Monday, October 1, 2007

I speak Italian

A supposed Egyptian came to a Skypeland room on the topic "What do you know about the USA?". He rambled on and on about the pyramids and Israel and the Jewish prophets and the history of the Egyptian "kings" (I presume he meant the pharohs). We could not get him to focus on anything. He said that Sadam never hurt anyone and was the best leader in the world. We tried to get him to talk about the subject of the room, the USA, but we were unable to.

We tried to ask him about the Kurds or Kuwait, and he did not seem to be able to understand us. In the middle of everything, he just piped up, "You know I speak Italian". This degenerated into an increasingly confused discussion. In the middle of this, we had a few "hello people" who interrupted with a stream of hellos; "hello...hello...hello..." Finally, we realized we could not communicate with the Egyptian and had to turn off his microphone.

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