My pedometer tells me that it takes 3754 steps to cross this resort from one end to another. This is a very short distance,in my opinion. Yet almost everybody uses small vehicles to be driven from one restaurant to another. It’s great that the vehicles are available for the elderly and the disabled. I feel immense joy when I see that people in wheelchairs have access everywhere, can travel, and not be excluded. But why do the young and healthy people avoid walking?
The grounds are fenomenally beautiful. They are like botanical gardens with little plaques explaining where the plants come from. There are peacocks and pink flamingos. There are shaded walkways, so you don’t have to walk in the sun. In the evenings, there is a cool breeze. Yet people choose the vehicles.
Mind you, these tourists are not Americans. There are barely any Americans here. Most people are from Europe. There are crowds of Spaniards, many Russians and Germans, quite a few Dutch. Also, there are some Argentinians. I’ve seen a couple of Quebecois families.
As a fanatic of walking, I find this very strange.
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Oh wow. I love gardens that have plaques and things explaining what each plant and tree is. They have those in Disney World. I made my friend nuts one year because I wanted to stop and read every one. I like trees okay.
Also yeah, lazy healthy young people, when I am Dictator of the Earth these people will be rounded up and put on treadmills to power factories and cities. It’s clean and green!
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I also love these plaques. I can walk and read at the same time – it’s perfect!
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Zimbabwe has this weird thing where you are not supposed to exercise in the public parks as that is considered to be disturbing the peace. I think you are meant to walk around like Victorian era ladies and gentlemen, the ladies carrying parasols.
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If these tourists are European, I think they are not walking precisely because they are used to walking at home. So they take the vehicles, because such vehicles are a novelty for them. I know I’d do that – I can do all the walking in pretty parks, etc at home, but there’s no way to get around in a small powered vehicle, so I’d defintely do it just for the fun of it.
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I like this explanation!
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That would be my take on it too. Those golf buggy things are fun.
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What bugs me about the buggies (bad pun!) is that I can’t seem to escape traffic. Wherever I go, there are vehicles chasing me.
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I guess the opposite. I understand trying it once or twice for that reason, but afterward the novelity wears off and people, who like walking, would walk. Especially on vacation with lots of free time in a beautiful place.
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Haven’t thought about it, so found the issue interesting: after prohibiting smoking, some places seem to start implementing a scent-free policy.
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2012/07/20/on-perfume-chemical-cleaning-agents-and-scent-free-workplaces/
Imo, it’s great. Strong scent of perfume in an office is in a way an act of intruding into other people’s private space, they can’t escape the smell, even if nobody has asthma or migraines as a result.
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Typically American stupidity, in my opinion. They think if they employ a person they have a right to invade that person in any way they can. Jerks.
As for migraines, they are a result of sexual deprivation. Maybe these folks should stop policing other people’s bodies and concentrate on their own.
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Migraines are a result of sexual deprivation? Seriously, Clarissa? It may be the case that tension and stress related to lack of sexual release contributes to some people’s migraines, but it is certainly not the only, or the major cause for many.
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Yes, seriously. In my country – the place where gulping pills is not the answer to everything just yet – a doctor invariably sends a migraine sufferer to a sexologist.
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//They think if they employ a person they have a right to invade that person in any way they can. Jerks.
Who invades whom? Have you read the article?
If you had, you would’ve understood the reasons for the new approach.
What if somebody has almost deadly asthma attacks because of smells, like the woman from the post? Quite many people have asthma or allergies nowadays.
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Forgot to add: if my right to wave my hands ends where your nose begins, with which not even extreme libertarians wouldn’t disagree, the question of smells imo isn’t that simple as you put it.
In practice people don’t hurry to leave their jobs and don’t want to be deemed a “troublemaker” for complaining, even in not bad economic times, even if smells hurt them. The woman in the post has horrible asthma that can kill her, so she “had rights” (I mean from boss’ and co-workers’ pov) to ask. Somebody, who “only” got migraines from smells or “just” was bothered by them a lot, wouldn’t be given this big consideration, if any. Especially when it “just” is felt as something bothering and unpleasant, without causing any medical symptoms.
Don’t you see a difference between putting on a ring on a finger VS using strong perfume, which all co-workers would feel all day long? The first shouldn’t bother anybody, but the last forces others to constantly smell it too, even if the smell makes them want to puke.
Btw, with all due importance to sex, not every disease’s source is (always) “a result of sexual deprivation”. If a person gets a headache after smelling X and doesn’t get it without X, I believe their experience.
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No, not every disease. Just the migraines. My grandfather sent all his migraine patients directly to a gynecologist or sexologist.
Asthma, for instance, is completely different.
As for smells, I fail to understand how the smell of sweat is less offensive than perfume.
I use perfumed shampoo and perfumed hand cream. Should I be forced to ditch all that?
Also, I’m extremely sensitive to sounds because of autism. Loud laughter and tearing of paper, for example, cause me intense suffering. Should these activities be outlawed in the workplace because they bother me? Or should we start to realize that nobody should be a hostage to our issues?
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Maybe not all headaches are caused by sexual deprivations. Migraines seem to be caused by some strange neurological wiring. But chronic fatigue syndrome, which is the general description for many maladies, can be linked to sexual deprivation — or, more specifically, a failure to acknowledge one’s “animal nature”.
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A migraine is not a headache. It’s a very serious condition where people are completely bedridden for several days each month. They are accompanied by vomiting, sensitivity to light and sound. Sometimes there are auditory and visual hallucinations, fainting.
Women can expect the migraines to stop at the onset of menopause.
As for headaches, they are, of course, not caused by anything related to sexuality. Sleeplessness, for instance, causes headaches. Or high blood pressure. Or people who suffered concussions can have headaches.
Here I’m talking very specifically about migraines which are an incurable chronic and a very severe condition.
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I think sending all migraine patients to gynaecologists or sexologists is as shortsighted as simply prescribing all of them pills.
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I’ve read comments to this post about smells, and they were illuminating. If you read, would love to hear your thoughts.
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The Internet is spotty here, at best, so I can’t follow links. I can blog because I have this great app on my Kindle but Internet is tricky.
I’m convinced that this anti-perfume crusade is part of the Puritan mentality.
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Well, if you decide to read it later, you’ll see that it isn’t “part of the Puritan mentality”, imo.
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“fenomenally”
Sorry, Clarissa, there is no such word. Perhaps you mean ‘phenomenally’??
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Ay yay yay! Spanish is invading me! 🙂
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