I was in DC for Trump’s first Reich and it was all just MAGA hats going around acting like they were triggering the libs by buying overpriced shit on the mall. But in general, they are shit people so they make for shit tourists as well.
Not going back home. Driving up home costs for working families.
Writing/carving their names into shit.
There’s a fairly big tourist attraction in my town, (I don’t understand why its basically just a shopping centre of big luxury brands e.g. gucci, lindt etc.) On the lead up to it there’s a somewhat confusing set of crossroads, people will realise they’re in the wrong lane and proceed to speed crossing over sometimes multiple lanes almost causing many accidents. Its a busy main road too, its the towns access from a nearby city and motorway, and the other lanes they drive out of/over are ones that go into the centre of town.
Luxury brands
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Lindt
lol.
*Is Lindt actually considered a luxury? What they manufacture is more akin to overrated mass-produced mid-tier chocholate.
There’s a lot of “chocolate” in the US that doesn’t qualify as chocolate in sane countries because it has too much wax or other additives in it. US “chocolate” bar in Canada has to be called a “candy” bar.
Same way their “milk” has too much other garbage in it to qualify as “milk” in Canada.Lindt, otoh, is /actual/ chocolate. So it’s seen as luxurious.
At least in the US they are some of the best chocolate you can regularly find. We don’t have a lot of good options easily accessible.
My sincere condolences.
Can’t imagine being stuck with such awful chocholates.Honestly a lot of people in this thread clearly don’t get out much. There’s plenty of high enr boutique chocolatiers in the US, they just aren’t on the shelves at Walmart.
I’ve lived in a very touristic city for basically my whole life, so I tend to avoid tourists whenever possible.
Stuff that I see frequently that annoys the shit out of me:
- littering
- pictures, videos, tiktoks and similar shit EVERYWHERE
- tourists getting way too drunk and causing trouble in various settings
- driving like morons (please google traffic laws before traveling somewhere)
- large groups walking slowly side by side, blocking entire sidewalks
- complaining about everything, especially stuff caused by tourism, like long lines or long waiting times
- acting entitled towards people trying to do their jobs
I watched a tourist drink a few beer at the local inn and then just throw the cans onto the lawn and keep drinking. So basically littering. That stuck in my craw. This is my town buddy, take the 5 seconds it takes to dispose of your shitty cans of your shitty mass produced beer that you usually have back home that you made sure to let everyone is far better than the local microbrew we have here in town.
Also one time we had some tourists loudly complaining about immigrants while visiting. Those aren’t immigrants you dope, they’re citizens of our country. They were born here.
On one occasion I was driving somewhere and it was along a scenic drive and I had to stop for something. A group of aging old men on motorcycles who were doing the scenic drive told me I couldn’t park in that area because it was theirs. I said get fucked, you’re in my backyard, I’ll park wherever the fuck I want. I think they thought they were intimidating because they fancied themselves a biker gang, but biker gangs usually don’t have New Balance and rental bikes as part of their aesthetic.
It might be just a story, but I’ve read several times about someone telling someone speaking Welsh in Wales “we speak English here”.
Trying to get photos of their kids next to bull elk in rut.
That not rude, that’s just Darwinism happening in real time. Let it run it’s course
Speaking German
How dare tourists speak their mother tongue! >:(
They should pay reparations! /sLOL, can’t blame them. It’s the only language they know
Witnessing German tourists snicker and proclaim “German engineering” with an air of arrogance, over a leftover WWII water reservoir on an island that was Nazi occupied and used as an airfield… really had me thinking things carefully…
Treck un Moroco desert, with local guide and camel drivers.
Causual conversation during dinner about alcohool, that non Muslim can legally drink alcohol, as long as they do it discreetly and not directly in front of locals because it might make people uncomfortable.
French tourist proceed to take red wine bottle out of its bag, drink it and even propose to local staff.
Never been so ashamed of my compatriots.
Causual conversation during dinner about alcohool, that non Muslim can legally drink alcohol, as long as they do it discreetly and not directly in front of locals
Genuine question: What would that look like?
Only in the hotel or the hotel room?I don’t care about alcohol but I am intrigued what that would look like.
I’m in Malaysia right now, which is a majority Muslim country. Restaurants and convenience stores sell beer and other alcohol, but I have seen signs in the convenience stores covering the front of coolers saying that Muslims cannot buy alcohol.
I’m not sure how strictly that is enforced, most of the store clerks and waiters don’t seem to care.
On touristic areas, you can generally order wine in restaurant. But they bring the bottle into a black bag and put it on the ground, under the table. You can also buy beer on some shop, but same, they ask you to hide it in bag and not drink it in the street.
But on more rural area, they might ask you to leave if you bring alcohol in public place.
Interesting.
The bag thing sounds like the stereotypical brown paper bag in US movies but probably more classy ;)Thanks for the information!
Treck un Moroco desert, with local guide and camel drivers.
I mean, a man’s gotta dream
So. Much. Fucking. Litter.
Only had one day at the Grand Canyon so I was by the congested main tourist area. Looking over the canyon, I turn around and there is a picnic table and nothing but McDonald’s trash left there. I don’t even know where the closest McDonald’s is, but they got it, drove in with it, carried it to a stone table overlooking the canyon, then just left the trash and walked away. WTF.
This 1000 times… This. People are so careless it’s disgusting.
Where I’m from, the tourists are usually nicer and more respectful than the locals.
Whoa unexpected
In Prague late at night, it’s not fun to come across a group of drunk tourists (usually Brits) seeking drugs. Locals also get drunk but they’re not nearly as obnoxious.
It’s not always tourists but stopping in unexpected places is a common irritation in NYC. Like, they’re walking on the sidewalk and just stop, and mess up the flow of foot traffic. Maybe to look at their map or to gawk at something. It’s extra annoying and a little dangerous when it’s on the stairs
That was my mother, in train stations etc where literally everyone is trying to get to somewhere else. Get to the bottom of the stairs, STOP and look around for the next direction sign. STOP in the entrance to bathrooms to decide her next steps.
I never went to a crowded city, so the notion of “foot traffic” really sounds dystopic to me 😅, but I see what you mean.
Funny, because when I go to the suburbs or other sparsely populated areas, walking around without anybody else feels dystopian. Feels like a post-apocalyptic setting, where everyone else got taken by aliens or plague or something.
I like how having opposite vision of the world may comes from things like this. Not linked to any religious or education background, but only on where we use to live.
For reference, Brooklyn alone has over 2 million residents. NYC as a whole is 8 and change million. So yeah, we’ve got huge population density, and it shows in busy areas.
I visited New York for the first time with a friend of mine who has family there and knows the city well. We went to Grand Central and I was admiring the beautiful artwork on the ceiling and a guy passing by called me a “fucking idiot”.
I was surprised and turned to my friend to ask if he was talking to me, which they confirmed. I was actually really happy, I got the infamous NY harsh street talk! I’ve traveled all over the world and never was spoken to like that anywhere else. NY is truly very special.
This has gotten so bad in my city since covid times. I’m constantly having to go around people stopped in the middle of the walking path. Just yesterday I was walking and these two people exactly stopped where the sidewalk narrowed for a bus stop and were blocking 3/4 of the area to walk because of it. They literally could have stepped 2 steps over and been completely out of the way beside the bus stop shelter.
i learned to stay away from midtown or battery-park/statue-of-liberty or any other tourist traps between friday afternoon and monday morning as a result of this.
So much this here in Bangkok as well, and in addition nobody has any clue which side to walk on.
You are constantly approaching head-on with a pedestrian who doesn’t know where to walk and weaving around wandering groups that wall 3-4 people wide.
Found the grumpy old lady ;)
I live in Vancouver and we’ve had massive issues with people (both tourists and locals) feeding coyotes in our downtown park. It got bad enough that they had to euthanize a bunch of coyotes because they were habituated to humans and have even attacked some people. They’re not puppers, they’re wild animals that play an important role in the ecosystem. You do them literally no favours by feeding them. Also, even worse, feeding bears.
Visitors who believe that because they paid a cruise company to bring them here that they are somehow special and deserve to be treated as such by all the locals.
