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is cleaning your son's shoes on a polstered seat or letting your co-travellers smell your used socks normal these days that people let themselves photograph doing that and it doesn't seem strange to them? and the travel bloggers didn't probably think for a second "maybe choose a different photo"?
I think your comment is whataboutism. It is as if you don't want the core topic of the article to be discussed.
Edit: Or trolling.
jesus... you came after i replied to you, ignored what i said and added the words "or trolling" like it changes anything? that is pathetic, how old are you, five?
do you live in a world where everyone hundred percent agrees with you, or they are trolling?
and how the fuck is what i wrote any controversial take? "don't be an asshole and don't clean your shoes on a seat where other people sit" is what normal children learn around the time the young kid in the picture is. unfortunately no one taught his dad, so he will continue the generational assholism and unless someone else steps in, he grows up into the asshole in picture 2.
if you are one of them, i am glad i could have been of service and explain to you that this is really not normal ;)
the core topic of the article is train travel and i am discussing train travel as shown in the article; with the only person who answered. feel free to join if you wish. i was hoping to get more insight to why these people think the behaviour i am complaining about is normal or how widespread it is. do you have any?
or did you come with some guidelines on how your article should be discussed and what are permitted and forbidden topics and are here to beat everyone to adherence to these guidelines?
Your take on the top pic is absurd and contrary to both the caption and what we can see. In your world, keeping shoes on is a crime, AND taking them off is a crime, regardless of context.
You here to boast about the moral/olfactory/hygeine superiority of chopping one's own feet off? Do you have the slightest idea of the difficulties involved in cleaning/maintaining the interface between a stump and a prosthetic? ... or would you eagerly condemn an amputee for taking their prosthetic off or keeping it on in public as well? Get bent.
no, both highly depends on the context. that context you ostentatiously ignored so you could proceed to blame me for ignoring context.
aaand from spoiled brats we have arrived to bullied amputees. that escalated quickly. and you say my take is absurd? are you high?
yeah, take your own advice
At least in Finland, it has become surprisingly normal to keep your shoes on the train seat. For the second picture... It does say "two interrail travellers", but that could very well be because those are the only one of the three travelling together that you can see reasonably well on the picture. So, maybe the two know it's okay for the third? Also: Who took this photo, anyway?
there are at least two other people in the photo and we can reasonably assume they are not only people in otherwise empty wagon.
samuel aranda, it is right there in the picture ;)