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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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"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."
    Posted by JT on 15 Sep 2009. + (1) - (0) Permalink

"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?" (Pop star Christina Aguilera)
    Posted by JT on 15 Sep 2009. + (3) - (0) Permalink

"Eskimos are uncivilised because they don't have any shops."
    Posted by JT on 15 Sep 2009. + (0) - (0) Permalink

"Was Abraham Lincoln that large in real life?" (Tourist visiting the 9.1 metre tall statue of the ex-president at Washington's Lincoln Memorial)
    Posted by JT on 15 Sep 2009. + (0) - (0) Permalink

"On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don't like spicy food at all." (Tourist complaint)
    Posted by JT on 15 Sep 2009. + (3) - (0) Permalink
Do you think we might need a "Travel" category too...?
    Posted by JT on 15 Sep 2009.

"I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts." (British tourist's complaint to travel agency following foreign holiday)
    Posted by JT on 15 Sep 2009. + (1) - (0) Permalink

"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

"My fiancé and I booked a twin-bedded room but we were placed in a double-bedded room. We now hold you responsible for the fact that I find myself pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked." (Tourist complaint)
    Posted by JT on 15 Sep 2009. + (1) - (0) Permalink

"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.

"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