[ARCHIVED THREAD] - UK - Tour Guide - UK Style (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 3/4/2011 6:37:34 AM EDT
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Quoted: How does one get a tour of the Tower? Admission includes a Yeoman Warder guided tour. |
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when I to England last July every tour guide was hilarious and fun to talk to. It's weird, Brits seldom look happy when you watch them but when you talk to them they smile and are Very nice. Yeah. I work at a large Hardware retailer. They don't come in often, but when they do, they seem much more cheerful and will joke with you more than the average jerk that lives here  . The funniest thing is that you can tell who's English before they even start talking most of the time.
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when I to England last July every tour guide was hilarious and fun to talk to. It's weird, Brits seldom look happy when you watch them but when you talk to them they smile and are Very nice. Yeah. I work at a large Hardware retailer. They don't come in often, but when they do, they seem much more cheerful and will joke with you more than the average jerk that lives here . The funniest thing is that you can tell who's English before they even start talking most of the time.I'm intreagued.......it's the teeth isn't it?. 
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: when I to England last July every tour guide was hilarious and fun to talk to. It's weird, Brits seldom look happy when you watch them but when you talk to them they smile and are Very nice. Yeah. I work at a large Hardware retailer. They don't come in often, but when they do, they seem much more cheerful and will joke with you more than the average jerk that lives here . The funniest thing is that you can tell who's English before they even start talking most of the time.I'm intreagued.......it's the teeth isn't it?. Either that or the tracksuit bottoms and football/soccer shirt, another giveaway is a rugby shirt. |
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From the NY Times (no longer available on their site): Even in a sea of tourists, it is easy to spot the Britons here on the northeast coast of Crete, and not just from the telltale pallor of their sun-deprived northern skin. They are the ones, the locals say, who are carousing, brawling and getting violently sick. They are the ones crowding into health clinics seeking morning-after pills and help for sexually transmitted diseases. They are the ones who seem to have one vacation plan: drinking themselves into oblivion. "They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit," Malia's mayor, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, said in an interview. "It is only the British people –– not the Germans or the French." |
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From the NY Times (no longer available on their site): Even in a sea of tourists, it is easy to spot the Britons here on the northeast coast of Crete, and not just from the telltale pallor of their sun-deprived northern skin.
They are the ones, the locals say, who are carousing, brawling and getting violently sick. They are the ones crowding into health clinics seeking morning-after pills and help for sexually transmitted diseases. They are the ones who seem to have one vacation plan: drinking themselves into oblivion.
"They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit," Malia's mayor, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, said in an interview. "It is only the British people –– not the Germans or the French."
It's the youth |
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From the NY Times (no longer available on their site): Even in a sea of tourists, it is easy to spot the Britons here on the northeast coast of Crete, and not just from the telltale pallor of their sun-deprived northern skin.
They are the ones, the locals say, who are carousing, brawling and getting violently sick. They are the ones crowding into health clinics seeking morning-after pills and help for sexually transmitted diseases. They are the ones who seem to have one vacation plan: drinking themselves into oblivion.
"They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit," Malia's mayor, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, said in an interview. "It is only the British people –– not the Germans or the French."
Sadly that is the case in some locations. Certain holiday destinations are geared to chav scum who don't know how to behave and lack any decorum. It's a sad indictment that when you remove the need to act with responsibility, then people will often not be responsible.
That said, more fool them for tollerating the idiots that go there, and they are quick enough to take the Euros 
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Quoted: Quoted: From the NY Times (no longer available on their site): Even in a sea of tourists, it is easy to spot the Britons here on the northeast coast of Crete, and not just from the telltale pallor of their sun-deprived northern skin. They are the ones, the locals say, who are carousing, brawling and getting violently sick. They are the ones crowding into health clinics seeking morning-after pills and help for sexually transmitted diseases. They are the ones who seem to have one vacation plan: drinking themselves into oblivion. "They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit," Malia's mayor, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, said in an interview. "It is only the British people –– not the Germans or the French." Sadly that is the case in some locations. Certain holiday destinations are geared to chav scum who don't know how to behave and lack any decorum. It's a sad indictment that when you remove the need to act with responsibility, then people will often not be responsible. That said, more fool them for tollerating the idiots that go there, and they are quick enough to take the Euros Isn't it like that in most UK town centers around pub closing time Last time I went for an evening of drinking with my brother and our wives in Winchester on a Friday night we got to see half a dozen people puking and/or pissing in the street outside the pub. Will get to enjoy it all again when I am back there with them in 4 weeks time
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From the NY Times (no longer available on their site): Even in a sea of tourists, it is easy to spot the Britons here on the northeast coast of Crete, and not just from the telltale pallor of their sun-deprived northern skin.
They are the ones, the locals say, who are carousing, brawling and getting violently sick. They are the ones crowding into health clinics seeking morning-after pills and help for sexually transmitted diseases. They are the ones who seem to have one vacation plan: drinking themselves into oblivion.
"They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit," Malia's mayor, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, said in an interview. "It is only the British people –– not the Germans or the French."
Sadly that is the case in some locations. Certain holiday destinations are geared to chav scum who don't know how to behave and lack any decorum. It's a sad indictment that when you remove the need to act with responsibility, then people will often not be responsible.
That said, more fool them for tollerating the idiots that go there, and they are quick enough to take the Euros Isn't it like that in most UK town centers around pub closing time Last time I went for an evening of drinking with my brother and our wives in Winchester on a Friday night we got to see half a dozen people puking and/or pissing in the street outside the pub. Will get to enjoy it all again when I am back there with them in 4 weeks time Not everywhere, but definitiely far more widespread than it should be. The Brits are Beer Monsters. 10 pints of 5.8% Alcohol Ale, followed by Red Bull and Vodkas is failry standard for quite a few of the people in their late teens to late 30s. Not good.
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They are the ones, the locals say, who are carousing, brawling and getting violently sick. They are the ones crowding into health clinics seeking morning-after pills and help for sexually transmitted diseases. They are the ones who seem to have one vacation plan: drinking themselves into oblivion. I don't know if we Americans can throw stones at the Brits for that kind of behavior ... kinda seen that a lot here in the States too. Then again, I was stopped by a group of Brits in Amsterdam in 2009, looking for directions to the nearest "brown" cafe ... 
A writer in the Daily Mail said it best: the Brits like a good pint and a good ruck. |
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Yeoman Warden At Tower Of London, Part 1 Of Four Yeoman Warden At Tower Of London, Part II Of Four Yeoman Warder At Tower Of London, Part III of Four Yeoman Warder At Tower Of London, Part IV of Four Embedding fu is week today. Brilliant! Loved it.
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Can we put George Galloway in the tower?  You can take him out of the tower and gut him like a fish if you like. He's another perfect example of Scottish socialism, and a big fan of all that completely stupid. Remember the Scots are the ones that released the Pan Am Bomber, sucked up to Saddam and think Stalin was a right wing pussy. George Galloway is a festering and fawning sychophant to tyrants and despots the world over. |
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From the NY Times (no longer available on their site): Even in a sea of tourists, it is easy to spot the Britons here on the northeast coast of Crete, and not just from the telltale pallor of their sun-deprived northern skin.
They are the ones, the locals say, who are carousing, brawling and getting violently sick. They are the ones crowding into health clinics seeking morning-after pills and help for sexually transmitted diseases. They are the ones who seem to have one vacation plan: drinking themselves into oblivion.
"They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit," Malia's mayor, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, said in an interview. "It is only the British people –– not the Germans or the French."
Sadly that is the case in some locations. Certain holiday destinations are geared to chav scum who don't know how to behave and lack any decorum. It's a sad indictment that when you remove the need to act with responsibility, then people will often not be responsible.
That said, more fool them for tollerating the idiots that go there, and they are quick enough to take the Euros Isn't it like that in most UK town centers around pub closing time Last time I went for an evening of drinking with my brother and our wives in Winchester on a Friday night we got to see half a dozen people puking and/or pissing in the street outside the pub. Will get to enjoy it all again when I am back there with them in 4 weeks time Not everywhere, but definitiely far more widespread than it should be. The Brits are Beer Monsters. 10 pints of 5.8% Alcohol Ale, followed by Red Bull and Vodkas is failry standard for quite a few of the people in their late teens to late 30s. Not good. 10 pints?? Holy shit, that's more than a gallon! BTW, I loves me some ales and porters. God bless the British for figuring those things out. I'll be kegging a homebrew vanilla porter this weekend that is OMG delicious. |
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Quoted: 10 pints?? Holy shit, that's more than a gallon! Some of the guys I work with are this bad. Though more often than not it's 7+ pints of Cider rather than Lager, being in this part of the country. I don't have that kind of heavyweight tolerance myself though. |
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Quoted: Quoted: 10 pints?? Holy shit, that's more than a gallon! Some of the guys I work with are this bad. Though more often than not it's 7+ pints of Cider rather than Lager, being in this part of the country. I don't have that kind of heavyweight tolerance myself though. The drinking has gone up since I left, when I was at University a Friday night was typically 6-8 pints (of snakebite and black) although the rugby club would easily knock back a dozen pints each after a game (there was always one or two that couldn't handle their drink though and would refill a glass with puke after downing it too quick )
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Quoted: Awww man, that's a recipe for trouble. The drinking has gone up since I left, when I was at University a Friday night was typically 6-8 pints (of snakebite and black) although the rugby club would easily knock back a dozen pints each after a game (there was always one or two that couldn't handle their drink though and would refill a glass with puke after downing it too quick ) |
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Reminded me a bit of a gent I saw at Warwick Castle. He protrayed a medieval longbowman. After his demonstration of the longbow they let down the ropes (that kept us from his line of fire) and he called us in close for a telling of the Battle of Agincourt. Before starting the story, he asked where people were from. One elderly man, probably 70-80 years old, said he was from Scotland. The archer drew his dagger, pointed it at the man, and with a traight face said, "The Scots fought with the French, so I'll not mourn your death, but I will ravish your woman." 
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Quoted: Not everywhere, but definitiely far more widespread than it should be. The Brits are Beer Monsters. 10 pints of 5.8% Alcohol Ale, followed by Red Bull and Vodkas is failry standard for quite a few of the people in their late teens to late 30s. Not good. 10 pints! holy cow! That is all kinds of unhealthy.... British ale is awesome, but damn... just damn. |
| The Tower of London is a must see if you are in London. The amount and varied of firearms and weapons was amazing. The sad part was everything need a good cleaning and a good wipe of a oily rag. Our tour guide was a retired Royal Marine. He had the biggest hands I have ever seen, and they were full of scars. He also could tell you of every mass murder there has ever been and where they were from. |
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From the NY Times (no longer available on their site): Even in a sea of tourists, it is easy to spot the Britons here on the northeast coast of Crete, and not just from the telltale pallor of their sun-deprived northern skin.
They are the ones, the locals say, who are carousing, brawling and getting violently sick. They are the ones crowding into health clinics seeking morning-after pills and help for sexually transmitted diseases. They are the ones who seem to have one vacation plan: drinking themselves into oblivion.
"They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit," Malia's mayor, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, said in an interview. "It is only the British people –– not the Germans or the French."
Sadly that is the case in some locations. Certain holiday destinations are geared to chav scum who don't know how to behave and lack any decorum. It's a sad indictment that when you remove the need to act with responsibility, then people will often not be responsible.
That said, more fool them for tollerating the idiots that go there, and they are quick enough to take the Euros Isn't it like that in most UK town centers around pub closing time Last time I went for an evening of drinking with my brother and our wives in Winchester on a Friday night we got to see half a dozen people puking and/or pissing in the street outside the pub. Will get to enjoy it all again when I am back there with them in 4 weeks time Not everywhere, but definitiely far more widespread than it should be. The Brits are Beer Monsters. 10 pints of 5.8% Alcohol Ale, followed by Red Bull and Vodkas is failry standard for quite a few of the people in their late teens to late 30s. Not good. 10 pints?? Holy shit, that's more than a gallon! BTW, I loves me some ales and porters. God bless the British for figuring those things out. I'll be kegging a homebrew vanilla porter this weekend that is OMG delicious. Sounds promising.
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: when I to England last July every tour guide was hilarious and fun to talk to. It's weird, Brits seldom look happy when you watch them but when you talk to them they smile and are Very nice. Yeah. I work at a large Hardware retailer. They don't come in often, but when they do, they seem much more cheerful and will joke with you more than the average jerk that lives here . The funniest thing is that you can tell who's English before they even start talking most of the time.I'm intreagued.......it's the teeth isn't it?. Where I work, an outdoors retailer, it's because the brits look like tourists. They look like us, but more interested in surroundings. The Germans, Australians, Norwegians, etc. are here to ski or participate in other activities and are dressed the part. Much like locals doing the same activities only wearing different brands. Oh, and the Germans and Austrians don't smile. That and the Brits are often heavier.
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BTW, I loves me some ales and porters. God bless the British for figuring those things out. I'll be kegging a homebrew vanilla porter this weekend that is OMG delicious. Sounds promising. Kegged it, but we're going to let it age for another week or so. We moved the double chocolate stout to a carboy for the secondary, and will be kegging it next weekend. Tomorrow, we're going to grab the kit and do a honey pecan porter. I'll probably get a kit to do a vanilla porter at home. My buddy goes nuts when he gets into something... he went and bought 11 more fucking kegs!! He'll have enough kegs for 80 gallons of whatever! I'll probably end up with three or four myself. Gonna need another fridge to put them in, and some beer to fill 'em with, eh? |
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BTW, I loves me some ales and porters. God bless the British for figuring those things out. I'll be kegging a homebrew vanilla porter this weekend that is OMG delicious. Sounds promising. Kegged it, but we're going to let it age for another week or so. We moved the double chocolate stout to a carboy for the secondary, and will be kegging it next weekend. Tomorrow, we're going to grab the kit and do a honey pecan porter. I'll probably get a kit to do a vanilla porter at home. My buddy goes nuts when he gets into something... he went and bought 11 more fucking kegs!! He'll have enough kegs for 80 gallons of whatever! I'll probably end up with three or four myself. Gonna need another fridge to put them in, and some beer to fill 'em with, eh? You need to host an ARFCOM Party
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10 pints?? Holy shit, that's more than a gallon! Some of the guys I work with are this bad.
Though more often than not it's 7+ pints of Cider rather than Lager, being in this part of the country.
I don't have that kind of heavyweight tolerance myself though. ...my tolerance has lapsed too Back in the day - when I worked in the shipyards - THE drinking rate was a pint every 10 minutes...(thats a steady 6 pints/hour - kept up for 3 hours or so...) One Xmas Eve we'd been let out of the shipyard early to head to the pub After an hour or so I was lagging behind so latched onto my cousin with his workmates instead - all off duty firemen... ...only problem was, they were keeping to a 7 pints an hour rate!!
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