Ah, Spring Break. The time of year when a college student's thoughts turn to flights of fancy and drinking enough to vomit the entirety of the contents of their stomach and then some. Truly, a bad decision-maker's Christmas.
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In order to prevent Americans from having their lives ruined by things other than excessive consumption and venereal complications, the State Department's official @TravelGov Twitter account has been tweeting advice with the hashtag #SpringBreakingBadly.
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Most of it is pretty solid advice, albeit with all the subtlety of the PSAs that most children's shows were forced to air back in the 1990s.
A tweet that went out on Tuesday, aimed at preventing people from becoming unwitting drug mules, was along those lines — good advice, but kind of weird and the target of many jokes along the lines of "...and the problem is?"
And then...well, and then today happened.
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Regardless of the fact that it's actually pretty decent advice to be on your guard overseas, people took offense to the use of the classic 1-10 hotness rating scale. (Besides, Colin from Love Actually totally disproves the tweet.)
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The poor staffers running the account — identified in the bio as Kaitlin and Alyssa — soon faced a flood of tweets expressing the verbal equivalent of a facepalm.
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And while they tried to defend themselves...
(Sometimes both missing the "joke" and forgetting the crucial period before the tweet while doing so...)
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...people weren't prepared to stop mocking the account.
Both satirizing the tweet...
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And calling out the State Department for being tone deaf.
In the end, @TravelGov apologized for the tweet and subsequently deleted it entirely.
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So, yeah. Spring Break whoooooooooooooooo.
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