Relax, folks, there is

Oddly, so have I.
I met one who gave me some stuff too

 

Extremely lucky I reckon DA

 

Sold you some stuff, ya mean, bleedin capitalists, all of em!

 

So we're going to play the "stereotype a nationality on the bad ones we notice game"?

Germans: Pushed into queues, reserved sunbeds and pilfered breakfast?
Gosh.
That's pretty strong stuff.
I would have gone for "made a real mess in Poland too", but I guess these things have a half-life.

I wonder what how us Brits will be judged now that JJ has opened this can of duty-free worms.
I'll stick to tabloid coverage (I know how you like those JJ).
Some of the first page of a google search for "British tourist behaviour":

• Drunk, naked and urinating on a monument: portrait of the British tourist
• CHAOS IN CROATIA Boozy Brits are turning Croatian resorts into holiday hellholes by ‘throwing up, peeing and fighting’ in the streets, local mayor claims
• 'Portugal INVASION' British tourists RIOT & BRAWL in Algarve - police fire shots in clash
• Crete mayor asks British government to act on drunken tourists
• Greek party town Malia that featured in The Inbetweeners Movie BANS 10,000 British tourists in a bid to attract more families and lose its reputation for drunken debauchery

You have a hatred for people who "generally act in an unsociable way" on holiday and you picked... the Germans?

There was also a tabloid story about a British girl who *ahem* entertained (there's no way a more graphic description wouldn't get me banned) 24 men in a public bar.
Is that typical "British" sociable behaviour?
If so, what are you planning to get up to on your holidays JJ?!
Actually - don't tell us. I'm sure there are other forums for those sorts of answers.

 

Well, if you can't even let your hair down a bit whilst on holiday.

 

I really didn't think my post would make a difference.

Hacker News had a discussion last week about the "one thing you wish would happen in the next 10 years?".

Hacker News is full of tech types (who will invent skynet and doom us all) so I expected the answers to be "fusion power", "AI", "super capacitors", "alien contact" etc.

Those answers were all in there, but the top answer was:
"Civilized discussion on hard topics"

When the geeks are wishing for civilised discussion over cures for cancer and faster-than-light travel then I guess the state of reasoned discourse is in a bad way.

 

Just as posts by the likes of me will make no difference to and have no effect on, your good self.

 

May as well try persuading a flat earther that the World is a globe

 

Pretend to be T.Blair and he'd lap anything up.
The man is so much more important than the message, its that simple with, DA.

 

OK, Caption competition, I'll start:

"Tony meine leibling, you put the towels on the sunbeds, I'll go and steal the breakfast buffet before the Greeks get there."

 

Now you're complicating things.
I shouldn't have been so gender specific, my bad.
Think of the endless entertainment we could enjoy if these two actually posted on here with the sole intent of winding DA up.
He'd be in knots in no time at all.
And, JoT would provide the necessary lubrication towards greater entanglement.

Not going to happen, but the predictable outcome would be hilarious, I'm sure.

 

LOL

 

This post was made in this here thread by myself in response to DA saying that Germany acts for the benefit of the whole EU and can see the bigger picture. Admittedly, the post wasn't exactly deep down the bunny hole and was rather limited in scope but the 'facts' are there to be either accepted or refuted based on one exercising a modicum of research and an equal modicum of critical thought...I'd be happy for anyone to show me that the 'facts' are false and that my inference is askew.

DA's response?
Completely ignore it and start popping off at someone else about not liking Germans.

Which seems to be a rather big part of the DA mo. Ie, ignore anything which might actually upset the one wheeled (well to be honest even that wheel is actually missing some spokes, a rim and a hub) applecart of a self righteously pompous and deluded world view, swerve it completely, attempt to render the discussion a tabloidesque/playground series of the full gamut of logical fallacies, try to grab some 'allies', give up on the thread entirely and start again on a rinse and repeat cycle next week....

It's like talking to a petulant child or a NaN or a creationist. Your words don't even go in the one ear. They bounce straight back off the closed mind membrane.

 

"So Tony, Margaret said you are her greatest achievement, what is your greatest achievement meine freund?"

"U,u,u,uh, I,I,I,I, well that's a toughie. Could you define achievement for me before I,I,I answer?"

"Yes certainly. Achievement. Something you have achieved. A goal or aim that you have succeeded in completing"

"A,a,a,ah, I see, well......I saved Iraq from Saddam and I have left a very vital Legacy to the people of Britain and I,I,I believe, the World at large."

"You're a tw@ Tony"

"Yes, Angela. Yes, I am. But a rich one (inane devilish grin)

 

"Nein, Nein, Nein, Tony"
Forget the three 'E's'.
We need the BFG.

Biggot, Fascist, gerrymandering.

Dat is good, ya.