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The funny thing is that I have actually heard complaints like some of these. Of course I am English and know other people who are too.

The beach being too sandy one is one I make myself, but that is about all beaches and I expect it.

The most common traveling complaints are about food.

Many years ago I had a visitor (business) who refused to eat at his 5 star hotel because he didn't trust the food. He ate every meal at McDonalds.

A friend on holiday subsisted entirely on British biscuits and mineral water after an early unfortunate episode of diarrhea.

We once spent a two week vacation in Tunisia, and enjoyed the great French/Tunisian cuisine at our hotel. The other Dutch couple at our table didn't trust any of it, and survived on omelettes.

Man I travel for the history of the place and the food. I'll give almost any and all local cuisine a try and I've yet to be disappointed.

D~

Too many foreigners.

I stay home and nap.

This is awesome.

It's always nice to see evidence that people in other countries are just as big a pack of imbeciles as they are here at home.
-Kle.

My favorite.

"Topless sunbathing on the beach should be banned. The holiday was ruined as my husband spent all day looking at other women."

I have been to a number of foreign countries and found them heavily stocked with foreign people eating foreign foods and behaving according to strange foreign ways of doing things.

It wasn't right.

(I suggest watching the very funny 1980s comedy film "Shirley Valentine" to see the glory that is the British tourist in the Greek isles).

I sometimes wonder about lists like this. They are funny, is anyone really stupid enough to complain that:

"It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England it only took the Americans three hours to get home."

The same with the surveys that claim 20 / 30 / 50% of British / US / where-ever adults don't know the Earth revolves around the sun once a year. Funny, but I'm not sure who's pulling whose leg.

[Many years ago I had a visitor (business) who refused to eat at his 5 star hotel because he didn't trust the food. He ate every meal at McDonalds.]

I love Asian food. I remember staying at a resort which had wonderful Indonesian food and was amused by how many guests were ordering toasted sandwiches around the pool instead of the authentic, delicious local fare.

After 6 days I still loved Asian food but was craving a meat pie, bangers and mash, or a toasted sammy.

"Funny, but I'm not sure who's pulling whose leg."

I agree with you Whatisit.

For one, we don't know the nature of the complaint. The one line in isolation is kind of odd. But if the English were flying over for a relatives 'destination' wedding, then one could very likely see where a statement makes sense. The American couple and American families had a great time, but we had a 9 hour flight home.

And I'm totally with you on the tail wagging the dog. I all the time hear about kids not knowing the sun rises in east regardless where you grow up. If you asked me that lame question when I was in high school I might have told you North for grins.

I sometimes wonder about lists like this. They are funny, is anyone really stupid enough to complain that:

"It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England it only took the Americans three hours to get home."

Yes, yes they are. Stupidity is humanity's super-power.
-Kle.

Stupidity is humanity's super-power

"Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!"
-George Carlin

We stayed in a holiday cottage in the English Lake District once. An area crammed with outdoor actvity centres, beautiful scenery and even a few museums.

The previous guest complained in the guest book that they should have provided a playstation to keep teenagers amused and you couldn't get Channel 5 on the TV.

I should think that being unable to get C5 would be an added bonus.