So. Much. Fucking. Litter.
Only had one day at the Grand Canyon so I was by the congested main tourist area. Looking over the canyon, I turn around and there is a picnic table and nothing but McDonald’s trash left there. I don’t even know where the closest McDonald’s is, but they got it, drove in with it, carried it to a stone table overlooking the canyon, then just left the trash and walked away. WTF.
This 1000 times… This. People are so careless it’s disgusting.
I was in DC for Trump’s first Reich and it was all just MAGA hats going around acting like they were triggering the libs by buying overpriced shit on the mall. But in general, they are shit people so they make for shit tourists as well.
Americans.
Low effort comment is low effort
I’ve seen so many rude americans, thats its easier to just say “americans” one wouldn’t know where to begin otherwise.
Then you just don’t comment on a thread titled “rudest behaviour you’ve seen”. American isn’t a behaviour, thus the low effort comment.
So, describe the ‘american behavior’ you’ve observed so we can all bask in the glory of the depravity you’ve seen and endured. This post seems intended as a place to vent for everyone’s entertainment. I found little to no entertainment value in reading ‘Americans’ as a comment and I have a hard time empathizing with your grievance beyond an assumption you resent how generically fat, ignorant, pushy, entitled, and rude some of them stereotypically may be. Provide some juicy details, Johannes!
Chinese tho
I live in Arnhem, the Netherlands. My city got its fame during WW2. We also have several WW2 commemoration events. So far i’ve always seen Chinese people with camera’s, taking pictures etc. While most americans ive met always seem to ignore or twist facts. One time i even met an american couple whom insisted we lied about everything, because america saved us. It’s not justifnorant, its downright frustrating and hurtful.
It’s not always tourists but stopping in unexpected places is a common irritation in NYC. Like, they’re walking on the sidewalk and just stop, and mess up the flow of foot traffic. Maybe to look at their map or to gawk at something. It’s extra annoying and a little dangerous when it’s on the stairs
So much this here in Bangkok as well, and in addition nobody has any clue which side to walk on.
You are constantly approaching head-on with a pedestrian who doesn’t know where to walk and weaving around wandering groups that wall 3-4 people wide.
i learned to stay away from midtown or battery-park/statue-of-liberty or any other tourist traps between friday afternoon and monday morning as a result of this.
Found the grumpy old lady ;)
I visited New York for the first time with a friend of mine who has family there and knows the city well. We went to Grand Central and I was admiring the beautiful artwork on the ceiling and a guy passing by called me a “fucking idiot”.
I was surprised and turned to my friend to ask if he was talking to me, which they confirmed. I was actually really happy, I got the infamous NY harsh street talk! I’ve traveled all over the world and never was spoken to like that anywhere else. NY is truly very special.
I never went to a crowded city, so the notion a “foot traffic” really sounds dystopic to me 😅, but I see what you mean.
For reference, Brooklyn alone has over 2 million residents. NYC as a whole is 8 and change million. So yeah, we’ve got huge population density, and it shows in busy areas.
Funny, because when I go to the suburbs or other sparsely populated areas, walking around without anybody else feels dystopian. Feels like a post-apocalyptic setting, where everyone else got taken by aliens or plague or something.
I like how having opposite vision of the world may comes from things like this. Not linked to any religious or education background, but only on where we use to live.
This has gotten so bad in my city since covid times. I’m constantly having to go around people stopped in the middle of the walking path. Just yesterday I was walking and these two people exactly stopped where the sidewalk narrowed for a bus stop and were blocking 3/4 of the area to walk because of it. They literally could have stepped 2 steps over and been completely out of the way beside the bus stop shelter.
That was my mother, in train stations etc where literally everyone is trying to get to somewhere else. Get to the bottom of the stairs, STOP and look around for the next direction sign. STOP in the entrance to bathrooms to decide her next steps.
I used to live across the street from a relatively popular tourist attraction and would occasionally get tourists standing in front of my windows and commenting on things in my apartment. Once my girlfriend and I were eating breakfast in front of an open window and someone tried talking to us about how expensive something was in our apartment. Besides that the only regular rudeness was groups acting like they own the sidewalk. Usually its large families but I do remember one time what looked like a Russian oligarch trophy wife surrounded by an entourage of stereotypical body guards that had people swearing at them because they were not letting anyone else use the sidewalk as they headed for the tourist attraction.
I watched a tourist drink a few beer at the local inn and then just throw the cans onto the lawn and keep drinking. So basically littering. That stuck in my craw. This is my town buddy, take the 5 seconds it takes to dispose of your shitty cans of your shitty mass produced beer that you usually have back home that you made sure to let everyone is far better than the local microbrew we have here in town.
Also one time we had some tourists loudly complaining about immigrants while visiting. Those aren’t immigrants you dope, they’re citizens of our country. They were born here.
On one occasion I was driving somewhere and it was along a scenic drive and I had to stop for something. A group of aging old men on motorcycles who were doing the scenic drive told me I couldn’t park in that area because it was theirs. I said get fucked, you’re in my backyard, I’ll park wherever the fuck I want. I think they thought they were intimidating because they fancied themselves a biker gang, but biker gangs usually don’t have New Balance and rental bikes as part of their aesthetic.
It might be just a story, but I’ve read several times about someone telling someone speaking Welsh in Wales “we speak English here”.
Speaking German
LOL, can’t blame them. It’s the only language they know
Witnessing German tourists snicker and proclaim “German engineering” with an air of arrogance, over a leftover WWII water reservoir on an island that was Nazi occupied and used as an airfield… really had me thinking things carefully…
How dare tourists speak their mother tongue! >:(
They should pay reparations! /s
Treck un Moroco desert, with local guide and camel drivers.
Causual conversation during dinner about alcohool, that non Muslim can legally drink alcohol, as long as they do it discreetly and not directly in front of locals because it might make people uncomfortable.
French tourist proceed to take red wine bottle out of its bag, drink it and even propose to local staff.
Never been so ashamed of my compatriots.
Treck un Moroco desert, with local guide and camel drivers.
I mean, a man’s gotta dream
Causual conversation during dinner about alcohool, that non Muslim can legally drink alcohol, as long as they do it discreetly and not directly in front of locals
Genuine question: What would that look like?
Only in the hotel or the hotel room?I don’t care about alcohol but I am intrigued what that would look like.
I’m in Malaysia right now, which is a majority Muslim country. Restaurants and convenience stores sell beer and other alcohol, but I have seen signs in the convenience stores covering the front of coolers saying that Muslims cannot buy alcohol.
I’m not sure how strictly that is enforced, most of the store clerks and waiters don’t seem to care.
On touristic areas, you can generally order wine in restaurant. But they bring the bottle into a black bag and put it on the ground, under the table. You can also buy beer on some shop, but same, they ask you to hide it in bag and not drink it in the street.
But on more rural area, they might ask you to leave if you bring alcohol in public place.
Not tourist per se, but I live next to a large state university, and it’s either the college kids themselves or their families doing the stupid shit. It’s very wooded in my area while still being “suburbany”, so we get those people admiring the foliage in the fall.
In the winter when it snows, for a lot of the students and their families it’s their first time driving in it and it shows. I suppose I can cut them some slack for that though if they’ve never had to drive in it.
Anyway, it’s just mainly oblivious drivers, that are either attempting to find their way around so they drive extra slow or stop suddenly in the middle of the road, or the go ripping through the neighborhood because of the traffic on the main roads. Like, come on, there are kids playing and such, you can go 50mph through the neighborhoods around here with the number of kids playing. I’ve proposed multiple times for speed bumps in the neighborhoods around the university, but the council says “it will impede the flow of traffic” ?!? That’s the fucking point, morons! Ugh.
Trying to get photos of their kids next to bull elk in rut.
That not rude, that’s just Darwinism happening in real time. Let it run it’s course
Visitors who believe that because they paid a cruise company to bring them here that they are somehow special and deserve to be treated as such by all the locals.
Sticking their cameras (phones) where they don’t belong. Pointing fingers or openly gawking at you: look at the locals, they’re so picturesqe (Me thinking: hey, I wasn’t even born in this country)!
I would have to think things like shitting in public. There’s signs like this in locations around the world.
Not going back home. Driving up home costs for working families.
Taking up sidewalks and roadways and just generally being fucking oblivious people are around them. Parking in front of people’s driveways??? Littering, feeding seagulls, being oblivious fucking dipshits. Shore community here.
