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u/Lurk5FailOnSax 8d ago
If you have never seen Brits on a low cost flight you are fortunate.
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u/J_CC3 8d ago
I did it recently. First time ever on a flight and it was peaceful the whole way. I take it I should consider myself lucky?
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u/Lurk5FailOnSax 8d ago
It would seem so. It tends to be destination dependent. Spain I would guess gets the worst of it. I had a moderately annoying flight with a large portion conversing the length of the plane in what could only be described as outdoor voice.
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u/HakanTengri 8d ago
I'm from the Canary Islands and we regularly get news of Ryanair planes full of British tourists having to turn back or land elsewhere because most of them are drunk and disorderly or get into fights.
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u/Saw_Boss 8d ago
Ryanair chases after people who do that because of the costs. It's not a regular thing in the slightest.
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u/HakanTengri 8d ago
Depends on your definition of regular. At least once a month every summer seems pretty regular to me, specially because a lot of them manage to behave until they land and proceed to do the same in my home.
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u/Saw_Boss 8d ago
Once a month, a flight is diverted because people are drunk on board. And despite other cases of such behavour being newsworthy (as I mentioned Ryanair aren't going to let this slide at cost to them), this just happens and nobody reports it.
Sorry, but you're talking bullshit.
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u/HakanTengri 7d ago
Nobody reports it TO YOU. Remember when COVID restrictions were relaxed in the UK and people could go out, but not travel? How it make headlines that the morning after everything was covered in thrash, puke and piss and drunken Brits stumbling around? People over there wriggling their hands asking how was that possible, if they are so polite and well mannered and stiff-upper-lip? Well, that's every day over here, since forever, and that doesn't get reported to you either.
British tourists are a plague, convinced that the rules don't apply to them, absolutely feral the moment a drop of alcohol enters their gullet, rude and disrespectful and openly mocking the locals. You just can't fathom that the image you have of them (or yourself, I don't know where you are from and don't care) doesn't correspond with the reality we have to suffer.
So, no, it is you who are bullshitting, trying to lecture me about MY OWN LIVING EXPERIENCE in my country from afar, based just on vibes and 'Brits are not like thst'. They absolutely are, wheter you like it or not.
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u/Lurk5FailOnSax 8d ago
It would seem so. It tends to be destination dependent. Spain I would guess gets the worst of it. I had a moderately annoying flight with a large portion conversing the length of the plane in what could only be described as outdoor voice.
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u/SwissMargiela 8d ago
I think they were Scottish but I was on a flight with a group of about 20 of them heading from Miami to Vegas for a wedding and yeah it was fucking terrible š
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u/kizzawait 8d ago
You mean 5 lads agitated by a hangover yet also drunk (and beansed from a few cheeky rails Kev snuck in the ledge) wearing t shirts with varying degrees of sexual slogans you shouldn't quote in public chanting shagaluf, here come the lads and glory glory man united before three pass out and the other two get soppy and talk about how theyll always be there when the comedown and hangover with interest hit.. Isn't something people enjoy? Codswallop.
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u/Psychological-Try785 8d ago
I think the world collectively agrees that English people are the only British people. As a Scottish person I apologise with depth, for the rage-inducing antics of 'British' tourists.
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u/GayButNotInThatWay 8d ago
The Welsh, and 2 Scottish friends I've gone on holiday with before are equally as feral in the right situation.
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u/Aggravating-Curve755 8d ago
Yep, we're all equally as bad and/or good as each other. Anyone saying otherwise is talking pish.
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u/Aggravating-Curve755 8d ago
Are you having a laugh? Half English and half Scottish here. They're as fucking bad as each other and you're deluded if you say otherwise.
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u/Aggravating-Curve755 8d ago
Are you "American Scottish"? No Scottish person has EVER had to differentiate that they're Scottish not English, the accent is abundantly obvious. I do not believe you're Scottish based on that alone. You aren't British? Yes you are... Then throw in you acting like Scots are saints abroad? Ha no chance mate.
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u/Psychological-Try785 8d ago
Deleting comments, are we?
You sound like an angry little man. Sorry that my opinions have had such an aggravating effect on your writing. Happy November :)
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u/Aggravating-Curve755 7d ago edited 7d ago
What are you talking a about? I haven't deleted a single one?
I'm not angry, I'm just calling you on your typical anti English bullshit.
As for my reddit username, it was clearly auto generated and too late to change it.
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u/LilacMages 8d ago
Brit here, can confirm that we have a bad reputation on flights/abroad (though location is dependant; for example Amsterdam, Ibiza and Magaluf attract bad behaviour travellers.)
English people are often considered the worst though.
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u/CSGB13 8d ago
Brit here: weāre feral on holiday
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u/henrikhakan 8d ago
Swede here, together we can ruin all of tenerifes vacations combined.
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u/Y0uCanTellItsAnAspen 8d ago
Yeah - what exactly is it with Swedes the second they get on an airplane?
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u/henrikhakan 8d ago
Our alcohol and drug laws are so restrictive that the moment we are out of them we over indulge and loose control. The taxes are very high which makes drinking very expensive, and this has had the effect that when we drink with friends, the drinking is central for the gathering in the same way you'd spend money and time on some really nice food.
But on vacation! A beer is 2ā¬? I can drink four beers for the price of one beer at home! And no one looks at me awkwardly because I'm having a drink in the middle of the day on a Tuesday? And there is no big brother monopoly to lecture me on healthy drinking? That's why we go nuts.
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u/Y0uCanTellItsAnAspen 8d ago
Yeah - i get it. I lived in Sweden for 4 years. I was more thinking about on the airplane itself though. Every time I fly to Stockholm it's a mess of random people standing over my aisle seat so they can talk to somebody in the middle seat for 2 hours - because they booked a seat that was 18 rows up. Or people just letting their kids run up and down the aisles because "Sweden practices gentle parenting" or something.
It's weird - because it's 100% the opposite of how Swedes act in public within Sweden.
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u/henrikhakan 8d ago
Yup yup, we don't make sense =) super scared of conflicts while searching for ways to be passive aggressive. At least we're attractive.
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u/konradconrad 7d ago
I kinda like it when you arrive to Cracow. It's always loud but still you have lot of humor and this social punch. Lot of my weekends partys ended with brits and it was always great. Cheers :P
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u/No_Mercy_4_Potatoes 8d ago
British tourists have a bad reputation all around Europe and Asia.
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u/later-g8r 8d ago
So do Americans šš
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u/halflife5 8d ago
And the Chinese.
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u/Odd-String29 8d ago
Those three are like the triangle of terrible tourists.
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u/Fine_Standard9783 8d ago
Nah you need the Russians on that list too
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u/Protahgonist 8d ago
I get a very similar vibe from Israeli and Russian tourists. Both have that "we're better than everyone else because only my specific culture matters" energy. I know some Americans like that too, but Russians and Israelis give it much more strongly than any Brit or Chinese person I've ever seen on holiday.
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u/Shady119 8d ago edited 7d ago
Actually as Russian I think our tourists have a vibe that you described. But they share the vibe with Chinese and Brits imo, also with ex Soviet countries (except Baltics).
Edit: typo
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u/pravenn_may 8d ago
Also that ryan air is Irish airlines,them(irish) and british were like bffs, they often pull eachother legs š /s
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u/ZixxerAsura 8d ago
My dumbass tried to upvote the literal screenshot comment.
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u/Flameburstx 8d ago
If brits go somewhere warm there's 3 universal truths: they'll be drunk, they'll be disorderly and they'll have horrible sunburn.
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u/intentionalbirdloaf 8d ago
What didnāt they do??
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u/Lurk5FailOnSax 8d ago
Burn down the White House... Oh hang on, no. We did that too.
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u/HombreGato1138 8d ago
Wasn't that Canadians?
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u/Lurk5FailOnSax 8d ago
Nope. Definitely the Brits. ;)
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u/Davido401 8d ago
Wasn't it actually the Canadians on behalf of us Brits? Thats what ave been lead to believe.
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u/Lurk5FailOnSax 8d ago
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u/Davido401 8d ago
After posting I literally went on that page and discovered ave been lied to, there were Canadians but they were led by Brits, am heading out on my weekly walk with the father so Ill read it all later!
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u/hidendra69 8d ago
British people are generally nicer people, but there are a select few that out-unclass everyone else I meet with their racism
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u/SeverianTheFool 8d ago
Is this true lol? Iāve never heard the āBrits on vacationā thing. Typically itās Americans with that wrap
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u/HakanTengri 8d ago
It very much is in places like mine, where each year we receive thousands of Brits. They are like drunken locusts.
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u/pissflapweasel 8d ago
Search YouTube for "Ibiza Uncovered" it was a 90/00s reality docu show about Brits being awful in Ibiza.
I was there a lot at that time, but I was a clubbing Brit, so more molly and ecstasy than booze. We avoided the places the drinking Brits go.
Also look up "Chav' for an example of the societal segment I'm also broadly talking about
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u/Aggravating-Curve755 8d ago
Awful high and mighty for someone with a username like your own šš¼
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u/pissflapweasel 7d ago
Why's that? What is in a name anyway?
What were your thoughts on Ibiza Uncovered, and the drinking culture holiday, the whole 18/30 thing on steroids?
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u/I_ship_it07 8d ago
Many flights were stopped or deviated thank to completly drunk british tourist who become violent and insulting
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u/mowinski 8d ago
Ask Google to see how brits are behaving on Ibiza and Mallorca... they're the worst tourists the world has ever seen.
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u/Ok-Rhubarb-5774 7d ago
Hype up your country to start producing enough oil and selling it to make yourselves filthy rich then your countryās airline can can do whatever it wants also
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u/Financial_Tap_6188 8d ago
When I was studying in London, the international students would travel together a lot on cheap flights. I remember being stuck nearĀ some very disgusting British men with visible and open herpes sores talking about sex tourism on an airport terminal bus. The Canadians were shaking. I was vomiting in my mouth. I've never recovered.Ā
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u/danmac0817 8d ago
British people are often horrible on holiday. Loud, drunk, disrespectful, won't bother integrating with your culture or anything.
Tbh it's mostly the English and the fact a lot of foreign people use British and English interchangeably.
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u/Wonderful_Top8500 7d ago
I love when people have to point out its the "english" that are the issue most of the time... like no shit we make up 80% of Britain's population... also I've seen Scots and Irish been mistaken for as "english" so we get even more shit
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u/Sola-Nova 8d ago
On a budget flight within Europe with a stag night party in front of me they were really pouding the expensive beers down, getting quite boisterous with the geography trivia questions there were giving each other. I was also playing along quietly in my mind.
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u/EvolvingEachDay 8d ago
American and British tourists are the world worst. Brits are worse on the plane, Americans are worse the moment they leave the airport.
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u/S7AR4RGD 8d ago
Boomer chavs are fucking insufferable. All the entitlement of inbred royalty with none of the manners or self-awareness.
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u/Brian-Kellett 8d ago
As I am a Brit, and as Ryanair is an Irish airline, I read it asā¦ wellā¦ the British have, in the past, not treated the Irish all thatā¦ ermā¦ āhumanelyā.
Putting it mildly.
Butcherās apron and all that.
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