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(London Times) Interesting European vacation spots getting a bit tired of arresting so many drunken Brits on holiday, despite protestations that being drunk is the normal state for a Briton   (timesonline.co.uk) divider line 40
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klymen [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 10:08:25 PM  
I thought drunk Britons where somewhat harmless without a soccer game..

 
Huskadoodle 2008-08-16 11:26:51 PM  
*mime in a box*

 
I_AM_M 2008-08-16 11:27:50 PM  
"This place is full of girls that are well fit," said Christopher Duff, 21, an electrician from north Wales. "Four slutty girls have moved into the hotel with us and I intend to sleep with all of them by the end of the holiday. We've heard about the reputation of the place and that's why we've come here."

/Bloody well right.

 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 11:33:06 PM  
Howabout instead of arresting the drunk ones, just reward the sober ones, say with reduced hotel fees or free meals?

 
scader 2008-08-16 11:37:57 PM  
protestations... sounds so, dirty.

 
Die Kunst Der Fuge 2008-08-16 11:40:48 PM  
Gyrfalcon
Howabout instead of arresting the drunk ones, just reward the sober ones, say with reduced hotel fees or free meals?

0/10

/Really?

 
themeatcleaver [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 11:44:39 PM  
nice to see an article not thrashing american tourists for once!

/a drunk brit is a good brit
//god save the queen!

 
DreamBrother 2008-08-16 11:47:53 PM  
Look kids. Big Ben. Parliament.

 
texastag 2008-08-16 11:50:49 PM  
Blimey.

When asked for comment...

www.magicmoviemachine.com

Yer, but, no, but yer, but Shu uhh!
BeenonholidaytherelikesixtimesandsnoggedafewWelshmenthatwerewellfit!

 
Rebus 2008-08-16 11:53:39 PM  
There was an 'Allo 'Allo bit (a sit com about a café owner in occupied France) where they discuss how shot down British airmen are identified: You can usually find them drunk with a tin of lager in one hand pissing against a wall singing 'Here we go!'

 
pxlboy [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 11:53:45 PM  
texastag: Blimey.

When asked for comment...



Yer, but, no, but yer, but Shu uhh!
BeenonholidaytherelikesixtimesandsnoggedafewWelshmenthatwerewellfit!


FTW

 
Tainted1 2008-08-16 11:56:14 PM  
Die Kunst Der Fuge: Gyrfalcon
Howabout instead of arresting the drunk ones, just reward the sober ones, say with reduced hotel fees or free meals?

0/10

/Really?


Didn't sound like a troll.....

 
myalias1845 2008-08-16 11:58:27 PM  
"Elsewhere that night in the popular holiday resort of Laganas..."

Anyone else have to read that five times to see that it didn't say lasagnas?...or am I just hungry?

 
koan 2008-08-16 11:58:43 PM  
FTFA:

"Police say they are getting tough with rowdy British tourists. Really?"

xcj9352.k12.sd.us

 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 11:58:43 PM  
Tainted1: Die Kunst Der Fuge: Gyrfalcon
Howabout instead of arresting the drunk ones, just reward the sober ones, say with reduced hotel fees or free meals?

0/10

/Really?

Didn't sound like a troll.....


No, I'm serious.
And it wouldn't even cost very much.

 
koan 2008-08-17 12:01:18 AM  
If you turn into a douche after a few beers (or more), maybe you can't handle liquor.

 
myalias1845 2008-08-17 12:01:24 AM  
Gyrfalcon: Howabout instead of arresting the drunk ones, just reward the sober ones, say with reduced hotel fees or free meals?

Free Lasagnas and Laganas? To test sobriety, they would have to say that fast ten times.

 
bronyaur1 [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 12:02:24 AM  
Unfortunately, a minority of Brits think acting like asshole thugs is funny. I am not at all a fan of police power, but these guys call for an exception.

Taze their misbehaving asses until they stay home. Nobody thinks you are clever, cutting edge, funny, or anything other than just the losers you are. Please kill yourselves quietly and do not reproduce.

 
hershmire 2008-08-17 12:02:55 AM  
Rebus: There was an 'Allo 'Allo bit (a sit com about a café owner in occupied France) where they discuss how shot down British airmen are identified: You can usually find them drunk with a tin of lager in one hand pissing against a wall singing 'Here we go!'

Leesten very carefully. I shall say zis only once.

 
whizbang [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 12:06:14 AM  
Dipesh Gadher gets all the plum writing assignments.

excerpts from The Sunday Times:

BBC3 faces questions over tabloid TV
Dipesh Gadher,
Media Correspondent March 25, 2007

Mark Thompson, the head of the BBC, is to be questioned by MPs over the "dubious" content of the corporation's channel for young adults after commissioning a string of programmes with expletive-ridden titles.

The latest offerings from BBC3 include F*** Off, I'm a Hairy Woman; F*** Off, I'm Ginger; and My Big Breasts and I.

Other shows to be broadcast on the digital channel later this year include a £200,000 documentary, The History of the C-Word, and a programme about the size of men's penises.
...
One of BBC3's most controversial new shows is called My Penis and Everyone Else's. It is aimed at "challenging society's stereotypes of masculinity as well as getting to the heart of why men are so fixated with their members".



When you need a Sodom and Gomorrah article, get a Sodom and Gomorrah writer.

 
myalias1845 2008-08-17 12:07:28 AM  
myalias1845: Gyrfalcon: Howabout instead of arresting the drunk ones, just reward the sober ones, say with reduced hotel fees or free meals?

Free Lasagnas and at Laganas? To test sobriety, they would have to say that fast ten times.


/obviously not sober

 
ultraholland 2008-08-17 12:11:57 AM  
farm3.static.flickr.com

Is familiar with problematic European vacations.

 
Mart Laar's beard shaver 2008-08-17 12:24:50 AM  
The stereotype is the ugly American, but no one thinks about them any more compared to the British stagger.

Assholes. Pretty much every one of them.

 
blazemongr 2008-08-17 12:51:08 AM  
Mart Laar's beard shaver: The stereotype is the ugly American, but no one thinks about them any more compared to the British stagger.

Perhaps if you had places worth visiting, they wouldn't have to get drunk to enjoy them?

/just a theory

 
koan 2008-08-17 01:00:05 AM  
blazemongr:
Perhaps if you had places worth visiting, they wouldn't have to get drunk to enjoy them?


That don't make no sense.

 
Mart Laar's beard shaver 2008-08-17 01:11:27 AM  
blazemongr: Mart Laar's beard shaver: The stereotype is the ugly American, but no one thinks about them any more compared to the British stagger.

Perhaps if you had places worth visiting, they wouldn't have to get drunk to enjoy them?

/just a theory


I live in Europe. You'll have to re-theorize.

 
bigforearms 2008-08-17 01:22:10 AM  
Mart Laar's beard shaver: The stereotype is the ugly American, but no one thinks about them any more compared to the British stagger.

Assholes. Pretty much every one of them.


I agree. At least among youth (mid-20s and younger) travelers in Europe, it was my experience that the Brits, followed by the Aussies, were much louder, rowdier, and more disrespectful of the natives than Americans.

/biased ugly American.

 
swahnhennessy 2008-08-17 02:01:53 AM  
While the Loud American still holds true, the Drunk Brit is many times more annoying, less charming and not nearly as courteous.

/Drunk American

 
La Fee Verte 2008-08-17 03:11:56 AM  
Got a half eaten sandwich thrown at my by a Brit, while biking in Amsterdam, so I'm getting........

No, I'm not, I so wanted to hit that Farker with my bike chain.

swahnhennessy: While the Loud American still holds true, the Drunk Brit is many times more annoying, less charming and not nearly as courteous.

Loud American still stands, they ask dumb questions, but the drunk Brit has to be the most annoying.
Then there are the self righteous Germans and Russians.

 
jonewer 2008-08-17 03:40:19 AM  
Yer but no but...

OK, yer... the drunken filty loud mouth chavs are a frikkin disgrace but no...these holiday destinations have economies specifically designed to sell cheap booze to filthy loud mouthed promiscuos chavs and make loadsamoney out of doing so.

If you want them to behave better, maybe stop selling them bathtubs of strong alcoholic bevarges for pennies.

 
Kalyco Jack 2008-08-17 03:56:55 AM  
I wonder if Senor Frog operates in Greece.

 
Jules Winnfield 2008-08-17 04:04:19 AM  
I can't wait until the 2012 London Olympics. Two-and-a-half weeks of drunkenness with European women! And us Yanks can argue with the Brits about which sport is the real football.

 
Mad Scientist 2008-08-17 06:42:24 AM  
Who are the Britons?

 
chandrika 2008-08-17 07:11:08 AM  
Brings back fond memories of a Twenties holiday in Greece with alcohol fuelled foam parties on boats, streaking thorugh the streets and sex with the tour rep...where did all that go?

/ahhh things to tell my grandchildren
//so proud of my youth

 
FatherDale 2008-08-17 07:49:16 AM  
Gyrfalcon: Tainted1: Die Kunst Der Fuge: Gyrfalcon
Howabout instead of arresting the drunk ones, just reward the sober ones, say with reduced hotel fees or free meals?

0/10

/Really?

Didn't sound like a troll.....

No, I'm serious.
And it wouldn't even cost very much.


The trick, of course, is finding sober ones.

 
FarkinNortherner [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-08-17 08:48:51 AM  
Jules Winnfield: us Yanks can argue with the Brits about which sport is the real football.

Simple answer to that one, under the circumstances: Which one's represented at the Olympics ?

 
Lt. Cheese Weasel 2008-08-17 09:47:09 AM  
Mad Scientist: Who are the Britons?

I don't know but there's some lovely filth over here.

 
Rebus 2008-08-17 10:56:14 AM  
To be fair, downtown anywhere after the taverns close can be awful. I'm sure we've all seen things in our own home cities that we wish tourists would not see. This includes the vomiting drunks at closing time.

 
Runningjoke 2008-08-17 10:56:55 AM  
The Olympics is a place to keep dying sports on a respirator.

 
Impudent Domain 2008-08-17 08:08:33 PM  
FarkinNortherner: Jules Winnfield: us Yanks can argue with the Brits about which sport is the real football.

Simple answer to that one, under the circumstances: Which one's represented at the Olympics ?


the boring one.

 
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