We’ve all traveled somewhere, even if it’s just a different city in the U.S., and made an embarrassing tourist mistake. Mispronouncing city names, using lingo we’ve heard in movies that actually make no sense, asking silly questions. But we’ve also seen tourists come to our cities and stick out like a sore thumb. Whether you are the local or you are the traveler, we all know some serious tourist faux pas that ’cause you to stick out like a sore thumb. Trust us, you are going to want to read these to save yourself some serious embarrassment. Advertisement Lunch Time in Madrid, Spain
Madrid redefines “late lunch”. The normal lunch time in Spain is usually around 2 or 3 pm. It’s best to follow the crowds and enjoy lunch when everyone else does, even if it feels a little later than usual. Advertisement No Haggling in Tehran, Iran
Supermarkets in Tehran are so used to people bargaining prices that they have raised the overall cost to stop the haggling. Grab your goodies and get going. No use in haggling, you’ll probably end up paying more. Advertisement No Camouflage in Cairo, Egypt I think camouflage should be banned everywhere. But locals in Cairo see camouflage as you not blending in, but basically a big red flag that you are a tourist. Don’t wear it while traveling, it will make you stand out more than blend in. Advertisement Helmets Are A No-No in Amsterdam, Netherlands
I am all for safety but apparently, safety shows weakness in Amsterdam and it means you aren’t a local. Tourists stick out if they wear helmets while traveling around the beautiful city that is known for being bicycle friendly. Advertisement Being Super White in Rome, Italy
I mean there’s really no way to change this but, if you have white skin and fair hair, Italians will know you are a tourist. One local said, “We often understand they’re tourists by their pale glow.” Advertisement Being Super Tan in Seattle, Washington Quite the opposite of Rome, if you show up in Seattle with a sweet tan, people will know you do not come from the rainy city. You might get a lot of compliments about your radiant skin but you will also get the question, “You aren’t from around here, are you?” Advertisement Saying “Flip-Flops” In Melbourne, Australia Flip-flops are not a thing in the land down under. The proper term is “thongs” which makes me cringe a little. But I don’t want to embarrass myself in front of the Aussies so I guess I will be saying thongs. Advertisement Watching Street Performers in Boston, Massachusetts If you’re a local in Boston, you have zero time to watch that magician on the street. Tourists usually aren’t in a rush so they can toss a few coins at the breakdancing Spider-Man. Everybody else is trying to cram onto the subway and get to where they are going. Advertisement Being Nice in Johannesburg, South Africa It’s not that locals aren’t nice, they just aren’t chatty nice, if you know what I mean. One local said, “Not only do we not have the patience for it, but we’re also wary of the safety risk of stopping to talk to some random person on the street.” Basically, keep the chitchat to a minimum. Advertisement Feeding the Squirrels in Alberta, Canada Canadians respect their wildlife and know that feeding them is more harmful than helpful. If they see you handing out nuts to the squirrels or popcorns to the birds, you’ll officially label yourself as a tourist. Advertisement Going to Times Square in New York, New York Locals, apparently, wouldn’t be caught dead hanging out in one of the busiest parts of the city, I wonder why? Tourists, meanwhile, will spend a good chunk of their time snapping photos in the iconic Times Square. Advertisement Ordering a Full English Breakfast in London A full English breakfast is also known as a fry-up and if you are caught with one, just know everyone can tell you aren’t from here. It’s a dead give away. Order some tea and a bagel or something. Keep it classy. Advertisement Wearing a Suit as Business Attire in San Francisco Apparently suits are so not a thing in San Francisco. If you wear one to an interview people will know you’re an outsider. Most men wear business casual clothes. Advertisement Pronouncing the “G” in Edinburgh, Scotland Wow, am I glad I know this one now. I feel like this would be really embarrassing. Apparently it’s pronounced like “Edinburra”, according to the locals. I’ll have to practice this one a couple times before I take my dream vacation to Scotland. Advertisement Owning a Nice Car in New Hampshire If you’ve got a shiny car, it usually means you’re in New Hampshire on the weekends, just visiting your second home and are not planning on staying long. Advertisement Throwing Out Your Gum in Singapore Gum is illegal in Singapore and citizens are known for following rules so if you’re seen smacking some gum and throwing it on the ground, you might get some nasty looks. Advertisement Visiting Navy Pier in the Summer in Chicago, Illinois
Summers in Chicago are amazing, attracting visitors from all over. But if you find yourself at the Navy Pier in the sunny season, you’ll be among many other tourists and all the locals might roll their eyes because they came to see it in the fall before it was crowded. Advertisement Whistling Indoors in Moscow, Russia Whistling indoors is just a no-no. Russians believe whistling is like blowing your money away, so you will definitely get some strange looks because you’re that tourist who is blowing all their cash in a foreign country. Advertisement Using an Umbrella in Portland, Oregon All locals just accept the rain. Maybe they’ll have a raincoat, but it’s mostly their persistence and bravery that keeps them dry. They don’t wait for the rain to let up, they just keep their heads down and get from place to place, with wet shoulders and sneakers. Advertisement Saying “Barca” in Barcelona, Spain
Just don’t do it. It sounds wrong, it makes the locals cringe and there’s just no reason to. Advertisement Leaving a Large Tip in London Everything might be better in London. Restaurant staff earn a reasonable wage, so large tips aren’t normal or expected. Servers don’t rely on tips as much as they do in the United States. A large tip will probably make for a happy server, but they will know you aren’t from around here. Advertisement Spilling Beer in Dublin, Ireland No matter how many beers you have or how drunk you are, you never waste a drop of that liquid gold in Dublin. If you walk around the bar and spill your drink, you will look like a fool. Handle your liquor folks, or the Irish will know you’re a tourist. Advertisement Quoting The Hangover in Las Vegas, Nevada Locals hate this and they really hate those tee shirts where Alan is carrying the baby. That joke about Caesar’s Palace is also so old. Just let it die. Advertisement Obeying Traffic Laws in Mexico City, Mexico Respecting road signs and stoplights in Mexico City may seem like the appropriate thing to do, but it may make you stand out or get you ran over. One local said “you see confused tourists being pushed by the locals because we just can’t wait to cross even if the stoplight turned green 2 seconds after.” Advertisement Avoiding Using Place Names in the Hawaiian Islands via: Getty Images“The surest way to identify a visitor to the islands (our polite word for ‘tourist’) is their mispronunciation (or avoidance) of place names,” says one local. With names like: Pāʻia, Honoapiʻilani Highway, Māʻalaea and Kāʻanapali, it’s easy to see why visitors avoid any attempt at pronunciation. It is fun to try though. Advertisement Wearing Nice Shoes in Canada With frigid weather and slippery sidewalks, if you’re wearing anything other than snow boots, you aren’t from around these woods. Nice shoes get ruined and won’t keep your feet warm, Canadians know that. Strap up your boots and throw on your Canadian Goose parka to stay warm and blend in. Advertisement Bringing Up Fargo in Minneapolis, Minnesota They get it; this is where Fargo was filmed. It was a long time ago. It’s okay to let it go. Also, calling the city the Minneapolis-St. Paul area is a faux pas. Just call it what it is: the Twin Cities. Advertisement Pretending To Be Rocky in Philadelphia The entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art has 72 steps and if you are caught running up them with your fists in the air, you have labeled yourself as a tourist. It is so tempting to channel your inner Sylvester Stallone and climb these steps with valor and speed, but no local in their right mind will waste their energy. Advertisement Photographing Deer in Colorado They are everywhere, people. Deer are like the pigeons of New York City; plentiful and always in your way. If you see someone sticking their head out of the car to snap a pic, they are definitely a tourist. Advertisement Ready to Travel? If this didn’t give you the travel bug in a weird way, I don’t know what will. Now you have the knowledge to show up and act like a true local, wherever you go! Share this with your fellow travel lovers and pass on the wisdom. Advertisement source http://allofbeer.com/29-terrible-tourist-faux-pas-people-make-in-major-cities-around-the-globe/ from http://allofbeer.blogspot.com/2018/05/29-terrible-tourist-faux-pas-people.html
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Washington DC is at the center of the blizzards aim, where forecasters have warned residents to brace for more than 30in snow and wind gusts up to 50mph Millions of people across a dozen states are bracing for a weekend of travel disruption, possible power outages and white-out conditions as a potentially paralyzing winter storm begins to bear down on the eastern US on Friday. Washington DC is at the center of the blizzards aim. Forecasters have warned residents of the nations capital to brace for more than 30in of snow and wind gusts up to 50mph in some places. If predictions are accurate, snow totals in the District could shatter records set in 1922. Beyond the blizzards most extreme snowfall, storm conditions ranging from hail and severe lightning to several feet of snow are forecast for areas stretching from Florida to New England. The National Weather Service (NWS) announced on Friday afternoon that New York City should expect 12-18in of snow, most of it falling on Saturday. So far, seven deaths have been attributed to the storm, principally due to traffic incidents: four were reported in North Carolina, one in Maryland, one in Tennessee and one in Kentucky. The North Carolina state highway patrol has reported 928 car crashes and 1,400 calls for help over the first 13 hours of the storm. Airports have cancelled more than 6,000 flights as zero-visibility conditions grounded entire airports, and Washington DC shut down its public transit system through Monday morning for the first time since Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The national park service also announced that museums and memorials along the National Mall would be closed at least through Sunday. Ahead of the storms arrival, Mayor Muriel Bowser had declared a state of emergency and was joined by the governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia. In Philadelphia, where the NWS has predicted up to 20in of snow, the director of emergency operations, Samantha Philips, announced a city-wide snow emergency beginning Friday night. Philips said that the city hopes to clear the streets to reduce the potential damages of snow-laden trees falling into streets and sidewalks. Bowser was forced to offer a hurried apology earlier this week for failing to prepare the district for a few inches of snow that fell there on Wednesday. The dusting quickly turned the Washington areas evening commute into an hours-long gridlock for thousands of commuters including the president, whose motorcade was heading to the White House from Andrews air force base. The storms sustained winds could make blizzard conditions particularly dangerous whenpaired with the expected record snowfall, according to the NWS. The agencys meteorologists expect the snowstorm to affect as many as 50 million people. This will be a potentially paralyzing storm that is life-threatening, NWS director Louis Uccellini said in a news conference on Thursday at the services forecasting center in Maryland. He said that the main computer models projecting the path and severity of the storm showed similar patterns which was unusual and he urged civic leaders to take the forecast especially seriously. Uccellini predicted coastal flooding in the mid-Atlantic states as a result of a cycle of high tides swept higher by strong onshore winds. Freezing rain, sleet and thunderstorms moved from Texas up to Oklahoma and across Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, bringing severe weather that turned to snow as it reached cold air from Canada over the Carolinas. Paul Kocin, also of the NWS, has predicted the storm could join the top 10 snowfall totals on record. The mechanisms coming together for a major snowfall are textbook, he said. Many store shelves, in the Washington area especially, were cleared out of basic milk, bread, toilet paper, batteries and beer by Thursday evening, and the snow shovels were in short supply. New York City mayor Bill de Blasio warned that New Yorkers should plan a weekend at home in order to avoid accidents, and make way for 2,400 snow ploughs that will spread more than 300,000 tons of rock salt. We are bracing here in New York City for the first big snowstorm of this winter, de Blasio said at a press conference on Friday. Get done what you have to get done today. The Weather Channel dubbed the event Winter Storm Jonas, though the NWS does not recognize the practice of naming winter storms. The forecast of strong winds forced the cancellation of a free winter weekend sports event known as Winter Jam in New Yorks Central Park. By the time the storm reaches Boston, which was hit with record late-winter snows last year, the snow will likely bring no more than a dusting. source http://allofbeer.com/millions-prepare-for-potentially-paralyzing-east-coast-winter-storm/ from http://allofbeer.blogspot.com/2018/05/millions-prepare-for-potentially.html He Does Something Surprising To This Homeless Woman. But Her Response Is Even More Shocking.5/1/2018 One common stereotype of a homeless individual asking for money, is that the money will go towards drugs or alcohol. But is this really true? Many homeless politely ask for change so they can get a meal. Is this really a ploy to obtain alcohol? Nornitube decided to put this to the test. He hit the streets and didnt play around. He gave the homeless individuals that he came across a straight-up choice. Do you want a sandwich or do you want a beer? Check out what happens in this social experiment that puts the stereotype to the test. Beer or sandwich? Very interesting what the responses are, and admittedly, not what I expected. source http://allofbeer.com/he-does-something-surprising-to-this-homeless-woman-but-her-response-is-even-more-shocking/ from http://allofbeer.blogspot.com/2018/05/he-does-something-surprising-to-this.html Elvira “Vera” Montez, 81, is an avid runner, but when her daughter suggested she try and run a beer mile, Vera hesitated. She hesitated not because she didn’t think she could finish, but rather because she prefers scotch. Vera told the El Paso Times,
But on December 1, Vera laced up her running shoes alongside her daughter for the2015 FloTrack Beer Mile World Championships. She finished her mile, and the requisite four beers, in20 minutes and 24.62 seconds, a full minute faster than her daughter. Think that’s impressive? This is actually Vera’s second beer mile. Last year she completed it in 20 minutes and 44 seconds, making the 2015 race her personal record. Of this year’s beer mile Vera’s daughter, Renee Reynolds, told the El Paso Times,
After the race, Vera apparently took her daughter to Hooters for chicken wings and scotch. Vera additionally told Runners World, she will return next year and plans to train by drinking beer on her treadmill. Way to stay badass, Vera!
source http://allofbeer.com/this-81-year-old-grandmother-crushes-the-beer-mile-like-a-true-champion/ from http://allofbeer.blogspot.com/2018/04/this-81-year-old-grandmother-crushes.html SABMiller Plcs board unanimously recommended Anheuser-Busch InBev SAs improved $104 billion takeover offer, paving the way for the biggest acquisition in the history of the beer industry and capping a tumultuous week in which the Budweiser maker bowed to pressure to sweeten its offer. The board of London-based SABMiller proposed that its two biggest shareholders, Altria Group Inc. and Bevco Ltd., be treated as a separate class of stockholders and allow other SABMiller investors to vote on the new offer separately, the company said in a statement. AB InBev said it welcomed the recommendation, in a separate statement. SABMillers board faced the choice of backing a bid that Chairman Jan du Plessis said was at the lower end of what he deemed acceptable, or risk letting the industry-transforming combination fall apart. AB InBev gave in to some investors when it raised its bid once more this week to factor in the pounds plunge in the wake of the U.K.s Brexit vote that put minority and institutional shareholders at a disadvantage. The boards decision was difficult, du Plessis said in the statement. Various factors have affected the value of the offer, most importantly the impact of the Brexit vote on the value of sterling and the re-rating of comparable companies. This has made the Boards decision more challenging. More DifficultSABMiller shares rose 2.1 percent to 44.14 pounds Friday in London, while AB InBev rose 4.6 percent to 115.30 euros in Brussels. I think this is a further step towards successful completion, but by splitting the shareholders into two groups, it makes it somewhat more difficult to gain the necessary level of acceptances, Andrew Holland, an analyst at Societe Generale, said by phone. You need a higher percentage of SABMiller shareholders to get it done than if the shareholders hadnt been split into two groups. For a Gadfly commentary on the Megabrew deal, click here AB InBevs latest cash offer was 45 pounds a share, 1 pound more than the prior proposal. It also increased the cash in a cash-and-stock alternative designed for Altria and Bevco, the value of which rose to more than 51 pounds a share after the pounds plunge. The deal was tested after SABMiller suspended integration of the two brewers following resistance from shareholders who said they hadnt been compensated enough for sterlings fall. But major SABMiller shareholders then signaled they favored AB InBevs sweetened bid, which received a further boost Friday by getting regulatory clearance from China, the last major antitrust hurdle after it was approved in the U.S. and South Africa in recent weeks. Complex DivestmentsPart of the approval process includes a complex set of divestments around the globe. Molson Coors Brewing Co. is set to acquire SABMillers stake in the MillerCoors brewing venture, while Japans Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. has agreed to buy the Peroni and Grolsch brands in Europe. Shares of Molson rose 4.5 percent to $102.16 in New York on Friday, marking their second straight jump after tumbling earlier in the week. The deal to merge SABMiller and AB InBev, termed Megabrew by analysts, would create a behemoth controlling about half of the industrys profits. The combined company will have the No. 1 or No. 2 positions in almost all of the worlds biggest beer markets, and provide AB InBev its first toehold in Africa, where about 65 million people are due to reach the legal drinking age by 2023. source http://allofbeer.com/sabmiller-board-recommends-ab-inbevs-new-104-billion-offer/ from http://allofbeer.blogspot.com/2018/04/sabmiller-board-recommends-ab-inbevs.html |