Experiences with saps on holidays

Poor Uncle Tom

EyeSight wrote: »

It's because in the run up to the world cup all the English media outlets over hype it all and if they won it would be unbearable to listen to!
Especially when they play Germany. What some of the British tabloids then is awful - references to the war etc. It's funny because the Germans don't even consider England to be rivals

The British tabloids and English media outlets are not the English team, you can tune out of the media outlets and you needn't read the British tabloids...

drkpower

EyeSight wrote: »

It's because in the run up to the world cup all the English media outlets over hype it all and if they won it would be unbearable to listen to!
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That might be a reason to shout against them were they to get to the final.

However, those who shout against England (whilst supporting EPL teams and the EPL in general) want them to lose every game - preferably in as embarrassing a manner as possible. It's mindless.

Jamsiek

desultory wrote: »

Guy on my newsfeed today "delighted England lost last night, gimps" from a chap who has a Man United cover photo. A dedicated fan of an English team with English players in an English league played in England..and he's happy when England loses.

That's my definition of a "sap"

DazMarz

-A bunch of Swiss-French guys in a casino in Atlantic City. Playing poker. They were absolutely blotto. Could hardly sit up in a chair, never mind playing poker. I was sitting opposite them. The blinds (no big/small blind, just two blinds of the same amount) were $5/$5. But nobody could get it through to them that it was 5. With what rudimentary, Junior Cert level French I possessed, I jumped in and announced to them "Cinque". I now had earned the eternal friendship of 4 pissed Swiss-French guys, who grinned manically at me and gave me high-fives and thumbs-up all night. In between losing their respective bollocks to every other player at the table.

-Same casino, another night. Spring break had just started. The avalanche of tanked-up, American college students was breathtaking. Most were happy enough to drink and smoke dope and tit-fúck co-eds. But some decided to show how cool they were by playing poker. One of them was so out of it, he fell out of his seat and had to be taken to his room by hotel security in a wheelchair. Another one got mouthy with a croupier and was ejected from the hotel, head first, and flung out onto the street by the security.

-I have an extreme dislike of Australia and Australian people in general. It stemmed from an incident in an Amsterdam casino (what is it about me encountering all of these dimwits in casinos?!), where a group of loud and obnoxious Aussies (is there any other kind of Aussie???) got drunk and began verbally abusing the female poker dealer at the table and anyone who got in their way. Myself and several other players at the table voiced our disapproval, whereupon one of them stood up, high and proud in his Australian rugby jersey, and began thumping his chest and calling us all "wánkers". Never had much time for them after that... and after a few other "incidents".

-While walking along a street in Rome at night, while gently locked on Italian wine, I saw "water" coming from the front of a hotel. I thought this strange and looked up. I was "greeted" by the sight of an extremely pissed American student-y type having a slash off his hotel balcony, about 3 floors up. I crossed the street, rapidly.

househero

Went on holiday to find a rat (unfortunately not in the kitchen) in the room on the second night. This was in a LUXURY hotel too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLktjHoOPvU

Agent Smith

joe stodge wrote: »

I was on holidays in Florida last year and had the displeasure to be stuck on a flight and in a hotel with with a large group from Northern Ireland.

On the flight over they thought nothing of it to let their children to play chasing up the aisles of the plane while they got blitzed drunk and very loud, at one point they started opening bottles they had bought in the duty free because the stewardess had refused to give them anymore alcohol. The captain had to announce over the the PA that doing so was a criminal offense and passengers had to be responsible for their children.

On arrival they thought nothing of it to barge to the top of the hotel shuttle que, once on the bus the same carry on that went on on the plane restarted, kids running up the centre aisle of the bus and more drinking.

When we reached the hotel they very drunk and generally obnoxious, my wife went inside the reception with the kids as I got the bags from under the bus. They sent one of their party in then with the same idea. There was nobody at the reception to which the very nice lady started banging the service bell and shouting hello, she very rude and short with the receptionist when she came out of the back, they eventually got their keys and fücked off to their rooms. We got our keys and headed up stairs.

When we got up, the northern lads were in a tower facing ours and out on their balconies, they had 3 rooms. They were having a conversation between the balconies which all 3 had been draped with Union Jack flags. I ignored them and we got ourselves settled in.

About an hour later I went to the Pizza Hut in the hotel to get a takeaway, the group of northies were in the reception of the hotel getting a bollocking off the sheriff.

We didn't spend an awful lot of time in the hotel after that, we were too busy in the theme parks and what not so we didn't have much more interactions with them afterwards, except for the few minutes in the evenings when we headed back to the hotel to get changed to head out for dinner, they were always at the pool drinking while letting their kids run wild until the pool was closed at about 10pm.

Share your stories of getting stuck in, near or around dickheads while on holiday.

Wait till the taigs vist the enclave. you'll have "YOU ARE NOW ENTERING FREE ORLANDO" Painted everywhere.... :pac:

Wanderer2010

Funnily enough I had a similar incident on my way to Florida last year, was seated near a very large and very loud and obnoxious group of Northern Ireland guys on their way to a golfing holiday they were very lairy and self absorbed with no consideration for other passengers, they drank practically the entire flight which surprised me as I waiting for the crew to say "sorry you have had enough " but they didn't they just kept on serving them whiskey and beer.

These guys were not that young either I would put the average age at forty . They were so loud that a few passengers had to move seats and the crew said absolutely nothing maybe they were intimidated .

conorhal

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Funnily enough I had a similar incident on my way to Florida last year, was seated near a very large and very loud and obnoxious group of Northern Ireland guys on their way to a golfing holiday they were very lairy and self absorbed with no consideration for other passengers, they drank practically the entire flight which surprised me as I waiting for the crew to say "sorry you have had enough " but they didn't they just kept on serving them whiskey and beer.

These guys were not that young either I would put the average age at forty . They were so loud that a few passengers had to move seats and the crew said absolutely nothing maybe they were intimidated .

Maybe they were intimidated or perhaps they had a quota of duty free sales to make?

I saw exactly the same thing on my way back from Oktoberfest in Munich, a bunch of Nordies got on the flight and were still half cut at 11am in the morning. They wandered around the plane, were incredibly loud and crass and wouldn't take their seats and stop messing until a stewardess threatened them with removal from the flight and arrest. They also had to be repeatedly told that you couldn't bring open drink onto the flight and that they had to hand over open cans of beer (Dutch gold fer chrissakes! At Oktoberfest that's pretty much tantamount to sacrilege!)

You can imagine my surprise that once we were in the are the same stewardess was happy enough to serve them more booze. I'd have thought that the last thing she was likely to do is give a bunch of disruptive drunks more booze, but there you go.

Johnny Drama_11

People from the North are getting a bit of a rough time in this thread.

fortwilliam

Daveysil15 wrote: »

The best Irish bar I was ever in was Durty Nelly's in Amsterdam. I met 2 mad bastards from Limerick, a group of dwarfs, a beautiful Swedish girl, a beautiful American girl and a very old Chinese man who told me some great stories. All in one night. That's what I love about the Irish bars - the variety.

Hector?

ButtersSuki

Plenty of sterotyping here! My other half is from the North but has been here since her college days. Believe it or not, the opinions expressed here about Nordies wouldn't be dissimilar to what I hear about Free Staters any time I go up North. We're all really good at pointing the finger at each other on this island aren't we? I've lived in the US and in England, and one thing I can say from my own experience is that most people are nice, and there are towers out there from every walk of life.

For the life of me though, I can't understand why anyone would want to go to an Irish themed bar abroad? You're almost guaranteed to meet the type of scrote discussed on this thread, be they Nordies or Free Staters. My idea of hell? Being stuck in an Irish bar in Spain with a load of locked Irish people screaming at a soccer match on tv then launching into a megamix of Rebel songs whilst having warm Guinness spilt on me.

dundalkfc10

conorhal wrote: »

Maybe they were intimidated or perhaps they had a quota of duty free sales to make?

I saw exactly the same thing on my way back from Oktoberfest in Munich, a bunch of Nordies got on the flight and were still half cut at 11am in the morning. They wandered around the plane, were incredibly loud and crass and wouldn't take their seats and stop messing until a stewardess threatened them with removal from the flight and arrest.They also had to be repeatedly told that you couldn't bring open drink onto the flight and that they had to hand over open cans of beer (Dutch gold fer chrissakes! At Oktoberfest that's pretty much tantamount to sacrilege!)

You can imagine my surprise that once we were in the are the same stewardess was happy enough to serve them more booze. I'd have thought that the last thing she was likely to do is give a bunch of disruptive drunks more booze, but there you go.

So they sell Dutch Gold cans in the airport in Germany because you cant get them through security even attempt to board the plane!

conorhal

dundalkfc10 wrote: »

So they sell Dutch Gold cans in the airport in Germany because you cant get them through security even attempt to board the plane!

No freaking clue, it looked like Dutch Gold to me but I didn't want to approach to closely to verify it.

VinLieger

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Plenty of sterotyping here! My other half is from the North but has been here since her college days. Believe it or not, the opinions expressed here about Nordies wouldn't be dissimilar to what I hear about Free Staters any time I go up North. We're all really good at pointing the finger at each other on this island aren't we? I've lived in the US and in England, and one thing I can say from my own experience is that most people are nice, and there are towers out there from every walk of life.

For the life of me though, I can't understand why anyone would want to go to an Irish themed bar abroad? You're almost guaranteed to meet the type of scrote discussed on this thread, be they Nordies or Free Staters. My idea of hell? Being stuck in an Irish bar in Spain with a load of locked Irish people screaming at a soccer match on tv then launching into a megamix of Rebel songs whilst having warm Guinness spilt on me.

Ahh but you see anyone who refers to the inhabitants of the south of Ireland as free staters is most likely going to be a union jack waving troglodite. Nordies is simply a factual nickname, they are from up north so nordies, free staters is just a refusal to accept the past 80 years as fact

Lingua Franca

dundalkfc10 wrote: »

So they sell Dutch Gold cans in the airport in Germany because you cant get them through security even attempt to board the plane!

They don't even sell it in the north, so these nordies went out of their way to pick some crap lager up in Dublin to bring with them to Oktoberfest for the return leg of the journey.

EyeSight

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Plenty of sterotyping here! My other half is from the North but has been here since her college days. Believe it or not, the opinions expressed here about Nordies wouldn't be dissimilar to what I hear about Free Staters any time I go up North. We're all really good at pointing the finger at each other on this island aren't we? I've lived in the US and in England, and one thing I can say from my own experience is that most people are nice, and there are towers out there from every walk of life.

For the life of me though, I can't understand why anyone would want to go to an Irish themed bar abroad? You're almost guaranteed to meet the type of scrote discussed on this thread, be they Nordies or Free Staters. My idea of hell? Being stuck in an Irish bar in Spain with a load of locked Irish people screaming at a soccer match on tv then launching into a megamix of Rebel songs whilst having warm Guinness spilt on me.

I think it's just a coincidence that the people mentioned here are from the north. I personally haven't had bad experiences with them(I think?) but i have had equally bad ones with drunken boozed brits/irish.
God I hated those 2 holidays in Lanzerote as a kid I know i was lucky to get a holiday but i'd honestly have preferred to stay home.

The irish bars in America are just that in name. Most in NYC are irish owned but almost none over here resemble bars in Ireland. I think they just use it to suggest they're great for alcohol :rolleyes:

Jamsiek

VinLieger wrote: »

Ahh but you see anyone who refers to the inhabitants of the south of Ireland as free staters is most likely going to be a union jack waving troglodite. Nordies is simply a factual nickname, they are from up north so nordies, free staters is just a refusal to accept the past 80 years as fact

Northern nationalists use the term Free Staters too

Pawn

joe stodge wrote: »

Share your stories of getting stuck in, near or around dickheads while on holiday.

Ignorant, fat and over-tattooed English tourists on pretty much any of the Canary Islands. And if you won't step off the footpath to make space for the family of whales, they will walk over you like a brigade of heavy tanks.

The empire is gone, you don't own the world anymore, get over it people.

Kermit.de.frog

joe stodge wrote: »

When we got up, the northern lads were in a tower facing ours and out on their balconies, they had 3 rooms. They were having a conversation between the balconies which all 3 had been draped with Union Jack flags. I ignored them and we got ourselves settled in.

Forgive my ignorance but if they were so unionist why did they fly from Dublin? They should have got a boat from Belfast.

caustic 1

Has this thread changed to bigots unite? (Only if don't wear soccer/gaa/rugby jersey, never walk in the same street as an irish bar, look in the direction of a fleg(s) and visit some obscure place on earth that a handful have gone before just to say only a handful have gone before)

CurryFlavoured

I hear that Nordies are shapeshifters.

Jamsiek

Pawn wrote: »

Ignorant, fat and over-tattooed English tourists on pretty much any of the Canary Islands. And if you won't step off the footpath to make space for the family of whales, they will walk over you like a brigade of heavy tanks.

The empire is gone, you don't own the world anymore, get over it people.

Plenty of Irish abroad not exactly covering themselves in glory either

ButtersSuki

VinLieger wrote: »

Ahh but you see anyone who refers to the inhabitants of the south of Ireland as free staters is most likely going to be a union jack waving troglodite. Nordies is simply a factual nickname, they are from up north so nordies, free staters is just a refusal to accept the past 80 years as fact

Not in my experience - both sides use it regularly. Particularly Catholics when they want to flout some sort of superiority complex over their Southern brethren.

Shakespeare's Sister

This thread boils down to "That lot are worse... no THAT lot are worse".

Playground stuff.

How can anyone give out about people being numbskulls by going on bigoted rants themselves.

NordieSteve

Johnny Drama_11 wrote: »

People from the North are getting a bit of a rough time in this thread.

It's quite amazing, considering the state of their own counties.

desultory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5FfJ89rGPc

desertcircus

Tarzana wrote: »

There are NO jokes in the classic Simpsons years (1989-1997) about how good Vietnamese food is, none. And sure who cares if there are any post-1997 references. :pac:

Skinner: [walking to his window] The year was 1968. We were on recon in a steaming Mekong delta. An overheated private removed his flak jacket, revealing a T-shirt with an iron-on sporting the Mad slogan "Up With Mini-Skirts". Well, we all had a good laugh, even though I didn't quite understand it. But our momentary lapse of concentration allowed Charlie to get the drop on us. I spent the next three years in a POW camp, forced to subsist on a thin stew of fish, vegetables, prawns, coconut milk, and four kinds of rice. I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States, but they just can't get the spices right.