Some Britons Too Unruly for Resorts in Europe - NYTimes.com
"They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit," Malia's mayor, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, said in an interview. "It is only the British people -- not the Germans or the French."Malia is the latest and currently most notorious in a long list of European resorts full of young British tourists on packaged tours offering cheap alcohol and a license to behave badly. In Magaluf and Ibiza, Spain; in Ayia Napa, Cyprus; and in the Greek resorts of Faliraki, Kavos and Laganas as well as Malia, the story is the same: They come, they drink, they wreak havoc. <...> ... "for 10 weeks, this place is littered with kids being sick and unconscious in the streets." Just then, several young men who had the pale, queasy look that suggested the end of hangovers not yet muted by new infusions of alcohol, passed by, and Mr. Fisher asked them why they drank so much, night after night. "It's what everyone wants to do," one young man said. His friend said: "We have stressful jobs, and we don't get much time off, and we like to enjoy ourselves and have a good laugh. And we love a bargain."
"They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit," Malia's mayor, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, said in an interview. "It is only the British people -- not the Germans or the French."
Malia is the latest and currently most notorious in a long list of European resorts full of young British tourists on packaged tours offering cheap alcohol and a license to behave badly. In Magaluf and Ibiza, Spain; in Ayia Napa, Cyprus; and in the Greek resorts of Faliraki, Kavos and Laganas as well as Malia, the story is the same: They come, they drink, they wreak havoc.
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... "for 10 weeks, this place is littered with kids being sick and unconscious in the streets."
Just then, several young men who had the pale, queasy look that suggested the end of hangovers not yet muted by new infusions of alcohol, passed by, and Mr. Fisher asked them why they drank so much, night after night.
"It's what everyone wants to do," one young man said.
His friend said: "We have stressful jobs, and we don't get much time off, and we like to enjoy ourselves and have a good laugh. And we love a bargain."
Living in Liverpool it is impressive how people behave either while drunk (which happens a lot from the perspective of most European countries, save maybe Scandinavia) or when there are no rules to follow.
Queuing is my favorite: When there is a clear queue (i.e. rule) to follow, everybody behaves perfectly, but when people are either drunk or there is no clear rule, its every (wo)men for (him/her)self. Buying at M&S is easy, getting a drink at a pub (or an hamburger at McD at 2am in the morning) is almost impossible unless you almost smack someone.
I have never seen such an amount of uncivilized behavior elsewhere.
I think England (whole UK?) is where the dutch concept of "social controle" is really to be seen: people behave correctly because of social pressure only, not because it is best to do so. When the social pressure is off, then it is dog eat dog mentality that is probably the hallmark of the anglo-disease.
At the end of the day this is probably another symptom of the anglo-disease: pervasive "dog eat dog" mentality. The only brakes are social control and the attached political correctness (which are, BTW, a disaster to democracy and freedom of thinking, but that is an other issue).
Buying at M&S is easy, getting a drink at a pub (or an hamburger at McD at 2am in the morning) is almost impossible unless you almost smack someone.
Breaking bottles over people's heads was the custom in Notts. I guess Brits are more civilized in Liverpool.
There's a reason The Tragedy of the Commons takes place in Britain. A good chunk of the country doesn't grok the whole concept of upkeep. I remarked to my friends over there that if rural Southerners in America were forced to live in townhouses (the horror) and watch gay tv shows for a few hours per day, they'd be Brits. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
...oh wilfully obtuse one.
With foresight and intent he has an angle greater than 90° and less than 180°?
And nbody seems able to provide an epxlanation as to why the French, with much lower booze prices, don't exhibit the same behaviour. Aside from exploring cultural differences that don't fit the comforting Brits-rule tabloid preference. keep to the Fen Causeway
F'r instance, there are rules about how much beer is served in a glass and there is a constant war of attrition between brewers and consumers about this. One more ingenious suggestion by one brewer was that they weren't selling you a pint of beer, they were selling you a leisure experience. keep to the Fen Causeway
And nbody seems able to provide an epxlanation as to why the French, with much lower booze prices, don't exhibit the same behaviour.
The secret is simple: food. Good food. And talking about food. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
The secret is simple: food. Good food. And talking about food.
Fixed. It's not that they lack food. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
