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Tourist Agency Apologizes For Link ... to Porn Site?
LONDON, England -- Britain's tourism agency has apologized, Voyeuwebbers, for a link on its website that directed visitors to a pornography page.
The agency, Visit Britain, which handles the U.K.'s tourist marketing worldwide, said it thought pranksters had hacked into its internet site after the adult entertainment link was reported by net surfers who got more than they bargained for when searching for what Cardiff, the capital of Wales, has to offer.
"In the immediate term we have corrected the link and, while we cannot be responsible for the content of external sites, apologize for any distress caused," said a Visit Britain spokesman.
A Welshman living in Finland, logged on and said he was absolutely disgusted.
"I was shocked when I saw that - very surprised," he told the South Wales Echo newspaper.
The link has now been changed from an adult website to Destination Cardiff, which promotes leisure and business tourism in the Welsh capital.
-- I dunno, Voyeurwebbers. It seems to me that leaving the link to the adult site might actually generate more business and leisure tourism dollars for Carstiff ... er ... I mean Cardiff, than not having the link. Hehehe! Okie, I admit it, I'm a bad boy, Voyeurwebbers. But that doesn't mean I'm not right, hehehe! I just checked my Webster's Collegiate Encyclopedia and Wales is famous for mining coal, mining slate and mining lead. You see, Voyeurwebbers, you see! I was right after all. Hehehe! -- Igor
Eye On...Tourists by K.
What is it about people when they go on vacations, Voyeurwebbers? It's almost as if they remember to pack everything but their brains. Not even jet lag can explain some of the strange and "DUH" questions people ask when they get to another country.
You don't have take Eye's word for this strange phenomena, however, because the kind folks at the Britain & London Visitor Center have compiled a few examples of the bizarre and mind-numbing questions that tourists to the U.K. asked in 2006. Questions like: "Are there any lakes in the Lake District?" Or: "Is Wales closed during the winter?"
One of Eye's favorites is the following: "When is feeding time for the Loch Ness monster?"
Remember, Voyeurwebbers, these are real questions asked by real tourists visiting Britain.
Other questions put to staff at one of Britain's busiest tourist centers included: "What is the entry fee to Brighton?" (Brighton is a town, NOT an amusement park.)
Other questions make you wonder what the tourists were drinking (or imbibing in some other fashion), for how else can you explain the following: "In what month is the May Day demonstration?" and "Are churches in England open at Christmas?" No, but Britons do hold pagan sex revelries at Stonehenge during Christmas, you unconscious twit!
DOH! It's enough to make you want to ask these people how they found the U.K. in the first place. For the record, there are half a million holidaymakers and tourists visiting just London in the U.K. every year, according to the Britain & London Visitor Center (or Centre, if you're going to use the Queen's English).
One visitor asked: "Do you have any information on (former Page 3 girl) Samantha Fox?" Page 3 girls, for those who don't know, are hot, scantily clad babes whose pictures run on Page 3 of just about every tabloid in the U.K. Even if they don't run on Page 3, people still think of them, fondly Eye might add, as Page 3 girls.
At the northern end of the U.K., the VisitScotland tourist bureau received, and noted, the following question by one tourist: "What time of night does the Loch Ness monster surface and who feeds it?"
For some inexplicable reason, Voyeurwebbers, people also think tourist bureaus know everything and everyone about their respective areas. This is proven by the following tourist's question: "My friend whom I have not seen for 12 years moved to Romford, please tell me where he is now?" Note that this tourist did not even help the visitor bureau lady by providing her friend's name. Eye thinks a proper response might have been: "Why, yes I can. Right now your friend is under the counter munching my carpet." K.
Eye hastens to point out that any opinions expressed in this column are entirely his own and are neither those of Voyeurweb nor its management. K.
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