Making special trips to visit shut-down insane asylums. Can be done in real life or in virtual life. Virtual Asylum Tourism allows a wider range of travel and prevents risk from hazards like asbestos, arrest, and collapsing stairways, but it lacks the sickening real-life terror that follows exposure to these places. A variant is collecting books featuring images of asylums, but this is not quite as bent as purchasing airplane tickets.
*Hey, sis, I need to get away from it all.
*Well, let's head up to Danvers State before they bulldoze the Kirkbride and build some unique luxury condos! Asylum Tourism always cheers you up!
*Well, let's head up to Danvers State before they bulldoze the Kirkbride and build some unique luxury condos! Asylum Tourism always cheers you up!
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the act of driving around a new or familiar place as oppose to walking, hence seeing and enjoying more of the area in a short space of time from the comfort of your own car.
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When Singapore Math tourism visitors flew back home, they’d excitedly tell their principals or superintendents to embrace the Singapore Math model, by substituting their present dear mile-wide-inch-deep textbooks with wallet-friendly Singapore math titles, often much to the disapproval of their colleagues, who want to “Make US Math Great Again.”
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1: "So she's like a full-on lesbian now?"
2: "Nah, I think it's just homosexual tourism. Any money she'll be doing the soccer mom thing a decade from now."
2: "Nah, I think it's just homosexual tourism. Any money she'll be doing the soccer mom thing a decade from now."
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