Stupid tourists - justifying xenophobia since the dawn of time

[Armchair Psychologist]

Summer is on the way, and that means every braindead idiot from all over the world will be coming to a beach or park near you. With that said what encounters have you had?

Hands down for me it would be this lady who thought it would be a good idea to take her small children into a herd of bison in Yellowstone. Because all those signs everywhere telling people to do exactly not that are lying.

 

[Hell0]

none really, lots of spring breakers driving right past my small town, and right into florida.

 

[Caesare]

All the differences in lifestyle and custom can be cast aside across the planet for this one unifying truth: tourists are faggots.

 

[Lysol]

All the differences in lifestyle and custom can be cast aside across the planet for this one unifying truth: tourists are faggots.

Unless they're from China. Then you break out the squirt-bottles filled with lemon juice.

 

[Red Hood]

This is more of a generalized thing, but I'm within spitting distance of a Civil War battlefield park that I regularly visit for living history and historical reenactments as well as to hike the trails. I'm annoyed by the people that just use it as a jogging trail, or that let their kids hang on the antique cannon, or let their dogs shit on the trail, or leave their garbage there...

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Sometimes I'll entertain a somewhat pleasant conversation with tourists who find out that I'm unfamiliar with some local historical site they're going to/plan to go to, and they shame me for not ever having been there.

In a way, I guess I see where they're coming from.

 

[Red Hood]

Sometimes I'll entertain a somewhat pleasant conversation with tourists who find out that I'm unfamiliar with some local historical site they're going to/plan to go to, and they shame me for not ever having been there.

In a way, I guess I see where they're coming from.

Bonus points if they're balding, skinny European backpackers.

 

[Piss Clam]

Met a British guy on the A.T. hiking and he had this Bright Hawaiian shirt on. His first words were "you Americans are so nice. I'm so surprised". I wanted to tell him to stop reading the Guardian, but just smiled. You can get free food and lodging by the friendly Americans along the trail.

Second was a french guy who was just starting off on the A.T. in the southern terminus which is GA @ springer mountain. Tells everyone he can tell that he'll finish the thru hike in two months. He lasted about two weeks and never got out of GA (that's 85 or so miles) last I heard.

 

[The Fifth Waltz]

The time people were holding up traffic to take selfies with a fucking bear

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

All the differences in lifestyle and custom can be cast aside across the planet for this one unifying truth: tourists are faggots.

If it's tourist season, then why can't we shoot them?

This is more of a generalized thing, but I'm within spitting distance of a Civil War battlefield park that I regularly visit for living history and historical reenactments as well as to hike the trails. I'm annoyed by the people that just use it as a jogging trail, or that let their kids hang on the antique cannon, or let their dogs shit on the trail, or leave their garbage there...

I'm kinda curious on which battlefield you are talking about. The dog shitters and the litterers can definitely get the fuck out.

 

[CIA Nigger]

This is still my favorite:

 

[AnOminous]

This is more of a generalized thing, but I'm within spitting distance of a Civil War battlefield park that I regularly visit for living history and historical reenactments as well as to hike the trails. I'm annoyed by the people that just use it as a jogging trail, or that let their kids hang on the antique cannon, or let their dogs shit on the trail, or leave their garbage there...

I agree about dog shit and garbage, but those cannons are more or less indestructible. Nothing a kid does is going to cause any noticeable harm to it. Just being outside in the weather causes more harm.

 

[Red Hood]

I agree about dog shit and garbage, but those cannons are more or less indestructible. Nothing a kid does is going to cause any noticeable harm to it. Just being outside in the weather causes more harm.

They are, but there are signs saying "Please do not climb on the cannon", probably so they don't fall off and hurt themselves. I think most of the ones they have on display are reproductions anyway, but it's a rules lawyering thing and a sincere dislike for parents that can't keep their dumb kids from running all over the place. If I'd been that unruly I'd have got a paddlin'.

 

[ForgedBlades]

Literally the only thing I remember about my trip to the Grand Canyon fifteen years ago was the obnoxious screaming Asians everywhere.

 

[Lunete]

My town doesn't seem to attract many tourists being in the middle of bumfuck nowhere.

The worst we ever get is the occasional idiot driving the wrong way down our highway's access/side road.

 

[Jozef]

I don't live in a place that gets many tourists, but I've been to places that do, and Chinese tourists are the absolute worst. They are extremely rude and nasty and they spit everywhere... meanwhile the Japanese and Korean tourists are very polite and respectful.

When I've had tourists where I live, the only ones who seem to be assholes are Torontonians and Quebeckers. They'll flat out tell you that your home is a shithole with nothing to do, they'll berate the landscape, and they'll talk about how much better Toronto/Quebec is.
Any visitors from anywhere else will say it's a charming, friendly place.

 

[MalWart]

We went to Disney last year, and some retard thought it would be a good idea to let his kids crawl around the Carousel of Progress (an attraction housed in a rotating theater with sensors in place that prevent it from moving if anyone gets up mid-show), we ended up seeing the first act twice in a row. There are probably more stories of assholes I've encountered there, but that was the first one that came to mind.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Chinese tourists are the first generation of people who can actually leave their country and you can tell. No manners, loud, obnoxious, ignoring obvious signs that tell you not to do things. Hope that'll get better with time cause holy shit are they annoying.

Thanks to a few really dumb specimens, american tourists have a bad reputation in Europe.
But when you get asked "Do you guys have electricity/fridges in Europe, too?" you just die a little inside.
Some of these guys think that a) the Berlin Wall still is a thing and b) Hitler is supreme leader of the area behind the Wall.

Korean tourists are sort of amusing. They will ape the behaviour of japanese tourists when they misbehave, to make the japanese look bad.

German tourists are assholes that think throwing down their towel on a chair on a beach means they own that thing for the day. There are people who'd get up 5 o'clock in the morning, just to put their towel one some front-row chair, get back to bed till 8 o'clock and then act indignified when all the chairs have been taken by others and their towel has been put aside. What the fuck's up with that.

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

Hands down for me it would be this lady who thought it would be a good idea to take her small children into a herd of bison in Yellowstone. Because all those signs everywhere telling people to do exactly not that are lying.

I saw a guy put his little girl on top of a buffalo to take a picture. We have signs all over the area not to approach wildlife but these people are just idiots. We usually have 2-3 people a year gored by buffalo because of stupid shit like that.

Also, we get a lot of Chinese tourists and they are as bad as everyone has already pointed out. Rude and spit all over the place, it's disgusting.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

I saw a guy put his little girl on top of a buffalo to take a picture. We have signs all over the area not to approach wildlife but these people are just idiots. We usually have 2-3 people a year gored by buffalo because of stupid shit like that.

Also, we get a lot of Chinese tourists and they are as bad as everyone has already pointed out. Rude and spit all over the place, it's disgusting.

Not so much about tourists but rather dumb parents in general.

Went to a medieval fair with mounted knights doing a show where they used lances to stab through rings and such stuff.

There was a double barrier for the spectators' safety, one at chest height, one a bit lower and a ton of really fucking stupid parents put their kids in between these barriers so they have a better view.
I don't have kids, but I wouldn't put them in the designated trampling zone of a 700kg animal going haywire that's carrying around a combined 150kgs of equippement and rider.