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Those silly Brits...
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04 Jun 2008 Wed 09:38 am |
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Good one KeithL!  Not surprising, though, if you read "How to Be and Alien" by George Mikes. I can't quote verbatim, but the chapter about travelling stated clearly that the Brits go abroad only to have everything like home - food, neighbours, music and drinks. Were there crowds of Poles in Greece, I'm sure no Brit would file a complaint...
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04 Jun 2008 Wed 03:23 pm |
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Quoting libralady: Being a "Brit" I try and avoid them at all cost when I am on holiday, |
Ahh me too LL
(We can make a pact to avoid eachother if we happen to meet abroad some day!  )
The funniest thing about Brits abroad is, if they don't speak the language (which is 99% of the time!) they SHOUT LOUDLY in English to make themselves understood! 
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04 Jun 2008 Wed 09:29 pm |
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or speak in english with the accent of the country they are in lol .
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04 Jun 2008 Wed 09:37 pm |
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Quoting libralady: Being a "Brit" I try and avoid them at all cost when I am on holiday, hence the post about the "Brits abroad syndrome" when it comes to football. |
Me too!! But its getting a bit difficult now.
Quoting libralady:
The stereotypical British Male watching football abroad, is fat, bald, overweight, has a Man Untd football shirt hanging from his much too small shorts with his much to large belly hanging over the top and he MUST have a pint of beer in his hand. He is covered with tatoos, some of which relate to ex girlfriends, maybe chilren, his Mum and Dad and some pet snake he had
And yes Keith, it is ridiculous! |
Do you know this man??? I'm sure I saw him last Saturday.
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05 Jun 2008 Thu 10:16 am |
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I've read in yesterday's Irish Sun that Brits made it top-hatred holiday makers, being rude, loud and messy. Americans came second in the 'rude' category. Germans and Japanese, on the other hand, were voted bet holiday-makers. Russians and French won in the category of 'least-wanted holiday makers'
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05 Jun 2008 Thu 02:05 pm |
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How about Dutch
Whenever I fly back to the Netherlands, on the airport it immediately becomes obvious in which line you have to get your ticket: the adult women, mainly mothers, ALL have their hair cut short that it makes them look like men, the men are pretty tall, the children shout at each other while playing and are extremely noisy but none of the parents will tell them to play a little more silent. Hatta, the parents shout at their children too, or laugh and talk too loud with each other.
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05 Jun 2008 Thu 02:17 pm |
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A Greek friend told me a funny story - there was a group of Greek tourists flying to LA, as they landed in New York, the group leader said to the group as they were going to go through the security: "here in the US, you have to wait in line, it's considered very rude if you don't"
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05 Jun 2008 Thu 02:20 pm |
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Quoting Deli_kizin: ALL have their hair cut short that it makes them look like men. |
  
I love short hair styles on women. I think they look much sexier and there is so more you can do with them.
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05 Jun 2008 Thu 02:43 pm |
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Quoting catwoman: Quoting Deli_kizin: ALL have their hair cut short that it makes them look like men. |
I love short hair styles on women. I think they look much sexier and there is so more you can do with them. |
what is it exactly you can do with short hair and you can NOT do with long hair?
It is hard to understand women who deny their partners pleasure of combing their hair with their fingers!!
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05 Jun 2008 Thu 03:30 pm |
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Quoting catwoman: Quoting Deli_kizin: ALL have their hair cut short that it makes them look like men. |
I love short hair styles on women. I think they look much sexier and there is so more you can do with them. |
There is short and short honey 
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05 Jun 2008 Thu 03:30 pm |
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Quoting thehandsom: It is hard to understand women who deny their partners pleasure of combing their hair with their fingers!! |
See, that is something I, as a woman, cannot understand either
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05 Jun 2008 Thu 04:59 pm |
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Quoting catwoman: Quoting thehandsom: what is it exactly you can do with short hair and you can NOT do with long hair?
It is hard to understand women who deny their partners pleasure of combing their hair with their fingers!! |
What is it that you can do with long hair other then have it up or down? 
And... my pleasure is more important then YOUR pleasure dear. |
yeah yeah..
I am sure you are not aware of the fact that "the greatest of all pleasures is to give pleasure to one whom we love"
And of course, you would not know that "the essence of love is to have pleasure in giving pleasure". would you?
And do you know what happens to the people, who keep saying 'me, me'?
They get tired of those pleasures they take.
But in reality , we never get tired of pleasures we give.
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05 Jun 2008 Thu 06:47 pm |
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Quoting thehandsom: Quoting catwoman: Quoting Deli_kizin: ALL have their hair cut short that it makes them look like men. |
I love short hair styles on women. I think they look much sexier and there is so more you can do with them. |
what is it exactly you can do with short hair and you can NOT do with long hair?
It is hard to understand women who deny their partners pleasure of combing their hair with their fingers!! |
I have had long hair, half way down my back, I have had short spiky hair, now I have a mid length bob, and I am yet to have the pleasure of my husband comb my hair with his fingers, no matter how many hints I drop! :-S
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05 Jun 2008 Thu 07:07 pm |
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Well, I will have to remember this when I go to a foreign country...I will expect to see lots of fellow Americans, or I am suing! All you foreigners stay out of Disneyworld...I expect to see American there too (which you rarely do)! 
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05 Jun 2008 Thu 08:21 pm |
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Quoting lady in red:
I just remembered, we went to Tunisia on a last minute cheap all-inclusive (never again btw :-S )holiday a few years ago and the ratio of Germans to everyone else in the hotel was about 100/1. My football loving, ManU supporting, non-tattooed, non-bald, non-overweight (well maybe a little bit!) husband was furious because it was the World Cup or something and they were only showing Germany's games and not England's!! Also - it was VERY difficult to get a sunbed  and there was a children's club for the German children but none for the rest - I wish we'd thought of suing . |
Do you remember the advert for Carling Black Label ? The spoof of the bouncing bomb, Germans set alarms, rush out of the hotel early to lay their towels on the sunbeds. English man stands on balcony and throws his towel into the pool, except it bounces across the water and lands on a sunbed. towel unrolls and out falls a can of Carling Black Label, all done to the Dambusters sound track! Talk about taking the mick!
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06 Jun 2008 Fri 09:16 am |
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LIR, you can still sue them Another thing I read in The Irish Sun was that an Irish woman is suing travel agency because she fell while pub crawling in Greece in 2000
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07 Jun 2008 Sat 05:33 pm |
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Quoting libralady: Quoting lady in red:
I just remembered, we went to Tunisia on a last minute cheap all-inclusive (never again btw :-S )holiday a few years ago and the ratio of Germans to everyone else in the hotel was about 100/1. My football loving, ManU supporting, non-tattooed, non-bald, non-overweight (well maybe a little bit!) husband was furious because it was the World Cup or something and they were only showing Germany's games and not England's!! Also - it was VERY difficult to get a sunbed and there was a children's club for the German children but none for the rest - I wish we'd thought of suing . |
Do you remember the advert for Carling Black Label ? The spoof of the bouncing bomb, Germans set alarms, rush out of the hotel early to lay their towels on the sunbeds. English man stands on balcony and throws his towel into the pool, except it bounces across the water and lands on a sunbed. towel unrolls and out falls a can of Carling Black Label, all done to the Dambusters sound track! Talk about taking the mick! |
Great commercial. The guy is nice to look at too!!
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