tourist

TOPS-20 = T = tourist information

tourist n.

1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode, email, games, and other trivial purposes. One step below luser. ITS hackers often used to spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this usage may also have expressed the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and-or been some sort of tribute to Alan Turing). Compare twink, lurker, read-only user. 2. [IRC] An IRC user who goes from channel to channel without saying anything; see channel hopping.

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A character class in the excellent game Nethack. They start the game with a Camera, a blessed +0 Hawaiian Shirt, an uncursed credit card and lots of food.

Tourists:

People who take training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs.

"We had three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists."

• You have the flower-shirted, camera-clutching foreigners, who invade on a fleet of planes and buses, spend millions of dollars on cheap rip-off souvenirs and obnoxiously patronize the locals. They always demand that English be spoken to them, because other languages are "strange and uncivilized". Their thinly veiled racism is ignored by the locals because the Americans are rich. Most visible around richer tourist areas with plenty of shopping, these people are the worst tourists. They wreck any destination. Mostly Americans, but there are plenty of Brits and Aussies as well. Usually in tour groups.

• The backpacker is much more polite than the fat souvenir hunter. But these folks can be annoying for the locals nonetheless, because they have no tourist money and ask for the cheapest stuff, which ticks the locals off because they are itching to rip the rich foreigners off. They hail from all parts of the world, mainly from Europe in my experience, and are often dirty, ragged and loving it. Sometimes leaves in a bitter mood because the locals ignore them, since they have no money to spend.

Tourists are often swallowed by alien cultures. They get lost because they don't speak the language, they are gullible and easily ripped off, they ignore local customs which can seriously tick off the locals. Once I saw a Brit severely beaten for failing to observe Muslim customs in a mosque. If you are a tourist, try not to look like a tourist. That will stave off much potential embarassment. That's all I can say.

Note: This is in regards to Asia. I'm sure Asian tourists in America act the same way.

Tour"ist (?), n.

One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a circuit.

 

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