Saturday, September 09, 2006
Third party free commenting systemsI've finally cracked. I've finally had it. The Doc posts about his recent trip to Greece and how it is that they're increasingly signing things in Greek and Roman alphabet. So I comment. Or I try to. Only to be told that my comment is apparently spam and to go back and edit it (though I don't have an option to do that - I only get it cleaned out and am presented with a blank comment form).
So, here's my comment (and here's the article): It's called tourism, but for the lowest common denominator. 100,000 visitors spending £500 each brings more money than 100 spending £5000, so go get those 100,000 by sending your best entrepreneur to Britain to figure out and start a cheap way to bring those 100,000 over and in the meantime make it so that when they get there they can find their way to the nearest Irish pub where they can buy another Guinness and a diet coke for their fat close-cut kids whilst watching Sky. I still think it would take more than 10 minutes to learn to read that stuff, but most of those 100,000 probably don't have the attention span to even try. This whole modern travel and tourism explosion is tragic. It's a short-sighted exploitation. Of course everyone wants to improve their lot and by taking money off morons with higher credit limits than they know what to do with, for a short time they can, but it won't be long before people won't want to visit anymore. Slovenia is already so overrun that at peak times there's nothing to visit. Nice is a shitsmeared craphole. Coloradan mountains crawl with fairweather hikers, even at 10'000 feet. Mexico is full of spring-breakers and peeping perves. I can't take a crap at our house in Slovenia without hearing 14 Brits chuffing and farting their way up the road. Don't wait up. P.S. I should point out that I hate computers. |
