rant · moment 13 of 17
Learning Through 'Extreme' Vacations: Yemen, Flint, and the Cruise Ship
from 164 - Life In The Big City · #164
8 min
Tim satirizes people who claim vacations teach them about the world, contrasting fake learning experiences with the real poverty of Yemen and Flint Michigan, then tells a story about the Impractical Jokers cruise stop in Costa Maya, Mexico.
- Tim proposes extreme vacations to dangerous places like Yemen and Flint, Michigan as honeymoon destinations instead of resorts.
- Traveling to Yemen reveals children with visible ribcages from starvation caused by Saudi genocide funded by U.S. weapons.
- Tim describes going to Flint, Michigan with Cliff for a honeymoon where the tap water looked like human shed.
- The Impractical Jokers cruise was packed with morbidly obese people on scooters that cruise staff called 'letting them out of the pen.'
- Costa Maya Mexico is a fake town bought by Carnival Cruise Lines where locals were forced to either work or be poisoned.
- Three minutes outside the fake cruise town, real Mexicans were running barefoot trying to strangle chickens for dinner while living in huts.
- Michelle, a middle-aged white woman on the trip, started screaming at a taxi driver with the wrath of someone who's never heard the word no.
- A cruise ship pulling into port with 60 chefs throws away food while the town has one witch doctor doing bloodletting with leeches.
- People should stop pretending vacations are about learning—they just want to get drunk somewhere warm.
- Tim suggests creating a gun lovers cruise where people shoot their guns into the Atlantic Ocean for fun.
- Vacations should be about excess and being a pig, not travel tours or moving somewhere to pretend you're learning.
- Moving to Spain or taking a walking tour of Madrid teaches nothing—Europeans just drink and lay around all day without caring.
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