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    Brits boozing it up?? nah, no way!!

    Here ya go right from the horses mouth!!!

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    A Growth Export for Britain: Boozing

    By CATHERINE MAYER / LONDON2 hours, 2 minutes ago


    What are the key components of Britishness? The bulldog spirit? A stiff upper lip? Or a penchant for Sex on the Beach? With Britain locked in an identity crisis (the English feel English, the Welsh, Welsh and some Scots are so eager to assert their Scottishness that they want to disunite the United Kingdom), these questions are troubling Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He's made the promotion of Britishness a core theme of his leadership and is even writing a book on the subject. Quintessential British qualities, he has said, include: "Our belief in tolerance and liberty ... Our commitment to fairness, fair play and civic duty."

    Oddly, Brown overlooked another fundament of Britishness: alcohol-fueled misbehavior. Booze culture unites Britons from Land's End in southwestern England to John O'Groats at the northeastern tip of Scotland, and it's also one of the U.K.'s best-known exports. In sun spots such as Ibiza, Mallorca, the Canary Islands, Spain and Greece, English, Welsh and Scottish holidaymakers raucously intermingle, indistinguishable from each other in their bright leisure wear and brighter sunburns, downing alcoholic concoctions such as Sex on the Beach, sometimes as a prelude to the act itself.

    Britons have long suffered from a loutish image abroad. The violent antics of British football supporters, a widespread contempt for foreign cuisines and cultures - none of these foibles have burnished Britain's international reputation. That may seem unfair to the many impeccably behaved Brits who travel without incident every year. But a newly published report into British behavior abroad suggests that more Britons than ever are flying the flag of obnoxiousness in foreign climes. The report reveals a steep increase in arrests of Brits overseas: 33% in Spain and 42% in France over the previous year. "Many arrests are due to behavior caused by excessive drinking," the report states. "We are concerned that drink does play a part in a number of these situations," Meg Munn, a minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which published the report, told the BBC.

    Unpublished research based on a survey of 3003 British, German and Spanish tourists to Ibiza and Mallorca in 2007 shows that rowdiness isn't the sole preserve of Britons. British respondents were marginally less likely to indulge in casual sex than their continental counterparts. Still, almost a third of them did; they had a greater appetite for drugs and were also the undisputed champions of drinking and fighting, with 60% of the Brits returning from Mallorca reporting that they'd been drunk on at least five days of their one-week holiday, compared to 41% of Germans and only 6% of Spanish. More than 7% of Britons, meanwhile, had been involved in a fracas, compared with 3.6% of Germans and just 2.3% of Spanish. Mark Bellis, Professor of Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University which conducted the research with the European Institute of Studies on Prevention, says that "people from all the countries we've looked at have increased levels of alcohol use when they're traveling abroad - they're treating every night like a Friday or Saturday night. The reality, unfortunately, is that the levels of drunkenness among Britons are higher, and that's led to some of the alcohol-related problems we're familiar with."

    The full research will be published this autumn in two journals, the European Journal of Public Health and European Addiction Research, and will doubtless be pored over by politicians and officials keen to find a cure for the British malaise. Change won't be easy, though. Pubs and clubs, boozing and late-night curries: these are core elements of British culture. Freed from bad habits, the nation would certainly be healthier, possibly happier. But would it still be Britain? View this article on Time.com

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    can you summarize it ?

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    Too late to read all that. Check it tomorrow.

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    ^&^^ what's the matter? been drinking to much? Or shaggin too little?
    JFYI that article is all British about Brits and written by Brits not a yank in the mix anywhere...

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    2nd look........
    Na.. maybe tomorrow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrivingForce
    not a yank in the mix anywhere...
    Most Yanks don't even know where Europe is, let alone alone all the little countries.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirtydog
    Most Yanks don't even know where Europe is
    Thank God.

    Time for bed.

    Boing sed zebedeee.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirtydog
    Most Yanks don't even know where Europe is, let alone alone all the little countries.
    Fuck you Dog, we even have a song about where it is, "Over There!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirtydog
    Most Yanks don't even know where Europe is, let alone alone all the little countries.
    Shit you say,, we have already been there and pulled your ass out of a bad mess and payed for it ourselves.
    Got our guys buried in all them places where we have had to come to your rescue,, so fuk off ya drunken lot.

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    One of the reasons why I left England. They get them for 2 weeks a year and complain.
    Where do you think the chav pisshead tossers are for the other 50 weeks?
    Apart from Pattaya I mean.
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    For a minute I thought the topic was about me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackgang View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by dirtydog
    Most Yanks don't even know where Europe is, let alone alone all the little countries.
    Shit you say,, we have already been there and pulled your ass out of a bad mess and payed for it ourselves.
    Got our guys buried in all them places where we have had to come to your rescue,, so fuk off ya drunken lot.
    You should have turned up about 2 years sooner.

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    There are some destinations, like Pattaya, Ibiza, Benidorm and increasingly Prague, that a lot of the Brits go to for the express purpose of getting pissed and bonking. Many of them are in the 18-30 age group, and there is a segment of the travel market dveoted to exactly that "18 - 30's holidays".

    Otoh, if you bump into a Brit in the Caribbean, Maldives, San Moritz or the Riviera, chances are he won't be pissed and trying to get in your daughters pants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang
    chances are he won't be pissed and trying to get in your daughters pants.
    Prolly all pom poofters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang
    Otoh, if you bump into a Brit in the Caribbean, Maldives, San Moritz or the Riviera, chances are he won't be pissed and trying to get in your daughters pants.
    Pobly be some old soft assed limey broad there to fuck the young nigger studs at her husbands expense.

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    ^ Female sex tourism is a big growth market.

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    ^ With the emphasis on BIG....
    Quote Originally Posted by bkkmadness View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by blackgang View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by dirtydog
    Most Yanks don't even know where Europe is, let alone alone all the little countries.
    Shit you say,, we have already been there and pulled your ass out of a bad mess and payed for it ourselves.
    Got our guys buried in all them places where we have had to come to your rescue,, so fuk off ya drunken lot.
    You should have turned up about 2 years sooner.



    Your welcome.....No good deed........

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackgang View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by sabang
    Otoh, if you bump into a Brit in the Caribbean, Maldives, San Moritz or the Riviera, chances are he won't be pissed and trying to get in your daughters pants.
    Pobly be some old soft assed limey broad there to fuck the young nigger studs at her husbands expense.


    Any comeback to that??

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