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Daily Mail or not, I think there has long been a problem of thuggishness invovling brits around europe and my attitude has always been that the local police should herd them into a field and beat the living daylights out of them, bung them on a plane and ship 'em home.

I mean, jeez, the local police in some of these countries have reputations for random violence that the americans would be hard put to emulate. So let 'em loose and let thugs know that the gloves are off when they arrive.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 07:42:03 AM EST
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I think a British consul in Majorca resigned years ago because he was tired of having to apologize for the yobbish behaviour of his connationals.

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 07:43:45 AM EST
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Unfortunately it's not just the yoofs - boorish yobbishness goes all the way to the top of the tree.

If there's an Anglo-Disease, it's not cause by an excess of seriousness, but by an excess of English-speaking knobbery which sometimes pretends to appear serious and respectable as it gets older.

Boris wasn't elected mayor because he's a nice person who's kind to kittens, but because he's a yob that other yobs can look up to.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 08:16:07 AM EST
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Boris wasn't elected mayor because he's a nice person who's kind to kittens, but because he's a yob that other yobs can look up to.

Too true.

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 08:22:58 AM EST
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