r/dankmemes • u/Teboski78 ☣️ • Jul 20 '25

Big PP OC Mediterrane this

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u/travturav Jul 20 '25

Visually, I can pass for French. I saw so many big smiles change to angry frowns when I started speaking. Assholes.

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u/razorlikes Jul 20 '25

I'm German and had the same experience when I went to France, everyone was smiling everywhere but once I asked them anything in English they just didn't want me there anymore.

At some point I started asking if they speak German first, if I switched to English afterwards they stayed happy.

But yeah fuck them for that, makes you feel super unwelcome...

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u/travturav Jul 20 '25

I would speak in bad French, and especially older people would just stare at me and not respond at all. So now I know not to waste my time there.

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u/BigBootyBuff Jul 20 '25

Similar. We went to Paris in school, we spoke to the locals in french but due to our obvious accent, we were treated pretty badly. Best case we were ignored. Others told use to fuck off. Some 40 year old fucks figured it's a good use of their time to follow us 16-17 year olds around for 20 minutes to harass and mock them.