Ah, science conferences. Filled with useful cultural information.

[nanila]

This is not the most important thing that I learned at the 15th Cross-Calibration meeting for the Cluster Active Archive earlier this week, but it is the funniest.

"We're going to Nice for the next meeting? Nice is full of dog shit. And people on scooters, riding on the pavements. So you have to walk with one eye on the pavement and one eye pointing straight ahead. By the end of the week, you have eyestrain. Or you smell of dog shit. Or you're in hospital because you've been run down by some jerk on a scooter."

--A Highly Respected Space Physicist

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[telegramsam]

Somehow I doubt he'll be invited to join the Nice tourism board...

[nanila]

Or write an entry for the next Frommer's travel guide to the city.

It amused me that the bloke's reaction was pretty much the polar opposite. "You're going to Nice? I'm coming too."

[chickenfeet]

Next year we are having our conference in Paradise. You know, the place with the dodgy fruit trees and the double crossing snakes.

[nanila]

Oh, that sounds awful. I bet it's run by a megalomaniacal dictator with a penchant for making up arbitrary rules, too.

[lark_ascends]

*giggle snorts*

[nanila]

He goes on like this a fair bit. Really someone should follow him around with a recording device. ;)