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[–] 8BitRoadTrip@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] keeb420@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] MuhammadJesusGaySex@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year 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.

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 8 points 1 year 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

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] lemmus@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] radix@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"and" doesn't cost anything either

[–] radix@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 year ago

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

[–] SeramisV@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year 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

[–] AAA@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] transmatrix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 year 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.

[–] 30p87@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] souperk@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

well not all eu countries are equal...

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 14 points 1 year ago

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