• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      25 dollars for an ice cream is highway robbery.

      Granted she seems like the kind of person that I celebrate getting robbed on the highway, details.

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        I’d agree it’s an excessive price. but looks like an American tourist. Probs just some impromptu tariff.

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          Or they went to a total tourist trap type place. Either way I’m okay with it. Happens everywhere.

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          “Biomass tariff. Just in case you take it back to America with you. If you poop in Italy, save your receipt, you’ll get a refund.”

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    I’ve been told a fun thing to do in Rome is to walk up to one of the tourist trap restaurants that has a tout at the door. Those guys know like 5 or 6 different languages, and they try to lure unsuspecting tourists to sit down at their restaurant. Anyhow, the play is to walk up to one of these touts and to start speaking Classical Latin at them. Latin is close enough to several Romance languages they do know that it seems familiar, but it’s not quite intelligible. And it’s really confusing to them to figure out which one you are speaking.

    Of course it helps if you’re conversational in Latin.

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      Not knowing Latin: it’s more fun to see if you can get them to tell you how much they charge for a bottle of water before they seat you

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    There is no overcharging business in the usa or any other country? What a useless news