What countries do you just not give a toss about?

Drew_TNBD

I don't mean the people, I just mean the country... visiting, their culture, their quirks.. etc...

I don't give half a fuck about Switzerland, Norway, Finland, or Sweden. Just don't care. People go on about the sights and the sounds and blah blah blah. Don't care. Boring and cold. Piss orrrrf.

So what countries are you an ignorant fuckwit about? Those are mine!

underdog

Honestly, any. I'm not much of a traveler, it's nice to sit on a beach in the sun but really couldn't care where it was. My wife is off to Egypt next month with a friend because I had no interest in going.

octatonic

I have no interest in going anywhere in the middle east until certain folks stop cutting off the heads of other folks and posting it to the internet.

Heartfeltdawn

In terms of places I don't care about visiting:

France. Just about everyone I know who has visited Paris has described it as an overpriced dirty place. I'd visit some of the old war sites, Dunkirk obviously, but no interest in the big cities really. So let's call it ambivalent. 

Australia. It's a fucking long way to travel, all that time in a plane would bore me rigid, I don't care about going to the beach, and it's got a lot of poisonous and generally disagreeable creatures there (and that's just the Sheilas. Arf.).

capo4th

Scotland

Spider

Heartfeltdawn said:

In terms of places I don't care about visiting:

France. Just about everyone I know who has visited Paris has described it as an overpriced dirty place. I'd visit some of the old war sites, Dunkirk obviously, but no interest in the big cities really. So let's call it ambivalent. 

Having been to France many times (20+) touring on the bike I can honestly say even the French don't like Parisians, they are a different type of person entirely. I have been to Paris just the once and I agree with them, the rest of France is great, nice people, good food and fantastic wine, what's not to like? 

iseverynamegone

Australia. They can fuck right off. No real reason.

Drew_TNBD

Yeah agreed about Aus, although I will say that every single Aussie I've met has been a fucking brilliant person. No exceptions.

iseverynamegone

My experience is almost the polar opposite but I guess that says more about the 2 of us than Aussies.

lloyd

i think given a free trip there's something in every country I'd be intrigued about, I don't think I'd ever pay to go to New Zealand though-not much of an outdoors person or up for throwing myself off bridges/out of planes. I understand the Nordic ambivalence-it's cold and booze costs a £100 a pint so don't see myself going any time soon. I'd like to see the northern lights though, and perhaps to give Santa a slap for never bringing me that me frosty when I was 9....

Heartfeltdawn

Spider said:

Having been to France many times (20+) touring on the bike I can honestly say even the French don't like Parisians, they are a different type of person entirely. I have been to Paris just the once and I agree with them, the rest of France is great, nice people, good food and fantastic wine, what's not to like? 

I have my European route mapped out for the day when I scoot off on a 125cc. Germany, Alps, hit Monaco, French riviera, down to Spain. Avoid Paris at all costs. 

So I'll go to anywhere but Paris. 

Spider

Heartfeltdawn said:

Spider said:

Having been to France many times (20+) touring on the bike I can honestly say even the French don't like Parisians, they are a different type of person entirely. I have been to Paris just the once and I agree with them, the rest of France is great, nice people, good food and fantastic wine, what's not to like? 

I have my European route mapped out for the day when I scoot off on a 125cc. Germany, Alps, hit Monaco, French riviera, down to Spain. Avoid Paris at all costs. 

So I'll go to anywhere but Paris. 

That, is one hell of a day on a 125, it took me 2 days to get to Monaco on a VTR1000 !  ^:)^

Phil_aka_Pip

I have no real desire to go anywhere else, but there are places I perhaps would like to visit if I could teleport there: Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Denmark, Germany ... in no particular order.

There are others I wouldn't go to even if offered a free teleport and free board & lodging while out there plus time travel so that I could leave on Saturday morning, spend as long as I like, and get back for midday opening time: The middle east incl Turkey, Africa, South America, the far east.

Nunogilberto

Spain. Not because of the Spanish, but because every fucker goes there, it's a dust bowl full of packed beaches, white sea front hotels, timeshare touts and also 50% of the place is full of bigoted Brits abroad, opening their pubs and chip shops whilst moaning about immigrants back home...

Dalefty

America, I've been there a few times - too many times in my view, and just think it is one big trailer park full of red necks, I'm currently trying to do the sights in the U.K. the girlfriend has promised to show me around Ireland when we can both get time off of work and nip over there for a week or two, I usually try and visit a different town or tourist/historical sight every few weeks just to be nosey and see what it's about, though I haven't made it much further south than Newcastle yet, I will get to Stonehenge and Wales one day, I kind of figured it would be a waste to come all the way out here and not at least try and have a look around.

DaLefty

spacecadet

Bradford.

TinLip

Africa.

Yes I know it's a continent not a country but it is full of the same type of corrupt countries. 

Hootsmon

capo4th said:

Scotland

Dalefty

Whats is it with Scottish men and skirts, I know they call them kilts, but a skirt is a bloody skirt lets not beat around the bush about it and the kilt fits that description to a T, it's a nation of cross dressers too lazy to shaves their legs,can someone please explain to me the Scottish mans obsession of dressing up in drag please, or at least let me in on the joke?

DaLefty

jd0272

spacecadet said:

Bradford.

Aha, we have a philosopher in our midst.....    

Did I spell that correctly? Eek....

jd0272

France. There's a reason outside of developmental (is that fucking right too?) geography it's over that handily placed stretch of water.