Originally Posted by GeniB

Amazingly in the year of overwhelming tourist numbers being recorded .The three villa's next to ours,that are normally 100% occupied throughout season with tourists,have been virtually empty these past four months. Yeah! no idea why ,but it has been bliss,

I say 'has been' because two days ago the 'screamer family' arrived behind us. Some kid who started screaming at a 100 decibels at 7am and continued until 8.30 pm with little or no break .

Today another slightly less 'screamer family ' (they take breaks ) arrived next door. It would have been obvious to a deaf ,blind,mute that they had neighbours next door...and um .they are not in a Butlins holiday camp,but on a quiet residential estate..but no. They are both Brits. It's just in the DNA to be loud and obnoxiously oblivious of anyone else.At least it is with this generation it seems.
Whatever prevented the usual renting success this year I sincerely hope it continues....

Originally Posted by amideislas

I never thought the famous "British moan" was inbred. I always figured it was an acquired cultural thing (just read the daily "fury and outrage" expressed in Britain's most consumed media). But hey, maybe it's in the DNA...

Originally Posted by GeniB

Amazingly in the year of overwhelming tourist numbers being recorded .The three villa's next to ours,that are normally 100% occupied throughout season with tourists,have been virtually empty these past four months. Yeah! no idea why ,but it has been bliss,

I say 'has been' because two days ago the 'screamer family' arrived behind us. Some kid who started screaming at a 100 decibels at 7am and continued until 8.30 pm with little or no break .

Today another slightly less 'screamer family ' (they take breaks ) arrived next door. It would have been obvious to a deaf ,blind,mute that they had neighbours next door...and um .they are not in a Butlins holiday camp,but on a quiet residential estate..but no. They are both Brits. It's just in the DNA to be loud and obnoxiously oblivious of anyone else.At least it is with this generation it seems.
Whatever prevented the usual renting success this year I sincerely hope it continues....

Originally Posted by johnwoo

You should hear my Austrian neighbours, they scream at their two girls in German and the girls scream back in English, some very old Anglo Saxon words at that.

Originally Posted by Ingles

A bilingual family then

Originally Posted by EMR

Not just Brits, the Portugal News has a story on a drunken Irish stag party flashing at passers by in the centre of Albufeira and coming off worse in a confrontation with locals.

Originally Posted by johnwoo

You should hear my Austrian neighbours, they scream at their two girls in German and the girls scream back in English, some very old Anglo Saxon words at that.

Originally Posted by amideislas

Forners! Always moaning about something. Bunch of hypocrites, too!

They say we're victims of our environment. Perhaps these screaming forners have simply become "well integrated" into British culture?

Originally Posted by johnwoo

There are a lot of them around here, American is my second language. Children pick up a second language very easily. Mine only speak American, though they do know a lot of English phrases. My grandson learned a new one recently that amused him, "Daft as a Brush"

Originally Posted by GeniB

Oh Yeah He's speaking Lancastrian

Originally Posted by EMR

Not just Brits, the Portugal News has a story on a drunken Irish stag party flashing at passers by in the centre of Albufeira and coming off worse in a confrontation with locals.

Originally Posted by johnwoo

I thought it was Yorkshire, anyway so somewhere oop North.

Originally Posted by amideislas

I never thought the famous "British moan" was inbred. I always figured it was an acquired cultural thing (just read the daily "fury and outrage" expressed in Britain's most consumed media). But hey, maybe it's in the DNA...