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Paris Street To 'Shut Out Instagrammers'
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."
RTFA, residents want to do this, no action as described in the headline has been approved. More sensationalism on this site than buzzfeed recently...
..."Streisand Effect" in French? Le Effect de Streisand?
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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Now let the (color-) coordinated photobombing begin!
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?
Seems like a rapper could easily afford some house paint.
Yes, but rapper paint only comes in gold.
"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!
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.
I read at +2. If your post doesn't reach that level I will not see or respond to it.
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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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
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.
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.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Is that like "Maybe you should have thought of that before putting on that miniskirt"?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
True. The only tourists more obnoxious are the ones from the US.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.