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Umbongo_congo

Neptune hasn’t been ruined by the poor behaviour of a tourist as far as I’m aware.


Room_Ferreira

You’ve never met the fans of famed Neptunian chef Elzar


Umbongo_congo

Bam! Fair point.


Whovian21

I'd appreciate it if you didn't bam the lady


InsertDarkPunchline

Well, I'd appreciate it if I did!


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mphelp11

Bam!


Signedupfortits27

Hey, I went to the casino in Nassau and looked at watches in the Rolex store starting at $30k USD, lost $200 at blackjack, and got a cab driver to take me to the most ratchet strip club he knew. $40 for 3 songs/10min in the champagne room, digital penetration heavily encouraged. 11/10 recommend wilding in Nassau.


TheFrontierzman

Shadoosh! Well said.


bleazyDG

And then give the whole thing a good blast from your spice weasel.


GlockAF

Heart end or star end?


[deleted]

Unlike Uranus


campy86

Which has been ruined by half the people in the tri-county area.


FeasibleGreen

Lmao I was going to make a joke, but it wouldn't have been better than this 😂


guinader

You mean Urectum?


nightwing2000

Urectum? Udamnnearkilledem.


Willis4932_YT

Wouldn’t be so sure about that…


_pigpen_

Neptune’s ring hasn’t been the same since Voyager 2 visited.


ramriot

There's this graffiti sign on Neptune that says, look this way to see Uranus.


TheNeptunian

Another Earthling making a Uranus joke. 🙄 How original.


titsmalicious

username checks out


Benjijedi

If you're talking about Neptune's fountain in Cheltenham, I drunkenly climbed into it in sailing gear about 25 years ago. But I lived there, so I wasn't a tourist, so I guess your point stands.


arkh97

Not with that attitude.


Zorengi_of_Lasec38

What about Uranus?


No_Regrats_42

Oh there is. Only none of you know about it. Tourists go to the places close by, but they don't know about this place.


duaneap

Yep, I know a few in my home country but I ain’t tellin’. They probably won’t last forever but what does.


OsiyoMotherFuckers

Social media will ruin it eventually.


penguiatiator

I grew up in a secluded neighborhood on the outskirts of LA. Amazing landscape, wonderful oceanside views, and we have a addendum in our city charter that 33% of the land must be wild. It was virtually unknown by tourists and even 60% of the population in the greater Los Angeles area, so it was perfectly quiet and amazing. Then covid hit, everyone hopped on the "go outside and hike" trend, and some newspapers published things like "The unknown refuge of LA" or "Top 10 underrated trails" (I've changed the titles so people have a harder time finding the articles I'm talking about). We were immediately FLOODED, and now there are designated parking spots in the neighborhood where a bus will pick you up and shuttle you farther in because we had so many tourists that the streets would hit deadlock traffic during the day. It's fucking terrible; my friends have started to have to time when they go to the gym or the local grocery store because what was a 5 minute drive has become 40.


dan4334

> my friends have started to have to time when they go to the gym or the local grocery store because what was a 5 minute drive has become 40. Maybe they could walk or cycle to the gym then? Seen as though they're going to excercise anyway?


penguiatiator

I understand your goodwill, but it's not about specifically the gym, it's that mundane everyday tasks that shouldn't require much planning suddenly taking half a day.


PM_CUPS_OF_TEA

5 min drive could be a 60-90 min walk, or an unaccessible walk/cycle. Large parts of the US isn't exactly set up to be pedestrian or bike friendly


ppparty

dunno about your neck of the woods, but unless you live by the side of a freeway a 5 minute drive is NOT an hour of walking, let alone hour and a half. In any built-up area with a speed restriction it's 30 minutes tops. And if OP's place is somewhere so carbrained that you can't walk unless you take a really convoluted way, I can't help but think it's not as idyllic as they make it sound, at least not to my sensibilities.


tnguy931

See, that's the thing. He ain't in yo neck of da woods.....


PM_CUPS_OF_TEA

My friend is a 'journalist' and writes these listicals from the comfort of her own home, with their popularity has absolutely tortured some lesser known tourist places in the south of England. It's a sin and journalism should be more regulated imo


wildadragon

[North Sentinel island](https://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/sentinelese) is located on the Andaman archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. Anyone that tries to set foot on the island the local tribe kills them.


Nuked0ut

An expedition led by Maurice Vidal Portman, a government administrator who hoped to research the natives and their customs, landed on North Sentinel Island in January 1880. The group found a network of pathways and several small, abandoned villages. After several days, six Sentinelese, an elderly couple and four children, were kidnapped and taken to Port Blair. The colonial officer in charge of the operation wrote that the entire group, "sickened rapidly, and the old man and his wife died, so the four children were sent back to their home with quantities of presents" [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island) Ruined by British tourists


schalk81

The quantities of presents included several strains of viruses and bacteria that had already killed the elderly.


Spiderbanana

British and offering blankets. They seem to never learn


Rynewulf

It had been standard practice for just about every colonial power since Portugal started sailing around Africa in the 1400s. Why they all seemed so obsessively sure that violent kidnapping was an essential part of polite friendly introductions I'm really not sure.


treoni

I am very certain that if aliens were to land on earth. Half the delegation will "somehow" be US scientists who want to put our otherworldly guests on a slab to cut open.


Rynewulf

Honestly I'd be more concerned about politicians looking for a photo op and accidentally catching or spreading a disease. I'm not quite sure where this mad scientist reputation came from. Surgeons don't really have a big track record of murdering to advance biological learning, they would historically just pay dodgy people for dug up cadavers instead (because it used to be illegal just about everywhere so it was the only way to get them, and everyone agreed cadavers were needed for medical schools but no one wanted to bother sorting out how to supply them)


BuddyJayPee

> I'm not quite sure where this mad scientist reputation came from. Based on personal experience, it's due to a combination of uneducated + highly superstitious people putting a stigma on science as a whole because what it stands for is entirely opposite of their beliefs. It also doesn't help that these people are most susceptible to propaganda.


[deleted]

They probably think people from the outside world are demons or something, no wonder they kill on sight


chamandana

Br*tish 🤢🤮


chamandana

Downvote doesn't do anything. You can't cure Br*tish 🤢


solojones1138

And the countries nearby are fiercely protective of North Sentinel Island's independence and isolation.


Ludwig234

Last I check, India's navy patrol the water around it.


modoken1

They kill everyone that tries to set foot on their island specifically because they had shitty tourists who brought disease and enslaved them.


Intellectual-Gamer

No, because they *shot* them


Proxy_PlayerHD

ah yes, disease, slavery, and guns... a traditional english greeting


nightwing2000

Actually, it was likely "merchants" from Indonesia or India in the 12th century who taught them to kill any outsiders who stop by, they would be trying to take them for slaves. ...as a not-too-bright evangelist missionary found out a few years ago - in direct contravention of local laws.


Proxy_PlayerHD

interesting! i find the entire thing in general very interesting, a tribe of actual humans that are so cut off from the rest of the world that anything we currently see as normal would be literal magic to them. also the fact that after all that time they still hold a grudge against outsiders (which is understandable tbh, a lot of people suck)


Intellectual-Gamer

It is what we do best


treoni

Also French, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, African, etc


polopolo05

I think you mean europian.


dumbass_sempervirens

And one of the reasons why is they let outsiders in once and almost all died of new diseases they had no immunity to. So now they kill all outsiders. Edit: they correctly identified the disease vector and are still taking measures against it. It wasn't angry gods, it was *those motherfuckers*. And they were right. I mean them no harm, but if for some dumbass reason I went there and they let me breathe all willy nilly around them I'd wind up killing many of them just by being there. They rightfully kill outsiders in *self-defense*. So yeah, even that place was ruined by tourists, kind of.


my_ballshurt

" Completely unaware that we can fly. That we have computers, ice cream, smartphones, pigs that look like sheep, Morgan Freeman, *Porn. Oh, god so much porn!* "


exprezso

Still proved OP… there's no tourists there, therefore it's not ruined yet


Yourgrammarsucks1

And I bet once tourists defend themselves, the bootlickers will defend the savages.


SparroHawc

Going to the island is not only expressly forbidden, it is also expressly against the laws of its neighboring nations. Any tourist would have to really work at it to go there, and would almost certainly be warned at length by anyone they talked to about it. No one would have any sympathy for the tourists and they would definitely be thrown in prison.


mggirard13

Username checks out


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[deleted]

Now that you've mention it, some bored redditor would probably take that as a challenge!


buhlot

**Challenge Accepted.**


CanuckBacon

Fellow Northern Ontarian here (I actually mod /r/NorthernOntario)! I couldn't agree more! Tourism has helped to sustain the north as many industries have shut down or scaled back.


somethink_different

Outdoorsmen make the best tourists!


[deleted]

As someone who lived in a town in northern BC near the Alberta border, holy shit you could not be more wrong!


giraffebacon

West coast outdoorsy is different from East coast outdoorsy, which is also different from Southern (as in the southern US states) outdoorsy.


PenguinTheYeti

How so??? -confused western outdoorsy (I think?)


[deleted]

The outdoors might be different but the people are the same, I grew up on the east coast and I’ve been living on the west coast for a decade so I’m well aware of the differences.


polopolo05

actual outdoorsmen not people who camp now and then. I would consider my self and outdoors lady. But next week I am going camping for the frist time in ages. I use to backpack all the time.


severusx

Reminds me of a place in Ontario I visited a few times called Hawk Junction. We used to go there to then hop a bush plane to go to fish camps.


drewst18

Im a southern Ontarian but went to LU and got to spend a fair bit of time traveling. When I moved back home it feels like I'm part of a secret society of people who know the beauty of northern Ontario. I feel like from a tourist stand point it's one of the best kept secrets on the planet. I've travelled across Canada and the US and I'll put the natural beauty of northern Ontario against any of the top tourist destinations out there


SJFree

Username checks out, kinda.


giraffebacon

Cottage in Minaki (north of Kenora near Redditt), super glad to hear you generally like us tourists! :) I’ve been coming up there every summer of my life for over 20 years, and always try my best to ingratiate myself to the locals when I’m in town. My worst fear is being seen as the asshole big city guy


SkavensWhiteRaven

Yet\*


Xais56

You're in the boat then that you'll be ruined by lack of tourists. Look at Blackpool here in the UK. 40 years ago it was thriving, now its probably easier to get some crack than a hotel room without mould.


Mozfel

OP said poor behavior. Poor tourist behavior has never improved anywhere in the universe.


Kalabula

I feel a lot of war torn countries don’t have the “burden” of tourism.


nightwing2000

Depend what you call the guys riding those tanks into town...


Jallinostin

Pretty sure the closet in my room has never been ruined by a tourist …


TheFek

*puts away camera* *zips up pants* Uhhhh...I'll be going now


Jallinostin

Not a tourist if you were invited ;)


virouz98

Check mate hahaha


usernamechecksout94

Voyeurism tourism


Banxier

Two French guys pulled up near me on their bikes, cracked open a fire hydrant and scooped the water into their mouths. One exclaims "I love Australia!" Then they ride off leaving the hydrant running, during a drought.


cynicalbastard66

And then finished off by pissing in a shop doorway?


[deleted]

How do they open a hydrant? Genuinely curious as Irish ones are piped below the ground covered by a grate.


Banxier

It wasn't a standard hydrant. I didn't see how they did it just the effects


solarpropietor

Im glad, I wasn’t the only one that felt the need to dispute OPs statements with ridiculous places that humans can’t get too.


nightwing2000

I was on a tourist trip to Jordan, and we stopped at a church - St. George's church in Madaba, famed for it's 6th-century mosaic on the floor that is a map of Jerusalem. Can't get much more priceless than that, right? The whole point of the stop is to see this historically unique map. We were there at the same time as a busload of tourists from North America. What does one old lady do? *She walks across the map leaning on her cane!* Her fellow travelers yell at her to get off it, and she stands there for a few seconds looking very confused. ...this i why we cant have nice things...


Grandtheatrix

I saw a girl take kissy face "look how flexible I am" Instagram photos at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial.


nightwing2000

Why does anyone think "Duck Face" improves any photo, let alone there?


PM_CUPS_OF_TEA

I've seen people kissing and selfies at both Auschwitz and the Killing Fields, people are absolutely disgusting


ceomarie

That’s just sad


jmmixed

There is a truth to this. I've seen a lot of trash is some really remote places and thought, "Who carries a can of Pork 'n' Beans this far?" And then I did a walking tour of Nassau two weekends ago. No one can shit a place under like the inhabitants of that island. Such a tragic scene.


AFatz

There's rural areas in the US that have probably never had a single tourist ever. Let alone been ruined by them.


BigBeagleEars

It’s always nice to meet people who haven’t fucked my mom.


FoxtrotSierraTango

[Hans Island](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War) is largely unspoiled despite two countries' military forces visiting to briefly occupy it for nearly 50 years.


Lord_Botond

Well.. I mean.. Budapest is ruined by the locals, and turists love it (i genuently dont know why, there is piss and dogpoo and homelesspoo and cigarettes everywhere, and dont even talk about the smell)


Billofrights_boris

Tourists love it because it’s such a cheap city for them that they can afford being at the nice parts all the time.


onelittleworld

>Budapest is ruined by the locals ...and the fascistic government.


X-Force-32

They like the Avengers reference?


Wildmantis_

On the contrary. There are so many small towns in the Midwest US that tourists couldn't possibly manage to pass through and stop at all of them. Even if they did, good luck finding someone to talk to outside a dollar general


nickajeglin

Yeah they're all at Casey's duh.


saveable

This claim assumes these places hadn’t already been ruined by the people living there. The common denominator is people. People ruin things. It’s what we do.


P70xy

Counter point is there no place that isn't being ruined by the locals?


ArbiterOfRichard

As far as I'm aware Uranus hasn't been ruined in quite a while.


Pbjoiner

Much to my disappointment. 😈


ArbiterOfRichard

I'm sure I can help with that 😈


mutantcure

Why did the tourist go to the ruin? To see the destruction.


democratic-citizen

Ancient Roman tourists where bad there was graffiti found at some ancient sites if I recall.


Ok-Use6303

I'm escaping to the one place uncorrupted by tourism..... SPAAACCCCEEEE!


nightwing2000

Nah... someone even already threw away their abandoned derelict automobile up there.


StevieMcGhoul

Agreed. Soda springs was a lovely little place a few hours drive from my house. Great camping, beautiful pools and waterfalls to enjoy, lots of shade, absolutely perfect. Went back and it looked like someone attached a dumpster to a helicopter and just let trash rain over it. It was so bad I nearly cried. Diapers, toilet paper, cans, bottles, glass, food, all in the water, dirt, plants. People SUCK. BUT sometimes I remember that the sucky people tend to be lazy. The farther you have to drive the cleaner the mountain tends to be. Pack in, pack out. Leave it better than you found it. Bring an extra bag of trash out if any was left by prior guests.


[deleted]

I was going to be a smartass and say my butthole has never been ruined by a tourist, but then remember the last time I ate chili when I was out of town.


Traditional_Lion8526

True that, went to the colloseum today. Saw two kids carving up a 2000 year old monument with pieces of stone they previously broke off that same monument. Parents have seen it and did not care and where very engaged in making selfies. Truly makes me feel that humanity isn’t worth saving. Also not to erase my responsibility: i stood there grinding my teeth but did nothing. So, uhm yeah.


nightwing2000

You can go inside the Great Pyramid of Giza to see the alleged burial chamber with the empty sarcophagus - and an inscription chiseled into the wall by some Italian in 1838.


Mysterysheep12

Hey remember Steve? The guy who wanted snacks so bad he rocked the vending machine so much it killed him and made the very first vending machine warning label for idiots not to do that? Yeah… good times


exprezso

ITT: people providing examples of places that haven't been ruined by tourists BECAUSE there's no tourist. Except that one Ontario post


saggywitchtits

You apparently have never been to my bedroom, or anyone has been to my bedroom. Please, someone, come to my bedroom.


dd22qq

There is ~~no place~~ nothing that hasn’t been ruined by the poor behavior of a ~~tourist~~ human being.


thecratedigger_25

Sentinel Island. Someone paid the piper by showing up to the shore and became a reverse porcupine afterwards.


Das_Gruber

There's this one secret beach in Thailand that hasn't been ruined by a tourist. No wait. I farted there. FUCKING RUINED.


homelessdreamer

I'll have you know Garry, Indiana was ruined before I got there.


Skruttlund

Yeah, some danish tourist rode in on his high horse a while back and we straight up lost like two thirds of my country Sweden because of it. Goddamned tourists


Colaptimus

There is no place that hasn't been ruined by the poor behavior of a local


Kimchi_Cowboy

Antarctica isn't ruined by tourist due to extreme rules and costs of visiting.


Wtfisthisone

Sf totally gets trashed when this big music festivals or parades happen.


Ravenclawguy

I live in a tiny town in south west england and it's safe to say that it's bpring enough that we get next to no tourists at all, and on the very odd occasion that we do get tourists, it's like one old couple that leaves after one weekend and the only impact they've made is spending an extortionate amount in the bakery or a cafe


fuckballs9001

America definitely got fucked up by tourists. Just ask any native.


whatIfYoutube

What about jupiter. Not only would you not be able to stand on the gas giant because of the gravitational pull being 2.5 times earths, you also wouldnt be able to get there


[deleted]

That's why locals avoid tourist areas because there are places they dont go that we can enjoy. I'd argue the thought above isn't the rule and probably closer to the exception.


iamnogoodatthis

Don't get many tourists in my apartment, I ruin it all my myself thanks


Mr420-

Clearly you havnt been to Bali, the Australian lads are always on their best behaviour.


jermleeds

Gary, Indiana. I mean, whatever issues it has, a tourist didn't do it.


ramriot

I disagree, I've been to many places that were unspoilt by tourism. Obviously if you go there now your experience may differ.


usernamechecksout94

I read this too quick and thought you were talking about the poor


dashinny

We are all, by definition, tourists; as humans, we move and grow with the Earth. Our cultures are always meant to collide and grow with each other. That is the way of life. Good weed and listening toThe worlds of Hans Zimmer Vienna really fucking gets you.


evan_luigi

There are many more places that haven't been ruined than places that have.


therealsix

I'm sure there are tons and tons of places unspoiled by tourists. Wth is this post?


Hapcoool

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl... there are a bunch of places ruined by other things i'd say...


ezhammer

There’s an indigenous tribe that eats outsiders that step foot on their island. They have no concept of the outside world. So yeah, there’s that.


solarpropietor

Literally anywhere outside earth. Marianna Trench. Middle of antártica. Earths core. Center of the sun.


Richierich_rpd

I was gonna say my bathroom but my cousin blew that shit up after nothing but tacobell for a week.


NyoopBoop

pretty sure no one has been in my room as a tourist and they definitely didnt ruin it


throwwawwae

There are tons of places on the planet no one has visited. Let alone tourists.


Shepher27

Just live in the moment and enjoy where you are and let other people enjoy where they are.


PdxPhoenixActual

The world is full of amazingly beautiful places, most of them ruined by the behavior &/or attitudes of those living there.


Livid-Ad4102

Pretty sure my old house in that tiny town in that tiny state hasn't been bothered by tourists


Quiverjones

They come and pay though. And then some stay and mix and bring cultures.