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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.
My bro went on erasmus to France. Well, first the girl from France came to us. We hosted her, they went to a club for drinks n'stuff, shown her around the city etc. One funny thing is she thought we were about to feed her horse meat for some reason. Then my bro went, they planned a trip to disneyland. Apparently something went wrong with the tickets and my bro couldn't get in. So they left him in the parkinglot and had fun by themselves lol. He got back to the village (50km away) by going with a second family that was in the program. Like, completely insane shit.
What the fuck france is super strict on smoking areas from what ive seen
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.
I wouldn't have thought that you of all commenters here were going to dig that kind of hole for yourself. Yikes.
The reputation of tourists should not be seen as the representation of all people in a country. But i think it is important to be aware of it, in particular to not act in a way that reinforces negative ones while being abroad.
As someone living in Germany i think you too are aware of the reputation that German Mallorca tourists have, not just in Spain but in Gerrmany too.
It’s just 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?
Manners Maketh Man – William Horman
Yeah, when you quote a headmaster from the 16th century in a situation like this it would probably make me want to troll you, too
Would you like to have someone next to you make lots of noise, while you are just trying to get from A to B in peace?
Also it is one thing to be oblivious to annoying other people in public. It is another thing entirely to make a point of annoying other people in public and doubling down on it, if someone tell you. That is just being arrogant and vile.
Yeah, I don’t like it, I am quite sensitive to any kind of sound. But I don’t have a problem expressing that, and if that doesn’t resolve it, I leave. For these annoyances I really don’t think we need any kind of authority.
Which brings us to the point everybody here conveniently omitted, that there’s conflicting statements. He says he switched off the phone immediately, the rail company says he didn’t. Here nobody gives a fuck about that and everybody’s just calling for higher fines. Someone even, albeit jokingly, suggests eugenics. It’s like a mob mentality and I find it shocking. I wish they’d be just as aggressive when it comes to cars. Because that’s a form of pollution that is more than just an annoyance. It’s life threatening.
You know they HAVE enforcement because it didn't work before without it.
Ftr, if someone "jokingly" suggests eugenics, please report that.