Lads on tour
In my experience, those who complain too loudly about stag dos and "Brits abroad" tend to be sadsacks with no mates, jealous of other people's fun. Nobody likes to see a group of tatooed plebs vomming in the gutter of a pretty European capital, but a bit of good-natured hoonery with the lads should be part of any man's life.
Today my mate Mike's stag kicked off here at The Gunmakers. Ten of the boys met up for a few pints of Landlord and Star before jumping in cabs to Gatwick, where they'll be flying to Rome for the next leg of the tour. I'll be joining them tomorrow night in Prague (I've got a wedding reception on at the pub tonight). Dr Robbles, as usual, is the centre of attention, upstaging even the groom. He was up 'til seven in the morning ironing slogans onto oversized polo shirts from M&S. Bless him, the bleary-eyed little madman.
I'm going to be in Prague for six hours on my Jack Jones on Sunday, before the rest of the group fly in from Italy. I plan to crawl around some of my favourite pubs. I used to live in the Czech capital, but haven't been to the city for two years. I'm now on my twelth day without a drop of booze, so that first mug of pivo won't be touching the sides.
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My brother and a couple of our mates are regular visitors to Euopean cities. Without exception there are always a few Brits embarassing themselves due to being unable to know/stick to their limits. At best they look ridiculous, at worst they are rude, ignorant and aggressive towards the local populace.
It's not a case of being a killjoy or a Billy no-mates - you don't need to be in a group of 20 to enjoy yourself in a European city, and you don't have to drink yourself into a vomiting wreck either. These people should never be let out the country - in the same way football hooligans aren't.
i was in agreement with Jeff until the bit about polo shirts with slogans on. sorry, but they are a bit tacky, sort of enforced jolity... thankfully have never had to wear one on the stag do's i've been on...
regarding drunken brits not handling their drink, the Spanish have a good expression, but i can't remember it exactly, something like "if you can't piss it, don't drink it"
One person's good natured "hoonery" is another's unwelcome and inappropriate behaviour. Generally I'm not keen on mob handedness mixed with a lot of drink, even if I'm involved. Looking from the outside, it rarely looks good, even if well behaved.
Oddly, I can only find one definition of the word "hoonery" - a word I'd never heard of. Australian in derivation, it is described as loutish behaviour. Oh Well.
And this good article here: http://bit.ly/3cKkN3
Live feed from Praha: Having a great time, wishing you were here. Except for the bitter cunts who thing a good stag involves 2 mates sat quietly in the corner of a soulless 'Irish'-themed central London pub.
PS Will let you know when we've abused some of the local populace and fulfilled the role of typical 'Brits abroad'.
-Dr. Robbles MA(Oxon) MBBS MRCS
The only good stag I know comes served with potatoes and redcurrent sauce.
Anyone who chooses to have a stag do with two mates in an Irish bar in central London deserves to be married.
I used to be tour manager one of the stag party organising companies in Prague and most of the groups that came over were no problem whatsoever. We maybe had complaints about groups once a weekend, which when you consider most weekends we had more than 50 groups that's only 2% of them.
Of course though, it makes good copy for certain right wing newspapers to complain loudly about almost anything people do other than sit in the drawing room supping sherry.
Having said that, we also worked with rugby groups coming over on tour and despite their image they were universally well behaved.
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