How do I avoid looking and acting American while traveling in Europe?

On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 11:49:59 +0200, Magda
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On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 09:01:36 GMT, in rec.travel.europe, (Maria)
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :

... On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 10:48:49 +0200, "tim"
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... (You know the joke about how to silence an Italian?)
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... Tie his hands behind his back?

Does it silence Prince Charles ?


I was watching him on telly at the D-Day remembrance yesterday. He
looked like a grinning loon!

"pencil" wrote:


"Mean Mr Mustard" wrote in message
om...

Any other suggestions?

Lose about 25 stones.

That doesn't mean "get your rocks off". Brits have quaint systems of
weights and measures.

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PB
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(Mean Mr Mustard) wrote:
Unfortunately, I drew the short straw and will be heading to Europe on
a business trip this summer. Now my primary concern is just making
sure I get through this trip and back to the US safely in one piece.

You sound like such an asshole it's a wonder you're still alive to ask
the question. But I'll answer it:

If a person with your attitude is truly a citizen of the USA, there's
something about you that will make you spottable from a distace and
there's nothing you can do about it. We are different. What makes us
so I cannot say because I don't know, but we are.
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(Icono Clast) wrote:

(Mean Mr Mustard) wrote:
Unfortunately, I drew the short straw and will be heading to Europe on
a business trip this summer. Now my primary concern is just making
sure I get through this trip and back to the US safely in one piece.

You sound like such an asshole it's a wonder you're still alive to ask
the question. But I'll answer it:

If a person with your attitude is truly a citizen of the USA, there's
something about you that will make you spottable from a distace and
there's nothing you can do about it. We are different. What makes us
so I cannot say because I don't know, but we are.

Is it perhaps an inability to spot when one is being sent up?

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PB
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Mean Mr Mustard wrote:
Unfortunately, I drew the short straw and will be heading to Europe on
a business trip this summer. Now my primary concern is just making
sure I get through this trip and back to the US safely in one piece.
I figure this will be a challenging task with all the reports of
anti-American protests and assaults on American tourists.

Any other suggestions?

Wear a ManU t-shirt, and a pair of sandals *with* your socks on. That's
all you need. There's plenty of fat, loud talking, rude Europeans about.

Oh, and put the t-shirt and sandals on at the airport. There's no sense
in grossing out your neighbors and the rest of us, beforehand...


Turlough

(Mean Mr Mustard) wrote in message om...
Unfortunately, I drew the short straw and will be heading to Europe on
a business trip this summer. Now my primary concern is just making
sure I get through this trip and back to the US safely in one piece.
I figure this will be a challenging task with all the reports of
anti-American protests and assaults on American tourists.

That said I'm trying to compile a list of tactics that will prevent me
from being a target

In your case.. this one only..

4. Do not leave the hotel

Any other suggestions?

Or better yet.. don't get on the plane.. what a moron..!!!

pencil wrote:


Lose about 25 stones.


If the average Yank lost 25 stone, he'd fall through his arsehole and
hang himself. 20 years ago or so, I spotted a McDonalds in Dublin. I
recall saying to my wife, "Give them a generation or two, and the
Europeans will be sporting the huge arses they accuse us of." I should
have taken up fortune telling...


Turlough

"JohnT" wrote

15. Order beer in McDonalds, NOT coffee.

Wrong way round.

UK McD's don't serve beer.

Mind you, they barely serve edible food either - or is that McD's in
general?

(Mean Mr Mustard) wrote in message om...
Any other suggestions?

Lose 300 pounds?

Mark

Maria wrote:

Unless he's going to be visiting a car boot.
I've never seen so much lipid tissue wobbling about in my life.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3300011.stm

"The number of children with weight problems has doubled in the last two
decades, with nearly one in five 15-year-olds now classed as obese."


Turlough