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Originally posted by lionlove
Cream, LOL at the Mona Lisa! Doesn't it seem really small and unimpressive in that large room? 
Some gems that I overheard while I was in Europe.
On a train from Cannes to Marseille:
"I hate this f***ing language, they should speak English like the rest of the world"
In Barcelona:
"The KFC here is not as good as the KFC in (name of American city), they need better food here"
In a cheese shop in France
"Your nacho cheese here sucks"
Luckily, the majority of Americans I met in Europe were not like this.
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Oh, I have two:
On a tour group outside of Monterrey Mexico,
"These are the nastiest enchiladas we have ever had. This sint what they are supposed to taste like. We lived in Waco, Texas for 10 years. We KNOW What Mexican food is supposed to taste like."
I couldda died of embarrassment. I was hoping that the tour woudl leave them behind.
2) One of my fraternity brothers over lunch discussing the English Only movement in Texas at the time (Requiring all business and such in Texas to be done in english to be considered legal - Currently, many state documents and ballots are bi-lingual)
He said, "By god, if English was good enough for Jesus to speak, its good enough for the peoples of Texas."
Silence. Nothing but silence. I wanted him to give up his letters right there. lol.
I used to office with a woman from Bangladesh. She was awesoem and remains one of my good friends to this day. Becasue her english wasnt 100% perfect, people always assumed she was stupid, and had NO patience with her. When in fact, she was cool, giving and CRAZY smart. Yeah, her english wasnt perfect, but ya knwo what? She was far from stupid. English was the 8th language she had learned, and had only been speaking it for 2 years when I met her. In her native country, she ran a shool for girls that had 1200 pupils. Stupid? Hardly.