Reply to El Salvador

Forum Index » Travel Discussion

Reply to "El Salvador"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I love the post about the Authentic Travel Olympics.[/b][b]  Remember the thread about DCUM archetypes?  Authentic Travel Olympian is definitely one of them.

This forum has some great advice but there are also a few subgroups that are just not operating on the same plane as the rest of us—just mention Iceland and it’s triggering for a bunch of them!  Then there are the posters if it’s not a Rosewood or similar, why even bother?[/quote]

I liked the post too, and I'm the one who's ridden the chicken buses all over Central America ha ha.  [/quote]

Again, they were laughing at you, not with you.

And please, for the love of God, stop using that derogatory term “chicken bus.” It’s not used by the locals, but only smug foreigners. It’s not cute, but in fact pejorative.

See https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/chicken-bus.2865812/[/quote]

The wordreference forum you linked to has a post from someone identifying themself as Guatemalan who says that these buses are typically called camioneta gallinera in Spanish. It's a pretty neutral term, and describes something that happens pretty frequently on second-class (and cheaper) buses in Mexico and Latin America.

I think you might be looking to take offense where none was meant. This is a frequent trait of the Authentic Travel Olympian (tm). Beware![/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