Romano Tours - SNL
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as a funny reference for realistic expectations about travel and whether it fixes your life.
What it is
An SNL sketch in which Adam Sandler plays a tour operator who bluntly clarifies what his Italy tours can and cannot do for customers' lives.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2019 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Cites _hardwaregeek · 2019-08 · on “Why we lie about being retired”
I'm young and nowhere close to retiring, but I already have friends who have bought into the whole retire early train. Except, it's kinda like the recent SNL skit Romano Tours^[1]. If you're sad now, you're gonna be sad then. Retiring isn't gonna fix their problems. They're not going to be suddenly happy. And even if everything goes right (no kids, no health problems, high income, low cost of living) and they retire "early", that's still going to be in their late 30's, early 40's. And then what? My friends claim they'll figure something out, but if they've lived 40 years without any sense of self actualization, I'm skeptical that they'd suddenly find themselves. I'm not saying one should wor
Cites qgin · 2023-05 · on “Experiences Won’t Make You Happier Than Possessions”
Definitely important to define terms. Seems like in this case experiences = thrill-seeking or "bought experiences". For that type of thing, I'm reminded of this SNL sketch about a tour operator that tries to set realistic expectations about what going to Italy can or can't do for your life [this video] > There's a lot a vacation can do. Help you unwind. See some different-looking squirrels. But it cannot fix deeper issues like how you behave in group settings or your general baseline mood. That is a job for incremental lifestyle changes sustained over time. We can give you the zipline. We cannot give you the ability to say "wheeee" and mean it.