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      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.

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        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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        I mean, the gutter is made for dealing with liquids, whereas a trashcan is meant for solid waste, so that doesn’t seem like a good idea?

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            Finish the drink or pour the liquid out first, same as I’d do with the trash can in my kitchen

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              Where do you pour the liquid? Most trash cans out in public do not have drains conveniently located next to them.

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    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.

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      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.

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        In fact, many of them say that haggling is a sign of respect and an important social norm in some cultures.

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      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.

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      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.

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    Tourists walking though a farmer’s tulip field, trampling the flowers, just to take a stupid picture. Not just one, but dozens of tourists per day.

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    Go hiking in insane heat with just a little water bottle. You’re going to die in an area with no cell phone service and it’s going to suck the entire time.

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      even more, will call emergencies and search & rescue services who will fly helicopters to the back of the mountain to pull out a dumbass wearing flipflops.

      in our country it’s not yet charged but in such idiot cases, it should be.

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        They have to start doing health insurance (which is where an emergency rescue is or should be billed) like car insurance.

        If it’s your fault, you have to pay much more.

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          And if you can’t afford the post your-fault car insurance you don’t get to drive a car, so if you can’t afford the post your-fault health insurance you don’t get to live?

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    Out fishing with some buddies on a river popular for its springs and people floating on inner tubes.

    Except, we were well south of the exit for tubers to be picked up by the shuttle and taken back to the start, and we start hearing a loud group approaching. Eventually they saw us and loudly spoke to each other saying something about “asking the rednecks”. When they got closer they did, to the point of saying, “Hey rednecks, where is the exit for tubers? Did we pass it or is it coming up?”

    They were probably a 20 minute float past the exit. I told them they had about another 20 minutes to go.

    “Thank you rednecks!”

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    A big group of Chinese tourists wanted to be first on a boat for some reason so they all just started shoving everyone out of the way, including little old ladies and children. It was really shocking behavior, like suddenly everyone around them was no longer a person. The boat was huge and had plenty of room for everyone so it wasn’t really obvious why they decided to attack people, they didn’t really gain anything by being the first aboard.

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      I went snorkeling in a group alongside a Chinese tourist family. The dad literally swam over top of me. To be clear, I was floating on the surface. Instead of going around me, he just swam over me, legs kicking and all. Fucking weirdest experience ever.

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        For some reason I find that hilarious I would’ve been so shocked I wouldn’t have reacted.

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      Was it Niagara Falls? Seen Asians do this before for the maid of the myst but not sure what nationality they were. Always assumed it was some Asian version of a college or school frat.

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        Nope, happened in Paris getting on one of the big tour boats that cruise the Seine. I think it was a large extended family or possibly a tour group composed of multiple families, the youngest were preteens and the oldest were maybe 50s or early 60s. I couldn’t figure out if there was a tour guide or anyone in charge of the group. We stayed as far from them as we could, they seemed like a bunch of rich assholes and were mostly loud and obnoxious the entire cruise. And just to make it clear, I’ve seen a lot of shit behavior from tourists in my life and no ethnicity or nationality has a monopoly on shitty tourists. People are monsters, and rich assholes are gonna rich asshole. This one just stands out as the worst because it was such a large group and the violence was so sudden and pointless, and then we were trapped on a boat ride with them.

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          Seen Chinese do (try) the same thing in plitwice national parks. There are only these small wooden paths leading down to the boats. Let’s put it this way: it’s rather unamused when someone two heads smaller than you and half your weight tries to force you into a lake/marshland. What is however amusing is simply stopping to move and watch them loose balance.

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    Used to work for a few ski resorts and still live in town so I’ve got plenty:

    *Skiing into the pit of a ski lift (the area right after the chairs leave the loading station that’s roped off for a reason) face first into a thankfully empty chair and asking me “why didn’t it stop?”. Well chief, it did stop, about 20 feet after I pressed the button, you were within 20 feet.

    *Grown man cradling his skis sideways in his arms like a child attempting to board a gondola cabin and clotheslining himself.

    *Grown men pushing children out of the way to cut in line.

    *Jumping off chairs just before the unload station.

    *Father attempting to hit his own children in a tube well after I told him they go like 30mph and can fuck people up.

    *Walking along the pavement still wearing skis.

    *Dropping the comfort bar on a passing chair, resulting in the people who were about to sit in said chair to get bowled over into the pit. I just about lost any semblance of professionalism on that one…

    *Underaged girl riding the bungee trampoline asked me if putting the harnesses on guests turned me on. Resulting in me dropping the harness and telling one of the female coworkers that had just been playing with their phones and talking amongst themselves that the harnesses were their fucking job now.

    *Lift I was on stopped for awhile because a guy carrying his skis over his shoulder was absentmindedly decking people in the face which resulted in a fistfight the bottom operator had to break up.

    I can keep going for a while.

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      Is it a thing at ski places to just ride the ski lifts up and down? I have no desire to ski ever, but I’ve always wanted to try one of those things.

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        Many of them do this during the off-season to make some extra money.

        Otherwise they do allow people to go back down every place that I’ve been for various reasons like sudden panic/fear or broken equipment

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          Depends on the lift and downloading a guest on most chairs is real annoying for everybody involved, including the people waiting in line at the bottom. On a gondola it’s of course trivial. If you do manage to get yourself stuck somewhere you can’t download from that’s more of a patrol problem than anything ops can help you with.

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        Oh and a bunch of resorts use a gondola to access parking lots or other areas of the base if you wanted a completely free option.

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        You’re not really supposed to ride them around the wheel at the end

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          Depends on the lift, but yeah extra weight on the bullwheel causes excess wear and with the older ones it can really fling you off to the side during that turn. Saw a guy try to ride the bullwheel on a dinosaur of a fixie and it chucked him out of the chair before I could get it stopped.

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        For the chairs that’s more of a summer thing, as the ramp isn’t something you should be walking on and it’s not great for the lift to have weight on the chair while it’s going around the wheel up top. The gondola style lifts (enclosed cabin) you can absolutely do that just to hit the bar at the top or whatever, hell, most resorts will give you a cheaper ticket price if that’s all you plan on doing.

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      *Dropping the comfort bar on a passing chair, resulting in the people who were about to sit in said chair to get bowled over into the pit.

      I’m guessing this was a grown adult? I volunteer at my kids’ school and I’ve seen some extremely impulsive behavior from eight year olds where they clearly didn’t think about what would happen if they pulled some stunt that popped into their heads. Dropping the comfort bar sounds like that kind of thing. No thought about who it might affect; just hey, that’s something to do. It’s not even something cool, it’s just something. Like WTF???

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        Yeah, kids are kids, you can’t entirely blame them for not understanding the consequences of their actions quite yet, somebody older than me though? That pisses me right the fuck off.

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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.

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    Was in a brewery in South Carolina, tourist asks the bartender for a bud light. Bartender politely explains that it’s a brewery, make their own beer, and directs him to a beer menu. Tourist says, “just give me whatever is closest to a bud light.” Absolute monster.

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      If I didn’t like beer, didn’t know it care about meet, but felt I needed to drink it socially to “be a man”, that’s exactly how I’d approach the problem.

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      This is alcoholic behavior. The alcoholics I know that drink beer (vs wine or whatever) absolutely drink only light beer by the gallon and will order it wherever they are.

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      I used to work for a large craft brewery. We’d have the same sentiments sometimes.

      Someone was furious we wouldn’t sell them a keg of Miller. Homie, I don’t know how to explain this better, but we only sell the beer we make and that ain’t it

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        Kegs aren’t even hard to get. If he really wants that keg he can just call the nearest distributor and they’ll be happy to hook him up. They might even deliver it.

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    American lady absolutely losing it and hysterically screaming at a McDonald’s cashier for not accepting US dollars. In Ireland.

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    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.

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      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.

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      ‘then accused the police of assault’ ah, so not an American story then. “Yeah we did it, and we’ll do it again!”

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        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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      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.