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Andrea

Joined: 02 May 2005
Posts: 2260
Location: Portugal

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 08 4:14 pm Post subject: English Bar

I got collared by an appalling English couple yesterday (my bus has UK plates so I was a sitting duck) who were trying to get me to come to their new 'English Bar'. They were absolutely awful, everything about the English abroad that makes me cringe. I said that I wouldn't drive 40 km to go to a bar when there's a perfectly good one just down the road & they (honestly) answered 'but surely that's so Portuguese?' with that sneery upper lip thing going on. Of course it's Portuguese you stupid twerp, this is Portugal.

Why go all the way to Portugal / Spain / France / wherever, then recreate an English bar? Reckon they have fights on Saturday nights & teenage girls puking up blue WKD?

kevin.vinke

Joined: 19 Dec 2006
Posts: 1304
Location: Niedersachsen, Germany

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 08 4:26 pm Post subject:
Absolutely horrible!

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 08 4:26 pm Post subject:
Extreme cringeworthiness .

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
Posts: 23385
Location: Planet, not on the....

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 08 4:27 pm Post subject:
Bognor with the sunshine (with apologies to Bognor )

LynneA

Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Posts: 4893
Location: London N21

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 08 4:38 pm Post subject:
Wot, have they been banned from the others for throwing up & starting fights? Now a Welsh bar - that would be a thing. Full of old men and their dogs, drinks half full, staring into space as they concentrate hard so they can crunch down on a pickled onion with their last good tooth

boisdevie1

Joined: 11 Aug 2006
Posts: 3897
Location: Lancaster

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 08 6:01 pm Post subject:
If you decide to live abroad and then decide to live in your own nice little 'English' ghetto then you deserve what you get. Conversely, if you make the effort to learn the language and integrate then your experience will be that much more complete. I prefer option 2. Because option 1 is a bit like sticking two fingers up to the locals. And that's not nice.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 08 6:07 pm Post subject:

LynneA wrote:

Wot, have they been banned from the others for throwing up & starting fights?

Now a Welsh bar - that would be a thing. Full of old men and their dogs, drinks half full, staring into space as they concentrate hard so they can crunch down on a pickled onion with their last good tooth

Just don't cross the border!

LynneA

Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Posts: 4893
Location: London N21

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 08 6:13 pm Post subject:
I'm thinking of the ones the family always used to end up in when visiting certain relatives in the "quieter" parts of the Valleys. (Mostly on my Nan's side).

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 08 7:15 pm Post subject:

LynneA wrote:

I'm thinking of the ones the family always used to end up in when visiting certain relatives in the "quieter" parts of the Valleys. (Mostly on my Nan's side).

That's down south, different country, even a different language.

woodsprite

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Posts: 2943
Location: North Herefordshire

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 08 7:44 pm Post subject:

Quote:

If you decide to live abroad and then decide to live in your own nice little 'English' ghetto then you deserve what you get.
Conversely, if you make the effort to learn the language and integrate then your experience will be that much more complete.

I prefer option 2. Because option 1 is a bit like sticking two fingers up to the locals. And that's not nice.

Absolutely agree and the same is true of England. There's a pub in the next town along that is almost exclusively eastern european, they rarely speak to the locals much less socialise with them.

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 08 8:51 pm Post subject:
Poor you! I'd be changing the car over to Portuguese plates pronto in your position! We had similar when we imported a small 4x4 from England ... we were accosted in the supermarkets and followed around! Like having UK plates suddenly declared some sort of "open season" on us Needless to say, that car is now locally-registered, and far less-obtrusive now.

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6612
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 08 10:29 pm Post subject:
Maybe someday I'll emigrate to your side of the pond and open up an American bar. No one can drink until they're 21, and then it'll only be sex-in-a-canoe beer that they have to chug. Plus the music will be terrible.

toggle

Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 11622
Location: truro

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 08 10:41 pm Post subject:

cpg03 wrote:

Maybe someday I'll emigrate to your side of the pond and open up an American bar. No one can drink until they're 21, and then it'll only be sex-in-a-canoe beer that they have to chug. Plus the music will be terrible.

already have a bunch of them in town. when most of my friends started hanging out in them post uni, i decided i wasn't missing out on much having to stay at home with boychild

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6612
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 08 10:44 pm Post subject:

toggle wrote:

cpg03 wrote:

already have a bunch of them in town. when most of my friends started hanging out in them post uni, i decided i wasn't missing out on much having to stay at home with boychild

seriously? My sympathies.

Makes me wonder what a uk "american" bar is like, as I don't have too much faith in the authenticity of american "irish"/"english" pubs....

toggle

Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 11622
Location: truro

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 08 10:55 pm Post subject:
we do a great line in fake irish bars in london as well.

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