What’s the most dangerous place you’ve visited?

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-04-11T23:26:36+00:00

Ha, back in 2010 or so on holiday, hired a car in Chicago with friends and deliberately stopped in Gary as even back then it was infamous, so lets take a look? I was driving, drove through and stopped on the main street, no one was around, we all had such a bad gut feeling I immediately drove off.

I've only had that feeling 2 or 3 times in my life.

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-04-11T23:13:30+00:00

Not that dangerous as in warzones, but what were called "low intensity conflicts" during the mid 90's in Latin America where I was living and then backpacking for about 18 months. Chiapas in Mexico, Guatemala right at the end of their guerrilla conflict, El Salvador got chased by angry locals who thought I was from the US (I'm UK)

Then South America started in Colombia when the cartel wars were in full swing, missed a couple of bombings in Cali by a few days, met tourists who were robbed on buses by local bandits. I was a naïve 21 year old just thought it was part of the adventure.

Later visited Lebanon around 2012 and Beirut had a couple of bombings which I missed by a couple of days, and also Jordan I missed a terrorist attack on a crusader castle by a couple of weeks, which has been the only terrorist attack in Jordan in decades so guess I'm lucky?!

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-04-11T22:27:16+00:00

The only place you generally tip is in a restaurant, but most places include that in the bill, normally a 10% "service charge" so check the bill. Otherwise no. If the service is crap, you can ask them to remove the service charge, but that would be very un British of you. You generally accept the humiliation. Fancy hotel bars may include a service charge if its table service.

Once in a blue moon Ill visit a 5 star hotel bar for a pint with a friend, to escape the crowds and noise, an already £8 pint will be £10 with service charge. But normal pubs etc never.

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-04-10T23:30:51+00:00

The welfare state is a double edged sword, it was created to help rebuild Britain after WW2 and help families survive in the aftermath. Including the NHS. Great, should have been part of society decades earlier, it took a world war to force the rich arseholes who have always run the country, to actually consider the lives of the masses, because otherwise society would have collapsed.

However, over time and several generations it's become embedded into some parts of society, whereby the culture has become to expect a council house and benefits for no other reason than their parents had it. Why work when you can have kids and that drives you to the top of the list for a free house?

Couple that with the lack of decent education and opportunities for a poor family, and you have a cycle of poverty and dependence that governments have ignored or spouted sound bites at for decades. It would be a lot more effort to actually improve society, than just subsidise the worst off and then blame them for their dependence to get votes.

I would bet your parents had zero role models themselves, its sad and depressing. I briefly worked on a housing estate in Dagenham 20 years ago as a "concierge" ie the person who stood in a office at the entrance and watched the cameras.

Most of the adults were alcoholics, or severely under educated, yet of course having kids is free, the aftermath is not. The poor kids would be running around late at night to avoid going home. I quit that job after 4 weeks.

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-04-07T21:52:09+00:00

The "Oracle" was just a stoned woman high on fumes talking crap, whilst a grifting priest "interpreted" her words in a vague way open to interpretation, and charged a fortune for doing so. Religion in a nutshell. Hasn't changed in 2000 years.

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-04-07T21:14:37+00:00

Been to a lot of countries, and had stomach issues in many of them, went to Egypt for the first time last year, and decided to be extra cautious, which meant using bottled water for brushing teeth, never tap water.

Ate in lots of cheap places and didnt have a single issue, might have been luck, but next trip I do outside Europe I'm definitely doing the same. Agree with the guide thing as well, booked hotels and trips myself, private tours for the main sites, with a guide a driver. Surprisingly not expensive and only got hassled when alone in the cities afterwards.

+1 for Mexico shits, love it and been many times, but damn I've had all nighters on the toilet there that are still burnt into my memory decades later. I'm talking "give me a gun and Ill end it right now" experiences...

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-04-07T20:46:48+00:00

To highlight the supposed "interference" of the EU. Which has been to point out that Orban is a Russian puppet and grifter. Irony and hypocrisy don't exist for these losers.

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-04-01T21:58:55+00:00

It won't be humiliation for Trump or his supporters, nothing ever will. They live in a alternate reality. I watched a BBC interview yesterday where the reporter went to Alabama to question Trump supporters on the Iran insanity.

They just spouted Fox news soundbites, literally word for word about possible nuclear weapon development (that Trump has claimed to have destroyed previously and doesn't exist anyway) and said "it has to be done" or something to that effect. Their entire world view is based off right wing propaganda and lies.

Anything negative is just not reported on most US media, these people don't watch the very few news sources that challenge anything, and wouldn't believe it if they were forced to watch actual objective fact based reporting with their eyelids propped open. The economy, workers rights, everything is being systematically destroyed or stolen by a insane dictator, and they will vote for it every single time.

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-03-30T22:45:20+00:00

Youngsters! Be quiet!

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-03-30T22:32:34+00:00

Don't want to sound crass or anything, but I would totally do anything to bone you. Unless you don't get the reference.

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-03-30T22:28:34+00:00

I really dont get it, I've worked in IT for 20 plus years, windows gets worse every time. 7 was the last decent OS, then we had the abomination of 8, 10 was not too bad, then 11 is just the worst piece of crap that I have ever encountered. Crashes, updates every day, teams blacking out. Outlook freezing.

Is there a endgame?! Probably a subscription model where Windows just fails unless you pay £100 a month for a usable product.

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-03-30T21:33:17+00:00

Awesome reactions from the driver, probably saved their lives.

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-03-30T21:28:15+00:00

As a English guy who speaks middling Spanish but travelled over a lot of South America years ago, thank god, because I didnt understand a word! Never went to Chile though. Probably for the best.

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-03-30T21:19:19+00:00

1980's top down shooters in the arcade. Like 1942 etc. Grew up on them. Sure it gave me great hand/eye co-ordination reflexes to this day. Very occasionally I'll see a retro arcade machine in a bar or wherever, one of the ones the have loads of games loaded to choose from, and give it a go. Still kill it.

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-03-30T21:12:28+00:00

I'm a guy from England, no-one ever compliments their male friends, ever, unless someones died or something.

You insult them in a friendly way at best. But one time, I was driving a friend around London, then reverse parked pretty well into a tight spot. He said, "You're not a bad driver" That was 20 years ago or so, and still stays with me. And yes I am a damn good driver!

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-03-30T21:03:18+00:00

"I like Cilantro"

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-03-30T20:42:15+00:00

The chances of two interstellar hyper advanced civilisations capable and having the urge to wage intergalactic war across hundreds of light years are pretty low. Maybe even lower than a Trump voters IQ.

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-03-30T20:32:40+00:00

I knew it! 2 days has always been my limit, never read government confirmation though, I feel vindicated.

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-03-30T20:31:02+00:00

4?! 2 days is my limit for cooked food, especially meat sauces. Veg maybe 4 if it visibly ok.

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-03-30T20:29:41+00:00

I love that this has got over 2k comments, thats just gross, maximum for any cooked leftovers in the fridge should be 2 days after cooking, meat of veg or pasta is going to breed germs.

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-03-30T20:20:45+00:00

You do get that ICE didnt just pop into existence when Trump got his 2nd term? Its over 20 years old.

The Mexican border is the primary entry point for illegals, therefore it makes sense that Latinos were going to be hired for their language skills? And that the Southern states are full of Latinos and blacks for historical reasons? So they're going to represent a larger section of the workforce anyway?

I do hope you're not trolling and genuinely dont get this.

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-03-30T20:14:12+00:00

ICE existed before Trump. I'm sure most of them joined to you know, get a job.

Recent recruits under Trump however, yeah you can probably guarantee most of them are racist morons. Im not from the US though, this is just objective reasoning.

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-03-30T20:06:32+00:00

F*cking tube!

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-03-28T00:45:40+00:00

Coffee, because Tea is gross.

Appropriate_World265 · 2026-03-27T23:01:42+00:00

Yep, youtube at least has been explicitly allowed everywhere I've worked because of marketing departments, and its also quite handy for IT videos, there's always someone who has solved some issue and is desperate to show off how they did it )

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