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Originally Posted by bizaro86
I took a boat tour of the Daintree rainforest from Cairns, Australia. It was off-season, so the only people on the tour were my wife and I, and an older couple from New Zealand. They asked if we were from the USA and I said Canada actually. He said, "thats pretty much the same thing to us down here." I said, "sort of like how people compare Australia and New Zealand?"
They didn't say one word to us for the rest of the trip, and he spent quite a bit of it giving me the stink eye.
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I worked in a pub in Britain and I spent the summer being referred to as "The American". All in good fun.