Have you ever met a smug traveller?

truffle5

I mean "traveller" in the backpacker sense rather than our caravan dwelling friends

You know the type - they return home after a year spent drinking their way across South East Asia and banging chics in dirty hostels. They will bore anybody who will listen to them with tales of magical sunsets on the beach and how they've changed. You just don't "get" them anymore.

Donkey Oaty

truffle5 wrote: »

IThey will bore anybody who will listen to them

You can talk.

I seen one driving a range rover towing a twin axel caravan the smug Prick

kneemos

Never mention the T word.

darkpagandeath

kneemos wrote: »

Never mention the T word.

Thailand backpacker ?

sleepytrees

Yeah and even worse he was from bray. Total knob-head who thought he was great after living in Spain and doing a bit of back packing. 23 year old me, thought he was amazing.

I've probably traveled more than him now. Anyway his a dick. The End.

Arsemageddon

I can't stand the ones that say they have done somewhere.

E.G. Oh yea man, like I did Asia last year last year and I'm going to do South America next year.

How the fvck does one 'do' a continent?

AgileMyth

I'll probably be that person when I get back.

TheDriver

I too thought it was going to be a guy boasting about his 142 hiace and appearing on gypsy wedding etc....

Dr Turk Turkelton

sleepytrees wrote: »

Yeah and even worse he was from bray. Total knob-head who thought he was great after living in Spain and doing a bit of back packing. 23 year old me, thought he was amazing.

I've probably traveled more than him now. Anyway his a dick. The End.

Looks like you fell for the lake Titicaca story ala Friends?

CarrickMcJoe

truffle5 wrote: »

I mean "traveller" in the backpacker sense rather than our caravan dwelling friends

You know the type - they return home after a year spent drinking their way across South East Asia and banging chics in dirty hostels. They will bore anybody who will listen to them with tales of magical sunsets on the beach and how they've changed. You just don't "get" them anymore.

Do the female backpackers do that too?

anncoates

One of the worst things about college was the interminable and identikit tales about staying in south American hostels and sleeping on train platforms you had to endure every autumn.

Links234

Nah, doesn't bother me in the least. Smug gits who've never been anywhere and act as if they're higher and mightier for it are the worst.

truffle5

I've noticed a lot of backpackers (male and female) have dreadlocks. Why is that?

sleepytrees

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

Looks like you fell for the lake Titicaca story ala Friends?

Yes, yes I did. He was even ginger but rose tinted glasses hid that.

pidgeoneyes

Banging Chic! Nile Rodgers won't be happy!

sleepytrees

anncoates wrote: »

One of the worst things about college was the interminable and identikit tales about staying in south American hostels and sleeping on train platforms you had to endure every autumn.

^ This

SEPT 23 1989

Never saw the appeal of living like a tramp

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Arsemageddon wrote: »

I can't stand the ones that say they have done somewhere.

E.G. Oh yea man, like I did Asia last year last year and I'm going to do South America next year.

How the fvck does one 'do' a continent?

Debbie would manage it, I'd say, she's a great girl.

thegreatgonzo

I've met some very smug travellers, two horrible bitches from Cork in a campsite in Broome were the absolute worst. Also a swedish girl with BO in a hostel in Kuala Lumpur. And an English stock trader in Dar es Salaam. But most people I've met back packing were just normal people who realised they were just another tourist, so meeting just 4 out of maybe 100s isn't so bad.

KungPao

truffle5 wrote: »

I've noticed a lot of backpackers (male and female) have dreadlocks. Why is that?

Because they have found themselves, maaan.

beano345

truffle5 wrote: »

I've noticed a lot of backpackers (male and female) have dreadlocks. Why is that?

They went off to find themselves in south east Asia, dreadlocks,spinning fire,drinking buckets of alcohol and leaving their rubbish on the beach is all part of it

truffle5

I have found that Irish people in particular adopt a smug, superior, faux-cosmopolitan attitude while travelling abroad. They avoid other Paddies as they don't want to be reminded of their culchie upbringing in Carlow....have to keep up the pretense of being a cultured "citizen of the world".

bboybaboy19

The only people who complain about others travelling and take the piss out of them 'finding themselves' as such are strangely the ones who've only ever left the country for a max of 2 weeks on a sun holiday to a tourist destination.

Reeks of jealousy.

thegreatgonzo

truffle5 wrote: »

I have found that Irish people in particular adopt a smug, superior, faux-cosmopolitan attitude while travelling abroad. They avoid other Paddies as they don't want to be reminded of their culchie upbringing in Carlow....have to keep up the pretense of being a cultured "citizen of the world".

Well people from other countries probably do that too, but maybe we only recognise it when we see it in other Irish people. I've met Americans who try desperately hard to convince everyone and themselves that they are better than the red neck republican hill billies at home, but to be honest they were so insufferably right on and PC I would have rather gone drinking with the hillbillies, they'd probably have been more craic.

steddyeddy

truffle5 wrote: »

I mean "traveller" in the backpacker sense rather than our caravan dwelling friends

You know the type - they return home after a year spent drinking their way across South East Asia and banging chics in dirty hostels. They will bore anybody who will listen to them with tales of magical sunsets on the beach and how they've changed. You just don't "get" them anymore.

That's me actually. At least I'm self aware

takamichinoku

truffle5 wrote: »

I have found that Irish people in particular adopt a smug, superior, faux-cosmopolitan attitude while travelling abroad. They avoid other Paddies as they don't want to be reminded of their culchie upbringing in Carlow....have to keep up the pretense of being a cultured "citizen of the world".

Nahhh, what I try and do is use those years footing turf in the bog to make me sound like some kind of amazing otherworldly creature.

Smug Traveller

Yes ??

thegreatgonzo

bboybaboy19 wrote: »

The only people who complain about others travelling and take the piss out of them 'finding themselves' as such are strangely the ones who've only ever left the country for a max of 2 weeks on a sun holiday to a tourist destination.

Reeks of jealousy.

I don't think that's what this thread is about really. The types I'm talking about are the ones who try to devalue other peoples trips and elevate their own. The best example of it is in the episode of Black Books when the travel writer comes to the shop and dismisses Manny's experience as 'nothing'. That's the type of person I'm talking about.

Meangadh

thegreatgonzo wrote: »

I don't think that's what this thread is about really. The types I'm talking about are the ones who try to devalue other peoples trips and elevate their own. The best example of it is in the episode of Black Books when the travel writer comes to the shop and dismisses Manny's experience as 'nothing'. That's the type of person I'm talking about.

Do people really do that though? Or are they just telling you about great places they've been but because you've not been there it doesn't really interest you and it seems then like they're showing off when really they're just saying that they've been to an amazing place?

I think most people just like to share their stories. I don't think they're being smug. Sure, we might find them boring and irritating if we're not interested- but I'd rather that than someone who never leaves the country and has no clue of the world beyond their own back yard.

takamichinoku

That's just competitive arseholes so rather than travellers? Anyone who stops to think about it at all will realise that the number of places you've been to means **** all if you got absolutely nothing from it other than another place to tick off.