Ellie Hawkins From Derby flash her boobs and got three days in prison and deported.(expect a story in the Sun and page 3 pic)
Just like when a Romania person forgets to pay for a item in Marks and Spencer in Oxford street.(other nationalities are available)
when Brits travel the world, try to find out about the local cultures and laws; it different to ours.
when i was 6 in Lagos i knocked a Fanta bottle over and it smashed on the head of a Nigerian in a football stadium and my dad who proves you can take take the boy out of Bermondsey but not the Bermondsey out the Boy, offered £5, take it or leave it as a peace offering as a near riot broke out, ( a lot of money in the 60's to a local Igbo ) When i asked my dad recently he said he was prepared to go up to a tenner before conceding defeat and letting me become a tribesman(we all have a price ?)
OK CL Reprobates, when did you break the law or fall fail to local customs in far off parts ?
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I held my wifes hand in the Hindu temple and got told off.
I'll let you have that one Baldybonce.
Luckily I was stopped from the "You'd all be speaking German now" rant by some noble people on this forum.
My wife wanted to go into a chapel to light a candle for her recently deceased dad, but she was wearing one of those skimpt tops with no shoulders, and the Italians don't like to see bare shoulders in a church. So I did one for the team and lent her my Charlton shirt so she could get in. Little did I know that while the Italians may not like bare shoulders in church, beer gutted English guys with no shirt at all sends them out of their minds, and when my wife got out, I'd been escorted away.
After all, we could be making complete knobs of ourselves elsewhere.
I of course in hindsight regret my actions because as you all know my Spanish grammar was appalling that night, I believe "...son Iglesias" is the correct use of the verb.
Sounds like some of the guys urinated in a holy spot on top of the mountain.(on this occasion the guys weren't Brits)
If foreign tourist were caught doing the same in Whitehall over the cenotaph
we would be outraged.
This story does show how we think it's 2015 but in parts of the world, Beliefs are from ages past, we forget that at our peril.
The shocking punishment of 1000 lashes and ten years in jail handed out by Saudi Arabia(who Britain love's to brown nose) to the local blogger who just wanted freedom of speech, makes you realise that when Europeans go traveling you could be going by a time tunnel and not just the channel tunnel.
i think more generally there is a lack of desire to integrate and find out more about differing cultures from us British. Many british tourists are actually annoyed when people don't speak English and make no attempt to communicate in the country they are in. Most countries love people having a go (except France for some reason). I was in Italy recently and Italians loved that I could speak Italian pretty well - they don't expect that from the English and a few told me so - so like to think I did my bit.
*except in Wales.