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“What’s Something Your Family Raised You Doing That You Later Learnt Was Really Weird?” (45 Answers)
imjustheretodisagree reply
My daughter (6 at the time of the incident) was at school during swimming class. She was sat on the side of the pool as instructed by the teacher, who needed to assist a visually impaired student. An older boy (9 at the time) stood over my daughter, making extremely rude comments about her and kept trying to show her his genitals. She couldn't walk away, so she punched him in the d**k. She's always had quite the temper, and must have been very angry, because the boy was taken to hospital for extreme bruising and swelling, and so was my daughter because she broke 2 bones in her hand, and needed a cast. We've since signed her up to martial arts, I figure she needed to learn how to punch without injuring herself.Woman Learns Husband Is Sleeping With Her Cousin, Ensures They Both Live To Regret It
PNWvintageTreeHugger reply
Don’t get me wrong. I love Disneyland. But it’s nothing but a moneymaking giant. When I was a kid, we were not well off at all. I was able to visit Disneyland twice with my family (ages 7 and 12). I think many kids’ families are priced out of enjoying Disneyland nowadays. It seems steep even for middle class.Notatallevil reply
Clearwater Florida. Beaches that aren’t that great, dirty, dead downtown area and scientology took over the whole area.dkktk reply
Pisa (Italy) - the one (pretty small) square with the famous tower is absolutely everything it has to offer, the rest is a fight through the 3:1 ratio of panhandler/peddler to tourist, with s****y cafés and a dirty town around. I really only drove through "by accident" and still wish i hadn't.DaytonaDemon reply
Cairo.
u/blizzard_of-oz:
Cairo native here can confirm. Every time I'm in downtown and see tourists I chuckle.
So what was it? Was it the camel dudes at the pyramids scamming you? Was it the pollution and dirty streets? Was it the stray animals being abused? Are you a woman that had the audacity to experience being a woman? Did a cop threaten to take you in for taking pics of places "you're not allowed" to? Are you a gay bro that got caught having steamy sex with the closeted cab driver at the hotel? Did you clumsily tell the falafel guy that you're Jewish?
Seriously though. People shouldn't visit here unless they're paying big bucks to a tourism agency, they know what they're doing, and they have ties with the police. Cairo's great if you pay enough to a good agency.
evecohenn reply
The "original" Starbucks in Pike Place Market in Seattle. A) It's not the original. B) It's unbelievably crowded all day, every day.Fearlessleader85 reply
Waikiki in Honolulu. It's not is own city, but it's so much a tourist trap. Nothing in there is "original", traditional, or real, even though everything claims to be. Even the sand on the beach isn't from there. Everything is significantly more expensive and lower quality than just outside of it. Even things that are legitimately Hawaiian, like Poke aren't done right there. The poke served in Waikiki is California style and generally just c**p. There's something to buy or spend money on at every turn. Shopping malls, little booths, street performers, memento shops, and a ABC stores (a convenience chain) literally everywhere. You can actually see several ABC stores at the same time from multiple places. And it's easy to get into and difficult to get out. There's an actual moat. There's 2 roads that funnel you into Waikiki, and if you don't know where to go, the internal roads almost force you into a circle. And the biggest thing with a tourist trap, it IS fun. If you get past the fact that you're going to spend a bunch of money and everything is for show, it's a fun place to visit. And the last component: it works! The existence of Waikiki makes the level of tourism on O'ahu tolerable for the people who actually live there. Without Waikiki, they would be scattered all over the island and nowhere would be mostly local. But Waikiki sequestors the majority of them in one concentrated area allowing the majority of the islands inhabitants not have to deal with them.qtmcjingleshine reply
Any cruise port in the Caribbean.
u/rock-or-something:
This is why I hate cruises. You are given minimal time to really explore city you dock at.
You get off the boat and are immediately swarmed with people offering excursions.
Your time is spent doing one excursion, grabbing a bite, shopping, and back to the boat.
I went on a cruise with my family when I was in middle school, and felt so cool saying "I went to 3 different countries this summer" not mentioning that I was in each country for maybe 6-8 hours, learned nothing about the culture, and spent all of my time doing things with people who looked exactly like me and spoke the same language as me.
armt350 reply
Dubai. It shouldn't exist past bedouin camps.u/fellow_enthusiast:
Plastic city full of plastic people, built on a foundation of sand and oil.
tubbis9001 reply
Nassau Bahamas. It's the busiest cruise ship port in the world, and not for good reasons. It's a cheap place to stop that can accommodate the largest cruise ships, it's close to Florida, and fulfills the requirement of "at least one foreign stop" for US cruises to operate without following US labor laws. I could forgive that if the port was actually nice. It's not. Traffic sucks, public transit is bad, and the area immediately surrounding the port has some of the most aggressive vendors you'll ever find. It's all for the convenience of the cruise companies and none for the customer.McQueenFan-68 reply
South of the Border in South Carolina is prime tourist trap.
u/FalseWeeknd:
It’s a glorified truck stop.
Evening_Rock5850 reply
Branson, MO. It’s Vegas but for people who post “I do not give Facebook consent to print off my computer files” a lot. Tons of overpriced shows that have been the exact same show with the exact same people for decades. Along with terrible buffets and restaurants that sell microwaved food but with a gimmick. Far more Trump/MAGA stores than any one town should probably have and a vaguely religious theme to everything in ways that are usually pretty out of place. (Though ironically, the Sight and Sound Theatre, that puts on religious plays, is probably one of the best things on the strip. Going to a show about a religious theme or story is definitely a much better experience than going to a go kart track that tells you to say the Pledge of Allegiance and then pray before you get in the cars or whatever.) Visited many times and in fact I intend to go again. There’s a great state park nearby and there’s definitely some charm. But yeah the shoehorned/shallow patriotic-religious themes as a quick cash grab to senior citizens who will eat it up and pay extra because of it is a fascinating and strange thing to experience.imjustheretodisagree reply
My daughter (6 at the time of the incident) was at school during swimming class. She was sat on the side of the pool as instructed by the teacher, who needed to assist a visually impaired student. An older boy (9 at the time) stood over my daughter, making extremely rude comments about her and kept trying to show her his genitals. She couldn't walk away, so she punched him in the d**k. She's always had quite the temper, and must have been very angry, because the boy was taken to hospital for extreme bruising and swelling, and so was my daughter because she broke 2 bones in her hand, and needed a cast. We've since signed her up to martial arts, I figure she needed to learn how to punch without injuring herself.McQueenFan-68 reply
South of the Border in South Carolina is prime tourist trap.
u/FalseWeeknd:
It’s a glorified truck stop.
GreatWhiteBuffalo888 reply
As much as I love the pure camp and cheesiness that is Niagara Falls, the answer is Niagara Falls.
u/CLOWNXXCUDDLES:
Cousin of mine had their honeymoon there. They suggested making it a day trip instead of the entire focus of the trip.