Stupid Questions Foreigners Have Asked You?

[Adam Jensen]

If I ever go to the UK, I'm staying with you. I have a crippling fear that someone will force me to drink nasty leaf-water.

[Miyagie]

Since germany isnt rly well known for its technology and engineering i was asked by some american if we got electricity or know whats a washingmachine is.

[Reeve]

Since germany isnt rly well known for its technology and engineering i was asked by some american if we got electricity or know whats a washingmachine is.

Germany? Home of Siemens? Germany is renowned for their engineering and technology!

[Polar1]

Can't really blame people for whatever summarized version of the world they have. Although, browsing a travel website can go a long way to avoid embarrassing questions.

[Gamevizier]

"do you have camels here?" >.> <.< ... and he asked us this right in middle of highway traffic.

[Shibito]

I usually ask americans if the whole political thing in the US is as bad as this forum makes it out to be

[Deleted]

Oi, mate. Blhrg urgh eh ah erd ha?

After researching some I believe he was from England and had a Geordie accent. No idea what he said but it sounded stupid enough for me to become uncomfortable and walk away.

[Annoying]

"do you have camels here?" >.> <.< ... and he asked us this right in middle of highway traffic.

Yeah, but you could ask me "do you have horses here" in the middle of highway traffic, and the answer would be "yeah, lots of them."

[Linri]

"Oh your from new york, so you must live near central park?"

[Adam Jensen]

Since germany isnt rly well known for its technology and engineering i was asked by some american if we got electricity or know whats a washingmachine is.

Germany not well known for its technology and engineering?

Next you'll tell me they're not well known for their beer.

[ItachiZaku]

"Is London near here?"

Of course it is.

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"Oh your from new york, so you must live near central park?"

Always used to get "OH! do you go to TRL?!" My friend from Syracuse (7 hours from NYC) and I (from Buffalo, 9 hours from NYC) would always get a nice chuckle out of that. "Yeah, we've actually had lunch in the same restaurant as Carson Daly like... feels like almost once a week" lol NY State =/= New York City

[Reeve]

"Do you drink tea every meal"
"No I hate tea"
"But aren't you English?" -confused look-

Oh and

"Is London near here?"

From an American standpoint, there's nowhere in the UK that isn't near London. The kingdom is smaller than California. Almost half the size.

[Gamevizier]

Yeah, but you could ask me "do you have horses here" in the middle of highway traffic, and the answer would be "yeah, lots of them."

well from the way he was asking it he was implicating that we ride camels on a daily basis. I blame the media for always portraying us as rural people living in mud huts and drinking goat milk...and fk those film makers who try to paint us in that image just to win some stupid international prize.

[Deleted]

Where are all the people?

[Vilendor]

German exchange student ~10 years ago sitting on his high horse:

He: -Do you guys know what is CD player?
Me: - No, sorry............. we don't use those anymore, i have only a DvD player with USB plug and Pendrive

[PosPosPos]

I've gotten that a few times. To be fair, a lot of people do carry guns here, but you're very unlikely to get shot unless you do something really stupid.

And quite frankly, how would they know this?

For most other first world nations(or even 3rd world nations with gun bans), they absolutely don't even have to fear guns at all, at least from other citizens. The fact that there are non-zero trigger happy sociopaths with almost unbridled access to firearms, is terrifying even if the chance of getting shot is "small".

Going from absolute zero chance to a small chance, is comparatively a huge difference.

[thealmightymoo]

Being a new zealander, i always get asked if i knew peter andre. considereing he's australian as well.

[Sleepysnik]

Not personal experience, but I heard about some tourists complaining about the midnight sun being the same sun they had always seen..

[Nengal]

When I went to Colombia, many nice people I spoke with said they were terrified to go to the U.S. due to violence and asked many questions such as, "How many murders have you seen?" Not necessarily a 'dumb' question, but certainly enlightening.

[zenkai]

Too many to mention, it's amazing how ignorant the rest of the world is when it comes to knowing anything about the US. They watch too much TV and think thats how we all are.