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We had an offer to go west with my parents in law next week. My wife is going, I'm not; not that he's a conspiracy theorist, but I couldn't spend that much time in my FIL's company. He's incredibly reactionary, and totally un-self-aware about how hypocritical his arguments can be.

Yeah i've a good mate who has a family memeber who went full facebook wormhole for covid. They had to sneak to get vaccines because it was gonna be such a fucking drama if they found out.

I was at a gathering at the weekend and was talking to people who are dealing with conspiracy theorists in their family. Made me realise I've only had 2nd or 3rd hand experience of this, or even just read that these people are "out there". It sounded like an absolute nightmare to have some in...

18%,but that takes it to a nice round number. 50% was never really feasible, and I'm a rubbish negotiater. I obviously would have liked more, but I couldn't quibble about an extra ten or fifteen quid a day. The next chat will take place sooner than this one. By which point I may be able to...

Been watching it Some of it seems legit, some over the top, just pure anti-capitalism. Which is fine. Just regulate AirBnb properly. Invest tourism revenue in accommodation. Barcelona has been murdered though. I wouldn't like living in a city full of Irish pubs and O'Carrolls shops - which...

Your fucking cancelled now mate. JESUS

...designed so that the stupidest fucking thing anyone says gets elevated to the front page every day. I look at things like sitting in a taxi*, hearing a rant about refugees that is also about the mainstream media that is also about big pharma, that is also about communism and all told has the...

But that doesn't explain the non braindeads, like my mate, who seems to have gotten swept up in it.

Any city that's big for tourists is going to become big for criminals - make hay while the sun shines and all. Not much point being a pickpocket/mugger in rural portugal when you've 10,000 fresh targets every day in Lisbon. Everyone else following the anti tourism protests in Spain?

We can blame the internet for all the braindeads connecting with each other

We got followed in Prague before. Had to lose two guys on the way back to our hotel

I don't know. I think a bit of both maybe. The police people were all massive and hard looking. Amsterdam always felt sketchy and Barcelona too. Madrid on the other hand would be similar to Budapest. Capital city and people seem to love living there. It's affordable and there's no end of stuff...

I see.

Definitely had that problem "Stop staring at that drop-dead gorgeous cop, she's got a gun......Stop staring at that drop-dead gorgeous cop, she's got a gun......Stop staring at that drop-dead gorgeous cop, she's got a gun......"

Or else we just have the ability to be exposed to stupidity in a way that wasn't possible in the last decade or two? Twenty years ago a moon landing conspiracy theorist probably knew a handful of like minded people. Now they have online communities which bolster them.

Lisbon didn't feel safe at times. I remember on two occasions getting the distinct impression I was being eyed up for the DSLR I had hanging around my neck.

Not mine, but I was at a younglings birthday party yesterday. It was in a pub with arcade machines. At some point my mates kid asked, with irrefutable rapscallion-ness, "can you give us money for air hockey?". Two quid for three minutes. Him and his little brother and another girl. It was 2-0...

Oh god, I actually had a face to face conversation with someone recently who said the same thing about Robert Kennedy Jr. When I brought up all the anti vaccine allegations, he said that was just the commie press trying to discredit him because he’s not playing big pharma’s game. And also he won...

Well I said "Napoli would intimidate a lot of people". Personally I loved it. The carabinieri were more worrying than any citizen. Handsome armed bastard's that they are. Never been to Poland or Romania, just going on what others have told me. Definitely had agg in Istanbul and Rome. And some...

Conversation with my 10 year old daughter yesterday: Daughter: which tastes better, Guinness or Guinness 0? Me: they both taste pretty much the same. It’s just that Guinness 0 doesn’t have alcohol in it. Daughter: so you don’t get to go to your happy place. No idea where she got that from