Is Tenerife safe to go on holiday?

Ponster wrote: »

To to be fair to the chap, that wasn't text-speak, it's just the level of spelling that a lot of people come out of the education system with (myself included many years ago).

There was text speak in his post I replied where you're quoting me. He said "ppl" and 2 fcuks".

But yes I agree with your main point; and our education system is not the shining light that most people seem to think it is.
If it was we wouldn't have droves of people leaving college (never mind second level!), having CV's binned by potential employers because they're littered with spelling and punctuation errors.
Though that's not just bad English, that's compounded by laziness in not running it through a spell check even.

Sorry, going OT here.

jimpump wrote: »

Hey wicklow boy, not all of us went to a posh secondary school and trinity college......like such an intelligent bloke like yourself :rolleyes:

So many incorrect assumptions
First off I'm female. I'm not from Wicklow, as I've already stated. I went to a run of the mill secondary school, neither posh nor scumsville. I did go to college, but not Trinity. The intelligent part I'll allow

jimpump wrote: »

thanks for the info mate, ill have to show the misses what ya said just to prove to her that the crime was a once off....and i did look it up on google and it was a bulgarian schizo homeless fella
that cut the poor english womans head off

i hope he fcukin rots in jail for what he did!

and BTW, crumlin man here and them canaries are 100X more dangerous than dublin

And what, she thought it was a daily occurrence? A Tenerife pastime?

yes tenerife is really dangerous now, just like rural canada is because it too had a beheading not that long ago

amiable wrote: »

Care to elaborate?

Personally i've been there several times and think its a beautiful place.

Granted down around the Veronica strip is a bit of a dive IMO but some people love that and each to their own.

Would i be right to assume you just don't like package holiday resorts?

yeah tenerife is a beautiful island, the starco and veronicas area of playa de las americas isnt the nicest what with the chinese women trying to sell you toys, african men trying to sell you handbags and sunglasses and the british reps trying to pull you into their bar/club, it gets very annoying after the 40th person so i would recommend any tenerife newbie just to avoid that area altogether

there is loads of things to see and do in tenerife from watersports to visiting mount teide, masca, the banana plantations, Los Gigantes (which make irelands cliffs of moher look short) or simply watching the dolphins ride the bow wave of your boat and you sail into harbour

rossie1977 wrote: »

yes tenerife is really dangerous now, just like rural canada is because it too had a beheading not that long ago

God yeah I remember that. Horrible. Poor chap
Didn't read your link but I believe the guy who did it was also mentally ill.

A few Canadians on Ravelry-a forum I spend way too much time on..., were scared to send their kids to school on the bus in the days after that.

Irrational yes because it's fortunately such a rare thing to happen, but I could sympathise.

Never been to Tenerife as I don't like sun holidays but what happened there certainly wouldn't put me off going there if I did.
Something like that could just as easily happen here, or anywhere for that matter.

jimpump wrote: »

sure i suppose Larry M. did a lot worse....so yer right, it can happen anywhere

Have to come off-line now but I apologise if I came off a bit strong earlier, I'm not a grammar nazi honest, I just hate text speak on forums and find it annoying if I can't make out what someone is writing because of bad English (which is not always someones fault, I know that)

However as regard your other posts I don't believe it's ever good to generalise about a populace i.e. "Morrocans are all..." or 'Irish are all drunks', 'Germans are all humourless and efficient'. Although having gone out with a German once...

Peace.

Random beheading is a coming of age guanche tradition

FYI Guanches were the aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands

kelle wrote: »

Disclaimer: I refuse to even consider Portugal after the disappearance of Madeline.

Are you serious?

when i saw the thread title i thought that it was going to be about the volcano on one of the Canary Islands that if it erupts might cause a massive tsumami (and kill us all).

OP you will probably be fine.