• 0 Posts
  • 32 Comments
Joined 9 months ago
cake
Cake day: February 21st, 2024

help-circle


  • 667@lemmy.radiotoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlPeople that went to Paris, what did you think of it?
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    I’ve been there a few times over the past decade. It’s a major metro city with substantial tourism. The people there are just like people anywhere else in the world in that if you treat them with respect, they will reflect that; and if you treat them like smug shit, they will also treat you like smug shit.

    The semi-popular reputation Paris has is unearned and based in prejudice.









  • You know the pop culture reference we use for someone who has misplaced their cellphone, “have you tried calling it?”

    This will sound absolutely silly, but one day a friend was looking for some trinket which wasn’t a phone, and playfully I asked, “Have you tried calling it?”

    They doubled down and started actually calling it, “Trinket… trinket, where are you?”

    And wouldn’t you know it, within minutes they found it, and so far this has worked about 99.9% of the time.

    So like using a flashlight focuses your eyes, having someone call it out loud kind of quiets the mind, too. It’s wild.