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Forum: Portugal
Jul 5th 2017, 1:10 pm
Replies: 205
Views: 15,330
Posted By AllanB

Re: The English on Holiday

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...
Forum: Portugal
Jul 5th 2017, 12:18 pm
Replies: 205
Views: 15,330
Posted By AllanB

Re: The English on Holiday

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...
Forum: Portugal
Jul 5th 2017, 11:52 am
Replies: 205
Views: 15,330
Posted By AllanB

Re: The English on Holiday

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...
Forum: Portugal
Jul 3rd 2017, 10:33 pm
Replies: 205
Views: 15,330
Posted By AllanB

Re: The English on Holiday

The fact is I have had a lot of first hand experience of these incidents, in many different countries and have then seen those same incidents reported on the TV afterwards. Most bear little...
Forum: Portugal
Jul 3rd 2017, 7:12 pm
Replies: 205
Views: 15,330
Posted By AllanB

Re: The English on Holiday

And Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Norway, Russia, Poland, China and those are just the countries I know of...so no, not unique to Britain at all, that is a complete myth. Plus I have seen many...
Forum: Portugal
Jul 3rd 2017, 6:12 pm
Replies: 205
Views: 15,330
Posted By AllanB

Re: The English on Holiday

I think you are being a little selective in these dates of bad behaviour, certainly people behaved themselves in the forties and fifties. In the forties they we busy killing Germans and the fifties...
Forum: Portugal
Jul 3rd 2017, 3:09 pm
Replies: 205
Views: 15,330
Posted By AllanB

Re: The English on Holiday

Originally Posted by GeniB
"We are after all demanding that muslims come up and protest against their own' religious nutters'..giving them a bad name.(albeit a tad more violent)"

I missed this...
Forum: Portugal
Jul 3rd 2017, 10:20 am
Replies: 205
Views: 15,330
Posted By AllanB

Re: The English on Holiday

Please drop this Mods and Rockers story, it is nonsense drummed up by the press, less damage was done during the big Bright weekend than an average weekend, but it sold papers and had old farts...
Forum: Portugal
Jul 3rd 2017, 7:04 am
Replies: 205
Views: 15,330
Posted By AllanB

Re: The English on Holiday

Lets go back a further 20 years to the early 40's, when their was "proper respect", the good old days.

Grow up girls.... boys will be boys and they will drink and fight, no one died here. they...
Forum: Portugal
Jul 1st 2017, 9:32 am
Replies: 205
Views: 15,330
Posted By AllanB

Re: The English on Holiday

Other forums I belong to, censor the bad language and then ban those who continue using it, or are otherwise offensive.

It helps these poorly educated people expand their vocabulary.
Forum: Portugal
Jul 1st 2017, 7:25 am
Replies: 205
Views: 15,330
Posted By AllanB

Re: The English on Holiday

That may be the case, but our friend was accusing me of spreading "fake news." and I resent that.

Had he said what you are saying, my reaction would have been different, but some people have...
Forum: Portugal
Jun 30th 2017, 7:14 pm
Replies: 205
Views: 15,330
Posted By AllanB

Re: The English on Holiday

Have you ever been to the Algarve, or even Portugal, if not get a map, Albufeira is right in the middle of the Algarve?

Are you perhaps a victim of alcoholism, or just bad at geography?
Forum: Portugal
Jun 30th 2017, 10:10 am
Replies: 205
Views: 15,330
Posted By AllanB

Re: The English on Holiday

I don't live in the Algarve for that very reason, because these people go there. I came to Portugal many years ago and like Malaga these people make a bee line for these areas, where they promote...
Forum: Portugal
Jun 29th 2017, 7:53 pm
Replies: 205
Views: 15,330
Posted By AllanB

Re: The English on Holiday

I can't see what difference it makes if it is true or not, there is so much fake news around and this is a small insignificant story.

If it isn't true, there are many similar stories of British...
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