Funny things tourists pay to do in your country (blues, rock)

jibber · 01-26-2009, 06:39 PM

i have seen it done. a few of us were driving back from kayaking one day, and one of the guys wanted to be a tourist and get a photo of the bear. we saw an asian woman (hate to stereotype but...) grab a bottle of honey and drizzle some on her son's hand. The bear kind of sniffed at it from a few metres away, and looked like it might be tempted so we started shouting to drive it off. bad for the bears to be in such close contact, and certainly bad for the kid if he'd been mauled.

~~Farfisa~~ · 01-26-2009, 08:21 PM

We have alot of people come for the music scene here, the "Wham City" scene is becoming quite popular and most the music that's associated with it is fairly tolerable.

Yukon Cornelius · 01-26-2009, 08:26 PM

Ive noticed a bunch of tourists in rental cars its seems and im not to sure why that they enjoy visiting gas stations.. I would say a good 25% of there vacation money is spent there..

phantom133pz · 01-27-2009, 12:19 AM

I live about twenty minutes outside of D.C. There were millions of tourists here for the inauguration. Now, while I understand why people wanted to see it (first black President, change, etc) the majority of them ended up standing in sub freezing weather on the mall for hours packed like sardines to watch on jumbo screen tvs. Seems kinda dumb to me... and people paid $1000's to rent rooms for a week or even a few days there.

jibber · 01-27-2009, 12:36 AM

^see I can totally see that. It's a very different experience being there in the crowd, experiencing that atmosphere, than just watching it at home on tv.

jackhammer · 01-27-2009, 04:59 AM

Ride on an open top bus looking at the craphole called London whilst it's invariably hammering it down with rain. The fools.

phantom133pz · 01-27-2009, 08:24 AM

Beale St.! I went there on a guitar trip to Memphis back in my junior year of high school, it was pretty cool. It did feel kind of like a tourist trap at times, but I loved all of the musicians playing outside. There was some real blues talent there. We toured the Gibson factory too, that was awesome.
And I would love to visit London one day...

boo boo · 01-28-2009, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by phantom133pz

Beale St.! I went there on a guitar trip to Memphis back in my junior year of high school, it was pretty cool. It did feel kind of like a tourist trap at times, but I loved all of the musicians playing outside. There was some real blues talent there. We toured the Gibson factory too, that was awesome.
And I would love to visit London one day...

One thing you don't see on the brochure though is the high concentration of homeless black people begging tourists for money.

kthedrummer · 01-27-2009, 08:50 AM

People pay thousands of dollars to hunt deer in Kansas around where I live...and the deer are fenced in so they are guaranteed a kill or 2...where is the sport in that...and people hit deer in cars around here by the dozen...they are really a pain in the ass...I feel sorry for these animals that are loosing their natural habitat....eventually they will have none and will have to be bred on industrial farms and kept in tiny stalls and slaughtered like cows...oh the humanity.

phantom133pz · 01-28-2009, 12:36 AM

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Originally Posted by kthedrummer

People pay thousands of dollars to hunt deer in Kansas around where I live...and the deer are fenced in so they are guaranteed a kill or 2...where is the sport in that...and people hit deer in cars around here by the dozen...they are really a pain in the ass...I feel sorry for these animals that are loosing their natural habitat....eventually they will have none and will have to be bred on industrial farms and kept in tiny stalls and slaughtered like cows...oh the humanity.

I have to point out, at least where I live, that deer need to be killed off. I don't know about Kansas though. The hunting thing is just wrong... fencing in deer and charging people to kill them. But here in VA, there are so many deer that if we weren't hitting them with our cars, a lot of them would starve. Still the fault of people though, as we killed off their natural predators by developing the land so much.

01-26-2009, 06:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
jibber Freeskier Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople... Posts: 1,544	i have seen it done. a few of us were driving back from kayaking one day, and one of the guys wanted to be a tourist and get a photo of the bear. we saw an asian woman (hate to stereotype but...) grab a bottle of honey and drizzle some on her son's hand. The bear kind of sniffed at it from a few metres away, and looked like it might be tempted so we started shouting to drive it off. bad for the bears to be in such close contact, and certainly bad for the kid if he'd been mauled. __________________ What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

01-26-2009, 08:26 PM	#3 (permalink)
Yukon Cornelius Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 625	Ive noticed a bunch of tourists in rental cars its seems and im not to sure why that they enjoy visiting gas stations.. I would say a good 25% of there vacation money is spent there.. __________________ Attempting to find a cure for Stupid...

01-27-2009, 12:36 AM	#5 (permalink)
jibber Freeskier Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople... Posts: 1,544	^see I can totally see that. It's a very different experience being there in the crowd, experiencing that atmosphere, than just watching it at home on tv. __________________ What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

01-27-2009, 04:59 AM	#6 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Ride on an open top bus looking at the craphole called London whilst it's invariably hammering it down with rain. The fools. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

01-27-2009, 08:50 AM	#9 (permalink)
kthedrummer King of the Idiots Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: The free love freeway Posts: 262	People pay thousands of dollars to hunt deer in Kansas around where I live...and the deer are fenced in so they are guaranteed a kill or 2...where is the sport in that...and people hit deer in cars around here by the dozen...they are really a pain in the ass...I feel sorry for these animals that are loosing their natural habitat....eventually they will have none and will have to be bred on industrial farms and kept in tiny stalls and slaughtered like cows...oh the humanity. __________________ Your brain has the shell on it.

01-26-2009, 08:21 PM	#2 (permalink)
~~Farfisa~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 2,773	We have alot of people come for the music scene here, the "Wham City" scene is becoming quite popular and most the music that's associated with it is fairly tolerable.

01-27-2009, 12:19 AM	#4 (permalink)
phantom133pz Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Northern Virginia Posts: 73	I live about twenty minutes outside of D.C. There were millions of tourists here for the inauguration. Now, while I understand why people wanted to see it (first black President, change, etc) the majority of them ended up standing in sub freezing weather on the mall for hours packed like sardines to watch on jumbo screen tvs. Seems kinda dumb to me... and people paid $1000's to rent rooms for a week or even a few days there.

01-27-2009, 08:24 AM	#7 (permalink)
phantom133pz Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Northern Virginia Posts: 73	Beale St.! I went there on a guitar trip to Memphis back in my junior year of high school, it was pretty cool. It did feel kind of like a tourist trap at times, but I loved all of the musicians playing outside. There was some real blues talent there. We toured the Gibson factory too, that was awesome. And I would love to visit London one day...