Found this article in the NY Times
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- aanderton0
I don't see why they don't just up the drinking age to 21 when visiting a foreign country.
Then again that'd pretty much kill tourism to places like Magaluf and Ibiza.
- desmo0
im not surprised by this article at all. ive seen this first hand and have plenty of english friends who admit to this behaviour as well!
drink anyone?
- lukus_W0
Terrible. It's a very ugly side of UK society.
The blame can't lie solely on the shoulders of those who participate though. The UK is in a strange position. We're isolated, being an Island - and I think that this has a negative effect on our standing in mainland Europe, but socially the UK is also very segregated via class.
To a certain extent, I reckon the people involved have been failed by society. It doesn't make it more acceptable .. but I think it might help to show how deep rooted the problem is.
There's a 'Daily Mail'-led point of view that would quickly dismiss these people as 'chavs abroad' .. and talk about how society is doomed, and how we should all return to traditional values - when it was actually the failure of these traditional values that brought our society to this point.
A more progressive politics is needed. Poverty breeds desperation, and desperation manifests itself in many negative ways. Commercialism breeds the empty, vacuous pursuit of instant reward and gratification. If we dealt with these two central issues I think things might be able to start to get better.
- The people in the article aren't poverty stricken. They work in call centres and live with their parents.Fax_Benson
- I think that there's a divide between people who are taught to aspire and those who aren't.lukus_W
- it's nothing to do with poverty - it's an attitude of mind and bad manners. many of these arseholes are public school kids...hans_glib
- Praise Jesus!ethandmarquis
- nah, you're wide of the mark there Lukus - these twats have expendable income. They're just imbeciles.Wolfboy
- georgesIII0
I love the brits,
they're the only one singing offensive songs in the subway here and every years we get the local "brits killed by tram" news report,God bless the Queen
- Peter0
What's an alfresco oral sex contest?
- Club 18-30?goldieboy
- yeah... i think they meant 'impromptu'kingsteven
- Mr Al Fresco is the judge and promoter.Amicus
- goldieboy0
It's sad and very true. And that's why I avoid these 'chav' hotspots like the plague!
- hans_glib0
these fuckers deserve all they get. i fucking hate the image they give of the uk as a whole... if they behave like that the country concerned should ban them from returning.
- monospaced0
David Familton, a Briton who works in a club here, said that it was a question of emotional comfort. “It’s because of British culture — no one can relax, so they become inebriated to be the people they want to be,” he said.
- monospaced0
Americans better represent. We can't be having this.
- kingsteven0
“They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit”
- ethandmarquis
This is a scathing article about the British pack of animals unleashed on un suspecting tourist destinations. I happen to agree.