What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)
Discussion
sooperscoop said:
davhill said:
I find it interesting that this causal factor almost seem to be accepted as explanatory for unbelievably crass behaviour.
Because the truth is unpalatable.Edited by davhill on Sunday 28th July 01:03
Y'know how everyone thinks about Irish Travellers?
The British are the Travellers of Europe/RTW. An uncouth, violent, arrogant bunch of dicks.
How's that for unpopular?
sooperscoop said:
Because the truth is unpalatable.
Y'know how everyone thinks about Irish Travellers?
The British are the Travellers of Europe/RTW. An uncouth, violent, arrogant bunch of dicks.
How's that for unpopular?
Yeah, but at least we're more welcome than the Yanks. Or the Russians.Y'know how everyone thinks about Irish Travellers?
The British are the Travellers of Europe/RTW. An uncouth, violent, arrogant bunch of dicks.
How's that for unpopular?
deckster said:
sooperscoop said:
Because the truth is unpalatable.
Y'know how everyone thinks about Irish Travellers?
The British are the Travellers of Europe/RTW. An uncouth, violent, arrogant bunch of dicks.
How's that for unpopular?
Yeah, but at least we're more welcome than the Yanks. Or the Russians.Y'know how everyone thinks about Irish Travellers?
The British are the Travellers of Europe/RTW. An uncouth, violent, arrogant bunch of dicks.
How's that for unpopular?
deckster said:
Yeah, but at least we're more welcome than the Yanks. Or the Russians.
I doubt that, or at the very least it’s debatable.Some 22-25 years back, we were in Tahiti, when a cruise ship docked at Papeete, with loads of Americans.
I helped translate for a guy from Oregon, who was trying to buy a belt in a store.
When he left with his purchase, the clerk said, “Thanks for that, Yanks are lovely people, very polite, but hardly any speak French, the local bars and restaurants love them though, they know how to tip, not like the Australians.”
As to Russians, we encountered a few in Cyprus who were quite abrupt and demanding, but surely they can’t all be like that.
My personal take on it, when abroad, is to avoid anywhere where lots of Brits congregate, be they chavs, council, middle class, or landed gentry, they ALL have a tendency to SOMETIMES be a royal PITA.
Frank7 said:
deckster said:
Yeah, but at least we're more welcome than the Yanks. Or the Russians.
I doubt that, or at the very least it’s debatable.Some 22-25 years back, we were in Tahiti, when a cruise ship docked at Papeete, with loads of Americans.
I helped translate for a guy from Oregon, who was trying to buy a belt in a store.
When he left with his purchase, the clerk said, “Thanks for that, Yanks are lovely people, very polite, but hardly any speak French, the local bars and restaurants love them though, they know how to tip, not like the Australians.”
As to Russians, we encountered a few in Cyprus who were quite abrupt and demanding, but surely they can’t all be like that.
My personal take on it, when abroad, is to avoid anywhere where lots of Brits congregate, be they chavs, council, middle class, or landed gentry, they ALL have a tendency to SOMETIMES be a royal PITA.
NoNo1 said:
22 - 25 years ago! Things have changed somewhat.
Not sure what you mean by that, do you mean that 20 odd years ago, Yanks were welcomed, as they were polite visitors, but that the current crop are such that they’re not so welcome?I mentioned that it was 22-25 years ago, as I didn’t want to give the impression that we regularly swan around the Pacific for our holidays.
That far back, the Black Cab game was still akin to a licence to print money, so I could afford to go to Buenos Aires or Tahiti to avoid the madding crowd.
I can still do a couple of weeks in the U.S. annually, and fill in with a few days in various places in France, staying with family, but the days of extra long haul are sadly over.
C’est la vie, it was good while it lasted!
Frank7 said:
As to Russians, we encountered a few in Cyprus who were quite abrupt and demanding, but surely they can’t all be like that.
My personal take on it, when abroad, is to avoid anywhere where lots of Brits congregate, be they chavs, council, middle class, or landed gentry, they ALL have a tendency to SOMETIMES be a royal PITA.
The Russians are culturally abrupt and rude in public, it appears to foreign eyes. I used to be able to speak very passable Russian when I was studying out there, but they'd be on to me like a shot asking where I was from if I used too many pleases and thank yous. They'd assume someone speaking good Russian with a bit of a funny accent was Estonian or something (this was in the days of the USSR), but using polite figures of speech was a massive give away. Standard way to ask a clerk in a shop for something? "Girl, give!". No 'please', no 'may I haves', no Miss, Madam, and of that. Just a point of the finger and "Give". It's perfectly normal there, nobody expects different, everyone's happy. But when they go abroad and use that manner in shops, restaurants etc, it comes across really, really badly.My personal take on it, when abroad, is to avoid anywhere where lots of Brits congregate, be they chavs, council, middle class, or landed gentry, they ALL have a tendency to SOMETIMES be a royal PITA.
Brits abroad? Spot on.
I see that there now groups of youths out of control in Gosport, this isn't a new thing there have been groups of youths out of control for a number of years now, my unpopular opinion is that children should be disciplined, they know that they're untouchable so do as they please, when I was a lad if you back chatted an older person you knew full well it would probably cost you a fat lip!!!!
Bobberoo99 said:
I see that there now groups of youths out of control in Gosport, this isn't a new thing there have been groups of youths out of control for a number of years now, my unpopular opinion is that children should be disciplined, they know that they're untouchable so do as they please, when I was a lad if you back chatted an older person you knew full well it would probably cost you a fat lip!!!!
That sounds as much if not more of a problem of back when you were a lad.Bobberoo99 said:
I see that there now groups of youths out of control in Gosport, this isn't a new thing there have been groups of youths out of control for a number of years now, my unpopular opinion is that children should be disciplined, they know that they're untouchable so do as they please, when I was a lad if you back chatted an older person you knew full well it would probably cost you a fat lip!!!!
Hitting kids isnt really a great way to deal with problems.DoubleD said:
Hitting kids isnt really a great way to deal with problems.
No maybe it isnt but then they know full well if they swing at you, you can’t retaliate on the grounds you’ll get arrested.The problem is, as Bobbers said, they know they are untouchable and so go around mouthing off and damaging stuff because they know there will be no come back if they do.
s raised us to be the damaged souls we are. 
Dr Jekyll said:
Liz Truss is actually quite attractive.
Watch this, from 8:00 to 9:30, and tell me you still find this blithering idiot attractive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gygpvd9_Ra0
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