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- gambyt13, on 05/05/2008, -12/+89Buried. The sky is blue. British university students are wankers.
- colonelbuckshot, on 05/05/2008, -7/+66This is almost normal. British youth culture is the ugliest in Europe, by a mile
- gaccs, on 05/05/2008, -4/+60I am from Greece and every summer our islands are filled with British teenagers. Most of them (if not all) eat one salad per day and get drunk each night until early morning.
They throw up everywhere on the streets, cars, shops and clubs, they’ re trying to pick a fight whenever they can with anyone who even looks at them, they get naked in public and they are really fond of breaking things. Just for laughs.
I am not being racist here. We have tourists from lots of countries like Italy, Spain, USA, Germany etc. They all have fun but they behave too. But not the Brits.
Next time stay at your country and if you want to behave like barbarians do it in your own homes. We don’t want your uncivilized asses wrecking up our vacations. - terrablebyte, on 05/05/2008, -11/+56Daily Fail, buried.
- Gonasadude, on 05/05/2008, -1/+40WTF did they think was going to happen? You can't ***** advertise "all you can drink" resorts to college students. -*****- Why didn't I get that flyer? :(
- whereiseljefe, on 05/05/2008, -0/+33One of the few times I read that sentence and realize the country they are talking about ISN'T America.
- phenom2k7, on 05/05/2008, -0/+31I'm British and I concur. I feel sorry for the Spanish, these days flights are so cheap every bum can afford to go. Thus Spain gets bombarded with vile chavs every year.
- mellomeh, on 05/05/2008, -17/+47Daily Mail. This article is almost definitely untrue.
- WhipTail, on 05/05/2008, -10/+38I would apologies on behalf of my fellow British students.... but I'm still wasted from last night.
- CBaggers, on 05/05/2008, -0/+24I too apologize for the majority of the population of my home county being a bundle of *****
- DesertDude, on 05/05/2008, -9/+29vick3ii = Daily Mail employee.
This is what, the 11th time you submitted Daily Mail crap? - barktwiggs, on 05/05/2008, -1/+20Sounds like the Brit's newest export is Skins parties. Trash everything in a bachanalian rage and let someone else clean up.
- northernmunky, on 05/05/2008, -1/+20To be perfectly honest I seriously doubt an American could realistically drink a Brit under the table.
At least we can drink legally at 18! :D - bluelights, on 05/05/2008, -5/+23Just to clear up some of the mess:
The Daily Mail is a complete joke and they'll publish anything they want, regardless of truth or relevance (you can bet this story started out as 3 people having a quiet drink, but The Mail noticed they were our students and thought "ooohhh..")
Next, drinking. Yes ladies and gents, we, the British people do enjoy a drink and currently on a weekend we have the most exuberant of binge lifestyles (in general) but i'd like to point out we do have the strictest licensing laws in the EU and they are enforced more heavily than in the EU. We tend to drink until we get refused service (speaking from a student point of view) and refusal of service is very rare in Europe, either due to the language barrier - or because we bought our own.
Students too, have drinking sessions quite often, but this is a cultural issue with the lifestyle that is marketed towards UK students, I certainly dont think we are all "Wankers" as gambyt13 thinks, but I do agree that there is an underlying drinking problem (specifically binge drinking) with the student population, which carries on into later life.
The point still stands, if this article were to be true, then offering "all you can drink" for 150 euro's is utterly stupid and would probably land a licensee in trouble under "responsible drinking policy" here in the UK.
*awaits torrent of buries* - EpicSelekta, on 05/05/2008, -6/+23Tijuana is laughing at Calella and calling them wusses.
- idavidtang, on 05/05/2008, -1/+15Because its true?
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -3/+16Holy ***** and the mayor of the city didn't see THAT coming? Has that idiot been living under a rock for all his life?
To all mayors of the world. Get your head out of your ass. If [british] students come to your town to summer, on free drinks packages, they will tear the place apart like raving huns. Simply put laws into place, allocate fines of 500L fines for anything out of the order, empty your prisons beforehand and only let them leave AFTER they paid the fines. If you play this card cleverly you can even make a decent profit of these maggots. - CompIsMyRx, on 05/05/2008, -0/+13Don't feel too bad. Everyone's home country is populated with pants-on-head retards. It is the defining feature of 90% of humanity.
- motters, on 05/05/2008, -0/+12Situation normal. You can see similar behavior in many British towns on a Friday or Saturday night. I think this is a cultural phenomena peculiar to the British, which has been going on for decades if not centuries.
- TrickyTree, on 05/05/2008, -1/+13In my day people used to pretend they were in "This Life", nowadays they pretend they're in "Skins".
*sigh* - gadgetuk, on 05/05/2008, -0/+12The "student" part is a red herring - this is *British* binge drinking culture at its worst, age and position is no barrier to these problems. I used to compete at the UK "Corporate Games" tournaments, which is kinda like the business Olympics. Lots of VERY high profile companies attended (big five financials, oil companies, consulting groups etc). These were supposedly successful, professional business people but the drunken antics were every bit as bad as in the article. And yes, a large percentage of early-morning teams didn't turn up, the route to success was to have an afternoon fixture.
- mattyk123, on 05/05/2008, -2/+13I'm sure Americans can hold more, considering there booze is weak as *****.
- DesertDude, on 05/05/2008, -15/+26Buried as "Daily Mail".
- regression, on 05/05/2008, -1/+11One college weekend night i started in San Diego and woke up in a field in Tijuana. Still not sure how I got there.
- TCEuk, on 05/05/2008, -0/+10Yeah.. not to take the blame off it.. but they did bring it on themselves to some degree!
They had had the festival for previous years so knew what to expect & the bars offered drinks promotions!
Geez i love how the Daily Mail said it cost the local government like £10,000... a small cost compared to what they gained in drinks profits! Not to say that what happened was correct.. but to portray them as innocent nieve victims is a bit rich! - kneelB4zod, on 05/05/2008, -3/+13A cheifly British term used to identify one who masturbates. =]
- mickstephenson, on 05/05/2008, -0/+9Not to mention tastes like a soft drink, they cant even handle the taste of a real beer so they make Bud and Coors which tastes like shandy.
- xTRUMANx, on 05/05/2008, -2/+10Well it isn't a planet now is it?
- Czechxican, on 05/05/2008, -0/+7I am studying abroad in Spain and have to say this ***** is ridiculous. We went to tenarife, and the brits there massacred the place. We saw potted plants thrown off balconies and lights had been smashed. It's like they can't be drunk without breaking at least 10 things before calling it a night
- SSUK, on 05/05/2008, -0/+7'newest'?
- kurtwinter, on 05/05/2008, -1/+8Its true, Britain exports drunken boorishness. America, unfortunately, exports war.
- mickstephenson, on 05/05/2008, -1/+8It's well recognised that we have the best media on the planet, the BBC is revered all the world over, and yes the parents were negligent, and yes people over here think that they should have been held accountable for their negligence, but your country chose not to do that, to help protect your tourism industry. Most British parents would never do that, just like most Portuguese parents wouldn't, are you trying to say that no Portuguese parent would? But whatever you HATE the British then fair enough, but don't expect your hate speech to be taken seriously.
- jamie191817, on 05/05/2008, -2/+9you reckon? i would love to meet someone that can drink some of these students under the table. they consider 25units to be a night out. its amazing how much they can knock back.
- mickstephenson, on 05/05/2008, -1/+8Yes our media does its job well doesn't it? it shows up all the inadequecies in a poor police force and legal system and makes it rather embarressing for the country in question. Perhaps you would prefer for everything to be swept under the rug so it doesn't harm your precious tourist industry, yeah us Brits are a bunch of lager louts you want rid of, but you all know that the economies of these places rely on these louts and would collapse if we suddenly stopped coming.
- Podunkparte, on 05/05/2008, -6/+13Where are the "only in the US" people now?
Seriously sounds like fun though... except for the alcohol poisoning - gaccs, on 05/05/2008, -1/+8Outlawing someone based on their nationality doesn't sound right. At least not to me.
I wrote all these things in my first comment hoping that some of the people who read it are British so they can spread the word to their fellow citizens.
Everybody is free to spend their vacations wherever they want. Everybody has the right to get drunk now and then.
But please people show some respect to other people's properties and don't loose your dignity!! - kotatsu, on 05/05/2008, -3/+9Yet again another 'story' from The Daily Hail. Again - THIS IS A FAR RIGHT WING RACIST GUTTER PRESS RAG. THEY NEVER KNOWINGLY PRINT FACTS.
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -4/+10Why dont you outlaw them? Simply have the Brit revellers pay a 1000L deposit - if ***** gets broken, costs are paid equall by all sodded brits. If they don't like it, vacation in ***** white ***** Russia.
- radio4fan, on 05/05/2008, -0/+6There are no sports scholarships in British universities: students are admitted on academic ability alone.
Admittedly the bar is not very high. - pault107, on 05/05/2008, -0/+5Actually, we can legally drink at the age of five in the UK - as long as it's in your own home and provided parental consent is given. Crazy huh?
- poidh, on 05/05/2008, -0/+5The Brits have always liked a drink, but this phenomenon of mass drunken gang warfare is rather new. I think it comes from a sense of low social responsibility encouraged by the system we have in the UK of providing things for people without them having to earn them. Also, the fact that many parents don't give a crap about their children doesn't help matters.
- Todd84, on 05/05/2008, -0/+5Good point, well made.
I think until the next Princess Di inquiry starts, the mail's struggling for stuff to print. - mijelh, on 05/05/2008, -0/+5This is not peculiar to the British at all. I am Spanish myself, and I came to make my last year of college to Palermo, Italy as an Erasmus student.
Well... NOBODY wanted to rent me a flat because Spanish students are famed for getting drunk every day, make noise all night, organize parties on the flats and eventually destroying all of the furniture on them. - wenomspitta, on 05/05/2008, -0/+5In Latvia we get a lot of tourists and every1 agrees that brit youth is the worst (loudness+drinking+behavior)
- MicheleFloyd, on 05/05/2008, -0/+5I live next door to a pub in England. They act like chimpanzees here, as well.
- EnderMB, on 05/05/2008, -2/+6Seconded. British students are generally a bunch of ***** who can't handle their drink and fail at everything academically. Thanks to many of them my degree that I've worked so hard for is going to be worth less and less.
- TrickyTree, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4You totally, TOTALLY missed the point.
- koyner, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4I'm English, and there are many, many things I dearly love about Britain and the British. But this story neatly illustrates one of the main reasons that I left (albeit with heavy heart.)
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