Foriegn holidays are selfish

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 06-03-2019 9:28am #1

Yet another example of local communities and cultures bending under the selfishness and narcissist tendencies of today's holiday makers.

It’s easy to see why Paris’s Rue Crémieux is such a hit on Instagram.

Filled with small pastel-painted houses, weathered cobblestones, and blooming window boxes, the car-free street near Bastille has become one of Europe’s most popular spots to strike a pose, with the hashtag #ruecremieux now linking to over 31,000 images.

But the popularity of this Instagrammer’s paradise is making it hell for residents. Sick of influencers, rappers, yoga aficionados, and fashion shoots blocking their doorways, Rue Crémieux’s residents have had enough. This week, the street’s residents’ association demanded that the city of Paris protect their privacy by closing the street to visitors on evenings and weekends.

Residents of the street certainly make the Instagram onslaught sound wearisome. According to Antoine, a Rue Crémieux resident interviewed by radio station France Info, the street’s ’grammability has turned daily life there into an ordeal.

“We sit down to eat and just outside we have people taking photos—rappers who take two hours to film a video right beneath the window, or bachelorette parties who scream for an hour. Frankly, it’s exhausting.”

https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/03/rue-cremieux-paris-instagram-tourists-where-to-take-pictures/584164/

We see it everywhere now. Local cultures and communities being nothing more than the playthings and Like-vehicles of the modern "open minded" traveller. These people treat the world like their own private zoo and care nothing for its inhabitants of the state of it.

Aside from all this, they're happy to destroy the planet with all the air pollution.

I personally think private air travel should be banned. The planet cannot take it. Not sure about how to limit the destruction of local communities and ways of life by inbound arsehles. Maybe some quota for the amount of visitors to each place?

06-03-2019 9:30am

You need to relax, let go of matters beyond your control.

woodchuck · 06-03-2019 9:30am

I think you need a holiday.

Deebles McBeebles · 06-03-2019 9:31am

Is that Dennis Bergkamp?

06-03-2019 9:31am

Ah, I get your shtick now.

gozunda · 06-03-2019 9:31am

Pensions, blood and now holidays lol.

https://touch.boards.ie/search/?userid=899753&sort=newest&threads=1

Jeez we will be all bled dry and work till we die under that regime...

Ush1 · 06-03-2019 9:32am

Jumped shark, 0/10.

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 06-03-2019 9:32am

woodchuck wrote: »

I think you need a holiday.

I'm going to county Clare for a week in May. Sustainable holidays are the wave of the future.

People lamp on about plastic straws but think nothing of karting their arses to Thailand.

xi5yvm0owc1s2b · 06-03-2019 9:33am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

Not sure about how to limit the destruction of local communities and ways of life by inbound arsehles. Maybe some quota for the amount of visitors to each place?

Many of these communities are hugely dependent on tourism for their livelihood. Ban tourism, and the the social and economic consequences will be devastating for the very communities you want to "protect."

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 06-03-2019 9:33am

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Is that Dennis Bergkamp?

I always found his story interesting. The sheer planning and prep needed, really hit home that going a far distance is something which should be carefully considered.

Ficheall · 06-03-2019 9:33am

I'm hardly going to take a holiday for someone else's benefit...

orourkeda1977 · 06-03-2019 9:35am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

Yet another example of local communities and cultures bending under the selfishness and narcissist tendencies of today's holiday makers.

https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/03/rue-cremieux-paris-instagram-tourists-where-to-take-pictures/584164/

We see it everywhere now. Local cultures and communities being nothing more than the playthings and Like-vehicles of the modern "open minded" traveller. These people treat the world like their own private zoo and care nothing for its inhabitants of the state of it.

Aside from all this, they're happy to destroy the planet with all the air pollution.

I personally think private air travel should be banned. The planet cannot take it. Not sure about how to limit the destruction of local communities and ways of life by inbound arsehles. Maybe some quota for the amount of visitors to each place?

Your man on boards says we should stop Air Travel. Let's dig up Christopher Columbus while we are at it.

Badly Drunk Boy · 06-03-2019 9:36am

I was just trying to think when I last flew. I think it was 2013 :eek: , when I went to Bratislava. (Does that make me a good little boy?) I renewed my passport 2 years ago but haven't used it for travel yet.

What was the last time you flew, Eldon_Maxbank?

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 06-03-2019 9:36am

Adelaide Old Buck wrote: »

Many of these communities are hugely dependent on tourism for their livelihood. Ban tourism, and the the social and economic consequences will be devastating for the very communities you want to "protect."

They'll still get tourism but on a smaller and more sustainable level. Yes, I conceed that Hawaii may have an economic hit but so what. The planet will be better, the people living there will be better, the only one losing out is the selfish person flying there for Bally-go-backwards in County Galway.

(I'm from galway myself)

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 06-03-2019 9:37am

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I was just trying to think when I last flew. I think it was 2013 :eek: , when I went to Bratislava. (Does that make me a good little boy?) I renewed my passport 2 years ago but haven't used it for travel yet.

What was the last time you flew, Eldon_Maxbank?

2016 to London (was there for the Brexit vote!). Looking back on it I should have take the ferry.

orourkeda1977 · 06-03-2019 9:38am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

I'm going to county Clare for a week in May. Sustainable holidays are the wave of the future.

People lamp on about plastic straws but think nothing of karting their arses to Thailand.

You won't get much f*ckie suckie five dollar in lisdoonvarna.

Hoorah for air travel.

By the way some of us have respect for our surroundings when we travel abroad.

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 06-03-2019 9:39am

orourkeda1977 wrote: »

Your man on boards says we should stop Air Travel. Let's dig up Christopher Columbus while we are at it.

Private air travel. Necessary flights would fo course continue.

Being able to fly to malaga for the price of a pint is a recent development. There's no "right" to it.

orourkeda1977 · 06-03-2019 9:41am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

2016 to London (was there for the Brexit vote!). Looking back on it I should have take the ferry.

Ferries use diesel engines too. Then you'll have to take a bus or train and\or drive to your onward destination.

Unless you plan on swimming and walking.

gozunda · 06-03-2019 9:41am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

2016 to London (was there for the Brexit vote!). Looking back on it I should have take the ferry.

Did you vote to stay?

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 06-03-2019 9:43am

gozunda wrote: »

Did you vote to stay?

Just visiting.

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/apr/19/how-to-offset-flight-emissions

For everyone going abroad

How can I offset my flight emissions?

To assuage your feelings of guilt, try carbon offsetting, where you tot up your emissions using an online carbon calculators and pay a company to counterbalance your climate pollution by investing in a project elsewhere. For your flight from Helsinki to London this would be around £20, according to climatefriendly.com. Some projects use forestry to absorb carbon elsewhere or invest in renewables. Others promise to retire permits from the international carbon market (fewer permits means they become more expensive, theoretically making it more expensive for others to pollute).

_Brian · 06-03-2019 9:43am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

Yet another example of local communities and cultures bending under the selfishness and narcissist tendencies of today's holiday makers.

https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/03/rue-cremieux-paris-instagram-tourists-where-to-take-pictures/584164/

We see it everywhere now. Local cultures and communities being nothing more than the playthings and Like-vehicles of the modern "open minded" traveller. These people treat the world like their own private zoo and care nothing for its inhabitants of the state of it.

Aside from all this, they're happy to destroy the planet with all the air pollution.

I personally think private air travel should be banned. The planet cannot take it. Not sure about how to limit the destruction of local communities and ways of life by inbound arsehles. Maybe some quota for the amount of visitors to each place?

blah blah blah..

France nets €198billion to its GDP from tourism every year... I dont think they are worried about having "too many tourists"..

Deebles McBeebles · 06-03-2019 9:44am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

I always found his story interesting. The sheer planning and prep needed, really hit home that going a far distance is something which should be carefully considered.

Do you reckon he would have done his bit saving the planet or would it be offset by the cars and trains he used instead?

orourkeda1977 · 06-03-2019 9:44am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

Private air travel. Necessary flights would fo course continue.

Being able to fly to malaga for the price of a pint is a recent development. There's no "right" to it.

Air travel is a fabulous convenience.

Giving it up would be such a retrograde step.

You may as well ban all other vehicles while you are at it.

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 06-03-2019 9:44am

orourkeda1977 wrote: »

Ferries use diesel engines too. Then you'll have to take a bus or train and\or drive to your onward destination.

Unless you plan on swimming and walking.

All far less polluting than flying. And it'll keep more people "localish" and if you do manage to go really far, you'll appreciate it more.

Yamanoto · 06-03-2019 9:45am

The app I use to track my flying informs me my footprint currently stands at 123.3 tonnes CO2, 6.67kg methane & 5.45kg nitrous oxide.

I tell housekeeping I'll use the same towels for the duration of my stay though, so that's me making it right with the world OP.

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 06-03-2019 9:46am

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Do you reckon he would have done his bit saving the planet or would it be offset by the cars and trains he used instead?

Boards logic:
Eating one big mac on one day a year is the same as eating them for every meal for a year. Because they both are fattening. no difference

:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Ush1 · 06-03-2019 9:46am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

Private air travel. Necessary flights would fo course continue.

Being able to fly to malaga for the price of a pint is a recent development. There's no "right" to it.

What's public air travel? Aer Lingus being state owned again and no competition?

RedRochey · 06-03-2019 9:46am

You have got to admire the creativity of the threads that the OP starts

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 06-03-2019 9:47am

_Brian wrote: »

blah blah blah..

France nets €198billion to its GDP from tourism every year... I dont think they are worried about having "too many tourists"..

I wonder when the last person is alive and sees the Earth begin its descent in a Venus-type hothouse, what will they do with all the cash?

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 06-03-2019 9:48am

Ush1 wrote: »

What's public air travel? Aer Lingus being state owned again and no competition?

Going abroad on a flight for non-critical issues i.e. for pleasure.

amcalester · 06-03-2019 9:48am

Jarvis Cocker called it

'Cause everybody hates a tourist,
Especially one who thinks it's all such a laugh,

Ush1 · 06-03-2019 9:50am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

Going abroad on a flight for non-critical issues i.e. for pleasure.

So business flights are fine?

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 06-03-2019 9:51am

Ush1 wrote: »

So business flights are fine?

We all know that the vast majority of business flights and meetings can be done via teleconferencing/calls/co-work over the network.

SexBobomb · 06-03-2019 9:52am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

Private air travel. Necessary flights would fo course continue.

Being able to fly to malaga for the price of a pint is a recent development. There's no "right" to it.

Yeah who do those smelly proles think they are ? thinking they can travel and see some of the world, don't they know good times are only for their betters ?

LouD2016 · 06-03-2019 9:54am

This is great. I cant wait to see what tomorrow's post is.

Is there anything you aren't triggered by?

Tacklebox · 06-03-2019 9:54am

Unfortunately I cant afford to fly or go on foreign holidays.
Im forever destined to be a local driving around the vast headlands, seaside towns and villages of the Western front.

Being poor has its advantages, as you can really find potential in being broke and making the best of it.

Im doomed

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 06-03-2019 9:55am

Tacklebox wrote: »

Unfortunately I cant afford to fly or go on foreign holidays.
Im forever destined to be a local driving around the vast headlands, seaside towns and villages of the Western front.

Being poor has its advantages, as you can really find potential in being broke and making the best of it.

Im doomed

Nothing wrong with getting to know your locale and country better. Our great grandparents did just fine without "city breaks" every other month. I applaud you.

ohnonotgmail · 06-03-2019 9:55am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

I'm going to county Clare for a week in May. Sustainable holidays are the wave of the future.

People lamp on about plastic straws but think nothing of karting their arses to Thailand.

Have you asked the people of clare if they want you to visit? seems very selfish of you not to.

amcalester · 06-03-2019 9:55am

LouD2016 wrote: »

This is great. I cant wait to see what tomorrow's post is.

Is there anything you aren't triggered by?

Tune in tomorrow for why smashed avocado brunches are the second leading cause of Mexican turf wars.

LouD2016 · 06-03-2019 9:58am

amcalester wrote: »

Tune in tomorrow for why smashed avocado brunches are the second leading cause of Mexican turf wars.

I will be very disappointed if it's not this

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 06-03-2019 9:59am

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Have you asked the people of clare if they want you to visit? seems very selfish of you not to.

:rolleyes:

To give you a better example, consider if I were spending a week in Conamara. I wouldn't go around shouting in English, I'd try my best to use some Irish, I wouldn't get in the way of locals going about their business, or harass people by instagramming their street and attracting "influencers" to descend upon the lovely little communities and inso doing, destroying them.

gozunda · 06-03-2019 9:59am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

Just visiting.

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/apr/19/how-to-offset-flight-emissions

For everyone going abroad

Hope you didn't fly

Ush1 · 06-03-2019 10:00am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

We all know that the vast majority of business flights and meetings can be done via teleconferencing/calls/co-work over the network.

Nah.

gozunda · 06-03-2019 10:02am

Yamanoto wrote: »

The app I use to track my flying informs me my footprint currently stands at 123.3 tonnes CO2, 6.67kg methane & 5.45kg nitrous oxide.

I tell housekeeping I'll use the same towels for the duration of my stay though, so that's me making it right with the world OP.

What's the app Yamanoto?

LouD2016 · 06-03-2019 10:04am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

:rolleyes:

To give you a better example, consider if I were spending a week in Conamara. I wouldn't go around shouting in English, I'd try my best to use some Irish, I wouldn't get in the way of locals going about their business, or harass people by instagramming their street and attracting "influencers" to descend upon the lovely little communities and inso doing, destroying them.

Ok so if no one ever travelled or visited lets see how long "lovely little communities" shops and restaurants would last. Tourism is a huge industry.

Drop in tourists - drop in spending - rise in unemployment.

ohnonotgmail · 06-03-2019 10:04am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

:rolleyes:

To give you a better example, consider if I were spending a week in Conamara. I wouldn't go around shouting in English, I'd try my best to use some Irish, I wouldn't get in the way of locals going about their business, or harass people by instagramming their street and attracting "influencers" to descend upon the lovely little communities and inso doing, destroying them.

but you're not going to connermara, you're going to Clare. Have you asked the people of Clare if they want you foisted upon them with your negative waves?

Deebles McBeebles · 06-03-2019 10:05am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

Boards logic:
Eating one big mac on one day a year is the same as eating them for every meal for a year. Because they both are fattening. no difference

:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Ah, ok so......bored now.

orourkeda1977 · 06-03-2019 10:07am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

I wonder when the last person is alive and sees the Earth begin its descent in a Venus-type hothouse, what will they do with all the cash?

Don't be such a drama queen.

Feisar · 06-03-2019 10:08am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

I wonder when the last person is alive and sees the Earth begin its descent in a Venus-type hothouse, what will they do with all the cash?

If we slowly die off there may be a point in the future that someone is the last human on the planet!

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 06-03-2019 10:09am

LouD2016 wrote: »

Ok so if no one ever travelled or visited lets see how long "lovely little communities" shops and restaurants would last. Tourism is a huge industry.

Drop in tourists - drop in spending - rise in unemployment.

But I suppose we would have more time then to enjoy our lovely clean air

I'm arguing for a return to "local" tourism as a start. Not banning it entirely. You know :eek: people :eek: actually went for breaks :eek: and holidays :eek: before Ryanair came around! It's telling that so many people conflate "holiday" with automatically going abroad.

Ficheall · 06-03-2019 10:11am

I took about thirty completely unnecessary flights last year, OP. Hope that helps.

Foriegn holidays are selfish

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