Alice McFlurry 
PRO TIP: Whenever you get in an Uber, immediately shout “IS THIS THE CASH CAB?!?” to ensure a silent ride free of small talk.
Dudish 🎶@Alice This is good stuff. What else you got?
Grant 🇺🇦ArmUkraine🇺🇦@Alice 😆 Great idea to try out
Kat 
@Alice I’m gonna start driving Uber again and install cash cab lights JUST to fuck with people.
A Film Worth Fighting For@Alice
Have you been peepin in on my Ma? She watches that show every Sunday and swears they're new episodes. I have given up trying to convince her otherwise.
Have you been peepin in on my Ma? She watches that show every Sunday and swears they're new episodes. I have given up trying to convince her otherwise.
Archonet@Alice "no, this is Patrick"
It's Just Jenn 🏳️⚧️@Alice Best case scenario? It IS the cash cab and you're off to a great start!
Rev. GothAlice@Alice In a less "it's just a prank, bro!" disruptive way, I accomplish the same thing by horribly pronouncing French.
"Jeh nai says pa a la Francis. Mercy bow couP."
It's a self-proving statement, even if pronounced correctly. "I do not know The French." That's not how one says that. 😜
The opposite problem happens returning to BC. Got off the plane, "bonjour/hi" from a greeter, I unhesitantly responded "bonjour!" and got chatted at in French for a good five minutes. That I barely understood.
MikeZilla Minus One@MikeyMcFilms I've got one friend who's trying to learn a very specific phrase in as many languages as possible.
Je ne peux pas appeler les pompiers car je n'ai pas d'assurance.
I, too, was shocked it wasn't:
Mi aerodeslizador está llena de anguilas.
And yes. After moving to Québec after a year in Panama City, Panama, I did accidentally Spanish all over everyone for a few months before my brain finally clicked. That's not a hallucination. 😜
I do not know French but my wife does. We went to Montreal on our honeymoon 600 years ago and my wife taught me how to say “I do not speak French- do you speak English”
Sure enough we were at a park and two kids ran up to us shouting in French and I reeled off “ je ne parle pas francais- parlez vous anglais” like a pro and the kids just immediately switched to English.
@MikeyMcFilms @Alice Montréal is pretty dang great. To the point that a local politician was running on a platform of seceding Montréal to form a city-state independent of Québec itself.
Guess who I voted for?
Because the rest of Québec is… far less good about language.
Even Montréal is not without its problems. At a conference once, a baker refused to sell me a bagel because I didn't speak French.
More recently: a nurse refused to check me into emergency; had to self-treat.
Das' illegal. 😡
@MikeyMcFilms @Alice Irony being: je comprends assez de français pour travailler pour mon entreprise, basée en France, et pour savoir que tu es un connard bigot.
🤔 I wonder what my prospects are for living here much longer. (Spoiler: not good.)
Edit to note: gosh, learning French "naturally" here, through immersion, I only just realized how awful my vocabulary is. That is: rude AF. I can swear like a sailor if I get the gumption to. 🫢
@MikeyMcFilms @Alice There are clinically verified benefits to a good expletive; pain relief chief among them. It can also show you who your friends are. Serious upset should be distinct from jovial upset to those who know you.
“We had to install a second sensor, we couldn’t believe the first.”
“Oh, so my cerebrospinal fluid pressure was up and down like a whore’s drawers then, was it?”
:turns to my sister: “Uh… is Alice always like this?”
:without looking up from book: “Yup, that’s Alice.”
@Alice I mean, it's still mildly disruptive but quick to dismiss. "It's pronounced je ne parle pas…"
I know.
I'm doing it wrong on purpose.
😖 That's the joke!
Richard Bairwell@Alice They reply: "No, this is Fake Taxi..."
Viss@Alice when you get into the waymo, look directly into the camera, smirk, and say "BROUGHT TO YOU BY PORNHUB". see if you can get that into their ai training