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Tourists are often the source of some of the best unintentional witticisms going. Tell us what all those silly foreigners said in this category.

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"It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England it only took the Americans three hours to get home." (Tourist complaint)
    Posted by JT on 15 Sep 2009. + (2) - (0) Permalink
Yeah, that has to do with the Earth rotation.
    Posted by Socky on 17 Jan 2010.

American tourist visiting the British countryside: "Where are all the hobbits?"
    Posted by JT on 18 Sep 2009. + (6) - (0) Permalink
Dwelling in their holes, of course.
    Posted by Socky on 20 Sep 2009.
"New Zealand."
    Posted by David Gerard on 20 Oct 2009.

"The brochure states: 'No hairdressers at the accommodation'. We're trainee hairdressers - will we be OK staying here?" (Tourist enquiry)
    Posted by JT on 15 Sep 2009. + (1) - (0) Permalink

Tourist in London: "When do the clowns come on at Piccadilly Circus?"
    Posted by JT on 20 Sep 2009. + (2) - (0) Permalink

Tourist: "Who's that on top of Nelson's Column?"
    Posted by JT on 18 Sep 2009. + (2) - (0) Permalink

"No-one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled." (Tourist complaint)
    Posted by JT on 15 Sep 2009. + (1) - (0) Permalink

Overheard American tourist in Edinburgh, on the battlements of Edinburgh Castle, looking out over the Firth of Forth, into Fyfeshire: "Gee, I didn't know Norway was so close!"
    Posted by JT on 18 Sep 2009. + (1) - (0) Permalink

Tourist in London: "Is it a long walk to Times Square?"
    Posted by JT on 20 Sep 2009. + (1) - (0) Permalink

Tourist in London: "What number in Oxford Street is Oxford University?"
    Posted by JT on 20 Sep 2009. + (1) - (0) Permalink

"I hate London. Its boring. Nothing ever happens there."
    Posted by Ghost on 19 Dec 2009. + (3) - (2) Permalink
Ah sugar I forgot to add this.

Source: 16 year-old boy
    Posted by Ghost on 22 Dec 2009.
Ah, now THAT makes it stupid. I must have been mistaken with my regular excursions to London when I was 16 - it seemed that every weekend there was some club or another I wanted to go to. I must have been mistaken.
    Posted by JT on 23 Dec 2009.
My thoughts exactly!
    Posted by Ghost on 27 Dec 2009.