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Sweetsee · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2302 Location: ) is everything

First year high school boy ask me to sing a song.
I was touched.

Eva Pilot · Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 12:02 pm Post subject:

Sweetsee · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2302 Location: ) is everything

Barnsey?

nawlinsgurl · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 2:00 pm Post subject:

True Story...

1. Do you have a gun? (Yes, by the way I have one with me right now.)

2. Do you know Tupac? (Of course, and I've also met Britney Spears, the Tooth Fairy, and Michael Jackson--when he was black though.)

3. Do you eat rice? (No. I, like most Americans, only eat at McDonalds.)

4. Are your boobs real? (No I put them in everyday because I love all the attention I get from nasty salarymen and little boys. Besides everyone in the states has fake boobies. Duh.) Rolling Eyes

king kakipi · Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 353 Location: Australia

shuize · Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 1270

JimDunlop2 · Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 2286 Location: Japan

Maitoshi · Joined: 04 May 2014 Posts: 718 Location: 何処でも

ZennoSaji · Joined: 02 Feb 2010 Posts: 87 Location: Mito, Ibaraki

I've been asked by two of my teachers, "What do you eat for dinner every day?"
Dude if I ate the same thing every day I'd hate eating. o_O
I replied, "Food."

Jagariko · Joined: 14 Oct 2013 Posts: 40

"Do Americans wear shoes in bed?" Has been a favourite of the last four or five years.

After saying, I don't know, you'd have to ask an American a few times, I asked why and was told that they saw shoes being worn in bed "in a movie". I check that they know movies aren't real but I guess they are thinking of a sex scene where two people just fall into bed clothed and shod.

Last week I was asked if foreigners hiccough!

The most ludicrous question I've ever been asked was, "Your eyes are blue so is everything you see blue?" I retorted with the same question and substituted blue for brown. "No! What? Huh? Ohhhh!"

Now when I get asked a dumb question (ie all the time), I just ask it back:
"Do you eat burgers every day?" "Do you eat sushi every day?"
"Do all foreigners have a small face?" Do all Japanese have a big face?"

I'd say that embarrasses and annoys in equal measure!

nightsintodreams · Joined: 18 May 2010 Posts: 558

"How do you come to school, by Plane?"

This next one is a comment my friend got from a Japanese teacher in the staff room. He had just eaten his ice cream too quickly...

"Argh! Brain freeze!"

"EEeeeeeee, foreigners get brain freeze too?

Mr. Leafy · Joined: 24 Apr 2012 Posts: 246 Location: North of the Wall

How do you say 'Hello Kitty' in English?

Asked in Japanese by an eight-year-old. I'm sure I've had some weird ones from adults but can't think of them at the mo.

marley'sghost · Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 255

Pitarou · Joined: 16 Nov 2009 Posts: 1116 Location: Narita, Japan

Big_H · Joined: 21 Dec 2013 Posts: 115

When I read about it in a blog of another teacher, I wasn't sure if I should believe it, then one of my online students asked me that same question

"you're not a cherry boy?"

cherry boy seems to be a term for virgins and even though I was tempted -not to regale a middle schooler about tales of my sexual escapades, but to correct the term cherry boy for him-, I just feigned ignorance.