I tried it and it just tasted like chemicals to me! And fake cheese flavour is basically my favourite flavour. Maybe I got a bad batch.
No, that sounds about right. (It's an addiction. It makes no sense.)
Less-pain~ma, Hil, and yay for being able to turn in dissertation! When do you defend it?
Wishing you a good cruise, and someone with a crew list and a clue, ND. (Southampton in England? Did you get to see any of it? There's not much there, of course. I spent a depressing part of my teen years in Hampshire, of which Southampton is the county town. It's a bit rubbish. The New Forest is beautiful though.)
ETA: Insent, Jars.
My favourite bad tourist story is from when I was in Iceland. We went to the Blue Lagoon, which is a fab, if very touristy, hot springs/spa place. Because it's Iceland, you have to get naked to shower before you get in, and because it's Iceland, there's no cubicles or anything to change in. I've always had a pretty Scandinavian approach to nudity so I didn't care at all and was happily breezing about the place in the nip. At one point though I heard a voice pipe up 'I don't know why these people can't cover up, haven't they any shame at all?!', in a horrified voice that was clearly intended to carry.
July 14.
And I'm working on coming up with a good alibi for you for July 15.
Third graders in Brooklyn make a documentary about gender stereotypes. [link]
Yes Southhampton in England. I didn't really get to see much of it. Walked through the city parks near the hotel mainly. I got n yesterday morning after about 24 hours of travel so I was pretty wiped out. Had lunch, took a nap, walked around a bit, had dinner, had a pint at the hotel bar then headed back to my room.
Speaking of bad tourists, fifteen years ago a professor in Mankato, MN made a Fake Mankato city web page to show his students how to not trust everything they read on the Internet.
Fifteen years later, tourists are inquiring about the Famous Underwater City.
Yes, I am up due to pain, so I decided to inflict some...
Just like how we don't have voodoo in Jamaica, but people figure if it is good enough for one island we probably all do it. Thanks, mate.
Hah. I got in an argument about this with my dad just the other day. (FTR, I was right.)
There are definitely some Canadians who are a little too much on their high horse about not being American but they also take a lot of crap. It's one of those slow burn things - the constant default assumption is that you're American, and then the habit of people (mostly themselves American) to announce that there's no difference anyway, can get seriously aggravating.
And I'm both Canadian and American. If I find it grating, I can certainly see where Canadians who do not have any connection to the US find it much more so.
