55 Times Tumblr Conversations Surprised Everyone With Their Unexpected Turns

Well? Do you?? :)

I'm in Canada and we travel in the states frequently. I have been asked the following serious questions; do you have black people in Canada? do you have electricity? how long does it take you to build a new igloo? are snowshoes very expensive? how long did it take you to get used to 6 months of day and 6 months of night? how often do you see polar bears? You are wearing shorts, what will you do with them after you go back home? For reference, I live an hours drive from Detroit in Canada.

Were they American?

Fridges? What are those?

I had an Irish girl ask me in person if we have dogs in Australia.

One of my online friends lived in Helsinki, the capital city of Finland. I lived in a much smaller place in Finland. She once asked if I can swim and when I said 'yes' she asked how it was possible that people in smaller Finnish cities and towns can swim. Then she realized that there are thousands of lakes in Finland so of course Finnish people outside Helsinki can learn how to swim. I told her that I learned to swim in a public indoor swimming pool. She thought that it was weird because she really thought that there were swimming pools only in Helsinki. I also said to her that maybe some people in Helsinki may have learned how to swim by training swimming in the sea (Helsinki is a seaside city) or in a lake. She was really confused because she had lived over 30 years thinking that all Finnish people who can swim have learned to swim at indoor swimming pools of Helsinki or maybe in a lake. For her Helsinki was the future and all other parts of Finland was some 1800s era countryside. :D

Dear God what did you say

Yeah....I had something about 'are there proper houses in New Zealand? Or do you all live in shacks?' ..............

No. We have ice boxes. We use a term outdated by 100 years are two generations of technology.

Your lucky. Someone asked me if we use cars or camels for transportation. I mean WHAT!!!

Most of these assumptions can be explained through the prejudices the media has planted on our minds

Just tell them no, there are no fridge's in ireland, but say it with a deadpan face.

I live in Phoenix, Arizona in the U.S. It's all desert and famous for cowboy culture. I've had people ask me if I walk, ride horseback, or take a buggy into town. I've also been asked if I have to fight the Mexican's and "injuns" or Indians off my land. Sadly, even my fellow Americans ask these questions. We're very much a first world state, folks.

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It's been two minutes and I'm still laughing over this one!

nah,i just leave my food outside my back door !

That’s some jacked up c**p there... why wouldn’t you have fridges, it’s not like you’re Vikings and live in caves!! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

No Mayonnaise in Ireland, though.

No. We have refrigerators. We don't use colloquial abbreviations.

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Please tell me that person was not from the American South.

Well, at least they were not looking for a stagecoach.

My German host family refused to believe it gets to 40 degrees (Celsius/Centigrade) in Ohio. Yeah, every Summer. Maybe for just a few days, but we can go for a week or more at 32 degrees. No, they told me, I just didn't understand thermometers. Decades later, I still think of them every Summer.

WTF!!! No way I call bs... LOL 😆

How????

Starbucks exists by the grace of people who don't like coffee

You’re not the only country that Starbucks has tried to conquer... they are everywhere here in America!