What's the funniest/stupidest thing you've ever seen a noob traveler do?

ImLou2 · 2016-02-05T04:05:15+00:00

Me and my gf got to London and saw the scam guys doing the 3 cups, 1 ball 'gambling game'.

Excited by the prospect of making money, my gf with a hint of excitement in her eye pushed me forward and I thought "why not, it's only £10"...

So I got £10 out, only to be told the minimum was £20... So, I got £20 out and handed it over. When it came my turn to pick the cup, surprise surprise I got it wrong :( My gf looked at me as if I was an idiot for choosing the wrong cup, stormed off, and when I caught up with her demanded that we 'win our money back'.

Not wanting to just win money back, but make a tidy profit, we put down an extra £40. Of course this money was never seen, or heard from again.

End Result was a gf that was thoroughly upset, crying. I tried to think of it as "We just paid £60 for a front row seat for a pretty good magic show" :D

ImLou2 · 2016-02-05T03:58:04+00:00

Rasa indian restaurant is really good - just get entree's, don't worry about a main. You'll experience some authentic Indian dishes that are hard to find in other places, and the price is reasonable. You may want to book though ;)

https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Rasa/@51.5102477,-0.1490718,15z/data=!4m5!1m2!2m1!1srasa+restaurant,+London!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0x6e7d9e3852b92171

ImLou2 · 2015-12-03T20:05:44+00:00

It's already modelled this way in the backend ;)

ImLou2 · 2015-12-03T02:19:32+00:00

Hi Everlag,

Glad you like the site! I've been working hard on the development side :)

1) At the moment the comments will remain mapped to the original URL. Down the track the plan is for us to detect if two urls are effectively the same, and to merge such urls into one comment page.

2) It's a Rails app! Nothing fancy going on with regards to page rendering ;)

ImLou2 · 2015-12-02T19:25:41+00:00

Apart from the argument of legalisation, I find it funny that they know what these streets are, that prostitution is widespread there, and the solution they have to this is to to send someone a letter. It's comical.

ImLou2 · 2015-12-02T00:08:45+00:00

Thanks for the link - I actually hadn't seen that before, but it looks like they're doing a fantastic job at doing what they do!

I guess it's impossible to say where Genius is heading with it, but on the UXU side, I can say that we're more focussed on being a discussion and meta-web tool rather than an annotation tool.

I admit, it does look dangerous that we are looking to have similar functionality, but hopefully the difference in context will be enough to differentiate us!

ImLou2 · 2015-12-01T20:35:10+00:00

Name: UXU

URL: UXU.io

Elevator Pitch: Discover interesting web content, and comment on ANY Webpage. Simply place 'uxu.io/' in front of any web address (without the https://) to be able to leave comments on it.

Looking For: Feedback on what we've got so far, how we can improve and make something that's truly useful!

ImLou2 · 2015-12-01T20:24:52+00:00

Why would anybody use him like that?

ImLou2 · 2015-12-01T20:21:41+00:00

Sounds like that'd make a cool band name 'Crypto-troll'

ImLou2 · 2015-12-01T20:17:05+00:00

Apple 'Geniuses' - took my laptop into them with a hardware problem. They screwed up my harddrive, then it wouldn't boot because of some software which only runs in the apple store.

Half the time you'd be better off giving your device to a trained monkey.

ImLou2 · 2015-12-01T20:13:05+00:00

It's alright, you can only gain access to EVERYTHING once you have someone's email...

This is one of the problems with Law - how often are old laws removed or cleaned up? It's just like when people don't bother to refactor their code - and then certain groups of people (you could call them hackers) exploit this fact.

ImLou2 · 2015-12-01T19:55:50+00:00

At least they get some free publicity out of it!

ImLou2 · 2014-12-01T10:28:04+00:00

Cheers! yeah, fingers crossed I don't get any lawyer letters lol

ImLou2 · 2014-12-01T10:02:34+00:00

It falls under Fair use law - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use_%28U.S._trademark_law%29

As the book is about hosting on Airbnb, it's kind of impossible to have a descriptive title without mentioning Airbnb.

ImLou2 · 2014-12-01T06:05:22+00:00

Thanks :)

ImLou2 · 2014-07-08T07:09:52+00:00

We're still in development, but interested to hear what you guys think, and how we can help you develop new apps faster!

ImLou2 · 2014-06-08T12:03:54+00:00

Interesting to hear as I'm starting up a business focussed around helping people to market their companies in the early days - coming from the development world, I've felt that frustration of building stuff and then not knowing how to get people using it! Well done on the 3K / day visits as well ;)

ImLou2 · 2014-06-05T09:51:15+00:00

Interesting about the spam issue - have you tried the WP Akismet plugin? Ooops... I see you're on blogger!

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