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Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by Nobody: 12:16pm On Apr 08, 2015

Lol.."SAPONE"you didn't take time to read it, you could have understand. How did your skin looks like then. cheesy

babeface3:
I remember using a liquid soap I bought in an Italian supermarket as a body cream for almost one year before my German roommate that could read Italian discovered my folly. Same thing with packaged dog food in an attempt to try new thing

Whats your own experience?

Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by nosike3(m): 12:19pm On Apr 08, 2015

Visited Montreal as a teen! Got a bus right right outside my aunts' house but while coming back they kept moving even when I said I was gonna get off!! shocked

sharp sharp my mind enter gbomo gbomo things not knowing that they have designated stops!! grin

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Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by Nobody: 12:22pm On Apr 08, 2015

One guy went to Chinese supermarket and he decided to buy CAN food and not knowing that the food meant for dogs alone because he can't read Chinese language.......imagine this guy eat the food for over six months and he later found out that he is not longer growing instead growing in the ground....... grin

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Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by tojujack: 12:23pm On Apr 08, 2015

donsmall94:
I cooked the wrong egg
And fried the wrong egg

......you're not serious

Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by naija4all(m): 12:29pm On Apr 08, 2015

Well, this is interesting.

Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by fOFT: 12:29pm On Apr 08, 2015

My return ticket to Rome
Departure (from roma termini to milano centrale) earlier than arrival(milano centrale to Roma termini)

babeface3:
I remember using a liquid soap I bought in an Italian supermarket as a body cream for almost one year before my German roommate that could read Italian discovered my folly. Same thing with packaged dog food in an attempt to try new thing

Whats your own experience?

Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by deadie(m): 12:31pm On Apr 08, 2015

babeface3:
I remember using a liquid soap I bought in an Italian supermarket as a body cream for almost one year before my German roommate that could read Italian discovered my folly. Same thing with packaged dog food in an attempt to try new thing

Whats your own experience?

I did exactly the same! I only realised that something was amiss when my skin started to peel and I asked my friend who could read German if everything was ok with my cream.

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Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by flyca: 12:32pm On Apr 08, 2015

Wow. A lot, a lot. Where do I start from sef

Went to a big mart to buy something to replace "swallow", and ended up buying starch, the type for washing clothes!

I used hair conditioner as hair cream for over 6 months! It was sticky and itchy but I said to myself "These chinko pipu sef" undecided

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Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by Nobody: 12:41pm On Apr 08, 2015

China; I was hungry and went to a restaurant to eat, I ordered one fine soup I saw on the menu (their menu comes with pictures of the dish, a kind of a la carte). I waited for ten minutes for it to be prepared, when it was served with chifan (rice) the oil in the soup tasted like kerosene. I could even eat the rice, I felt so uncomfortable at the strange taste in my mouth and left the restaurant & trekked a long distance to a Nigerian restaurant that I know.

Vietnam; I entered a barbing saloon beside my hotel as a was looking for a place to shave, the whole people inside were just looking at me and laughing, I discovered their shaving\barbing method is different from the one I know because of the nature of their hair. I had to stay a month & 2weeks without shaving & returned to Nigeria as if I has been in prison.

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Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by Destiny4fame(m): 12:47pm On Apr 08, 2015

Person wey neva leave d country dey get dat kind xperience....
Abi U intetionally wan sabi person wey komot for 9ja b4....abeg,park welll

Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by Nobody: 12:49pm On Apr 08, 2015

China, always having a complimentary card of my hotl on me so I can give to the cab driver when I'm going back, else I would get lost because they always pretend not to understand what I say.

There was this particualr incident that I followed someone to a place in HongKong, then I wanted to go there myself the next day, I entered bus 224 like we did the previous day, I ended u stopping at the wrong bus stop and had to call the person I wanted to keep in the dark about my movement that I was lost.

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Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by cana882(m): 12:52pm On Apr 08, 2015

i went 2 urinate in a place written "do not urinate here" in french

Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by oathman(m): 12:56pm On Apr 08, 2015

Chukwugekwu:
One guy went to Chinese supermarket and he decided to buy CAN food and not knowing that the food meant for dogs alone because he can't read Chinese language.......imagine this guy eat the food for over six months and he later found out that he is not longer growing instead growing in the ground.......

GUY....... ur lie just make my day grin

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Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by LadyX(f): 1:05pm On Apr 08, 2015

razortruth:
I slaughtered my christmas goat outside with Awka made knife and before i knew what was happening,my white girl friend had called 911 and the cops took me away.The dead goat was the exhibit and my girl friend the witness of the charge against me which was;cruelty to animal.I pleaded guilty,i didnt even understand the language.I merely nodded

Sorry

Didn't you tell your girlfriend you were going to slaughter a goat for Christmas?

She fall my hand...she should have told you it's against the law (that's if you 2 had no language barrier)

Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by kachnov(m): 1:08pm On Apr 08, 2015

razortruth:
I slaughtered my christmas goat outside with Awka made knife and before i knew what was happening,my white girl friend had called 911 and the cops took me away.The dead goat was the exhibit and my girl friend the witness of the charge against me which was;cruelty to animal.I pleaded guilty,i didnt even understand the language.I merely nodded

911 and you couldn't understand the language?
I hail thee bro.

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Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by Dranatomy: 1:09pm On Apr 08, 2015

I used vaginal lubricant as cream..

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Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by OjayDavido(m): 1:11pm On Apr 08, 2015

I troway Salute o...Una Sabi am

Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by Nobody: 1:21pm On Apr 08, 2015

oathman:

GUY....... u lie just make my day

u need to see him life ..........na true talk ooooooh grin

Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by OperationIgrigi: 1:22pm On Apr 08, 2015

babeface3:
I remember using a liquid soap I bought in an Italian supermarket as a body cream for almost one year before my German roommate that could read Italian discovered my folly. Same thing with packaged dog food in an attempt to try new thing

Whats your own experience?

Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by player007(m): 1:45pm On Apr 08, 2015

kennygee:
When i traveled to Ibadan, i remember bla bla bla bla bla.

Lolz. Take your time oo. Wich day ibadan become outside country?

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Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by Nobody: 1:47pm On Apr 08, 2015

LadyX:

Sorry

Didn't you tell your girlfriend you were going to slaughter a goat for Christmas?

She fall my hand...she should have told you it's against the law (that's if you 2 had no language barrier)

I was later told that every animal could only be slaughtered at the abattoir.There they have mechanized way of killing animals so there is minimal pain for them.Cutting the throat of goat with knife caused the goat psychological pain and trauma which amounted to cruelty to animal.I was booked!

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Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by ojimbo(m): 1:48pm On Apr 08, 2015

ohhhhhhhhhh, i turned to a deaf and dumb man, trying to communicate with hand signs

Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by KENFERDYOORI(m): 1:52pm On Apr 08, 2015

tiamiyukunle69:
Never had any cos I'm yet to travel out to non English speaking country

And you 've travelled to one English speaking country which is Nigeria.

Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by amnestylaw1(m): 1:52pm On Apr 08, 2015

My own...

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Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by KENFERDYOORI(m): 1:54pm On Apr 08, 2015

kennygee:
When i traveled to Ibadan, i remember bla bla bla bla bla.

OP said Non_English speaking countries.

Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by eagleeyez: 2:02pm On Apr 08, 2015

babeface3:
I remember using a liquid soap I bought in an Italian supermarket as a body cream for almost one year before my German roommate that could read Italian discovered my folly. Same thing with packaged dog food in an attempt to try new thing

Whats your own experience?

I find this very difficult to believe.there's a great difference between liquid wash and body lotion. Yet you didn't feel something was different and besides the store you must have bought it from did keep it in dish washing section or so.

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Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by Nobody: 2:05pm On Apr 08, 2015

babeface3:
I remember using a liquid soap I bought in an Italian supermarket as a body cream for almost one year before my German roommate that could read Italian discovered my folly. Same thing with packaged dog food in an attempt to try new thing

Whats your own experience?

Lol
U mean say u alone convert liquid soap to body cream for 1 full year? grin

U try well well.

Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by Nobody: 2:09pm On Apr 08, 2015

France
In a restaurant I ordered "steak tartare". Not knowing it contained minced raw beef with on top of it a raw egg (google it, you will see!). My face at the moment I discovered it must have been priceless....my friend still bringing up this story at any occasion.

France...again
I wanted to handwash my clothes in the sink of my hostel but instead of buying liquid laundry detergent I grabbed the fabric softener liquid. I was so focussed on finding something nice lavender smelling...

Italy
I was still teenager back then. It was a very classy restaurant where there were fish tanks all around in the interior, even through the glass table you could see fish swimming while eating. You were supposed to point on the fish you wanted to eat and they wld get it for you. I was very fascinated and impressed by the whole experience. When I got a lobster I did act like I was experienced in dining out but I had no clue how to eat the poor thing. I started chewing and chewing. Trying to hide the cracking sounds in my mouth. In the meantime, I tried to act like normal but I started to feel pretty uncomfi. Didn't manage well to keep the conversation going with my mouth full of hard things. I didnt dare to ask the company i was traveling with. Didn't want to come across stupid. Just my face when I spied at other tables and found out that you were not supposed to eat the shell and I was about to leave an empty plate...

Many more embarrassing stories in stock cheesy

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Re: Mistakes Made In Non English Speaking Countries by Nobody: 2:10pm On Apr 08, 2015

KingTom:

combien tu veux?

Je veux que tout

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