Foriegn holidays are selfish

Ush1 · 06-03-2019 10:50am

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 10:51am

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 10:52am

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 10:54am

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 10:54am

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 10:55am

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 10:55am

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 10:55am

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 10:58am

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 10:59am

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 10:59am

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 11:00am

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 11:02am

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 11:04am

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 11:04am

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 11:05am

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 11:07am

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 11:08am

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 11:09am

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 11:11am

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

Bob Harris · 06-03-2019 11:13am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

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

Ah yes, those large boats powered by the wind in their sails.

Sabre0001 · 06-03-2019 11:17am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

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.

While there's definitely something to be said for local tourism, isn't there a chance that the Instagrammer curse will just hit closer to home? There are scenic spots in Ireland that would make a great backdrop. Those same people posing for photos or screaming will just do it here and we'll have locals cursing tourists rather than French people.

LouD2016 · 06-03-2019 11:17am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

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.

I know. I did it myself for long enough.

I work hard and save hard all year like many other people. So going on a nice holiday is my treat now.

Spent enough years sitting in Clare in the pisses of rain being ripped off for accommodation and food

dont bother · 06-03-2019 11:17am

Leslie Scrawny Plaster wrote: »

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.

hahah this is ridiculous.
why on earth would people want to stay in ireland for their holidays. the cost, the weather is sh!t, and there's nothing to do unless you like pretending to be old-worldy and have an interest in the outdoors and walks and stuff.

not everyone likes Ireland or what it has to offer.

for me, i dislike ireland a lot, and any chance i get i will jet out of here.
i'd say it would annoy you to know i went literally on 10 trips last year alone - all on planes. why? because there's more to the world than "little oul Ireland".

expand your horizons for gods sake.

there's no such thing as climate change.

Bob Harris · 06-03-2019 11:21am

dont bother wrote: »

hahah this is ridiculous.
why on earth would people want to stay in ireland for their holidays. the cost, the weather is sh!t, and there's nothing to do unless you like pretending to be old-worldy and have an interest in the outdoors and walks and stuff.

not everyone likes Ireland or what it has to offer.

for me, i dislike ireland a lot, and any chance i get i will jet out of here.
i'd say it would annoy you to know i went literally on 10 trips last year alone - all on planes. why? because there's more to the world than "little oul Ireland".

expand your horizons for gods sake.

there's no such thing as climate change.

Now that's telling the OP.

jimgoose · 06-03-2019 11:27am

Woman and I are going to Lanzarote in September. There, we will laze around in the pool, gorge on the finest Argentine beef, drink too much, hire a little car to drive around in, and generally have a whale of a time. We deserve our little break. Fuck 'em all, the long and the short and the tall. :cool:

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 06-03-2019 11:29am

dont bother wrote: »

there's no such thing as climate change.

And that's the nub of it for ye :rolleyes: I don't know if all of you actually believe it or just WANT to believe it so that you can sleep at night.

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 06-03-2019 11:30am

Bob Harris wrote: »

Ah yes, those large boats powered by the wind in their sails.

No reason we couldn't have them as we move on tbh. For right now though, it's a healthier alternative.

sbsquarepants · 06-03-2019 11:33am

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.

Hmmmm:rolleyes:

Maybe people should stop and think - if you're biggest problem in life is tourists viviting your picturesque neighbourhood, you should probably just shut the fúck up with the complaining!

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 06-03-2019 11:36am

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Hmmmm:rolleyes:

Maybe people should stop and think - if you're biggest problem in life is tourists viviting your picturesque neighbourhood, you should probably just shut the fúck up with the complaining!

What would you think of the following:

I set up a tourist charter plan. I get a big bunch of rich fukwits and fly them to North Sentinel island (in the news recently). Of course I heard the locals there don't like outsiders. No worries, I'll bring a small platoon of mercs. They'd shoot any of the Sentialese on sight if we see them being agreesive. Then we spend a few weeks boozing on the island. Flash forward a few years and all the natives are gone and the place is India's answer to Magaloof.

Would you think that's ok? Why not?

Foriegn holidays are selfish

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