So they're on holiday and supposed to be enjoying themselves......

[Richard Mason]

........so why would they bother getting caught up in this sort of sh!t?

This bit in particular sounds farcical:

"The grumbles came to the captain's attention and he tried to defuse the situation by allowing passengers to reclaim sunbeds which had remained unused for 20 minutes.

However, that only led to more confrontation when some holidaymakers used stopwatches to monitor how long beds were unoccupied."

[SoggyFox]

cos they're human and no matter how far you remove them from their homes they are still at heart a bunch of mindless apes. It makes me laugh to think about both sides, those reserving the sun beds and those timing how long one was unused.

I just think "get a life"

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by SoggyFox

cos they're human and no matter how far you remove them from their homes they are still at heart a bunch of mindless apes. It makes me laugh to think about both sides, those reserving the sun beds and those timing how long one was unused.

I just think "get a life"

But why bother? I avoid confrontation wherever possible. Some holiday, going to bed every night with your blood pressure through the roof - I'd find it thoroughly unpleasant. I have to deal with small minded dickheads like this all the time - I always wondered what they do/where they go on holiday. Now I know.

And now the EOC wade in - priceless.

[SoggyFox]

Originally Posted by Richard Mason

And now the EOC wade in - priceless.

thing is most of the germans would of probably laughed, one of my closest friends is german and he loves taking the pi$$ with stuff like that, he lined up at Scapa ready top jump off the boat with a rolled up towel under his arm, shouting "i'm claiming this wreck, you lot can go find your own"

his other wonderful quote was to a south coast skipper, who made some glib remark about germans, when my friend looked straight in his eye and said "if it wasn't for us, there'd be no wrecks and you'd be out of business"

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by SoggyFox

thing is most of the germans would of probably laughed, one of my closest friends is german and he loves taking the pi$$ with stuff like that, he lined up at Scapa ready top jump off the boat with a rolled up towel under his arm, shouting "i'm claiming this wreck, you lot can go find your own"

I guess he could claim prior ownership.

Originally Posted by SoggyFox

his other wonderful quote was to a south coast skipper, who made some glib remark about germans, when my friend looked straight in his eye and said "if it wasn't for us, there'd be no wrecks and you'd be out of business"

Ouch.

[Paulus]

Nowt wrong with peeps scraping over loungers. Watching them often adds a bit of spice to a lazy day by the pool.

I'm more concerned with the silly memeber of staff who reported the captain for making a racist slur on Germany. She did, after all, have German roots. Perhaps at the time she blubbered she didn't know that the captains wife is German.

I thought the captain was the law at sea. He should have made her walk the plank. Feed her to the sharks I say.

Paul