Do we need to behave better on holiday?

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British stag and hen parties heading to Prague have made the city a hotspot for travellers getting into trouble.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office says a disproportionate amount of consular assistance is given to Britons visiting the Czech city.

More Britons lose their passports, get arrested or hospitalised in the country than some more popular destinations.

Top of the list of countries where Britons require consular assistance is Spain - also the most popular holiday destination.

Do the British behave worse than other nationalities when abroad? Should we be more thoughtful? Have you needed consular help in a foreign country? Send us your comments and experiences.

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Do we need to behave better on holiday?

Written by not made in China, London, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 12:09:11 UTC 2007. 2 recommendations.

"How's life in Knee-Jerk Street today?
Got any other massively stupid illogical leaps you wish to share, thickest-of-the-thick-gang?
Uber-Champagne Lefty"

Fanatstic!!

You start losing a fight so you have a Mike Tyson moment and stoop so low as to verbally try and bite your opponents ear off to try and look frightening!!

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Written by Wrongy Wrongwing on Thu Aug 02 12:03:12 UTC 2007. 3 recommendations.

Clearly the only way to stop this problem will be to get rid of the Human Rights act, stop all immigration and hang everybody.

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Written by [Harry-Flashman], Nanny NuLab - Your pain, their gain on Thu Aug 02 11:57:43 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Those people who ought to know better don't have the imagination to aspire to anything more worthy than the lowest common denominator
[Halfhybrid],

Exactly Chavs aren’t poor. I wish people would stop saying they are. Their clothes alone cost a fortune.
Chavs suffer from poverty of outlook. They aspire to nothing more than festering in their squalor until they die from an excess of drugs and junk food. They are Skinner’s pigeons in leisurewear.

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Written by not made in China, London, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 11:55:43 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

"You know RRW, I actually think you're more dangerous than Caltech. His pop-eyed lunacy is laughable... where as you should know better. You are obsessed, twisted and unable to see anything clearly.

Shaggy Dog"

And since when did you elevate to be such an experienced psychiatrist?

I would say your the one who is twisted and consumed with fear otherwise why launch such a baseless verbal assault on what is after all only an opinion?

Lefties like you are all the same!!

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Written by [desres], United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 11:53:04 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Having turned all UK town and city centres into rowdy, violence ridden cesspits at night,

Charlie One

Goodness me you must be well travelled to have such knowledge of every UK town and city centre. As i acknowledge that the town where i live has had some trouble due to people over indulging it is certainly not a violence ridden cesspit, which can also be said for probably the majority.

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Written by monty, maidstone on Thu Aug 02 11:52:16 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

I'll have you know that we have some of the finest quality scum in the world. We built an empire using these sorts of people. Wellington said his soldiers were the 'scum of the earth'. Hooligan is a victorian term for yobbo's that would get into mass drunken street fights in London. Its part of our heritage!!

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Written by pete tong on Thu Aug 02 11:49:14 UTC 2007. 6 recommendations.

"Stop the racist steroetyping of the Great British people. We are sick of it."
Righty Rightwing

AND STOP CALLING YOURSELF "WE!" YOU EGO-NUT!

You most definietely do not represent the Gweat Bwitish Pubwic. You irritating back-seat driver!

Shaggy Dog

He represents me, Give me Righty anyday to the lefty pinkoliberal British ideal. Multiculterism is for prats.

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Written by [Harry-Flashman], Nanny NuLab - Your pain, their gain on Thu Aug 02 11:48:51 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

You most definietely do not represent the Gweat Bwitish Pubwic. You irritating back-seat driver!

Shaggy Dog

And you do?

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Written by Claire Herbert, London, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 11:44:11 UTC 2007. 3 recommendations.

"However, I would agree that the current hysteria over Poles is getting out of hand.
Roger The Cat"

It certainly is not. The lot living next to us have no respect for their neighbours; they talk loudly 24 hours a day, blast out music at all hours and throw their rubbish into neighbouring gardens. While I am sure not all Poles are like this, my experience has not been a good one.

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Written by maroon machine, london, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 11:42:15 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Ah, another excuse for ‘Chav’ bashing. Well done Beeb. You’ve got the middle-classes feeling all smug about themselves again today.

After all it’s only the poor who misbehave on holiday, everyone knows that.

Keep up the stereotyping. It’s what you’re good at.

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Written by Aisha UK, Scotland, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 11:41:25 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Yeah well at least our Brits are only in their country for two weeks, foreigners stay in England for ever.

[Gaz_The_Ledge], London, United Kingdom

Us Brits have a right to go to any country just as other people have a right to come here. What about the thousands of Brits who emigrate to places such as Canada, Australia, the USA and dont look back twice.

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Written by James Price, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 11:39:28 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

"Can't say I've seen many English people misbehaving in any Scottish cities..."

'No? Try going out in Glasgow or Edinburgh at the weekend.'
[UberWithnail], Glasgow, United Kingdom
But these rowdies are Scottish rowdies. Their puke is a different colour.

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Written by Phil Thomas, Conwy, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 11:38:27 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Perhaps they should stop northerners from leaving the country, in my experience they are the ones who cause the most trouble

Sophie H, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom

Tha's reet, Sophie love. It's so bloomin' ot tha's need a drink. But it's all that strong, fizzy lager in them countries and na' decent pint a bitter in sight. And there's nowt to soak it up with - nowt like babyshed, chips and peys ont way 'ome...

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Written by leftwing lefty, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 11:31:38 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

I was there, watching the petrol bombs on Westgate. There was little or no "Right Wing Party" presence in Bradford at that time. That's not what started those riots. Where did you read this PC tripe?

[Its_an_Outrage], Northern England

Oh really.Is it perhaps that the BNP are called a socialist left wing party by some people who call themselves right wing? Whatver the BNP were certainly around and were the cause of the rioting. Everyone knows that.

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Written by Big Englander, London, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 11:18:00 UTC 2007. 3 recommendations.

"I'm more ashamed by the people I see making no attempt to speak the local language. I see way more of those than I do drunks"

Yes,you probably would now if you're holidaying in Britain

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Written by Woo Hoo, Europe on Thu Aug 02 13:35:59 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

"The Left who hate Britain and think everything foreign is superior are emotionally/intellectual arrested in that phase that most adolescence go through when they hate their parents (the people that provided them with security) and believe everyone elses parent's are better."

Libby The Leftoid, Islingtonia

The right mistake criticism for hatred, and that is the most peurile and immature character trait of all.

Grown ups learn to deal with criticism and use it to improve themselves.

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Written by Adrian Clark, London, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 13:35:34 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

"However how many foreigners come here and completely pervert our customs and laws. "
Joe Turner, London, United Kingdom

I don't know. Would you perhaps have some statistics to back up your laughable suggestion?

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Written by [Lancaster-Bomber] on Thu Aug 02 13:34:07 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

"What about the Poles in this country?
The drink like us, to oblivion, and then crash cars in country lanes and get loud and raucous.
We are not the only ones in Europe who do this you know!"

demand_proof

Let's hear it for cultural intergration!

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Written by Claire Herbert, London, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 13:33:54 UTC 2007. 4 recommendations.

"All the poles I've met have been educated charming, polite, decent people. You probably live next to a load of young, male-only, brickies who, as in any country, live like pigs. Prof Severus Snape, Canal St. Manchester"

I don't care what they do for a living or where they come from for that matter, I expect them to repect their neighbours.

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Written by Shaggy Dog on Thu Aug 02 13:33:22 UTC 2007. 2 recommendations.

I truly suspect I'm addicted to HYS.

I hate it, yet I can't leave. I try, but I am dragged back to continue this ridiculous tittle-tattle.

I can see I'm not alone. About 10 other people also spend all day on HYS, day after day. Why are we doing this? Is anyone else having trouble quitting? Hours and days flash by for nothing but this silly little game.

Honestly, is anyone else sensing they're hooked? Your behaviour suggests you are.

(mods, PLEASE leave)

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Written by [Mysturji], Airstrip One, Oceania on Thu Aug 02 13:33:07 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

"I've never been drunk in my life and am a member of the Pioneers which is a Catholic teetotal organisation. Think of what is liable to happen to a girl if she gets drunk on holiday or on a night out - she could get pregnant and tragically opt for an abortion perhaps getting Aids in the process. So this is why I never drink."
Angela Raphael

You REALLY need to lighten up and have some fun, girl.
Alcohol does not cause pregnancy or AIDS.
If you're still not convinced, have a spliff.

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Written by Andrew Harrington, Dublin, Ireland on Thu Aug 02 13:30:39 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

"Or Pretend you're Irish. You'll be forgiven because of the Craic. Bring a small horse with you if you want to pretend your from Dublin.

[gruffpants], London, United Kingdom"

Moron!

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Written by Bethan Jones, Tamworth on Thu Aug 02 13:29:34 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Think of what is liable to happen to a girl if she gets drunk on holiday or on a night out -

What? Have sex? Mother nature kinda dictates we do that to keep the population going. So you're saying that all girls that get drunk have unprotected sex, get pregnant, have abortions and become HIV positive? WOW thats a depressing viewpoint. Open your mind a little and understand drinking does not make you have unprotected sex, thats just a bad decision drunk or sober if you dont know someone.

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Written by [gruffpants], London, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 13:25:20 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

Top tips.

.Don't fly to a destination that a budget airline flies.
.Don't bother bringing a beach towel, a German will kindly leave one out for you.
.Don't bother to learn the language. Learn a few swear words in Dutch or German. They are allowed to be rude because they're richer than us and they own Europe anyway.
.Or Pretend you're Irish. You'll be forgiven because of the Craic. Bring a small horse with you if you want to pretend your from Dublin.

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Written by sheldon ebden, lincoln, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 13:24:36 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

I suggest an exchange programme with the United States. They send us all their moronic television. We send them all our morons. Problem solved.

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Written by Steve L, SE3 on Thu Aug 02 13:22:35 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

Think of what is liable to happen to a girl if she gets drunk on holiday or on a night out - she could get pregnant.

Angela Raphael

You have been completely misinformed my dear. You can only get pregnant by sitting on a cold radiator.

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Written by [Kennesaw], Dunwoody, United States on Thu Aug 02 13:22:08 UTC 2007. 3 recommendations.

If you drink, you will have sex, get pregnant and DIE.
Clearly.

Kitsch Object, Belfast, Ireland

That's an assumption. If you drink you MAY have sex, or think you have had sex. You MIGHT get pregnant if you are a woman, but that can happen sober. You can die any time doing anything.

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Written by [big_orange_gerbil], London, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 13:21:38 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

"The racist stereotyping of the British here is not on" - Righty Rightwing

So statistics are racist now? For someone calling themselves "rightwing", you remind me of the loony left.

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Written by Kitsch Object, Belfast, Ireland on Thu Aug 02 13:19:17 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

If you drink, you will have sex, get pregnant and DIE.
Clearly.

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Written by Kitsch Object, Belfast, Ireland on Thu Aug 02 13:13:11 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

'a girl if she gets drunk on holiday or on a night out - she could get pregnant and tragically opt for an abortion perhaps getting Aids in the process...'

Urgh. You don't 'get Aids', you contract HIV.

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Written by Owen Toon, Durham, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 13:10:41 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

...a girl if she gets drunk on holiday or on a night out - she could get pregnant and tragically opt for an abortion perhaps getting Aids in the process...

Or she might have a cracking night out.
After a few months when she is doing something really tedious she remembers the happy nights out and she smiles.

With all the wrongs that religion has cause over the centuries, I find your argument very hypocritical.

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Written by Tony Sweeting, Leicester, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 13:09:42 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

"What I'm going to do is ban all cheap flights thus getting rid of the problem of drunken yobs abroad whilst at the same time reducing climate change. Brilliant eh?"

Or an idea equally fitting for today's Britain.

This looks like a job for Captain Tax!

(Or people could grow up, but that's a boring solution)

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Written by Aaron C Reskew, Divided Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 13:07:21 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

[Most brits know how to order a beer - "Dos cervezas por favor"] - [st00ka]

Actually that's ordering two beers.

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Written by George Reddan, London, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 13:07:08 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

George Reddan, (and everyone else who is knockin the "working class) There wouldnt BE a Great Britain without the workin class....Who would take out your rubbish, Build your houses, Repair your burst water pipe even put out the fire in your house....
Richard B, S.Wales

Dear Richard, I'm not saying I dont want the working class, of coarse I do, they're very usefull. I just don't want them going abroad. It's not like they'd miss it, they forget everything that happens after 11.30 am anyway.

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Written by Uber-Champagne Lefty on Thu Aug 02 13:05:31 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

"Any cause or ideology bandwagion that is even mildly anti British you guys are there."
R. Rightwing

You're saying it is not acceptable to criticise British culture and we must look in a rose-tinted way.

Slaves should be happy we ended slavery not annoyed we started it.
Immigrants should intergrate into a community of racists.
The Queen, gawd bless 'er, is untouchable.
etc

But I criticise my own culture's failings more confidently than criticise others cultures I don't belong to.

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Written by leftwing lefty, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 13:05:30 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Righty Rightwing

You are a funny guy thanks for the entertainment. Yes all lefties hate England sooo much. You are still on about racism!. You protest too much methinks the facts are we all know every day you post racist biggoted bile on HYS and now you are complaining about racism! Hahaha.

Harry you are equally as funny and you say other people don't listen yet you only listen to people who agree with you. Anyone who disagrees is an anti English lefty! hahaha

My sides are splitting

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Written by Maria Verivaki, Hania, Crete, Greece on Thu Aug 02 13:02:47 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

if ya born a yob, ya gonna be a yob, no matter where ya livin'.

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Written by Libby The Leftoid, Islingtonia on Thu Aug 02 13:00:17 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

What makes me ashamed to be British are these weirdos who go aboard, pretending to be someone of a different nationality.

What if the locals find out you're lying?

Not a good example, huh?

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Written by Bebe Rebozo on Thu Aug 02 12:59:36 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Do you think Harry and Righty had an irony-ectomy? Or are their posts extressing seriously held opinions?

Either way, they are two of the funniest geezers here!

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Written by Righty Rightwing on Thu Aug 02 12:54:45 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Why are the British left soooooo defensive about their anti British racism?

Just look at the responses to my last post - why so sensitive guys?

Just admit it - any cause or ideology bandwagion that is even mildly anti British you guys are there en masse - with the exception of Alex Gache who has put forward a more sensible view.

Change the word "British" in this HYS to any other nationality & the same people here engaged in anti British racism would be running to the mods.

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Written by [Harry-Flashman], Nanny NuLab - Your pain, their gain on Thu Aug 02 12:53:36 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Pot-kettledom would certainly apply to some of your posts. That isn't debate - nor is your previous post.
Phosgene Gasse
It’s hard to debate someone who hasn’t listened to anyone else’s opinion since puberty.

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Written by Proper Shropshire, Oswestry, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 12:49:29 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

I blame the weather....

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Written by Rich H, Harrow, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 12:48:31 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

I bet you Righty Right Wing and Leftwing lefty are partners... having a domestic on HYS.

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Written by James O'Hare, Leeds, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 12:47:43 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Yes we should behave better.

We are out of control drunken louts with no respect for anybody.

I think basically we should all just crawl into a hole and stay there.

The whole world is better than us.

Or maybe we are just fed sensationalist news stories that everybody takes as gospel?

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Written by Phosgene Gasse on Thu Aug 02 12:47:39 UTC 2007. 3 recommendations.

"pot kettle black"
[1984ReturnsforReal], ENGLAND, United Kingdom

He's hardly a good ambassador for the UK either. Why learn a foreign language when you can just shout LOUDER and LOUDER?

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Written by leftwing lefty, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 12:46:58 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

The racist stereotyping of the British here is not on
Righty Rightwing

Yes but then you go on about the evils of the immigrants every day. You are the biggest hypocrite on HYS and you should be ashamed of yourself. The facts are there is more of a minority who behave badly overseas then our European friends. That is a fact. Our people should not put up with these people and hence will complain, This is not racist at all. We are allowed to criticise our behaviour even if you do not like it.

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Written by Richard B, S.Wales, United Kingdom on Thu Aug 02 12:45:40 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

All this national embarrasment could be resolved by banning the working class from holding passports (except in times of war, ofcourse!).

George Reddan, London, United Kingdom(and everyone else who is knockin the "working class)

There wouldnt BE a Great Britain without the workin class....

Oh how ignorant you an all your snobby friends look....

Who would take out your rubbish, Build your houses, Repair your burst water pipe even put out the fire in your house....

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Written by Claire Powell, Washington DC on Thu Aug 02 14:49:03 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Martin Armitage, you are clearly one of these yobs we are reading about. I have lived in the States for 16 years and have yet to see in the city centres the gangs of vomiting, drunken, foul-mouthed, ignorant gits I see when I come home to England. They, and you for condoning such beheviour, are a disgrace and an embarassment to their country.

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Written by aidan mccartan, belfast, Ireland on Thu Aug 02 09:42:00 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

The English behave this way at home, the English beleave they are still an empire so treat foreigners with rudeness and disdain. These people should not be allowed to leave the counrty as they are closer to animals than humans, shouting "we love the queen" as they smash windows, urinate in the street, and beat up other European tourisits, you are a disgrace.

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Written by Pierre Francois, London/Paris, France on Thu Aug 02 10:47:38 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Except when you provoke the Algerians once too often and they go on the rampage in your housing estates.

[Peter_Sym], Nottingham


Actually, it wasn't just algerians, they were french. They are part of the fabric of our country. We live with a large immigrant population (the largest in Europe), and the unity in our country is FAR greater and stronger than the unity in yours. We don't need politically correct language in France to cover our incompetency in living in peace. We are at peace!

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Written by Will de Beest, Spain on Thu Aug 02 10:58:23 UTC 2007. 3 recommendations.

I've always thought the Germans have behaved the worst throughout Europe.

[super_soup], Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Quite right, my grandfather went to Europe in the 1940s and the Germans' behaviour was dreadful.

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Written by Malcolm, WGC on Thu Aug 02 11:30:26 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Perhaps they should stop northerners from leaving the country, in my experience they are the ones who cause the most trouble

Sophie H, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom


What utter rubbish!

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Written by redders, Leicester on Fri Aug 03 09:36:33 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

Never mind brits abroad , what about here in England. We live in a nation where parents do not teach their kids any respect or manners if they misbehave they still get some new nike trainers init! , and grow up to be yobs and trouble makers! What i suggest is an gistapo type slap squad who get the nuiscance persons and there parents and kick the living daylights out of them and not stop until they learn some manners and respect. Nobody likes being punched repeatedly in the face do they ?.

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