PSA: What's with all the fucking tourists?
It's like a retirement village full of confused people walking on the wrong side of the footpath.
Posted Feb 18, 2016, 7:49 AM UTC
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Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Tattoos are like crack dealers for the elderly.
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And old people like to travel on cruise ships. Other people as well, but yeah, a confluence of touristy things means lots of extra tourists this week
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I'm nowhere near elderly but if I could afford tickets I'd be all over that.
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Cruise boats
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Yeah those 2 massive boats parked up have injected thousands if not billions of tourists into Wellington.
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Whats wrong with having tourists visit?
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That's what keeps Cable Car running. They all seem to love Cable Car.
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That's because the cable car is wonderful.
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I work across the road from the cable car, and the lines are getting pretty crazy lately! Curves out past the Macdonald's entrance.
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Yup, the line when I was using it on Tuesday was crazy - fortunately I'd come down on it and had a return ticket so I was able to skip the queue to buy a ticket. It is great that so many people are using it but also kinda frustrating when you just want to get back up to the uni
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It's not just tourists that walk on the wrong side of the footpath sadly. I live in town and walk around it everyday and have seriously considered handing out "Think like a car, walk on the left unless passing" cards.
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Yes - this kind of inefficiency bothers me. But my biggest gripe is with cyclists who decide they would like to casually bike through crowds of people instead of using the road? I can understand why they might want to use the footpath instead of the road if they're concerned about safety but a bike is a lot more un-co than a person! Actually that probably isn't my biggest gripe but I've noticed it happen a few times lately.
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there are cruise ships in everyday over summer, look out for blue lanyards and white buses everywhere!
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Is the dollar low? I don't know. Our uni students are on break, maybe uni breaks are the same in a lot of countries?
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PSA: "PSA" stands for Public Service Announcement, and it isn't really an appropriate way to frame a question.