Inspired by our good friend (maybe even best friend) @anon3515918 talking to a Nuclear Engineer about TV’s Chernobyl.
There was a bit once when I was staying in a hostel and me and a pal got chatting to a couple of girls who mentioned they were from Finland so we immediately started asking them about Jari Litmanen and they walked away.
this isn’t something i say so hopefully you’ll allow it within the confines of this thread, but we had a period where we were often on conference calls with colleagues from Australia, and 9 times out of 10 someone from my end would ask about barbecues. after a few weeks you could tell they were getting a bit irked and just stopped engaging with it.
this post may or may not be influenced by just having got off a call with some Australians (no barbecues were mentioned)
Remember doing a 3 day training course a few years ago with a big Welsh guy. My opening line was: “Welsh. Big guy: what’s your rugby position?”
He got very uppity and critical, saying about how just because he’s Welsh and just because he’s a big solid guy everyone automatically assumes he has to play rugby, proper mardy he was.
My hairdresser always tries this with me. Generally starts with, so did you go to X local event like carnival etc. Me, no. Her, oh. How about X? Me, no.
Her do you watch Love Island? No. Any other realiyy show that may be on? She goes through them all…me, no.