tourists

There's no denying the fact that America offers up some pretty wild dining experiences. Or just how America chooses to present its food and drink options. Apparently everything in America is served in monstrous portion sizes compared to what the rest of the world is doing. But hey, we've also got great distinguished cuisine options like heaps of spicy buffalo wings that'll melt your insides and have you cursing the next day's visit to the bathroom. 

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about some of the weirdest customs in the U.S. that the rest of the world quite simply, doesn't understand. Some social customs are harder to get used to than others. For a similar thread check out some non-Americans biggest culture shocks when coming to America.

Someone on AskReddit got a fun thread going about the various American habits that Americans didn't realize were so American. Sometimes one has no idea how absurd their habits are, because they've been so normalized by the culture and society they're living in. The outside perspective can be quite eye-opening. 

We hope that times are changing and people have a little more global awareness when it comes to travel. That said, there will always be people who think that you can just move a tropical island somewhere else. While that's horribly stupid, it is pretty fun to laugh at. Tourists asks some monumentally stupid questions. Sometimes fliers become a big problem before they even get there.

A good old-fashioned crop dust. Yes, she subjected the rest of her fellow cave tourists to the smells of whatever her body was working through. She also activated the group's resident "Karen." From there, the downfall was swift. Karen ultimately asked the poor tour guide to get up to date on their knowledge of sulfur deposits in the cave. If only Karen knew. Those silent farts can pack the most powerful punch, indeed. 

In this wide world, we see a lot of hilarious translations and translation fails. Languages are complex and hard to understand completely. These frustratingly interesting observations on language and silly literal translations are a good example of that. This can come to a head when overzealous tourists try to get a tattoo in not only a language they don't understand, but in characters that are also completely foreign to them. Case in point, you don't want to misstep and end up as the "goldfish man"

Tour guides see tourists do some really dumb things. If there's one thing to take away from these, it's that tourists are dumb. Not just kinda dumb. But like, real simple. Like, can't find their own ass kind of dumb. After a while it gets sad realizing these are the kind of people who represent you around the world.

Turns out that tourist rocking the oversized tee, shorts, and a loud demeanor is just an American tourist. That, or this AskReddit thread dedicated to the ways people can tell a tourist is American, is far off the mark. 

Members of a certain British family have been classified as "worse than pigs," and they're in the process of being deported as we speak. The nation of New Zealand had enough. You don't dirty their beaches with reckless abandon. Auckland Mayor, Phil Goff, was quoted during his rage-riddled rant on a radio station, saying, "these guys are trash. They are leeches."

New Zealand's assistant general manager of immigration, Peter Devoy, provided the unsettled nation with the update they sorely needed to hear; and announced that they'd been issued a deportation notice on the grounds of "matters related to character." 

The Reykjavík International Film Festival kept being mistaken for the The Icelandic Phallological Museum. Like a lot.