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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought it'd be a fellow American by the title.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I knew it wasn’t an American, because it didn’t “American” in the title. Plus, I feel like Americans have caught so much shit about being idiots abroad that we’ve learned to chill. That American exceptionalism isn’t so exceptional anymore.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Americans are too fat to climb anything.
Honestly, americans are fine tourists as far as i can tell. I witnessed some very old racist motherfuckers, but like the 20 to 40 year olds were always a delight

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Very true. Larger countries just happen to have more idiots. Plenty of Russian and Chinese tourists caught doing dumb stuff too. Not too many from India for some reason, at least not that I can recall.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

we've learned to chill

Honestly I think we're just too xenophobic and broke. If we were becoming better people overall I would expect to see a decrease in shitty behavior over here as well, or at least a levelling off.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't this acceptable though due to the subject of both "clauses" being the same ("tourist" both climbs and breaks)?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"and" doesn't cost anything either

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It costs horizontal space, and my understanding is that newspaper headlines tend to minimize words as much as possible (while maintaining meaning).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm almost certain this would not be a correct usage of a semicolon, semicolons require both parts of the sentence to be compete.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

Bruh why a statue. You have all those buildings around you.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

This shit is even funnier if you take into account the fact that they've been renovating the place for like 5 years or something and only finished a month or two ago

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hope it was worth the 17k€ fine they try to charge him now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because Belgium being a modern democracy (despite having a king) it most likely has laws regarding data privacy and law regarding defamation.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Considering it's a member of the EU, yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

well not all eu countries are equal...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Cunt was so ugly they didn't want to subject readers to his mug.