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Paris Street To 'Shut Out Instagrammers'

Posted by msmash on from the trouble-in-paradise dept.

Instagrammers love the colorful homes in Paris's Rue Cremieux. But residents of Rue Cremieux have now had enough and are calling on the city council to restrict access at certain times. From a report: Residents have asked the city council to provide a gate that can be closed at peak times -- evenings, weekends and at sunrise and sunset, when good light attracts people searching for a perfect Instagram picture. One resident told radio station France Info: "We sit down to eat and just outside we have people taking photos, rappers who take two hours to film a video right beneath the window, or bachelorette parties who scream for an hour. Frankly, it's exhausting."

104 comments

  1. That's why you can't have nice things. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That's why you can't have nice things.

    1. Re: That's why you can't have nice things. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah mon they always making noise when we in the bath disturbing I tell you

    2. Re:That's why you can't have nice things. by dryeo · · Score: 1

      They weren't asking for a law, rather a gate.

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    3. Re:That's why you can't have nice things. by No+Longer+an+AC · · Score: 2

      If you are offended by someone taking a photo of your street, then don't live in the middle of a tourist attraction.

      I'm guessing this has only become a major problem in the last 10-20 years. There may have been a few tourists snapping pictures even before that, but probably not as many or as obnoxious about it.

    4. Re:That's why you can't have nice things. by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Dude, if I get photographed every other minute without getting paid for it, the 5th person doing it will have a hard time swallowing his cell phone. It's gonna go down easier for the 6th because I'll crush it first.

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    5. Re:That's why you can't have nice things. by infolation · · Score: 1

      I can sense a 'Street Streisand Effect' will reverse the intention of the Rue Cremieux restrictions. (I'd never even heard of this place.)

    6. Re:That's why you can't have nice things. by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 0

      These people just want the city to provide them a "gated community" without having to put in gates and guards themselves. There's nothing the French love more than laws micromanaging every aspect of their lives. It makes their fractious politics more interesting.

    7. Re:That's why you can't have nice things. by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 1

      Furthermore, the photographers will swarm the place now, while they still can. I'll call this the Cartier-Bresson Effect.

      Yes, kids, a Frenchman invented street photography.

    8. Re:That's why you can't have nice things. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      That's why you can't have nice things.

      If you are offended by someone taking a photo of your street, then don't live in the middle of a tourist attraction.

      So, what you're saying is... you can't have nice things.

    9. Re: That's why you can't have nice things. by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      You're right. I don't waste my time on people like that. I have people for that.

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    10. Re: That's why you can't have nice things. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He doesn't know how to insult you very good, does he? Let's try:

      Oh really? I bet you will simply grumble and have your picture taken. Because despite your laughable attempt at sounding like an insensitive clod, you're a cowardly Anonymous whose father smelled of elderberries. I fart in your general direction!

    11. Re:That's why you can't have nice things. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What do we have here? A badass Internet Tough Guy!

    12. Re:That's why you can't have nice things. by Obfuscant · · Score: 1

      They weren't asking for a law, rather a gate.

      A gate to close off a public street. One assumes that there would already be a law that would prohibit "unauthorized public people" from just opening the gate when it is trying to shut them out. While it would not technically be asking for "a law", it is asking for an existing law that currently doesn't apply to their street to now apply to their private little bit of the public Paris landscape.

    13. Re:That's why you can't have nice things. by dryeo · · Score: 1

      The question is if they're gating off the only entrance or just the easy entrance.
      Lots of gates around here on public streets to stop through traffic usually while still allowing the fire department etc entrance. Residents have to take a roundabout route to get to their residence. I take it there is a law about breaking the cities locks, not that I've ever heard of it happening.
      I can also think of decommissioned roads that are gated, though the residents have access from one side of their property instead of 2 sides.
      Lots of forestry roads gated off that the city maintains as well.

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    14. Re:That's why you can't have nice things. by Highdude702 · · Score: 1

      They should probably just start "accidentally" dropping things on them. Start with cold water as if you were just dumping excess. Then go from there...

  2. Bad headline /. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    RTFA, residents want to do this, no action as described in the headline has been approved. More sensationalism on this site than buzzfeed recently...

  3. Maybe you should have thought of that... by dgatwood · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...before you painted your houses to be visually unusual.

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    1. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by Krishnoid · · Score: 2

      Now let the (color-) coordinated photobombing begin!

    2. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by ArchieBunker · · Score: 1

      Seems like a rapper could easily afford some house paint.

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      Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
    3. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by Freischutz · · Score: 2

      Maybe you should have thought of that ... before you painted your houses to be visually unusual.

      Maybe you should have expected that I'd despatch two shotgun shells worth of rock salt into your buttocks before you became the 19658th instagram drone to photograph my house this year. Now ... uh, how do you shout ... get off my lawn! in French?

    4. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by magarity · · Score: 4, Funny

      Seems like a rapper could easily afford some house paint.

      Yes, but rapper paint only comes in gold.

    5. Re: Maybe you should have thought of that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      "Get off my lawn in French" is roughly:

      I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

    6. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Maybe you should have expected that I'd despatch two shotgun shells worth of rock salt into your buttocks

      You aren’t going to do any such thing, impotent Internet tough guy.

    7. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by youngone · · Score: 1

      Rappers don't have any money, despite what you might see in their videos.
      The latest one accused of rape couldn't even come up with bail money.

    8. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by jwhyche · · Score: 2

      how do you shout ... get off my lawn! in French?

      I think it is something like "lItHa' lawn!" Waving around something sharp or pointy would help empathize the message.

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    9. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by arglebargle_xiv · · Score: 1

      I wonder what attracts the Instacretins to just this street? It's reasonably picturesque for Paris (most of which is actually kinda dull), but nothing special compared to any small French town, which will have dozens of streets much prettier than this.

      Mind you I guess that's a feature, keep the Instacretins in Paris and not spoiling lovely French towns elsewhere.

    10. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They spend their money to acquire Bitches. Duh. Haven't you ever listened to a rap song?

    11. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by Opportunist · · Score: 2

      Is that like "Maybe you should have thought of that before putting on that miniskirt"?

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    12. Re: Maybe you should have thought of that... by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Pardon my French...

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    13. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      Drones are going to get regulated to near extinction at this rate. Between airports and other areas where safety and security are an issue, and people wanting privacy on their own property, the demands for restrictions will be irresistible.

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    14. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Now ... uh, how do you shout ... get off my lawn! in French?

      Clikety-click! Ka-boom!
      works in every language.

    15. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      While I would never directly threaten anyone, I've managed to convince most of the shady people around me to keep away from my property by cheerfully doing all of my grass edging by hand with a long phillipino knife. Weedeaters are too noisy anyway, and I don't like mixing the fuel for them.

    16. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by Killall+-9+Bash · · Score: 1

      Yes, because obviously she wore that micro mini skirt, which shows the bottom of her butt-cheeks, for herself. She wanted to feel confident and pretty, and that thick layer of paint splattered over her face has no sexual connotations.

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    17. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by Cederic · · Score: 1

      If you mean R Kelly then I think it's a tad unfair to suggest that "Not having $1m" qualifies as "don't have any money".

    18. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by Cederic · · Score: 1

      There'll be some top linked site to a shitty Google search term like 'must see in paris' that includes idiocy like "Oh you absolutely must photograph this street, look at these awesome houses"

      Everybody goes, "Oh, I better do that, and I can post it on look-at-me-gram"

      source: too fucking many websites telling me to photograph this or that street in this or that city.

    19. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by Cederic · · Score: 1

      Shrug, he doesn't want people to stare at his legs he shouldn't wear a miniskirt.

      If he's in public then photographs will also be taken, posted online, accompanied by comments like, "Now that's a pair of legs" and "He should do commercials for tights".

      That's what you meant, yeah?

    20. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by dgatwood · · Score: 0

      Is that like "Maybe you should have thought of that before putting on that miniskirt"?

      Not unless you say that to a girl complaining about something harmless, like a guy holding the door for her.

      What these folks are complaining about is not the sort of action that causes permanent psychological harm (rape, harassment, etc.), but rather just a slight nuisance level of "harm" where most people would argue that no harm actually occurred at all. People walking by and taking pictures of the outside of your home doesn't really cause you harm in any meaningful way, or at least it shouldn't to a psychologically healthy person.

      That said, if someone is particularly sensitive, he or she has many options for avoiding that harm — repainting the house more blandly, closing the window blinds, or even choosing to live in a neighborhood where people don't walk through all the time. And if they stop being in that situation with any of those approaches, there should be no long-term psychological after-effects from something so utterly innocuous.

      There has to be a threshold of harm below which you simply say that the person needs to grow a thicker skin or find some other way to cope. Otherwise, if you allow every little minor nuisance to be prevented by legislation, nobody will be able to do anything, because everything will bother someone. And IMO, this is so many miles below that threshold of harm that I can't help but roll my eyes.

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    21. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by Obfuscant · · Score: 1

      Maybe you should have expected that I'd despatch two shotgun shells worth of rock salt into your buttocks

      Maybe you should rethink making threats of physical violence against people who are standing on a public street taking a picture. In most civilized places, discharging a firearm at someone who is no threat to you and is in a public place is a CRIME.

    22. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by Highdude702 · · Score: 1

      Its because he don't sell drugs. All of the rich rappers minus eminem still sold drugs until they made it. That's the real struggle.

    23. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by Highdude702 · · Score: 1

      Do you have to be wearing a white jumpsuit and a mask too?

    24. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... by Highdude702 · · Score: 1

      I kind of wish I hadn't commented. This is way better than the shit I was saying it needs +funny.

  4. Rappers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Doesn't look like the typical spot to shoot a rap video. Makes the whole complaint a bit suspicious. How disruptive can it really be to have people take photos ni the street?

    1. Re:Rappers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      "How disruptive can it really be to have people take photos ni the street?"

      Very.

      Tourists are the most annoying people in existence.

    2. Re:Rappers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      No. The french are. On all continents.

    3. Re:Rappers? by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Imagine you're sitting down to have dinner and every other minute some bozo steps in front of your window and takes a picture of you. Of course with flash, even in broad daylight, because he's too lazy and/or stupid to figure out how to turn it off.

      I'd like to see how you enjoy your meal.

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      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    4. Re:Rappers? by Opportunist · · Score: 2

      True. The only tourists more obnoxious are the ones from the US.

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      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    5. Re:Rappers? by Cederic · · Score: 1

      Sorry, no.

      Generically US tourists are terrible but specifically when it comes to the taking of photographs the Chinese win by a serious margin. Streets ahead, if you'll excuse the pun.

      Tourist: Nice street, I'll take a photograph.
      American tourist: Get out of my way, my $5000 camera will take a better photograph than your shitty cellphone if you can all just move
      Chinese tourist: Is the one stood in the way taking a selfie with their shitty cellphone, or using video chat to show their mother the street with them in it, oblivious to the disruption they're causing to other tourists, the locals and even each other

  5. How do you say... by imperious_rex · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ..."Streisand Effect" in French? Le Effect de Streisand?

    1. Re:How do you say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      L'éffet Streisand FTFY

    2. Re:How do you say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      L'effet Streisand FTFY2

  6. Globally obnoxious. by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm glad to read that Instagram users have gone from annoying local trend to global menace. Maybe the U.N. will finally start taking my proposal to "Hunt Instagram Users To Extinction" seriously. ;)

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    1. Re:Globally obnoxious. by ChoGGi · · Score: 1

      I love that the article is taking quotes from an "instragrammar" complaining about the naughty ones.

  7. Mrs Hidalgo, build that wall! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    but... but I thought walls are immoral and racist! Also not effective.

  8. Re: That's why you can't have creimer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Rue Cremieux literally translates to Rue Creimer. Coincidence?

  9. Still IMPERSONATING me JEALOUS "Lil' Jowie"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    MacOS model's not done: Stop IMPERSONATING me lying & proof portfilter err's can't happen in my work https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

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    See subject & that's the "best ya got"? It proves You WISH you were ME (as your POOR imitation = the sincerest form of flattery).

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    APK

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  10. Deadly Sin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Coincidence?

    Envy.

    1. Re:Deadly Sin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      you're a 50 year old nobody with no savings no love no family
      and a youtube channel with dumpster fires
      maybe you think 2019 is the year of creimer on the desktop

    2. Re:Deadly Sin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You were trolled by a Random AC and ASSumed it was creimer. Sad. Fucking sad.

    3. Re: Deadly Sin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, I am the one true cremier.

    4. Re: Deadly Sin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So was Jesus!

    5. Re: Deadly Sin by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

      I miss the attention I used to get because of an apparent correlation between CaptainDork & creimer.

      I think that's why I no longer get mod points.

      That, and because my feet stink and I don't love Jesus.

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    6. Re: Deadly Sin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, I am the one true cremier.

    7. Re: Deadly Sin by Highdude702 · · Score: 1

      Go on stink foot keep denying. Keep denying. You get what you deserve!

  11. Re: That's why you can't have creimer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Id like to be the stripper at that bachelorette party

  12. How about refugees? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This has worked wonders in other parts of Paris.

    Move a few hundred refugees into the area. Within a few weeks, the area will be so covered in urine, feces, and general garbage that no one will be wanting to go near the place for Instagram or anything else for that matter.

    Problem solved.

  13. No solution Bill? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "We don't need more laws micromanaging every aspect of our lives." - Libertarianism doesn't offer a solution to the issue, notice. Just a rant.

  14. Re:Find a better part of France by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    to be honest, if people were a nuissance around where I LIVED, I'd be pissed off, too.

    people have a right to 'quiet enjoyment' and while that does not always imply low-noise and silence, it means that people should not be hounded by strangers when at home.

    a man's home is his castle; people do believe that. you have to put up with a lot of shit at work, but at home, you should be able to have peace and quiet.

    so, I understand and agree, in general.

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  15. Holy grokparsefailure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    prease2lrn2engrish k.

    1. Re:Holy grokparsefailure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      110010001000 You're an illiterate admitted liar https://science.slashdot.org/c...

    2. Re:Holy grokparsefailure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Correct. 110010001000 does do that which my google fu hunted up as proof https://slashdot.org/comments....

  16. Fuck off, Ivan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I have better idea - visit you in lovely city of Moskva,

  17. MOD PARENT DOWN! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Warning! Do not click! If you scroll down a bit, you are met with goatse!

  18. Instagrammers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Bachelorettes - noise, occasionally property damage. Call Police.
    Rappers taking music videos - noise, obstructions without streets consent. Call Police.
    Instagrammers - looking stupid. Do the same and call Funpolice.
    Or just say every sunday morning migrene reason is an instagrammer and whine for another stupid law.

  19. Keep out the poor as well by TJHook3r · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Paris has enough of a problem integrating immigrants - maybe they just want to put up gates around the entire centre? On the other hand, this is a clickbait article in the first place as nobody but a few residents has proposed this idea.

    1. Re:Keep out the poor as well by mentil · · Score: 1

      Build a wall around Paris and make the tourists pay for it?

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    2. Re:Keep out the poor as well by Opportunist · · Score: 2

      If it means that it would keep the Parisians in, I guess the rest of France would gladly chip in.

      Hell, make it a European project and double the wall height.

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    3. Re:Keep out the poor as well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Build a wall around Paris and make the tourists pay for it?

      And fill it with water!!!
      Problem solved

    4. Re: Keep out the poor as well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But what if the French president's jet crashlands there while en route to a conference?

    5. Re:Keep out the poor as well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We should do this for all the major European cities! The Paris Wall! The London Wall! The Berli- . wait a minute.

  20. Selfish instagrammers sharing too much??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Damn those selfish instagramers sharing too much!!!!
    Who'd a thunk it???

  21. Libertarianism is about freedom. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The freddom to trample on your freedom, and to take away your rights, mainly. ;)

  22. Retarded btich APK is mad about being mocked by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski is upset that someone is mocking him but it is well deserved mockery given his past history of continuous failure.
    Here is a chronicle of your bitch ass getting beaten on your port filtering statements.
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    Better yet you can prove how defective you are by continuing to repeat your debunked BS some more.
    Why don't you get your pretend friend to post some fake support and then throw a fit when you get caught.

  23. Victim blaming: proud American tradition. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yeah, and that kid who got raped should have thought about that, before he started to make himself look all sexy, right? </sarcasm>

    1. Re:Victim blaming: proud American tradition. by dgatwood · · Score: 1

      <sarcasm>Yes, because raping someone is exactly the same thing as photographing the outside of someone's house.</sarcasm>

      You have a fundamental right to not be horribly abused in psychologically scarring ways. Even if someone's attire makes him or her more likely to become a victim of rape, the act is still so clearly heinous that the responsibility falls on the rapist.

      But you don't have any inherent right to avoid every slight little nuisance. When someone's actions make that person's house more likely to appear in photographs, the act is so harmless that the blame for any resulting annoyance falls squarely on the homeowner for being so bothered by something that most people would see as harmless and then asking the government to do something about it because they can't even be bothered to close their blinds.

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  24. How do you tell them apart from Frenchmen? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How would you tell the difference from the average French person though?

    By their knowledge of the existence of grooming and deodorant?
    Have they even been invented in France?

    In my country, the immigrants are French, by the way?
    And German, Belgian and Portugese.
    But the French are the laziest and sloppiest workers, and the smelliest people.

  25. Side note... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    bachelorette parties who scream for an hour

    Why do women do this? What the fuck compels them to gather together in groups and scream so fucking loudly just because they're excited? They remind me of four year olds with shitty parents, only they're grown fucking adults.

    If I were so inclined, I'd kidnap one of these bitches for fun. Her group of friends won't even notice. By normalizing screaming within their peer group, they've probably all learned to tune each other out, anyway.

  26. Re:Find a better part of France by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Paris fails to welcome photographers, tourists and creative people?
    Take your money to a better, more welcoming part of France. ...
    Vote with your ability to spend money and try a different part of France.

    This is best advice.
    It is one of the reasons why our family vacations are not touching south or east coast of Mediterranean Sea.
    Uh, you know we have to teenage daughters both blonde. Croatia was great last year.
    our money, their rules.

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  28. I am APK the LORD of HOSTS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I am the great "LORD of HOSTS", a.k.a. AlecStaar from ArsTechnica or Alexander Peter Kowalski.

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    Bask in my debilitating mental illness

    I just don't understand why every site I post on everyone makes fun of me, it can't be because I am a shit stick but instead because they are all Ne'er-do-well SOYboy Jealous JOWIEs.

    Witness my descent into madness

    APK

  29. "quiet enjoyment" doesn't mean not noisy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It refers to the fact that you have clear legal title to the possession of the premises in question. The fact that the neighbor in the next apartment is an entire thrash metal band practicing 8 hours a day does not affect the fact that your lease is fully paid up and the landlord can't throw you out.

  30. Impersonating me only proves 1 thing (lol)... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    YOU Impersonating me only proves 1 thing (lol): You WISH you were ME (the "Lord of Hosts" so-to-speak) you know...

    APK

    P.S.=> :) & "RoTfLmAo" @ U (but then you're USED TO THAT coming from EVERYONE (you project that too) in your WASTED so-called 'life' of a "ne'er-do-well" do-NOTHING zero you are)... apk

  31. Re:The name of that place is dangerously close to. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    women clutch their children tighter and men protect their food on that street

  32. In case you're wondering by BringsApples · · Score: 1

    Here is what the place looks like, and why so many people want to take pictures there.

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    Politics; n. : A religion whereby man is god.
  33. 1st world problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It must be a real hardship living somewhere so beautiful that others seek it out; and a life so bountiful that the major concern is other harmless randoms.

  34. A bunch of useless rowdies by whitroth · · Score: 1

    No one else cares about your pics. NO ONE.

    If I lived there, I'd be really ticked, too.

    Or maybe I'd put up a big sign: this building is copyright by me, and no photographs allowed. Or maybe "you may only take pics on payment of royalty fees of $10 per picture, and $100 per minute of video."

    Or maybe just a mobile phone jammer in the street.

    1. Re:A bunch of useless rowdies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      To the contrary, the photography of others is important to a lot of people, myself included. And I like to think some of my own has some significance. Sometimes seeing things through another's eyes is the only option that's available. Most of us can't afford to travel, and even those who can can't be everywhere. And there is so much /wonder/ left in the world, even in its present state, more than any person could ever directly experience.

      That said, I'm very hesitant to take pictures of people's homes, and wouldn't even consider taking a shot of a stranger without explicit permission. I don't post pictures with faces or recognizable people in them. It can be hard to separate the home from the landscape in cities though, so I guess it comes down to how irritating the tourists are acting and whether they're shooting people/peering into windows versus shooting the street.

      Also cellphone cameras are /terrible/ despite any of the continuous marketing you may hear otherwise. The big ones aren't always great either, and more often than not the sensors (which evolve frustratingly slowly, and cost way too damn much) don't do the glass justice, but they're several order of magnitude better than even the best cellphones.

  35. soccer fans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I want to ban soccer fans in Paris from yelling after midnight!