Quote Originally Posted by beowulf67 View Post
There will always be small and closed-minded people everywhere. And not just religious people. I feel sorry for them because they are stuck in their little world and ,I think, are afraid to expose themselves to things they don't understand. Where I live we generally refer to these people as "rednecks". They all aren't as funny as Larry the Cable Guy.
Larry the Cable Guy is funny?
I grew up in a rural area (in Ontario) whose inhabitants were, shall we say, less than worldly. An proud of it, eh! (Nice lookin' skirt ya got dere, eh? Where's yer pipes? Guffaw, Guffaw! you get the picture)

Back to the topic on hand: Upon further reflection, pretending to be unable to speak English probably wouldn't work. Someone like that would just speak louder! (Everybody knows that non-English speakers are notoriously deaf.)