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Boo to the Backpackers

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  • #62
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    rivers wrote:
    if people want to go to S.E.A or australia along the same road a million irish have gone before then let them. you dont have to listen to their stories. if you like staying at home pighead, then stay at home. im sure you have a great time thinking up a new way to refer to yourself in the third person while going on some boring rant...Some people like seeing other countries even if those countries are just like ireland (oz) and they just meet the same people and do the same things they did at home. (even if i dont tend to agree with them). it sounds like you need to get out there a little...

    Pighead never said he liked staying at home ya big eejit. Hating backpackers does not = hating travelling. Come on rivers, keep up.

    You sound like a failed backpacker. Somebody who really wanted to go backpacking but didn't have the balls. If theres one thing Pighead hates more than a backpacker, its a failed backpacker.


  • #63
    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    FlutterinBantam wrote:
    If those backpacker dudes want to "go ferral" why not go to Africa instead of civilised areas like SE Asia and OZ ...

    Get down and dirty in the Congo and Uganda and see how you get on.!!!

    Thats the way to sort out the men from the poofs.

    Try a trek into Mozambique if you want to experience a butt flutter.

    Harare-Mutare- Vumba Hills -into the big Z


    You should try Haiti - amazing country with a fascinating history, but i wont bore you with storys of voodoo and gunshots, airport security, 24 personal body guards


  • #64
    Snickers Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,302 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    Pighead wrote:
    Listen Smuggy McSmuggerson, Pighead couldn't even tell you where Torremiwhatchamaycallit is. You on the other hand seem to know a great deal about the place.

    Never been there in my life. Ditto for Laos, Bangkok and Vietnam.
    Pighead wrote:
    Pigheads travels always include adventures, danger and Lap Dancing clubs. Your travels involve smelly trains, uncomfortable sleeping and lots of masturbation.

    OK so you go to the lap dancing bars whereas I (in my backpacking days) spent nights in third-class sleeping carriages with fellow travellers who like myself had only one change of clothes and no night attire, and I'm the one more likely to be indulging in self abuse?

    I don't think so.

    Nowadays, of course, that might be true but back then......nah too much information.
    pighead wrote:
    You got a tattoo in Bangcock which you were told meant Peace Love and Serenity in Vietnamese. Little did you know that the tattooist had written "Hitchhikers are cunts" on your arm

    How good is your Dutch? Are you sure it was weed you bought on one of your 'dangerous' trips to the coffee house in between lap dances, or just an over priced Oxo cube?

    Hash makes you mellow and you sound a bit cranky.

    Just saying.
    pighead wrote:
    You heartily drank what you thought was the national drink of Laos in an effort to fit in with the locals. If only you could have spoke Lao you would have heard the barman saying to his mate "Hey Pockie, check this out, I've got another one of those dickhead backpackers to drink a cup of donkey cum"

    Word of advice. Don't drink the cream in them lap dancing dives. ;)


  • #65
    Snickers Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,302 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    irishbird wrote:
    yes, that is it exactly pighead, we spent enough of our life stuck doing things we dont want to do like working, paying mortgages putting up with mother-in-laws, boyfriends etc. so i think one year be being selfish is good for the soul :D

    You tell him sister.


  • #66
    gyppo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,649 ✭✭✭gyppo


    L31mr0d wrote:
    He only ended up homeless in Berlin because a fellow busker he traveled with for a spell stole his tin whistle.

    Fcuking hell, thats subsistence living, alright:D


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  • #67
    CiaranC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,300 ✭✭✭CiaranC


    Pighead is bitter and lonely. I suggest some travel.


  • #68
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    CiaranC wrote:
    Pighead is bitter and lonely. I suggest some travel.
    Here listen pal, Pighead has travelled further than most astronauts. And as for bitter and lonely? Are you having a laugh. Pighead is the most popular guy I know. This smiley is a represenation of Pigheads state of mind right now.:)

    As already stated travelling is not the problem, its the backpackers smuggier than thou attitude. Its the filthy dreadlocked hair, its their ridiculous purple beads and most of all its their boring as fcuk travel stories.


  • #69
    Izabella Deafening Rebellion
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Izabella Deafening Rebellion


    Pighead wrote:
    Here listen pal, Pighead has travelled further than most astronauts. And as for bitter and lonely? Are you having a laugh. Pighead is the most popular guy I know. This smiley is a represenation of Pigheads state of mind right now.:)
    Pighead is slipping? :0


  • #70
    The_B_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,027 ✭✭✭The_B_Man
    Something about sandwiches


    So, you just hate borin stories, smelly people, and smug people? thats what this whole thread was about? I think we can all say we hate that, but not just confined to backpackers.


  • #71
    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    i am not smelly and i dont have a purple beard (anymore) - have to admit i did have boring travel stories but the bored blank expressions of friends made me save them for other backpackers only


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  • #72
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,873 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    irishbird wrote:
    i dont have a purple beard (anymore)
    Pighead was talking about purple beads. :rolleyes:

    When you say that you don't have a beaRd anymore - I'm assuming that you mean a "beard" of the intimate ladies' variety? Pics? Linky? :D


  • #73
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    irishbird wrote:
    i am not smelly and i dont have a purple beard (anymore) - have to admit i did have boring travel stories but the bored blank expressions of friends made me save them for other backpackers only
    By a strange coincidence Pighead also has a hatred for that spanner on the X-Factor with the purple beard. Guarantee you, he was a backpacker back in the day.
    http://www.tinpansouth.com/performers/Hudson_Mark.gif


  • #74
    Snickers Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,302 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    irishbird wrote:
    i am not smelly and i dont have a purple beard (anymore) - have to admit i did have boring travel stories but the bored blank expressions of friends made me save them for other backpackers only

    Well jump on here and tell us then.

    I bet you've got a couple of goodies.

    Never mind those rude boys Pighead, Degsy et al. They're all mouth and no trousers.


  • #75
    rivers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 152 ✭✭rivers


    yea i think pig justs needs to loosen up a little...im sure you're loving the 'what's your best back packing story?' thread in the forum.
    what exactly is a failed backpacker by the way? just curious, it seems to me that would be someone who starts a thread similar to this one and complains about people telling their experiences, while they probably wished they could have the same experiences, right pighead?


  • #76
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    rivers wrote:
    what exactly is a failed backpacker by the way? just curious, it seems to me that would be someone who starts a thread similar to this one and complains about people telling their experiences, while they probably wished they could have the same experiences, right pighead?
    Good afternoon my lovely rivers. Happy Friday to you. Pighead will do his best to answer your question.

    A failed backpacker is somebody who always wanted to go backpacking but never did due to fear of leaving home comforts or saying goodbye to Mammy and Daddy.

    Now the reason Pighead isn't a failed backpacker is because he has never in his whole damn life has ever had the slightest desire to go backpacking. Never. Thus he has never failed in his attempt to become a backpacker.
    That my friend is the difference.

    It was a silly billy of a question but its Friday and the suns shining and Pighead has decided to forgive you.


  • #77
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Snickers Man wrote:
    They're all mouth and no trousers.

    At least i've more than one pair of trousers and more importantly they're clean.


  • #78
    Elessar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,260 ✭✭✭Elessar


    Agree wholeheartedly. Smug feckers think they are somehow superior to the rest of us because they've had LYEF CHANGING EXPERIANZE OMG and force their lame uninteresting stories down our throats.

    I do not care for travel either. Just because I'm 21, single and freeee does not mean I want to go travelling to some sh*t hole hostel in Oz which has more Irish people than Ireland at this stage. Nope, I take heed of some excellent words of advice - "If you're going to travel, travel in style (&comfort)".

    Yep, so while I'm sipping an ice cold cider from my balcony in the four seasons, I'll give a nice little smile to all the long haired backpackers scratching at the restaurant windows for food. :D


  • #79
    imeatingchips
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭imeatingchips


    All these backpackers cunnts think they've gone to mental places that no one else has when, seemingly unbeknownst (if, indeed, there is such a word) to them, this S.E. Asia, Aus New Zealand + random country of your choice is known within the travel industry as "McBackpacking" because althought technically it is backpacking it's packaged backpacking for the masses. It is actually not all that dissimilar to getting off the budget travel pickup bus in lanzarote and following the people ahead cos they look like they know where theyre going.

    Now, at this point, I would like to say I did the McBackpack trail myself a few years ago and it was deadly craic, tremendous amounts of drink was consumed and so on and so forth and so, as a smelly backpacker cunnt myself, I can put up my hand say yes Pighead, you have hit the nail on the head and I had the same sentiments myself even at the time:

    I HOWEVER, I had the good sense to hold fellow backpackers in contempt -especially ones who would start gicking on about nam, cambodia etc. they would be told firmly but casually to shut the pie hole - and better still, when I came home I didn't bore every poor ****ker in the pub who's ear I bent about my escapades.


  • #80
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    I'm with my chip eating friend above. The folks that save up a fortune or take out an enormous loan to take the tourist trail are quite often a bunch of self-indulgent gob****es and painful to listen to.

    However living and working abroad among people of a different culture is imo an experience worth having. Hopefully these people will grow up enough to realise that if you weren't there the story is probably not that interesting and not feel the need to dazzle everyone who has to suffer their company with there life changing experiences.


  • #81
    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    Snickers Man wrote:
    Well jump on here and tell us then.

    I bet you've got a couple of goodies.

    nah, got over that bug of boring people to death a few years ago. i had a friend who punched me in the ear everytime i said "this one time in Oz........." :)


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  • #82
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    irishbird wrote:
    Snickers Man wrote:
    Well jump on here and tell us then.

    I bet you've got a couple of goodies.

    nah, got over that bug of boring people to death a few years ago. i had a friend who punched me in the ear everytime i said "this one time in Oz........." :)

    eh.... keep takin those tablets honey;)


  • #83
    Unpossible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭Unpossible


    humbert wrote:
    However living and working abroad among people of a different culture is imo an experience worth having.
    I agree 100% living/working with locals as a local is a great experience


  • #84
    Snickers Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,302 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    humbert wrote:
    I'm with my chip eating friend above. The folks that save up a fortune or take out an enormous loan to take the tourist trail are quite often a bunch of self-indulgent gob****es and painful to listen to.


    As opposed to the miserable carping curmudgeonly stereotype-peddling unambitious ungracious unadventurous soul-dead whingers who are doing all the complaining on this forum.

    Like I implied, I haven't owned a back pack in years because I've kind of grown out of it now. But I never regretted my year or so out working sporadically and moving on to new and interesting places. And meeting interesting people. And building up a fund of stories too. ;)


    My advice to anybody who wants to do it is to go off and do it while you're still young. you'll be a long time fat and stiff. You will never regret it.

    If the thought fills you with dread, then don't do it. It can be tough at times and you have to remind yourself that you're doing it because you really really wanted to. IF you expected an easy life of leisure then save up for the package holiday.


  • #85
    sheepshagger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 284 ✭✭sheepshagger


    sonners wrote:

    c) If they were that great what the f*ck did you come home for??????

    Could'nt agree more. . came to Ireland whilst I was backpacking a while back. . .wont be leaving in a hurry :)


  • #86
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Snickers Man wrote:
    As opposed to the miserable carping curmudgeonly stereotype-peddling unambitious ungracious unadventurous soul-dead whingers who are doing all the complaining on this forum.
    Who the fcuk is this nonsense spouting spanner? C'mon admit it. It's not about ambition or sense of adventure with you lot. It's about rattling off all the places you've been expecting people to be impressed. "Ooooh Snickers Man has been to Siberia, he must be so cultured". You're a snob Snickers Man.


  • #87
    Rudolph Claus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,059 ✭✭✭Rudolph Claus


    Pighead wrote:
    Who the fcuk is this nonsense spouting spanner? C'mon admit it. It's not about ambition or sense of adventure with you lot. It's about rattling off all the places you've been expecting people to be impressed. "Ooooh Snickers Man has been to Siberia, he must be so cultured". You're a snob Snickers Man.
    Haha, you sound like such a tool! Your statement
    If theres anything Pighead hates more than a backpacker then its a failed backpacker.
    is hilarious, you do have some issues. Well, If theres anything Nuttzy hates more than a political correct boring tosser its a nerd who "hates" anything and refers to himself in a werid gay 3rd person manner to get recognition off the internet.


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