Funny things tourists pay to do in your country (blues, Atmosphere)

swim · 01-26-2009, 05:14 PM

^dude fest

simplephysics · 01-26-2009, 05:16 PM

Yet only a very very small percentage are attractive.

swim · 01-26-2009, 05:21 PM

hehe

simplephysics · 01-26-2009, 05:22 PM

I suck.
That venue is going to hell anyways.

gunnels · 01-26-2009, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by khfreek

Oh and Andrew Jackson's home. Hahaha

I laugh at them too. I drive by there so often.
People seem to be so entralled by Broadway too with the Honkeytonks and such.

jibber · 01-26-2009, 05:52 PM

It boggles my mind how excited tourists get when they see wildlife around here. Whenever there's a big horned sheep or hell even a couple of deer on the side of the highway there's always cars parked on the side of the road snapping away with their cameras. makes me laugh.

the worst was on a kayaking trip in the states. we were driving up through glacier national park in montana, and if anyone's ever driven that road, you'll recall that most of it is a VERY narrow mountain pass full of blind corners a switchbacks. We came across a huge line of cars, all stopped in the middle of the right lane, for apparently no reason. we finally edged closer and saw that 6 cars had stopped, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE F*CKING ROAD* to look at a mountain goat. the kicker was there was a pull-over lane only about 50 metres down the highway. but no, the goat was so exciting they had to block traffic for hundreds of metres both ways rather than take the chance it would walk away in the 2 minutes it would have taken to pull over in a safe area. absolute retards. almost as bad as the tourists i've seen putting honey on their kids hands so the cute cuddly black bears will come up and lick them.

Barnard17 · 01-26-2009, 06:31 PM

DEER?!?!?!

People don't really smother their kids in honey and send them off to meet bears do they? That's tantamount to tying a steak to their leg and dropping them in the lion enclosure.

jibber · 01-26-2009, 06:39 PM

i have seen it done. a few of us were driving back from kayaking one day, and one of the guys wanted to be a tourist and get a photo of the bear. we saw an asian woman (hate to stereotype but...) grab a bottle of honey and drizzle some on her son's hand. The bear kind of sniffed at it from a few metres away, and looked like it might be tempted so we started shouting to drive it off. bad for the bears to be in such close contact, and certainly bad for the kid if he'd been mauled.

~~Farfisa~~ · 01-26-2009, 08:21 PM

We have alot of people come for the music scene here, the "Wham City" scene is becoming quite popular and most the music that's associated with it is fairly tolerable.

swim · 01-26-2009, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by jibber

almost as bad as the tourists i've seen putting honey on their kids hands so the cute cuddly black bears will come up and lick them.

I luld.

01-26-2009, 05:14 PM	#11 (permalink)
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01-26-2009, 05:21 PM	#13 (permalink)
swim dontcareaboutyou Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: North Carolina Posts: 5,188	hehe __________________ http://nakednaps.bandcamp.com/

01-26-2009, 05:52 PM	#16 (permalink)
jibber Freeskier Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople... Posts: 1,536	It boggles my mind how excited tourists get when they see wildlife around here. Whenever there's a big horned sheep or hell even a couple of deer on the side of the highway there's always cars parked on the side of the road snapping away with their cameras. makes me laugh. the worst was on a kayaking trip in the states. we were driving up through glacier national park in montana, and if anyone's ever driven that road, you'll recall that most of it is a VERY narrow mountain pass full of blind corners a switchbacks. We came across a huge line of cars, all stopped in the middle of the right lane, for apparently no reason. we finally edged closer and saw that 6 cars had stopped, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FCKING ROAD to look at a mountain goat. the kicker was there was a pull-over lane only about 50 metres down the highway. but no, the goat was so exciting they had to block traffic for hundreds of metres both ways rather than take the chance it would walk away in the 2 minutes it would have taken to pull over in a safe area. absolute retards. almost as bad as the tourists i've seen putting honey on their kids hands so the cute cuddly black bears will come up and lick them. __________________ What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

01-26-2009, 06:31 PM	#17 (permalink)
Barnard17 My home? Discabled, Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Bristol, UK Posts: 204	DEER?!?!?! People don't really smother their kids in honey and send them off to meet bears do they? That's tantamount to tying a steak to their leg and dropping them in the lion enclosure. __________________ Vita brevis, Occasio praeceps

01-26-2009, 06:39 PM	#18 (permalink)
jibber Freeskier Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople... Posts: 1,536	i have seen it done. a few of us were driving back from kayaking one day, and one of the guys wanted to be a tourist and get a photo of the bear. we saw an asian woman (hate to stereotype but...) grab a bottle of honey and drizzle some on her son's hand. The bear kind of sniffed at it from a few metres away, and looked like it might be tempted so we started shouting to drive it off. bad for the bears to be in such close contact, and certainly bad for the kid if he'd been mauled. __________________ What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

01-26-2009, 08:21 PM	#19 (permalink)
~~Farfisa~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 2,773	We have alot of people come for the music scene here, the "Wham City" scene is becoming quite popular and most the music that's associated with it is fairly tolerable.