Holiday aroma!

[Khaler]

I wouldn't say no to Greek islands with friends.

Nah, the Islands are scary. In Rodos the damn waiters speak finnish. If I would like to be served in finnish, I'd stay in Finland goddammit!

[Molotov]

Khaler and George are right, Greece is awesome. Although George, do you really want to encourage more American tourists?

[JuliaAJA]

1 Pot-Smoker

Now that is some employment I'd like to try!

I think he's stopped now, I'm not sure.

Heck no, I am not going to Greece. Why would I if I have New York, Malibu, and Las Vegas at my fingertips?

Maybe because there are interesting historical buildings and history that were there 3000 years before anyone even knew New York, Mailub or Las Vegas would exist?

We have local ancient artifacts, we have a museum of only local artifacts on the other side of a few national parks and you'd be amazed what else.

Besides ancient historic sights, we also have beautiful beaches, amazing sea (I'm not arrogant, it's known worldwide), great food and just exactly as New York it worth visiting for its unique splendor then so is Greece. Beautiful women, beer, night and day entertainment. Sure, I want to go to New York as well, but I wouldn't say no to Greek islands with friends.

Las Vegas has a beach at Lake Mead and several at Casino Pools. We have several fancy chefs, though not for my tastes. We have all the rest too. Although, I would rather be in Greece, Israel, Russia, Germany, Russia, Ireland, Scotland, or Finland. (Sorry Englanders, if I want to see your Queen, I'll go to Canada, if I want to see the rest of England, I might after I've gone somewhere else.)

[Opakidabar]

Khaler and George are right, Greece is awesome. Although George, do you really want to encourage more American tourists?

There is a story of Americans. Real story.
People from Riga went to Turkey for rest. There was a number of Hambur.., sorry, Americans there.
The conversation went on like this:
- Hi!
- Hi!
- Where are you from?
- Riga
- Oh Riga, cool!
- Do you know Riga?
- No
- It is in Latvia, capital of Latvia
- Oh, Latvia, nice!
- Do you know Latvia?
- No
- It is near Russia, Europe
- Oh, Europe!
(at this point our guys lost their temper)
- But where are you from?
- Houston
- sorry, Houst-what? I do not know this nation
- Houston is a city. City in Texas!
- Texas? Where is Texas?
- The United States of America! (said Americans in triumph)
- America.. America is not in Europe, is it?
- No! (and they told their usual stories of the great power)
- Oh, alright, it was nice to meet you. You have a pretty good English for a foreigner.

[Amazeroth]

Khaler and George are right, Greece is awesome. Although George, do you really want to encourage more American tourists?

Actually, the one time I was in Greece (although it was on Kreta, I don't know if that qualifies), the English tourists were far worse than the Americans. The Americans only suffer from their usual delusion of greatness and an ignorance for other cultures, but the English were permanently drunk and roamed the streets in masses, singing and shouting almost constantly.

[Khaler]

Khaler and George are right, Greece is awesome. Although George, do you really want to encourage more American tourists?

Actually, the one time I was in Greece (although it was on Kreta, I don't know if that qualifies), the English tourists were far worse than the Americans. The Americans only suffer from their usual delusion of greatness and an ignorance for other cultures, but the English were permanently drunk and roamed the streets in masses, singing and shouting almost constantly.

I have to agree on that one. The most uncivilized westerners I've ever seen on any tourist-location have always been working-class Britons (You can tell by the accent). They are also, surprise surprise, the worst sports fans I've ever met.

[Molotov]

Please don't judge the British by the lowest common denominator. What you see in places like Crete are our lumpen-proletariat, because we can buy flights to your countries for £20 and a hotel for a week for less than a hundred. These people go abroad for sun, cheap booze and football. Football in this country is the sport of the working classes, if Europeans played cricket (although bravo to Holland beating us at 20-20) you might see a better group of sport fans. You get pretty horrible and violent European football fans coming here, too. Roma's supporters are notorious, I think.

[Mr.Yankees]

Khaler and George are right, Greece is awesome. Although George, do you really want to encourage more American tourists?

There is a story of Americans. Real story.
People from Riga went to Turkey for rest. There was a number of Hambur.., sorry, Americans there.
The conversation went on like this:
- Hi!
- Hi!
- Where are you from?
- Riga
- Oh Riga, cool!
- Do you know Riga?
- No
- It is in Latvia, capital of Latvia
- Oh, Latvia, nice!
- Do you know Latvia?
- No
- It is near Russia, Europe
- Oh, Europe!
(at this point our guys lost their temper)
- But where are you from?
- Houston
- sorry, Houst-what? I do not know this nation
- Houston is a city. City in Texas!
- Texas? Where is Texas?
- The United States of America! (said Americans in triumph)
- America.. America is not in Europe, is it?
- No! (and they told their usual stories of the great power)
- Oh, alright, it was nice to meet you. You have a pretty good English for a foreigner.

Like Molotov said above: "Please don't judge [Americans] by the lowest common denominator."

No wonder you guys have such a good impression of Americans (sarcasm).

[JuliaAJA]

Khaler and George are right, Greece is awesome. Although George, do you really want to encourage more American tourists?

There is a story of Americans. Real story.
People from Riga went to Turkey for rest. There was a number of Hambur.., sorry, Americans there.
The conversation went on like this:
- Hi!
- Hi!
- Where are you from?
- Riga
- Oh Riga, cool!
- Do you know Riga?
- No
- It is in Latvia, capital of Latvia
- Oh, Latvia, nice!
- Do you know Latvia?
- No
- It is near Russia, Europe
- Oh, Europe!
(at this point our guys lost their temper)
- But where are you from?
- Houston
- sorry, Houst-what? I do not know this nation
- Houston is a city. City in Texas!
- Texas? Where is Texas?
- The United States of America! (said Americans in triumph)
- America.. America is not in Europe, is it?
- No! (and they told their usual stories of the great power)
- Oh, alright, it was nice to meet you. You have a pretty good English for a foreigner.

Like Molotov said above: "Please don't judge [Americans] by the lowest common denominator."

No wonder you guys have such a good impression of Americans (sarcasm).

I hope that Texan doesn't work with heavy machinery or explosives. I'm with Yankees and Molotov.

[GreekIdiot]

No wonder Yanks indeed.

And Amazeroth is right. British are the worst tourists ever. Those blond drunken asses roaming around half naked, singing like a couple of bump kins does not produce a very good image of northern europeans. And most strangely, tourists from Northern Europe always dress weirdly. Like they got too much fashion dose.

For Americans? Well, I know a bunch of great people who are Americans and live here in Greece and they are in fact one of the most intelligent people also. That actually pinpoints, to an anti-American man like myself, that judging a culture from samples is not a very smart thing to do.