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<blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 4996856" data-attributes="member: 40177">Yeah, not an error.&nbsp; But it was the only example I could think of regarding a british person behaving in what I'd see as a stupid manner.&nbsp; Going up to some random person and chastising them for the word &quot;soccer&quot; (and, to be fair, I am not a football/soccer fan, at all... give me hockey, any day of the week) is kind of rude, juvenile, and silly.&nbsp; Of course, there are generally fewer english tourists in Victoria (even though the prince is here as I speak) than Americans.&nbsp; Especially YOUNG english tourists.&nbsp; We get much more Australian tourists (and, for some reason, I've yet to encounter an aussie tourist that has said something &quot;stupid tourist&quot;-y.&nbsp; I've met stupid australians, mind you, but not in a stupid tourist sort of way.&nbsp; ***If we wanted to take the subject on to &quot;rude tourists&quot;, I have a million stories.&nbsp; Most of them just come from different customs.&nbsp; I remember being at a restaurant and watching a guy snap his fingers to get the waittress' attention.&nbsp; And she'd blatantly ignore him.&nbsp; He did this for about fifteen minutes, every time she walked by, and was getting pretty angry.&nbsp; My friends and I laughed, called him over, and explained to him that snapping your fingers at someone is the height of rude over here.&nbsp; He thanked us, apologized to the waittress, and all was good with the world.&nbsp; He did give her all his toonies and loonies in change, though.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wik, post: 4996856, member: 40177"] Yeah, not an error. But it was the only example I could think of regarding a british person behaving in what I'd see as a stupid manner. Going up to some random person and chastising them for the word "soccer" (and, to be fair, I am not a football/soccer fan, at all... give me hockey, any day of the week) is kind of rude, juvenile, and silly. Of course, there are generally fewer english tourists in Victoria (even though the prince is here as I speak) than Americans. Especially YOUNG english tourists. We get much more Australian tourists (and, for some reason, I've yet to encounter an aussie tourist that has said something "stupid tourist"-y. I've met stupid australians, mind you, but not in a stupid tourist sort of way. *** If we wanted to take the subject on to "rude tourists", I have a million stories. Most of them just come from different customs. I remember being at a restaurant and watching a guy snap his fingers to get the waittress' attention. And she'd blatantly ignore him. He did this for about fifteen minutes, every time she walked by, and was getting pretty angry. My friends and I laughed, called him over, and explained to him that snapping your fingers at someone is the height of rude over here. He thanked us, apologized to the waittress, and all was good with the world. He did give her all his toonies and loonies in change, though. ;) [/QUOTE]

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