish because it doesn’t sound like Mexican Spanish so they can’t understand anything. Some tourists are very entitled and very obnoxious.
oof 😅
Sometimes I'm embarrassed to be English.. although not as embarrassed as the Americans should be. honestly how stupid can people be? Greetings from my home in Spain.
I worked for an Argetinian posh family in Pittsburgh who became suspicious because I asked them to lend me "Karamazov's Brothers" and they insisted I wasn't Andalusian because I don't sound like someone from Seville; of course, I'm from Cádiz and I know how to read 😂
I have visited Argentina a couple of times - and love it. I have travelled a great deal in my life and as always, knew exactly where I was going. My wife MADE me Tango for over a month! - but the beer helped.Tourists... I live in London, you really don't have to tell me how obnoxious SOME tourists can be - still, their money is as good as anybodies 😁
I just shout English at all f0reigners!
I saw this on TH-cam. A group of Americans were complaining because after spending a week in Austria they still hadn't seen any kangaroos.
Good grief 🤦🏻♂️
I don't believe, there are zoos or Tierparks in Austria.
facepalm
The Austrian Embassy in London has a sign on the door:
"ACHTUNG! KANGARUHE VERBOTEN!"
And no drop bears
Fun fact: Most Europeans speak perfectly acceptable English. But they don't want to talk to Americans who just say nonsense.🤣🤣
😆
I went on a 2 month holiday in France from the UK ( I am New Zealander) starting in Cherbourg.
Booking in to campsite on first day there were some Americans trying to get accommodation talking loudly to receptionist who did not appear to speak English.
Receptionist says to me in French that she would be with me soon and I replied "that's fine" in French so she continued her battle with the Americans.
When she got to me she asked for my car Rego (British registration). She went bright red and in perfect English said "Oh my God, you're English. You must think I'm awful"
I just laughed and stated they deserved it.
On my travels in France making use of my limited French would always get a positive result. Start loudly in English and you are in for a hiding.
A couple of guys I did feel sorry for were Scottish for whom I the first person in 2 days who could understand them. They only had a paper map showing motorways and had got lost. (pre internet and satnav)
@@GSimpsonOAM Since Brexit I usually pretend to be Scottish rather than English while travelling in Europe especially while in France.
Yoa can always buy a phrase-book.
@@stewartbristow846 My Landrover repair manual has a whole page, English to American translation guide.
Some people are so ridiculous!😂😂😂.
Greetings from Spain 🇪🇸.
Seguro que te sientes como yo...agobiado porque hay muchos españoles en España 😂😂😂
@@Lyrielonwind Cada vez menos 😅
@@lluisgalvanlluch1808 En mi barrio solo el 20% somos españoles (de los de verdad)
Siesta para simpre
@@miryamnal8093
What do you mean?
No wonder the Spaniards are openly protesting against tourists
I wonder if those whose livelihoods are related to tourism are protesting.
@@aaropajari7058Actually - they are….there is a big conflict of interests there, but people get desperate, if the wages of waiters/maids/cooks are way to low to cover the costs of living
Shocker: the vast majority of people in Spain DO NOT speak English. On behalf of my fellow Spaniards I’d like to apologize for such an appalling and outrageous fact.
La gente de fuera también debería aprender aunque fuera unas frases básicas para sobrevivir o sacarse las castañas.
😅😮😅😅
No hay nada de por que disculparse, aun que hablo inglés, me siento orgullosa de mi lengua materna, y no la cambiaría por nada del mundo
Arriba españa!!!
🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦
Worse maybe is that not ALL Spanish speakers speak *Spanish*. I (as Dutch tourist) learned a bit of Catalan (a Spanish dialect, yes?) while on holiday in Blanes. When my father-in-law-to-be ordered dinner in a restaurant in Barcelona, neither the waiter nor I understood him, because he was speaking High Spanish. When I 'translated' for the waiter into Catalan, it was my father-in-law-to-be's turn to not understand...
Belizeans think that Mexicans cannot speak 'proper' Spanish.
I know enough French (from *France*) to have trouble understanding Quebecian 'French'.
Being literate in Dutch causes me to have trouble understanding the north-Belgian version of it (Flemish).
@@user-gx1rk8yw6l All of the people in Spain do speak Spanish ,but then on some regions you have what they call co-oficcial languages, Galego in Galicia,Bask in Bask country, Astur-Leonés in Asturias, etc and Catalan is not a dialect from Spanish it is an official language.
The most outrageous comment (as if they all weren't) was the first one. Spain, with everyone being a "foreigner"😂😂
Americans think that Spanish is only spoken in México.
Anglo-Imperialism mindset
@@gromenhauer7403 Yeah, in Spain we speak sumerian...
@@jibrilnoflugel1702i mean, that would be cool as.
That's a clear example of how americans can be ignorants
I used not to believe that people could be so stupid. As I get older, I realize that I was terribly mistaken. :-D
Working with the public for most of 10 years has been a very eye opening experience for me in that regard.
"Think how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that" (George Carlin)
the universe and stupidity are endless ...
but i'm not so sure about it, concerning the universe.
I also relized that WAY TOO LATE….😮
I have also have had a taste of that bitter soup called "customers", having worked in a tourist attraction. From that period of time I get cold sweat when I see a lady in capri trousers and clogs or mules 😂😂😂😂😂 They are sort of outdated now, but then it meant the lady in question had high probabilities of being really stupid. And I am a woman, before someone criticizes me for telling the truth.
My sister and I went to the USA (California) on a gap year to learn English. We were at a gas station (petrol station) speaking Spanish to each other and a man asked us where we were from. We said: we are from Spain. He then asked us: Did you drive here? We clarified what he meant by here and he said: Did you drive to the United States from Spain? 😂😂😂
Jajajaja, ese no sabía nada de geografía!!
😂😂😂
challenge accepted 😂😂
Mucha gente en Estados Unidos confunde a Espana con Mexico. Por eso te preguntaron tal incoherencia.
I can just imagine Justin Awaz saying simply "Yes."
@@nicoc6387 Well done, I couldn't remember the guy's name.
I once read a review for a beautiful Tyrolean Hotel in the Austrian Alps where an American complained that there were only a few tv channels available and all of them were in German. We went there anyway LOL. Every room had an amazing view of the Alps, which we watched from our balcony instead of the tv.
Who goes on vacation and wants to watch tv? 🤦🏻♂️
I think that the fact that the customer can only see a few channels and all of them in that country language in a blurry screen is part of the hotel culture everywhere 😂😂😂😂
As for the question, sometimes tv helps to soothe you ( or the kids ) and make you fall asleep.
@@casualsenpaitvlos mismos que se van de vacaciones y se las pasan en centros comerciales.
While in France. I was watching a 'reality' show one night. They spoke too fast for me catch much (my French is poor at best), but honestly it didn't take long to get the gist of what was happening and follow along.
Yes... watch the Alps... yes
LMAO locals in their own country speaking their native language, who would've thought!
At Schwechat airport in Wien (Vienna) there's a special office for people who thought they were going to Australia.
🤔
Do they get a spelling lesson then laughed at?
Mate, I’ve travelled many times to the US for work and holidays. On one work trip to the US midwest (Michigan to be exact), I was complemented on the quality of my English. When I explained that as an Australian, my first language was English, I was told that Australians spoke German, not English. I could not convince that person otherwise. True story!!!! To be truthful, my second language is German. Grüße aus Australien. Tschüss.
I find this incredibly funny.
🤣 As an Aussie, I empathise with the Austrians... but relieved that you got those ones. 😎🇦🇺
This is why countries like Spain are complaining about too much tourism...
That’s fair.
@@LadyMorgaine1976 sorry, but the complaints are that excessive tourism is raising local prices especially apartments. They are not concerned about the depth of a tourist cultural understanding
@@casualsenpaitv lol, it's our curse, barbarians have always felt an unhealthy attraction towards civilized nations UU
@@lupodimontenero661 Barbarians: (noun, plural) the *others*, not us 'civilized' people. 🙂
@@user-gx1rk8yw6l Now, I answer you seriously, I fully agree with how you used the term people, it would be a really good thing if we started thinking about people, leaving aside ethnic groups, religions, geographical origins, but I don't think it will happen soon; many governments, if not all, need "enemies" to control their people, and this has been happening for centuries.
I once read a comment about "Museo del Prado" (Madrid) saying: too much paintings.
Bruh 🤦🏻♂️
I heard once the complaint that Rome has too many old stones! 😂
If sent to Guggy Bilbao they probably would have complained about the spiders and dogs...
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂@@aja.189
OMG 🤦♀️
I’m in the UK and it still boggles my mind that people who migrated to Spain then voted for Brexit. Now they complain that they can’t move freely between the two countries, all the rules changed about how long they can stay in Spain and everything is more expensive. They honestly didn’t realise that free movement worked both ways 🤡🤣😂🤣 PS I didn’t vote for Brexit 🇪🇺🇬🇧👍🏻
I have said the same myself. I saw an ex pat in Spain complaining that "no one told them it would happen" i do not live in Spain, and it was perfectly obviously obvious to me, and everyone I know.
And most of them still can’t speak Spanish even after living there for years!
Off topic. We are supposed to be slagging off Americans here.
I've worked as a tour guide, and also as receptionist in a cruise ship.
Do not even get me started...
🤯
I can only imagine what you had to deal with. 😨
You probably have material for a great book!
Cruise ships can be problematical if you end up in a city twice the size of New York and do not realize it. Happened to me in Istanbul. There is no way I would go to New York, London etc without being fully aware of any potential dangers or pitfalls or customary differences that may arise. Istanbul is predominantly Muslim so they broadcast the call to prayer through loudspeakers a couple of times a day. I thought it was an air-raid warning until I studied the reactions of the locals and realised then that this was normal part of the day and not a cause for concern. Finding my way back to the cruise port was a puzzle until I saw a sign with a picture of a ship on it. The Turkish for port is Liman, this also helped. Overall the Turkish people are very hospitable and obliging and Istanbul is very interesting from a historical perspective, being once the capital of the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire in ancient times. It is a huge city and not great for walking around unlike the other destinations on my trip.
My best laugh at a cruise ship was when someone asked the steward when the midnight snacks would be served!
Write a book, please!
I’ve lived in Costa Rica for 24 yrs. A good friend owned a hotel here on the southern Pacific coast. He often told stories about guests. 2 of the most common were:
1. Guests who wanted a discount because it rained most of their stay...in the rainforest during rainy season😮
2. After the 4 hr drive from the airport to his hotel on the coast...”This island is a lot bigger than we thought! We didn’t realize it would take so long.” Thinking that they were vacationing on Puerto Rico not Costa Rica!😂😂😂
I don’t know how people don’t do research before embarking on trips like that.
@@casualsenpaitv I have worked in tourism in New Zealand and many people come not realising how big it is.
A journey the length of NZ by the shortest route (State highway 1) is ~2000km.
Kind of like my English visitors to San Francisco, who thought they could take a drive to Disneyland for the day. Sure, 7 hour drive, one way! No idea as to distances in the US.
I went 72 miles. From San Jose to Manuel Antonio. It took 4 hours. Because it’s single lane mountain driving. But I did the research before I left the states. So my family was aware of the drive time.
How about this one? I was with my 18 month old son in Ibiza at the hotel’s evening buffet. Then up comes Mr. Arsehole. “What’s all this foreign muck? Why can’t they serve proper English food like pizzas and curry?”
If I face palmed any harder at this exact moment, I would need a new face.
😂
My hubby has heard many variations of that one in France.
The 'pregnancy' one was particularly hilarious 🤣🤣
It really was 🤣 thanks for watching
Imagine that kid in the future seeing that review where their mother considered them a damage and asked for compensation.
Nothing about closing very tight her legs.
@@casualsenpaitvI guess they'll call her "Sue" 😊
Must be an American on the hunt for someone to sue for something 🤔🤭
As a British fellow I appologise for this Karen, we are not all this stupid and ignorant in the UK, honestly.
I live in France now. The locals do their best but too many tourists make zero effort to have a smidgen of French. They just speak English straight out and expect to be understood.
You might be surprised. Most Brits that I have met on holiday (from England) are just as ignorant. Note, I did qualify this by saying most.
Nonsense. Brits don't speak another language because they are not capable, so I disagree with your "we are not all this stupid and ignorant in the UK."
Excuse me, I live in America, and I can assure you that American tourists can be the dumbest on the planet.
We're number one! We're number one!
Be fair, I only noticed one definite Brit out of 22.
I have experience people complaing about our different customs when they come as tourists (I'm from Spain), however, blaming the hotel for your pregnancy is on a whole other level....
Yeah. Real special. Like licking windows special.
Demasiado cómoda la cama.😂😂
i think it was the reviewer's joke.
As we say in Italy "The idiots' s mother is always pregnant". Everywhere in the world. 🙁
The most ridiculous? All of them!!😅. I dont understand why they travel if they don't want to know new cultures.
Exactly! When my wife and I went on our honeymoon cruise to Bermuda we tried so many different things. If you don’t want culture, just find the McDonald’s lol they’re everywhere.
To be entitled and are able to complain and flex at the same time...
They rather not, they are lost even their own culture after all.
Yeah, they should go to Disney Land.
@@casualsenpaitv Thank goodness McDonald’s can NOT be found in Belize!
I found it funny, the one with the color of sand. If she comes to the Canary Islands (Spain), where many of our beaches have black sand, she will die.
Oh my
And, in some places of the north of Spain, there are black sand beaches, too, (this time from slate, not from lava).
@@OuseabourI take that sand over fine sand that turn into needles with the slightest breeze any day
She would be very pleased in Fuerteventura, though.
@@victoriamuniz8958 And if they come to Santorini (Greece) they will go insane. We have beaches with white,black and red sand!!
American here. Uh, hate to tell you folks but I live in a 102 apartment building full of these kind of people. They don't understand why I don't want to socialize.
- No air conditioning outside... waiting for a boat that was also likely not air conditioned...
My travel anecdote is from Seoul, South Korea, where I found a fellow American yelling at a shop owner "how much does this cost?!" I stopped him and said "sir, he's not deaf; he doesn't speak English", then proceeded to translate for him so he could buy a fluffy blanket.
🤣 good on you for assisting and helping to put out the dumpster fire interaction. I don’t get why people default to yelling when trying to get someone to understand them. It’s weird and certainly does not help.
During my travels I crossed my path frequently with American/British people and you can spot them quite easy thanks to this facts:
- They never ever try any kind of local food
- In the morning you can find them in any place with english breakfast signs
- In the afteroon you can find them in a pub, with a beer larger than its head and watching sports
- They rest in the sand until they are radioactive
- They don't make any effort to learn local language, not even the most basic words
- They complain A LOT about people not talking english
- After complaining they think nobody in the country can understand them so they start blaming everyone in loud and feel surprised when realize many people understood them
- They know nothing about the country they're visiting
- They don't exactly know were they are, were they go and what are they going to do.
- They complain about anything not being exactly the same than in their town... so everything
Of course to be fair not all the people is like this but sincerely I didn't see many people from other nationallities act like this.
And: 90% of US-American, British or Australian expats here in Thailand have been in the "Special Forces". They must have hundreds of thousands servicemen in their "Special Forces".
@lluisg.8578 We Americans Can Be Incredibly Obnoxious and Ignorant. And Demanding.
That's why we Americans are called "The Ugly American." Such arrogance. If I were able to travel, I would be trying all the local cuisine -- I can get American food at home. I would, before leaving for my trip, enroll in a basic language course because I don't expect everyone there to speak English --- why should they? I would learn about cultural taboos so I am not offensive. I want to meet regular people at my destination. If a traveler from America doesn't have the internet, there is always the library! (Don't mean to sound like a goody-two-shoes, just an intelligent guest in another country.)
-They wear flip-flops and their body odor screams cheese or butter.
Radioactive. Ha, ha 😁
Had a conversation on TH-cam with an American who just couldn't understand that who's a foreigner is a matter of perspective. I am a foreigner to him, and he's a foreigner to me here on TH-cam. In his mind "a real American!" could NEVER be a foreigner. I was the foreigner, always, not him, never him.
He was also surprised that there were even foreigners here on TH-cam commenting, like how did we get into this American site, there are only Americans here, and how were we able to speak English if we didn't "live here". I think this was an elderly gentleman because he was so confused. "I've never seen a foreigner comment before!" and I wrote "You have seen comments from people from all over the world, you just assumed we're all were Americans".
It's mind blowing how many people use words on a regular basis that they don't actually know the meaning of.
Sorry about that. I’m an old white male American too, but I’ve traveled a bit and know geography and history. I subscribe to YT channels on photography, travel, movie reactions and the like, SEVERAL by creators in other countries. Exchanged comments with folks from all over. By contrast, the guy at the next desk at work was unaware of a town 10 miles from where he grew up. Amazing what a broad range of perspectives we have.
A sad portent of 'things to come', relative to the US election, in November...
Some people should NOT be allowed out in public without their keepers.
Karens crack me up - they expect everyone to cater to them and their overly-entitled, socially backwards selves. Had a male Karen try to start shit at my work - he very loudly castigated me (and I'm sure he wouldn't know what that word meant) for speaking Spanish to the Hispanic guys cashing their paychecks, saying that this is America and we speak English. I told the customer I was waiting on, "Un momento mientras trato con este pendejo." I stepped beside the counter and very loudly replied, "Yes, this is America, and according to the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, I can speak any goddamned language I want to, and if you don't like it, feel free to f*ck the hell right on off."
It was a satisfying moment. And no - boss was standing right there and I didn't get in any trouble.
For what its worth, I speak several languages and am learning yet another one. It's fun and useful as I can speak to others in their native language and they appreciate it. One word, though - jokes don't often translate well, but if you can tell a joke in another language and the other person gets it, then you can consider yourself fluent.
When you learn a second language, you actually begin to understand your native language better (meanings, phrases that really make no sense, etc.) I lived in the Netherlands for several years and it is possible to get by without learning any Dutch. However, the country and its people are so much more enjoyable when you try to learn the language. One evening in a restaurant, our waiter apologized to us in Dutch because he had a table of Americans who kept asking for things like Heinz ketchup and free refills of their sodas and he had to explain why they couldn't have these things. By the way, this was after he stood at their table and translated everything on the menu into English for them!
A friend of mine from the Canaries got a bad review for his rental property because it was cloudy that week.
That’s pathetic. Some people just shouldn’t be allowed to write reviews.
I worked in the Alhambra and someone filled up a complaint form because there's no lift or elevator to get to the La Torre de la Vela...because we are supposed to ruin a XIII century tower for their comfy b.tts 😂
I confirm in Canary Islands sometimes we have storms and rain, sometimes we had calima sahara mist sand in the air, but mostly of the year we have very nice weather and each island have a unique perfection.....
Hombre, al menos unas escaleras mecánicas y un par de sherpas si podíais poner. Y un tobogán para bajar
😂😂😂😂😂😂@@emilio4968
"The beach was too sandy". I recently watched a reaction video about people reviewing the 7 wonders of the world and a woman said that the Pyramids were "too sandy", had to walk through the hot sand because it hadn't been cleared and it ruined her new dress. What are the chances these two people are related, friends or even the same person???
Hmmmmmm who knows. Maybe even distant relatives of the same ancestors 🤣
Sand in a desert? How could that be?
The same person would probably complain about the Sahara desert because a beach should be on the ocean.
Spanish people in Spain ?!?!? And they dare to speak spanish ??? How horrible !!! 😂
Outrageous! They need to get liberated.
A US person commented while on a tour bus in Liège: "The children are so smart that they learn French ..." I flipped...
🤯
Said person was, in a way, right: Belgium is bilingual (separated North-South, but I understand what you mean). Said person would probably not understand a USian from another state of the USA...
@@user-gx1rk8yw6l This is what I encountered as an Irishman visiting the US. Those Americans on the East Coast tend to be more abrupt and business like and are not as relaxed and polite as those on the West Coast. Best of all are those from parts of the South and Oklahoma who are very respectful and quiet and polite in their dealings with customers and clients.
I found that people in positions a authority or in an official role could be bossy and rude while those in a job with a lot of competition such as retail and hospitality were much more polite.
You find this happens a lot also in Ireland where government and official roles with a monopoly on supply can be rude and ignorant to their customers while those in more competitive jobs have to be polite to retain their customers.
@@user-gx1rk8yw6lActually Belgium is trilingual, the most eastern area (Eupen) right next to the German border is mainly German speaking. So for protection of this minority, German is also an official languange in Belgium.
@@karstenfleck2385 Oh my... Makes me wonder when the Netherlands will *OFFICIALLY* become quadrilingual (English, French, German, PLUS Dutch)... 🙂
To quote Steve Martin: "Those French! They have a different word for everything!"
I have had an American tourist tell me that it was convenient that the castle was built near the highway. This was Bunratty Castle in County Clare. The castle was built in the 15th century. The second encounter was with English tourists in Portugal. They claimed that they were Irish. I spoke to them in Irish. They did not understand. I was informed that the grandfather was Irish. They were not Irish. 😂
I met a couple asking me to speak German, I asked if they spoke English, Spanish, French, Italian...until my co-worker asked me what did they want and I told her not to bother because they couldn't speak nor understand any language but German. Then, the woman laughted and spoke perfect Spanish...It's more about narcissism than ignorancy.
That’s just silly.
I am not saying they were actually Irish, but “In the 2022 Republic of Ireland census 1,873,997 people or 39.8% of the population in the Republic of Ireland said that they had some ability to speak Irish, out of an overall population of 5,149,139.” Now if you instead had said they didn’t even know what language you were speaking, that would be a more valid argument, as I would assume that most of the approximately 60% of the population that do not speak it, at least recognize it when they hear it.
I saw an interview with Natalia O'Shea on TH-cam, she is a famous folk and rock singer from Russia, and a celtologist by education. And when she moved to Ireland with her Irish husband, she began teaching Irish to college students, they said in English:
- Mrs. O'Shea, we do not understand you!
Those people are called Plastic Paddies in the USA. Those "Irish" people have an Irish surname, have never been to Ireland and what they know about Ireland is 100 years out of date! The total lack of knowledge about the existence of the Irish language is a sure sign of "Irish" person who knows little of Ireland.😅
Back in the mid 1980's Liverpool's legendary striker Ian Rush agreed to join Juventus. One year later he rejoined Liverpool citing that Italy was full of foreigners who spoke nothing but Italian.
How weird😱
When he joined Juventus he said he had always wanted to play in Spain.
If memory serves his direct quote was "It's like being in a foreign country".
@@leohickey4953 "Everyone spoke Italian at the training ground even right down to the groundsman and the tea lady. It was like being in a foreign country."
@@leohickey4953 "like"
I'm an American who only went thru high school and I don't travel. Even I know that if I ever DID travel out of the country, it's highly likely I'd meet folks who don't speak English. Imagine that. 😊
The Karen complaining about ginger nuts ( a cookie) will be a Brit.
Aussies have ginger nuts and weirdly each state of Australia has a different recipe all from same company Arrnots
1:05 Dearest Karen: There were many topless sunbathing women but your husband was relaxed any way. That stif thing in his pants is for the flag of "relax time"
Heh 😈
Jajajaja, esta señora no está bien ni en su casa. No se preocupa de informarse antes de salir de su país.
No se como terminaron sus vacaciones, pero en españa somos muy directos, por lo que no toleramos semejantes comportamientos. Esta señora es una déspota.
Espero que la próxima vez que salga de vacaciones se informe antes. Aquí somos tolerantes hasta cierto punto.
Si es que no se puede consentir que haya tantos españoles en España, quitándoles el sitio a los turistas honrados. ¿¡A donde iremos a parar!?
@@andressigalat602Literal vivo a 25 minutos en coche de la playa y no puedo ir, porque no se puede aparcar, no puedes, poner la toalla y la sombrilla, no hay donde comer etc.😂
Muy bien. Este mujer es loca. Soy ingles.
As a Spaniard, I never noticed that I was a foreigner in my own country.
Yo tampoco
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Ver un ee.uu y sentirse extranjero no es difícil, creen que sólo existen ellos, la súper raza, es patetico
@@chocolateconleche-sg2mw España está llena de extranjeros, tú… y sí, lo está, pero no son ibéricos.
Having been born in the USA but not RAISED there, I feel entitled to call myself a foreigner in my own country. A sort of 'Stranger in a strange land'. I thank my lucky stars for living in a *different* country in 'America'...
I find that the British classify the entire human race into two groups. 'British' and 'Foreigners'. It does not matter where they go, they remain 'British' and all the people that live in any country they visit are 'Foreign'. Sorry, there seems to be no classification for other English speakers such as Australians, Canadians etc. We are neither British nor Foreign.
Knew someone who did tours in Washington DC. She always had stories like this, the best being "How do they get all the flags around the Washington Monument to blow in the same direction?"
I used to work as a flight attendant. This one time, I was working on a flight Miami-Cancun and this lady was mad because we left Miami at 09.24am and arrived in Cancun at 08:45am. She said it was impossibile, we were making fun of her, this had to be some kind of sick joke and that she would file a complain to customer service. Feeling sorry, my collegue and I took some time to explain the meaning of "time zones" and how the earth rotates around the sun.
Anglo-Protestant woman, middle-aged and used to everything being done with her in mind. It is surprising that it almost always seems that they are the ones who have this kind of mental connection inside their brain vault. I think they should be required to have a special visa or perhaps a talk to convince them that their holidays will be happier somewhere else. Maybe Kabul or Yemen.
Welcome to Entitled Land. Narcissism is a plague
It really is. 💀
Sadly, you are right 😢
Some German tourist in Canary Islands (Spain):
- speaking German with everyone and getting angry nobody's understanding them, usually speaking louder as this would help, hahha (this happen also with residents after spending many years on the islands);
- pretending to get the dinner at 6PM, when usually in Spain, the dinner starts at 8-9PM;
- complaining everything is very expensive (while drinking cheep beer and eating the cheapest low quality food);
- getting very early on the beach, putting their towels on sunbeds to reserve them and then going for the breakfast and returning 2-3 hours later on the beach;
- wearing white socks with sandals or flip-flops (birkenstock) haha
Lo de usar sandalias y calcetines tendría que ser ilegal, me duelen los ojos cada vez que lo veo!!
😂😂😂
@@chocolateconleche-sg2mw Algunas cosas nunca tendrán sentido y los calcetines con sandalias son una de ellas.
Wearing socks with sandals is even more British than German and should be met with immediate deportation.
I've run across German tourists in the US who want to visit death valley on a rented motorcycle, in the middle of summer when it's averaging well over 118 degrees every day. The sunburn I've seen on some has been shocking.
@@allisonshaw9341 Esa si me parece una buena idea. Es más higiénico.
I saw a review for where we stayed in Tuscany. It was a restored medieval village with cobblestone paths and amazing historic thick-walled buildings with small deep windows. The reviewer complained that the windows were too small and should be enlarged!
Wow. Just wow. 💀
Lol ( i m a tuscan ) the reasons why the windows of ancient rural buildings were narrow, and the walls were thick, are: 1) less heat loss in winter, 2) cooler in summer ^^
The only fuels used for heating and cooking were, firewood and wooden-charcoal; both expensive,
@@lupodimontenero661 The same person probably groused about the narrow windows and cold stone walls in castles.
@@cs4849 ehehe maybe
I sometimes enjoy reading tripadvisor reviews exactly because of this. One review contained the bitter complaint of a British couple who were ranting about a hotel in the Tenerife (Spain) because they did not serve English breakfast. I wonder why some people get out of their homes.
Yeah, I don’t get that. Part of the experience is trying new foods.
@@casualsenpaitvNot for Brits. Greetings from Mallorca.
@@pinalimonThat tramples on my favorite quip about the Empire!
Y los españoles, cuando vamos a Inglaterra, no nos quejamos porque no hay paella y tortilla de patata
@@chocolateconleche-sg2mwAn hotel I stayed in in Spain, got a poor review because "there was paella every night ". There was also a choice of 5 or 6 other hot meals and an extensive cold buffet too!! It was very good paella, I had it several times.
Ernie Pyle drew a cartoon of Willie and Joe during WWII where one was noting how the country in which they were fighting was full of foreigners.
I’m a Yank, but I’ve lived in London, and one of my most vivid memories was of an American woman complaining that the food at Cafe Pacifico in Covent Garden wasn’t like it was back home in Pennsylvania.
Everyone there, and that included me, wished she had stayed in Pennsylvania.
If the local shops close for siesta, you can bet that It Is freeaking hot outside and you better respect siestas hours as well.
I didn’t actually know that. 🤯
Los turistas que se fastidien, los españoles tenemos derecho de disfrutar de nuestras costumbres y tradiciones
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Actually, most shops will not close for siesta. Specially is smaller towns, people like going home for having lunch with other family members (think lunch is the most important meal in Spain, not dinner as in many other places). They will be eating with the family and then go back to work in the afternoon. Not necessarily sleeping siesta. You will not see closed shops in big cities mostly, they open continuously. To finalize, siesta is some of a myth nowadays. Siesta made sense in the old times when farmers worked in the fields from 05:00 till midday. At that time it was difficult to keep working due to heat and having already worked since very early. Modern life with office work does not call for siesta. We have A/C, no need to stop due to heat, and workers have a continuus schedule, like everyone else in the world.
@@adacarbonell9265 Ok, in big cities you may find shops open 24/7, mostly big branded, like Starbucks, AleHop, Carrefour (supermarket)...and very, very, turist traps places... Most local shops close at miday, especially in summer when its deadly hot. Dam they are shop that close 2 weeks or even a month!
Also, siesta hours,like you know, not only are sleep hours, they are rest time.
In the past, like you said, when people work from rise to down, they need to stop at miday, not only becouse they ned to eat, also becouse they need to hide from then striking sun. Nowadays the sun strikes even harden, and not all the people work at office, or have ac at work. If it is 35 C° or more at work, you probably gona close 2 or 3 hours for "siesta", go home, have a lunch, take a shower...
I remember the good old days when americans did not know what a passport was and the english could not afford the bus , let alone international travel
Not all English. There was a custom in the late 18th and early 19th century of Englishmen touring the continent of Europe just as Steam ships and Railways became commonly used. Thomas Cook pioneered package tours and mass tourism among the middle class English at around the middle of the 19th Cent.
You would be surprised at how little amount of Spanish live in some of our areas… Im from Tenerife, the South is full of Germans and Brits, which is fine because they are very well behaved and cool, but its so striking to see that theres people that have lived here in Spain for almost 20 years and still dont know Spanish.
That is surprising. I’ve always thought living somewhere that the primary language is different would be a great way to naturally learn the language.
They are all clitting together in the Englisch or German Bars,Restaurants or even the card playing clubs. They order on-line at the Uk or German supermarket. And when they are in a spanisch bakery they cannot even order a bread or in a bar,not able to order a decent cup of coffee.And when they get that coffee they are nipping it like the think it must be poisened. I am dutch live for 24 years in Spain, Wife and father in law are from Argentina, got 4 dutch good friends and 50 or more good spanisch friends. But i am not affraid to make a linguistic error. The spanisch waiters call me, The big dutchman who talks like a indian in the western movie,s. And we all laugh about it. I can do speak better spanisch as they think. But on this way the remember me always with a good feeling and a smile. And that is what counts for me
Espero que no sea representativo para nosotros, los alemanes. La mayoría de turistas no habla español y evidentemente se considera el inglés primer idioma internacional. Pero me da vergüenza ajena ver a alemanes que no ponen ni el mínimo esfuerzo de aprender la lengua, más aun si llevan años viniendo a España o viviendo en España. Sería impensable para mi. Siendo alemán hablo alemán, inglés, francés, castellano, catalán (valenciano) y un poco de holandés.
@@hannofranz7973 que pasada sabes muchos idiomas, pero si muchos alemanes italianos ingleses e incluso rusos tienen comunidades construidas en tenerife y no saben español, una pena, no es algo que me moleste ni me afecte pero me parece una pena
And the sad part is these people probably make more money than most of us.
As someone who’s worked closely with “high value clients” I can confirm that having lots of money doesn’t mean you are smart in the most logical ways.
@@casualsenpaitv And manners tend to be very far from being common in them.
😢 seguro
I was once in the Guinness factory in Dublin and background music was playing songs by The Beatles (don't know why, but why not?), when upon hearing this, in a loud obnoxious voice boomed, " I didn't come all the way over here just to listen to American music !". I laughed so much that Guiness came up through my nose.
I was an American living in South Africa when my ear caught the unmistakable accent of a Michigan couple moaning because they'd flown "a million miles" only to discover that there were no *_tigers_* in Africa. They were also somewhat perturbed to find out they weren't allowed to simply drive out into the veld and shoot whatever they wanted.
Years ago there was a great advertisement for Tunisia "Tunisia is beautiful with it's long sand beaches" i am not fond of sand, or beaches. I knew not to go! Friends now live in Grand Canaries and frequently invite me because of warm sunny weather (and beaches). Every time I decline and tell them "I like snow, and grey, and clouds...." Somehow they can't process that my preferences are literally polar opposites from theirs.
I am a (retired) US expat in Finland currently unhappy with warm weather and awaiting the return of winter!
I remember a young couple from Norway who came with a group for a week to a Greek resort...they left after three days. They could not stand the heat and sun.
The biggest idiot was the one about the spanish speaking spanish in Spain, I almost died laughing.
It was unbelievable.
Good job man 😂😂😂😂
I remember listening to an American woman in the UK complain about how everything in Europe was "so old".
Not all American tourists are stupid and rude, but unfortunately those that are give the rest of us a bad reputation. My wife and I were in Paris years ago and stopped to get a drink at a kiosk on the Champs Elysee. The man in front of me was American and bellowed that he wanted two Cokes. The woman just looked at him and he bellowed again. After three tries, he stormed away. My French is extremely limited, so I spoke quietly and excused myself for not knowing the proper French to ask for what we wanted. The woman smiled and in perfect English said, "It's okay. I speak English. What would you like?"
There is a belter out there in the Web, American tourist in Scotland ,climbed Ben nevis the uks highest mountain at just about 5000 ft ,then complained about how steep it was and there where no shops or restaurants at the top😂😂😂😂
The brain. It hurts.
I think most American tourists expect to shop everywhere they go. And there is a restaurant on the summit of Pike’s Peak at 14,000 feet.
@mikejankowski6321 there is no road up Ben nevis ,you need to hike up.
@@18pablo88 That WOULD make operating a restaurant kind of hard. I cited it only for what the tourist was conditioned to expect.
clicking on this video has made me feel 300 times smarter
Happy for you 🤣
I understand the pain there. Spain used to be a nice place, but Europe never built a wall, so Spain got flooded by wall jumping Mexicans that only speak Spanish.
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Just rude.
😂
Make Spain great again!
I've worked as a cashier in a supermarket in a tourist area of Spain. Honestly, the worst ones were the French tourists. They did not speak Spanish nor English but they were angry if I didn't understand them. They wanted to pay by check as they did in France, but that wasn't possible in the country. They've got offended when their supermarket's card wasn't functioning in Spain... It was so tiring
As a French person, I apologise 😅 usually in France we have a good level in Spanish because we study the language when we are 12 years old. Kind of sad this situation
The reverse is also rather hilarious. My companion and I (both Dutch) were enjoying a nice meal in a small restaurant on the Pacific coast in Ca. Then a family sat down on the table next to us. Soon it turned out that they were also Dutch but were obviously under the impression they were the only foreigners in the restaurant. They were rather load and we could hear everything they said. Great fun when on finishing our meal we clearly and loudly said goodbye to them - in Dutch of course !
I like to do that also in spain. And my Argentinian wife hate me for dooing that. She always tells me. You need to help those people. I always say.When the rent me for €150 for 12 hours i am their private translator. Sofar has,nt earned any euro yet.
Common trend these days, complain about "something" and try for a refund or freebie (wife is a London tour guide - never used to happen, but now a daily experience).
Sad that this is the case. Especially when there are businesses that do truly value the feedback they receive and it’s full of BS cheapskates.
Indeed. I do wonder whether some or all of these spurious complaints are just an attempt to get a refund or discount rather than being genuine. It seems hard to believe that the complaints are serious.
I'm English and live in Spain. I don't speak Spanish very well, but I am improving. The amount of times that I've had to tell other Brits living here that WE are the foreigners and that WE are speaking in a foreign language when insisting that our Spanish hosts communicate in English. They don't like me pointing that out to them.
I live in Canada, which is a metric country. There is a treasured CCTV clip of a American in a gas station going berserk because his RV can only burn gallons of gas, not litres. It was politely pointed out to him that if he turned the RV around 180 degrees he could go back home and burn all the gallons he wanted.
I'm very concerned about the people who don't know where fish come from. 😂😂😂
Right!? 💀
@@casualsenpaitvI live near many little farms and some of them are often used to teach children about animals. One day the owner of one of these farms told me that some kids were amazed by the fact that cows had those big pins on their ears (it's a code that identifies the animal) and asked if that was the same code they used in supermarkets...the class wasn't from a big city....
Fish come from the supermarket. Obviously.
At the Forum Romanum an American lady was complaining loudly about the state of the ruins. "They couldve at least fixed them up for us!". She then went on to complain, that the 2,000+ year old paths had not been replaced with "proper" modern walking paths.
Cookies in the UK are called biscuits. Ginger nuts are a type of biscuit. That was a UK Karen. Most of the complaints about Spain are from UK Karens.
And ginger nuts are fabulous bisquits. I line in Houston Texas, USA and there's only one store that carries them. So sad.
I'm Italian and live in Venice. A random American tourist complained because nobody spoke Spanish as he was trying to improve it. He thought that Spanish was spoken in Italy and Italian was just Spanish with a different accent..Go figure...
Ho avuto la stessa cosa sta estate in Sicilia,;
I'm from Greece and in Athens we have almost 30 museums and archeological sites. So one day I was in the centre of Athens for some work and a guy came to me and said that he wanted directions in order to go to the museum. So I asked him which one and he looked at me like I was a weirdo or something else. Then he said the archeological museum, so I asked him again which one he meant because we have two of them in Athens. The guy looked at me again with a face that said: "Are you kidding me, are you stupid or what?". So I said to him: "If you don't know search the location on Google and let me see if I can help you". By that time the guy was fuming in anger so he took out his phone and started searching the New Museum of Acropolis on Google. So I told him that he have to take the train in order to go there. Dude it's not my fault if you don't know where you want to go.
As an American I’m right there with you thinking that we would say some dumb stuff… but the “we went on holiday to Spain and had a problem with the taxi drivers as they were all Spanish” does not sound like what an American would say. We’d use the word vacation not holiday. That sounds something an English person would say. Notice how I didn’t use the word British.
That’s a good point and an oversight on my part.
There was some (American) Kevin who complained why there are so many locals in Dominican Republic, so it’s not that rare
The British are 'Americans Lite' when it comes to entitlement. They still think they have an empire. Smh
Yeah...and the one about biscuits - custard creams and ginger nuts - that comment might as well be wrapped in a Union Jack.
How rude! I'm English and speak French, German and Italian. Many English oeople learn foreign languages at school. Do Americans?
Born in the UK, and working in Europe, I gave accurate directions to a group of lost American cyclists in The Netherlands. As they rode away, I heard, loud and clear:
"Gee, you stop in these little hick towns, and they all speak English."
Charming.
He was probably confused because the Dutch speak better English than most Americans! 😂
Para los españoles:
Podéis escribir vuestros comentarios en español, que google los traduce igualmente!!
Saludos desde España 🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦
Ay, pues muchas gracias por la informacion.
Un irlandés aquí. He estado en España muchísimas veces y de verdad hay muuuuchas españoles allí, 😉. Me encanta España. Volveré allí muy pronto para mejorar mi castellano.
Jajaja Camo la Karen qué se enoja por escuchar hablar español en los Estados Unidos. Ignorando qué el primer idioma europeo que conocieron los [ nativos estadounidenses ] fue el español.
Tienes toda la razón. El Camino Real es más antiguo y amplio que la colonia de los Mayflowers....cuyos descendientes se creen aristocracia 😂, y lo primero que hicieron fue empezar a quemar a sus propias mujeres...hay que estar muy enfermo...entiendo que tuvieran que irse de Europa aunque los que quedaron también fueran unos fanáticos.
Si ya no quedan nativos estadounidenses, los ingleses se los cargaron a todos😢
Once in the USA someone asked me if we have a moon in Spain. So hearing some Americans complain that there are too many foreign people in Spain speaking Spanish doesn't surprise me at all.
By the way: to the question about the moon I answered "no, no, no... we have three". And someone told me that this American was convinced that there are three moons in Spain for decades.😂😂😂
No egg-slicer in a fully-equipped kitchen? Horrors. There probably wasn't a juice squeezer either. Did she think "fully-equipped" meant "every item you can find in the kitchen department of the local big box store?"
The siesta one is ridiculous, years ago in Malta the buses and taxis used to stop running during the hottest parts of the day assuming that no sane person would want to be stuck in a metal box when it was so warm the roads were almost melting but English and American tourists complained about it regularly.
"Mad dogs and English......"
@@DAVID-ks9vp Noel Coward...a great ditty about the daytime habits of the world as opposed to the daylight habits of the English.
Yes just back in scotland after a holiday in England was thinking the same far to meny English down here
Well, here we go again, in my country, Spain, there are a lot of people that speaks English just because tourism is one of our principal bussines, you are all welcome. But if you don't wanto to ear us talking our own languaje, please wait until all spanish peolple go to another country and when Spain is empty you cam come. Of course you will be making your oun sangria and paella, cleaning your own room and doing all what those spanish people do for you in your holydais. Best regards from Spain.
I really wish the American education system did better at giving kids a chance to become bilingual. Often times learning one second language makes it easier to learn even a 3rd. Spanish and French are great examples because of the similarities.
@@casualsenpaitv The English education system isn't much better. The languages I use at work are the ones I *didn't* study at school.
@@casualsenpaitvmaybe that's the reason why the sinapse of their brains dont work properly 😂 to learn other languages is the key . I can understand spanish, english, french, catalanian , bable. And i would love to learn much more . This adds up, always.
I had intended to retire to Spain. I spent two years evening classes learning Spanish. Then retired to France 😂. I can still get by in Spanish better than I can in French. Although it's been over ten years.
Joseph you will be happy in spain but. You must decide what climate you prefer in the north is cooler than centre or south
A lot of British people have been known to complain about Spanish people existing in Spain. It’s hilariously sad
Make it make sense.
There was this guy in Cancun. He was from the USA and working as a sales closer for time shares. Then he needed to travel to Mexico City and desperately asking how he could obtain a passport or visa for his travel. Although fellow workers tried to explain to him he was in the same country already, even living and working in it, he didn't understand and kept looking for documents to travel to Mexico City.
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Your comment about the womana with the "Do Not Disturb" sign reminds me of Burns and Allen. George asked Gracie if the maid had dropped her on her head. The response was pure Gracie Allen: "Don't be silly, George. We couldn't afford a maid so my mother had to do it!"
The level of ignorance of some people is beyond belief. The most outrageous comment should get an award akin to the Darwin awards.
My wife worked at the front desk of hotels in Germany. You’d be surprised how many Americans are outraged they couldn’t switch the tv in the room to English
It makes me wonder how some English speakers have the feeling that the rest of the world should bend to them. It’s like a weird superiority complex.
This is my argument for the last 50 years. The best was " they are so backward, they do not even speak English". They, the English cannot speak my language.
I had a US lady ranting that there were too many Italians in Italy 🤦🏼♂️
Some people aren’t very bright 🤦🏻♂️
I'm Italian and I agree! 😜
Really?
An English couple of our acquaintance spent a few day's holiday (OK, "vacation") in New York & on their first day got a cab to the hotel. The cabbie, a native New Yorker exclaimed "Say, you folks speak real good English for non-Americans!"
They didn't reply, but a look askance passed between them....
I had a similar experience in San Francisco, and when I replied that my English should be good as I’m from the UK the woman just looked confused.
Stupidity is strong in some individuals. You cannot go abroad and believe everyone speaks fluent english, especially in continental Europe.
Somebody (from USA) complaining at a safari lodge in an African country that they had seen a spider in their room (and a very small one)😉
People are babies. That’s just as bad as the one who complained about not being able to air condition the outside.
Imagine when they go to Australia, and find out spiders are 10x bigger...
Classic from Wales.
Y Wyddfa (Mount Snowdon) is the highest point in England or Wales (1,085m) and its geology dates back to around 450 million years.
The complaint from one US visitor:
"Why did they build it in Wales? It's so inconvenient'.
Top that, anyone?
I live in West Wales and a friend who owns a hotel locally said they had an American guest complain that the staff were speaking a foreign language amongst themselves and that they should speak English as they were in England. My friend pointed out to the American that they were actually in Wales and the staff were speaking Welsh. The American replied, “But Wales is in England so they should speak English!” 😂🙄
After watching this, I am sure I know why we haven’t had an encounter with aliens. There’s no intelligent life here.
My forehead is sore from all the facepalming I did at these comments. 🤦♀️
Same. It hurts bad. 💀
"Isnt part of the thrill of travel trying new foods?"
It should be, but practically every holiday when I took a guided tour and US residents were present, some always pointed out the Burger Kings, KFCs and Mc Donalds locations while the guide tries to narrate the history of important ancient buildings and locations.
It's almost like a Monty Python sketch.
If local lunch is included there would always be grumblings about the quisine too.
It seriously makes me wonder why some people travel.
To many people speaking Spanish in Spain. To much curry food in India. Too much sand at the beach. Tourists are crazy. I worked in a hotel with balconies overlooking a river in the woods. Some complaints, to many bugs, big rats(they were possums, beaver, groundhog) river too loud, want a discount because it rained, moose looked in my room(elk, so what), people floating down the river.
Some people should have just stayed home.
"People floating down the river" could arguably be a bit unnerving. But it's more a matter for the police.