Unpopular opinion:
Traveling is wildly overrated unless you're genuinely wealthy.
People talk about it like it's the meaning of life, but for most people it's just an expensive headache wrapped in Instagram filters.
You spend months saving money, then pay ridiculous prices for flights, hotels, baggage fees, taxis, food, and tourist attractions.
The airport experience is a nightmare:
• Long security lines
• Delayed flights
• Canceled flights
• Lost luggage
• $10 bottles of water
• Sitting in a metal tube for hours with no legroom
Then you finally arrive exhausted, only to discover you're standing in line with thousands of other tourists trying to take the exact same photo.
Everyone says, "It's about the experience."
What experience?
Being stressed, sleep deprived, overcharged, and counting down the days until you're back in your own bed?
For me, nothing beats having money in the bank, sleeping in my own house, eating food I actually like, and avoiding the chaos altogether.
Maybe I'm missing something, but spending thousands to be uncomfortable in a different location has never sounded like a great deal.
@PaulHoglund@larry_mcwethy Well, if you didn’t castrate, half would be bulls. I think they were trying to convey that half would be bulls if they didn’t castrate.
@CrazyVibes_1 I’ve had probably 20 overseas vacations. None of them were really ever life changing or that amazing. I’m not a people person so I don’t care about different cultures or meeting people which has its own drawbacks.
The cost is usually disproportionate to the fun one has.
@bmj_latest Ah yes, the algorithm designed to catch vaccine harm signals — turns out it was about as reliable as British rail on a Monday. Officials knew. They shelved the people who tried to fix it. "Myocarditis" and "tinnitus" weren't misinformation, just inconveniently timed truths.
things you stop checking as you get richer:
$100k = guac prices
$1m = menu prices
$5m = hotel prices
$10m = flight prices
$25m = car prices
$100m = house prices
$1b = prices
@ClownWorld Just got to work as an 18 year old, the guys there all discussing it and asked me “do you know what’s going on in the world?”… I had no idea but I knew it was something big and world changing once I found out
@GenghisMFKhan Imagine being such a conspiracy fuckwit that you firmly believe that no planes smashed into the twin towers. The dumbest part is you cunts think you’re smart and know what’s true or isn’t. Funny how people can be smart enough to do research but also have totally retarded ideas 😂
@FinancialReview Double the capital gains tax, and increase sales tax during a 5 year inflation compounding to crisis levels.
What the fuck is this shithole country becoming?