Just wondering if anybody has ever had a stranger come up and dish out some odd / insulting remark for no apparent reason… :eh:
What’s this fish doing in my bed?
Not that I recall. By the way gryphon, weird name eh?
How dare you refer to my wife in that manner!
What’s urodacus doing in my bed? 
I used to live in a flat in London and every time I left my door the guy in the flat opposite would say “bastard” through his letter box. Just loud enough so that I could hear it. Not “bastards”, as in everyone, but “bastard” as in me (I guess). I never had the nerve to knock on his door and find out what was going on. He disappeared a few months after I moved in.
EDIT: I assume the OP means strange comments in Taiwan aimed at foreigners, in which case feel free to temp my OT anecdote.
Well if you are a foreigner living in Taiwan you are like a Mardi Gras float marching down the street and every day is Mardi Gras- they either want a ride, throw beads at you or sometimes ask you to flash your boobs.
Or put them AWAY for the love of god! PLEASE! Bastards.
It was you!
OP, did you mean specifically in Taiwan, or anywhere?
Nowhere in particular. It just happened to me a few minutes ago. Some guy walked past me saying in Chinese what I interpreted to mean “you wrongly assume it’s fighting time…blah blah blah”
The rest I didn’t catch cause his voice trailed off as he walked further away. I don’t know what made him say that. Maybe it’s because my haircut along with my build makes me look kind of like a military type? WTF? :loco:
You mean yours or mine? 
You must be Canadian eh? eh? 
It was you![/quote]
LOL 
[quote=“Gryphon”]Nowhere in particular. It just happened to me a few minutes ago. Some guy walked past me saying in Chinese what I interpreted to mean “you wrongly assume it’s fighting time…blah blah blah”
The rest I didn’t catch cause his voice trailed off as he walked further away. I don’t know what made him say that. Maybe it’s because my haircut along with my build makes me look kind of like a military type? [/quote]
Maybe he thought it was a pistol in your pocket and that you WEREN’T just pleased to see him.
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[quote=“sandman”][quote=“Gryphon”]Nowhere in particular. It just happened to me a few minutes ago. Some guy walked past me saying in Chinese what I interpreted to mean “you wrongly assume it’s fighting time…blah blah blah”
The rest I didn’t catch cause his voice trailed off as he walked further away. I don’t know what made him say that. Maybe it’s because my haircut along with my build makes me look kind of like a military type? [/quote]
Maybe he thought it was a pistol in your pocket and that you WEREN’T just pleased to see him.[/quote]
Hmmm… don’t think that was it… He came up from behind me on my left side.
Back in my high school days, a friend of mine (who happens to be Jewish, but nobody would ever know by the way he looks or acts) was told by this strange old man (a guy known in the neighborhood for being a racist old coot), completely out of the blue, “Now listen sonny: money can’t buy you a Jewish Christmas.” 
To this day, we have know idea what he meant by that.
[quote=“Chris”]Back in my high school days, a friend of mine (who happens to be Jewish, but nobody would ever know by the way he looks or acts) was told by this strange old man (a guy known in the neighborhood for being a racist old coot), completely out of the blue, “Now listen sonny: money can’t buy you a Jewish Christmas.”
To this day, we have know idea what he meant by that.[/quote]
Maybe he’s saying two things:
- he was aware your friend is Jewish
- there’s no such thing as a Jewish Christmas because Christmas doesn’t exist in the Jewish holiday calendar
I had some strange lady sit next to me on the MRT and suddenly she started saying in Chinese “I know who you are. You are not from here. You are not from here.”
I’m just having a laugh Griffin.
Actually being a foreigner here too I always seem to attracts the psychos and homeless manics to appoach me and shout out some random stuff. Happens to me all the time. What you going do, beat up mad folk?
[quote=“Gryphon”]
I had some strange lady sit next to me on the MRT and suddenly she started saying in Chinese “I know who you are. You are not from here. You are not from here.”[/quote]
How can you be sure she was talking to you and not the invisible leprechaun that sits on your shoulder?