AllanB

The first coherent argument I have heard for while mate....

I think it is more a result of opportunity, in my grandfather's day the wife beating happened because the poor woman was there when he got home, probably nagging him about spending all the housekeeping, at a time when he was drunk.

Today people have enough money to get pissed every day...and go abroad on a holiday and get pissed...and pay the fine... and go to Spain next year...and get pissed again.

The bars in these places are making money and then eventually shit happens.

GeniB

Don't be so prickly... Alan B you talk as if you are the worlds expert on violence ? . I will compare any act of violence agains the public as anti social violent behaviour.. It matters not if it is terrorist throwing a Molotov cocktail or a drunken Brit shoving the broken glass he just drank his (cocktail ) in ..into someone's throat.... You are very selective Mr B

p.s I was IN Manchester when the IRA bombed three . miles of that city.. so don't YOU dare compare ...Fear is fear is fear..

AllanB

There is a vast difference between getting a "glimpse" of blood and body parts and being in the same city. That is not just fear, it leaves a permanent mark, so yes, maybe I am prickly.

In my experience it is rare that people on these holiday piss-ups get involved in pushing broken glasses in people's faces and that wasn't the case here either. They are mainly limited to fists flying around and usually missing, a hooting and a hollering and people running. "Glassing" tends to be an individual act carried out by a sadistic bastard.

Red Eric

Nice grandfather you had. I hope you gave him a stern talking to as soon as you were old enough.

AllanB

I said in my "Grandfather's day". Quite the contrary, he was the local "peacemaker", as mentioned in my previous posting. The police were not allowed to get involved in "domestics", the locals sorted things out themselves back then.

GeniB

This is a pointless discussion AlanB you seem to want to be angry about something..not quite sure what

EMR

90% of a flight arriving in Taro last night had their journey sploilt by a few drunken morons, the typical t shirted stag party, so thick they have to have their names printed on their shirts in case they forget it.
We watched those exit the flight in drib and drabs rather than the usual rush with the morons coming off in ones and twos.
All became clear when the last three exited accompanied by their personal GNR officer.
The captain after we boarded informed us that members of the group had disrupted the flight and that the crew would be delaying the in-flight service as they were still recovering from the event.
Hopefully the guilty parties stay in Portugal will be both short and very expensive as they will need to find another airline to get back to the UK.

007Steve

? Care to name the Airline EMR?

EMR

Easy jet.
Not sure the airline is responsible for the morons who fly on it.
The alcohol they consume before boarding was probably a significant factor.

GeniB

Ye see this is where I don't get it?

It's illegal to be drunk on an aircraft. so how come 'drunks' are allowed to board?

We will be flying with EasyJet very shortly and I am absolutely dreading it. Why should I pay good money to sit next to a drunk? and be made to feel unsafe?

Before anyone say's it. I have to fly with this airline. no alternative

EMR

It's not Easyjet or Ryan or Monarch or any airlines fault, some now refuse to serve alcohol on certain flights to certain destinations because of the problems their customers cause.
I have seen travel refused by airlines to the obviously drunk, flight crews refusing to serve more drinks.
This was an evening flight but we will all have seen fellow Brita starting their holiday drinking from the moment they get airside, whatever the time.
Who needs to start drinking at 5.00am apart from Brits going on holiday.

007Steve

Perfectly right GeniB
But here we meet the The Brit Paradox.(2017 Edition). Page after page of Rules but senseless as to their priorities.
How many times have we all stood at Security and seen someone’s luggage pulled to pieces on the discovery that they have 160ml of fluids instead of 150? Slightly sharp comb handle?– Weapon!!! - in the bin.
Yet, these are the same people who will gladly wave through groups who are obviously blind drunk.
It makes no sense to me either.

Naaling

The bars are in the departure lounge AFTER security.

toots sweet

I've been on flights were flight attendants totally ignore how drunk/inebriated passengers
are and willingly sell them more.(they are or were on commission for drinks sold).
I was on one flight sitting next to someone who was already half way there,and the flight attendant sold him 3 small bottles of bacardi which would have sent him well over the edge.One bottle in and he had his headphones on conducting a symphony,throwing his arms all over the place. We had to move seats,but if the flight had been full,we would have had a very uncomfortable flight.

macliam

Low air-pressure can increase the perceived effect of alcohol consumption, so on short-haul flights, I think alcohol should be banned, like smoking.

If Alcohol consumption required the amount of clear-up that smoking did, it would already be "banned" by the airlines..... but it's a quick way to make an extra buck.