Spanish students on public transport

Foxhound38

...are really well behaved, nondisruptive and so incredibly quiet, aren't they? :pac:

Señor Fancy Pants

Yes and not a pistachio nut shell to be seen!

kneemos

That time again.

Sheep Lover

Juan is not amused

Fr_Dougal

Great bunch of lads.

Shandashey

40 off them arrive en masse with their huge bright orange plastic back packs to the bus stop, then they all pile on, screeching at the top of their voices and grooming each other, picking at their hand faces etc.

hate them

MathDebater

We get a few thousand teenagers whose biggest crime is that they are a noisy on public transport and who sometimes block the footpath.. The Spaniards get tens of thousands binge drinking 18-30 Irish year olds running amok over there in return. I think we get the thin edge of the wedge on this one.

NIMAN

before they all head to the pub to share 2 pints between 12 of them.

smash

Harmless bunch, leave them to it

Shandashey

NIMAN wrote: »

before they all head to the pub to share 2 pints between 12 of them.

It's actually 2 glasses of beer between 12

Fudge You

Shandashey wrote: »

40 off them arrive en masse with their huge bright orange plastic back packs to the bus stop, then they all pile on, screeching at the top of their voices and grooming each other, picking at their hand faces etc.

hate them

Hold on. Its that time of year. I'll get started then...

So lets talk about the irish dicks that are pissed/sunburnt/jersey wearing/loud/fighting etc every summer that head on holidays in spain.

I'd much rather loud students that are talking to eachother in groups. I have yet to see them doing anything else.

cloud493

Even worse when you live near the beach. Then its not just spanish kids, its bloody everyone.

osarusan

Coming over here learning our language and spending their money.....sickens me.

Fudge You

Shandashey wrote: »

It's actually 2 glasses of beer between 12

So they are not heavy drinkers like us IRISH. What a stupid bunch of fcuks!!!!

"Lets get the Bleedin' GARGLE in BOYOS.... Ahhhh Yeah, we are mad outta it!!!!"

Berserker

Far better than having the local drug addicts bothering you looking for money.

MRnotlob606

I'd say they are having the Spanish equivalent of "craic"

cloud493

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

I'd say they are having the Spanish equivalent of "craic"

They never look like they're having the craic. They look miserable as sin.

Shandashey

Fudge You wrote: »

So they are not heavy drinkers like us IRISH. What a stupid bunch of fcuks!!!!

"Lets get the Bleedin' GARGLE in BOYOS.... Ahhhh Yeah, we are mad outta it!!!!"

Self loathing much?

Steve_Carella

Teenagers travelling as a group in a new country being noisy and excited? How dare they! I've never heard anything so outrageous in my life!

Fudge You

Shandashey wrote: »

Self loathing much?

Nope, I'm just loathing a sizeable amount of Irish people that think they are cool because they drink a lot.

You were slagging Spaniards that had two glasses between them. So what, why should they drink more???

wp_rathead

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

I'd say they are having the Spanish equivalent of "craic"

Believe it is "El Craico"

Renegade Mechanic

They do tend to be up for a fight at the drop of a hat. Chill out lads

Turtyturd

Not confined to Spanish students...get a bus that goes through Beaumont hospital and you will see worse from Indian/Asian students.

Have even witnessed it with Irish students too.

HalloweenJack

Kids from different country in different culture shocker.

In fairness, if you spend any amount of time in Spain, you'll realise that all the people here are like that. The kids just pick it up from their surroundings. Spaniards are a gregarious bunch and don't have any kind of volume control. They've a different concept of social interaction.

Add to that, the Spanish kids who go to Ireland are spoilt rich kids away from home for probably the first time.

How Soon Is Now

I work in a big hostel in town the Spanish students are nothing compared to the English on stag and hen do s every Fecking weekend.

A lot of forgieners are notoriously tight when traveling especially younger ones. Some of the things I've seen and been asked for in there all you can do is laugh basically :-).

The Americans well there on a whole other level......

Phil Mitchell

Loud but very well behaved. The students that come over are usually from middle/upper-middle class families. Whilst we offer them Joxer and Jacinta and their 6 ratty faced kids for a week in the summer.

deadybai

osarusan wrote: »

Coming over here learning our language and spending their money.....sickens me.

"Our Language"

anncoates

Kids getting excited on their holidays in a foreign country.The bastards.

Just ignore them, you whinge bags.

IvyTheTerrible

I always find it strange that people laugh at European foreigners being "mean" with money - French and Spanish people earn significantly less than the average Irish person, also credit was a lot harder to get in France at least than Ireland so people here just have to be more careful with their money.

TheBeardedLady

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Add to that, the Spanish kids who go to Ireland are spoilt rich kids away from home for probably the first time.

Don't think it's necessarily the rich kids anymore like it was in the 80s.


I have to stand up for Spanish teens though - they're generally lovely ime and are better behaved than gangs of teens from other countries can be. The Spanish are noisy and travel in packs - that's what they do and they're not out to annoy people by doing it - it's their thing!

TheBeardedLady

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I always find it strange that people laugh at European foreigners being "mean" with money - French and Spanish people earn significantly less than the average Irish person, also credit was a lot harder to get in France at least than Ireland so people here just have to be more careful with their money.

Very true. Ireland would be insanely expensive for a person on an average salary in Spain and as I said above, it's not just the rich kids coming over now like when I was a kid.

dd972

There was another rake of the noisy b**tards on the Metro just now, living in Madrid is a pain...

Just Be Yourself

I always imagine what Irish people sound like on public transport.

'Ah here Damo that's me fukin burd your're roidin....I'll bather de head of dem kunts if they keep lookin at me!'

the groutch

I think that they're the reason that they changed the design of bells on the buses to only ring once.

Son Of A Vidic

MathDebater wrote: »

We get a few thousand teenagers whose biggest crime is that they are a noisy on public transport and who sometimes block the footpath.. The Spaniards get tens of thousands binge drinking 18-30 Irish year olds running amok over there in return. I think we get the thin edge of the wedge on this one.

Thread should have been locked after that perfect summary.

anncoates

MathDebater wrote: »

We get a few thousand teenagers whose biggest crime is that they are a noisy on public transport and who sometimes block the footpath.. The Spaniards get tens of thousands binge drinking 18-30 Irish year olds running amok over there in return. I think we get the thin edge of the wedge on this one.

While I generally agree, you omit the small fact that the tens of thousands of drunks are usually being facilitated in custom, large- scale drinking environments usually ran and staffed by Spaniards for profit.

TheBeardedLady

dd972 wrote: »

There was another rake of the noisy b**tards on the Metro just now, living in Madrid is a pain...

This is my turf! Get outta here! :mad:

dd972

TheBeardedLady wrote: »

This is my turf! Get outta here! :mad:

with a user name like that, as if you needed to tell me ! :pac:

OneArt

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Kids from different country in different culture shocker.

In fairness, if you spend any amount of time in Spain, you'll realise that all the people here are like that. The kids just pick it up from their surroundings. Spaniards are a gregarious bunch and don't have any kind of volume control. They've a different concept of social interaction.

Add to that, the Spanish kids who go to Ireland are spoilt rich kids away from home for probably the first time.

It's not just social interaction. The Spanish language uses the throat and the nose more, whereas English requires the mid-level of the lungs. As a result you often need to use the throat and the top part of the lungs. German and Dutch use the lower part of the lungs which makes them sound much deeper (and sometimes threatening).

It's why Chinese speakers are so bloody loud to us as well.

shruikan2553

I wouldnt mind if they would just stand somewhere that wasn't in the way

The other fella

I like when i see them here, you know its summertime then.

suicide_circus

Juankers

Fudge You

Fudge You wrote: »

So they are not heavy drinkers like us IRISH. What a stupid bunch of fcuks!!!!

"Lets get the Bleedin' GARGLE in BOYOS.... Ahhhh Yeah, we are mad outta it!!!!"

Yeah nice strawman

There's a middle ground between "heavy drinkers" and "let's share two glasses of beer between 12 of us"

PARlance

anncoates wrote: »

While I generally agree, you omit the small fact that the tens of thousands of drunks are usually being facilitated in custom, large- scale drinking environments usually ran and staffed by Spaniards for profit.

Yip, Sergio Murphy runs a fine establishment. Most of the bar staff & owners in these resorts are not Spanish.

Macavity.

I don't actually notice Spanish students that much, they don't seem to annoy me. I know a few of the Brazilian's over here, they all tend to be quite wealthy and are very beautiful.

Shandashey

Fudge You wrote: »

Nope, I'm just loathing a sizeable amount of Irish people that think they are cool because they drink a lot.

You were slagging Spaniards that had two glasses between them. So what, why should they drink more???

Because 2 glasses of beer between 12 people wouldn't really go that far?

anncoates

PARlance wrote: »

Yip, Sergio Murphy runs a fine establishment. Most of the bar staff & owners in these resorts are not Spanish.

Surely the Spanish economy benefits hugely from these tourists. And lots of Spanish people are indirectly and directly employed as a result.

I was in a resort a few years ago. A pretty staid one but there were loads of locals working in the places we went to. And the shops. And the stalls. And the taxis etc.

Not that I care obviously. It's just a point. These people and their antics wouldn't be tolerated if they didn't generate economic benefits

Drakares

Sheep Lover wrote: »

Juan is not amused

Well it takes Juan to know Juan

TheBeardedLady

PARlance wrote: »

Yip, Sergio Murphy runs a fine establishment. Most of the bar staff & owners in these resorts are not Spanish.

6 years here and every time I try to get them going on this topic, they give me the same answer: "they bring in money which Spain badly needs". They are given a name by the Spanish ("Guiris") that's used derogatively (but they've a name for everyone tbh) and laughed at because of their carry on (sun burn, drinking too much etc.) but tbh, they're not as annoyed about them as you'd think which was surprised me.

PLL

What about the groups of French / Italian that stand in a group in the the middle of the footpath in Killarney, laughing at people walking by in their native tongue. Making no effort to move out of the way so i have to 'accidentally' ram them out of the way with the pushchair.

Let's not forget about them.

the_monkey

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Kids from different country in different culture shocker.

In fairness, if you spend any amount of time in Spain, you'll realise that all the people here are like that. The kids just pick it up from their surroundings. Spaniards are a gregarious bunch and don't have any kind of volume control. They've a different concept of social interaction.

Add to that, the Spanish kids who go to Ireland are spoilt rich kids away from home for probably the first time.

Yep.
One thing I noticed from living here is parents get their kids used to 3 things from pretty much the start.


1. Loud noise
2. Making loud noise
3. Staying up late


And that 3rd part in the summer is f*cking ridicolous .... 1AM 5 , 6 year old kids out in the plazas playing ...


PERO BUENO !!!ES LO QUE HAY !!!!!