See, the Brits aren't the biggest whingers.
May 6th 2010, 11:47 pm
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Re: See, the Brits aren't the biggest whingers.
Proof, apparently, if it were needed that we're not the worst in the world 
Barmaid in the local pub just commented that a bunch of Americans were the worst whingers she'd ever heard cos they were so loud. Don't know what she served them, but they left soon afterwards
May 7th 2010, 12:08 am
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Re: See, the Brits aren't the biggest whingers.
I remember going to a pizza place in London a while back (several years)... some American was getting the poor girl to move all the chairs, the table that he had booked etc... he was a big pain in the arse... (and he didnt help her! he stood there with his arms crossed as this tiny little 12 year old.. ok, she was probably about 18 lugged chairs into different places etc etc)
My friend who I was with asked him in front of the whole restuarant if the doorway was in the right place?... should he move the window? Perhaps Big Ben should face in a different direction?
Apart from me hiding under our table laughing my head off, the bloke shut right up... after looking like he was going to deck my previously said friend... but the guy stopped acting like he was the big man...
God, how funny, haven't thought about that in a long while!
Em x
My friend who I was with asked him in front of the whole restuarant if the doorway was in the right place?... should he move the window? Perhaps Big Ben should face in a different direction?
Apart from me hiding under our table laughing my head off, the bloke shut right up... after looking like he was going to deck my previously said friend... but the guy stopped acting like he was the big man...
God, how funny, haven't thought about that in a long while!
Em x
May 7th 2010, 12:09 am
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Re: See, the Brits aren't the biggest whingers.
I remember going to a pizza place in London a while back (several years)... some American was getting the poor girl to move all the chairs, the table that he had booked etc... he was a big pain in the arse... (and he didnt help her! he stood there with his arms crossed as this tiny little 12 year old.. ok, she was probably about 18 lugged chairs into different places etc etc)
My friend who I was with asked him in front of the whole restuarant if the doorway was in the right place?... should he move the window? Perhaps Big Ben should face in a different direction?
Apart from me hiding under our table laughing my head off, the bloke shut right up... after looking like he was going to deck my previously said friend... but the guy stopped acting like he was the big man...
God, how funny, haven't thought about that in a long while!
Em x
My friend who I was with asked him in front of the whole restuarant if the doorway was in the right place?... should he move the window? Perhaps Big Ben should face in a different direction?
Apart from me hiding under our table laughing my head off, the bloke shut right up... after looking like he was going to deck my previously said friend... but the guy stopped acting like he was the big man...
God, how funny, haven't thought about that in a long while!
Em x
May 7th 2010, 1:51 pm
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Re: See, the Brits aren't the biggest whingers.
How sad life is too short for moaning at people
May 7th 2010, 2:23 pm
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Re: See, the Brits aren't the biggest whingers.
Funny, I was just thinking of some French people we encountered on holiday in Kenya before I saw the article was about the French!
We were at breakfast and the hoo harr that went on because these French people couldn't have brown bread for their toast, poor little waiter really got it in the ear! Relax people you are on holiday, in a different country - who cares bread is bread!
American's also tend to be a bit fussy as well but when you've done a fair bit of travelling you just accept, although I do have a wee moan about things here but then that's because I have to live with some things all the time not just for two weeks holiday!
We were at breakfast and the hoo harr that went on because these French people couldn't have brown bread for their toast, poor little waiter really got it in the ear! Relax people you are on holiday, in a different country - who cares bread is bread!
American's also tend to be a bit fussy as well but when you've done a fair bit of travelling you just accept, although I do have a wee moan about things here but then that's because I have to live with some things all the time not just for two weeks holiday!
May 7th 2010, 3:52 pm
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Re: See, the Brits aren't the biggest whingers.
Yep, had to be the French... That's why I moved to the other side of the world. Can't stand the moaning of my countrymen...
Although this bit is the same the world over methinks
Although this bit is the same the world over methinks
While banks and other financial institutions cause a huge amount of anger among the French, 31 per cent of women said their husbands or boyfriends were the biggest cause of irritation.
May 7th 2010, 3:55 pm
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Re: See, the Brits aren't the biggest whingers.
I remember going to a pizza place in London a while back (several years)... some American was getting the poor girl to move all the chairs, the table that he had booked etc... he was a big pain in the arse... (and he didnt help her! he stood there with his arms crossed as this tiny little 12 year old.. ok, she was probably about 18 lugged chairs into different places etc etc)
My friend who I was with asked him in front of the whole restuarant if the doorway was in the right place?... should he move the window? Perhaps Big Ben should face in a different direction?
Apart from me hiding under our table laughing my head off, the bloke shut right up... after looking like he was going to deck my previously said friend... but the guy stopped acting like he was the big man...
God, how funny, haven't thought about that in a long while!
Em x
My friend who I was with asked him in front of the whole restuarant if the doorway was in the right place?... should he move the window? Perhaps Big Ben should face in a different direction?
Apart from me hiding under our table laughing my head off, the bloke shut right up... after looking like he was going to deck my previously said friend... but the guy stopped acting like he was the big man...
God, how funny, haven't thought about that in a long while!
Em x
Like wise an American complaining the establishment does not take American Express. Very funny watching someone who has been eating like a pig now sweating like a pig hoping his friends could bail him out.
May 7th 2010, 4:59 pm
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Re: See, the Brits aren't the biggest whingers.
Funny, I was just thinking of some French people we encountered on holiday in Kenya before I saw the article was about the French!
We were at breakfast and the hoo harr that went on because these French people couldn't have brown bread for their toast, poor little waiter really got it in the ear! Relax people you are on holiday, in a different country - who cares bread is bread!
American's also tend to be a bit fussy as well but when you've done a fair bit of travelling you just accept, although I do have a wee moan about things here but then that's because I have to live with some things all the time not just for two weeks holiday!
We were at breakfast and the hoo harr that went on because these French people couldn't have brown bread for their toast, poor little waiter really got it in the ear! Relax people you are on holiday, in a different country - who cares bread is bread!
American's also tend to be a bit fussy as well but when you've done a fair bit of travelling you just accept, although I do have a wee moan about things here but then that's because I have to live with some things all the time not just for two weeks holiday!
I said to my kids "hmmmm.. kids, when it comes to the very fact that the only thing you have to moan and shout about in life is the number of slices of toast in the morning, you KNOW that you have been holidaying too long. It is therefore time to pack up the backpack and go home to find a real problem". Yeah.. the guy wasn't very impressed as he was within earshot!
Em x
