I actually fucking love the British trope of looking grumpy and holding up a piece of paper that they claim absolves them of any wrongdoing
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We know exactly where they got it from
I choose to believe the Brits are dumber, but honesty, it’s probably pretty evenly matched…
Lmao this is some John Cleese level racism
I bet they are still salty about British Armada.
Isn't that literally in Spain?
Yes
I really can’t stand it when people say “Mecca of” something. Back in school, my English teacher told students chewing gum belonged in the bin and then said, “the bin is the Mecca of chewing gum.” Come on, how can you compare a trash can to the holiest places in Islam?
Honestly, whatever people call “Mecca” these days, it’s almost never something worthy of the name. Usually, it’s just an insult or a joke. Like some place where distasteful Brits hang out isn’t a Mecca for anything, it’s more like hell for everyone else on earth.
Maybe they don't mean it as something people hold in reverence, but rather something people flock to. I guess this still doesnt apply to your English teacher...
"The entertainment in the hotel was all focused and catered for the Spanish - why can't the Spanish go somewhere else for their holidays?"
well, it's hard to get a reservation near the wistful suburbs of Blackburn due to the ongoing Racism Tournament (Elderly Division).
Bit idea: the Reconquista except it's against Br*tish pensioners.
Spanish here, unironically yes. In the Canary Island, Benidorm and Baleares there are entire neighbourhoods with traffic and business signs already in english (or german).
And the same spanish losers who whine about Reconquista and how the moroccans are invading us (because they "send" able bodied young men here, nvm how that's the most likely demographic to inmigrate to other countries) or how the nationalists are evil for defending their languages, always turn around and ignore the abuse and racism of these brits/germans who have been here decades and refuse to even learn the language (or integrate, lmao).
Burgerlander here. Spent some time in Calpe a few years ago and I remember driving by Benidorm and just thinking, "what the fuck is that monstrosity...". I then learned it's a totally fabricated city built just for these Brits and Germans and they're just sloppy drunk there all the time. I did not visit. It looked so out of place with skyscrapers on the coast.
Beniyork as one tour guide told me.
although, Intempo is kind of cool, but it could be anywhere and still be cool.
I love that there's a whole wiki page for this building but literally not even a word about what it's for, like, residential? Business, offices and shit? Who knows, here's some info about how tall it is though
in the height section they say it's residential
EDIT: whoa, tallest residential building in the EU? huh
I remember the whole fiasco around Brexit and these fucks were complaining they couldn't keep all of their privileges with none of the responsibility after voting to leave. I'd heard about the large vacation/retirement communities, but I didn't realize they had gone as far as changing the street signs.
I can't imagine being a European citizen and not wanting to learn multiple languages. In the US, if you're not born into a multilingual house/community, you don't get many opportunities to immerse yourself in anything other than English. Students trying to learn other languages have difficulty because they don't get access to them like in Europe.
These people are given a gift and instead of embracing it they just want their blood crisps and games of conkerdone mallet pudgeon or whatever the fuck.
LMAO at spanish losers complaining about the moroccans in spain. Spain's entire fucking agricultural production is so reliant on moroccans specifically that it impacted food prices in most of Europe when the moroccans were unable to work in spain during covid
Exactly, but spanish farmers (xd) keep complaining about moroccan products being sold cheaper than theirs.
Nvm how almost all those farmers employ migrants as basically slave labour.
I guess plantation owners are the same the world over huh
Spain has a couple of pensioner enclaves that are basically just retirement homes for the worst people in the richer part of Europe. Like, Danish pensioners have lived in the southern part of Spain for close to 45 years at this point, if not closer to 60, and they just flatly refuse to learn spanish or even english, so they just get drunk and sunburned and abuse the locals.
somehow the least racist terf-islander
I found the article, but be warned, it's stuffed with bloat in between paragraphs: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2065841/british-tourist-benidorm-holiday-ruined-spanish-people
Read the article here
A British pensioner was left in tears after her Benidorm holiday because there were "too many Spaniards" at her resort. The coastal city is well-known as a mecca for Brits abroad, but Freda Jackson's expectations of being surrounded by fellow tourists during her trip may have pushed the stereotype to its limit.
The pensioner from Blackburn in Lancashire, who is in her eighties, raged over the number of locals she saw during her summer break in 2018, insisting that Spaniards should have "gone somewhere else for their holidays". While protests against an influx of foreign tourists has defined discourse across European travel hotspots in recent years, Ms Jackson's complaints tackled an entirely different issue. "The hotel was full of Spanish holidaymakers and they really got on our nerves because they were just so rude," the grandmother-of-six said.
"The entertainment in the hotel was all focused [on] and catered for the Spanish," she added. "[And] one evening, a Spanish guy nearly knocked me flying and he just walked off without even apologising."
The Brit said she and a friend had paid for the trip using their pensions, but claimed they were given a hotel room on a slope despite requesting flat-ground access, and were allegedly forced to travel 1,500 miles from Manchester Airport to Alicante after they weren't told their flight dates had been changed.
"I have never complained about a holiday before - but this one was a disaster from start to finish," Ms Jackson said. "My friend and I paid for it from our pensions and it was a struggle trying to fund it over 12 months. The holiday was totally ruined. I cried after."
A spokesperson for Thomas Cook said the pensioner wasn't told about the change to her flights until six days before departure due to a "system error".
"We are very sorry for the inconvenience this caused and are investigating to make sure it doesn't happen again," they added. "We ... offered Ms Jackson and her travel companion a gesture of goodwill to try and put things right, which we hope she will accept."
Earlier this month, another disgruntled Brit slammed a tourist hotspot in Greece for serving "no English food" - describing it as "the world holiday I've ever been on".
Susan Edwards, 69, from Westerhope, in Newcastle, said the all-inclusive TUI getaway to Corfu offered guests "no hot bacon or sausage", but a buffet of salads, fish and rice, which she was "sick to death of looking at" by the end of her trip.
Earlier this month, another disgruntled Brit slammed a tourist hotspot in Greece for serving "no English food" - describing it as "the [worst] holiday I've ever been on".
Susan Edwards, 69, from Westerhope, in Newcastle, said the all-inclusive TUI getaway to Corfu offered guests "no hot bacon or sausage", but a buffet of salads, fish and rice, which she was "sick to death of looking at" by the end of her trip.
lmao seriously not beating the allegations of thinking salt is a spice 🤣
i mean, she's descended from people who went to india and kept eating the same shit food they had in the UK. who wore the same clothes and played the same cricket as back home.
i think one of them does this every few years
Cam on ingerland scor sam fockin goals
Ruined me hols to Ibeefa 
This reminds me of a friend who took their parent to Portugal and the parent kept asking for Shrimp Skampi at restaurants. To the point of trying to explain how to make it to the waiters. She was annoyed that they didn’t know how to make it. Also that their shrimp had shells. Like what’s the point of traveling?
For a large number of people, it is to get drunk somewhere different.
And I'm sure they also complain bitterly when their favorite swill beer and bottom shelf gin isn't available.
Yea it seems like Benidorm's economy is pretty much based on cheap package deals. The kids play in the pool all day whilst mum and dad get hammered nearby and nobody leaves the hotel until the flight home.
Benidorm? Never heard of that, probably made up
"Benidorm? Like the leader of fascist Italy?" — "No, you're thinking of Benito Mussolini."
"Isn't Benidorm the fish often used as a substitute for skipjack tuna?" — "That's a bonito."
"Benidorm was a character in Engaged to the Unidentified, right?" — "No, that's Benio you're thinking of."
"Wasn't Benidorm the guy from that show with the Yakety Sax?" — "No, you're thinking of Benny Hill."
"Then is Benidorm that viral video mishearing the lyrics of some Indian song?" — "You're thinking of Benny Lava, by Buffalax."
Is this not an old article? I swear I've seen this before
yep, just reheated slop from 2018
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-woman-81-claims-benidorm-13075153
I imagine a lot of British people have had that same complaint about Benidorm.