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Worst questions to be asked whilst travelling, Which one drives you mad?

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Which question do you least like answering?

Which country are you from?	[ 6 ]	[14.63%]
What do you do back home?	[ 16 ]	[39.02%]
How long have you been travelling for?	[ 0 ]	[0.00%]
Where have you been so far?	[ 3 ]	[7.32%]
When are you going back home?	[ 3 ]	[7.32%]
Where has your favourite place been?	[ 10 ]	[24.39%]
Where have you just come from?	[ 0 ]	[0.00%]
How long have you been here?	[ 0 ]	[0.00%]
Where are you staying?	[ 3 ]	[7.32%]
Where are you going to next?	[ 0 ]	[0.00%]

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Paul	Feb 9 2008, 03:31 AM Post #41
Navigator Group: Members Posts: 1321 Joined: 9-November 04 From: Thailand Member No.: 98 Nominate me as a Local Expert	Oh - a Chinese Thai friend of mine was at the gym and was asking some questions to another western guy that was there. Where are you from? Are you married? Do you have kids? Why not? The answer he got to that last one was: PlorWaa Fan Khong Pom Ben Poo Chai. Translation: Because my wife is a man. Ha ha - I think that stopped the conversation for a bit.

travelmonster	Feb 13 2008, 02:10 PM Post #42
Rolling Stone Group: Local Expert Posts: 4691 Joined: 28-October 07 From: England Member No.: 101826	QUOTE(Paul @ Feb 9 2008, 03:28 AM) What do you do? I don't like that and have difficulty answering. I do stuff. I don't like it as it is the start of someone trying to put me in a convenient box (at least sometimes) I totally agree with this. -------------------- In Search Of ........... "Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake" - Marie Beynon Ray

Paul	Apr 24 2008, 01:42 AM Post #43
Navigator Group: Members Posts: 1321 Joined: 9-November 04 From: Thailand Member No.: 98 Nominate me as a Local Expert	Oh!!! I wasn't talking about the locals. I was talking about other travellers. Locals often ask more important questions like: Are you hungry?

ScottWoz	Apr 24 2008, 07:57 AM Post #44
Rolling Stone Group: Local Expert Posts: 6745 Joined: 24-December 04 From: Burma to Cambodia Member No.: 124	Yeah yeah me too. I see what you're saying tripledot but my beef generally arises from the questions asked by other 'travellers', specifically the real short termers who for some reason, so desperately need to pigeon-hole me.. -------------------- Woz.. Living on a string of one-way tickets - currently kicking about in: southern Cambodia

exploreamerica	Apr 24 2008, 11:15 AM Post #45
Planet Pioneer Group: Members Posts: 2073 Joined: 15-January 07 From: Miramar, Florida, U.S.A. Member No.: 34506 Nominate me as a Local Expert	dito -------------------- Stuart Visit my brand new summer trip to China, Malaysia, India and Egypt Visit all of my Travelogues A collection of all my worldwide travels over the course of my lifetime My latest of three separate solo U.S. road trips QUOTE Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome views cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth. By mark twain

travelmonster	Apr 24 2008, 12:46 PM Post #46
Rolling Stone Group: Local Expert Posts: 4691 Joined: 28-October 07 From: England Member No.: 101826	QUOTE(ScottWoz @ Apr 24 2008, 07:57 AM) Yeah yeah me too. I see what you're saying tripledot but my beef generally arises from the questions asked by other 'travellers', specifically the real short termers who for some reason, so desperately need to pigeon-hole me.. Ya know, I'm a short term traveller - and I totally agree with you, I hate that other short term travllers seem so obsessed by trying to pigeon-hole people. -------------------- In Search Of ........... "Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake" - Marie Beynon Ray

inasia2008	May 8 2008, 08:02 PM Post #47
Unregistered	Being around Americans a lot, I actually always get asked "are you australian?"! Not that I have anything against Australians, at all! Its just funny...

starlagurl	May 9 2008, 09:11 AM Post #48
Rolling Stone Group: Local Expert Posts: 14509 Joined: 5-November 07 From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 103914	I'm assuming you have a British accent then? -------------------- My most recent blog: A trip to Toronto that turned into a trip to Niagara

wakingdream	May 9 2008, 09:19 AM Post #49
Rolling Stone Group: Local Expert Posts: 5853 Joined: 18-August 06 From: Guelph, Ontario Member No.: 13336	QUOTE(Paul @ Feb 9 2008, 04:31 AM) Oh - a Chinese Thai friend of mine was at the gym and was asking some questions to another western guy that was there. Where are you from? Are you married? Do you have kids? Why not? The answer he got to that last one was: PlorWaa Fan Khong Pom Ben Poo Chai. Translation: Because my wife is a man. Ha ha - I think that stopped the conversation for a bit. Hahaha That's funny, that's another popular question we get asked alot, but by locals; why don't you have kids? I don't find it an odd one though at all..... -------------------- ~Susie 'Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift - which is why they call it the present.'

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