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Attempt to hitchhike across the US. No clue if they made it, but I carried them through Kentucky.
I say this as someone who has successfully hitchhiked the length and breadth of the 48 states, but these folks were not prepared for what they were attempting.
Overdose on heroin in a country that didn’t really have any emergency services.
One imagines the middle of the Venn diagram between people with international tourism money and people who overdose on heroin is pretty slim.
You have to spend a lot of money to get to the places where the heroin is cheap…
I didn’t say it was empty, just slim.
Heroin is not unpopular among celebrity drug deaths.
I didn’t say it was empty just slim.
Voluntarily go to Berlin
Now that is terminally stpid, Inders.
Never had the chance to go out of the US, what’s wrong with Berlin? Seems like an orderly and we’ll run place from this side of the pond
Nie wieder Berlin!
I was in the line to get tickets for Leeds Castle in UK. Some guy got off a bus ran past the line to the ticket guy. He started slamming his hands down and yelling “Fish and Chips” over and over again.
The ticket guy wasn’t selling any food and wasn’t going to sell him a ticket unless he got in line. After about 2 minutes of this he just got back on the bus.
Influencer?
Not that crazy but I’d never seen anything like it before.
Over 15 years ago, I was standing in a very long line at St. Basil’s in Moscow. A small pack of tourists (half a dozen or so) started to “sneak” their way into cutting in line. About 30 French people in a tour group immediately started scolding them in loud unison. They shamed them into taking their place at the end of the line. It was such an automatic and united scolding. Highly entertaining.
A fellow traveler, far more experienced than I am, said that the French are known for doing that sort of thing.
France is south to the Germans, Swedes etc but north to Italians, Greeks etc. So there are both people trying to cut in line (it can be any one, an old lady or a young person), but then other people fight them back with loud “oh you are in a hurry?!!”, “Oh, we just stand here, not queueing at all!!”, or the “Heey! / Eeh!”
Sort of some urban training it feels like.
France is west of Germany, mein Freund.
Das is richtig mein freund!
Well, the northen france is on pair with southern germany, but the idea here is the north/south differences, where in the north people are on time and follow rules, in the south not so much.
You say germans are not on time?
Das ist nicht sehr höflich.Germans: arrive 20 minutes early because “you never know”
The thing I was trying to convey was, Germans and Swedes follow the rules religiously, south europe not so much.
Curiously one of the only times I’ve seen a tourist trying to cut in line they were french, and tried to pretend they didn’t spoke English (at the exit of the Harry Potter studio tour).
Usually French tourists are among the worst behaved, so that’s kinda weird
That’s odd I’ve almost exclusively heard this said about Americans, British, and Chinese tourists. Though I have heard that the French will take you to task if you treat their home like it’s some amusement park, which seems fair?
Yeah but if they’re tourists they’re not at home, by definition.
I’m basing my comment on my experience with them here in Italy
Haggle and argue with a street vendor in a 3rd world country. He might’ve been mildly overcharged but the kind of amount that even I let go as a local.
Plus since there’s basically 0 tourism here many just like to give away stuff for free to em.
Many also treat the tourist as a tourist attraction lol. Staring and awkwardly asking for photos and what not.
A lot of articles aimed at tourists stress that you should never accept the initial price and always haggle, so I can see how that would happen.
In fact, many of them say that haggling is a sign of respect and an important social norm in some cultures.
Weeeell, tourists are often seen as easy money even in rich countries. There are tourist traps all over and when you don’t speak the language or don’t know the place, it’s very easy to get ripped off. Plus, if you grew up in a place with markets, it’s quite normal to haggle - some people go to the market just to haggle because it’s fun.
some people go to the market just to haggle because it’s fun
This sounds like an actual nightmare
Many also treat the tourist as a tourist attraction lol
Ha ha yes, a friend visiting China was handed a baby by its mother, who proceeded to take a photo. Then took the baby back and walked away, without a please or thank you.
Shit on the sidewalk.
I live in New Orleans and the police on Bourbon St. ride specially-trained, very large horses for crowd control. I’ve definitely seen some drunk tourists try to resist an officer’s command to calm down by trying to push back on the horse and the horse just being totally unphased.
I had to move a horse, to fill its water bucket while it was eating. I tap and talk, nothing. I push, can’t. I had to punch it literally as hard as I could so it would acknowledge me. They have really thick skin.
Disclaimer: Don’t punch a horse if you don’t know it and what you are doing. They get scared easily and you won’t be the first to get your jaw wired back together.
this.
tl;dr: showed up to hotel a day before their room was ready, wanted to sleep in the lobby, got abusive and violent with the staff when they refused, then accused the police of assault when they were forcibly escorted out after refusing for hours to leave.
this got attention in swedish media first, and only got a response from the ccp after it had gone viral.
After reviewing the footage, the Chinese Embassy in Stockholm wrote in a statement that the incident “severely endangered the life and violated the basic human rights of the Chinese citizens.”
That’s rich, coming from officials of a country that runs concentration camps.
‘then accused the police of assault’ ah, so not an American story then. “Yeah we did it, and we’ll do it again!”
yeah watching the video the police are so uncomfortable with having to handle them. the guy basically goes limp in their arms and starts screaming, so another policeman has to grab his feet and they carry him out like ewoks while he screams “THIS IS KILLING”.
very strange.
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I live in New York City. One of my friends used to teach an art history course at the4 College of Staten Island.
She once told me that she’d had students who’d never travelled the 12 miles to get to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. The Met is considered one of the top museums in the world, but going there was too much hassle
The Staten Island Ferry is such an awesome ride, though. It’s free and goes past beautiful views of the skylines and the Statue of Liberty.
I live in New York City, and when I’m hosting or hanging with visitors from out of town I always take them to ride the ferry to Staten Island and back if I can.
I always take them to ride the ferry to Staten Island and back if I can.
I know what you meant, but my brain read that and thought “what if he can’t, he just leaves them there?”
Haha, I’ll keep that option in mind for next time!
It’s fine as a tourist but doing it regularly must suck. I assume living on Staten Island sucks in general.
I mean, from SI to Manhattan, you either need to take a ferry or come into Bayonne, so that’s a whole thing. Then again, I’ll admit, I prefer the Cloisters to the main Met.
They created a department named after a meme coin.
What?
Dept of gov effeciency
Doge
THEY CREATED A DEPARTMENT NAMED AFTER A MEME COIN
Huh?
They’re calling Musk a tourist
Oh, tourist? I thought they said terrorist.
Obligatory “it’s not a real department”
Hate to tell ya, but corporations have been running the US government for most of its existence.
The scariest part about Trump is that the plutocracy no longer need to even hide the vacuous corruption. So many people are so mentally ill they’ll literally defend satan to your face, while feeding you an alternate version of reality, citing some dead shit crackpot with 1k YouTube views as “evidence”, while calling you crazy. Having dealt with these people, their OS is simply corrupted. They don’t know what logic or reality is anymore, and most of them never will… If they can ignore all evidence thus far, they’re more likely to murder you than they are to self reflect.
Vote to leave Europe and then complain that you lost all benefits living in Benidorm
Brits in Spain are a truly strange bunch. Live in Spain for decades, cannot speak Spanish but complain about immigrants in the UK who manage to speak English.
Please tell me that the moment they start complaining about it you switch to Catalán, Gallego or (pretty please) Basco. Some of them do know Spanish, at least enough to get by, but I noticed that even though it’s extremely similar they can’t make the jump to Catalán (I’m new here and haven’t had time to study Catalán just yet, but Spanish being my native tongue I can understand around 80% of what people tell me in Catalan, but I noticed that people who don’t speak fluent Spanish can’t make the jump from one language to the other that easily). I’ve never heard Gallego but I assume it’s somewhat similar as well, but speaking to them in Basco would be just perfect.
!barcelona@lemm.ee has some content in Catalan, just make sure to select the language in your account settings
Vote to leave the EU
FTFY.
The UK is still in Europe
Only because they couldn’t figure out how to leave
Not the craziest thing in this thread but inside a train, arguing loudly on the phone.
It sounded like the tourist was scammed or something.
Vandalize government property and smear human feces on walls, while legislators are having a meeting doing official government duties
wait a minute, those didn’t seem like tourists…
Not tourists, terrorists.
They at least acknowledge it
