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Things tourists do that YN finds cringey

Postby Huswyae » Sun Sep 25, 2016 1:33 pm

List of no-nos when visiting Huswyae:
  • Calling our prostitutes "Sex Slaves" (You are in the red light district. Every district of Lacrott City has one, even Little Asia (Little Asia's red light district is home to shit you don't want to know about. TG me if you wanna know), of course we have naked women. Shut up. Move on).
  • When people call us Huterrics (be fluent in Huswyaen first pl0x)
  • Don't ask if we take card. We pay with fingerprint.
  • When communist tourists look in disgust. You chose to visit the 2nd most capitalist nation on the world you should be fucking aware of what you are getting yourself into.
  • When people complain about the flight when they flew with Huterricair. (Again, you should know what you are getting yourself into)
  • When tourists don't stuff their faces with weed brownies (You are in Huswyae. Eat. Just eat. We are loved for our food. Just eat. K.)
  • When tourists complain about the lack of welfare.
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Postby Cleoye » Sun Sep 25, 2016 2:25 pm

Asking where the nearest McDonald's is. (Spoilers: There's no McDonald's in Cleoye.).
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Postby Astrolinium » Sun Sep 25, 2016 2:30 pm

  • Assuming that Astrolinians are going to be running around in togas just because Latin is a national language.
  • Littering.
  • Freaking out about nudity on beaches.
  • Complaining when the teens swarm the beaches at the end of the school day.
  • "Is that the whole country?"
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Postby Yaziria (Ancient) » Sun Sep 25, 2016 2:53 pm

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Postby Lancov » Sun Sep 25, 2016 3:13 pm

  • Tipping. We don't tip. Servers are paid a decent wage instead.
  • School groups sometimes tour Lancov during the summer, and kids too young to drink in their native country will sometimes slip away to purchase alcohol since there's no age limit. What's cringey is they don't even buy the good stuff.
  • Assuming that the 'ceremonial' State Guards at the Presidential Residence are not allowed to speak or move. They are. They will demand respect from you if you're being a dick. (On the other hand, if you're polite they might let you try on their fancy hat.)
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Postby Atlantique France » Sun Sep 25, 2016 3:13 pm

-Trying to speak French without any formal French language classes
-Harassing prostitutes, prostitution and public nudity is legal nationwide
-Dressing Down, we are a very "fashion-forward", well-dressed nation
-Not tipping, despite high wages we encourage service-based tipping
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Postby 2nd Brazilian Empire » Sun Sep 25, 2016 3:17 pm

[*]Talking Spanish (doesn't apply if in the states of Paraguai, Uruguai or Bolivia) instead of Portuguese;
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Postby Bambooli » Sun Sep 25, 2016 4:49 pm

Insisting on paying tips. We have a relatively high minimum wage, and on top of that most restaurants offer higher than the minimum. Tipping is not a common practice, as wages are decent and offer a suitable living for young employees.

When tourists are recommended a trip to the national war museum, and ask "Bambooli has been in a war?"

When foreigners ask if they can pay in foreign currenct, especially Julian marks.

"How come nobody speaks German?" Apparently, just because it's listed as a secondary language, foreigners assume everyone speaks it fluently.

When people ask for conversions to the Imperial system.

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Postby Autem Galacticus Nexum » Sun Sep 25, 2016 5:00 pm

Although the Nexum does not really allow in tourists from other nations (with the exception of those from the Free Worlds Conglomerate subdivision of the Astral Federation, probably), there is still general things that any tourist would do that Nexumians find cringey...

Even so, internal tourism exists in the Nexum; for example, a New Rhazieyan visiting the Utopian world of Elysium could do rather cringey things a normal Elysian wouldn't do.

  • Tourists who visit Paradise Worlds such as Novus Paradisi expect everything to be handed to them for free, because "they spent so much just getting on the planet". While it does indeed cost a lot for non-residents of Novus Paradisi to enter the planet, one would expect that a tourist would be packing a lot of Nexumian Predatorias to even consider visiting such a planet.

  • During the rare cases that tourists journey to the Nexum, they think that using archaic Terran currency works... it doesn't really work all that well.

  • Visitors to New Jomon expect Asiatic art plastered everywhere, and anything Asiatic animation-related to be cheaper. It isn't.

  • Tourists who are ignorant on the Nexumian Imperial Grand Forces think that they can visit the NIGF's headquarters, the planet of Vrorratan. They can't, and that's common knowledge to any Nexumian who had ever existed.

  • Outside tourists try to act religious, but it fails horribly almost all of the time.

  • Many visitors try to "see" Nexumian warships, whether in their dry docks or during patrols. You can't normally do that, since military docks already have a hypothetical no-gone spheroid zone around them, and Nexumian patrols are more in deep space than near a planet or moon.

  • Tourists to New Rhazieya think they have a free pass to visit the Citadel of the Angels, just because its the largest structure on the surface of the planet. If New Rhazieyan nobles themselves are barred from entering the Citadel, citizens of the planet find tourists cringey that they think they possess some sort of free pass to visit the Angel-Emperor.

  • They won't shut up about the genocides.
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Postby Nortainland » Sun Sep 25, 2016 8:26 pm

Many Nortans find things that tourists do rude, awkward or embarassing. These things include:

    Taking photographs of everything
    Talking very loudly in public
    Attempting to use a mobile phone
    Trying to pay for purchases with foreign money or credit cards
    Trying to use the internet
    Talking at the times of the Angelus

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Postby Ipland » Sun Sep 25, 2016 8:35 pm

When people don't use the proper bins (garbage/recycling)
When people try to take selfies with the National Guard that are seen at historic sites.
When people talk on the trains above a quiet talk.
When people complain about the cost of everything all the time (You should know already!)
When people are surprised everyone speaks English (It's the main language)
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Postby The Shadow Republik » Sun Sep 25, 2016 8:41 pm

Laughing at our military
Asking if there is anything but anime (hint there isn't)
Asking why there are no cars
Asking why we invaded their country ( probably had terrorist in it)
Disusing our environment
Taking baby dragons home ( warning they grow to be 30 feet long and weigh 5 tons)
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Democratic Socialists

Postby Democratic East-Asia » Sun Sep 25, 2016 8:59 pm

Asking about propaganda in anime
Saying that we censor the internet (we don't)
Pointing to statues of workers and claiming we worship a "dear leader"
Refering to Jingwei as Kim Il Sung.
Calling us dirty commies.
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Postby The Intergalactic Universe Corporation » Mon Sep 26, 2016 2:36 am

Huswyae wrote:List of no-nos when visiting Huswyae:
  • Calling our prostitutes "Sex Slaves" (You are in the red light district. Every district of Lacrott City has one, even Little Asia (Little Asia's red light district is home to shit you don't want to know about. TG me if you wanna know), of course we have naked women. Shut up. Move on).
  • When people call us Huterrics (be fluent in Huswyaen first pl0x)
  • Don't ask if we take card. We pay with fingerprint.
  • When communist tourists look in disgust. You chose to visit the 2nd most capitalist nation on the world you should be fucking aware of what you are getting yourself into.
  • When people google "Where is Huterrica?" On Huswyae soil (Huswyae IS Huterrica).
  • When people complain about the flight when they flew with Huterricair. (Again, you should know what you are getting yourself into)
  • When tourists don't stuff their faces with weed brownies (You are in Huswyae. Eat. Just eat. We are loved for our food. Just eat. K.)

List of no-nos when visiting the IUC:
  • Calling capitalism fascism.
  • When they don't know how to take their chilli.
  • Asking which part of Halliburton is the capital. Halliburton IS the capital.
  • When communist tourists look in disgust.
  • When people call the IUC a male chauvinist state.
  • When people don't walk fast enough
  • When tourists don't stuff their faces during meals.
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Postby Jochizyd Republic » Mon Sep 26, 2016 4:15 am

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-Traveling in Massive Groups
-Ooooh'ing and Ahhh'ing.
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Postby Fatatatutti » Mon Sep 26, 2016 9:25 am

Fatatatutians cringe slightly when tourists ask for ice. We don't like anything cold, except ice cream. If you want a cold drink in a bar, you'll have to order a rum milkshake.

it isn't really cringe-worthy but we find it amusing when tourists buy guns from street vendors and then have them confiscated if they try to take them out of the country. It's much worse if you try to bring weapons into the country; you're bundled onto the next plane leaving, cargo hold if necessary, and we don't care where it's going.

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Postby TURTLESHROOM II » Mon Sep 26, 2016 9:52 am

Tourism is one of the biggest and most important industries in TurtleShroom.

Here are some of the things tourists do that we loathe:
  • Asking for Metric conversions
  • Asking for alcohol or asking where the bars that serve booze are (we have a full Prohibition)
  • Asking the location of the nearest speakeasy
  • Not tipping waiters and waitresses
  • Midriff
  • Booty shorts
  • Pants and skirts that don't extend to above the kneecap (for both genders of humans)
  • Two-piece bathing suits or bikinis in general (not illegal) and string bikinis in particular (illegal), one piece bathing suits are advised
  • Men who swim shirtless in a pool
  • Shirtless men in general
  • Obese tourists
  • Militant Atheists that arrogantly belittle the religious population even though they chose to come to a country that even advertises religious pilgrimages
  • Marxists complaining about our society even though they chose to come to a country that even advertises its capitalism
  • Marxists in general
  • Muslims, full stop
  • Not getting more than one plate at a buffet
  • Insulting the flag or symbols of the nation
  • Selfie portraits (you are expected to ask someone to take your picture for you)
  • Asking for booze at a casino
  • Fornication and out-of-wedlock sex in general
  • Bringing up "Jesus drank wine and Paul said use beer to calm your stomach" when countering the Prohibition
  • Mocking the nation as backwards or primitive
  • Homosexual tourists that get mad when they are deported for public displays of affection
  • Heterosexual tourists that get mad when police advise them not to make out in public
  • Tourists that get mad when a TurtleShroomer yells "GET A ROOM" at them
  • Not eating everything on your plate
  • Wasting food (not taking it home with you)
  • Complaining that the tea is cold
  • LITTERING
  • Picking up the sentient turtles without their permission
  • Gawking at, ogling, or otherwise belittling the sentient turtle and mushroom population (come on people, it's in our brochures)
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Postby Soviet Polsol » Mon Sep 26, 2016 10:03 am

We are really annoyed by the following:
  • Tourists asking whether they can pay by credit card. Such capitalist cards are not used here. Our workers collect their wages weekly in their workplace, and the money is always handed out in a brown paper envelope. Although credit cards are not accepted, we do accept debit cards and use them ourselves. 'Cause we believe you have to earn the money before you can spend it, not the other way round.
  • Tourists trying to pay tips. All workers in Soviet Polsol earn a decent income, that doesn't need to be topped by tips. It is perceived as a form of bribery and it's likely that you'll get reported to the KGB as a class traitor.
  • Tourists taking pictures at the memorial of the Great Patriotic War. This is not the place, nor the time, to take pictures. Just stand there in awe, admire the monument, remember the sacrifices made for our freedom and pay your respect to those that died for our country.
  • Tourists thinking it's funny to try to make our honour guards (at the Kremlin, at the Mausoleum, at War Memorials) laugh. This is a serious matter; it should not be joked about, and such behaviour will likely get you arrested.
  • Tourists complaining that the communal drinking glasses at the soda machine are dirty. They are *not* dirty. They are cleaned by a special mechanism in the soda machine.
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  • Tourists that are amazed and ask why the retail chains they know from home (the multinationals) do not disgrace our city centres. You're in a Communist country where foreign companies are forbidden, with very few exceptions. Of course you won't find a McDonald's or Starbucks here! We can make good products ourselves; we don't need foreign capitalists trying to grab our money.
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Postby Fatatatutti » Mon Sep 26, 2016 10:14 am

Soviet Polsol wrote:Tourists complaining that the communal drinking glasses at the soda machine are dirty. They are *not* dirty. They are cleaned by a special mechanism in the soda machine

When tourists in Fatatatutti order something "to go" they are charged extra for the dishes and/or cutlery. Disposable cups, etc. are not used.

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Postby Hertotia » Mon Sep 26, 2016 11:07 am

-When people are surprised they can just walk into our public buildings. People trying to get to work in, say, Parliament or the Royal Palace are consistently delayed by large groups of tourists inching around corners like they're hiding from the police.
-When people laugh at pictures of people here wearing coats bigger than they are, then get here and freeze. A fair amount of our country is inside the Arctic Circle. Our southernmost (read:warmest) cities have underground tunnel systems for when it's cold.
-When people get annoyed at "all those pesky natives huddled on the bridge." The bridge in the capital is designed for people to gather on and see the King's speeches. Crowds commonly number in the millions. You are out of place, not us!
-When people think they can see Québec and Auyuittuq Park the same day. They are 2500 miles apart, and the remarkably up-to-date train system takes more than a day to get between the two (not counting transfers).
-When people are surprised we don't speak English everywhere. Our capital is in an English-speaking territory, but our two largest provinces and largest city are not.
-When people take pictures of mundane cityscape.
-When people think we exist for them (and that this isn't a functioning country).
-When people think the tundra and bare rock that covers most of our country isn't worth visiting.
-When people get weird about snow and ice. Two feet of snow is situation normal in almost all of Hertotia.
-When people say "meese" as the plural of moose.
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Postby Zhouran » Mon Sep 26, 2016 4:25 pm

Since a lot of the tourists visiting Zhouran generally come from the United States, China, South Korea, Australia and Japan, there are a lot of things these tourists do that are considered cringeworthy here.

  • Taking snapshots of anything
  • For men, wearing blank white T-shirts
  • Being in large flocks
  • Buying a lot of authentic luxury items (mainly a Chinese thing to do)
  • Wearing matching clothing
  • For American women; speaking with a valley-girl accent (younger Zhouranese men are ok with that but older men and Zhouranese women in general strongly detest the accent)
  • Being a bit too appreciative to the surroundings
  • Comparing Zhouranese culture to other Oriental cultures like China's or Korea's (Zhouranese culture is vastly different and any Zhouranese will take offense to that)
  • Having a lack of subtlety (such as "Does anyone here speak English?")
  • Wearing fanny packs
  • When rugby union (rugby federation as called in Zhouran) is showing on a nearby TV and the males of a tourist group show no interest
  • Constant clapping, even for the slightest inane stuff (looking at you Americans)
  • Asking seemingly inane questions
  • Putting up a scene and acting temperamental
  • Tipping

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Postby Pherdistan » Mon Sep 26, 2016 5:11 pm

Gawk at our Citizens

Yes, we're sentient quadrupeds. But staring is creepy and offsetting, regardless of species.

Wear Skimpy Clothing

Being an Islamic nation, we expect tourists to cover up. Generally, a hijab and long sleeves are considered tolerable. While we do have Christian and Jewish communities, they tend to live in designated neighborhoods and would also receive critical looks on the street.

Not Using Blimps

Compared to our citizens, tourists tend to be slow. They should just use the helium-filled blimps, even if they will probably be a little expensive for out-of-towners.

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Postby Yugoslav Memes » Mon Sep 26, 2016 10:44 pm

Their very presence.
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