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[doyle]

The internet on my laptop's finally fixed. *clings to flist*

In the absence of anything interesting happening to me - I've just been watching old school Who and writing ficathon entries at a painfully slow rate, even for me - I meme.

From all over: ask me for my top five anything.

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[freedomfry.livejournal.com]

Welcome back!

I'm loving this meme.

Okay, tell me the five easiest ways to spot a tourist in your town.

:)

Psst. Your icon's drabble is done (http://www.livejournal.com/users/freedomfry/163954.html)

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I'll answer for Belfast rather than my hometown; they're only thirty miles apart and people are rarely foolish enough to voluntarily come to my town.

1. They accost you in cafes or shops to ask if pounds here are the same as British pounds (requiring the dull and complex explanation that yes, Bank of Ireland money is sterling but it isn't usually accepted on the mainland, probably because they think we're shiftless embezzling terrorists)
2. They treat the appearance of the sun breaking through the clouds as a normal thing, not a fearful and unprecendented event that requires quailing in terror and offering of tourist sacrifices to appease the sun-god.
3. They ride around in an open top double decker, peering down at the populace as if in a zoo.
4. Corollary to the above: they take pictures of the paramilitary murals, often while talking loudly and knowledgably about 'The Troubles', how awful it was, etc.
5. Amusing paranoid, ducking at every car backfire/popping balloon/anything that might vaguely sound like a bomb or gunfire.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

omg my mum went on a bus ride to see sectarian murals! i was in the newspaper library photocopying stuff though. and she told me about it and was confused cos, like, when you sell your house do you make an ad saying "two bedrooms, garden, garage, SECTARIAN MURAL"or what?