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They should get real tough. Any problem and they're deported. the whole of europe should just decide that if an english person gets out of control, no chucking them in prison, bung 'em on the first plane out.

But realistically it's just a typical Friday/Saturday night in the UK exported to somewhere warm. I have no idea why they do it or what failing there is but it's practically a scandanavian attitude to drinking coupled with an aggressive territorial need to impose themselves on others. A mass celebration of the virtues of colossal ignorance; believing others are stupid if they can't speak english while mocking anyone who has the cheek to speak english better than they.

Especially when abroad with the ongoing cultural need to put down Johnny foreigner to prove that "British is best" :-(. Yet despite tabloid headlines, it's always been a part of British culture, going back hundreds of years. One of the great ironies is that British tabloids both criticise and encourage the very boorishness involved.

Fortunately the era of cheap flights is coming to an end and a lot of this will go away in the next few years.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Aug 25th, 2008 at 06:53:20 AM EST
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Why am I moving back to England again?

(not that a friday night out in Wales is really any better)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Aug 25th, 2008 at 12:44:45 PM EST
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