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As I mused in another thread, 'Backpacker Culture', is almost exclusively portrayed in a negative light. Backpackers get very bad press. Some of them I've encountered in Thailand, mostly on Khao San Road, of course, are indeed obnoxious arseholes, but then so are many non-backpackers I've met, and indeed so am I, and I've met some decent backpackers too. Even the obnoxious arsehole backpackers (many if not most of these prats are British, it grates me to admit ) are often simply young and displaying the blithely arrogant attitude that only inherited wealth can breed and nurture in a lazy-minded immature pampered person. And the decent ones I've met are understandably embittered by the negative preconceptions folks have of their ilk, so tend to be frosty at first. I met a very tasty Japanese backpacker bird of some 29 summers on Khao San some years back. She had no money and nowhere to stay, so I played the 'Good Samaritan' card. We got pissed together in the afternoon sunshine. She was lovely, scrubbed up nice back at the Nana Hotel, and let me shag her all night as well. I shagged a redheaded Irish backpacker in Chiang Mai once too, I recall. She was a bit fat, but full of fun and went like the clappers once I'd got a few Bacardi Breezers down her throat. So here's a poll, so we'll know once and for all... Are Backpackers All C*nts? Feel free to demystify your poll-vote selection with anecdotes. In fact, feel obliged. jack