Comments on: Thorn Tree Brazil – full of thorns… https://bkpk.me/thorn-tree-brazil-full-of-thorns/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thorn-tree-brazil-full-of-thorns Piggy-back ride with A&Z Wed, 14 Dec 2022 22:03:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bahiana https://bkpk.me/thorn-tree-brazil-full-of-thorns/#comment-2776 Bahiana Sun, 27 May 2012 13:10:07 +0000 http://bkpk.me/?p=1194#comment-2776 Gee, here you are with your very own blog to whine on some more at will, where those mean and nasty TTers you quote can't find you to respond. You were stupid (!!!! taking a camera worth several months minimum salary to many and stubbornly refusing to let go of it !!!) and have pretty much tried to shift the responsibility for what happened onto anyone but yourselves. Salvador gets a million or more tourists (often with bad judgement influenced by drink or ??)every year for Carnaval, and does quite a good job of keeping people safe. People with experience at Carnaval and in Salvador try very hard to inform newbies on various online forums, but some, like you all, just refuse to get it. Are you so egotistical and self-important that you believe your stupidity and careless, ignorant behavior gives you a right to a level of sympathy out of proportion to the triviality of an incident and injury you brought on yourselves? Get over yourselves ! Gee, here you are with your very own blog to whine on some more at will, where those mean and nasty TTers you quote can’t find you to respond. You were stupid (!!!! taking a camera worth several months minimum salary to many and stubbornly refusing to let go of it !!!) and have pretty much tried to shift the responsibility for what happened onto anyone but yourselves. Salvador gets a million or more tourists (often with bad judgement influenced by drink or ??)every year for Carnaval, and does quite a good job of keeping people safe. People with experience at Carnaval and in Salvador try very hard to inform newbies on various online forums, but some, like you all, just refuse to get it. Are you so egotistical and self-important that you believe your stupidity and careless, ignorant behavior gives you a right to a level of sympathy out of proportion to the triviality of an incident and injury you brought on yourselves? Get over yourselves !

]]> By: Ashay https://bkpk.me/thorn-tree-brazil-full-of-thorns/#comment-2296 Ashay Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:43:06 +0000 http://bkpk.me/?p=1194#comment-2296 Thanks for your kind comments PM! Yeah the caste system hypocrisy coming from many "India-loving" westerners is just insane. It's like me saying British people suck today because they colonized other countries in previous years. Talking of creating inequality I mean, I (and most other Indians..) didn't play any role in the creation or execution of the caste system, same as most of these indignants did not create slavery or the slave trade, etc. Hippie hypocrisy is the worst kind there is ;) TT is a great place in general, that's why I mentioned that it's Thorn Tree BRAZIL that's the problem. I've actually seen multiple posts on that forum where the regulars gang up on someone asking a question with a really bad attitude. I guess that's true for any online forum, especially a troll infested one like Thorn Tree Brazil. I do enjoy the rest of Thorn Tree and actually am enjoying my travels in the Galapagos right now! Thanks for coming around the commenting, I hope I get to meet some really cool travelers too! :) Thanks for your kind comments PM! Yeah the caste system hypocrisy coming from many “India-loving” westerners is just insane. It’s like me saying British people suck today because they colonized other countries in previous years. Talking of creating inequality I mean, I (and most other Indians..) didn’t play any role in the creation or execution of the caste system, same as most of these indignants did not create slavery or the slave trade, etc. Hippie hypocrisy is the worst kind there is ;)

TT is a great place in general, that’s why I mentioned that it’s Thorn Tree BRAZIL that’s the problem. I’ve actually seen multiple posts on that forum where the regulars gang up on someone asking a question with a really bad attitude. I guess that’s true for any online forum, especially a troll infested one like Thorn Tree Brazil.

I do enjoy the rest of Thorn Tree and actually am enjoying my travels in the Galapagos right now! Thanks for coming around the commenting, I hope I get to meet some really cool travelers too! :)

]]> By: PM https://bkpk.me/thorn-tree-brazil-full-of-thorns/#comment-2106 PM Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:32:58 +0000 http://bkpk.me/?p=1194#comment-2106 ha ha! I saw it on LP/TT a while back and wondered why they were hating on you so much....TT is no kind place to expect sympathy and like many other forums out there, things get spun out with a race-angle pretty quick (people are quite touchy, especially a lot of European hippie-at-60 kinda folk think the Indians invented the "caste system" and are quite pissed bcoz of all the inequality we created in the world....) Also, remember that TT forums are dominated by people who are die-hard India junkies (i.e. they have "done" India a few times, "love the awesome people, man!" and think they know what the country is about because they "met the real Indian" during their $5 homestay etc) but deep-down many still harbor the belief that Indians are lazy, corrupt, dirty and servile based on the kind of people they see in and around their guest-house in Palolem and Varanasi. TT is still the lifeline of my travel experience - I got a lot from it, but mostly by sifting through the threads. I hooked up with some real cool travelrs in real life after sharing on the forum and so on...so, make the most of it and enjoy the rest of ur trip. Cheers! PM ha ha! I saw it on LP/TT a while back and wondered why they were hating on you so much….TT is no kind place to expect sympathy and like many other forums out there, things get spun out with a race-angle pretty quick (people are quite touchy, especially a lot of European hippie-at-60 kinda folk think the Indians invented the “caste system” and are quite pissed bcoz of all the inequality we created in the world….)

Also, remember that TT forums are dominated by people who are die-hard India junkies (i.e. they have “done” India a few times, “love the awesome people, man!” and think they know what the country is about because they “met the real Indian” during their $5 homestay etc) but deep-down many still harbor the belief that Indians are lazy, corrupt, dirty and servile based on the kind of people they see in and around their guest-house in Palolem and Varanasi.

TT is still the lifeline of my travel experience – I got a lot from it, but mostly by sifting through the threads. I hooked up with some real cool travelrs in real life after sharing on the forum and so on…so, make the most of it and enjoy the rest of ur trip.

Cheers!
PM

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