I had to call them to get past the first level of Super Mario Bros 2... I just could not work out that I needed to jump on the eggs and pick them up, then trow them back.
I felt like a moron talking to some random person on our faux vintage phone while my parents watched on frowning at me.
American here. I did a semester abroad in Ireland, and one particularly clueless fellow in our group of students made the mistake of ordering one of these in an (actual) Irish pub.
He was firmly asked to leave - and lucky that was all. I imagine he wasn't the first uninformed tourist to make this request. Years later, I likened it to ordering a "9/11" in Manhattan, although it's not a perfect analogy.
Ordering one in Britain is possibly closer¹, and a bartender I used to live with said clueless, young, American tourists would try this every few months.
They were usually dealt with by referring them to history section of their Lonely Planet.
¹ Several car/truck bombings with considerable property damage, although usually limited casualties.
Yeah most people would find it in poor taste. No point in ruining a perfectly decent pint of Guinness. The comment you were replying to was referring to the "Lady Boy" drink from Alan Partridge.
They are great fun. Played around with the previous generation for use as a bluetooth beacon amongst other things. I'm really excited by the idea that this new generation could be used to recognise audio!
No guarantees it won't still suck. (Though it's completely new, I think it's Electron-based or something.) Just saying, there IS a huge momentum at Microsoft to rework Skype from the ground up.
