Interesting Links for 30-12-2014
Dec. 30th, 2014 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewducker- 5 Signs You've DEFINITELY Found "The One"
- Cars, phones, balloons, and disease-detecting nanoparticles - everything Google is working on right now
- You Have Two Days Left To Make Your Old Year’s Resolutions
- Did Kevin From ‘Home Alone’ Grow Up to Be Jigsaw? A Deadly Serious Investigation
- Lying on Facebook causes paranoia and memory problems
- Star Trek + social commentary
- Why Engagement Rings Are a Scam
- Tourist slam Arthur’s Seat over lack of gift shop
- No, Argentina's president did not adopt a Jewish child to stop him turning into a werewolf
- Seven 'great' teaching methods not backed up by evidence
- World War I soldier’s room untouched for almost 100 years
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Date: 2014-12-30 01:59 pm (UTC)My parents-in-law took an all inclusive holiday tour with excursions in the US and Canada, with the trip taking in some of the most breath-taking natural and wild locations in the North American continent.
The coach would drive to a location, people would jump out, take photos and then immediately return to sit in the coach waiting for it to go - like it was a tick box exercise: "I've been there and I have the photos to prove it!" Without any actual interest or appreciation for the places they had paid to visit. My parents-in-law are keen hikers (or, at least, were when then were younger). Requests to the rep to actually go and explore - and on foot - were met with frank bewilderment: why anyone would want to do such a thing? And when they did, it was met with impatience in case it held up the schedule.
These are the people (not my parents-in-law) and this is the attitude that produce these kinds of reviews for Arthur's Seat.
Holy shit, I despair for humanity some days.
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Date: 2014-12-30 08:56 pm (UTC)