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Feb 26th, 2016, 10:25 AM
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The best comments.
We've been told to be nice...
Here I would propose to copy paste the best comments found on threads.
Here is the first, from an ongoing thread. No need to cite the author, I'd say :
'it hasn't been turned into what the ahistoric non-city Venice of twee preserved-for-tourist amusements that Venice has prostituted itself to become to please its groping, drooling fans.'
Here I would propose to copy paste the best comments found on threads.
Here is the first, from an ongoing thread. No need to cite the author, I'd say :
'it hasn't been turned into what the ahistoric non-city Venice of twee preserved-for-tourist amusements that Venice has prostituted itself to become to please its groping, drooling fans.'
Feb 26th, 2016, 10:53 AM
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<i> 'it hasn't been turned into what the ahistoric non-city Venice of twee preserved-for-tourist amusements that Venice has prostituted itself to become to please its groping, drooling fans.' </i>
Could somebody parse that sentence for me?
Could somebody parse that sentence for me?
Mar 1st, 2016, 09:49 AM
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>>Groping, drooling fans<<
Well I understood the message.
I am a traveller, who knows the <i>real</i> [wherever]
YOU are a visitor (to whom I shall give the benefit of the doubt as regards your capacity to appreciate the <i>real</i> [wherever] - but you're on probation)
THEY are groping, drooling fans who think overpriced tourist tat is not only the <i>real</i> [wherever], but are convinced that it's the <i>only</i> [wherever]- and they love it.
Well I understood the message.
I am a traveller, who knows the <i>real</i> [wherever]
YOU are a visitor (to whom I shall give the benefit of the doubt as regards your capacity to appreciate the <i>real</i> [wherever] - but you're on probation)
THEY are groping, drooling fans who think overpriced tourist tat is not only the <i>real</i> [wherever], but are convinced that it's the <i>only</i> [wherever]- and they love it.
Mar 1st, 2016, 01:08 PM
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TPAYT's thread was begun expression frustration about people's unwillingness to be nicer to NEW posters (despite the headline; the first post makes the issue clear). So it is disingenous to put up a post by me that I wrote in response to the insulting treatment a NEW poster was being given.
I type very fast and hit the button. Very often I go back and clean up my mistakes. I'm not bothering to re-check the thread to see if i clariified my remarks. I am just as unapologetic about my typos and garbles sentences as I am about telling you idiots off when you treat new posters badly and, worse, give them bad advice based on your extremely limiited experiences in Italy especially, and even more limited ideas on how other people enjoy traveling in Europe.
I type very fast and hit the button. Very often I go back and clean up my mistakes. I'm not bothering to re-check the thread to see if i clariified my remarks. I am just as unapologetic about my typos and garbles sentences as I am about telling you idiots off when you treat new posters badly and, worse, give them bad advice based on your extremely limiited experiences in Italy especially, and even more limited ideas on how other people enjoy traveling in Europe.
Mar 1st, 2016, 01:13 PM
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ah -- meant to type "begun expressing frustration" -- and just remembered I often do apologize for my typos. Just not doing it on a thread with as much mean spirited ill-intent as this one.
What a hell it must be to be what the hell--oh, fill in the blanks with whatever you need to believe about yourself, and I'm sure your equally mean Fodor frenemies with be eager to gush all over you. Who was it who said "people are never closer to one anotehr when they can find somebody to hate together" -- ?? - or something like that.
I'm with Yanis V. on this, feeling the contempt with pride.
What a hell it must be to be what the hell--oh, fill in the blanks with whatever you need to believe about yourself, and I'm sure your equally mean Fodor frenemies with be eager to gush all over you. Who was it who said "people are never closer to one anotehr when they can find somebody to hate together" -- ?? - or something like that.
I'm with Yanis V. on this, feeling the contempt with pride.
Mar 1st, 2016, 01:27 PM
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The world will not stop turning if new posters stop coming to Fodor's for advice. And certainly not worth all this DRAMA.
Maybe some of you should be writing soap operas instead of giving travel advice...
And what a shame, too, because some of you, including Sandra, have good advice to give, but emotion takes over from logic and makes a very uncomfortable arena for the public.
Maybe some of you should be writing soap operas instead of giving travel advice...
And what a shame, too, because some of you, including Sandra, have good advice to give, but emotion takes over from logic and makes a very uncomfortable arena for the public.
