The 'most read' story on the BBC news site at 8.55am this morning was that some German tabloid has printed a story taking the piss out of British tourists. The story lists a number of destinations for German's to avoid, because they're saturated with Brits, including the Bay of Palma in Majorca, San Antonio in Ibiza, Playa de las Americas in Tenerife, Ayia Napa in Cyprus, Faliraki on the Greek island of Rhodes and Malia in Crete. The BBC reports: Just in case the Germans have a problem identifying British tourists abroad, Bild has a guide on its online version, illustrated with an unappealing photo of two sunburnt women on sun chairs. It also ridicules British cuisine, binge-drinking, fashion and sport, says that "athletically they are not up to much, they can't even take penalties" and points out that Austria and Switzerland - the hosts of this summer's Euro 2008 football championships - will be largely British-free zones this year as no British teams have qualified.
I must say, I couldn't care less, and to be honest, I'm with the Germans. Why would I want to travel abroad to hang out with Brits? Surely one of the points of holidaying is to go abroad, experience life in other countries, learn the language, learn the culture, and so on. I don't go on holiday to eat pie and chips, drink as much as my liver will sustain, or watch football. Anyway, let's not forget that the Brits have been taking the piss out of the German's hogging sunbeds with towels for years. This is nothing new. Have the BBC got nothing better to report? And have us Brits got nothing better to read? Or indeed write about? Ummm...no.
2 comments:
hell yeah! you tommies are the same!
you tommies are *ALL the same :-(
I dont think we need to pay too much attention to anything die bild writes. it only has a few pages, because most of its readership has an attention span shorter than a goldfish, it's renowned for rascism, and the main reason the german illiterati buy it in such great quantities, is because its cheap and its got a new pair of tits on the front cover every day! (the word "bild" means "picture"). whilst it might be true, (it is), that we are a bunch of drunken louts abroad,(specially me), the same is also true of the germans, and because there is no mass british tourist industry in germany,the only time the germans get to see for themselves how drunk and dissorderly we really are, is on the sea front on one of the balearic islands, when they wouldn't notice, because they themselves have their heads down vommiting into their pommes and bratwurst! die bild finally gets it right, and its a non-story!
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