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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In a pretty rough pub in Edinburgh, watched a yank order a pint of ale, take one sip and walk back to the bar to ask for a refund cos he didn't like it

Fuck me mate you'll be lucky not to end up wearing it

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What the actual fuck

Even in the USA that’s weird behavior

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yank. Can second. Unless it was well and truly off most bartenders would just laugh at you. You might get an exception if you're in the kind of joint that's $20 for a Sam Adam's or something because at that point it's not a pub it's an adult daycare.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yank. Can second.

Brave of you to share your secondary can identity with us.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

"My great great great grand great grandpa was a can o Tennent's Super so I'm Scaddish"

In unrelated news, I was in Sicily last year, and there they market Tennent's Super as a posh lager, not a drink for a pish-reekin homeless person. How the fuck they managed that I'll never know

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'm no hero, just doing what I can.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

In the us you can ask for a taste and they'll pour a splash. That's ok.

Order the pint, only refund should be if it's off or something

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I once saw a lady pick up her toddler, help him stand on a trashcan, and piss into it.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Go hiking in insane heat with just a little water bottle. You're going to die in an area with no cell phone service and it's going to suck the entire time.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

even more, will call emergencies and search & rescue services who will fly helicopters to the back of the mountain to pull out a dumbass wearing flipflops.

in our country it's not yet charged but in such idiot cases, it should be.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Try to touch a baby Canadian goose with the parent geese near by. WTF was that lady thinking!?!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nobody goes their whole life without becoming intimately aware of the danger cobra chickens present. Once when I was a teenager, I decided to drive aggressively close to a couple geese while they were strolling around a busy parking lot. The goose took exception, and as I went by, he pecked at my car door, which left a dent and made a VERY loud noise. I was so flabbergasted by the violence contained within this downy devil, that I let my car slow, which was a mistake. The goose took it as a sign of weakness and was now charging at me.

I freak out, not wanting him to damage my car anymore, so I make haste out of the car park, pause for a moment at the stop sign, and turn right onto the road. I look back to the parking lot and what do I see? The goose, full flight, full speed, coming right at my passenger window. Before I can accelerate away, he collides with the passenger side door, leaving a HUGE dent, right next to the little dent he made earlier.

At that point I was doing like 60 in a 35 mph zone just to gtf away from that hellish demon spawn. Methinks perhaps reincarnation is real, and all truly evil people come back as canadian geese.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you go to Yellowstone National Park it is very likely you will see someone almost die to wildlife. They think it's Disney land or something and the park is filled with friendly show animals. On a week long trip I saw someone getting way too close to bison, caribou (in the town with video screens playing Caribou attacking cars and people on loop), and a bear with a cub. People are completely clueless.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Tried to pet a blue ring octopus.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

Grew up in a tourist town in Aus, the amount of stupid shit I have seen is wild.

Saw a tourist once bite into a meatpie still in its aluminium tray, and the pie was still hotter then the sun, so yeah, aluminium on the teeth and hectic burnt mouth, hahhahahah gave me a good giggle.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Vandalize government property and smear human feces on walls, while legislators are having a meeting doing official government duties

wait a minute, those didn't seem like tourists...

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (5 children)

[off topic?]

I live in New York City. One of my friends used to teach an art history course at the4 College of Staten Island.

She once told me that she'd had students who'd never travelled the 12 miles to get to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. The Met is considered one of the top museums in the world, but going there was too much hassle

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

this.

tl;dr: showed up to hotel a day before their room was ready, wanted to sleep in the lobby, got abusive and violent with the staff when they refused, then accused the police of assault when they were forcibly escorted out after refusing for hours to leave.

this got attention in swedish media first, and only got a response from the ccp after it had gone viral.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat 22 points 2 days ago

After reviewing the footage, the Chinese Embassy in Stockholm wrote in a statement that the incident “severely endangered the life and violated the basic human rights of the Chinese citizens.”

That’s rich, coming from officials of a country that runs concentration camps.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I live in New Orleans and the police on Bourbon St. ride specially-trained, very large horses for crowd control. I’ve definitely seen some drunk tourists try to resist an officer’s command to calm down by trying to push back on the horse and the horse just being totally unphased.

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