I think he was quoting what other people say. It did make me think of yes minister when they were complaining about UK sausages being labelled as something else because of what they contained!
Different cultures different attitudes
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Pepper Spray will sort that ignorance out pronto. Stay safe Matey.I wasn’t going to say anything about this but it happened again today and it’s too often now so I know it’s not me and my stubborn attitude….
This is not a post about knocking European's
I love being away in my van abroad it’s all what I do in my van, love meeting people and different cultures, history and architecture in all of Europe.
Now as you probably can imagine I get some looks and comments made to me on my travels but it’s the norm and doesn’t usually bother me especially from the kids and they are great and usually ask questions so it an ideal way to educate them that I’m a bit different but will happily talk with them and have a joke.
But recently I’m finding a trend with the Spanish people I haven’t noticed before or perhaps it didn’t bother me, over the last few weeks we have visited some fairly busy places and some people have just walked straight into me even though they have seen me coming.. now I’m very aware of my surroundings always scanning ahead for obstacles and land mines while looking in the eyes of people around me and pretty good at reading people…
I first noticed it a while back a group of elderly men were standing talking on the fairly wide pavement and one in particular had seen me coming and he deliberately walked out into my way, now I don’t know if they do it to see the reaction or for me to speak to them or whatever I just don’t get it but me being who I am I just put my head down and plough in to him, a brief sorry conversation with them mumbling away while I carry on…
Last week a well to do women around 35-40 coming towards me with 3 others on a narrow path, she knows I’m coming but she just kept on coming while the others stepped into the quiet road to pass me she stops abruptly in front of me throwing her arms in the air mumbling and eventually goes round me…
I’ve had this quite a few times now and as I just keep on pushing ahead people eventually get out of the way, it’s like a game of “chicken” but when it’s on a narrow path I can’t jump out of the way with usually a 8" kerb drop..
Now come to today, leaving Ronda we pop into Aldi and at the till I’m paying and waiting for the receipt and there is a woman in the queue behind me deliberately pushing her trolley into my chair quite hard and I mean several times to try and push me out of the way… now I just turned and gave the trolley a hefty push and she had to step back and I just sat there glaring at her with my hands up saying “Really “…
Now I’ve had this sort of thing all my life but it’s rare and only once in a while occurrence but it’s happening a lot lately… is it the wheelchair ..? Have the Spanish a different attitude to wheelchair users like a disrespectful attitude..? Or are they the same with “normal “ people….
Sorry it’s a long moan and I don’t like to, especially about European people who I mostly get on with very well with…. I don’t want this to be a European bashing thread and if it does I’ll get Jim to shut it down…
What’s your views, especially from those that live in Spain, am I missing something…?
I think so too
brilliant sense of humour Martin jumar has
On a side note, I remember we had that TV series in the eighties in the Catalan TV (yes minister, then it was yes PM, if I remember correctly?) it was dubbed to Catalan of course, though I was quite young then and couldn't understand anything about that humour
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If you see an old bloke in a supermarket wearing a FFP2 facemask (I am very vulnerable as far as Covid is concerned) there's no need to treat me like a leper. But try not to cough or sneeze over me.
Any shopper in a wheelchair or on a disability scooter - feel free to ask me to reach for goods on the high shelves. Happy to help!
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Assuming you don't like Spain then..Well!
Most of it looks like the aftermath of a Nuclear attack, the food is appalling, Tapas for example deep fried gunk on stale bread, Sherry! What’s that about
Also, a “certain type” tend to retire there!
It’s like a shit Italy
Now there’s class
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What makes you think that?Assuming you don't like Spain then..
Well!
Most of it looks like the aftermath of a Nuclear attack, the food is appalling, Tapas for example deep fried gunk on stale bread, Sherry! What’s that about
Also, a “certain type” tend to retire there!
It’s like a shit Italy
Now there’s class
Italy, fantastic as it is, would however also not make a very good Spain.
What a boring discussion.
I bet your parents and their friends said exactly the same things about you, when you were the impolite and rude youngsters.
And your grandparents complaining about your parents generation in their turn.
Do you remember Phillip Larkin's 1971 explanation of where it ago comes from:
www.poetryfoundation.org
I bet your parents and their friends said exactly the same things about you, when you were the impolite and rude youngsters.
And your grandparents complaining about your parents generation in their turn.
Do you remember Phillip Larkin's 1971 explanation of where it ago comes from:
This Be The Verse
But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another’s throats.
www.poetryfoundation.org
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161 posts makes us boring..What a boring discussion.
I bet your parents and their friends said exactly the same things about you, when you were the impolite and rude youngsters.
And your grandparents complaining about your parents generation in their turn.
Do you remember Phillip Larkin's 1971 explanation of where it ago comes from:
This Be The Verse
But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another’s throats.
Well your comment makes you one of us boring lot….
Agree. But did you actually find the discussion helpful and useful to you?161 posts makes us boring..
Well your comment makes you one of us boring lot….
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Any information is useful.
About 20 years ago I was in the reception at camping Lisbon waiting my turn, the woman in front starts talking in Spanish only to be told quite firmly that they don't speak Spanish, she switched to perfect English, which I have to say impressed me.
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I was in a hotel with a colleague (working before your minds turn smutty 
) and a French colleague said to him you speak very good English for a French man,
His response was actually ,I speak very good French for a English man.
) and a French colleague said to him you speak very good English for a French man, His response was actually ,I speak very good French for a English man.
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So boring it was worth spending some time commenting161 posts makes us boring..
Well your comment makes you one of us boring lot….
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This thread might continue while I’m in Morocco..
I was just hoping to stop the ongoing Four Yorkshiremen (Month Python)-type skit and inspire positive responses such as:So boring it was worth spending some time commenting
I was in a hotel with a colleague (working before your minds turn smutty
His response was actually ,I speak very good French for a English man.
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