Name a place you've been where the people are loud, crude, boorish, uncouth, uncivilised, vulgar and ignorant

Question

It can be a city, town, region or a country itself. 10 points to the most vivid description and serious reply.

Answer 1

Hello,

The oil patch of western Canada. There are two languages there; English and profanity and every second or third word is the f word. That said they do have great mechanical, analytical and technical abilities.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

Answer 2

While it is not a city etc., I'd have to say it must be the British Houses of Parliament, specifically the Commons.

The behaviour and language of some of the MPs who were off camera was more akin to a lad's night out. Some appeared to be tipsy and almost every time a women MP got up to speak vulgar, sexist remarks could be heard - to say nothing of bad attempts at puerile humour.

Overall the ambiance was that of a playground in an all male school, rather than a place for conducting serious business. Admittedly the debate I watched was not of world shattering importance but it certainly was an eyeopener.

Answer 3

BEACONSFIELD in South Buckinghamshire. The majority of the people there have to be seen and heard to be believed! I worked on Sainsbury's checkout there and, believe me, that showed up their true colours. I had credit cards and money literally thrown at me, I was once told to "hurry up woman" by a loud mouthed, pseudo pompous, snob, and generally verbally abused. I could tell many tales of horror from that place but it would take too much space to do so. That was the first and only job in my life, from which I have walked out.
The trouble with Beaconsfield people is that they are the noveau riche, and think that money shows class. It doesn't. Good manners shows true upper class.
One of the reasons I moved to the Highlands of Scotland after that experience, was to get as far away as possible from Beaconsfield and very happy I am up here as well!
Hell will freeze over before I go back down there!

Answer 4

A horrible little town in Belgium called Diegem. A mate and I wandered about this place on a layover, and there was a festival of some type going on. The people either did stare at us or right through us when we tried to engage them. We were totally ignored at their pub - could not get a drink or meal. Finally we went back to the hotel. Next day, at the airport, a woman near threw something I had politely ordered at me.

Did give me a bad impression of Belgium.

Answer 5

north west donegal, sitting after having a lovely cheap s'hit meal consisting of fish fingers peas and roasted potatoes and deep fried chicken legs (sunday carvery donegal styleee) no gravy, salt optional, well after eating my "dinner" sipping a pint or two of the balckstuff i heard from over the other side of the room what could only be described as a roman orgy. belches galore, laughter, wind being broken glasses being knocked over. yep! the yanks were in town. i understood that they were on holiday too but so was i. so there ya go yanks in ireland as the most boorish. as for most uncivilised and crude hmmm as i'm irish guess?

Answer 6

I have traveled a lot in my life time and here is my run down.

The worst? Is Gary, Indiana. The whole city is a ghetto with a capital T. Trash and everything in ruins, it was like visiting a third world nation. Was listed as America's murder capital. I do not think more needs to be said. Thank goodness I was there only there for a week. I think that was seven days too long to be there.

Detroit, Michigan. If I needed a set for a WW2 re-enactment of bombed out places, this would be the place I'd film it. Crime is high, traffic is horrid and everyone is in a foul mood.

The people who give off the worst representation of their culture? Are Nigerians. Blatantly greedy, and rude and even have a scam named after them. The only one I met so far I liked was a catholic priest I met in nurse's aid training.

Las Vegas. The crime is high and people are mean. I already been here a month and my inner ***hole is beginning to come out and I am treating people in ways that I never thought I would do before.

Our young soldiers. Lord do not count me as an unpatriotic git
(I served in the Army for 3 years.) but when soldiers go to town, drink like hell and raise hell, it does not bode well for our image in the minds of the locals. Not to mention it where I learned how to cuss (more so then I did before.)

Truckers. Perverted and filthy mouthed and just plain filthy. I was one for 3 months and got the hell out for I valued my hygiene too much.

Christian summer camp. This is where I learned my first arsenal of dirty jokes from the fellow campers who were sent there in hopes by their parents the Christian consolers would help turn their kids around. It turned out the exact opposite. I went as a well behaved child and these bad influences made me come back as a foul mouthed little brat.

Utah. No rude people there. A state got to have people for a percentage of the population to be rude. It is a very lonely place. If you needed to hide a dead body, this would be the state to do it in, provided you could find a shovel to dig through the bed rock.

I am sure I could tell you more (of both pleasant and unpleasant people and places I met and been to.) but I am sure you have to be going. If you want to hear more about my adventures, just give me an email, I'd love to tell you.

Answer 7

I had to transfer some prescriptions in a WalMart pharmacy in a new town we just moved to. I got there and no one was in line ahead of me. It took the pharmacist over 15 minutes to try to find a Wal Mart in the town we just moved from. I had to take MY OWN cell phone to call information to get the number. I turned to apologize to the people waiting behind me and several of them yelled at ME. I found out later that a lot of people I know in this town WILL NOT go to Wal Mart during busy shopping hours because of this problem.

Answer 8

A little place in North Wales called Holywell (I'm English by the way), we went in to the town/village for the night and in the pub we were blatantly ignored as the bar staff continued talking to other staff & regular patrons in Welsh. Shame as it's a lovely place, but the locals were so ignorant.

Answer 9

lets see, each place I have ever lived in qualifies for the city, town, country of this kind of behavior- no one has any manners or consideration for others anymore and its a sad state of society today. I was raised to always think of others feelings before doing or saying anything that might hurt them- but not today and I seriously MOURN for the days of yesteryear so bad.

Answer 10

The place where this was brought home to me in the most vivid sense was in the lobby of the Hotel Intercontinental in Seoul, South Korea. There was this American boor who was vociferously complaining about the way the VAT was calculated, screaming at the top of his lungs that "In America, that's illegal". I wished I could have grabbed him by the throat and pounded into his head the fact that he wasn't in America at the time.

This was especially bothersome to me because this is a country from which Americans could learn so much about getting along. This is a city where you may park behind somebody, and leave your keys in your car so that they can move it to get out. There is no question as to whether your car will be harmed.

I've seen banners held aloft by balloons, tied by rope to a fence, and it simply doesn't occur to people to untie the ropes. There is a sense of what is right and wrong, and those lines are simply not crossed (as a rule). It is wonderful and refreshing to be in a city where people are able to trust. To have an American, such as the one I witnessed create havoc in such a way made me ashamed to be from the same country.

Answer 11

Paris.

As soon as they hear anyone speaking English everything is greeted with a 'Gaelic shrug' and the assumption you don't know what they are talking about.

Wait for the snide comments to start filtering around and start speaking French and they all suddenly go quiet and slink off.

I've been all over France and most of Europe and it seems nobody has a pleasant view of northern France including the far more accommodating southern French.