A bit council (Vol 3)

[Dog Star]

Rawwr said:

Hah! I love how there's only about two which have pool tables you could actually have a game of pool on, without smacking the cues into the walls, furniture or other sh*t dotted around the place.

It's like the fruit and arcade machines - who's going to be using those in reality? Just a waste of space, but seemingly the mark of a "man cave".

phazed said:

My thoughts after holidaying in deepest France and then spotting all the brits on the ferry! Tattoos, lager, noise, fat, plus unruly children.

My wife usually remarks under her breath, “welcome home”!

Just had this experience in Lanzarote - wow! The fat! The tattoos! (Obviously there's a place for the fat, tattooed laydeez, and that's sat on my head, but that's not the point).

It made me and Mrs DS really wonder - how on earth is the UK going to function outside the EU? We appear to be, mostly, a country of uneducated, unhealthy scrotes.

[S11Steve]

Dog Star said:

Rawwr said:

Hah! I love how there's only about two which have pool tables you could actually have a game of pool on, without smacking the cues into the walls, furniture or other sh*t dotted around the place.

It's like the fruit and arcade machines - who's going to be using those in reality? Just a waste of space, but seemingly the mark of a "man cave".

One of my customers has one in his office that he uses as a piggy bank, or at least he did until the round pound was recently phased out. He'd put £20 or £30 a week into it, then take out the coins before Christmas.

[Bullett]

I'm just back from Cancun. The Mrs said said she feels like Kate Moss must feel among normal people. They were huge with the added bonus of being both British and American council.

Probably a few less overall as I don't think council do longhaul except to Disney.

[SpeckledJim]

Ted2 said:

Rawwr said:

S11Steve said:

My garage may well be "my space" and a little place of sanctuary and man-stuff, and I am not adverse to the idea of a dedicated "mancave/games room" in the house, but some of these are very council indeed

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/arti...

Hah! I love how there's only about two which have pool tables you could actually have a game of pool on, without smacking the cues into the walls, furniture or other sh*t dotted around the place.

I was thinking the same thing. Useless!

I also chuckled at #3 where one badly thrown dart would have quite disastrous results.

Everyone had a pool table (fine), most didn't have room for it (infuriating).

I may have missed it but I don't think a single one had a card table?

I thought poker was still extremely popular at the moment? Surely the best man cave in Britain has a card table?

[Whistle]

As said on the previous page, I am currently in Tenerife and it's full of fat tattooed council British, dirty loud mouthed scrubbers.

Thank god I am staying well away from that lot.

[Stickyfinger]

SpeckledJim said:

Ted2 said:

Rawwr said:

S11Steve said:

My garage may well be "my space" and a little place of sanctuary and man-stuff, and I am not adverse to the idea of a dedicated "mancave/games room" in the house, but some of these are very council indeed

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/arti...

Hah! I love how there's only about two which have pool tables you could actually have a game of pool on, without smacking the cues into the walls, furniture or other sh*t dotted around the place.

I was thinking the same thing. Useless!

I also chuckled at #3 where one badly thrown dart would have quite disastrous results.

Everyone had a pool table (fine), most didn't have room for it (infuriating).

I may have missed it but I don't think a single one had a card table?

I thought poker was still extremely popular at the moment? Surely the best man cave in Britain has a card table?

So many have been tainted by the "wife".................cushions ?....get to fk you under the thumb wimps !

[kingston12]

Bullett said:

Probably a few less overall as I don't think council do longhaul except to Disney.

All-inclusive almost anywhere attracts them. When I went to Barbados every night seemed to be like Friday night at Wetherspoons.

Probably 20% of the guests at the hotel that I stayed in fell into that category and judging by the airport on the way back, some of the hotels were much much worse.

[S11Steve]

Bullett said:

I'm just back from Cancun. The Mrs said said she feels like Kate Moss must feel among normal people. They were huge with the added bonus of being both British and American council.

Probably a few less overall as I don't think council do longhaul except to Disney.

I spent a night in Cancun at the end of two weeks in Tulum and Playa Del Carmen.

Cancun was horrific - huge high rise hotels, garish neon bars everywhere, overweight and overloud Americans, drunken Brits, and generally felt too much like Blackpool or Benidorm.

[HTP99]

S11Steve said:

Bullett said:

I'm just back from Cancun. The Mrs said said she feels like Kate Moss must feel among normal people. They were huge with the added bonus of being both British and American council.

Probably a few less overall as I don't think council do longhaul except to Disney.

I spent a night in Cancun at the end of two weeks in Tulum and Playa Del Carmen.

Cancun was horrific - huge high rise hotels, garish neon bars everywhere, overweight and overloud Americans, drunken Brits, and generally felt too much like Blackpool or Benidorm.

That's what I don't get about people holidaying in these places, wow you've been to Mexico, however you've stayed in an area that is like some chav seaside town in the UK, only the weather is a bit better, you haven't actually experienced Mexico at all, I just don't get it.

[Algarve]

Dog Star said:

Just had this experience in Lanzarote - wow! The fat! The tattoos! (Obviously there's a place for the fat, tattooed laydeez, and that's sat on my head, but that's not the point).

It made me and Mrs DS really wonder - how on earth is the UK going to function outside the EU? We appear to be, mostly, a country of uneducated, unhealthy scrotes.

You went to Lanzarote - what did you expect? You were only ever going to see the worst of the worst there.

It'd be like me wandering through Albufeira and saying wow all Brits must be like this.

[Stickyfinger]

Going to Cancun, Lanzerotie or Barbados (or anywhere £500 will get a family) and expecting to only to see beautiful people in your cheep hotel ...council

[alorotom]

HTP99 said:

That's what I don't get about people holidaying in these places, wow you've been to Mexico, however you've stayed in an area that is like some chav seaside town in the UK, only the weather is a bit better, you haven't actually experienced Mexico at all, I just don't get it.

Because : Council bragging rights

[ApOrbital]

Stickyfinger said:

Going to Cancun, Lanzerotie or Barbados (or anywhere £500 will get a family) and expecting to only to see beautiful people in your cheep hotel ...council

I go to cancun every other year and my hotel room and flight is 4k and i pop over to cuba while on my holiday so not council.

[alorotom]

ApOrbital said:

I go to cancun every other year and my hotel room and flight is 4k and i pop over to cuba while on my holiday so not council.

Cost is irrelevant ... Cancun is the height of American council vacation resorts

[Stickyfinger]

ApOrbital said:

Stickyfinger said:

Going to Cancun, Lanzerotie or Barbados (or anywhere £500 will get a family) and expecting to only to see beautiful people in your cheep hotel ...council

I go to cancun every other year and my hotel room and flight is 4k and i pop over to cuba while on my holiday so not council.

Thinking money = not Council = Council

Have you learned nothing here ?

[ferrariF50lover]

Can we knock up a list of non-Council holiday destinations, please?

[Stickyfinger]

ferrariF50lover said:

Can we knock up a list of non-Council holiday destinations, please?

Anything that takes physical effort, no close Irish Bar and has a lack of WiFi connection....

[whoami]

ferrariF50lover said:

Can we knock up a list of non-Council holiday destinations, please?

Going by the "definitions" listed on this thread, it'll be a vanishingly small list.

[alorotom]

Stickyfinger said:

Anything that takes physical effort, no close Irish Bar and has a lack of WiFi connection....

Certain Maldivian islands, Fiji, parts of Sri Lanka, Namibia, small parts of Thailand possibly, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore

[phazed]

Had a fantastic holiday last year touring the Pyrenees in a motorhome. There was definitely no council there in fact, there was hardly anyone. As a plus, the roads on the Spanish side especially are to die for, bloody fantastic! I will be returning there in the TVR within the next couple of years.