What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?
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Québec? Quelle partie?
wrote last edited by [email protected]No, Alberta. Unfortunately, my French isn't good. C'est merde, pardon.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Quebec is more like here than southern Ontario or BC, though. And definitely the US or most of the EU.
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Where are you located? I thought hot air balloons are really rare these days, like less than 200 in the world
Or am I thinking of blimps?
More common in plain areas with mild weather. driving around the central US I would occasionally see at least that many in the air at once.
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Sunny and -30°C. You live in the arctic?
wrote last edited by [email protected]No, that's still a good few degrees north. Just the Canadian prairies.
TBF we only get a day or two worth of that here in a winter. There's quite a lot of -20, though, and -15 isn't even worth a remark.
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Kay, but summer/spring is brutal for the deer flies and mosquitoes
wrote last edited by [email protected]Fucking mosquitos. They could probably survive Antarctica. Instead, if you go further north yet everything that eat them dies, and they grow endless and mutantly large. I'd love to see the territories but that bit gives me pause.
If you're somewhere wooded, blackflies also get bad reviews.
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I'm down the shore right now, and holiday weekends especially bring out folks who may not come often, and one thing that certainly grinds my gears is seeing someone feeding seagulls, or parents watching their kids doing it and not stopping them. I have a fairly strict don't feed wildlife anywhere, ever, policy, but seagulls especially are an issue. Like, they're like this because asshats have fed them for so long, and now I need to guard my sandwich.
My dad used to feed the pelicans with left over bait fish when coming back from fishing. As a kid it was cool to see them up close landing on the outboard motor. As an adult hearing all the stories of how bills they've gotten made me realize how wrong it was at the time.
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I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.
Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I'd be taking for granted?
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Mountains, Great beer and legal weed.
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I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.
Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I'd be taking for granted?
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Black squirrels. They're very normal to us but I find a lot of people who travel here, especially from the U.S. are shocked to see them lol
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So who built the church? The emus?
/me tries to understand that comment and fails
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I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.
Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I'd be taking for granted?
Pic unrelated.
Opposite: I (US-ian) was visiting friends in Germany and they took me on a bike ride in the woods.
“Look!!” (Bike sudden halt, stop and point into a tree with full arm) “a squirrel!”
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My Polish wife was thrilled to see fireflies in Kentucky.
They must be bright if she can see them from Poland.
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Mountains, Great beer and legal weed.
Chiang Mai?
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You must be getting tourists from Finland.
We mostly get Americans but the ones who comment about the sun are mainly Germans and, yes, Nords.
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Mountains, Great beer and legal weed.
take me there
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I'm lucky enough that I see these little guys on a regular basis.
The first time I went to London, the size of the Ravens caught me off guard. I couldn't get enough of seeing those things. We only really see Grackles in South Texas that regularly and they're half the size, so I'm sure I was the weird bird guy that day to many people.
Does he have a tail or am I seeing the armadillo's dick there?
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Where are you located? I thought hot air balloons are really rare these days, like less than 200 in the world
Or am I thinking of blimps?
Nah they have a hot air balloon festival where I live in England where they launch maybe a hundred at once. They're not uncommon here.
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Yes, the amount of ancient history anywhere across the pond is fascinating. You're walking in the same place as people from books and movies. I guess that we're writing somewhere near the beginning of the local historical record is interesting in it's own way, but there's just not as much to say about it.
When I was a kid I got in the local library and looked at their copies of the maps of our city going back maybe 2000 years. A few things had been there that long, the high street and the cathedral, couple of other places. You could see how the town had grown, and sometimes contracted - it got hit hard a few times by plague, fire, and war. The maps didn't go back further but the place had been occupied much longer, way before the Romans came.
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Sure, ride one, but is it an emotional experience to see a motorized vehicle on tracks arrive in a metro station?
According to my 6 year old that's a definite yes!
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/me tries to understand that comment and fails
Bro you said a church was built "before any humans set foot there". So the people who built the church never set foot there. How did they build the church? Were they levitating?
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Black squirrels. They're very normal to us but I find a lot of people who travel here, especially from the U.S. are shocked to see them lol
Here's a fun little story about the first time we saw black squirrels.
We had just moved to Norfolk, Virginia. My mom is driving through Norfolk, Virginia. Have you been to Norfolk, Virginia? Norfolk, Virginia is heavily African American. Heavily. We are white.
My mom is driving, downtown Norfolk. It's very heavy traffic, we're going slow. It's one of those areas where you worry about someone randomly starts cleaning your windshield, or if it's late at night you might you may worry about carjackings. We do not have air-conditioning, and our windows are down.
My mom sees a group of black squirrels for the first time in her life. And she yells out "OH MY GOD THEY'RE BLACK! THEY'RE ALL BLACK"
I swear to you, I have never seen turn so pale so quick. She looks around and sees that lots and lots of people walking around have, indeed, heard her.
Luckily, traffic was moving fast enough there wasn't too long of an awkward time with the people on the street.
Given the reaction everyone has to black squirrel I'm pretty sure the folks on the street knew why she'd yelled, but we didn't know that at the time. Lol
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Bro you said a church was built "before any humans set foot there". So the people who built the church never set foot there. How did they build the church? Were they levitating?
wrote last edited by [email protected]The church in the town from when OP lived in the UK.
TBF it did take me a moment to parse too.
