Experiences with saps on holidays

whisky_galore wrote: »

Ages since I was on a flight when the pilot got the clap.

Yeah, since 9/11 the slappers can't sit on the captains cockpit so easily...

mfceiling wrote: »

I went to the Italian Riveria a few years back and heard one person speaking English in the 2 weeks i was there. Also i found a little village called Apricale and to me it was the prettiest place i've ever been in my life...(no soccer tops to be seen anywhere!!)

I remember being in Italy in June 2006 and there were soccer tops everywhere! You just went at the wrong time.

Collie D wrote: »

How does wearing a sports top make you behave any differently?

The "theory" has been mentioned a couple of times and popped up plenty of times on Boards. Yet nobody is willing to explain it. If it's so clear perhaps you'd like to give it a go?

Fine - you don't like them but it's nothing to do with you what anyone else chooses to wear and sounds like you're looking down your nose. Ideal beachwear I would have thought.

Yeah i don't get this either, Maybe it's just me but give me a baggy jersey on a hot day over anything else. so comfortable.

Worst was flying home from JFK 1999. I was sat beside my little brother and an American man the other side of him. Any bit of talking we did he kept on tutting at my little bro. Was by far the narkiest person Ive ever encountered and as it was a long enough flight it made it very uncomfortable. He obviously hated kids and my bro was 10 and really well behaved.

dundalkfc10 wrote: »

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Get out of here ya clown! Does this go for all Sports Tops or just football jerseys?

Polos are acceptable. Nothing wrong with wearing a Dundalk FC polo by the pool in Portugal for example. Replica tops on over 12s equals sappery.

Went to Alcudia, Majorca 2 years ago. Was greated by Union Jacks draping the balconies, immediately felt ill at ease. Turns out the feeling was warranted as the place was full of scum.

It was all-inclusive and many, many people drank from shutters-up to shutters-down (10.30am-11pm). It was all families, so you had kids running amok almost all day. There were fights at the pool between drunken idiots daily before 5pm.

Even the kids were horrible. My son is a really out-going lad who makes friends easily, but the kids just gave him filthy looks and ignored him (thankfully we found lovely people during the evenings in a quieter area whose kids were just as nice).

We stayed a week, it felt like forever. Horrible, horrible place with a constant undercurrent of violence. Pity really as the facilities were amazing.

Pugsly wrote: »

I don't know why people go on certain types of holidays when they know what they are like. I know people who go to the same Spanish resort every year and every year complain about the crowds of yobs.

It's insane to keep going back to the same place whilst expecting a different outcome.

We persevered last year and ended up with an amazing package holiday. It's not my first choice, but with one really outgoing, high energy child, they're brilliant. He makes friends, we get to chill out and we all end up enjoying it.

Where we went last year was really only for families, and families who don't value drink above their kids, and that's us. As he gets older, we'll adjust our destination. Problems arise when people don't do that.

Was in Majorca once and there were a gang from Dublin somewhere. On our way home we got collected from hotel at 5am. This gang had obviously sat up all night boozing and were in a bad way getting the bus to the airport. They could not manage to get their bags out of the coach they were so drunk. Thing is they were all in their late 40's. Seriously needed to cop on.

keith16 wrote: »

Do you really not understand, the codes for two of the largest, most travelled between airports on the Islands of Britain and Ireland are?

Of course I know what they are, but unless your a pilot or something, just use the full name!