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suppafly · 28-07-2003 01:30PM

I must say they do really try my patience sometimes!! With most of the above points. They r really loud, like if they're not chatting away really loudly they will be singin or screaming something as loud as they can. They take up all the seats at the front of the bus, the ones for old people and stuff. And they don't get up when old people get on, and so they have to walk all the way to the back of the bus. They're pushy and don't really have much respect or consideration for otheres, like in the netcafe they'd be shouting the whole time, when some people want to try and get on with their work. Also they don't listen to what they're told. Like they were in the net cafe playing games, as u do. Some of the comps don't have headphones so u need to turn off the sound then, but they didn't, and the manager had to come up a whole bunch of times to tell them to cop on, and eventually told them to get lost. They r giving a bad name to all the other spanish students. Like the ones that go to college here or just live hear, cuz they are all here for just a month or so and r all between the ages of 13-16. I have a good number of spanish friends and they r all really sound but these kids r just soo unruley(spelling?). Their teahcer/minders or whoever brings them over need to get to cop on cuz they're giving a bad name to spanish people.

BKtje · 28-07-2003 01:38PM

And they don't get up when old people get on, and so they have to walk all the way to the back of the bus

Well to be fair, the Irish aint much better! The spanish might have the excuse that they didnt know they ere supposed to but the Irish have no excuse.

I was in the Dart the other day when an elderly woman with a walking stick got on. She looked around obviously wanting a seat. The business men and women just sat there looking anywhere but at this woman. Eventually a tourist from Germany i think offered this woman his seat.

I was appaled. She was almost falling over everytime the Dart made a suddebn movement. (which it does a fair bit)

(before you ask, i didn't have a seat)

Sorry for going slightly off topic

suppafly · 28-07-2003 02:33PM

yes unfortunately that does happen but i find for the most part that i on the bus i always get(the No.8) if there r people in those seats they normally get up and if not, normally other people get up. But yur right maybe it is ignorance on their part and they can't read the signs.

DEmeant0r · 28-07-2003 03:15PM

Originally posted by Sarky
Well, they could shut up every now and again. I miss quiet trips on the galway buses...:(

Aye I quite agree, They took up half of the bus and started talking very very loudly

BKtje · 28-07-2003 03:39PM

i gotta smile when im reading this thread.
We all sound like a load of old grannies complaining about the noise

damnyanks · 28-07-2003 03:55PM

I think maybe you are an ol granny tito

Get my drift

DEmeant0r · 28-07-2003 03:58PM

Well I love silence, and it's getting harder to get it in this world. But yeah... I got a smile as well from this thread.

Bard · 28-07-2003 04:25PM

Originally posted by ferdi
2)there is soooo many of them and they block up every shop, path, pub, dart station, bus stop, street corner.

Agreed.

And they NEVER BUY ANYTHING.

Waste of space feckers...

Originally posted by nesthead
its a lingual thing that they shout tho... its part of the way that the language is spoken, you shout your ****ing head off.

Quite right on this point. Was in Spain on holidays last year. The family in the apartment next door to the one we rented seemed to be at one anothers throats constantly with the volume levels required for speaking in their language. They seemed to be constantly arguing.

Apparently, they weren't though... it was just the 'way of it' there...

p.pete · 28-07-2003 04:42PM

Originally posted by B-K-DzR
i gotta smile when im reading this thread.
We all sound like a load of old grannies complaining about the noise

Totally agree - really funny thread. Unfortunately, I have to agree with a lot of what is being said - on both sides. They are annoying but I know if I'm abroad in a group it is quite likely that we stick out like a sore thumb and the locals would be happier if we weren't there.

Least I'd usually spend lots of beer money:D

Dun · 28-07-2003 09:02PM

After spending four months in Spain, I came home and was really taken aback by how quiet it was in Dublin airport - and it packed. They really do talk loudly like that as a nation, they don't believe in 'thank you/you're welcome' as much as we do, never say excuse me when passing someone or after bumping into someone (that struck me the rudest at the start).. the list goes on. But when they are here, most places don't have any equivalent to their 'plazas' (squares) so they don't have any natural congregation place like back home. I remember a local TEFL school owner telling me bout he had a nightmare when he found out that a group were congregating in Waterloo Place in Derry (not a good place after dark) cause they thought it was like back home.

Seriously though I do get annoyed by them here, and although I'm constantly listening to them speaking Spanish, I never hear them talking about people. I'm glad I speak Spanish though, cause I can understand the potential for paranoia.

therecklessone · 28-07-2003 09:10PM

Originally posted by dun_do_bheal
they don't believe in 'thank you/you're welcome' as much as we do, never say excuse me when passing someone or after bumping into someone (that struck me the rudest at the start).. the list goes on.

When I was in Stockholm visiting a mate of mine (a native), he couldn't understand why I kept holding doors open for people, nobody bothers over there. Seems its not just the Spanish who are "rude" then, doesn't it???

invincibleirish · 28-07-2003 09:19PM

i think really what we have established from this thread is that some sort of selective immigration control at airports be established as to weed out any spanish students who are either a)male or b)female but unattractive and send them back from whence they came,in all fairness i back this idea,having been at a train station recently with a petition thingy,it was mainly spanish students who were arriving,and yes while i and my companion were enthralled by the spanish ladies and their generous assets,the noise that emenated from them as a group resembled something approaching a million demented clucking hens.

The Sweeper · 28-07-2003 09:26PM

Reading this thread makes me really proud to be Irish. As everyone knows, worldwide, we're one of the best behaved nations in the world. I mean, just look at our behaviour record as football fans - impeccable. Irish young people are kind, considerate individuals with respect for the elderly and a sense of politeness evident in their everyday lives. It's part of what makes our country 'Ireland of the Welcomes'.

I'm quite confident, in fact, that if we got a troupe of about twenty to twenty-five Irish teens, from the ages of about 12 years up to 16 years, and sent them to another country for six to ten weeks without the influence of their parents in order to learn the language, I'm sure they would be perfectly well behaved and do us proud. To be perfectly honest, I am certain that Irish youth abroad would never push or shove in a queue, shout loudly at their friends, infiltrate shops in large groups when they have no money to spend or, in fact, make any noise at all. I'm sure their well-spoken calm would make them quite the foreign visitor wherever they went.

Anyone who wants proof of this should look at the behaviour of Irish youths in the Gaeltacht - an instance where they are sent away to learn a language without the controlling influence of their parents. As I'm sure anyone who has ever been to the Gaeltacht knows, Irish teens work hard at learning Irish in the Gaeltacht and never utter a word of English while there. They make an effort to participate in every activity that's run for them. Occsaionally they can be spotted in the local pub - using the payphone to call home and say "Dia dhuit a mhammai!" Irish teenagers in the Gaeltacht are virtually never seen hanging out in the local town, wandering the roads in groups or invading the shops. They observe curfews religiously and bring prosperity and contentment to the local residents every time they visit.

Yes, this thread makes a valid point - the Spanish are rude and ignorant and their teenagers indulge in utterly unreasonable behaviour which is shockingly inappropriate for teenagers. They should not come to Ireland but rather go to England to learn English. I hope we will see no more of them.

BoB_BoT · 28-07-2003 09:27PM

Originally posted by Seaneh

Also, Lego did a fair bit of whinging about them coming into the net cafe he works in, but I wouldn't listen to him because he is an impatient moody little fu*ker anyway.

F*cking Muppet, You're Barred
When people come in and start f*cking with every little thing, spilling stuff all over the shop, crowd around 1 computer, run off with out paying, not bothering to sign in, then trying to explain, oh i just thought you sit down and you use the computer, that pisses me off, plus having to deal with stupid f*cks like you, off course i'm an "impatient moody little fu*ker anyway"

Oh and btw DMT you're right, but for christ sake downloading porn installers and porn etc... is them. Currently working on a solution, prob is it's win98 on the machines :P.

Victor · 28-07-2003 09:33PM

I just had to hush an entire internet café .... loudly.

Originally posted by Minesajackdaniels
Occsaionally they can be spotted in the local pub - using the payphone to call home and say "Dia dhuit a mhammai!"

Nah, they got mobiles now - only permitted to be used to call home - texting in English also banned.

CuLT · 29-07-2003 12:24AM

Great stuff MAJD, I endorse your post

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tman · 29-07-2003 01:05AM

ay mi madre, qui gon gordo...

or something to that effect.
i've got no complaints about the spanish, hot women etc...
MAJD has it spot on.

a_ominous · 29-07-2003 01:40PM

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annoy me for these reasons:

1)they are ment to be here to learn english and yet never speak a word of it

2)there is soooo many of them and they block up every shop, path, pub, dart station, bus stop, street corner.

3)they are pushy and over-baring

4)they are so very very LOUD

Hopefully they'll learn how to spell their English words and use punctuation properly ...

On some of the more general behavioural issues raised by others, has noone been to a Spanish resort and seen how _we_ in general act abroad?
Rearrange these words: black kettle pot

BKtje · 29-07-2003 03:30PM

MAJD: Jesus i hope you were being sarcastic. It comes accross as sarcastic but not enough to say, hey thats sarcastic

If not then...

from the ages of about 12 years up to 16 years, and sent them to another country for six to ten weeks without the influence of their parents

Went to some place in Cardiff, Otley and Canada in this age group with the Rugby team in the school i was in.

In Otley we ran amok in the hotel breaking a bed, shouting at all hours, messing in the gymn/pool. We werent much better in otley town. We'd all pile into Pizza Hut (or whatever) and talk loudly (there were 25 or so of us afterall) while the 4 people who came to have sommet to eat, ate. Staff werent impressed i'm sure.

Same kinda thing happened in Cardiff but slightly worse as we were older and all decided we'd watch pr0n at all hours at full volume. That sorta thing.

When we went to Canda things went bad the second we were in the air. Drinking etc on the plane, looking at pr0n (mags) mid flight which disturbed other passengers enough to get the airhostess and stewards (who was incidentally gay, had a good laugh at that :rolleyes: ) to complain to us and our coaches when we told em to **** off (probably cos we were all fairly drunk from the little we'd had at that altitude.

Once we got to Canda we werent impolite as such but we did clog up the place similarly to what the spaniards are doing now.

Now we werent all bad, we were polite enough most of the time and ive highlighted the realy bad points but i think i've made my message fairly clear. (was a fecking great holiday tho, best 2 weeks of my life i spent in canada)

The big difference between us and the spaniards here is... we were one group of 25 (or whatever it was, prob closer to 40) while there are dozens of groups of spaniards here so the chance of it happening is much more likely.

melachi · 29-07-2003 11:52PM

Originally posted by Lump
I work in a statoil across the road from where they are staying... its not nice when about 50 of the ignorant wánkers pile up to your till....... out of all the foreign students in kilkenny, I can say there are only two fit ones, french... and to be honest by the look of them I could get arrested if I went near them.

John

You're ignorant.

suppafly · 30-07-2003 11:33AM

so I guess it is really just a culture clash, rather than them being really rude and stuuf. i guess i could have elements of them being rude and stuff but i guess its mostly culture. Most of them seem to be gone for Cork. Well at least i haven't seen loads of them coming on the buses, in net cafes or hanging around outside McDonalds.

Gangsta · 31-07-2003 01:32AM

Originally posted by ferdi
many, no. two, yes.

Can u spare me one?

Yes they are very loud, but don't seem very abnoxtious. They're are sum fine ones like one I saw in the postoffice 2day.

No wait she was French.....but still very fine

suppafly · 31-07-2003 09:21AM

i guess u have to take the good with the bad, cuz for all thats been said, there was a fair few really fine looking ones!:D

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