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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: GmanJoe on September 19, 2008, 10:53:25 AM
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Now I know why America is the way it is. ;)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/world/europe/24crete.html
MALIA, Greece — Even in a sea of tourists, it is easy to spot the Britons here on the northeast coast of Crete, and not just from the telltale pallor of their sun-deprived northern skin.
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An injured British tourist lay by a curb on a recent weekend after a fight in Malia, Greece.
The New York Times
British tourists have caused havoc at the Malia resort.
They are the ones, the locals say, who are carousing, brawling and getting violently sick. They are the ones crowding into health clinics seeking morning-after pills and help for sexually transmitted diseases. They are the ones who seem to have one vacation plan: drinking themselves into oblivion.
[COLOR="Red"]“They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit,” Malia’s mayor, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, said in an interview. “It is only the British people — not the Germans or the French.”[/COLOR]
Malia is the latest and currently most notorious in a long list of European resorts full of young British tourists on packaged tours offering cheap alcohol and a license to behave badly. In Magaluf and Ibiza, Spain; in Ayia Napa, Cyprus; and in the Greek resorts of Faliraki, Kavos and Laganas as well as Malia, the story is the same: They come, they drink, they wreak havoc.
“The government of Britain has to do something,” Mr. Lagoudakis said. “These people are giving a bad name to their country.”
[COLOR="red"]They are also hurting themselves in the process. A recent report published by the British Foreign Office, “British Behavior Abroad,” noted that in a 12-month period in 2006 and 2007, 602 Britons were hospitalized and 28 raped in Greece, and that 1,591 died in Spain and 2,032 were arrested there.[/COLOR]
The report did not distinguish between medical cases and arrests associated with drunkenness and those that had nothing to do with it. But it did say that “many arrests are due to behavior caused by excessive drinking.”
So it would seem. Reports of scandalous incidents rumble on regularly here and elsewhere, helping to cement Britain’s reputation as the largest exporter of inebriated hooligans in Europe.
[COLOR="red"]Earlier this summer, flying home to Manchester from the Greek island of Kos, a pair of drunken women yelling “I need some fresh air” attacked the flight attendants with a vodka bottle and tried to wrestle the airplane’s emergency door open at 30,000 feet. The plane diverted hastily to Frankfurt, and the women were arrested.[/COLOR]
In Laganas, on the Greek island of Zakinthos, where a teenager from Sheffield died after a drinking binge this summer, more than a dozen British women were charged in July with prostitution after taking part, the authorities said, in an alfresco oral sex contest.
[COLOR="Blue"]More alarmingly, a 20-year-old British tourist partied with her sister and a friend into the early hours in Malia also in July, then returned to her hotel room and — although she had denied being pregnant — gave birth. Her companions say they returned later to find the baby dead; she has been charged with infanticide.[/COLOR]
[COLOR="red"]And in Dubai, also this summer, a British man and woman who met during a drinking bout were arrested and charged with having sex on a beach, after repeatedly shouting abuse at a police officer who ordered them to stop.[/COLOR]
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Maybe Europeans are too soft for Brits? This sounds like an everyday thing at the Universities here in the US...except for the dead baby part. That\'s ghetto high school level.
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In the context of just being a word, is it wrong to laugh at the word \'infantcide\'? I think not.
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Holy shit, wtf is wrong with people?
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1,591 dead? Not too sure about that....
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we rule europe
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Psh. You Brits think you can just run the world. Though you did it once and it didn\'t seem to work out
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Psh. You Brits think you can just run the world. Though you did it once and it didn\'t seem to work out
we decided we were shit at ruling the world and gave it up to let you lot have a crack at it.
boy did we fuck up there eh?
:)
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i don\'t know, according to the history. Out of all the European nations, it seems like British people, or the English people has the most success of conquering other countries than compare to other nations or ethnicity.
Look how many countries speak English and use it as the primary language. Even some countries that doesn\'t have English as the primary language, these countries make it as the 2nd mandatory language. And the countries that uses their native language also believe learning optional language of English would make them more successful at doing international businesses than any other languages. English is consider the universal language.
I think in America, the English in the end won the battle against other Europeans such as French, German, and Spanish. So, I guess the winner takes all and they decided to use English as the primary language in U.S.A. Even the territory that the Spanish once conquered were either lost to the English or sold to English...
Beside America that uses English as the primary language, there are other countries too like Australia. I don\'t know much about Australia\'s history though. So is South Africa that uses English as the primary language. I think Canada also uses English beside the French language. Not sure which is primary and which is secondary though.
Even Hong Kong that rented to the British for 100 years before it was returned back to China has a lot of refugees, especially Chinese immigrants coming over for freedom and strong economy.
I think Japan was helped by the British on military training and weaponry that later makes the Japanese so cocky that they invaded China and conquer it for a brief moment. Then they gets so cocky that they try to take over U.S.A. by attacking on Pearl Harbor. Thankfully they failed there and became a free country with limited military soldiers, and become ally with America, and they make trade with U.S.A. too. So was Germany that failed at conquering other European countries and was limited in soldiers too and become a free country.
I even met a German American who is an English teacher that pretended to act like he\'s English descendant makes me wonder maybe the English might be better than the German?
Forgive my broken English though.
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i don\'t know, according to the history. Out of all the European nations, it seems like British people, or the English people has the most success of conquering other countries than compare to other nations or ethnicity.
Look how many countries speak English and use it as the primary language. Even some countries that doesn\'t have English as the primary language, these countries make it as the 2nd mandatory language. And the countries that uses their native language also believe learning optional language of English would make them more successful at doing international businesses than any other languages. English is consider the universal language.
I think in America, the English in the end won the battle against other Europeans such as French, German, and Spanish. So, I guess the winner takes all and they decided to use English as the primary language in U.S.A. Even the territory that the Spanish once conquered were either lost to the English or sold to English...
Beside America that uses English as the primary language, there are other countries too like Australia. I don\'t know much about Australia\'s history though. So is South Africa that uses English as the primary language. I think Canada also uses English beside the French language. Not sure which is primary and which is secondary though.
Even Hong Kong that rented to the British for 100 years before it was returned back to China has a lot of refugees, especially Chinese immigrants coming over for freedom and strong economy.
I think Japan was helped by the British on military training and weaponry that later makes the Japanese so cocky that they invaded China and conquer it for a brief moment. Then they gets so cocky that they try to take over U.S.A. by attacking on Pearl Harbor. Thankfully they failed there and became a free country with limited military soldiers, and become ally with America, and they make trade with U.S.A. too. So was Germany that failed at conquering other European countries and was limited in soldiers too and become a free country.
I even met a German American who is an English teacher that pretended to act like he\'s English descendant makes me wonder maybe the English might be better than the German?
Forgive my broken English though.
As far as I understand, it wasn\'t because of Britain that English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world but rather it has become the official trade language of the world. Not saying Britain had nothing to do with it (since they are a powerful nation as well) but because of globalization and international trade, with the US being at the forefront, English has just been the most accepted language for trade. Look at how many American companies are overseas, outsourced or opening new branches in nations like Spain or France. Though I guess you can thank Britain in a way because if it wasn\'t for them and being the most influential in the New World, colonists wouldn\'t have spoken English. Then when the colonists beat the pants off those tea drinking, spotted dick eating Brits. Then you know the rest of history :)
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Le French are pissed that their language isn\'t being used internationally.
Le bebleh bubleh!
Gay. Stick with English.
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english isn\'t even english these days.. theres that much crap thrown into it depending on where you guy different english sayings mean different things..
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english isn\'t even english these days.. theres that much crap thrown into it depending on where you guy different english sayings mean different things..
For example.....?
English is one of the most straight forward language there is. In comparison, it\'s short and to the point. Guess it had to be since it\'s a make up of Anglo, German and French.