Summer Holidays
'We're all going on a summer holiday, and if you want to go yo Sven' rapped hip hop heavyweight MC Miker G - and it's as true today as it was way back in 1986. Holidays are a time for us to relax, unwind...and disgrace ourselves and our nations. Tell us about your best and worst holiday experiences. Again.
( , Fri 24 Jul 2015, 10:26)
'We're all going on a summer holiday, and if you want to go yo Sven' rapped hip hop heavyweight MC Miker G - and it's as true today as it was way back in 1986. Holidays are a time for us to relax, unwind...and disgrace ourselves and our nations. Tell us about your best and worst holiday experiences. Again.
( , Fri 24 Jul 2015, 10:26)
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Nazi way to do it...
We'd been away for a week to the Scottish highlands and, on the way back, found ourselves in Tebay services in Cumbria, on the southbound side, at about 2am. I used to have a bit of a soft spot for Tebay, thanks to its policy of allegedly only using local produce and providing half-decent cooked meals, but it's almost as bad as everywhere else now, only more expensive.
It's dead - there's only us and the two girls who work there, when I'm suddenly aware of the sound of conversation. I look up to see two men dressed in full Nazi regalia (black uniforms - SS, I presumed) stood at the counter.
One of the girls asked them if they wanted tea and they totally ignored her. She asked them again, whereupon one said 'Not you - get the Aryan one to do it", and waved his hand imperiously towards her blonde colleague. They then strutted around the food area with their hands behind their backs until their order arrived, whereupon they picked up their disposable cups and disappeared into the cold, dark Cumbrian night. We just looked at each other and shook our heads.
Now call me naive, but I automatically assumed they were extras from a TV something that was being made locally and, as we left, I asked one of the girls where they were filming.
'Oh, no - they come in here once a month", she said. 'They always dress like that..."
( , Mon 3 Aug 2015, 11:57, 2 replies)
We'd been away for a week to the Scottish highlands and, on the way back, found ourselves in Tebay services in Cumbria, on the southbound side, at about 2am. I used to have a bit of a soft spot for Tebay, thanks to its policy of allegedly only using local produce and providing half-decent cooked meals, but it's almost as bad as everywhere else now, only more expensive.
It's dead - there's only us and the two girls who work there, when I'm suddenly aware of the sound of conversation. I look up to see two men dressed in full Nazi regalia (black uniforms - SS, I presumed) stood at the counter.
One of the girls asked them if they wanted tea and they totally ignored her. She asked them again, whereupon one said 'Not you - get the Aryan one to do it", and waved his hand imperiously towards her blonde colleague. They then strutted around the food area with their hands behind their backs until their order arrived, whereupon they picked up their disposable cups and disappeared into the cold, dark Cumbrian night. We just looked at each other and shook our heads.
Now call me naive, but I automatically assumed they were extras from a TV something that was being made locally and, as we left, I asked one of the girls where they were filming.
'Oh, no - they come in here once a month", she said. 'They always dress like that..."
( , Mon 3 Aug 2015, 11:57, 2 replies)
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