#foreigner tourist

[baellielurk]

as a child i really thought this was just clever worldbuilding 💀

[useless-denmarkfacts]

Fun Fact of the Day

Danes don't actually want you to try to speak Danish if you're here as a tourist or student, and you're not intending to stay. Why? Because... well, frankly, we can't understand a word you say!

Danish is such a subtle language in terms of pronunciation that if you get it just the slightest bit wrong, the entire sentence becomes genuinely unintelligible. Even people who've been here for decades and speak Danish fluently still have thick accents, so specific that Danes can usually tell which language family (and sometimes which variety, looking at the USAmericans here) they come from.

Short and sweet: if you're staying for under, say, a decade, we don't actually want you to try to speak Danish, and we don't understand a damn word you say when you do! Just speak English, it'll be easier and less painful for everyone involved.

[useless-catalanfacts]

Btw if you come on holidays and stay at an AirBnb instead of an actual registered hotel I hate you personally. Not "I hate the gentrification and touristic massification and the way we can't live in our homes and are forced to move away because of tourism" in an abstract way- No, not just that. I hate you.

[derpinette]

[garrettwrites]

The internet is amazing because if before the commoners and the wealthy were separated to such an extent they barely glimpsed into each other's lives, now we get to hear those well off in society complaining about cruises, vacations, fancy earphones, incomprehensibly expensive computer parts and niche pieces of equipment being expensive, while I need to weight my pasta to make sure it does indeed last for 7 meals rather than six so it's one less expense ""in the long run"", or wear trainers with a busted sole for months because shoes "are an unnecessary expense if these still work, no matter how much the rubber is snapping off", or eat like shit for an entire week because how dare I send 40€ on a second hand game instead of thinking off how many tuna cans, rice packs and vegetables that is. Or making groceries last so I can pay my pets' food.

[gamerhamlet]

no better ego boost than watching other tourists get spoken to in english despite their (very few tbh) attempts at broken japanese while I get the full jp conversations despite looking very 外人 (though I’m technically sort of not)

[rochenn]

my job is beach but not in the fun way

[girlrichie]

coworker yesterday told some crazy story about a woman he knows who went to cuba and hooked up with a guy at a club and whatever she comes back here and gets tested and the doctor tells her he’s gotta contact the police bc she caught something that you can only get from fuckin corpses so she hands over the guys contact info and the cops down there check out his place and find 9 dead tourists in deep freezers. anyway my wife has informed me that this is sn urban legend/chain email that has existed since 2002

[mentally-homeless]

I know I don't say it enough, but death to the USA

[thesconesyard]

Ok, last day, maybe finally I’ll get back to writing tomorrow night and not just be exhausted when I climb in bed

[tesco-finest-aromantics]

in trying not to become the british tourist who doesn’t speak a lick of french, i bumped into a woman and was about to say sorry, realised i should speak in french, racked my brains for the french word for ‘sorry’, brain gave me back ‘bocsánat’

[scattered-winter]

i always forget how much i fucking HATE the height of tourist season. get me out of here or get everyone else out i don't care

[geekandanerd]

I never realized how much of an accent I had until I went to college. Where there are people from outside of Michigan attending this school. My college freshman roommate hated the way I said secretary of state( secratairiah-state), I don't know (ion-know) and anything with a t haha. (Ex: mitten, kitten, don't.)

Common things I say:

Do you want to play video games with me= do yuh wanna play vieo games wi- me?

Did you find everything you need today?(this one's a common line from work)= didja find everything yuh need tuh-day

I have to go= I gotta go

Do you need anything else= d'jah need anything else?

I'm going to go read- ima go read(a shortened version of I'm gonna go read)

Did you know about... = --J'knowbout

I call my grandparents gramma and grampa

I've noticed I've increasingly called my mom, ma more.

Also depending on the part of Michigan your in we are VERY chatty(myself included) Tho I've noticed the Bay area tends not to be as chatty unless you know the person (Bay city, Saginaw, Midland etc.)

[semprelibera]

Bring back “See your own country first” campaigns

[totheecore]

wish we could gatekeep il lario from these hordes of tourists ngl

[rissahs]

im generally not a selfie-taker cuz i dont like being In Photos / Being Perceived, but especially when it comes to holiday photos i personally hate taking photos of myself in front of landmarks. i want the location to speak for itself, i dont need to be in the photo to prove i actually visited!

but also tbh i find it a little annoying when people spend like 5 minutes trying to get that Perfect Photo right in front of a landmark and they're doing all sorts of poses and stuff. like you do you but also please be considerate of other ppl also wanting photos......