What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?
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This was because PalPa, the company responsible for maintaining Finland's recycling system was (and is) a corrupt heap of shit.
It's owned by the largest breweries and they used it for keeping smaller and foreign companies out if business. You couldn't get a right to use Finnish bottles –> You had to pay a steep punishment tax for using non-recyclable bottles.
They successfully argued that washing bottles from that many sources would be impossible to organize, so the EU required PalPa to start accepting crushable PET bottles, which are easy to produce without any active coöperation by PalPa.
PalPa(...tine?) was hoping that they could still somehow block this from happening, so they framed the change as Evil EU forcing Finland to stop washing bottles. And when the PET bottles were indeed accepted in the end, they dismantled the whole bottle washing system in Finland so that they wouldn't be held accountable for their lies.
So, it's the same thing that happened to our regional bus network (vakiovuorot), basically. And what's currently happening to our railways.
So, it's the same thing that happened to our regional bus network (vakiovuorot), basically. And what's currently happening to our railways.
Don't forget healthcare and dental. Kids don't get free dental anymore?
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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.
I live in New York City. Apparently (based on how shocked they look) tourists come from places without: Gift Shops, Theaters, Rats, Black People, Buildings, or Walking.
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In Sydney most trains...
(a) Are double decker
(b) Have seats which flip to face the opposite direction.
Australian pedestrian crossing lights cater for the blind and the deaf-and-blind. Billie Eilish's brother/producer sampled the sound, when he visited, for her smash hit.
sadly the newest trains (the first ones to have any bike storage too) have given up on the flipping seats and I'm worried going forward we'll lose one of the best things about an otherwise deteriorating rail network.
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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.
Squirrels, I guess. Oh and so many prisons.
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So, it's the same thing that happened to our regional bus network (vakiovuorot), basically. And what's currently happening to our railways.
Don't forget healthcare and dental. Kids don't get free dental anymore?
That's not because of an organization trying to make Finland ignore the EU legislation using strategies that then cause us to run headlong against a wall, though.
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Where would you recommend? We visited earlier this year and I found it overwhelming, though the abundance of family-friendly stuff was nice.
Depends on what you want out of your trip.
Townsend on the backside is nice.
Cherokee (and has gambling) is nice
Any small valley town in the range is going to be fine.But when I go, I tend to just go for the views and like one day in actual Gatlinburg. I'm from e.tn so the tourist stuff is oldhat for me.
So I'll go get a cabin in the deep dark woods and just be "off grid" for a bit. But that's not what everyone does.
There's a lot there to do that's not spend your money playing games / on trinkets. -
I was a bit excited that the US squirrels are gray and large, we have smaller red ones in Germany.
I wonder where you visited! Grey squirrels are rare where I’m from in the US, 90% brown in midwest
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Oktoberfest
I dunno exactly what you're talking about, but I'm moved to say: fuck KW Oktoberfest.
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sadly the newest trains (the first ones to have any bike storage too) have given up on the flipping seats and I'm worried going forward we'll lose one of the best things about an otherwise deteriorating rail network.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Damn. I haven't caught one of those new Intercity trains yet. These trains were the cause of many strikes before they even started operating. They should have been striking about the flip flop!
And why is there trackwork one or two weekends per month? Are the contractors maybe corruptly milking the government? And yet breakdowns seem to be more frequent than ever.
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I grew up near Oceana Naval Air Base. Only tourists look up when they hear jet noise.
Ayo, VB ... Pause for jet noise to end ... represent.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I live in the middle of a very sparsely populated forest. Tourists want to see the black bears, wolves, eagles, loons, and deer. You will see the deer, eagles, and loons if you are on a lake. But you probably need to spend serious time in the forest on foot to bump a bear or wolf. If you want to see those, we have a bear and then a wolf center where biologists study their behavior and keep a small number in captivity. And evidently, both centers are pretty famous for the work they do with other wildlife biologists around the world.
And oddly enough come fall, they drive around to see the leaves on the trees turn pretty colors. It's popular enough that news stations in the one large metropolitan area we have in this state, actually tracks and includes the rate and areas where the leaves are turning color so tourists can drive and see them.
When winter arrives, we get a fair number that drive here to go ice fishing when the ice gets safe enough to drive on.
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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?
wrote last edited by [email protected]If you're not used to it, the subway can be a really novel experience. The metro is also an interesting part of Montreal's history for tourists - it's relationship to Expo 67, the development of RÉSO, the kind of things that can lend more interest for someone learning about the city. Plus the station designs are pretty neat.
Source: One of those tourists who loves the metro in Montreal. + trains in general are dope.
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I live in New York City. Apparently (based on how shocked they look) tourists come from places without: Gift Shops, Theaters, Rats, Black People, Buildings, or Walking.
Do people really say "ay im walkin' here"?
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no speed limit is annoying as fuck. there is absolute chaos on the autobahn because of it. everyone drives at different speeds and dangerous manouvres (like tailgating, driving 200 kmh on a full road or in the rain) are common occurances. i hate driving in germany. we are an idiot nation when it comes to driving and cars in general
Imagine drivers 10x worse and that's the USA.
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If you're not used to it, the subway can be a really novel experience. The metro is also an interesting part of Montreal's history for tourists - it's relationship to Expo 67, the development of RÉSO, the kind of things that can lend more interest for someone learning about the city. Plus the station designs are pretty neat.
Source: One of those tourists who loves the metro in Montreal. + trains in general are dope.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Don't you realize that people who are waiting for the train are not actually in public and don't expect, or want, to be in your dumb pictures?
edit: here are the rules
https://www.stm.info/en/about/business-zone/partnerships-and-permissions/activities-taking-photos-and-shooting-videos"Neither STM employees nor métro users are filmed or photographed."
I don't want to be in pictures and it would be within my rights to ask you to stop but I have better things to do.
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I wonder where you visited! Grey squirrels are rare where I’m from in the US, 90% brown in midwest
NYC and surroundings
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I always lived in states where deer hunting was a pretty common pastime. The first time I went to a zoo in South America, I cracked up when we got to the display of white-tailed deer.
I understand Australians have a similar reaction to zoo kangaroos
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Most Metros and trains look different in different countries. I like to take photos of them when I'm abroad because it's part of the experience for me. Sure, the differences are small, but sometimes it's all the more interesting when something works almost like it does at home but not exactly the same.
And then I think you underestimate the amount of people who photograph trains as a hobby. I think the German train photography subreddit regularly had posts in r/all.
I understand, but maybe you and I mean different things. Like specifically on "public" transit, actually the installations are private and have their own rules, I simply do not want or expect to be in pictures.
Indeed in Montreal you're not supposed to take pictures of the users. Which is difficult since the trains have windows...
You can take pictures of anything as long as it doesn't include people. Which I think is hard to apply in practice. I just don't want to be in anyone's pictures. Maybe far in the background as some kind of indistinct blur?
Basically I am surprised by the people who gape in amazement at a train, and the fact I don't want to be in pictures just makes me notice. Like, wait for me to leave...
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Fuck these things! I moved into an old wood cabin on the edge of town with a small crawl space. Two of these little fuckers got underneath the house and sounded like they were carrying a heavy rock, scraping against other rocks(r as one fever dream showed me, a tiny coffin). Also you can't bait them cause they only dig up and eat live grubs. So you have to study their movements and set up some 2x4 walls to guide them into a trap. And they can jump like you wouldn't believe! When I released one of them out in the boondocks near a creek, the little fucker reared back and launched itself four feet straight up in the air to clear a fence.
I thought you were talking about ravens and got thoroughly confused.
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Slartibartfast won an award for those.
Didn't they go out of fashion afterwards?
