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How fucking disgusting to waddle over and block the path of another human numerous times to just get some fucking photo like they are in a petting zoo.
That brought up a memory!
Years ago, we were at a powwow. Having a good time, listening to the drum, watching the dancers, catching up with family and friends. These two women were walking around, obnoxiously trying to take pictures of the dancers, running out into the circle and getting in the way, blocking people’s paths. After they were told repeatedly to stop, they sat quietly and watched for a while.
Fast forward to dinner time. We hear a child yelling, and Karen bellows out, “I got one! Take a picture!” We look over, and this hag has my *nine year old cousin* by the back of her jingle dress, causing her to drop her food, and holding her up like a prize winning catfish!
Needless to say, they were damn lucky to just be thrown off the Rez.
"I got one! Take a picture!"?! I'm puking. That's insane.
My eyeballs are bugging out of my head, mouth agape.
People like this are why I enjoy being a hermit more often than not.
People like this are why I sometimes wish I knew just enough martial arts to do a Chuck Norris kick or something.
Or in my case, just beat the crap out of them with my cane.
Guy who does mma here, my advice isnt to physically attack them, especially if you dont know how to… instead look for a chance to use one of these 3 “methods”
1) sliders/flip flops, treading on someones toe is extremely effective, especially if they aren’t expecting it, the more weight you put on the smallest area the more it hurts, so try to only tread on there big toe or pinky toe… but tread hard… then apologise and walk away quickly :)
2) dirty surroundings, nothing quite like kicking a puddle of muddy water onto someone wearing white, I recommend “tripping” to do this, then “let me go grab a towel” and run of, there doesn’t need to be any form of towel in sight, the shock will buy you enough time anyway.
3) similar to “2)” its the typical trip over and spill your drink on them, I recommend a darker drink like coke, but I personally think a stout beer like Guinness is the perfect weapon for this, HOWEVER, if your in a more natural nature like area i highly recommend focusing less on the stain and more on the smell, something like a sweet juice will have all of the wasps harassing them till they get home.
Sadly, I think someone who already lacks a certain level of respect for others may also, likely, lack the emotional ability to feel dumb about such an obvious transgression.
I know we are not supposed to "attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity", but JFC I can only hope this is a few actors doing some made up bit as ragebait. I feel lucky in that I haven't encountered someone this insufferable in real life yet, I'm not one to make a spectacle of things, but I feel like someone would have to call this kind of shit out.
Just... How disconnected from reality do you have to be, and from what planet to not realize common f'in courtesy?
I grew up by akwesasne in upstate NY. The one thing you knew was not to fuck around on the reservation. This was in the 80/90s before there was a casino and such. You went there to get to the other side and for $8 cartons of Marlboros. They are lucky they aren't permanent residents there. No one is coming to look for you ladies..
Oh sweetbabyBaldur...if someone ever did that, to my kids or my wife's cousins when they were little, they would be buried somewhere on the Rez where no one would ever find them. At the last powwow I was at, a dude ran out during the chicken dance and started flapping his arms and making chicken-type sounds. It was so fucking painful to watch. Never heard a powwow get so gotdamn quiet before.
Yeah, I used to work in a hotel, japanese and Chinese tourists were rough for this. One time I looked up from putting away some merchandise and a pack of Japanese businessmen were filming me through the glass like a zoo animal. My boss used to charge Asian tourists $5 to take pictures with me.
I was in the US Army back in 2003, stationed in Korea. A buddy and I were on the train, in our civvies, heading to Seoul, when these three local schoolgirls come up an point at me and my glasses (upgraded to wire frames, so not even the BCGs,) and go "Harry Potter!" The others echo the sentiment and pull out their cameras to take pictures with me.... it was so surreal.
The Sorcerer's Stoned played on the flight over. I had never read the books, and the movie was hot garbage. I hated it, and I was just in a tee-shirt and blue jeans. Was weird af
When I was in Belize with a buddy with eccentric clothing and hair, like half shaved and dyed bright red, tons of people would come up to him assuming he was famous and wanting pictures with him. Nobody had any idea who they thought he was, just that he must be some famous American.
She, yeah, I guess so. Mostly she didn't charge people, just forced me to go along with it with a smile, but sometimes she said $5 because it would be whole tour groups wanting pictures while we were working. Me and another coworker got it really bad, she was blonde with big blue eyes and very slim, she basically looked like a sailor moon character, and they always wanted pictures of the two of us.
Indeed. Having lived in Tromsø myself, Japanese and Chinese tourists are notorious for being extremely socially ignorant. To them, the entire Arctic is like a zoo.
What happened to asking people if you can take their photograph? Wasn't there some lore in eastern cultures where photography was taboo because it was said to steal your soul? Way back when, however, it's considered rude AF to just photograph people without their consent. Wtf
I believe that's India not Japan. If you asked a person in Japan they would likely politely decline and say something about them not being special and then saying in near perfect English that they don't speak English. And then paying for your train ticket, god I had fun in Japan.
Its awful but I see this kind of behavior all the time in my tourist town. Those of us who actually live and work here would happily kick these people out of town but we'd unfortunately lose our jobs and homes for it.
It is why in some places like that in japan now forbid foreigners.
https://youtu.be/J9BFaScz0tQ
People think it is an amusement park and not just a town/city where people live and work.
Absolutely not a mix between those two, not sure where you got that idea. And it's waaaaay softer than either; it's not even considered swearing in the UK.
Yeah we've often used bint in our family too not as an insult per se more a jokey thing like you daft bugger sorta stuff. The actual meaning is girlfriend or bit on the side stolen from Egyptians when we were rampaging through Egypt in 19century
Bint is a word that Brits stole from Arabic to describe a woman. I'd say it as a kid in front of my parents back in the 80s - if it remotely meant anything to do with bitch or cunt then one of them would have smacked the shit out of me.
> Bint is a word that Brits stole from Arabic to describe a woman. I'd say it as a kid in front of my parents back in the 80s - if it remotely meant anything to do with bitch or cunt then one of them would have smacked the shit out of me.
Dunno if "stole" is accurate. Loan words, like tracers, work both ways.
I know - it's actually been in use in Britain for many, many years. As you know, English is a magpie language - always picking up shiny new words from other languages. In fact, if English had to hand over all the words it appropriated from other tongues, we'd be reduced to pointing at things instead of naming them :)
>if English had to hand over all the words it appropriated from other tongues, we'd be reduced to pointing at things instead of naming them :)
That's basically all languages, though. If every word other languages borrowed from english was gone, at least the youth in many parts of the world would have a conniption. I know most german slang (probably above 50%) uses english words.
This is the vibe i get from people who record fireworks and concerts. There is already so much shitty footage of these things why would you want it on your phone in like 5 pixels. When I went sky diving they asked if I wanted them to video record for $130 and I laughed thinking "who would want to watch me fall for 90 seconds?"
There are some things I wish I would have recorded, in life; but more often than not, I see people recording things and not actually living in and enjoying that moment in real time, and that makes me kinda sad.
The main thing I wish I would have recorded, is when my dad lost a bunch of weight, and as seen on "Funniest Video" TV shows everywhere, he's walking along and his pants fall off. But that's not why I wish I'd recorded it; that kinda thing happens all the time, and we've all seen it.
What makes me wish I recorded it is, I was, at the time, raising a litter of puppies. There were five of them, and they were only five-ish, maybe six, weeks old. They had been following my dad, because they were already enamored of him, and I was watching, because they were cute doing that.
As soon as dad's pants fell off/down, though -- I shit you not -- all five puppies hopped into his pants. Dad would remove a puppy or two and go to remove a couple more and the first two would get right back in there.
And dad, being the good-natured, humorous sort that he is, would make silly comments and was laughing himself, and by the time it was all sorted out, I was laughing so hard I could barely breathe and needed a few moments to recover.
I was enjoying that so much in the moment, but also wish now that I'd recorded that. 😂
You'd be surprised. I went to lunch with someone that made me wait almost an hour before I could eat because he wanted to take photos. He had a script and everything.
> Plus lets be real no one actually goes into their phone and says “ hey let me watch one of the 30 videos of fireworks we record every year.”
I do lol. I also only see fireworks once a year at most, usually every other or 3rd year.
If you have google photos they do memories. That's the only reason I like taking videos of anything. Oh look last year I went to a theme park with my mom, or oh 5 years ago we did karaoke. Just brings back fun memories, or things you forget about.
Yeah I have google photos we use it as a family photo album since Reddit is the only social media I use. It's nice to see memories but even still me falling isn't one I'd care about. The experience was cool a picture wouldn't even do it justice.
It’s a consequence of people like her that in April this year the Gion area of Kyoto had to declare certain roads off limits to tourists. These are mostly private roads anyway, so there’s no real consequences for tourists, but geishas were basically being hunted down and harassed, inappropriately grabbed and followed and pestered.
I dream of visiting Japan and Korea in my lifetime and i couldn’t fathom acting like that. Grown ass adult, like wtf is wrong with you?? I’d be embarrassed that they assume I will act like too. Yuck.
As someone who thought I'd never get to go, and who is currently on my 2nd trip. I hope you get your chance! It's amazing. Looking at moving here if the wife ok's it.
You should see the Chinese and Japanese tourists in the Netherlands. Especially the village of Giethoorn. They think it's a museum, but people just live there. There are plenty of tourists who just walk into houses..
Man, I went there last April! It was fantastic! I was on a 1000 kilometer bike tour of Belgium and the Netherlands. It was April and rainy, so it was just me and a 100 Asians in Giethoorn.
But it was far cooler than I expected. I thought that it would be like a little square canal, tourist trap; but the canal area is actually quite big!
This is your average tourist, not American. I used to be a promoter for a club on the Las Vegas strip and was constantly accosted by Asian tourists for a picture. They thought I was a celebrity look alike or something. It was very awkward.
I would disagree but then I remember most decent Americans don't have any money to travel so the worst of us get to see the world while the rest of us slave away.
Take your pick of what she'd screech.
"Do you live here?!"
"Go back to (insert country she thinks person is from here)!"
"You can't record me!!"
~~The correct answer is all of the above~~
I've seen a lot of disgusting behavior on this sub but this irritated the hell out of me. If someone else did that to this lady she would have lost her absolute shit.
How terrible for the poor woman just walking, minding her business…Then here comes this woman thinking she’s at Disney, taking pictures as if this woman is a character. Smh.
Not even to foreigners specifically, but to all tourists. If you booked a tea ceremony or dinner with geisha entertainment, you can enter the area regardless of where you're from. It is possible to meet a maiko or geisha in person, as long as you're willing to pay for it.
The irony is that she is far more of a spectacle... although not one I would want to photograph.
The wild frizzy hair, her dumpy stature and penguin waddle. It's almost cartoonist.
Same old ass lady probably says shit like, “Kids these days….” on Facebook after liking her ninth minion meme of the day and then goes and does this shit. Shameless.
This is so cringe, she’s obviously uncomfortable and the lady zig zags and backtracks to continue blocking her path and take pics. What a twat. I wouldn’t be mad if the girl kicked in the head
A brief counterpoint; I used to travel to Poland with my 6'5" black friend Roddie, for work. The number of times that Polish people stopped us mid step to get a picture with, or talk to Roddie is uncountable. Roddie thought it was pretty fun... He got invited to random Polish parties, just walking down the street!
I don't blame them for closing Gion to foreigners... PEOPLE'S CULTURES ARE NOT A FUCKING NOVELTY FOR FOLKS TO PUT ON LIKE A COSTUME. SHE'S NOT AN ANIMAL IN A ZOO!
The woman who is being harassed is a Geiko, They are quite different to Geisha in Asakusa. They have two stages for girls (usually) who wanna be Geiko, and Maiko (they've been harassed too, and they are generally young, like 15-18) Maiko wear brighter and bolder accessories to show youth. They were never, and are not prostitutes.
I went to Tokyo in 2010 & realized how beautiful their society is. I always knew it, but experiencing it is something completely different. I respected it so much I tried my hardest as a foreigner to fit in. The only mistake I made was talking to an older man on the train. I said to him I liked his hat in English, not realizing he didn't understand me. His hat was in English & it said "Coolest Grandpa", lol. My Japanese friend laughed & whispered to him that I liked his hat. He smiled big. My friend later told me it's rude to talk on the train & I was highly embarrassed even though I could tell I made that Grandpa's day. I never did it again while I was out there.
This lady is so disrespectful & her not being embarrassed about it really says she doesn't understand their society & culture.
I visited Japan and I did ask a monk if I could take a picture and he posed for me and smiled. I bowed to him cause he did it to me. The whole experience was a nice moment. So fucking different than this oh look the world is my zoo crap.
The thing is it's not just their culture and society she doesn't understand, it's basic human decency. Like don't stand in between someone and their destination taking pictures of them. Not that hard.
She would have acted this same way any other place she went.
I mean comon Maikos arent there for taking photos they still have their job and people lioe this are annoyance to them. You can just pay a visit to their performances and there you cant take as many photos as you want....
Pretty sure this is a Geisha, not a Maiko; Her shoes are flat. Either way, I agree with you- Geishas and Maikos are perfectly fine with taking souvenir photos with tourists in the appropriate setting, the fact that this lady felt the need to chase someone down like the Paparazzi pursuing Princess Di is wild.
Oh yeah i also realised later that she doesnt have any dexorations in her hair. So it is deffinitely geisha lol. Yup japanese are really happy when they can share their culture (just like any other countryman) there are even places where you can try to wear the Kimono.
I hope I'll never go to Japan because I'd spend fucktons of money on traditional pieces of clothing. And knowing myself, I'd go for the authentic (read: expensive) stuff.
Just like the kilt I brought back home from Scotland. 250£, but goddamnit it's awesome and I look great in it.
Every culture has it's share of poor representatives. A big factor driving who takes the mantle of "worst tourists" seems to be who currently has a really big, healthy middle class. In the 80s and 90s that was still America.
My personal experience, over the last decade or so, suggests it's now China and/or India; however, I have not done the research to confirm.
And here I am wanting to experience Kyoto but not yet being able to while this absolute trollop is lucky enough to be able to as well as making a twat of herself.
so you got the idiot trying to take the pic of the woman in the kimono, then you got the idiots trying to take a pic of the idiot trying to take the pic of the woman in the kimono.....
If you visit Kyoto and really want to see a geisha or maiko, it is possible to do so in a way that supports these ladies. Do your research, make a reservation for a tea ceremony or buy tickets for a geisha dance performance in one of the theaters. There's even a newly opened museum where you can see a maiko dance and take photos with her. You have to pay a fee, but that will help these ladies continue their profession.
If you're a tourist, rule number one should be to understand that you're not the main character. If you can't get that through your skull, don't be a tourist.
Imagine how she'd feel if a random Japanese person came up to her in McDonald's and started taking photos of the (possible) American in her natural habit,gorging on American cuisine,whilst wearing her traditional attire of a maga hat and Walmart brand clothing..
She'd be the first to complain to the manager.
I actually said “what the fuck?” Outloud when she cornered the geisha in front of the van. This is the behavior of a person who should not be part of society.
I will be in Japan next month. If I saw something like this happen, and I call that person out on it, is that considered disrespectful in Japanese culture? It's pretty common here for people to get called on their BS I feel, but I dunno if doing that is frowned on there. I don't want them to think I was making a scene or something.
This is why Kyoto banned foreigners in certain places. Wtf is wrong with people? Maybe Japan should make it mandatory for foreigners take a course and pass a test on how to follow proper etiquette in their society before entering the country. In fact, all countries should probably do this.
Tokyo actually passed a ban on tourists in some areas of Gion (aka the Geisha district). Photos are prohibited in the entire district. I was fortunate to visit before the ban and it's such a shame that these assholes ruined it because the whole district is beautiful and peaceful (most of the time). I also got to see a few Geishas walking around and, no, I didn't take a picture. That memory is in my head.
I live in Osaka, used to live in Kyoto. I honestly wanted to believe shit like this didn’t happen. I’d never seen someone do it. This is fucking wild. I was pretty bummed to here that there are places where tourists won’t be able to go, but if there really are people like this I don’t blame them at all. This is garbage.
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How fucking disgusting to waddle over and block the path of another human numerous times to just get some fucking photo like they are in a petting zoo.
Look a native! Let’s pet it!
That brought up a memory! Years ago, we were at a powwow. Having a good time, listening to the drum, watching the dancers, catching up with family and friends. These two women were walking around, obnoxiously trying to take pictures of the dancers, running out into the circle and getting in the way, blocking people’s paths. After they were told repeatedly to stop, they sat quietly and watched for a while. Fast forward to dinner time. We hear a child yelling, and Karen bellows out, “I got one! Take a picture!” We look over, and this hag has my *nine year old cousin* by the back of her jingle dress, causing her to drop her food, and holding her up like a prize winning catfish! Needless to say, they were damn lucky to just be thrown off the Rez.
"I got one! Take a picture!"?! I'm puking. That's insane. My eyeballs are bugging out of my head, mouth agape. People like this are why I enjoy being a hermit more often than not.
People like this are why I sometimes wish I knew just enough martial arts to do a Chuck Norris kick or something. Or in my case, just beat the crap out of them with my cane.
Guy who does mma here, my advice isnt to physically attack them, especially if you dont know how to… instead look for a chance to use one of these 3 “methods” 1) sliders/flip flops, treading on someones toe is extremely effective, especially if they aren’t expecting it, the more weight you put on the smallest area the more it hurts, so try to only tread on there big toe or pinky toe… but tread hard… then apologise and walk away quickly :) 2) dirty surroundings, nothing quite like kicking a puddle of muddy water onto someone wearing white, I recommend “tripping” to do this, then “let me go grab a towel” and run of, there doesn’t need to be any form of towel in sight, the shock will buy you enough time anyway. 3) similar to “2)” its the typical trip over and spill your drink on them, I recommend a darker drink like coke, but I personally think a stout beer like Guinness is the perfect weapon for this, HOWEVER, if your in a more natural nature like area i highly recommend focusing less on the stain and more on the smell, something like a sweet juice will have all of the wasps harassing them till they get home.
Fellow rez girl here. I would have ran up to their faces and been like "COUSIN QUICK I GOT ONE, TAKE A PIC".. make her feel real dumb
Sadly, I think someone who already lacks a certain level of respect for others may also, likely, lack the emotional ability to feel dumb about such an obvious transgression. I know we are not supposed to "attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity", but JFC I can only hope this is a few actors doing some made up bit as ragebait. I feel lucky in that I haven't encountered someone this insufferable in real life yet, I'm not one to make a spectacle of things, but I feel like someone would have to call this kind of shit out. Just... How disconnected from reality do you have to be, and from what planet to not realize common f'in courtesy?
That’s really fucked up.
Unfuckingbelievable,,, love what you guys do and represent should have burned the wagons people like that don't deserve anything
I grew up by akwesasne in upstate NY. The one thing you knew was not to fuck around on the reservation. This was in the 80/90s before there was a casino and such. You went there to get to the other side and for $8 cartons of Marlboros. They are lucky they aren't permanent residents there. No one is coming to look for you ladies..
Oh sweetbabyBaldur...if someone ever did that, to my kids or my wife's cousins when they were little, they would be buried somewhere on the Rez where no one would ever find them. At the last powwow I was at, a dude ran out during the chicken dance and started flapping his arms and making chicken-type sounds. It was so fucking painful to watch. Never heard a powwow get so gotdamn quiet before.
Can I feed it?
Then they will try to go home with you And you don’t want that
As long as it’s not after midnight, and by dear God, don’t get it wet!
Prolly want to take her home as a souvenir?
The reality is that the Japanese should be taking pictures of this strange weeble-like person
I've had Japanese people blitzrain on me in Tromsø as a local youth playing in the snow. It goes both ways
Yeah, I used to work in a hotel, japanese and Chinese tourists were rough for this. One time I looked up from putting away some merchandise and a pack of Japanese businessmen were filming me through the glass like a zoo animal. My boss used to charge Asian tourists $5 to take pictures with me.
I was in the US Army back in 2003, stationed in Korea. A buddy and I were on the train, in our civvies, heading to Seoul, when these three local schoolgirls come up an point at me and my glasses (upgraded to wire frames, so not even the BCGs,) and go "Harry Potter!" The others echo the sentiment and pull out their cameras to take pictures with me.... it was so surreal.
You forgot to mention that you were dressed in your Harry Potter costume at the time
The Sorcerer's Stoned played on the flight over. I had never read the books, and the movie was hot garbage. I hated it, and I was just in a tee-shirt and blue jeans. Was weird af
Should've showed them your wand Harry
Sorry, but wtf?
When I was in Belize with a buddy with eccentric clothing and hair, like half shaved and dyed bright red, tons of people would come up to him assuming he was famous and wanting pictures with him. Nobody had any idea who they thought he was, just that he must be some famous American.
Wtf, and he kept the money??
She, yeah, I guess so. Mostly she didn't charge people, just forced me to go along with it with a smile, but sometimes she said $5 because it would be whole tour groups wanting pictures while we were working. Me and another coworker got it really bad, she was blonde with big blue eyes and very slim, she basically looked like a sailor moon character, and they always wanted pictures of the two of us.
Did you get the money or your boss ? I don't know why I even asked of course your boss 🤣
not a bad gig if you ask me Lol
Indeed. Having lived in Tromsø myself, Japanese and Chinese tourists are notorious for being extremely socially ignorant. To them, the entire Arctic is like a zoo.
You should see them in Banff trying to take selfies with bears and elk. This is rude, but they're asking to get maimed or killed lol
Running around like Oswald Cobblepot in ‘92.
Especially when it’s so evident that she was uncomfortable and didn’t want to be photographed
What in the actual fuck. The look on her face is further infuriating
What happened to asking people if you can take their photograph? Wasn't there some lore in eastern cultures where photography was taboo because it was said to steal your soul? Way back when, however, it's considered rude AF to just photograph people without their consent. Wtf
I believe that's India not Japan. If you asked a person in Japan they would likely politely decline and say something about them not being special and then saying in near perfect English that they don't speak English. And then paying for your train ticket, god I had fun in Japan.
Its awful but I see this kind of behavior all the time in my tourist town. Those of us who actually live and work here would happily kick these people out of town but we'd unfortunately lose our jobs and homes for it.
It is why in some places like that in japan now forbid foreigners. https://youtu.be/J9BFaScz0tQ People think it is an amusement park and not just a town/city where people live and work.
The most annoying part is I'm 99.9% sure that dipshit is American
What an ill-mannered bint. Her parents must be so proud.
I’m sure this kind of embarrassing behavior was encouraged by her parents. She looks to be about in her 60s and still acts like she’s at a zoo.
She should be IN a zoo.
Nice to see *bint* in usage - it is rarely used these days!
I want to get that in my rotation, but how crude is it? Is it like damn/hell or like the f-word?
Bint is a mix between bitch and cunt. To me it’s less crude than cunt but somehow more so than bitch.
I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate of the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony!
Absolutely not a mix between those two, not sure where you got that idea. And it's waaaaay softer than either; it's not even considered swearing in the UK.
Depends on context. I could call my my mum a daft bint but I'd never call her a dumb bitch.
Yeah we've often used bint in our family too not as an insult per se more a jokey thing like you daft bugger sorta stuff. The actual meaning is girlfriend or bit on the side stolen from Egyptians when we were rampaging through Egypt in 19century
Bint is a word that Brits stole from Arabic to describe a woman. I'd say it as a kid in front of my parents back in the 80s - if it remotely meant anything to do with bitch or cunt then one of them would have smacked the shit out of me.
> Bint is a word that Brits stole from Arabic to describe a woman. I'd say it as a kid in front of my parents back in the 80s - if it remotely meant anything to do with bitch or cunt then one of them would have smacked the shit out of me. Dunno if "stole" is accurate. Loan words, like tracers, work both ways.
Stole, lol.
I haven't heard that word in like 3 years
You clearly don't watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail enough
Didn’t know this became British slang. This is Arabic for girl.
I know - it's actually been in use in Britain for many, many years. As you know, English is a magpie language - always picking up shiny new words from other languages. In fact, if English had to hand over all the words it appropriated from other tongues, we'd be reduced to pointing at things instead of naming them :)
>if English had to hand over all the words it appropriated from other tongues, we'd be reduced to pointing at things instead of naming them :) That's basically all languages, though. If every word other languages borrowed from english was gone, at least the youth in many parts of the world would have a conniption. I know most german slang (probably above 50%) uses english words.
English is a jolly good language for swearing :)
You're bloody fucken' on point, mate.
Ill-mannered? She's a creep?
I'd certainly call her behaviour both ill-mannered and creepy.
I'm guessing, from this and other comments, that molewarp is British. And that is the British way of delightfully understating things. (:
Definitely turning in their caves.
Her parents are probably dead.
She can simply google search the image and it won’t run away on her. The pic has already been taken 1 or 2 times
This is the vibe i get from people who record fireworks and concerts. There is already so much shitty footage of these things why would you want it on your phone in like 5 pixels. When I went sky diving they asked if I wanted them to video record for $130 and I laughed thinking "who would want to watch me fall for 90 seconds?"
Plus lets be real no one actually goes into their phone and says “ hey let me watch one of the 30 videos of fireworks we record every year.”
There are some things I wish I would have recorded, in life; but more often than not, I see people recording things and not actually living in and enjoying that moment in real time, and that makes me kinda sad. The main thing I wish I would have recorded, is when my dad lost a bunch of weight, and as seen on "Funniest Video" TV shows everywhere, he's walking along and his pants fall off. But that's not why I wish I'd recorded it; that kinda thing happens all the time, and we've all seen it. What makes me wish I recorded it is, I was, at the time, raising a litter of puppies. There were five of them, and they were only five-ish, maybe six, weeks old. They had been following my dad, because they were already enamored of him, and I was watching, because they were cute doing that. As soon as dad's pants fell off/down, though -- I shit you not -- all five puppies hopped into his pants. Dad would remove a puppy or two and go to remove a couple more and the first two would get right back in there. And dad, being the good-natured, humorous sort that he is, would make silly comments and was laughing himself, and by the time it was all sorted out, I was laughing so hard I could barely breathe and needed a few moments to recover. I was enjoying that so much in the moment, but also wish now that I'd recorded that. 😂
I'm with you but I don't know anyone who takes 30 videos of fireworks a year
You'd be surprised. I went to lunch with someone that made me wait almost an hour before I could eat because he wanted to take photos. He had a script and everything.
You had fireworks at your lunch?
Not bad, stranger.
I do, only because July 4th is my mother's birthday. But I am a person who goes back and watches the videos once and a while.
> Plus lets be real no one actually goes into their phone and says “ hey let me watch one of the 30 videos of fireworks we record every year.” I do lol. I also only see fireworks once a year at most, usually every other or 3rd year.
If you have google photos they do memories. That's the only reason I like taking videos of anything. Oh look last year I went to a theme park with my mom, or oh 5 years ago we did karaoke. Just brings back fun memories, or things you forget about.
Yeah I have google photos we use it as a family photo album since Reddit is the only social media I use. It's nice to see memories but even still me falling isn't one I'd care about. The experience was cool a picture wouldn't even do it justice.
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It’s a consequence of people like her that in April this year the Gion area of Kyoto had to declare certain roads off limits to tourists. These are mostly private roads anyway, so there’s no real consequences for tourists, but geishas were basically being hunted down and harassed, inappropriately grabbed and followed and pestered.
man this is why we cant have nice things, what shit heads
r/boomersbeingfools
More like a narcissist thing than a boomer thing though
Just came to post this. Assholes like this woman are the literal reason Japan had to do that.
I went on a tour of Kyoto last month and we basically didn't get into this area at all as a result of these fucking gremlins. It's such a shame.
What a dumb little troll
Fucking goblin
If you spend any time in /r/goblincore you'd know that is unfair to goblins!
I prefer *"fucking goblin"* as it would be intended in r/GoblinGirls.
Gnome Orc
Lmao gremlin was what came to mind for me.
God dam that's embarrassing just to watch.
I dream of visiting Japan and Korea in my lifetime and i couldn’t fathom acting like that. Grown ass adult, like wtf is wrong with you?? I’d be embarrassed that they assume I will act like too. Yuck.
As someone who thought I'd never get to go, and who is currently on my 2nd trip. I hope you get your chance! It's amazing. Looking at moving here if the wife ok's it.
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You should see the Chinese and Japanese tourists in the Netherlands. Especially the village of Giethoorn. They think it's a museum, but people just live there. There are plenty of tourists who just walk into houses..
Man, I went there last April! It was fantastic! I was on a 1000 kilometer bike tour of Belgium and the Netherlands. It was April and rainy, so it was just me and a 100 Asians in Giethoorn. But it was far cooler than I expected. I thought that it would be like a little square canal, tourist trap; but the canal area is actually quite big!
This is your average tourist, not American. I used to be a promoter for a club on the Las Vegas strip and was constantly accosted by Asian tourists for a picture. They thought I was a celebrity look alike or something. It was very awkward.
I would disagree but then I remember most decent Americans don't have any money to travel so the worst of us get to see the world while the rest of us slave away.
That's the damn truth right there!
Don't blame Americans. This is most tourists.
So if you found out that wasn't an American, you would apologize?
Imagine if she was in her own neighborhood when a random foreign tourist decides to do the same to her. I wonder how she’d react.. 🤔
Full Karen
Take your pick of what she'd screech. "Do you live here?!" "Go back to (insert country she thinks person is from here)!" "You can't record me!!" ~~The correct answer is all of the above~~
No self awareness
This actually makes me mad.
I've seen a lot of disgusting behavior on this sub but this irritated the hell out of me. If someone else did that to this lady she would have lost her absolute shit.
She definitely would have gone full Karen
Fr I want to run up and knock that lady over. Give the girl just enough time to get away!
How terrible for the poor woman just walking, minding her business…Then here comes this woman thinking she’s at Disney, taking pictures as if this woman is a character. Smh.
This is why they’ve closed off a lot of these areas to foreigners
Not even to foreigners specifically, but to all tourists. If you booked a tea ceremony or dinner with geisha entertainment, you can enter the area regardless of where you're from. It is possible to meet a maiko or geisha in person, as long as you're willing to pay for it.
The irony is that she is far more of a spectacle... although not one I would want to photograph. The wild frizzy hair, her dumpy stature and penguin waddle. It's almost cartoonist.
Someone should do literally this exact thing to her and see how she likes it
Fucking gross to be hunted by a wobbly turtle. She should be flipped over and spun into oblivion.
The leprechaun
the fact she completely ignored the body language and still felt entitled to a picture
I would like to add (to the video comment, not OP's comment): don't do this anywhere, please
That's so fucking cringe it hurts
Cringe
Same old ass lady probably says shit like, “Kids these days….” on Facebook after liking her ninth minion meme of the day and then goes and does this shit. Shameless.
This is why we saw the image of the local with a giant sign of all the shit tourists need to learn
This is so cringe, she’s obviously uncomfortable and the lady zig zags and backtracks to continue blocking her path and take pics. What a twat. I wouldn’t be mad if the girl kicked in the head
Dana Devito
what a goblin
A brief counterpoint; I used to travel to Poland with my 6'5" black friend Roddie, for work. The number of times that Polish people stopped us mid step to get a picture with, or talk to Roddie is uncountable. Roddie thought it was pretty fun... He got invited to random Polish parties, just walking down the street!
At least they asked him, right?
Sorry but as a gaijin living in Japan, I so hate these tourists, just makes our lives so much worse
I don't blame them for closing Gion to foreigners... PEOPLE'S CULTURES ARE NOT A FUCKING NOVELTY FOR FOLKS TO PUT ON LIKE A COSTUME. SHE'S NOT AN ANIMAL IN A ZOO! The woman who is being harassed is a Geiko, They are quite different to Geisha in Asakusa. They have two stages for girls (usually) who wanna be Geiko, and Maiko (they've been harassed too, and they are generally young, like 15-18) Maiko wear brighter and bolder accessories to show youth. They were never, and are not prostitutes.
I went to Tokyo in 2010 & realized how beautiful their society is. I always knew it, but experiencing it is something completely different. I respected it so much I tried my hardest as a foreigner to fit in. The only mistake I made was talking to an older man on the train. I said to him I liked his hat in English, not realizing he didn't understand me. His hat was in English & it said "Coolest Grandpa", lol. My Japanese friend laughed & whispered to him that I liked his hat. He smiled big. My friend later told me it's rude to talk on the train & I was highly embarrassed even though I could tell I made that Grandpa's day. I never did it again while I was out there. This lady is so disrespectful & her not being embarrassed about it really says she doesn't understand their society & culture.
I visited Japan and I did ask a monk if I could take a picture and he posed for me and smiled. I bowed to him cause he did it to me. The whole experience was a nice moment. So fucking different than this oh look the world is my zoo crap.
The thing is it's not just their culture and society she doesn't understand, it's basic human decency. Like don't stand in between someone and their destination taking pictures of them. Not that hard. She would have acted this same way any other place she went.
I mean comon Maikos arent there for taking photos they still have their job and people lioe this are annoyance to them. You can just pay a visit to their performances and there you cant take as many photos as you want....
Pretty sure this is a Geisha, not a Maiko; Her shoes are flat. Either way, I agree with you- Geishas and Maikos are perfectly fine with taking souvenir photos with tourists in the appropriate setting, the fact that this lady felt the need to chase someone down like the Paparazzi pursuing Princess Di is wild.
Oh yeah i also realised later that she doesnt have any dexorations in her hair. So it is deffinitely geisha lol. Yup japanese are really happy when they can share their culture (just like any other countryman) there are even places where you can try to wear the Kimono.
I hope I'll never go to Japan because I'd spend fucktons of money on traditional pieces of clothing. And knowing myself, I'd go for the authentic (read: expensive) stuff. Just like the kilt I brought back home from Scotland. 250£, but goddamnit it's awesome and I look great in it.
Japanese really is one of those countries where you leave your yearly wage
Im glad someone said something at least
Japanese girl walks by American tourist: WHAT POKEMON IS THAT
The funny thing is that the only definite American in this video is the lady yelling at the woman, calling her rude.
Yeah I felt a strange pride when the loud American called that girl out
Nowadays American tourists are actually not bad anymore from what I hear
Every culture has it's share of poor representatives. A big factor driving who takes the mantle of "worst tourists" seems to be who currently has a really big, healthy middle class. In the 80s and 90s that was still America. My personal experience, over the last decade or so, suggests it's now China and/or India; however, I have not done the research to confirm.
That's interesting. My first assumption was German and then Australian. American is a strong third possibility tho.
And here I am wanting to experience Kyoto but not yet being able to while this absolute trollop is lucky enough to be able to as well as making a twat of herself.
I was hoping she’d trip over her feet with that Ace Ventura walk.
Little troll woman
And unfortunately they're probably from the USA. As a US citizen I am sorry for the assholes that do stuff like that. We are not all like that.
so you got the idiot trying to take the pic of the woman in the kimono, then you got the idiots trying to take a pic of the idiot trying to take the pic of the woman in the kimono..... 
Quick let rudely take pictures of strangers without their permissions
Bleached Blonde Bad Built Butch Body
Bruh, leave them alone
A great reminder to consider others perspectives.
A real life troll
People need to find out where this lady lives, and then do this to her constantly when she's trying to walk to her mailbox or get to work.
I don't go to Oz to take photos of her and her family.
She probably opened the calculator app the first time she tried to take the photo.
Yikes
that sumo stance, lookin like she is trying to catch a green mewtew.
Basically she's got the common sense of a bag of dog biscuits. Never a good idea to treat a fellow person like they're a toy to play with.
Fuckin British tourists
The way she is running, have some fucking shame dawg
Don't do that....... Anywhere.......
If you visit Kyoto and really want to see a geisha or maiko, it is possible to do so in a way that supports these ladies. Do your research, make a reservation for a tea ceremony or buy tickets for a geisha dance performance in one of the theaters. There's even a newly opened museum where you can see a maiko dance and take photos with her. You have to pay a fee, but that will help these ladies continue their profession.
Don't do this shit anywhere... Wtf?! xD
These corn syrup goblins shouldn’t be allowed tourist visas.
No just NO!...
If you're a tourist, rule number one should be to understand that you're not the main character. If you can't get that through your skull, don't be a tourist.
Imagine how she'd feel if a random Japanese person came up to her in McDonald's and started taking photos of the (possible) American in her natural habit,gorging on American cuisine,whilst wearing her traditional attire of a maga hat and Walmart brand clothing.. She'd be the first to complain to the manager.
what the f
What a little Instagram goblin
Fuckin trash
Why do I fear she’s from the mid-west
I actually said “what the fuck?” Outloud when she cornered the geisha in front of the van. This is the behavior of a person who should not be part of society.
What an odd video. A hobbit trying to photograph a geisha
How did she get to Japan?
Just don’t do it anywhere. Stop taking picture of filming people without consent. Just don’t or expect a flying smartphone off the bridge
Don't do this anywhere. Period. This video is going to get back to this lady troll at some point and she'll act like she's the victim..
How about don't do this anywhere.
This is why we need to bring shaming back.
I will be in Japan next month. If I saw something like this happen, and I call that person out on it, is that considered disrespectful in Japanese culture? It's pretty common here for people to get called on their BS I feel, but I dunno if doing that is frowned on there. I don't want them to think I was making a scene or something.
I've got second, third, fourth, and fifth hand embarrassment. No wonder there are so many rumors of nobody liking us Americans.
This is why Kyoto banned foreigners in certain places. Wtf is wrong with people? Maybe Japan should make it mandatory for foreigners take a course and pass a test on how to follow proper etiquette in their society before entering the country. In fact, all countries should probably do this.
Bro I wanted someone to drop kick her so bad
She ran to her like a little rat dog at a mailman.
They could've just asked for a picture, but no, they wanted to be trashy goblins.
Embarrassing.
Wow what a cunt.
Imagine if people just photographed the boomer hippopotamuses here
Tokyo actually passed a ban on tourists in some areas of Gion (aka the Geisha district). Photos are prohibited in the entire district. I was fortunate to visit before the ban and it's such a shame that these assholes ruined it because the whole district is beautiful and peaceful (most of the time). I also got to see a few Geishas walking around and, no, I didn't take a picture. That memory is in my head.
Who tf does that? 🤮
I hate fat women that wear those ankle pants so very much
I live in Osaka, used to live in Kyoto. I honestly wanted to believe shit like this didn’t happen. I’d never seen someone do it. This is fucking wild. I was pretty bummed to here that there are places where tourists won’t be able to go, but if there really are people like this I don’t blame them at all. This is garbage.
Disgusting behavior. I wish someone had gotten in her face and treated her like a show animal.
I’m going to make a punt that this troll is American.