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balkan tiger said:
On holiday

****s on the next table who smoke cheap smelly cigs.
Loud people with irritating voices talking ****.
Restaurant staff aggressively trying to get you into their place.
People on the beach not respecting your personal space.
Beach bars charging €20 for 2 sunbeds and an umbrella, then want €7 for a beer. Two crap coffees were €9.
Holiday reps, ****ing knobhead.
Airport check in.
Knobheads who can't work out where to sit despite it being written on their boarding card.
Passengers who as soon as the wheels touch ground are on the phone, seat belt undone, standing up getting bags (over size) out of the over head lockers.
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Did you enjoy your holiday.?
 
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My new car has a compulsory (well in the EU so you ****ers may not get it) safety feature that means if I exceed the speed limit by even 1km/h an alarm goes off like the seatbelt alarm getting progressively more urgent.

Its annoying as ****. It can be muted but has to be reset every time I start moving again.
 
balkan tiger said:
On holiday

****s on the next table who smoke cheap smelly cigs.
Loud people with irritating voices talking ****.
Restaurant staff aggressively trying to get you into their place.
People on the beach not respecting your personal space.
Beach bars charging €20 for 2 sunbeds and an umbrella, then want €7 for a beer. Two crap coffees were €9.
Holiday reps, ****ing knobhead.
Airport check in.
Knobheads who can't work out where to sit despite it being written on their boarding card.
Passengers who as soon as the wheels touch ground are on the phone, seat belt undone, standing up getting bags (over size) out of the over head lockers.
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Where did you go then Balkan?
 
Stockholm Tiger said:
My new car has a compulsory (well in the EU so you ****ers may not get it) safety feature that means if I exceed the speed limit by even 1km/h an alarm goes off like the seatbelt alarm getting progressively more urgent.

Its annoying as ****. It can be muted but has to be reset every time I start moving again.
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My new one has a speed camera warning alarm when the Sat Nav is on, makes me jump every time, I need to figure out how to turn it off.
 
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rovertiger said:
Hell by the sounds of it. <laugh>
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Nah not really, it's just not my usual way to holiday. I normally go on two or four wheels which makes it much easier to get away from the mading crowds. This was a last minute package deal, I can't even remember the last time I did one. The place was full of Scandinavians who thought the place was cheap as chips, why sell cheap if your customers are loaded seemed to be the way of working.
The smokers were from Serbia, after years of living in the region I still find it odd that they can light up halfway through eating their own meal and while others at the table are still eating.
The personal space invaders were from Romania, an extended family and friends took 6 umbrellas on the beach and just annoyed everyone else.
We upset the holiday rep by not attending his briefing, it was time to eat and that was more important. A day or two later he was in the reception area with another group when I asked for advise from the hotel receptionist, he jumped up and said he was there to help if I had any questions, sorry mate sorted it now. I had pressed a wrong button on the TV remote and it had gone all Greek, the receptionist said the cleaner would sort it when doing the room.
When in the queue at check in we saw him go to all the other travellers with his agency and say thank you and goodbye, walked right past us and said nowt.
 
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balkan tiger said:
Nah not really, it's just not my usual way to holiday. I normally go on two or four wheels which makes it much easier to get away from the mading crowds. This was a last minute package deal, I can't even remember the last time I did one. The place was full of Scandinavians who thought the place was cheap as chips, why sell cheap if your customers are loaded seemed to be the way of working.
The smokers were from Serbia, after years of living in the region I still find it odd that they can light up halfway through eating their own meal and while others at the table are still eating.
The personal space invaders were from Romania, an extended family and friends took 6 umbrellas on the beach and just annoyed everyone else.
We upset the holiday rep by not attending his briefing, it was time to eat and that was more important. A day or two later he was in the reception area with another group when I asked for advise from the hotel receptionist, he jumped up and said he was there to help if I had any questions, sorry mate sorted it now. I had pressed a wrong button on the TV remote and it had gone all Greek, the receptionist said the cleaner would sort it when doing the room.
When in the queue at check in we saw him go to all the other travellers with his agency and say thank you and goodbye, walked right past us and said nowt.
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You didn’t tip him then :emoticon-0102-bigsm:emoticon-0102-bigsm
 
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Plum said:
You didn’t tip him then :emoticon-0102-bigsm:emoticon-0102-bigsm
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Nah but others may have. I think some like security of having someone to speak to in their own language when the toilet paper is running out, or there's no hot water left for a shower, or where to find the beach or which supermarket has the best prices, and 100 other questions that some of us don't need to ask.

These top tips for holiday makers should be in the holiday thread.
 
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Stockholm Tiger said:
My new car has a compulsory (well in the EU so you ****ers may not get it) safety feature that means if I exceed the speed limit by even 1km/h an alarm goes off like the seatbelt alarm getting progressively more urgent.

Its annoying as ****. It can be muted but has to be reset every time I start moving again.
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Sounds like a wife to me !
 
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balkan tiger said:
On holiday

****s on the next table who smoke cheap smelly cigs.
Loud people with irritating voices talking ****.
Restaurant staff aggressively trying to get you into their place.
People on the beach not respecting your personal space.
Beach bars charging €20 for 2 sunbeds and an umbrella, then want €7 for a beer. Two crap coffees were €9.
Holiday reps, ****ing knobhead.
Airport check in.
Knobheads who can't work out where to sit despite it being written on their boarding card.
Passengers who as soon as the wheels touch ground are on the phone, seat belt undone, standing up getting bags (over size) out of the over head lockers.
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Wife and I have just had a little break and the people on the plane who jump up are the worst kind of entitled dickhead. The ones who book very front row seats but then cant store their large carry on bags above them so get all shirty about having to go back to row 16 with it just before take off. And then they push down after landing to get it and try and push back so they're still first off!

We always book seats C and D now. We can talk across the ailsle but have the freedom to get up and go for a pee whenever we like without disturbing people. Recently I have realised it also allows me to combat the landing idiots because I jump up straight away too after the belt light goes off and mark my territory until the flight empties. Nobody is getting past my sizable frame in either direction. Its my new end of flight sport.

'Can I just get my bag please' 'Yeah, when I've got off....nobhead'.
 
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