In the Wyoming and Montana (Yellowstone) area we call these people “tourons” (tourist morons). Sitting on a priceless piece of art or petting a giant bison, it all comes from the same place. Profound stupidity driven by an unhinged sense of privilege.
I saw one where a lady jumped a guard rail and nearly stumbled and fell into the boiling hot spring she was trying to touch. Because I guess the steam and radiant heat wasn’t enough to tell her it was really fucking hot?
It has definitely happened.
Wow yeah that’s a shit way to go.
I did find the one I was thinking of too, I remembered her stumbling around more but she just sorta clumsily sits down next to it (which isn’t a great idea either): https://www.instagram.com/p/CtuCmrJAwk6/ (sorry for the insta link)
To be fair, some of us are just really stupid sometimes.
When I heard that term for the first time, it was from my wife. We love it and damn did we have to use it a lot towards people in the park.
If not chair. Why chair shape?
Because it’s ‘art’
They said it was art
But it crumbled before my fart
(Sorry)
Fart is art when it’s a performance. But it can only be done by fartists.
At least it’s a dumb piece of art. Like, wow, you covered a chair in crystals. You’re like a 13 year old girls jacket in the 80’s.
More like cardboard formed like a chair
I like it. Let’s get philosophical on this shit. What even is a chair?
Nowhere does it mention the nationality of the tourists, but somehow we all immediately know…
Do we? My first guess was English but they could ofc as easily be American
Well yes, but
Nationality
My first guess would be Chinese.
US, UK, or China, there’s no way it’s anything else
It’s very likely it wasn’t someone from the US. We got such a stigma from back in the 70’s to 90’s that Americans seldom behave like jackass’s in Europe anymore.
Lmao wtf? I may be stoned, but you’re tripping.
Do you live in an alternate timeline or something?
Look it up yourself. Chinese tourists actually took the top spot quite a while back.
The video shows, it isn’t that they accidentally sat in a seat, but they were posing as if they were going to sit on it, but fell back into it.
It’s fairly clear that he meant to touch and put at least some weight on it on his 2nd attempt. He only stumbled after the chair gave way.
My brother is one of the more intelligent and scientifically-minded people I know, but I’ll never forget the time we went to the Detroit Institute of Arts and he got yelled at for touching too many exhibits.
Curiosity is integral to being scientifically minded.
True. You don’t need wisdom to be a good scientist.
“and off they go. Indifferent to what happened”
Not sure about that. The guy was shitting bricks and they scurried off pretty fast.
If it’s so important, why was it just on the floor with no protection around it?
Countermeasures are often created by encountering the problem rather than by any foresight
slop art
Why would you cover Van Gogh‘s chair in crystals? I love art but I could do without some artworks.
It isn’t actually Van Gogh’s chair, that’s just the name of the piece. It’s described as having a delicate inner structure covered in crystals (probably a wire frame). It’s not a real chair, which is why it collapsed instantly – it wasn’t created to hold any weight.
Of course it isn‘t. It‘s based on his painting and completely misses the point. It‘s a really stupid piece in a tasteless gallery.
Your comment made it sound like the artist had defaced an historical object.
I’m no art critic, but I would interpret the work as a statement on a mundane, usually overlooked object becoming something dazzling and valuable (eta: as literally happened to Van Gogh, and you could go further and say he was sat on and used during life, etc; I can think of much more, but it doesn’t sound like you’ll care), but that’s just me.
