Ever found the people in a city so rude your government needed to fly you home?

The Highwayman

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6197921.stm

Ive been to Paris a number of times, for six nations games, football matches and just to visit the city. Ok yes they do want you to make an effort with the lingo and I do try my best as I would in and country with a different language.

But to be effected so badly you needed to be repatriated over rude restaurant staff or taxi drivers??? Really

Have rude people ever made you have a breakdown or even spoiled a holiday of yours so badly?

cloneslad

I just booked into a 5 star hotel in Mumbai to help me see out the remaining 4 daysI had left in India. I had considered flying home earlier than planned but it was too much hassle trying to change all my flights.

Laughed at the last part.. "However, the only permanent cure is to go back to Japan - never to return to Paris.".

cloneslad, Why ya hate Mumbai so much? Figured with your living in Asia, that would all be a walk in the park?

jive

no cause im not a soft, touchy bender

J. Marston

Surprise surprise, the French again...

Jesus Wept

**** Paris.

After Hours

a total lol story

Duggy747

I would say poor Japanese with their lovely culture................then I remember all of those fùcked up pornos they produce :pac:

Guill

God damn cheese eating surrender monkeys....

OMG Its EoinD

This is absolutely nuts :S

Amalgam

Fun that a story uploaded to the BBC website over five years ago has popped up as their #1 listed item this week. Not the first time this story has climbed back up to #1 either.

Last Updated: Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 20:14 GMT

Lanaier

Considering Japanese culture still retains some extremely xenophobic customs, those complaints wont hold too much weight.

I'm sure some foreigners in Japan were shocked to be refused entry to Japanese-only clubs, such as gyms or bath houses.

Waaaa, mommy repatriate me!!!

dpe

I've been to places that annoyed the crap out of me enough to leave at the earliest opportunity (Cancun for example - ripoff central) but this is ridiculous. Mind you, Paris is an awful place; there are hundreds of great places to go in France but Paris itself is massively overrated.

Frank Black

I did post this in another thread - I was looking for directions in Paris once and I went up to this French guy and asked if he spoke English (My French is poor).

He said "when I want to" and walked off.

Dan133269

black francis wrote: »

I did post this in another thread - I was looking for directions in Paris once and I went up to this French guy and asked if he spoke English (My French is poor).

He said "when I want to" and walked off.

If you think that's bad, a friend of mine (reliable person, true story) approached a policeman on the beat in Paris, asked for directions politely and in perfectly correct French. The policeman obviously recognised the Anglophone accent and grunted in French "I don't speak English" and walked off. Thankfully a female police officer with him had some sense of decency and came back to help my friend.

biko

black francis wrote: »

I did post this in another thread - I was looking for directions in Paris once and I went up to this French guy and asked if he spoke English (My French is poor).

He said "when I want to" and walked off.

Great retort, I'll have to remember that one.

mikedragon32

Whatever Parisiens may think of tourists in general they absolutely hate Japanese tourists. In fact, most tourists hate Japanese tourists.

They seem to stick together in their bus tour groupings and go everywhere en masse. Not a problem, you might think til you're in the likes of Galleries Lafayette and there are 50 or so of them hovering around customer service because one of them wants to register for a tourist discount or clogging up the entrance to a Metro station while one has their picture taken.

I've even seen them taking pics of the locals as they remonstrate with the tourists for blocking the entrances!

I'm amazed more aren't evacuated in wooden boxes, to be honest!

Dan133269

mikedragon32 wrote: »

I've even seen them taking pics of the locals as they remonstrate with the tourists for blocking the entrances!

Lol I was enjoying a nice relaxing dinner in the sun outside a restaurant in Brussels last week with a lady friend when this woman strolls past with a camera recording everyone eating, she put the camera right in my face. All I could do was laugh.

Kevin Duffy

Jaysis, they're not as robust as tourists now as they were from 1941 to '45.

WolfForager

Yep Parisians are dicks. Working in an irish bar in Brussels atm, have a good bit of french, enough to wait and answer the majority of questions, however as you'd expect there are some questions that i just can't understand. Belgian french people will happily switch to english to help you out if they see you struggling. Compare this to Paris where they look at you like a gob****e then get offended when you speak english to them after trying your best with french and getting no where. Vast majority of french people are grand though, it's just the parisians that have a baguette up their ass.

Hookah

Not quite the same thing, but lots of Japanese tourists have to be shipped home suffering from Paris Syndrome, brought about by the onset of the realisation that Paris doesn't match their expectaions.

Lanaier

Hookah wrote: »

Not quite the same thing, but lots of Japanese tourists have to be shipped home suffering from Paris Syndrome, brought about by the onset of the realisation that Paris doesn't match their expectaions.

Yes not quite the same thing.

Exactly the same thing.

Hookah

Lanaier wrote: »

Yes not quite the same thing.

Exactly the same thing.

I didn't read it and thought some sensitive English soul had to be transported home because the French were rude to him.

mconigol

Hookah wrote: »

Not quite the same thing, but lots of Japanese tourists have to be shipped home suffering from Paris Syndrome, brought about by the onset of the realisation that Paris doesn't match their expectaions.

I'm sorry. Did you not read the OP?

cloneslad

Deleted User wrote: »

cloneslad, Why ya hate Mumbai so much? Figured with your living in Asia, that would all be a walk in the park?

To be honest, my only experience of mumbai was getting from the train station to the hotel. I was sick of India, sick of the dirt, sick of the people trying to sell me stuff, get bribes, rob me, begging, etc etc etc so i just didn't even leave the hotel compound once i arrived.


I had been travelling for while beforehand, and Ireland was only a few days away, I'd just had enough. Not to mention the toilet issues I had while there.

TheZohanS

mikedragon32 wrote: »

Whatever Parisiens may think of tourists in general they absolutely hate Japanese tourists. In fact, most tourists hate Japanese tourists.

They seem to stick together in their bus tour groupings and go everywhere en masse. Not a problem, you might think til you're in the likes of Galleries Lafayette and there are 50 or so of them hovering around customer service because one of them wants to register for a tourist discount or clogging up the entrance to a Metro station while one has their picture taken.

I've even seen them taking pics of the locals as they remonstrate with the tourists for blocking the entrances!

I'm amazed more aren't evacuated in wooden boxes, to be honest!

They're not as bad as some of the Russian tourists you come across, at least the Japanese are passive. The Russian groups I've encountered barge through and act like they own the place and were plain rude.

Mint Sauce

Didn't have to be flown home, but a Austrian shop keeper did take an instant distrust in me as soon as I walked in.

Any item that I picked up that I wanted to buy, she wanted me to leave it on the counter whilst I continued browsing, when I was finished then got grunted at when I tried to do the transaction in German.

Hookah

cloneslad wrote: »

To be honest, my only experience of mumbai was getting from the train station to the hotel. I was sick of India, sick of the dirt, sick of the people trying to sell me stuff, get bribes, rob me, begging, etc etc etc

I had been travelling for while beforehand, and Ireland was only a few days away, I'd just had enough. Not to mention the toilet issues I had while there.

Mumbai is very intense experience alright.

Thousands of people crowding the pavement, a lot of them directing their attention at you as one of the few white souls around. Not to mention the smells, and the incessant beeping of car horns.

Maximum city.

Lanaier

You think the ______ and ______ are bad?
What about ______ tourists? They're always loud and rude on holiday, they stand around in groups and either stare at people or get into arguments.

Get back to ______, ya bastards.

2 stroke

I often find people in Ireland rude, I wonder would my government fly me to Paris.

Kevin Duffy

Hookah wrote: »

I didn't read it and thought some sensitive English soul had to be transported home because the French were rude to him.

I wouldn't worry about it, if people always actually read what they were commenting on, whole forums would struggle for content.

Anyway, back on-topic, 12 deaths a year attributed to Paris Hilton is hardly representitive of the experience all Chinese have in Europe.

pickarooney

irish-stew wrote: »

Didn't have to be flown home, but a Austrian shop keeper did take an instant distrust in me as soon as I walked in.

Any item that I picked up that I wanted to buy, she wanted me to leave it on the counter whilst I continued browsing, when I was finished then got grunted at when I tried to do the transaction in German.

I got that exact same reaction in an antique shop in Switzerland. I'm not proud of what I said to the guy.

EverEvolving

Have to say I didn't get any of the reported rudeness when I visited Paris (and I kind of expected it). Everywhere we went the staff were friendly and helpful and when they heard how awful my French was they spoke English to us. We mainly stuck to the tourist spots so maybe they are more used to it there.

prinz

Have never had issues in Paris, get on fine.

On the other hand I have had a Japanese housemate before. Nice lad but by jaysus was it hard work. The problem with Paris Syndrome, isn't with the Parisians.

JONJO THE MISER

The French i just hate them, and its not just France dont go to Quebec in Canada the french are worse there, so ignorant and rude, a bunch of **** to be honest.

Luxie

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

The French i just hate them, and its not just France dont go to Quebec in Canada the french are worse there, so ignorant and rude, a bunch of **** to be honest.

What do you REALLY think though?

Luxie

Perhaps it's cause I speak the lingo reasonably convincingly (seemingly I don't have an Anglo Saxon accent when speaking it), but I've rarely enountered any rudeness from Parisiens?

Or perhaps it's because I'm an ignorant bastard myself?

sbsquarepants

A ticket seller on the metro in paris once screamed the place down at me cos i asked her to replace a ticket she'd just sold me 2 minutes previously, that wouldn't open the bariers! I ended up having to bunk in for the week cos she just point blank refused to give me a working ticket. I have to say i was shocked by her attitude. Fúcking bitch!

Ruire

Luxie wrote: »

Perhaps it's cause I speak the lingo reasonably convincingly (seemingly I don't have an Anglo Saxon accent when speaking it), but I've rarely enountered any rudeness from Parisiens?

Or perhaps it's because I'm an ignorant bastard myself?

Much the same here. I lived in Paris for a few months, it was great fun. The franciliens are generally rather lovely - if, yes, very arrogant.

srsly78

WolfForager wrote: »

Yep Parisians are dicks. Working in an irish bar in Brussels atm, have a good bit of french, enough to wait and answer the majority of questions, however as you'd expect there are some questions that i just can't understand. Belgian french people will happily switch to english to help you out if they see you struggling. Compare this to Paris where they look at you like a gob****e then get offended when you speak english to them after trying your best with french and getting no where. Vast majority of french people are grand though, it's just the parisians that have a baguette up their ass.

I loved working in Brussels (no I'm not an EU fatcat!!!). All the good stuff about French culture, without French people.

muff03

anybody else read the 'most popular in Africa' link?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8600398.stm

old hippy

Lanaier wrote: »

Considering Japanese culture still retains some extremely xenophobic customs, those complaints wont hold too much weight.

I'm sure some foreigners in Japan were shocked to be refused entry to Japanese-only clubs, such as gyms or bath houses.

Waaaa, mommy repatriate me!!!

The only place that refused me in Japan, was an American club in Kokusai St, Okinawa. GIs on the door took offense when I queried the $25 entry fee. I said "what's that in real money?"

discus

Lanaier wrote: »

You think the ______ and ______ are bad?
What about ______ tourists? They're always loud and rude on holiday, they stand around in groups and either stare at people or get into arguments.

Get back to ______, ya bastards.

Genius!

old hippy

mikedragon32 wrote: »

Whatever Parisiens may think of tourists in general they absolutely hate Japanese tourists. In fact, most tourists hate Japanese tourists.

They seem to stick together in their bus tour groupings and go everywhere en masse. Not a problem, you might think til you're in the likes of Galleries Lafayette and there are 50 or so of them hovering around customer service because one of them wants to register for a tourist discount or clogging up the entrance to a Metro station while one has their picture taken.

I've even seen them taking pics of the locals as they remonstrate with the tourists for blocking the entrances!

I'm amazed more aren't evacuated in wooden boxes, to be honest!

All tourist groups are like this, not just the Japanese. Tired old generalising.

Nodin

pickarooney wrote: »

I got that exact same reaction in an antique shop in Switzerland. I'm not proud of what I said to the guy.

....though you might console yourself with the thought that he may never discover just quite what a 'geebag' is.

Luxie

Ruire wrote: »

Much the same here. I lived in Paris for a few months, it was great fun. The franciliens are generally rather lovely - if, yes, very arrogant.

Yeah, they can be infuriating and yet and yet, I've quite a soft spot for them really.

Lived in Paris as an 18/19 yr old many years ago, had probably the best time of my life, no responsibilties whatsoever, just as long as I had enough for a night out I was happy.

Met some right characters over there.