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[–] 48 points 11 months ago (20 children)

Also, Chinese tourists everywhere.

And god forbid you ever have to be near any of the Saudi royal family.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I worked with a doctor whose in-laws were Saudi royalty. He didn't need to work at all he was so wealthy.

    I heard about him doing an incredibly greedy thing that blew my mind one day; he showed up at a dinner that a drug company was hosting for another adjacent program he had nothing to do with and did not practice in at all. He didn't even tell them he was coming, they had to find him a seat, and then he sat down, ordered not one but TWO whole lobsters, and when they came he asked for them to be wrapped to go, and he left. Even acknowledging drug companies have large budgets for these kinds of things, to come to an event that has nothing to do with you and do that is insanely rude when you don't want for a thing in the world.

    I know someone else who is very wealthy, and he's pretty generous and passionate about creating things, he's far from perfect, but truly wants to make good things and runs a business that gives him zero profit, so the contrast was pretty stark. The doctor also stiffed his professional college for a very large membership bill.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    A drug company throwing a fancy dinner in order to influence doctors to ignore the needs of their patients is so unbelievably evil that fucking with them and stealing from them is always based and worthy of praise. Being rude to them is morally correct, since the act they were committing was already more rude to begin with.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Oh, this drug company is absolutely not like that at all. They are super ethical and invest every dollar of their profits into research. The dinner was to present a new treatment which has become super standard for the clinic, which involved one of our doctors presenting, I promise it was not like that at all. They are truly generous to us. There are not many treatments for this disease and this is one of the best. It was purely educational.

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  • [–] 27 points 11 months ago (15 children)

    grew up in a major European city with lots of tourism. Asian tourists are almost invisible on how unobnoxious they are. while Americans are loud and entitled. Germans and English tourists were annoying but only came to get drunk on the beach. Israeli tourists also tend to be entitled and annoying.

    other groups were rare so not much to talk about them

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I live in Prague and work every day in the center.

    By far the worst are the Brits who get fall down drunk and try to start fights. Americans are only annoying in that they talk loudly and are often kind of dumb. But they are generally polite. They don't hold a candle to the Brits. The rest are generally mild enough as to not be noticeable unless they are in a big group blocking the sidewalk which can be any nationality.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    "Asian tourists" pretty much says all I need to know about this lil anecdote..

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Probably just a regional thing.

    In the US it means East Asian, in the UK it means Southeast Asians.

    I guess most places default to the US definition unless they have a big population like the UK due to the US exporting their language through media.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    it's because they usually stuck to their buses. no idea if they were Japanese or Chinese, never saw them anywhere beyond talking pictures in some spots.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Sorry bud, you weren't able to determine what country they were from by visual cues alone? It's over for you. He knows who you are, deep down.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    do they want me to try to remember and guess the nationality of people I saw from a distance 20 years ago?

    not going by "they all look the same" but come on. you try to guess the nationality of a tourist you saw across the street 20 or so years ago

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