Does anyone here HATE traveling?

[Jackal]

I do. I fucking despise it and I don't feel bad about it either. I know I'm in the vast minority here as most "normal" people love to travel. I'm not sure what it is that I hate about it but I do. Maybe it's because I'm OCD and can't stand not knowing what's going to happen to me. Maybe it's because I hate planes, hotel rooms, and foreigners (Americans). I'm not sure.

I just found out that I DON'T have to go to E3 and I'm fucking ELATED. No shit-ass big city, no sweaty nerds, no fake business men. I love it.

Honestly, I don't get the appeal to traveling. I have everything I want in my tiny corner of the earth and I'm quite happy with it. Am I crazy? Discuss.

[feedback]

Yeah, only morons are happy without traveling and trying new things.

[werldhed]

I like pleasure travel, but business travel sucks. Having a particular schedule and certain standards to follow and people to schmooz... no thanks.

Just let me go check out someplace new, and chill out doing whatever the hell I want.

Jackal, do you do any camping or outdoor travel? Maybe that would be more your thing... ?

[Chupacabra]

see and experience new things and cultures. its nice.

[seza]

allow me to interject, feedback and the jackal, as i'm a huge proponent of travelling beyond these world wide webs of internet space bulletin board meeting places. i'll start off with an insult. the only people i've ever met who have despised travelling (as you seem to jackal), either from going out of town or across country/continent - have had some of the dullest, introverted, easily forgettable, lowly personalities i've ever come across. i'm thankful each day that i don't have to communicate with them by choice. not only do they have lousy excuses for wanting to stay around the same shit all the time...they usually agree with me about why travelling is easily one of the best things to look forward to after i mentally pap smear them. the mindset one has to have in order to convince themselves they're completely satisfied with their everyday experiences all year long is ridiculous. so limiting, so terribly "white, southern trash american" really. you're american right jackal? oh? well allow me to group you with those same people as most of them share a common mentality with you regarding this subject. nice.

go fucking travel you lucid downer. go experience new sites, people, ways of life before you're too old and set in your ways. but don't listen to me

[Jackal]

I like pleasure travel, but business travel sucks. Having a particular schedule and certain standards to follow and people to schmooz... no thanks.

Just let me go check out someplace new, and chill out doing whatever the hell I want.

Jackal, do you do any camping or outdoor travel? Maybe that would be more your thing... ?

I do camp and I do plenty of local travelling around the province. I do enjoy that sort of thing. I just hate most travel in general.

[Jackal]

allow me to interject, feedback and the jackal, as i'm a huge proponent of travelling beyond these world wide webs of internet space bulletin board meeting places. i'll start off with an insult. the only people i've ever met who have despised travelling (as you seem to jackal), either from going out of town or across country/continent - have had some of the dullest, introverted, easily forgettable, lowly personalities i've ever come across. i'm thankful each day that i don't have to communicate with them by choice. not only do they have lousy excuses for wanting to stay around the same shit all the time...they usually agree with me about why travelling is easily one of the best things to look forward to after i mentally pap smear them. the mindset one has to have in order to convince themselves they're completely satisfied with their everyday experiences all year long is ridiculous. so limiting, so terribly "white, southern trash american" really. you're american right jackal? oh? well allow me to group you with those same people as most of them share a common mentality with you regarding this subject. nice.

go fucking travel you lucid downer. go experience new sites, people, ways of life before you're too old and set in your ways. but don't listen to me

The irony of someone lumping me in with the sterotypical american whilst pushing his own agenda on me is so thick here that I could cut it with a knife.

I'm glad Seza replied this way though because it is a microcosm of the responses I get when I tell people I hate travelling. For some reason people get insulted at the idea that I just might not want to fucking go anywhere.

[seza]

i might've been more inclined to give fairer judgement to you earlier if i actually thought you would listen reasonably. enjoy your small existence

[Jackal]

I'm not entirely convinced that travelling would give one a "larger" existence.

[feedback]

It does give you a larger existance and sense of place in the world, if I never traveled I wouldn't have found the motherfucking island I'm moving to and I'd be stuck training fat people in shitty-ass seattle for all eternity.

[Tsakali]

your opinion in traveling seems too alien to me, I can't even begin to address the issue, in a way that we can communicate.. really you're a freak of nature.

you must be terrible in bed

[seza]

listen bob, can i call you bob? bob, you must understand that your 'tiny corner of the earth' will only continue growing smaller in the years to come. you'll realize how regretful the life style you led was and start to take it out on your loved ones. how will your 15 cats and 10 cactus plants feel about the chronic depression and I.B.S you've no doubt been diagnosed with due to absence of anything substantial going on around you? i really feel for those cats

[seza]

It does give you a larger existance and sense of place in the world, if I never traveled I wouldn't have found the motherfucking island I'm moving to and I'd be stuck training fat people in shitty-ass seattle for all eternity.

now this guy gets it.

[plained]

hey you dont HAVE to go...

but we'll frown down upon you when we evaluate ur comitment to ur position.

[Jackal]

It does give you a larger existance and sense of place in the world.

How?

[prince1000]

You know what they say...you can never go home.

[prince1000]

It does give you a larger existance and sense of place in the world.

How?

I think that's more bullocks the older I get.

And, seza, I've lived all over the fucking place! HORRAY ME!!!!!

[Jackal]

listen bob, can i call you bob? bob, you must understand that your 'tiny corner of the earth' will only continue growing smaller in the years to come. you'll realize how regretful the life style you led was and start to take it out on your loved ones. how will your 15 cats and 10 cactus plants feel about the chronic depression and I.B.S you've no doubt been diagnosed with due to absence of anything substantial going on around you? i really feel for those cats

You seem to be under the impression that, because I don't like travelling, I don't do anything. Trust me, nothing could be further from the truth.

[prince1000]

seza's cranium has it's own weather system AS WELL AS it's own reality so look out

[Tsakali]

it's interesting that such a harmless (at first) statement warrants for downright aggressive replies. But you're basically ridiculing basic human inquisitiveness and curiosity

[prince1000]

How is it redneck exclusively? People all over the world are afraid to leave their comfort zones.

[Tsakali]

sorry I edited for accuracy of my statement, I don't want to make this a redneck or not war, because it's much bigger than that...and yes the "rednecks" of society come in all kinds of flavors... I'm sure that in greece for example someone who shares his philosophy will be called a villager

[Tsakali]

and usually their lack of traveling interests is more of a coverup of their inability to accept (and process ) that the world is much bigger than what their immediate horizon indicates

[feedback]

It does give you a larger existence and sense of place in the world.

How?

travel is fatal to prejudice, etc. If you live all your life in a small area, that small area is your world. You forget that people do things differently, have different values, culture, and you find that it's just as nice to live there than to live where you were born.

[seza]

listen bob, can i call you bob? bob, you must understand that your 'tiny corner of the earth' will only continue growing smaller in the years to come. you'll realize how regretful the life style you led was and start to take it out on your loved ones. how will your 15 cats and 10 cactus plants feel about the chronic depression and I.B.S you've no doubt been diagnosed with due to absence of anything substantial going on around you? i really feel for those cats

You seem to be under the impression that, because I don't like travelling, I don't do anything. Trust me, nothing could be further from the truth.

i've learned not to trust the people who have to say, "...trust me" to help their point.