Sherri Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 Whats the funniest / strangest reaction or response you have had when you tell folk from south where your from?? i.e 'do you have electricity' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudias Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 A gorgeous little, jet black African girl, about five years old, on Famagusta beach in Cyprus stared at my wife in amazement before turning to yell out. "Mum. This lady is from the pony islands" What sophistication. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustMe Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 A gorgeous little, jet black African girl, about five years old, on Famagusta beach in Cyprus stared at my wife in amazement before turning to yell out. "Mum. This lady is from the pony islands" What sophistication. What a lovely little story......that has made my evening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewMagnie Posted November 12, 2006 Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 "Do you have electricity?", "I suppose the post's delivered by pony", etc, etc. The list goes on and I haven't heard an original one for years. On the flip side though and roughly on topic of folk's general ignorance of the place, I remember talking to a fog bound rig worker at Unst airport a few years back. We yarned away for a bit and afeter telling me he'd been going through the airport for over two years, he got around to asking where exactly we were. I gave him the usual answer of "x miles north of aberdeen, y miles west of Bergen, latitude of southern greenland etc" He looked at me blankly for a minute before saying thoughtfully: "So, we're on an island then....?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAStewart Posted November 16, 2006 Report Share Posted November 16, 2006 Is that near the Falklands? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david Posted November 16, 2006 Report Share Posted November 16, 2006 Is that near the Falklands? There is the South Shetland Islands near the Falklands isn't there? I quite fancy visiting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styles Posted November 16, 2006 Report Share Posted November 16, 2006 I know a guy who came here on a placement, he was staying in the country and got on the first bus he saw as he thought there was only one bus for the whole of shetland which just carried on in a loop. He wanted to get to Lerwick, hasen to say he ended up some where completley different. Took him ages to realise the bus wasent looping around! I have been asked if we live in huts before. What do we speak instead of English. What train do I get home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustMe Posted November 16, 2006 Report Share Posted November 16, 2006 Perhaps more worrying than funny but the first time I went to book a flight to come here on holiday the travel agent (Thomas Cook) were trying to sell me a ticket to Stornoway. Just as well I knew the difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twerto Posted November 16, 2006 Report Share Posted November 16, 2006 I remember when i were but a lad my parents bought a couple of sofa beds.. one ended up here and the other ended up in stornoway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowe Posted November 16, 2006 Report Share Posted November 16, 2006 Someone once asked me if Shetland really had a wall all around it! 8O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distortio Posted November 16, 2006 Report Share Posted November 16, 2006 Someone once asked me if Shetland really had a wall all around it! 8O i blame the weather forecast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddybay-kyebeoy Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 A 17 year old lass asked me what Shetland was like yesterday. When I told her the usual things and finally that we had very few trees her response was (in a genuine tone)....'How do you breathe?!?!?' Ahhh, our future leaders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooky13 Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 I've been asked from Sales reps especially: Do we live in caves? Do you manage to get television? How far from Oxford is that? Does it snow all year? Do you have a bridge to mainland, etc, etc. I think it's unreal how ignorant some people are, although saying that it's great for me as I love spinnin a yarn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mario Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 I've been asked from Sales reps especially: Do we live in caves? Do you manage to get television? How far from Oxford is that? Does it snow all year? Do you have a bridge to mainland, etc, etc. I think it's unreal how ignorant some people are, although saying that it's great for me as I love spinnin a yarn. To be honest, some of the things are ridiculous but equally, why should people know about us? Some say they are ignorant but in all fairness what do I know about an isle like Barra for instance.. not alot. We are a small, remote community and sometimes I think some people forget that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fratelli Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 When I said I was from Shetland they asked if I could speak Gaelic??? 8O When I said no they said they thought everyone in the Hebrides spoke Gaelic. Maybe they do but the Shetland Islands ain't in the chuffing Hebrides you muppet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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