What countries do you crush on?

catalog

Well-known member
“I began to think of myself as a perennial tourist. There was something agreeable about this. To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity. You're expected to be stupid. The entire mechanism of the host country is geared to travelers acting stupidly. You walk around dazed, squinting into fold-out maps. You don't know how to talk to people, how to get anywhere, what the money means, what time it is, what to eat or how to eat it. Being stupid is the pattern, the level and the norm. You can exist on this level for weeks and months without reprimand or dire consequence. Together with thousands, you are granted immunities and broad freedoms. You are an army of fools, wearing bright polyesters, riding camels, taking pictures of each other, haggard, dysenteric, thirsty. There is nothing to think about but the next shapeless event.”

Sounds Ballardian but can't be
 

sufi

lala
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Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I wish I could be a fly on the wall whenever someone who's invested all their hopes and dreams on living in a foreign country moves there and progressively realises that it was never the country they lived in that was a problem, it was them, and there's not a flight you can take to ever get away from yourself, you pathetic worm.

Although actually it wouldn't really be funny unless I was watching myself do it.
 

craner

Beast of Burden
I wish I could be a fly on the wall whenever someone who's invested all their hopes and dreams on living in a foreign country moves there and progressively realises that it was never the country they lived in that was a problem, it was them, and there's not a flight you can take to ever get away from yourself, you pathetic worm.

Although actually it wouldn't really be funny unless I was watching myself do it.

Hey @Corpsey as my new essay shows, even though I crush on Italy, I do not harbor any illusions. Read it to find out more:


Looking forward to your feedback, mate.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
It's actually fucking insane how far ahead luka is on reactions. I can rationalise him having 60,000 posts because when he signed up John Major was still PM, but the reactions only came in recently and he's got 11,000!
 

luka

Well-known member
It's actually fucking insane how far ahead luka is on reactions. I can rationalise him having 60,000 posts because when he signed up John Major was still PM, but the reactions only came in recently and he's got 11,000!
and people actively deny and begrudge me them. i make lots of very clever and also funny comments that people deliberatly deny a reaction too, out of jealousy and spite. i am the only person who suffers from this issue. ive looked at the data.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Although I never really imagined moving to Holland or anything I certainly have had a crush on Holland, specifically Amsterdam in the past.

Yes, there is the most obvious reason for this (freedaweed), but there's also my various encounters with dutch people in my late teens and early 20s that convinced me they were the most friendly, good looking and weed-positive people I had ever met.

Not grasping, back then, that I would be a misshapen dwarf amongst high elves there. They'd be knocking me over with their bikes, accidentally, thinking they must have hit a squirrel.
 

craner

Beast of Burden
and people actively deny and begrudge me them. i make lots of very clever and also funny comments that people deliberatly deny a reaction too, out of jealousy and spite. i am the only person who suffers from this issue. ive looked at the data.

He's not satisfied with being King.
 
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