UKtramp:
dieseldog999:
i find the following phrase works well enough if constantly repeated at whatever ■■■■ fails to comprehend you anywhere abroad…speak english…we won twice…get someone who speaks english…ENGLISH!!! sooner or later someone who speaks english will appear, though to be fair in my respect,anytime someone dont speak english to me,its always been easier getting through to them that im not english.im scottish and have the same attitude and regard towards england as them.hey presto,now they can speak a little more english than 2 mins ago…this is particulary helpfull when trying to get directions or extract your ■■■ from being the focal point of the plod of whatever country youve been pulled in when they are trying to do you for misdemeanours various.
I quite agree, as far as I am concerned if they can’t be bothered to learn English or speak Latin then I am not prepared to speak to them, I would always insist that they get an interpreter as I am not going to keep repeating myself. This works well for me and saves me the time and effort in learning a language. If everyone spoke English it would make life so much simpler.
Maybe if everybody learnes spanish that would make life easier ffs.
UKtramp:
My kids went to an english college in Javea, I lived in Moraira for 3 years, I may actually know your old man as all the ex pats drank in the beach club, shopping at pepe la sal. Good days whilst it all lasted.
Lovely place Moraira, small world, old man had a shop in the European shopping centre on the way into Moraira, remember a German bar next door.
Used to go to Moraira market when we where over.
Colin_scottish:
Maybe if everybody learnes spanish that would make life easier ffs.
Well spanish is very much like English in respect that it is a universal language spoken in many countries. However English is more wide spread so becomes the defacto standard. I have had to learn it and so should everyone else.
Colin_scottish:
UKtramp:
dieseldog999:
i find the following phrase works well enough if constantly repeated at whatever ■■■■ fails to comprehend you anywhere abroad…speak english…we won twice…get someone who speaks english…ENGLISH!!! sooner or later someone who speaks english will appear, though to be fair in my respect,anytime someone dont speak english to me,its always been easier getting through to them that im not english.im scottish and have the same attitude and regard towards england as them.hey presto,now they can speak a little more english than 2 mins ago…this is particulary helpfull when trying to get directions or extract your ■■■ from being the focal point of the plod of whatever country youve been pulled in when they are trying to do you for misdemeanours various.
I quite agree, as far as I am concerned if they can’t be bothered to learn English or speak Latin then I am not prepared to speak to them, I would always insist that they get an interpreter as I am not going to keep repeating myself. This works well for me and saves me the time and effort in learning a language. If everyone spoke English it would make life so much simpler.
Maybe if everybody learnes spanish that would make life easier ffs.
or drunkeneese…no matter where you get bladdered,theres always someone to talk to that understands you…
it always amazes me being scottish,that as soon as you go anywhere in england and speak to someone,then you are looked at with amazement as if you have 3 heads,then it dawns on them you are scottish,and they retreat sharpish as they assume you are a mobile distillery psychopath…but…you can go for a good curry anywhere from denmark to tunisia,wander in to the indians,and they know exactly what you want with no messing.
I worked in the middle east with a chap from Glasgow, now when I spoke everyone seemed to grasp what I was saying, then he would talk and even I found him difficult to understand. He spoke at 100 mile an hour with a very strong accent. Nice chap but my god could he drink. He worried a few of us once in the airport where everyone was concerned he had suffered a stroke, nope he was ■■■■■■■
UKtramp:
Colin_scottish:
Maybe if everybody learnes spanish that would make life easier ffs.
Well spanish is very much like English in respect that it is a universal language spoken in many countries. However English is more wide spread so becomes the defacto standard. I have had to learn it and so should everyone else.
A load of pish you think someone else should put the effort in to learn english.All because you cant be arsed to learn another language.I wonger if your the type of person that goes to spain and shouts at everyone because there not speaking english in there own country.
Dipper_Dave:
UKtramp:
Dipper_Dave:
I know the whole if you work and live in a foreign country you should learn the language mantra and I agree.
But British folk in general really let themselves down in learning other languages.
I’m happy to embrace a foreign tongue and have a little bit of Spanish in me. No where near fluent but enough to get by in tourist related shenanigans.
What’s amazing is how quickly one learns when in the country, a recent week in Calpe (posh hotel, fork me it was expensive but worth it). Learning by immersion is a great way to learn another language combined with the usual methods.
Yanking me own chain a bit but apparently I’m quite a cunning linguist according to a Romanian lady I encountered once, course she may just have been blowing smoke up me bum, but that was extra.
I know Calpe very well Dave, I used to live in Moraira which is the next town along. A lot of lost souls in Calpe, German, Dutch & English are there. I certainly sampled the foreign delights that was readily on offer.
Blimey I know Moraira quite well also, and Javea, Denia etc.
Me old man lived there for 20 years, I used to visit regular.
Got a long weekend coming up this weekend so I’m off to my mates place in Javea, I usually get across six or seven times a year. There used to be great cafe for a full English near the chemists on a bend in the road in Moraira. It was closed last time I went. Drinks on the Arenal or even laughing at the wannabe gangsters in Bilbo’s. You’ll recognise the "mungo " (sp) view from my mates villa.
UKtramp:
I worked in the middle east with a chap from Glasgow, now when I spoke everyone seemed to grasp what I was saying, then he would talk and even I found him difficult to understand. He spoke at 100 mile an hour with a very strong accent. Nice chap but my god could he drink. He worried a few of us once in the airport where everyone was concerned he had suffered a stroke, nope he was ■■■■■■■
there was a guy i knew in the 80s long before the flipflop tsunami arrived.he got ■■■■■■ on the london glasgow coach,arrested somewhere at the bus station as they wouldnt take him any further.1 breach of the peace and police assault later he was in the cells and they couldnt understand him.they decided he was russian and fetched an interpreter who couldnt make any sense out of him either…once he sobered up in the morning and had his piece and egg and cuppa they worked out he was from greenock. 
the maoster:
Dipper_Dave:
UKtramp:
Dipper_Dave:
I know the whole if you work and live in a foreign country you should learn the language mantra and I agree.
But British folk in general really let themselves down in learning other languages.
I’m happy to embrace a foreign tongue and have a little bit of Spanish in me. No where near fluent but enough to get by in tourist related shenanigans.
What’s amazing is how quickly one learns when in the country, a recent week in Calpe (posh hotel, fork me it was expensive but worth it). Learning by immersion is a great way to learn another language combined with the usual methods.
Yanking me own chain a bit but apparently I’m quite a cunning linguist according to a Romanian lady I encountered once, course she may just have been blowing smoke up me bum, but that was extra.
I know Calpe very well Dave, I used to live in Moraira which is the next town along. A lot of lost souls in Calpe, German, Dutch & English are there. I certainly sampled the foreign delights that was readily on offer.
Blimey I know Moraira quite well also, and Javea, Denia etc.
Me old man lived there for 20 years, I used to visit regular.
Got a long weekend coming up this weekend so I’m off to my mates place in Javea, I usually get across six or seven times a year. There used to be great cafe for a full English near the chemists on a bend in the road in Moraira. It was closed last time I went. Drinks on the Arenal or even laughing at the wannabe gangsters in Bilbo’s. You’ll recognise the "mungo " (sp) view from my mates villa.
I would be back there tomorrow if I could, however the market isn’t what it was and cost of living is much higher now. My wife felt isolated because of the family being back in the UK, I loved it and with all the ex pat community it is like home from home. You are very lucky visiting so many times per year. One question is this, by any chance is your friend over there a lorry driver over here?
UKtramp:
the maoster:
We have units parked up every day whilst we have subbies pulling our trailers. Very few of our drivers are as pretty as me.
There, that about covers driver shortages and fugly drivers.
Got to be honest here, I do put the glamour back into our place. Just good genes, call it lucky but I do also feel for the less fortunate. So not knocking those less fortunate in the looks dept. (Disclaimer No ugly insane looking drivers were hurt in this post)
You tryin to invade my patch ? 
dieseldog999:
there was a guy i knew in the 80s long before the flipflop tsunami arrived.he got ■■■■■■ on the london glasgow coach,arrested somewhere at the bus station as they wouldnt take him any further.1 breach of the peace and police assault later he was in the cells and they couldnt understand him.they decided he was russian and fetched an interpreter who couldnt make any sense out of him either…once he sobered up in the morning and had his piece and egg and cuppa they worked out he was from greenock.
I think that is the Scottish in general, he was one of the nicest guys you could ever wish to meet, he knows ammonia refrigeration inside out. He goes in a pub and simply wants to fight everyone. He found every illegal drinking party with the Saudi people and would often simply disappear for days on end going on benders. I just got used to him and his ways, He is still to this day globetrotting and getting locked up everywhere he goes. Stranger than fiction but yet true.
Colin_scottish:
UKtramp:
Colin_scottish:
Maybe if everybody learnes spanish that would make life easier ffs.
Well spanish is very much like English in respect that it is a universal language spoken in many countries. However English is more wide spread so becomes the defacto standard. I have had to learn it and so should everyone else.
A load of pish you think someone else should put the effort in to learn english.All because you cant be arsed to learn another language.I wonger if your the type of person that goes to spain and shouts at everyone because there not speaking english in there own country.
Your of course right, but I did learn Spanish before we moved out there, here’s the thing about that, I went to night school with my wife and two sons for 6 months on an evening to learn it, we never needed it very few speak Spanish without speaking English too, the ones who didn’t learn English and only spoke Spanish wouldn’t want to know you anyway. I learned English so I am dam sure everyone else should. I don’t mock people for not speaking English, the way I look at it is that they are losing out, not me as they won’t be speaking to me. I don’t think that is an unreasonable assumption. Learn English or dip out, simple concept really.
UKtramp:
One question is this, by any chance is your friend over there a lorry driver over here?
Nah, is he hell. He firmly believes in working smart, not hard, so he owns a company that refurbishes train carriages (shotblasting/painting the interiors etc) , he also in the wake of Grenfell formed a fire protection Co which is having Govt money thrown at it hand over fist, in Spain he has a car lot in Denier and one in Benidorm and also a place in Valencia that specialises in high end motor boats. He’s an ideas man but believes in letting others do the actual work and hasn’t himself done any work for the last 15 years or so.
When I used to do endurance racing around Europe he was the ideal team mate 'cos not only was he fast as foook he also provided most of the funds too.
the maoster:
UKtramp:
One question is this, by any chance is your friend over there a lorry driver over here?
Nah, is he hell. He firmly believes in working smart, not hard, so he owns a company that refurbishes train carriages (shotblasting/painting the interiors etc) , he also in the wake of Grenfell formed a fire protection Co which is having Govt money thrown at it hand over fist, in Spain he has a car lot in Denier and one in Benidorm and also a place in Valencia that specialises in high end motor boats. He’s an ideas man but believes in letting others do the actual work and hasn’t himself done any work for the last 15 years or so.
When I used to do endurance racing around Europe he was the ideal team mate 'cos not only was he fast as foook he also provided most of the funds too.
A very smart man. One English chap in Moraira I know was a boat mechanic, he has a pickup truck and a box of tools, everyone who owns a boat uses him. Went to his villa as he wanted his air conditioning sorting out, well ■■■■ me his villa was better than mine. Then he told me he was a HGV driver and travels to the UK to work whenever he feels like it. I sure envied that man.
He’s probably used the boat mechanic tbh, as you well know the ex pat community works on word of mouth and my mate does have a penchant for ridiculously powerful sea going toys, apart from his jet skis his latest thing is a jet boat that has 3 x 750cc two stroke triple engines in it. Spends most of its time getting rescued, but sweet Jesus, when that thing lights up you giggle like a maniac for the four or five seconds that you manage to stay in it! 
the maoster:
He’s probably used the boat mechanic tbh, as you well know the ex pat community works on word of mouth and my mate does have a penchant for ridiculously powerful sea going toys, apart from his jet skis his latest thing is a jet boat that has 3 x 750cc two stroke triple engines in it. Spends most of its time getting rescued, but sweet Jesus, when that thing lights up you giggle like a maniac for the four or five seconds that you manage to stay in it!
The expat community is very vibrant in Moraira and the surrounding area. I used to get work from all over the place. Its a great life over there for sure. I will more than likely have bumped into your mate at some stage as everyone knows everyone. I met Linda Bellingham and her husband who lived over there. Henry cooper had a villa a few doors away from us. I wished I was back there but funds would not sustain it now unless I returned to refrigeration, then away too long a periods to enjoy it. As I say your mate is a very clever man to sustain it.
Oh he’s a smart one alright. He also has a lot of dealings with the Dutch Hells Angels too, but I’ll leave that there.
the maoster:
Oh he’s a smart one alright. He also has a lot of dealings with the Dutch Hells Angels too, but I’ll leave that there.
Aah well perhaps that explains a lot