The statue, outside the Brussels stock exchange, had just been restored at great cost.
      • keeb420
        11•8 months ago

        I thought it’d be a fellow American by the title.

        • @MuhammadJesusGaySex@lemmy.worldEnglish
          20•8 months ago

          I knew it wasn’t an American, because it didn’t “American” in the title. Plus, I feel like Americans have caught so much shit about being idiots abroad that we’ve learned to chill. That American exceptionalism isn’t so exceptional anymore.

          • BruceTwarzen
            10•8 months ago

            Americans are too fat to climb anything.
            Honestly, americans are fine tourists as far as i can tell. I witnessed some very old racist motherfuckers, but like the 20 to 40 year olds were always a delight

          • @CAVOK@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            2•8 months ago

            Very true. Larger countries just happen to have more idiots. Plenty of Russian and Chinese tourists caught doing dumb stuff too. Not too many from India for some reason, at least not that I can recall.

          • Alien Nathan EdwardEnglish
            1•8 months ago

            we’ve learned to chill

            Honestly I think we’re just too xenophobic and broke. If we were becoming better people overall I would expect to see a decrease in shitty behavior over here as well, or at least a levelling off.

    • radixEnglish
      5•8 months ago

      Isn’t this acceptable though due to the subject of both “clauses” being the same (“tourist” both climbs and breaks)?

      • qazEnglish
        1•8 months ago

        “and” doesn’t cost anything either

        • radixEnglish
          1•8 months ago

          It costs horizontal space, and my understanding is that newspaper headlines tend to minimize words as much as possible (while maintaining meaning).

    • @PixxlMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•8 months ago

      I’m almost certain this would not be a correct usage of a semicolon, semicolons require both parts of the sentence to be compete.

  • AItoothbrushEnglish
    23•8 months ago

    Bruh why a statue. You have all those buildings around you.

  • @SeramisV@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    18•8 months ago

    This shit is even funnier if you take into account the fact that they’ve been renovating the place for like 5 years or something and only finished a month or two ago

  • @AAA@feddit.deEnglish
    10•8 months ago

    Hope it was worth the 17k€ fine they try to charge him now.

    • DreamButtEnglish
      14•8 months ago

      “Sorry officer. I didn’t realize you couldn’t destroy public property “

    • qazEnglish
      2•8 months ago

      Some people really don’t get it without the /s

      • Alien Nathan EdwardEnglish
        2•8 months ago

        The thing about jokes and user interfaces is that if the audience doesn’t understand them that’s not the audience’s problem

        • qazEnglish
          2•8 months ago

          Fair. I must admit it can be pretty hard to discern sarcasm online.