'Rude' French are worst tourists

[motorCYcle]

BBC NEWS | Europe | 'Rude' French are worst tourists

French tourists are the worst in the world, coming across as penny-pinching, rude and terrible at languages, according to a new survey.

 

[jdoggivjc]

Funny that they like to mock Americans for the same "traits". ******* French ********... :no:

 

[LeaningCy]

Funny that they like to mock Americans for the same "traits". ******* French ********... :no:

Yeah, take that Frenchies. Also, way to go Japan on the three-peat.

 

[uro cy]

Thank god we now have freedom fries

 

[dmclone]

I was happy to see that Americans were most likely to try and speak the host countries language. I think Americans get a bad rap by a small percentage of clowns.

 

[jdoggivjc]

I was happy to see that Americans were most likely to try and speak the host countries language. I think Americans get a bad rap by a small percentage of clowns.

I know when we visited my sister in the Czech Republic when she was student teaching there in 2002, we tried using as much Czech as we could (which was very little). The only problem is, the Czech word for "thank you", if pronounced just slightly wrong, is the Czech word for "men's genitalia". As a result, the lady that was running the desk was usually giggling every time I said "thank you". Fortunately, she realized I was an American that was at least trying...

 

[dosry5]

You people need to quit capitalizing the word france or french.

 

[clones_jer]

they make a pretty sweet toast.