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Top 10 ways to annoy tourists vs. 10 ways to be annoying!

There's more than one way to annoy a tourist... and many ways to annoy the locals too!

Newsroom August 1 05:13

How to annoy tourists

1. Photobomb them

2. Give them wrong directions

3. Ask them stupid questions about their country eg. Are there kangaroos jumping in the streets of Sydney?

4. Be derogatory eg. Do you have elevators in your country?

5. Take photos of them without permission

6. Bombard them with information and then test their knowledge of your country.

7. Pretend you don’t understand them (even though you speak their language).

8. Rip them off.

9. Teach them rude words in your language instead of the actual word they wanted to learn.

10. Assume they are easy, sleazy etc.

How to be an annoying tourist

1. Get drunk, throw garbage everywhere, make noise.

2. Wear swimsuits in the city center

3. Treat locals as though they are beneath you.

4. Keep correcting the tour guide.

5. Pretend you didn’t know that you had to pay for public transport.

6. Assume that all the locals are interested in ripping you off.

7. Take photos of them without permission

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8. Only eat McDonalds.

9. Haggle over everything

10. Talk politics.

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