Man fined for loudspeaker call at French station - BBC News

[guaraguaito@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Could we make these fines proportional to the income?

[saleh@feddit.org]

I once traveled with French people. As we were leaving the airport building up on arrival and met our local tour guide, one of them pulled out her cigarettes. All of the area had big signs declaring non smoking and pointing to the designated smoking area.

I asked her to go to the smoking area, since we should comply with local customs and laws as guests.

The reply was "oui, but i am French!"

We later had a whole drama with having to send her home earlier because of continuously offending local people.

French tourists also have a bad reputation in many countries because of behaviour like this.

[aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

"David said he was told that he would be fined" + David got fined = David kept doing it.

The BBC, doing their public service of letting us all know that David is a twat!

(More serioulsy, most British media - definitelly the BBC - pretty frequently post "other countries are bad" and "shocking treatment of Briton abroad" kind of articles: Brexit was very much anchored on English Exceptionalism and the local media has long feed such delusions of exceptionalism with this kind of article and a more general spin on international news that agrandizes British importance and portrays others countries as lesser)

[jenesaisquoi@feddit.org]

Til USA exceptionism is only a continuation of their motherland's

[bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I once travelled with French people.

That couldn’t end well….and it didn’t.

It’s not the French. All people are annoying. Obviously

[bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Seriously, how stressed are you Europeans? Going nuts about someone who’s slightly annoying.

[saleh@feddit.org]

I dont know. I never heard someone complain about Korean tourists for instance.

Other bad reputation tourists include Germans, Brits and Russians. But i guess that is mainly because of "drunk at the beach" tourism to Spain and Turkey.

[bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I don’t know, it just feels like perpetuating national stereotypes. It doesn’t do any good.

Then again the whole thread is weird. It feeds my suspicion that there’s a lot of (relatively) old people on Lemmy. Everybody’s getting riled up because of some guy talking with his loudspeaker on. Wtf?

[gissamittjobb@lemmy.ml]

Based honestly

[saleh@feddit.org]

Would you like to have someone next to you make lots of noise, while you are just trying to get from A to B in peace?

Also it is one thing to be oblivious to annoying other people in public. It is another thing entirely to make a point of annoying other people in public and doubling down on it, if someone tell you. That is just being arrogant and vile.

[bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Yeah, I don’t like it, I am quite sensitive to any kind of sound. But I don’t have a problem expressing that, and if that doesn’t resolve it, I leave. For these annoyances I really don’t think we need any kind of authority.

Which brings us to the point everybody here conveniently omitted, that there’s conflicting statements. He says he switched off the phone immediately, the rail company says he didn’t. Here nobody gives a fuck about that and everybody’s just calling for higher fines. Someone even, albeit jokingly, suggests eugenics. It’s like a mob mentality and I find it shocking. I wish they’d be just as aggressive when it comes to cars. Because that’s a form of pollution that is more than just an annoyance. It’s life threatening.

[zip2@feddit.uk]

Good. David’s an utter arsehole. Instead of a warning and a fine, take the phone off them and throw it in front of the next train.