Don't look like a tourist

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Ned's been blending in in Dublin. after a few pints we weren't sure which was Ned and which was one of our local friends.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 08:20 (twenty years ago) link

A bloke asked how to get to Great Portland Street. I told him to jump on the circle line and keep going. He said, 'how long does it take?' I said, 'it depends what lap you get off'.

I wasn't proud of myself, but he was greasy and his girlfriend looked like Rudi Voller.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 08:59 (twenty years ago) link

Definitely put away the cameras & the american accents. Cambridge is absolutely teaming with tourists & 'Do I f#@king look like a tourist in a skirt & knee high boots & that I want to go punting at 6.30 on a Wednesday evening??'

That sounds fun!!

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 09:03 (twenty years ago) link

I sometimes go to the British Museum and hide behind the Egyptian mummies. When a tourist comes along I make coming back to life groans.

In such ways do I get my kicks.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 09:29 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

Don't walk very slowly side by side along an already-narrowed-by-construction-scaffolding busy Midtown Manhattan sidewalk in huge oversized down jackets so puffy you cannot put your arms down speaking to one another in Italian during lunch hour, blocking honest and hard-working New York residents rushing back to the office after hasty lunch.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 21:10 (twenty years ago) link

Don't insist on walking up along the left side of the subway escalator and then jake it for what should have been the last five or six steps. If you're walking, walk, dagnabbit.

Don't stop five feet outside of the jetway after you have deplaned to rearrange carry-ons/dial cell phone/search out relatives/enjoy tearfully happy reunion with same, blocking others trying to get off the plane.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 21:17 (twenty years ago) link

Don't bother wearing green in Dublin. Nobody does.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:31 (twenty years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

https://i.imgur.com/PVgs7wo.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/yPiA6r8.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/chruK3G.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/1rB5Gn3.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/reiElfg.jpg

― ✈️✈️ (pplains), Sunday, 16 December 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link

that one dude on the left is pushing the tower over, the bastard.

― koogs, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link

I have the pre-phone version of that mona lisa pic somewhere.

― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 02:23 (five years ago) link

Looking destitute, possibly homeless, will divert suspicion from one's touristic status. This effect can be enhanced through acting somewhat deranged or dangerous.

― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 03:53 (five years ago) link

How do you have the pre-phone version of a picture of someone taking a picture of a phone with a phone?

― ✈️✈️ (pplains), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 12:30 (five years ago) link

i preumse they mean this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte_The_Human_Condition.jpg

― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 13:11 (five years ago) link

you know what happens when you preumse, you make a pre out of um and se.

― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 13:12 (five years ago) link

I took a picture of everyone taking a picture of the mona lisa with their 35mm cameras is what i meant
xpost to pplains

― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link

Looking destitute, possibly homeless, will divert suspicion from one's touristic status. This effect can be enhanced through acting somewhat deranged or dangerous.

This method has served me well over the years.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link

(CNN) — The Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy has slowly started defying its name, losing 4 centimeters of its tilt over the past 17 years.

All those photos must be doing something to help!

― jmm, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 14:39 (five years ago) link

three months pass...

https://i.imgur.com/XJX0MXr.jpg

― pplains, Thursday, 4 April 2019 03:10 (five years ago) link

^ I laughed.

― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 4 April 2019 03:21 (five years ago) link

yes

― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 April 2019 10:46 (five years ago) link

An internet classic.

― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 April 2019 10:47 (five years ago) link

Don't talk me about tourists, I'm just back from trying to top up my Oyster Card, these clueless sods park themselves in front of the machines and take forever merely taking money out of their purses/wallets before they even try to use them - on my lunch break. Disgusting savages.

― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 April 2019 11:44 (five years ago) link

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