Spanish students on public transport...

Foxhound38 · 06-07-2013 10:38AM #1

... are wonderfully courteous, quiet and mindful of their fellow passengers, aren't they?

dxhound2005 · 06-07-2013 10:39AM

Qué ?

camel jockey · 06-07-2013 10:42AM

Indeed. They always go out of their way to ensure they aren't blocking doors / platforms / footpaths when in large groups. It is one of the things I most admire about them. That, and the wonderful silence that emanates from them.

Sir Humphrey Appleby · 06-07-2013 10:43AM

Foxhound38 wrote: »

... are wonderfully courteous, quiet and mindful of their fellow passengers, aren't they?

No better or worse than our own in my opinion.

suicide_circus · 06-07-2013 10:44AM

Old and grey wrote: »

No better or worse than our own in my opinion.

you're wrong there

dodderangler · 06-07-2013 10:44AM

Get a car then!?

camel jockey · 06-07-2013 10:45AM

Old and grey wrote: »

No better or worse than our own in my opinion.

Afraid not.

MurdyWurdy · 06-07-2013 10:45AM

I also love how none of them ever smoke and blow it all over you and your baby in his pram. Charming.

The Backwards Man · 06-07-2013 10:56AM

I love how Irish people always behave in exemplary fashion when a large group of them visit another country.

Sir Humphrey Appleby · 06-07-2013 10:59AM

suicide_circus wrote: »

you're wrong there

Nope, I can assure you I'm not!:)

Sir Humphrey Appleby · 06-07-2013 11:00AM

MurdyWurdy wrote: »

I also love how none of them ever smoke and blow it all over you and your baby in his pram. Charming.

Unlike our own shower who smoke , drink, shoot up, and fight on public transport.

camel jockey · 06-07-2013 11:02AM

dodderangler wrote: »

Get a car then!?

Great solution.

Legs.Eleven · 06-07-2013 11:03AM

Haha!

holystungun9 · 06-07-2013 11:04AM

It's a culture thing. I am a generally laid-back kind of person but a day doesn't pass here (in Madrid) that I am not irritated by people blocking ways - doorways, entrances to anything, escalators, every fking thing. I'm sure that someday I will come home and open the fridge and some cnut will be in it not realising they could possibly be causing any inconvenience.
And people who walk with their head down, stuck in their phone feeling it is everybody else's responsibility to watch out for them and politely steer out of the way. Eh, no amigo, time for some of that The Verve Bitter Sweet Symphony elbow action!
And people, who at peak travel times get to the top of an escalator with a string of people behind them and stop at the top of the escalator to fish out their ticket or just fking look at their reflection somewhere.
This 38 degree heat is melting my normally chilled out out look on things.

On a positive note, forgetting the lack of spatial awareness and their ear-splitting loudness (at times), the Spanish are pretty sound.

Saab Ed · 06-07-2013 11:10AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I love how Irish people always behave in exemplary fashion when a large group of them visit another country.

Or here for that matter. One of my most embarrasing moments was in the Que for passport control at Dublin airport about 4 years ago. A group of about 70-80 Celtic fans where waiting to get through. The bigotry was disgusting in the sectarian songs they were singing. They were all hammered and the sense of intimidation was palpable. Don't know what a stranger to good aul Ireland would have thought. Never saw a worse display of ignorance by any person from any other country anywhere else.

McCrack · 06-07-2013 11:12AM

Foxhound38 wrote: »

... are wonderfully courteous, quiet and mindful of their fellow passengers, aren't they?

Are they? I'm not a bus wanker so I couldn't say.

SpaceTime · 06-07-2013 11:16AM

Just push past! That's how its done in Spain.

tinofapples · 06-07-2013 11:23AM

camel jockey wrote: »

Indeed. They always go out of their way to ensure they aren't blocking doors / platforms / footpaths when in large groups. It is one of the things I most admire about them. That, and the wonderful silence that emanates from them.

Couldn't have put it better myself.

IM0 · 06-07-2013 11:28AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKwC74

dan1895 · 06-07-2013 11:39AM

Saab Ed wrote: »

Or here for that matter. One of my most embarrasing moments was in the Que for passport control at Dublin airport about 4 years ago. A group of about 70-80 Celtic fans where waiting to get through. The bigotry was disgusting in the sectarian songs they were singing. They were all hammered and the sense of intimidation was palpable. Don't know what a stranger to good aul Ireland would have thought. Never saw a worse display of ignorance by any person from any other country anywhere else.

Bloody horrible individuals. Wish they'd stay in Glasgow after their trip.

Legs.Eleven · 06-07-2013 11:44AM

Saab Ed wrote: »

Or here for that matter. One of my most embarrasing moments was in the Que for passport control at Dublin airport about 4 years ago. A group of about 70-80 Celtic fans where waiting to get through. The bigotry was disgusting in the sectarian songs they were singing. They were all hammered and the sense of intimidation was palpable. Don't know what a stranger to good aul Ireland would have thought. Never saw a worse display of ignorance by any person from any other country anywhere else.

You've never seen football hooligans anywhere else in the world? Jesus, I certainly have.

Toby Take a Bow · 06-07-2013 11:46AM

I always thought some of the perceived loudness of the Spanish students was to do with them being a large group of kids, them speaking in a language alien to the majority of us as well as them knowing this (so they can speak loudly and freely presuming nobody will know what they're saying). To be honest, for me, they're only mildly more annoying than a large group of Irish teenagers on a bus.

Jonny7 · 06-07-2013 11:57AM

camel jockey wrote: »

Indeed. They always go out of their way to ensure they aren't blocking doors / platforms / footpaths when in large groups. It is one of the things I most admire about them. That, and the wonderful silence that emanates from them.

Certainly a change from groups of Irish teenagers smoking and drinking on the dart, abusing people, setting newspapers on fire, the little rascals

06-07-2013 11:59AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I love how Irish people always behave in exemplary fashion when a large group of them visit another country.

Ahh shut up

Wanderer2010 · 06-07-2013 12:02PM

They are definitely the loudest tourist group I have come across, not just on buses but they seem to think they have the right to block aisles in shops with their very loud chat, barge through people and slam doors, very rude and disrespectful behavior. I have stopped trying to be nice to Spanish tourists, if they are clearly standing in the way they are getting an elbow. If I could ask one thing of them, KEEP IT DOWN A BIT. :mad:

Aidric · 06-07-2013 12:04PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I love how Irish people always behave in exemplary fashion when a large group of them visit another country.

Yep. You'd swear this doesn't go on in every other European country that a group of teenagers visit.

The King of Moo · 06-07-2013 12:38PM

August - June in After Hours: "We have to do something about these feral scum on our beaches and hanging round outside places blah blah blah, it wouldn't happen in any other country blah blah blah..."

July: "Spanish teenagers on buses are the worst, they're so f*cking rude talking loudly, much worse than Irish teenagers blah blah blah..."

Spanish teenagers don't drink, get into fights, intimidate people (neither do most Irish teenagers for that matter).
What do they do? They travel by bus from their host families to their schools, talking to each other in the same way teenagers from all over the world do. They're more noticeable because all Spanish people generally speak more loudly than Irish people, and Spanish are the most numerous group of foreign students. They spend a hell of a lot of money in Ireland.

I've just finished a week of overseeing a school with about 150 Spanish students and we haven't had a single disciplinary issue with any of them, inside or outside the school.

So what exactly is the problem with them? What do they actually do that's so bad?

SpaceTime · 06-07-2013 12:51PM

I've lived in Spain and teenagers aren't angels there either but they're no worse than our lot.

Spanish is just a very loud language and people can have conversations right across other conversions sometimes. They're also very confident about public speaking.

You just have to think of them as being a bit more like Americans in terms of having really loud conversations.

They block the street but you can safely just push through the blockage where as I would be a bit nervous of doing that with irish or British teens who would probably react badly.

Seriously though, there far worse things to deal with than noisy teenagers! I regularly read similar comments about Irish teens in Cork hanging around Paul Street Plaza doing such terrible things as hugging and running around in a high spirited manner while taking loudly.

Some people are frightful bores!

FTA69 · 06-07-2013 12:53PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

August - June in After Hours: "We have to do something about these feral scum on our beaches and hanging round outside places blah blah blah, it wouldn't happen in any other country blah blah blah..."

July: "Spanish teenagers on buses are the worst, they're so f*cking rude talking loudly, much worse than Irish teenagers blah blah blah..."

Spanish teenagers don't drink, get into fights, intimidate people (neither do most Irish teenagers for that matter).
What do they do? They travel by bus from their host families to their schools, talking to each other in the same way teenagers from all over the world do. They're more noticeable because all Spanish people generally speak more loudly than Irish people, and Spanish are the most numerous group of foreign students. They spend a hell of a lot of money in Ireland.

I've just finished a week of overseeing a school with about 150 Spanish students and we haven't had a single disciplinary issue with any of them, inside or outside the school.

So what exactly is the problem with them? What do they actually do that's so bad?

All of the above is 100% true.

They're still a pain the hole though.

RobbingBandit · 06-07-2013 12:55PM

Safe to go out now I presume, they should be all having their afternoon naps now...

anncoates · 06-07-2013 12:56PM

They're just kids on holiday in a foreign country with their mates.

Nothing any of us didn't do. Well, the normal ones I mean.

Spanish students on public transport...

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