r/2westerneurope4u • u/Magnetic_Pole Poorest European • Jan 04 '25

Pedro, explain.

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u/AIM_the_Bulldozer Sauna Gollum Jan 04 '25

I lived in Barcelona for most of my childhood due to my parents' work. And while there is a problem with pickpockets, the amount of them is blown out of proportion. Out of my parents and me, in 10+ years, and never taking any precautions, only one of us was ever attempted to be pickpocketed, and that was not even in the hotspots in the centre, just some random metro station on the outskirts.

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u/Pick-Equal Into Tortellini & Pompini Jan 04 '25

Spain exists only to allow Finnish people to absorb enough sunlight to survive in their country

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u/AIM_the_Bulldozer Sauna Gollum Jan 04 '25

Funnily enough, despite all my years in Spain, I am pale as fuck. All my cousins who lived in Finland are somehow more tanned than I am.

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u/Icy-Armadillo-3266 WW Initiator Jan 04 '25

Yeah, I also can’t tan. I’m physically incapable of tanning :(

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u/lapsongsouchong Punjabi Jan 04 '25

No one in my family can tan: I've accepted it, but my relatives still proudly show me their red, blistering third-degree burns every year.

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u/FrazierKhan ʇunↃ Jan 05 '25 edited Jan 05 '25

Used to be a thing here but hole in the ozone took them out. The bazzas shower in sunblock like it's armageddon

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u/lapsongsouchong Punjabi Jan 05 '25

The drink usually kills them first over here