Current Events > British Foreign Office compiles list of dumb calls

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has compiled the strangest calls from Britons abroad in 2018 in a bid to remind people its helpline is meant to be used in an emergency.

It received more than 330,000 calls from people asking for help.

One person in the Netherlands had just watched the film Braveheart and called to ask questions about the plot.

Someone in the Canary Islands requested the Foreign Office persuade his hotel to give him a different room after a stray cat had "broken into" his current one and peed on his bed.

Another caller in the US phoned up to ask which contestant had been voted off Strictly Come Dancing the previous night.

But some of the other odder queries to the Foreign Office included:

A man checking whether there were vampires in Poland because a woman he met online had asked what blood type he was before they met for their first date

Another man requesting the Foreign Office speak to a massage parlour in Bangkok on his behalf, as he fell asleep during a massage and felt he shouldn't have to pay for it

A caller in New Delhi asking what time the British High Commission opened, as he'd heard it sold vegetarian sausages and he wanted to buy some

A person in Italy asking the embassy to help arrange their wedding, recommend a florist, and get them tickets to see the Pope

A man in Kuwait asking if any Foreign Office staff wanted to adopt his puppies

A caller asking for a list of women in Argentina whom he might be able to marry

A man asking where he should send a 5ft piece of wood that he had found on a beach that he thought may be from a British warship from the 1700s.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46710432
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not like the foreign office has anything to do while brexit is happening
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Parappa09 posted...

not like the foreign office has anything to do while brexit is happening

They don't have that much to do. It's the Department for Exiting the European Union, who has most of the work to do.

Resident brits

Im making fish n chips tonight

Whats some good dipping sauce for the fish?
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tartare sauce is my fav
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E32005 posted...

A man checking whether there were vampires in Poland because a woman he met online had asked what blood type he was before they met for their first date

Some muthafuckas always trying to ice-skate uphill.
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