Imagine you are at a station, making a call on speakerphone in public (because you’re an asshole). Then you get approached by a person asking you to turn of the speaker (not even to end the call, mind you).
At that point, I’d imagine the normal thing is to just comply with that request (even for dicks on speakerphone).
Now imagine this person being not some random passenger, but someone working for the train company, in uniform and everything. And they’re telling you that they will fine you if you don’t comply.
At this point, how fucking deep up your own ass do you have to be to ignore them?
I once traveled with French people. As we were leaving the airport building up on arrival and met our local tour guide, one of them pulled out her cigarettes. All of the area had big signs declaring non smoking and pointing to the designated smoking area.
I asked her to go to the smoking area, since we should comply with local customs and laws as guests.
The reply was “oui, but i am French!”
We later had a whole drama with having to send her home earlier because of continuously offending local people.
French tourists also have a bad reputation in many countries because of behaviour like this.
I dont know. I never heard someone complain about Korean tourists for instance.
Other bad reputation tourists include Germans, Brits and Russians. But i guess that is mainly because of “drunk at the beach” tourism to Spain and Turkey.
It just sounds like perpetuating national stereotypes. It doesn’t do any good.
Then again the whole thread is weird. It feeds my suspicion that there’s a lot of (relatively) old people on Lemmy. Everybody’s getting riled up because of some guy talking with his loudspeaker on. Wtf?
Imagine you are at a station, making a call on speakerphone in public (because you’re an asshole). Then you get approached by a person asking you to turn of the speaker (not even to end the call, mind you).
At that point, I’d imagine the normal thing is to just comply with that request (even for dicks on speakerphone).
Now imagine this person being not some random passenger, but someone working for the train company, in uniform and everything. And they’re telling you that they will fine you if you don’t comply.
At this point, how fucking deep up your own ass do you have to be to ignore them?
I once traveled with French people. As we were leaving the airport building up on arrival and met our local tour guide, one of them pulled out her cigarettes. All of the area had big signs declaring non smoking and pointing to the designated smoking area.
I asked her to go to the smoking area, since we should comply with local customs and laws as guests.
The reply was “oui, but i am French!”
We later had a whole drama with having to send her home earlier because of continuously offending local people.
French tourists also have a bad reputation in many countries because of behaviour like this.
That couldn’t end well….and it didn’t.
It’s not the French. All people are annoying. Obviously
I dont know. I never heard someone complain about Korean tourists for instance.
Other bad reputation tourists include Germans, Brits and Russians. But i guess that is mainly because of “drunk at the beach” tourism to Spain and Turkey.
It just sounds like perpetuating national stereotypes. It doesn’t do any good.
Then again the whole thread is weird. It feeds my suspicion that there’s a lot of (relatively) old people on Lemmy. Everybody’s getting riled up because of some guy talking with his loudspeaker on. Wtf?