The ugly Englishman

[claymore]

Pommy bashing I know , but I love it. Headline in Aussie newspaper .....Brits are bottom of tourist heap . Goes on to say hoteliers everywhere have voted British tourists as real nightmares, they are notorious for drunken behaviour, rudeness, and not being able to speak a word of the local language. it gets better... not only were they regarded as rude, messy and loud ,they were criticised for eating nearly as much as Americans. I can`t stop laughing, I thought it was only the football yobbos that were that hopeless.

[Iamblue]

No, its not just the football fans. The whole of society in this country is fu**ed up from the weak government right the way down to the dregs of society who have the attitude: Screw everyone else, I'm gonna take what I can for as long as I can for doing as little as I can. It will only get worse unless someone can come up with a zero-tolerance view towards ANY KIND OF CRIME however small, and until the spongers are made to get up off their lardy ar$es and made to work, like the rest of us poor sods who are finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet.

The only consolation about living in England: Its just about as far away from Australia as you can possibly get!!

[claymore]

Iamblue , judging by your post , there cannot possibly be any consolation about living in England at the moment .

[Iamblue]

It was a joke, claymore. I have visited Australia twice and plan to return next November. I absolutely love the place, and if I was, perhaps, 20 years younger and had "the bottle" I would have loved to live there. You are right, there isn't much going for (once) Great Britain these days.

[cardiacbleed]

i've travelled round most parts of Australia and it's a fantastic country. Even though you Aussies have an inferiority complex towards us brits and enjoy some pom bashing from time to time we know you love us really :)

The british culture is a violent one and some brits do drink too much and cause trouble but it is as much of a sterotype as aussies walking round with hats with corks hanging off them. I do cringe at some brits abroad and agree they can be a nightmare but i consider myself to be considerate and personally i love travelling, i would say though i wonder how many aussies speak other languages?

and regarding Iamblue, i don't agree with police state you advocate and you can blame margaret thatcher for the "screw everyone else" attitude thats what she encouraged in the 80's in terms of money being all important. Remember the race riots, poll tax riots, football holigans, miner strikes and riots, ohh yes that's right it's all this governments fault. sorting out whats wrong with britain doesn't lay with a politicial party or with locking up people for ANY KIND OF CRIME, it lays with addressing whats wrong and causing the problems rather than the symptoms

[4GS]

not being able to speak a word of the local language.
What do you speak?? I thought it was English with an Aussie inflection. Christ I'd better start learning, I'm thinking of emigrating ton Adelaide in a couple of years.

[cardiacbleed]

i think although there isn;t a link, this survey is worldwide rather than based on australia...

by the way adelaide is nice but imo a little rough round the edges...

[claymore]

4GS it was a survey of European hotels carried out by some travel firm. Of all the places you could pick to live in Oz, Adelaide would be last on my list. Its not called the city of churches for nothing,the water,what there is of it is un drinkable and the football fans are particularly rabid.

[brionon]

I've seen a report,recently that places the Brits 3rd. after the Japanese and the Germans with the French near last.

[cardiacbleed]

lol that is less diplomatic than i was about adelaide, but i'd agree it would be far lower down my list, glenelg isn't bad but sydney and melbourne are far nicer (although more expensive) and feel less backward and or isolated

[carsonking]

I was chatting to an Australian in a pub last night, i said 'what do you think of it over here'? He said 'i have been in England for five years'. 'I didn't mean England', i said, 'i meant over this side of the bar'.