Freeloading hippy on walk to india has to turn back due to not speaking french
Evilmatt on Fri, 2008-02-29 11:12
Bloody idiot, like that is a surprise some scruffy sod turns up unable to speak a word of french dressed only in tshirts and sandals and he's surprised that turn him away.
Nice find, EMW. I did wonder what had happened to him. Is he going to learn the language of all of the nations from here to India or is he going to get as far as Switzerland and then turn back again... then walk round cornwall, learn German and get one country further...
Submitted by brainwipe on Fri, 2008-02-29 11:32
And this is why hippies will never be in power...daft ideas backed up with a complete lack of foresight.
Also, can anyone decipher this sentence?
...not only did no one not speak the language
Triple negative? Where does that leave you...did they speak the language or not? Is he having a go at the French for not speaking English, or his team for not speaking French?
Submitted by babychaos on Fri, 2008-02-29 14:00
HAHAHHAHA! Nice pete.
Always thought you were a hippy, what with the hair.
Submitted by brainwipe on Fri, 2008-02-29 14:05
It's like one of those spoof english travel shows "Now the problem with going abroad is the locals simply won't knuckle down and learn English!"
Submitted by Evilmatt on Fri, 2008-02-29 14:20
It seems a bit odd that he didn't foresee this to any degree surely he could have got a French phrase book you can even get them free online to print out if you look, maybe he's one of those anti technology nuts as well. It's been my experience that simply trying to speak the language even if you're not very good gets you a lot of goodwill. They see you making the effort and usually cut you some slack. But then I usually have money and am buying things not turning up on someone's door step asking in English if I can get free food and lodgings.
Submitted by Evilmatt on Fri, 2008-02-29 14:28
His idea of making it to India on the power of human kindness does seem rather flawed, he's starting in France FFS. Now he's walking around the UK coastline, what does he think'll happen to him when he gets to Middlesborough?! Tool.
Submitted by Nibbles on Fri, 2008-02-29 14:31
an excerpt from a future blog by the guy on touring england ;) "...not only did no one not speak the language, they had also seen us as just a bunch of freeloading backpackers"
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Nice find, EMW. I did wonder what had happened to him. Is he going to learn the language of all of the nations from here to India or is he going to get as far as Switzerland and then turn back again... then walk round cornwall, learn German and get one country further...
And this is why hippies will never be in power...daft ideas backed up with a complete lack of foresight.
Also, can anyone decipher this sentence?
Triple negative? Where does that leave you...did they speak the language or not? Is he having a go at the French for not speaking English, or his team for not speaking French?
HAHAHHAHA! Nice pete.
Always thought you were a hippy, what with the hair.
It's like one of those spoof english travel shows "Now the problem with going abroad is the locals simply won't knuckle down and learn English!"
It seems a bit odd that he didn't foresee this to any degree surely he could have got a French phrase book you can even get them free online to print out if you look, maybe he's one of those anti technology nuts as well. It's been my experience that simply trying to speak the language even if you're not very good gets you a lot of goodwill. They see you making the effort and usually cut you some slack. But then I usually have money and am buying things not turning up on someone's door step asking in English if I can get free food and lodgings.
His idea of making it to India on the power of human kindness does seem rather flawed, he's starting in France FFS. Now he's walking around the UK coastline, what does he think'll happen to him when he gets to Middlesborough?! Tool.
an excerpt from a future blog by the guy on touring england ;)
"...not only did no one not speak the language, they had also seen us as just a bunch of freeloading backpackers"
Lol! Very good EMW, very good.
HAHA! Nice EMW. Niiiiice. Chuckle chuckle.