A homesick British expat contacted the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to ask where he could buy English bacon abroad. The bizarre request was among several unusual calls made to the FCO over the past year, including a lady in Lebanon who wanted help recruiting an English butler. Another request was from a British man who was concerned by Spanish nudists, and a man in Singapore asked the FCO for help to obtain illegal employment. Foreign Minister James Duddridge said while consular staff were "a helpful bunch", they should only be contacted in emergencies. "Our consular staff ... do an amazing job helping out Brits in trouble around the world," he said. "But it is important that people remember they are there to help with genuine emergencies and not as an alternative to directory inquiries. "Every minute they spend handling a call requesting advice on butlers or nudists is time taken away from dealing with life and death cases, so I urge the public to think before picking up the phone." One woman rang the FCO to express her disappointment that the British Embassy failed to send somebody to give her a tour of St Petersburg upon her arrival in Russia. Almost half a million calls are made to the FCO's consular service over the past year. Despite the strange calls, most inquires made to the FCO are genuine requests, including 3,250 Britons who were hospitalised, 4,770 who were arrested and the families of 3,670 who died overseas. Leaving Facebook...
How do people this stupid manage to save up enough money to travel abroad? This is why paying too high of a minimum wage is a bad idea.....smart people will figure out how to make more money, the idiots will stay right where they need to be (in their local slums where their stupidity can be contained and not spread all over the world).
Stupidity knows no international boundaries or borders and is not exclusive - though I expect a large dollop of congenital shortened common sense resides with the Brits. The same type of person clogs up emergency service telephone lines to the law, fire and ambulance service: Metropolitan Police have revealed most ridiculous 999 calls of 2015 | Metro News The 10 stupidest 999 calls received by Police Scotland: "I want to report some seagulls misbehaving": - Mirror Online It even extends to travel and tourism - maybe I should change my nationality as per the other thread...jeez. 18 of the most ridiculous, but real, travel complaints ever Cheers, C
Hey, I tend to find the lack of good bacon as a serious international emergency! The nudist thing is also a serious concern not having enough of them being hot women! But yah, expecting a tour guide.... get real! Bwahahaha! This reminds me of my days as a computer technician with people's stupidity though. All of these actually happened to me. 1. Had one person who's computer wouldn't turn on. I go to trouble shoot it and following my checklist.... is it plugged in? Nope.... problem solved. 2. Person's computer turned on but the monitor was blank. Following my stupidity checklist.... was the monitor switched on also? Nope.... problem solved. 3. Person's computer computer wasn't on. Follow my stupidity checklist yet again.... did the push the power button on the computer? Nope.... problem solved. 4. Computer was working but person couldn't watch porn (uhh wtf can't they come up with a decent excuse?). Was there internet working? Nope. Trouble shoot the issue and I see there is a modem on the computer (old days) but no phone plugged in. I ask where the phone cord was and get a blank response. Apparently the person had a computer but never used the internet and had no internet connection but their buddy told them about porn on the internet and since they had a computer it should have just magically worked. Solution.... get an internet connection if want to use the internet. If I spent more time recalling I could remember a lot more. Some people are just born stupid and will die stupid no matter what.
