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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) | [ Next Thread |
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] Date Posted: 12:26:06 11/19/04 Fri In reply to: Paddy (Scotland) 's message, "Well," on 11:33:00 11/19/04 Fri Think of all the dodgy things for which we use euphemisms involving the word 'French'. French kissing, French letters, French courage (occasionally rendered as Dutch courage), etc etc. I think that the business about queuing is right... which of us, hand on heart, can think of anything more irritating than people who don't queue in an orderly fashion? The thing about sex is obviously written by people whose jusgement is based on watching too much "Carry On, Doctor" and an obsession with Kenneth Williams saying "Oo, matron." As for Sexe a l'Anglaise, I understand that the S&M capital of the world is in fact Japan. The only one which is not susceptible of a ready explanation is the ghettoisation of Brits abroad. Here in Venice, the expat community is centred round the consulate and, mainly, the Anglican church. Even non-Christians turn up at 10-30 on Sundays in Campo San Vio, including myself, a Hindu lady and, the other week, a Muslim guy from Bradford with the full beard, salwaar kameez and skull-cap, who said that he missed chatting to British people and thought that he might find some at the Church. He did, as well as glasses of orange squash, hobnobs, a pot of darjeeling and a bloke with a monocle. On the other hand, all of us interact with the natives, and phenomena like the Anglicisation of the Costa Del Sol, the Argarve, Tuscany and Faliraki are somewhat unusual. And, indeed, most self-respecting Brits would rather go to Fallujah for a quick holiday than to Marbella, Ibiza, or Agia Napa, largely because of what our countrymen have done to these once fine places. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
| [> [> [> Subject: I'm not sure Agia Napa was ever desperately fine.... but it was certainly nicer as a few rocks and a beach.... | |
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Author: Nick (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 12:38:22 11/19/04 Fri On the other hand Cyprus in general is very British and I get a bit annoyed with self-appointed travel toffs who smirk at it for not being 'Greek' enough. It is an Anglo-Greek-Turk medley and there's nothing wrong with that. We should celebrate the fact one can buy a nice Pizza Express pizza there, proper chips to go with one's moussaka, and, rather like the Falkland Islands, have to fly to London to get almost anywhere else on earth in a fine 'all roads lead to Rome' piece of geography-defying Britishness. Unfortunately I fear the main reason most of us don't want to go to the places you mentioned is because a significant proportion of our population are brain dead, deserve the New Labour government their utter indifference to politics or the world helps bestow on us, and frankly are not worth the scarce resources they waste getting up every day. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |