War Room Lounge v68: The insidious rumour of Belgium

[Andy Capp]

 

[The Diplomat]

Shit, just learned Rusty from the Friendly Giant died today. RIP.

Is that the Canadian version of Eureeka's Castle?

 

[Andy Capp]

I'm surprised the grandkids aren't pregnant yet.

You know, if you let your 12 year old smoke at the dinner table...............in front of her kids, you might be a redneck. -JF

 

[Higus]

I'm surprised the grandkids aren't pregnant yet.

Maybe next thread we can start a poll for most embarrassing Palin family moment. So many to choose from.

 

[Andy Capp]

Is that the Canadian version of Eureeka's Castle?

Never heard of it. But bit of quick googleage tells me it's the other way around by about 20 or 30 years.

 

[HockeyBjj]

How many foreign countries have you all been to throughout your life?

Canada, Mexico, Bahamas. I am not a well traveled man

 

[Social Distance Warrior]

Canada, Mexico, Bahamas. I am not a well traveled man

no shame. Many people I know haven't been out of their home states.

 

[AgonyandIrony]

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/09/09/po...an-response/index.html?r=https://www.cnn.com/

Well.. This is depressing.

 

[curryjunkie]

Socialist free drugs for the poor, tax the middle class 99%, tranny twerk for toddlers, no borders loving troll bring it here. You know who you are. No need to even tag you. Bring it.

 

[HockeyBjj]

no shame. Many people I know haven't been out of their home states.

Now that just seems impossible to me, but I met an Uber driver in the twin cities Minnesota after a hockey game. He talked about traveling about every other month. Then I found out he meant going to St. Paul rather than just staying in Minneapolis

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

 

[Higus]

*DEAD*

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

If anybody wants a go at Sarah Palin, she's single now.

Somebody notify Glen Rice

 

[curryjunkie]

speaking of tourists, its an old joke round the village that when americans come over to find the old ancestral homestead, one of the old locals offers to take them up the mountain and show em an old stone cottage falling down with the roof gone and proclaims "here is where your family farmed before they emigrated" they get all misty eyed and buy him loads of drinks in the bar later, thing is, he shows every family the SAME ruin...when asked about it, he said " sure, they go home happy", so homes all over the states have photos of identical ruined cottages on the wall, and he showed them all the same worn headstone in the cemetary.

 

[mS_?]

I'm being sincere. If you were going there to immerse yourself in a distinct historical culture - like, say, going to Southern Iran to admire Persian culture or going to Italy to admire former Rome - I guess I would get why having immigrants and, er, racial minorities would possibly cut into the experience. But....it's Belgium. Were you really going there expecting everyone to be Dr. Evil-sounding chocolate connoisseurs or what?

Come on bro, you mean Goldmember not Dr. Evil.

 

[Falsedawn]

Yea, after the tour was over, we went back to our resort and I immediately Googled, "why do people hate..."

and it auto filled for me, I'm not kidding. Google Autofilled, "Chinese Tourists."

I was thinking, WTF?!?!

then I did some Youtubing.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thai+women+venting+about+chinese+tourists

apparently it's a thing.


from my understanding, it's predominately Chinese from the mainland. apparently, there was an explosion of the Middle class in China. and people who lived liked Paupers, came into a lot of money.


not Hong Kong or Taiwan.

I went to Disney when my hair was still long, and literally got swarmed by a group of about 8 chinese tourists, screeching something at me in mandarin and taking pictures. It was shocking, but not invasive, until a couple of them saw fit to start pulling my shit, I guess to see if it was fake. When I say I almost caused an international incident by caving their faces in, I mean that shit. Mushed one off me and I think the others got the message.

I get that they're basically all new money, but they need to learn some damn manners if they're gonna come off the mainland. I was so mad.

 

[AgonyandIrony]

Speaking of traveling. Any of you guys ever book an American guide overseas? I've been looking at traveling packages on Groupon and see a lot with an attached guide for like five days.

Especially across SE Asia doing cool shit, I'm also considering something like a Catacomb guide in Paris. Could be a fun way to do cool shit around the world with my skillset.

 

[Trotsky]

Come on bro, you mean Goldmember not Dr. Evil.

Goldmember is Dutch. Dr. Evil is Belgian.

Don't even try to Austin Powers trivia me.

 

[AgonyandIrony]

https://dailysnark.com/giants-fan-a...tadium-because-patriots-signed-antonio-brown/

Lmao that fb post is priceless.

 

[Social Distance Warrior]

I went to Disney when my hair was still long, and literally got swarmed by a group of about 8 chinese tourists, screeching something at me in mandarin and taking pictures. It was shocking, but not invasive, until a couple of them saw fit to start pulling my shit, I guess to see if it was fake. When I say I almost caused an international incident by caving their faces in, I mean that shit. Mushed one off me and I think the others got the message.

I get that they're basically all new money, but they need to learn some damn manners if they're gonna come off the mainland. I was so mad.

I believe it. I Have a Haitian/AA friend. he has a pretty large afro.

long story short, he went to China recently, and he was taken aback by how fascinated the Chinese folk were with his hair. they came up directly to him and started touching his fro, wondering if it were real, or what it felt like. he ended up reacting in a similar fashion as you did, he had to shove one so others back the fu*k up.