One of the second best places in the world

What a bunch of stupid claptrap, pettiness, name calling!!!!! this is the statement that the OP is based on:

'that has to be one of the second best sights in the world.' So of course I asked him why it was one of the second best. His answer was, 'I haven't seen all the sights in the world so I can't judge whether it is one of the best or only one of the second best'. That's what I think we all really think when we want to see that next new place. Perhaps there is something better just around that next corner.

I actually smiled when i read it, thinking that it was a pretty astute way to look at things.... It's not that you HAVE to see and judge everything in the world, and it certainly is no contest!!! It's just that NOTHING and NOWHERE is ever the BEST! Usually it's curiosity that drives most serious travellers and everything it encompasses is relative - to who you are, to your time of life, to your interests, to your experience. So everything can be said to be second best to what is yet to be

People often ask me what is my favorite country... my answer usually is 'the last one I visited'.... and I guess that means that what has been is always second best to what is yet to come - the next trip to the next country and the next experience.

"So everything can be said to be second best to what is yet to be"

Well said Canayjun, it's nice to see someone astute enough to get it.

I get frustrated sometimes by the inability of some people to see outside their own little boxes. I admit to having been harsher than necessary with Peachfront but I also admit to being human.

Well said Canayjun and absolutely right. It is all so subjective but, 'I haven't seen all the sights in the world so I can't judge whether it is one of the best or only one of the second best'. is pretty spot on.

"I get frustrated sometimes by the inability of some people to see outside their own little boxes. I admit to having been harsher than necessary with Peachfront but I also admit to being human."

I'm sorry BpGuru alias Wayworn, but there is no excuse for the name calling and abuse you engage in if someone either doesn't agree or misses the point of your post. Getting banned numerous times is not a good look for a supposedly mature traveller. LOL.

Interesting OP. That said, please have the maturity to converse with each other as you would in real life, or as any polite person would in real life. There is absolutely no need for name-calling if someone misunderstands or disagrees with a comment. Cheers.

That's fine provided someone disagrees with a comment that was made, not a comment that is a figment of their own mind. When it is pointed out that no such comment was made and they continue to belabour the same non-existant point, it becomes obvious they are either incapable of comprehending or just don't want to.

It would be nice to just ignore comments but what actually happens is that others are led down the proverbial garden path unless the fallacy is pointed out. If it's repeated several times, it has to be pointed out several times.

Wayworn, it's a travel forum, not a matter of life and death.

I, personally, just don't understand why you belabour the point of insisting everyong stick to your answering your OP no matter what. It sort of comes across as bullying, when you resort to insult and then tell them 'stop responding'.

Do you feel somehow impotent (and I don't mean sexually big dick LOL) in your life that you need to be like this? Were you bullied at school or were you the bully?

Part of what makes a discussion/debate interesting is divergence from the topic. It's called extropolation, thinking laterally or outside the square. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

Extrapolation, lateral thinking and outside the box are not the same as totally missing the point oonks. Do you think this thread should become a discussion on what is or is not a contest? Do you consider that extrapolation?

Your right to tell me that you think I shouldn't insist on sticking to the topic is no more valid than my right to tell people to stick to the topic. But that isn't really what occurred here anyway. What happened is someone posted who didn't even understand what the topic was. You might as well say I was talking about train timetables in Germany and someone decided to respond with comments about French food and I should think that's OK.

Surely there's no point in ranking places "best" or "second-best" etc. It certainly suggests some kind of contest to me, if only in your own mind. I would believe most people don't travel to find "better" or "best" places, simply to satisfy their curiosity about the world. You can't possibly compare, say, Paris, with a Pacific island and give them a ranking against each other.

I suppose it was too much to expect that many would understand the concept.

I'll say it one more time. It isn't about any kind of contest or any kind or ranking. Please don't bother posting any more comments like , "It certainly suggests some kind of contest to me, if only in your own mind." It may suggest a contest to you but please don't presume to think you know anything about what it suggests to me.

You don't get it, that's fine, move on.

What a strange post!

Once, by mistake, I ended up in a cheap and nasty cafe/bar in Turkey full of Brit pensioners slowly sipping their beers to make them last as long as possible before they had to buy another. Maybe these oldies had come in for a day trip from the cheap resorts they had moved to to see out their days.

You should have seen them- all carrying on yammering at each other, just like wayworn, busy trying to win Brownie points against each other in their useless arguments!

I left before I had finished my beer ............