Reply to Locals squirt tourists w/ water guns: Barcelona mass tourism protests

Forum Index » Travel Discussion

Reply to "Locals squirt tourists w/ water guns: Barcelona mass tourism protests"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
[b]Modern day tourism is awful.  You just have mass hordes flocking to a place for selfie photos because they saw nice pictures online.  They often partake very little in the local culture, learn absolutely zero at museums because all they're doing the whole time is taking selfies, and world sites are treated like playgrounds for millions. [/b]
[/quote]

So when others go, they are philistines, but when YOU go, with your camera-less learned academic endeavors and erudite strolling encyclopedia you are a vast improvement to the cityscape?

Got it.[/quote]

NP. You refuse to believe those who experienced past tourism and can compare it to the current overcrowded situation.

Go now if you want with little Timmy, but we just feel sorry that you are experiencing these places in such an unpleasant environment, and feel extremely lucky we got to go when it was more pleasant.  [/quote]

You are still missing the point.  I can't believe this has to be explained again.

None of you is saying "We should all stay away for the betterment of the locals and the tourists who have not been there before"

Instead you are saying "The new people ruined it for us! They poors and wal mart employees!  They should stay at disney as intended!"

[quote]I feel the same way about music of the 1980s - we were a lucky generation.[/quote]

Whaa?  The era of Rick Astley, NKOTB, and Tiffany?  "We Built This City", "The Final Countdown", and "Groovy Kind Of Love"?  Linn drums, DX7s, and too much reverb?  Hair Metal, Boy Bands, and movie soundtracks?

While we did get the birth of hip hop and a few good indie bands, the 80s were the worst decade for music since Edison's first wax cylinder.  This is inarguable.[/quote]

No, British new wave mainly because I was based in London. The Cure, the Smiths, New Order, Joy Division, Bronski Beat, Echo and the Bunnyman, Fine Young Cannibals,The Police, the Eurhythmics, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, then U2, REM, Terence Trent D'Arby, Tracy Chapman as well.

For what it's worth, I still have my travel diary from 1989/90. I budgeted 26 pounds a day and came home with unspent funds, so cut out the "poors" nonsense - I was the ultimate budget traveler, self funded with temp work staying in dorms and using a train pass.

I was in West Germany the day the Berlin Wall came down so witnessed both the pre and post cold war era. I get that you're young and that political and economic history isn't your forte.
[/quote]

Bet money I am older than you.  I know all of those bands, saw most of them, and even shared a bill with one of them.  (I was a musician and worked for a major record label during that time period).  Some of them are great, and some not so much in retrospect.  Listen to the records, they do not hold up.  [b]Also, most of them were NOT what was most popular in the US[/b], and this is a DC forum.  The acts I mention above are the ones that were culturally dominant.

As for you once being poor, the fact that you can't reconcile your position then with your position now is your issue, not mine. And stick your economic history insult up your a$$.  [/quote]

NP. You’re arguing that The Cure, The Police, the Eurhythmics, U2, Tracy Chapman, and REM weren’t some of the most popular artists of the 80s?

[/quote]

I think they're just in the mood for arguing  :lol: Maybe it's the heat.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics