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bosintang
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Tourists more often than not travel with friends, or in groups.
Travelers more often than not travel alone. |
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VanIslander
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| Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:57 am Post subject: |
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tourists wanna go to the country of the World Cup
travellers wanna go to World Cup countries |
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bosintang
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| Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:59 am Post subject: |
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tourists wanna go to the country of the World Cup
travellers wanna go to World Cup countries |
Hehe, good one. OP, are we boring you to tears yet? 
For tourists, structured timing is essential
For travelers, flexible timing is essential |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 5:17 am Post subject: |
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travellers try boshintang or respect those who do
tourists respect those who don't try boshintang |
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edgellskiuk
Joined: 21 Jun 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 5:29 am Post subject: |
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VanIslander wrote:
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travellers try boshintang or respect those who do
tourists respect those who don't try boshintang |
I am sorry I do not see this as a traveller or tourist thing. Why should anyone respect anyone over what they eat?I may respect a person who sticks by their own principals and not eat boshintang, just as I may respect someone who is willing to eat something new.
What other foods bring you the repsect of travellers. I just had a rather nice creme brulee does that bring repsect? |
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VanIslander
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| Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 5:34 am Post subject: |
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travellers try bondeggi or understand those who do
tourists understand those who don't try bondeggi |
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edgellskiuk
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| Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 5:47 am Post subject: |
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Whilst I can understand people trying it because they never had it before, I can also understand those that do not try it becuase it smells like crap. Does this make me a strange tourist travelller hybrid?
To keep the theme of food going
Some travellers eat or understand others eating deep fried mars bars in Scotland.
Some tourists do not eat nor understand others eating deep fried mars bars in Scotland.
Actually I do not thinks food choice is in anway indicative of your travel status. I have met as many a backpacker complaining about the local food in places as I have tourists. |
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VanIslander
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| Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 5:53 am Post subject: |
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travellers often complain about local food after trying it (glad they did so)
tourists often complain about the local food without trying it (glad they didn't do so) |
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edgellskiuk
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| Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:09 am Post subject: |
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VanIslander wrote
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travellers often complain about local food after trying it (glad they did so)
tourists often complain about the local food without trying it (glad they didn't do so) |
I have not seen any correlation of this. I would say that a tourist is more likely to eat in a more expensive restraunt rather than risk their 2 weeks holiday with the squits, eating from a street stall.
Which to me is common sense, if you are travelling for a year, 1 week ill of it is a small part of your time and also gives you another story to tell when you get home. Where as a tourist using his 2 weeks annual leave will just have ruined half his time. |
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trevorcollins
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| Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 7:20 am Post subject: |
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travellers don't mind being mistaken for Canadians with or without a sewn flag
tourists don't mind being mistaken for Americans with or without a waving flag |
travellers are like canadians (i.e riddled with inferiority complexes and humping people's legs to make them like them)
tourists are like americans in that they do what makes them happy and is right and don't care as much what people with inferiority complexes think of them.
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trevorcollins
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 7:50 am Post subject: |
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| bosintang wrote: |
| Haha, good one, though the OP is a self-proclaimed tourist. |
Actually I don't care either way which is better or which is worse...If I had to choose I'd call myself a tourist rather than a traveller. Yet I've just spent the last couple of weeks completely solo travelling through the tribal regions in Pakistan sleeping in the biggest hellhole hotels imaginable, taking the most unpleasant bus rides of my life. So go figure. I just think the whole comparison / labelling / superiority complex thing, whatever is a pile of crap and in a way goes against the entire essence of travelling.
It's like let's do this wonderful mind opening thing that is going to make us better people, allow us to learn about cultures and the world....yet let's apply these childish prejudices and backwardass ideas to others who want to experience exactly the same things as us, yet don't have the time or are slightly more apprehensive about doing it the same way as us. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| trevorcollins wrote: |
| ...I've just spent the last couple of weeks completely solo travelling through the tribal regions in Pakistan sleeping in the biggest hellhole hotels imaginable, taking the most unpleasant bus rides of my life... |
Really?
I'm not envious.  |
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trevorcollins
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| I'm not envious. |
Why not.....?? In spite of the difficulties it's been an amazing experience...isn't that the core of what people have just argued being a "traveller" is all about...?
Amazing how isolated you can be these days and still get online huh?? |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
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| trevorcollins wrote: |
| Why not.....?? In spite of the difficulties it's been an amazing experience...isn't that the core of what people have just argued being a "traveller" is all about... |
I'm VERY envious... guess the implication didn't get through
or else you've been away from the subtleties of native speech too long  |
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trevorcollins
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actually the emoticons aren't loading properly.
So I took "I'm not envious" to mean you're not envious, when in reality you are I guess. |
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