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That is hilarious.  My sister-in-law and husband have lived in Copenhagen for many years, and have failed miserably to learn Danish.  As soon as they try to say anything the other person switches to English.

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50 minutes ago, Craig Sawyers said:

As soon as they try to say anything the other person switches to English.

I had that same experience working in Amsterdam. Can read and understand Dutch fine, but can't speak a lick of it.

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Yeah, that sounds awful for all of you.  1 out of 5 times I spoke to cab drivers in Beijing, they just stopped the car and said "here."  That was where I got out. 

Also, Birgir, that is pretty rich coming from a guy who's national language is basically unchanged since it was written in runes.  

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The map of the UK and South Ireland is so close to the truth.  I come from Shirtless Men - they breed them tough where I was born.

Mrs S comes from Hartlepool, where it says "Elected a Monkey".  That is actually wrong - they hung a monkey.  At the time of the Napoleonic war, the French fleet was running up the coast of England, and one of them was shipwrecked of the North East coast, and all the sailors were killed.  The only thing that washed up on shore alive was the captain's monkey.  It was the way of things that the monkey was dressed in a little suit of clothes.  Of course the somewhat isolated community of Hartlepool (at that time) had never seen a monkey, and assumed it was a midget French spy.  So they put it on trial, and since the monkey refused to say much they found it guilty by default and hung it.

Until relatively recently if anyone wanted to provoke a fight, it only took "Hey lads - who hung the monkey?"

Just noticed that it even got onto Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_hanger

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