Careless Tories!

[Geoff Parkstone]

Not sure about that, Sith. The Germans, Swiss, Spanish, Italians, French and Portuguese don’t seem to have an issue with queuing in my experience. I do know some folk who returned from Dubai just before Christmas though...they loved it but apparently it was rammed with Russians who they described as the rudest, most aggressive and pushy people they’d ever come across.

French dont have an issue with queuing? You must be insane - have you ever gone skiing during French school holidays. Absolutely no concept of waiting in line. Kids just bomb down the slope, shove straight to the head of the lift queue and the adults follow, keen to stay with their kids, and impervious to any suggestion of getting to the back. Germans and Swiss I will grant you are more disciplined, but that is rather in their nature!

Never been to Dubai, never had any interest too either, but a friend of mine has just come back and evidently it was raining there, to such an extent that a cricket match abandoned. Evidently the locals stading around sheltering in in buildings staring at it and photographing the mysterious stuff as it fell!

[ramAnag]

French dont have an issue with queuing? You must be insane - have you ever gone skiing during French school holidays. Absolutely no concept of waiting in line. Kids just bomb down the slope, shove straight to the head of the lift queue and the adults follow, keen to stay with their kids, and impervious to any suggestion of getting to the back. Germans and Swiss I will grant you are more disciplined, but that is rather in their nature!

No GP...I’ve never been skiing during the French school holidays...indeed I’ve never been skiing.
I have however been canoeing many times in France and have taken a number of boat trips around the French Mediterranean coast. I have also visited lots of petrol stations, bought lots of bread and used the Supermarché on countless occasions and I can honestly say that, in my experience, the French are no worse, or better, at queuing than the British.
The same is, again in my experience, true of all the other nationalities I mentioned although I did once witness a severe German to German bolloc king because one person had failed to observe the German adherence to queuing on the Berlin ‘U Bahn’.

[Andy_Faber]

French dont have an issue with queuing? You must be insane - have you ever gone skiing during French school holidays. Absolutely no concept of waiting in line. Kids just bomb down the slope, shove straight to the head of the lift queue and the adults follow, keen to stay with their kids, and impervious to any suggestion of getting to the back. Germans and Swiss I will grant you are more disciplined, but that is rather in their nature!

Never been to Dubai, never had any interest too either, but a friend of mine has just come back and evidently it was raining there, to such an extent that a cricket match abandoned. Evidently the locals stading around sheltering in in buildings staring at it and photographing the mysterious stuff as it fell!

I’ve found the worst culprits to be Audi drivers

[Trickytreesreds]

Thailand is another in my to do list, sounds like you had a good time.

Good time of year to go too? Nothing like some sun in the winter time.

Queuing, seems to be a british and american thing, makes you wonder if those who don't queue think its odd that we do. What happens back in their own countries? Is it a free for all or is it just away from home they dont queue?

My biggest experience of Russian tourists in big numbers was about 15 years ago in egypt. Lots of throuples (is that the word?), 1 guy with 2 women. Dont recall a rudeness as such but they did like their impromptu photo shoots by the pool.

I stayed for a good while on Koh Kood island. Absolute paradise and if you get the chance, then please do it. No cars, only mopeds and the odd taxi. Beaches are heaven, shallow/warm/ crystal clear/ with coral reefs teaming with fish. No high rises, only a handful of resorts and the locals. Food is A1.

The Russians are a people who spent decades under communism queuing for everything in their lives. They should be the world champions and writing the rule book. Not anymore, they fail to even understand the concept of queuing

[Trickytreesreds]

Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z91kdu6k3w



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq4zafL1fME

[swaledale]

Thailand is another in my to do list, sounds like you had a good time.

Good time of year to go too? Nothing like some sun in the winter time.

Queuing, seems to be a british and american thing, makes you wonder if those who don't queue think its odd that we do. What happens back in their own countries? Is it a free for all or is it just away from home they dont queue?

My biggest experience of Russian tourists in big numbers was about 15 years ago in egypt. Lots of throuples (is that the word?), 1 guy with 2 women. Dont recall a rudeness as such but they did like their impromptu photo shoots by the pool.

Oh Sith I really wish you didn't quote Thicky, it pains me to have to read his bull**** and see how he has swallowed the right wing fake news agenda!

AS for his assertion Thailand is a country to be admired, I mean yeah sure its governance is shining example of democracy. Not!! Plus it allows him in unimpeded, still I guess they just want his money and if he is discrete then no questions asked as is well known.

Plus I just love it when a tourist, whose wages and standard of living is far higher, gushes about how cheap things are in another country, without wondering why there is so much poverty!! Jeez, the lack of awareness is just stupefying!

[Andy_Faber]

Oh Sith I really wish you didn't quote Thicky, it pains me to have to read his bull**** and see how he has swallowed the right wing fake news agenda!

AS for his assertion Thailand is a country to be admired, I mean yeah sure its governance is shining example of democracy. Not!! Plus it allows him in unimpeded, still I guess they just want his money and if he is discrete then no questions asked as is well known.

Plus I just love it when a tourist, whose wages and standard of living is far higher, gushes about how cheap things are in another country, without wondering why there is so much poverty!! Jeez, the lack of awareness is just stupefying!

Ah Swale i bet those few weeks waiting to ignore tricky’s posts have been torture

[swaledale]

Ah Swale i bet those few weeks waiting to ignore tricky’s posts have been torture

How does one wait to ignore? One either ignores or one doesn't! Also I find it rather strange that someone who supposedly moderates this Forum has so little idea as to how ignore works!! Perhaps thats because you ahve no anecdotal evidence to guide you?

Its been bliss actually, not reading his *******s, then I come across it in post thats been quoted and read his well reasoned and factual comment and realise I've what I've been missing.

I was almost tempted to take Thicky off ignore, so that I may be informed and enlightened by his erudite commentary on such matters. I mean he truly is one of the deep thinkers on this Forum, a man underestimated by his peers. One does wonder really why his immense intellectual capacity, his ability to focus in on the facts, cut through he bull**** and whose judgement is so unerringly accurate.

[Trickytreesreds]

Oh Sith I really wish you didn't quote Thicky, it pains me to have to read his bull**** and see how he has swallowed the right wing fake news agenda!

AS for his assertion Thailand is a country to be admired, I mean yeah sure its governance is shining example of democracy. Not!! Plus it allows him in unimpeded, still I guess they just want his money and if he is discrete then no questions asked as is well known.

Plus I just love it when a tourist, whose wages and standard of living is far higher, gushes about how cheap things are in another country, without wondering why there is so much poverty!! Jeez, the lack of awareness is just stupefying!

Like I said, see above
QED


So predictable

[Geoff Parkstone]

https://youtu.be/Ww4v2cP-MDo