Avoid the British when on holiday
Jul 21st 2015 | 3:39 am
#31
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Re: Avoid the British when on holiday
I reckon a bar with only half a dozen drunken Spaniards in it generates more noise than a bar packed solid with any other nationality.
Jul 21st 2015 | 3:50 am
#32
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Re: Avoid the British when on holiday
Magaluf doesn't help. I've seen it myself. Luckily it's contained to a couple square kms. But the press value is global.
Now, I have no problem with getting a little wild. I was pretty wild myself in my early days. But the stuff that happens in Magaluf... wild doesn't begin to describe.
Now, I have no problem with getting a little wild. I was pretty wild myself in my early days. But the stuff that happens in Magaluf... wild doesn't begin to describe.
Jul 21st 2015 | 3:50 am
#33
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Re: Avoid the British when on holiday
For sheer loudness look no further than the Spanish themselves, all continually shouting on top of each other with no one having a clue what they are shouting about.
I reckon a bar with only half a dozen drunken Spaniards in it generates more noise than a bar packed solid with any other nationality.
I reckon a bar with only half a dozen drunken Spaniards in it generates more noise than a bar packed solid with any other nationality.
Or as was recently reported a girl n a hen party doing a naked pole dance in a supermarket car park.
I think that the issue is just the inabliity of some Brits to enjoy themselves when sober.
The behaviour is no worse when abroad than back in the UK.
Jul 21st 2015 | 3:53 am
#34
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Re: Avoid the British when on holiday
I have yet to see any other nationality other than a Brit stag party urinating on each other in the midst of families hoping to enjoy a night out.
Or as was recently reported a girl n a hen party doing a naked pole dance in a supermarket car park.
I think that the issue is just the inabliity of some Brits to enjoy themselves when sober.
The behaviour is no worse when abroad than back in the UK.
Or as was recently reported a girl n a hen party doing a naked pole dance in a supermarket car park.
I think that the issue is just the inabliity of some Brits to enjoy themselves when sober.
The behaviour is no worse when abroad than back in the UK.
Sorry to steal your thunder
Jul 21st 2015 | 3:53 am
#35
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Re: Avoid the British when on holiday
But saying that, the bad reputation of Brits in Spain has been around for 30 years. It isnt a generational thing
The British thugs on the Costa del sol are more likely to be 40-50 and fat and bald than an 18 year old
Jul 21st 2015 | 3:54 am
#36
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Re: Avoid the British when on holiday
I have yet to see any other nationality other than a Brit stag party urinating on each other in the midst of families hoping to enjoy a night out.
Or as was recently reported a girl n a hen party doing a naked pole dance in a supermarket car park.
I think that the issue is just the inabliity of some Brits to enjoy themselves when sober.
The behaviour is no worse when abroad than back in the UK.
Or as was recently reported a girl n a hen party doing a naked pole dance in a supermarket car park.
I think that the issue is just the inabliity of some Brits to enjoy themselves when sober.
The behaviour is no worse when abroad than back in the UK.
Time to book an all inclusive holiday to Spain just for the entertainment value
Jul 21st 2015 | 3:55 am
#37
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Re: Avoid the British when on holiday
For sheer arrogance on holiday no one even comes close to the new breed of yobbish young Russians with the Germans trailing a poor second.
The Germans used to lead the way comfortably in the arrogance stakes, but not so long ago I read an article that many were now staying at British resorts to get away from the Russians and from what I've seen personally they are quite right.
As for sense of humour, the Germans lack of SOH is legendary worldwide.
About the only time they seem to let their hair down and be happy is when gathered together in big numbers in beer houses drinking huge amounts of German beer till it's coming out of their ears.
The Germans used to lead the way comfortably in the arrogance stakes, but not so long ago I read an article that many were now staying at British resorts to get away from the Russians and from what I've seen personally they are quite right.
As for sense of humour, the Germans lack of SOH is legendary worldwide.
About the only time they seem to let their hair down and be happy is when gathered together in big numbers in beer houses drinking huge amounts of German beer till it's coming out of their ears.
Also, just an observation, but I'm around Germans constantly, and have to to hear even one say anything like the stuff that emulates from a few British pie holes around here. Stuff like "Goddamed lazy Spanish don't even have the decency to learn proper English" (no I'm not kidding - know at least 3 who say this often)...
...or just the other day, in a (rather upscale) tapas restaurant, I heard someone ask the waiter in a rather irritated, geordie accent, "Don't you have anything normal to eat?".
So, say what you will about the Germans, but from my experience, arrogance isn't one of them. Sense of humour? hmm.. I can't really argue with that.
Jul 21st 2015 | 4:11 am
#39
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Re: Avoid the British when on holiday
Ok so where do the yobs come from?
Perhaps we should do a survey
"What's the yobbiest place in GB"
My vote goes to The Houses of Parliament.
Perhaps we should do a survey
"What's the yobbiest place in GB"
My vote goes to The Houses of Parliament.
Jul 21st 2015 | 4:19 am
#40
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Re: Avoid the British when on holiday
I think I would try to avoid the British if I was staying in a resort too.
Jul 21st 2015 | 4:20 am
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Re: Avoid the British when on holiday
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Jul 21st 2015 | 4:25 am
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Re: Avoid the British when on holiday
Jul 21st 2015 | 4:26 am
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Re: Avoid the British when on holiday
Erm... I don't know how to reply to such arrogance, ignorance, and hypocrisy. I think best to leave you to your own embarrassment as a matter of record. Others certainly don't need my commentary to see that.
