Silly questions asked by yanks

martic · 12-05-2011 11:43AM

Funglegunk wrote: »

*Yawn*. Maybe you could start a thread on dumb things Irish people say?

1st one then "Maybe you could start a thread on dumb things Irish people say?"

EraseAndRewind · 12-05-2011 11:44AM

worked in blarney woolen mills for years and heard some beauties in my time

one lady asked where they could catch the train to london-she honestly thought we were 'attached' to britain

one group were convinced that all we learned in school was irish dancing and how to play the boo-der-an

they asked if they could meet the ira and get photographs taken with them

they totally believed that if they kissed the blarney stone they would never be able to stop talking

was put to shame one day though when an old american man asked if i could speak irish i was like 'oh ya of course'....he started talking fluent irish and i just stood there nodding and repeating 'sha(sp?) ' like a fool:o

speedboatchase · 12-05-2011 11:45AM

I remember an American woman getting on Dublin Bus and asking the driver, "Do you take dollars?!" Couldn't believe what I was seeing

HappyTuesday · 12-05-2011 11:46AM

I haven't read the whole thread, but has anyone spouted that bullshyte yet about the American asking them where zero-zero LA is? (oola)

krudler · 12-05-2011 11:49AM

speedboatchase wrote: »

I remember an American woman getting on Dublin Bus and asking the driver, "Do you take dollars?!" Couldn't believe what I was seeing

I get Irish people every single day asking to pay pounds off their bill, we're no better :pac: "I'll shtick a few pound off dah bill dere shure!"

chopperbyrne · 12-05-2011 12:05PM

jme2010 wrote: »

"Does that come with cheese?"

That's hardly a silly question.

A much sillier question was one I was asked by an Irish waitress in a restaurant when taking my order.

Me - "To start, I'll have the garlic bread with cheese please."

Her - "Do you want cheese on that?"

Funglegunk · 12-05-2011 12:11PM

martic wrote: »

1st one then "Maybe you could start a thread on dumb things Irish people say?"

Good one... :rolleyes:

partyndbs · 12-05-2011 12:17PM

ok we may ask dumb questions but were the best nation in da world and if u dont like that u can suck it !!!!!!

gent9662 · 12-05-2011 12:23PM

Bunratty castle is amazing, but why did they build to close to the road?

gent9662 · 12-05-2011 12:24PM

partyndbs wrote: »

ok we may ask dumb questions but were the best nation in da world and if u dont like that u can suck it !!!!!!

Calm down dear. By the way could you please use the Queen's English instead of yank slang "da". I believe the word you are looking for is "the"

you wha? · 12-05-2011 12:28PM

whilst working in an internet cafe, a yank asked me if we had hotmail in this country?!?!

onlyrocknroll · 12-05-2011 12:29PM

I was in Texas recently and I was amazed at the amount of people who had never been to Ireland but had detailed knowledge of it's geography and history. In Dallas-Forth Worth airport three different customs officials/staff spoke a few phrases of Irish to me!

However some Americans do say very stupid things, like I heard this one guy say

partyndbs wrote: »

ok we may ask dumb questions but were the best nation in da world and if u dont like that u can suck it !!!!!!

Redhairedguy · 12-05-2011 12:30PM

Was in Upstate New York when I was about 9. And when I said to some locals that I was from Ireland. They asked me if that was the place where everyone went around wearing dresses.

I was dumbfounded.

gent9662 · 12-05-2011 12:34PM

Was in my local pub not so long ago (small pub in a tiny village in Galway), a couple of yanks walked in and sat down. The guy went up the the bar and ordered an Irish coffee and a cosmo. The barman laughed at him!

onlyrocknroll · 12-05-2011 12:49PM

In the interest of balance here's one stupid American story and one stupid Irish story.

A friend of mine was a tour guide in some castle (I think it was Charles Fort in Kinsale) had an American woman say to him ...
'Do you know Oliver Cromwell? I'm descended from him. He was a Spanish general who came to help the Irish fight the British.'

When my friend corrected her she was so upset she actually sent a complaint claiming that he had ruined her holiday. :pac: God bless her, where did she hear that story?

I met an American who was touring around Ireland, and deciding that he had enough of Guinness, asked a barman in Kerry if he had any Wild Turkey. The barman looked at him confused and said 'sorry we don't serve food'.

OneArt · 12-05-2011 12:55PM

This wasn't an American saying it but it's funny anyway. When I was working in an Irish pub in Germany last year, one of my mates over there (who was German) went to Dublin for a week. When he came back he goes, "I can't believe it there's no Irish pubs in Dublin!"

I told him we just call them pubs over there.

Duggy747 · 12-05-2011 01:16PM

Been asked some dingers by all sorts of people with different nationalities but sicne we're chatting about the Yankee-doodles....

Had one guy ask me if I had ever heard of a game called ".........GOOOOOOLF........" as if I went temporarily deaf and dumb.

Another time I was asked had I ever seen a McDonalds before. I had him believing that I didn't and that my primary objective on coming over to America was to buy Hamburgers and send them back home to the family. He was a nice chap so I told him I was only pulling the piss with him.

Not really stupid, more odd. Had a pimp in NY trying to get me to have a "good fùck" with one of his girls. He asked me where I was from and when I told him he said: "Eyer-land!?! Sheet, you gonna have such a good time fùckin' her yo' daddy gonna wake up and say..............sheeeeet, ma' son is having a damn good fùck!!" :pac:

southsiderosie · 12-05-2011 01:17PM

Redhairedguy wrote: »

Was in Upstate New York when I was about 9. And when I said to some locals that I was from Ireland. They asked me if that was the place where everyone went around wearing dresses.

I was dumbfounded.

I would guess they were thinking of Scotland.

oncebitten · 12-05-2011 05:00PM

When I was on my J1 - 'Are you guys all still fighting like in Braveheart??'

s-cogan · 12-05-2011 05:25PM

not a stupid question, but my way of taking the opiss out of americans.
came home from work(on the neighbours farm) one summer day about 3 years ago, had a lash of yanks around the table at home.(cousins that i had forgotten were coming).
they had been told i was at work, and when they asked what i was doing there)very slowly and elongatedly, like they were speaking a different language), i responded with the bets ever father ted quote from the "Song for Europe" episode.

"gwanawayuptherenowan SHAVE A BULLOCK!!!"

looks on there faces were absolutely priceless.
still skit laughing when i think of it.
:cool:

D1stant · 12-05-2011 05:30PM

In California my waitress

' I'm 100% Irish - all my people are from Belfast' and then 'Tell me, is Ireland as big as the US?'

Tourists on Bakers Street

'Can you tell us where Sherlock Holmes house is?'

Degag · 12-05-2011 05:33PM

"Can you speak Gaelic?"

gargleblaster · 12-05-2011 05:42PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Oh look.. another 'Americans are dumb' thread...

Ah you're just looking at it the wrong way, see. There's already a thread for stupid things people say. This thread just reinforces the facts that a) Americans are special and deserve special treatment, and b) American exceptionalism is a valid theory.

kowloon · 12-05-2011 05:48PM

You can't really hold it against them though. You can't grow up in Ireland ignorant to the rest of the world, but in the US you can go your whole life without needing to think outside the border. Their country is vast, they watch TV made at home, buy American brands etc. etc.

That said, a war monument with wwII, 1941-45, that annoyed me.

HeisenbergBB · 12-05-2011 05:51PM

I convinced a bunch of American girls (18-21yrs old) that we dont have Tuesdays in Ireland!

tricky D · 12-05-2011 05:52PM

How do I get to Kelly's Book?

PatsytheNazi · 12-05-2011 05:55PM

I knew an Irish idiot who asked a Sewdish girl he was trying to chat up - " What language do they speak in Sweden " :rolleyes:

gargleblaster · 12-05-2011 06:03PM

kowloon wrote: »

That said, a war monument with wwII, 1941-45, that annoyed me.

Is it a war monument though? Isn't it a veterans' monument? A monument to American veterans, who were only involved in the years during which the US was involved in the war?

Degag · 12-05-2011 06:10PM

Once in a bar i was working in, a yank asked me what time the music was starting, i replied "half ten." She then turned to her friend and asked her what "half ten" meant, all she got was a confused look. I had to explain to them that half ten meant 10.30.:rolleyes:

Another time a guy came in with a baseball cap on with the peak pointed behind him. My co-worker nudged me and said watch this. He went over and asked him where he got his hat, that he was always looking for a hat where the peak pointed backwards but could only ever find one with it pointing forwards.

The yank, very confused and very seriously, took off his hat and put it on with the peak facing forwards demonstrating and explaining that it was the same hat that my friend had, only that he was wearing it wrong. My friend thanked him for clearing up a problem he had for years and walked away trying not to burst out laughing leaving a very confused yank!

partyndbs · 12-05-2011 06:13PM

that guy obviously went home and was like this irish idiot didnt know that all you had to do was turn the hat the other way to have the peak facing backwards

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