unsafe driving/lack of seatbelts is for sure #1 by a wide wide margin of things that worry me when traveling in countries that have unsafe driving/lack of seatbelts
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
some destinations/styles of travel like say backpacking in india that ive seen people do with children seem like the most tiring thing possible
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
the parents always look very tired too
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
youd think youd just want to go chill on the beach or w/e
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
i guess if yr kid is like 10+ then you could go more mobile easier
"kids, remember india?!""THAT SUCKED!"
― arnold rorschach test (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
haha yes
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
tho tbf a lot of people have that experience, then later theyre all ahh india magical
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
yup revisionist family history is usually the most magical
― unfynest (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:30 (ten years ago) link
i read some study that claims thats just how memory works too which is why its better to spend money on experiences than possessions cause later you can cherish them and it doesnt even really matter if you had a good time idk people are super weird and messed up
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
i mostly travel to make people jealous on facebook
High school reunions man xp
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link
yuup
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
Anyway I don't think I've felt that unsafe driving around w/o a seatbelt in a foreign country
Probably most unsafe I felt was in peru where the cars would honk when driving on a mountain road so that cars coming the other direction would know that there was a car coming right at them
I get my recommended vaccinations
But that's about it
It's true that there should be a ban on kids under the age of 13 being allowed to travel
OTOH the traveling of teenagers should be especially encouraged
Bringing teens to the Taj Mahal and having them go "this sucks"
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
riding in cars on shitty mountain roads in countries with terrible drivers/cars is basically my nightmare
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
p sure ive gotten ptsd from it before
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
The cool thing about those countries though is that all the cars are three cylinder eastern european joints w/ like 50 horsepower
The most danger they pose is what if you drive off a cliff
But if that were to happen it'd be going slow enough where you could see it coming and then dive out of the car before the car goes off the cliff
You'd probably have at least 5 seconds to realize and dive
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
lol sure buddy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
some stat i read the developing world has like 10% of the cars and 50% of the traffic fatalities
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link
Ok well the other consoling fact is that the lack of adequate crumple zones in the car means that your death would be swift and certain instead of drawn out and painful in a dirty hospital
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
Hospitals are probably very free with the morphine though
That's the main lesson I got from watching 'The Darjeeling Limited'
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
was talking to a friend who lived in india for ten years and she was kind of poopooing the danger of the roads there and then right after she recounted this horrific list of accidents she had been in witnessed or heard about that included people being cut in half heads run over like watermelons cars plunging off cliffs etc
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link
in a lot of places you can get valium over the counter which ime helps w fear of automobiles, so at least you can be not scared enough to avoid dangerous situations
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
Those accidents happen in America too man. That's why I choose to live in the city
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
Where's iatee when you need him
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
driving in the westfjords in iceland in the rain was one of the most truly terrifying few hours of my life
― max, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
i saw this yesterday and thought of iatee:
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/tumblr_mvqe8gUMzP1qzft56o1_500.gif
― Mordy , Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
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sure but they happen at a much much lower rate in the usa and when they do happen the cars are safer and the medical care is better, cars are for sure tho horrible and deadly and the only thing that will save us in when they start to drive themselves
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/rqVTOy7.jpg
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:00 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark
Well I think you also gotta think, what % of traffic fatalities are the drivers/passengers and what % are pedestrians, cyclists, etc.
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:16 (ten years ago) link
yeah sure a factor is def just how sensible/enforced the rules of the road are
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
but i mean we can fool ourselves too, like ralph nader said unsafe at any speed, people die in cars going ten miles an hour sometimes
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:19 (ten years ago) link
def i think the best safety advice for anyone traveling anywhere is dont behave like the australians
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
What do the australians do
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
Probably a good idea if you're worried about water quality at the places you travel to is to bring your own comedy sized can of Fosters to drink from
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
i'm really cautious crossing streets when i travel to places with bad drivers. i went to mexico city for a week in august and saw two pedestrians get hit by cars. i was a passenger in one of them, it was scary as shit. the other person was either dead or unconscious, totally bloody on the pavement. it was horrifying
― marcos, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
fuuck that is horrible
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
"The rich are different than us."
"Yes, they are superior humans."
http://www.daveramsey.com/blog/20-things-the-rich-do-every-day
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link
― 乒乓, Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:23 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
they are just really adventurous and drunk with a supernatural can do attitude, i was on a ferry with like 20 people once and three of them were australians with visible wounds, i asked them all about them and the stories were all like i was climbing a waterfall wasted and im not sure what happened, lol im pretty sure you fell mate
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
i met a group of australians who bought a car and were driving across india, the way they described the experience was very much like a video game
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/GgsVWX9.png
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link
crossing the street in vietnam is frogger
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:33 (ten years ago) link
like 10 lanes of motor scooters to contend with
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
In Russia, most roads are wider than they are long
― In times of osterity, these Eton-educated poshboys (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link
In NYC whenever I cross the street I just walk if I have the light. Don't even turn my head. Daring cars to run me over
I figure if it happens it will have been at low speeds and I can probably get a pretty sick settlement out of it. My lifetime earning potential will have been negatively affected
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link
have you considered breakdancing across the street
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link
or maybe youre supposed to kickflip across and then its the cop who breakdances
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
No but good idea. It will make it easier to prove to the judge. Can't breakdance anymore can't make money
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
savy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link