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Post by Anne on Aug 17, 2009 8:49:19 GMT -5
I was watching this crap comedic show and it actually had something funny.
Host: How would you get more tourists to come to Australia? Guy: Send the odd one back alive
It's a funny joke, but I do feel guilty about every tourist or international student that gets killed here. It isn't wildly rampant but even one is terribly sad. x.x
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Post by Uber Loodle on Aug 17, 2009 13:20:44 GMT -5
...people get killed in Australia? XD
*might possibly live under a rock*
I felt bad for the Italian tourist in New York who caught a plane and helicopter colliding with his new camera while he was fiddling with it. XD
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Post by Anne on Aug 17, 2009 19:21:38 GMT -5
Backpackers have a penchant for death here. About twenty years back we had a back packer serial killer called Ivan Millat who murdered quite a few of them in the eastern states, then again about ten years ago in WA someone killed one backpacker and almost killed his girlfriend but she got away - I think that bastard killed others. There are also a few instances where tourists get taken by crocodiles because their guides say its safe to swim in areas that I wouldn't even go near and recently another German/Austrian backpacker who went missing about two to three weeks ago washed up on the beach this week, he seems to have just drowned.
Then there are the ones who take the drive through the desert, break down and leave their cars thinking they have a better chance trying to walk to safety. We tend to find their cars but they're never seen again (Best tip you can get if you travel in the outback: stay with your car. Everyone says to do so)
And there are much more, some poor Chinese student got killed here in Perth... last year. Her murderer was caught and jailed, but I still feel so sad for her and her family.
We had a tourist helicopter drop out of the sky recently, no one was killed fortunately, just horribly injured xD
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Post by Sorie on Aug 17, 2009 21:31:44 GMT -5
I'd still go to Australia.
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Post by Anne on Aug 18, 2009 3:29:54 GMT -5
Yeah, like I said it isn't hugely rampant xD It just happens enough for it to be funny... in an australian-humour sort of way xD
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Post by Nick on Aug 18, 2009 10:48:29 GMT -5
A kind of gallows humour? xD But yeah, I'd still go to Aus too ^^
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Post by Anne on Aug 18, 2009 11:25:32 GMT -5
Yeah xD Australian humour tends to be fairly dark, in the most good natured way possible.
Apparently we also had a tourist who killed other tourists before o.0 My mum told me about him. He was this German nut who went around to all the outback stations and camp sites and just shot everyone he met, then retreated into the outback or crossed states with no witnesses. Then a truckie saw his car on a fairly deserted strip of road, reported it, and then next time he killed they sent out spotter planes (practically everyone with a plane went up) and found him trying to camouflage his car. When the police moved in he started shooting throwing bombs at them (and a whole manner of other crazy rambo moves) so the police just mowed him down.
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Post by Uber Loodle on Aug 18, 2009 18:08:32 GMT -5
I was talking to some guy from Vietnam while I was in Philadelphia...he wanted me to take a picture of him and his wife. I figured out how to zoom in with their camera and I got this really good close up of their faces, but he got made at me wanted "Flora! Flora! Get flora!" So after about 20 pictures, I figured out they wanted the flowers in the background. XD
So yeah, those are our tourists. XD
AND I met a guy from Ireland when I was in Minneapolis. We were lost, and both trying to get to the same place, he was losing faith in us. XD He was in a band. Which is cool. But he was old, and so are all the people in said band. XD
I wish we had crazy tourists like that. XD
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Post by Anne on Aug 19, 2009 4:21:17 GMT -5
We have tourists like that too - many more then homicidal ones.
Besides, you don't need those kinds of tourists, you have college students :/
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Post by Sorie on Aug 20, 2009 0:33:55 GMT -5
I've met several tourists who were clearly foreign in the four days I spent volunteering at the aquarium. One family was French and I understood what they were saying, all confused-like. I failed them though; they were searching for the English word for octopus, but I couldn't tell, because I completely forgot our brief cover of marine creatures.
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Post by Anne on Aug 20, 2009 5:41:39 GMT -5
"8-legged jiggly monster *puffs up cheeks and uses fingers to mime legs*Tasty fish jiggly monster"
That would have been once the actual word for octopus failed; just like charades. Face-biting jiggly monster would have been a squid. Rawr.
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Post by Sofia on Aug 20, 2009 11:10:41 GMT -5
One of my hobbies is tourist spotting. Whenever I'm in Manhattan and I'm waiting for the bus or whatever, I walk the streets for the main purpose of categorizing people into tourists and non-tourists. Then, of course there's sub categories, mainly in the non-tourists. Gay, Starbucks-lurker, artist, business man, etc.
I don't live in Manhattan, so I really only go there alone for nerd camp. I was so happy when I was walking down the street one day and this (possibly Uruguayan?) woman asked me where the nearest Starbucks, and I was able to answer correctly (y en espanol, woo). It might have been the fact that I was five minutes late and students don't have access to the fourth, staff only, floor, which I have class on, that made me not look tourist-y. You know, the whole rushing thing.
Die, parenthesis.
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Post by Uber Loodle on Aug 21, 2009 9:59:01 GMT -5
Whenever I'm in Manhattan and I'm waiting for the bus or whatever, I walk the streets for the main purpose of categorizing people into tourists and non-tourists. Then, of course there's sub categories, mainly in the non-tourists. Gay, Starbucks-lurker, artist, business man, etc. I do that tooooo. I went into Boston alone one day and made up life stories for everyone on the train around me. Haha. And I love feeling superior over tourists. Not like I encounter many where I live, but when I go into Boston, I have superior knowledge of where all the super touristy things are and how to get to them by public transportation. XD
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Post by Anne on Aug 21, 2009 11:10:21 GMT -5
I know a handful of places and beyond that absolutely nothing xDD A while ago I was thinking how cool it would be if Monkey came to Perth so I could show her around, but then I realised I'd run out of places in a day. But that's okay, because my sister knows stuff and doesn't mind trailing along places
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Post by Nick on Aug 21, 2009 20:53:17 GMT -5
At least you'll have a day xD I'd run out of places in a few hours if I had to show anyone around here. There just isn't that much to do around here that's tourist-y or special, and I wouldn't know a lot of it by heart xD
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