On seeing a fuse box filled with wires, during a visit to an electronics company: "This looks like it was put in by an Indian."

I don't want to sound like I'm standing up for the guy, and I'm really not being racist myself. In this case, I don't think he was being racist – I think he'd just been to India and was speaking from experience.

I was there a few weeks ago and the wiring is frankly terrifying. For example, in the (quite nice) hotel room I was staying in, there were four table lights but only one had a plug. The others were connected by wrapping the bare wires around the plug prongs and shoving the whole lot into the socket. Which was falling out of the wall. When switched on the lights made an interesting sizzling sparky sort of noise.