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Started by mongers, November 07, 2012, 08:35:17 PM

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Martinus

There may be something wrong with me, but I always found the experience of "sight seeing" lacking in the first place.

Sure, I like going to a foreign place to get the "feel", taste the food, smell the scents, etc. But the concept of going into a museum to see some painting (that I can very well see online), or seeing some monument has always left me wanting - I have a bit of "you've seen one, you've seen them all" attitude to them.

It's like during that one Paris meet we had a few years ago - we ended up in a pub watching rugby and it was more fun than trying to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

The Brain

Quote from: Martinus on February 17, 2015, 03:12:49 PM
Sure, I like going to a foreign place to get the "feel", taste the food, smell the scents, etc.

OK Cal.
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garbon

Quote from: Martinus on February 17, 2015, 03:12:49 PM
But the concept of going into a museum to see some painting (that I can very well see online), or seeing some monument has always left me wanting - I have a bit of "you've seen one, you've seen them all" attitude to them.

Well I suppose that's one opinion. Personally, I think that there is a very different experience between seeing something online and seeing it in person. There's a large measure of physicality that is missing.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Martinus

I am not even presenting it as an opinion - it's just how I feel. I acknowledge that other people may feel differently about it, and for them sight-seeing is enjoyable. For me it has always felt like a chore.

My perfect vacation is a nice seaside hotel (5 star or higher standard), with good exotic food, lots of booze and several good books. I don't really need to see the Taj Mahal. Plus I hate walking.

Did I mention I have been going to exactly the same hotel for my annual vacation since at least 2008? :P

mongers

Quote from: garbon on February 17, 2015, 03:15:50 PM
Quote from: Martinus on February 17, 2015, 03:12:49 PM
But the concept of going into a museum to see some painting (that I can very well see online), or seeing some monument has always left me wanting - I have a bit of "you've seen one, you've seen them all" attitude to them.

Well I suppose that's one opinion. Personally, I think that there is a very different experience between seeing something online and seeing it in person. There's a large measure of physicality that is missing.

Indeed, even paintings are surprisingly three-dimensional.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

garbon

Quote from: Martinus on February 17, 2015, 03:17:35 PM
I am not even presenting it as an opinion - it's just how I feel.

:hmm:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

CountDeMoney


Martinus

Quote from: garbon on February 17, 2015, 03:18:33 PM
Quote from: Martinus on February 17, 2015, 03:17:35 PM
I am not even presenting it as an opinion - it's just how I feel.

:hmm:

Well, for me an opinion is a belief about reality that you hold. I am just describing my personal taste. I guess it's an opinion in the same way "I don't like artichoke" is an opinion. But I am not saying other people who have different tastes are wrong.

garbon

I'm saying you are wrong though. :blush:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Martinus

Quote from: garbon on February 17, 2015, 03:22:24 PM
I'm saying you are wrong though. :blush:

Well, ok so you are wrong instead. I find people with tastes like you or mongers to be pretentious. :P

garbon

Quote from: Martinus on February 17, 2015, 03:25:52 PM
Quote from: garbon on February 17, 2015, 03:22:24 PM
I'm saying you are wrong though. :blush:

Well, ok so you are wrong instead. I find people with tastes like you or mongers to be pretentious. :P

I think you need an art appreciation class. :P

Though given that you liked that Will Smith movie, I'm not sure how much help it could provide. :D
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Eddie Teach

Wait a minute, Mongers is pretentious? And this is coming from Martinus?  :huh:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Martinus

Quote from: garbon on February 17, 2015, 03:28:59 PM
Quote from: Martinus on February 17, 2015, 03:25:52 PM
Quote from: garbon on February 17, 2015, 03:22:24 PM
I'm saying you are wrong though. :blush:

Well, ok so you are wrong instead. I find people with tastes like you or mongers to be pretentious. :P

I think you need an art appreciation class. :P

Though given that you liked that Will Smith movie, I'm not sure how much help it could provide. :D

I appreciate art... if it hangs on my wall.

Other than that, I see a little point. :P

mongers

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 17, 2015, 03:31:47 PM
Wait a minute, Mongers is pretentious? And this is coming from Martinus?  :huh:

Talk about damning with faint praise, given my level of art appreciation is "Ug likes picture/ Ug doesn't like picture"
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

mongers

Popped out late afternoon to visit a favourite hill fort in deepest Dorset, misjudged how late it was and the strenght of the cool NE wind, so only made it over the Stour to a nice medieval bridge at some place called Sturminster Newtown or is that Sturminster Marshall, before turning tail and rushing back home.   :bowler:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"