New Orleans regulating local businesses?

Color me shocked

You should take the tour bus in Dublin. Every one you get on you'll hear different stories about the streets, the park, and the Guinness brewery, all the while the guide tells you the other guides are out of their minds. After a while you just figure out that the story is less important than how it is told.

piss on them

R.A.Danny: You should take the tour bus in Dublin. Every one you get on you'll hear different stories about the streets, the park, and the Guinness brewery, all the while the guide tells you the other guides are out of their minds. After a while you just figure out that the story is less important than how it is told.

Same in New Orleans. Half of what you hear is made up. And I'm not counting the ghost tours, which are obviously 100% made up.

Seriously, you want them to haul around tourists all all day with no drugs?

This About That: Seriously, you want them to haul around tourists all all day with no drugs?

I'm pretty sure most of them would be on drugs with or without the tourists.

LurkerIndeed: Wait, those tour guides are actually expected to be drug-free?

Threadjack:

Is Christmas in the Oaks going to have the ice skating rink this year?

Yes:

http://celebrationintheoaks.com/cito10/


Are you a NOLA Farker?

They could move to the "free tour" system that is picking up in Europe. Of course, no one tips and if you do tip a percent goes to the owner. So it's a win-win for no one except cheapskates

LurkerIndeed: downstairs: Are you a NOLA Farker?

Northshore.

(which some people say is NOLA, some say is the evil bland suburbia, blah blah blah...)

Yeah, I have lots of friends on the Northshore. I call it all NOLA.

Not Metarie, though.

some walking ghost tour stopped outside of the lobby of the guest house during my wedding. They just stopped and started pointing at us during our reception.

/ we got married in that place because it was beautiful, not because it was haunted. also, it was where tennessee williams wrote some of his stuff. he's not my favorite, but it was neat to stay in his former room.

but, in all seriousness, most of those tours are completely bogus. you will learn much more by talking to people who are from here. the tour guides are always from somewhere like ohio and they don;t necessarily make things up, they just don't do their research. they tell the urban legends as if they were true, and since they're too lazy to do their research, they completely miss out on the truth which is tenfold more interesting

pute kisses like a man: some walking ghost tour stopped outside of the lobby of the guest house during my wedding. They just stopped and started pointing at us during our reception.

/ we got married in that place because it was beautiful, not because it was haunted. also, it was where tennessee williams wrote some of his stuff. he's not my favorite, but it was neat to stay in his former room.

but, in all seriousness, most of those tours are completely bogus. you will learn much more by talking to people who are from here. the tour guides are always from somewhere like ohio and they don;t necessarily make things up, they just don't do their research. they tell the urban legends as if they were true, and since they're too lazy to do their research, they completely miss out on the truth which is tenfold more interesting

I remember going on one because my lame-ass friend really wanted to. The guide pointed out a balcony that was apparently what inspired "House of the Rising Sun."

Yeah, no.

Trolljegeren: Why are government officials so eager to collect our urine?

/

Well, most government computer networks block Craigslist.

The IJ already kicked LA's ass on one issue (a stupid rent-seeking law urged by big funeral-home conglomerates, which said that to sell coffins you had to be a licensed mortician with embalming facilities and a completed internship in embalming). I hope they win on this one as well. It's just current tour guides seeking to eliminate competition.

ghare: Ken at Popehat: ... It's just current tour guides seeking to eliminate competition.

This is the source of most of the "burdensome regulations" small business owners complain about: the big guys trying to create barriers to entry for the small, new guys.

99% of the time that is the reason for regulation. Someone making money lobbies to keep other people out of his market.

/ the other 1% is that extremely rare regulation in favor of the consumer. normally, that doesn't happen until a series of lawsuits have been won in favor of the consumer, so it's basically like a regulation to keep whatever industry is in question from bankrupting itself by its own stupidity.

although, one of my favorite false new orleans history is the tomb of marie laveau. there was this mayor who was very proud of himself. He planned to put all of his accomplishments on his tomb, but was concerned that, once he was dead and interred, no one would visit his tomb. So, he put a plaque on the tomb next to his that said, here is the tomb of marie laveau (voodoo priestess, bla bla bla). that way, every tourist in st louis cemetery 1 is going to stand right next to his tomb.

/ good luck finding the real tomb. actually, it's not hard, you just have to know what to look for. it's like choosing the right cup at the end of the indiana jones the last crusade.
// what would be even funnier, if everything i just said was false.
/// although, this issue is pretty obvious to most people, tour guides still habitually take people to the wrong tomb, claiming it is the true tomb, because it looks more voodoo-y.