oh my god this is me. i was addicted to designer amphetamines and completely delusional at the time of writing this. i had lost forty pounds and thought i was hot shit. i thought i was the reincarnation of Kurt Vonnegut. this was serious, and my friends laughed when they saw this go viral on twitter. it made me realize i had issues and im sober now. im also shocked i managed to stay employed at that time. To answer your question: im from LA but I grew up all around. I was living between Baltimore and NYC at the time. My mom is a beautiful Italian woman (Milan by way of Bolzano) and my dad is an insufferable Mexican from Montreal.
fwiw, my Reddit was suspended for this, im doing a lot better now, life is good, and im really happy :)
this is the most viscerally effective anti-drug PSA i’ve ever seen, not least because i think it’s plausibly true, unlike the ones i normally see
So these tourists came to a city with a bunch of “tourists go home” “tourists not welcome” graffiti and instead of idk maybe looking into why locals want tourists gone they film the grafiti, post it on tiktok with a caption “wow i feel so welcome” and like comments like these
And then they’re suprised when locals tell them to fuck off
I’m pretty sure the the video was filmed in barcelona (not 100 % because i can’t find it atm) but there are countless people in the comments explaining to this person that locals literally cannot live in their houses because of airbnb and other stupid shit made for tourists. Did the creator acknowledge these comments? No.
The funny thing is that they don’t want to grasp that people can’t live in the majority of Barcelona and surrounding cities and towns LITERALLY.
In the really touristy parts of Barcelona (half the city) there is no housing marketbecause there are no homes in the market because everything is fucking Airbnb. If you don’t live in Barcelona, but you live in the surrounding areas the little housing options there are inaccessible if you are a resident because it can cost over 300k-400k in places like Hospitalet del Llobregat (5-6 years ago the majority of housing in the city was 200k or less unless you went to specific parts with luxury flats).
People can’t live in Barcelona because there are no grocery shops or essential shops to have a normal life. When I was young and up to my teenage years (I’m only 25 btw) Barcelona was known by the small multi-generational business and artisans. If you needed something you went to X store that was in X place, and you knew it was good because your grandma used to go there when she was young (the thing being food, clothes, furniture, anything you could imagine). Nowadays all these small business have disappeared (I know some of them are barely surviving but when I talk to them all of them are saying that they don’t know how much longer they can stay) and in their place a bunch of souvenir shops that sell sevillanas (from Andalusia), tango (from Argentina), mariachi hats (from Mexico) and Son Goku T-shirts have opened thus making that the few people who lived there unable to subside (you need food and this type of things).
Starting in May and up till October you can barely go to the city centre and surrounding areas (where all the official buildings are, the majority of offices, etc) because of the tourists. They are literally EVERYWHERE. You can’t catch the metro because it is full of tourists, you can’t catch the bus because it’s full of tourists, you need to add 10-15min (or more) to your commute because tourists will be in the streets and are going to block the fucking way and won’t let you walk.
Tourists are simply rude and uncivil. You can’t grasp how rude they are. I haven’t been treated worse than how tourists treated me. They pee on the streets in the middle of the day, they drink and vomit everywhere they are, they go nude in the street even by schools playgrounds, they do drugs, they are in the way. ALWAYS. They have 0 spacial awareness or something because they will stop in the middle of a busy street and cars will try to go around them. You will lose your train because a tourist was in the tall and didn’t let you walk by or let you help them. You will be late to work/school because tourists will stop in the middle of the street and didn’t let you pass (and if you dare to tell them something or even worse, touch them, be ready for an altercation). Be ready to be treated like garbage, be ready to be treated as if you are barely human, be ready for tourist trashing your shop/restaurant/place because “españa.sangria.fiesta” and because they are too lazy to parent they children. Be ready to have the laws of your city changed because tourists can’t act in public and now hotels don’t have balconies, windows don’t open or there are no pools. If they are renting a flat (Airbnb type of thing) be ready for constant fights, police calls, not being able to sleep, garbage “falling from the sky” (the tourists flat)…
What some people don’t seem to grasp is that the tourist issue is not a new thing, maybe the tourists are finding out NOW because for them we were like the monkey exhibit at the zoo but in 2015, Barcelona mayor was elected because her opposition to what the tourism have done to the city. People have been done with tourists destroying the city for so long that 10 years ago it was what made political parties win elections. Maybe those tourists should reflect in the way the act or how they treat someone else’s home instead of crying because people are fed up with them.
I am from Eivissa, we usually joke that the tourist season begins when the first tourist jumps from a balcony to their death. That whole text over here is why we make those jokes.
Hi! I am from one of the Mexican cities that inspired the movie Coco (Oh, why do I even try to hide it at this point, everyone knows where this is) and while tourism is, and always has been, our main source of income, it is also ruining the local economy.
My state is both the poorest and the most expensive in the entire country. Housing prices are through the roof, in large part because landlords would rather rent to tourists for a few weeks than to a local for multiple years. Because they are much more profitable. They come from rich countries with strong currencies, and our salaries can’t keep up with the difference in value. The whole thing is extremely gentrified. Food and other basic goods and services are getting pricier and even my family, being as extremely fortunate as we are, have started to struggle economically.
Tourists are also very insensitive, and they treat us in a way, like we are some sort of attraction. They take pictures of people without their consent, people who are just living their lives, because to them, our way of life is itself exotic. Not to talk about rude, entitled, and outright racist behaviour. Triple that when it’s about indigenous people, tourists can’t be normal about indigenous people in a thousand years.
So in recent times, we’ve seen a spike on hostile graffiti directed towards tourists, particularly Americans. Because they are literally the fucking worst and I feel like a lot of people are finally tired of pandering to them and being displaced by them. Of having the cost of living being so unbearably high and the salaries so criminally low. And having the goverment enable this in the name of profits. Profits for who? Defenitely not for the people.
It’s just so exhausting. Even more so when you remember the complicated dynamic the U. S. and Mexico have going on. The fact that they can easily come here, but we can’t go there, not even for vacation, without having to jump through hoops. It’s unfair.
I don’t know how to end this. I don’t know if there is a way to fix it, or lessen the harm somehow. I think getting to know new places is great, and sharing our culture is (at least to us Mexicans) a great joy, but if it comes at the cost of harming people, is it really worth it?
“There is a secret level to the drinking with white people game … and it’s called the SCA.”
“Mead is a ninja” is not the take I thought I’d be hearing today but he’s right.
In Belegarth, sure there’s people that make mead and shit, but that’s not what’s going to fuck you up at events.
Belegarth is kind of the midpoint between a LARP and the SCA (living history is on a different scale) and we’ve got more of a medieval!punk aesthetic going.
No, what’s going to fuck you up and cause you to end up sleeping in a ditch with trout shaped pillow with the eyes missing named fsh is a startling assortment of fucking alcoholic bug juice that just appears out of no where, doesn’t taste like alcohol and has no mercy.
I’ve perfected a new way to grind any unwanted to conversation to an unproductive screeching halt. I call it Mossing.
Deets about what?
What is mossing?
I’m glad you asked. Mossing is when you disrupt a conversation by acting as if every sentence the other person says is the beginning of a brand new conversation.
6th August 2023
Reblogged From shetheycock
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