u/Flaky-Walrus7244

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Why do tourists all want to 'avoid the touristy areas?'

I live in a city with a LOT of tourism (Edinburgh). Every day there are posts of the city Reddit page (and Facebook and Insta) all saying 'I'm coming to visit your city for the first time but I want to avoid the touristy areas, what are some hidden gems?' These are literally tourists who don't seem to think they are tourists. Don't they realise that if the locals told every tourist about the 'hidden gems' - then they'd just be yet another place full of tourists?

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u/Flaky-Walrus7244 — 15 hours ago

Why do tourists all want to 'avoid touristy areas'?

I live in a city with a LOT of tourism. Every day there are posts of the city Reddit page (and Facebook and Insta) all saying 'I'm coming to visit your city for the first time but I want to avoid the touristy areas, what are some hidden gems?' These are literally tourists who don't seem to think they are tourists. Don't they realise that if the locals told every tourist about the 'hidden gems' - then they'd just be yet another place full of tourists?

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u/Flaky-Walrus7244 — 16 hours ago

WIBTA if I reported a guy on the plane who was looking at anime porn?

I was on an international airplane and it had gone 'lights out' and most people were sleeping. The guy just ahead of me pulled out his phone and started looking at very graphic anime porn. You know the type, women with impossibly huge breasts and a guy with a 3 foot dick. This seemed totally inappropriate for viewing in a public place. From his perspective he must have thought that anyone else who could see it was asleep, but I could see it very clearly. It made me very uncomfortable, and I was thinking of reporting it to the flight attendants. Before I made up my mind, he put the phone away. WIHBTA if I'd reported him?

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u/Flaky-Walrus7244 — 3 days ago

We know the producers like to mix things up, like the year after the almost-exclusively male traitors, we had an all-female group of traitors. For the all-stars, last year there was a lot of talk about the 'big dog threory' - which turned out to be true (Jonathan).

So I'm wondering if this year they will go for a group of chihuahua traitors - all made up of the lesser known players. If so, who would that be? Do you think it would work, or do they need a Big Dog, or at least a medium-sized dog to generate interest?

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u/Flaky-Walrus7244 — 18 days ago
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I have a lot of trouble sleeping in the summer when it's sunny so much of the time. I have blinds on my bedroom windows, and I recently got blackout curtains, but neither of these help that much. Light still comes in along the edges of the curtains.

Are there better kinds of blackout curtains? Other solutions?

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u/Flaky-Walrus7244 — 21 days ago