Same here. I speak enough Spanish to keep them off guard. Once coming out of a 7-11 near where I live(and the Mexican illegals hang out) I had one looking at me kinda funny so I said in German “Guten tag, schissekopf!’’(Good morning sh!thead!’’) Man did he look at me weird!
How do you say that in “Austrian”? ;^}
A native German-speaker would probably have also given you a double-take. The word would be "Scheißkopf," and though it would definitely be understood that you were trying to be insulting, that isn't a fixed expression in German, just as my quickly consulting my German->English dictionary and calling you a "duck-squeezer" or a "currant-crapper" wouldn't make much sense to you (an "Entenklemmer" is a tightwad, while a "Korinthenkacker" is an anal-retentive, bureaucratic, or niggling person), though I might still get beaten up for my trouble.
Regards,
LOL!
I walked past a group of short dark gentlemen at a construction site in my neighborhood last week, a quick “Hola, La Migra”, really gets a reaction.
LOL. Good one that I have to remember. We had a very annoying repeat caller who just liked to bug us. We got a new service that has a generic message. The next time she called, I answered with: "Vee gates" - no reply - "sprechin sie Deutsch?" Click. That was the last call we had from her.