How it Feels Trying to Resist Buying Used Books (While Traveling)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- The struggle is real.
Please don't ask me why Prefrontal Cortex's leg-breaking threat is even remotely credible when the motor cortex presumably has control over such functions. I'm not a neuroscientist; somebody else figure it out.
Music:
"Fallout" Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
George Street Shuffle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Dude ... when I read the title of your video, I thought to my last trip to Chiang Mai, Thailand, and all of the rare used books I found. Practically every sci-fi book on my list in a cool, semi-rare edition that I would never find in a bookstore here in the states was found on a book crawl through Chiang Mai. Then I click on your video and I see you walking down the street. I think ... hey, that looks like ... OMG! It's The Lost Book Shop in Chiang Mai! Of course it is. I had to lug a stack of books all around Thailand for a month. I'm proud of the Strugatsky books I picked up for 130 baht (less than four bucks) that I can't find here for less than $15. Can't wait to go back.
Oh, that's amazing! It's such an excellent bookshop, and I just wish I'd had space to buy some books while I was there.
@@genericallyentertaining Chiang Mai is an ancient city and will patiently await you.
were they in english?
I identify with this so much. I am also guilty of buying used books when traveling.
Sometimes when I go on used book-buying expeditions I may also try out some local culture and cuisine. Not too much, though, it wastes time.
Last time I bought books on a trip I said to myself "it's better than getting a fridge magnet or other souvenirs I won't want to look at 9 months later" and never looked back
When we walk out of that bookstore "2, 3, or even 4 hours from now" lmao too funny man
This is just great. Thank you so much for these videos. It isn’t often that comedic videos make me laugh this consistently with each one
Its even worse if you go traveling at a country that speaks your native language... it can be dangerous...
The fact that your prefrontal cortex left actually explains a lot about you, your videos and your catchphrase: Stay generic!
The secret is out!
@@genericallyentertainingdid you actually buy 10kg worth of books?
Yes......you're so relatable....ship them home. It's the easiest. Maybe not from Thailand.....😂😂😂
I've actually bought another duffel while on trips for this purpose.....❤😂❤
I seriously need to go book shop bouncing with you lmao
LETSHH GO KEEP ON GOIN SSHHHTEPP ANNND SHTEEEP
I can't believe Generic Entertainment lobotomized himself for this video
Siam's gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
Not only when travelling, but just going downtown on a sunday lol
This is so brilliant!!!! I'm going to share the link on FB.
Much appreciated! Thanks for watching.
I must admit, I foresaw this particular struggle for you in your travels. 😉
Legit question though… If you're still going to be traveling for months, why are your two suitcases already stuffed to the gills?
They were full when I left, so I knew I wouldn't have room to buy anything. And I still haven't; this is just a portrayal of something that could have, and might still, happen.
Exactly me one year ago when I spent a month in Chiang Mai. Thank you for this video.
99 times in a 100, the prudent path is flight.
why does your brain stem have that accent
Cuz it's stupid and on auto.
But what books did you buy??👀
NEED TO KNOW
None! I actually resisted this time. But it was really hard when I saw a bunch of those Gollancz Sci-Fi masterworks editions, because I'm a huge sucker for those.
@@genericallyentertaining I am impressed.👀 You deserve a really nice treat for that restraint. Like a new book!
@@genericallyentertaining I picked up at least four of them at The Lost Book Shop. Chiang Mai is bookstore paradise. Bangkok was pretty lame. I had to settle for a paperback first printing of The Forever War.
You know, the lost ones.
I went to Bath and found an antiquities shelf. I bought two volumes of Rudyard Kipling’s poetry. I don’t really like him to be honest. But old books!
3:25 Not hard, just expensive....
Disco Elysium.
😂😂😂
First our women now our books?!
Zlibrary
Make more brain parts sketches
Brilliant! This is me over the years with books, vinyl, tarot decks, and now art supplies. Is there no end?
"just keep on steppin'"...🙂
I have a great solution to this problem.
1. Buy the books anyway
2. Put those books in a package and send them to friends or family who live close by.
You can continue your traveling and just get the books back from them when you arrive home again.
I'm requesting an entire brain stem video!
SAME I loved Brain Stem
same
Love how the brainstem sounds old xd
Getting those Disco Elysium vibes.
Holy crap these sketches are all hilariously accurate! No amount of other things to see and do can stop me from going into the used bookstore and spending a ridiculous amount of time there. 😅
Someone invent a teleporting machine. I need to go there.
I haven't traveled overseas, but I can imagine being sorely tempted, lol
The Prefrontal Cortex just left, now he is definitely going to every bookstore.
I went to France with two books, I returned with 5.
I bought my copy of dune messiah in the lost book shop!
Resist!! Noooo!
Totally true story.
In fact, I frequently experience it with the bookstores in my own city, I can and in fact have spent hours and hours looking at/registering old books on sale. And I don't regret it, because on several occasions I have come across rare gems that I had never heard of and that I loved reading. On one occasion a bookstore was closing and was selling all its books for almost nothing, I spent everything I could... the salary of an entire month of work, but I took home 2 thick nylon garbage bags almost 1 meter tall to my home, I had to call a taxi because I could barely move those bags, I couldn't have taken them by bus as would be my first option (because the cost of the same taxi trip is at least 10 times more expensive than the bus ticket). I still have all those books because I'm the type of person who if he liked something it's because he really liked it and never wants to get rid of it. My sister is the opposite, she buys things and soon she gets bored of them and she is selling them to buy new ones. I can't understand it nor do I want to, compulsive consumerism in my opinion.
That one time I visited Hay-on-Wye...
Greatartig ( as we Germans say ), funny and soooo true!
This
okay but as Thai i literally just found your channel today and TOTALLY don’t expect my country bookstore in your channel what😭