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.
Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Jars - Jun 24, 2010 12:08:37 am PDT #23647 of 30000
Hil R. - Jun 24, 2010 12:10:58 am PDT #23648 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Go, Hil! May turning in your dissertation lift a burden from your shoulders and help ease some of the pain.
Thanks.
Less-pain~ma, Hil, and yay for being able to turn in dissertation! When do you defend it?
Thanks. July 14.
Jars - Jun 24, 2010 12:16:42 am PDT #23649 of 30000
Backatcha Seska. Yay!
WindSparrow - Jun 24, 2010 12:23:29 am PDT #23650 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
July 14.
And I'm working on coming up with a good alibi for you for July 15.
Hil R. - Jun 24, 2010 12:24:09 am PDT #23651 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Third graders in Brooklyn make a documentary about gender stereotypes. [link]
NoiseDesign - Jun 24, 2010 1:35:19 am PDT #23652 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
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.
DCJensen - Jun 24, 2010 2:21:15 am PDT #23653 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
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...
Tom Scola - Jun 24, 2010 2:35:18 am PDT #23654 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Bon Voyage, NoiseDesign!
brenda m - Jun 24, 2010 2:54:23 am PDT #23655 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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.
Strix - Jun 24, 2010 3:45:38 am PDT #23656 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I read up on obeah last night before I crashed like whoa. Wow, so tired!
In London, I ate mostly potatoes, samosas and pasta because I was so goddamned broke, but then, I was a student. We DID make it a point of hitting a Pizza Hut in every city we visited for our Ye Olde England class, but it became a trope -- we were so amazed and amused to find a PH in Bath, that it became a Thing. Canterbury! Pizza Hut! Crazy. We would take pix to add to the collection. Hey, we were 19 and 20.
And it was England. If we were spending the semester in Italy or Greece, I don't think we would have done so.