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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Bloody Russians - the Brits aren't even the world's worst tourists any more - we're getting knocked off the top of every league table!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I've never noticed them being any better / worse than anyone else. I mean, how can they be worse than the Dutch or the Swedes (or me)? I've heard they can be a bit demanding of hotel staff and a bit flash with their cash but they're not the ones howling in the streets at 4am. Resorts like Kitz have been asking for it though... a number of years back they were all courting the Russians when their German market started to wobble. Now they've got them and Germany is out of recession, they don't want them.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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The same thing has happened to a little known ski town in France, only the Scandi's were the target.
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The problem is they are not ordinary, decent Russians but crooks and apparatchiks who have come into money without doing an honest day's work.
I have seen them in Egypt and they are loud and pushy and hit the booze hard. Their women dress like tarts. I am told Russians are heavily involved in supplying prostitutes to places like Egypt.
Abramovich and co. do not get questioned about where their money came from by the UK media.
He is tolerated because he puts cash into the UK economy. He has not made the mistake of applying for citizenship like a well-known Egyptian shopkeeper/crook/football club owner.
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Latchigo, you forgot conspiracy theorist.
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Russians are the new Brits.
Loud, annoying, rude, aggressive and swarming everywhere.
But that is not reason enough to ban them.
Their money (usually Euros or Dollars) is equal to everyone else's.
They have equal right to be there.
The actions of Kitz, if true, are outrageous.
Someone should remind them of another famous Austrian with strong views from the 1930s / 1940s...
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Austria is a great country.
Europe's great frontier. They kept out the Ottoman Empire and the Mongols before them.
They are perfectly right to exclude any fekker they do not care for. God Bless Them !
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I did notice a massive influx of russians into Meribel this year! They appear to be able tp make the most expensive ski suits appear a bit chavy!!
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Intrestingly for a number of years on the trot Wengen suffered 1 week of mysterious break ins each year, purely coincidently this coincided each year with the arrival and departure of a large group of people who came from either Russia or one of the countries formerly in the Soviet Union, normally Wengen is generally crime free save for the rare petty theft
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Whitegold wrote: |
Russians are the new Brits.
Loud, annoying, rude, aggressive and swarming everywhere.
But that is not reason enough to ban them.
Their money (usually Euros or Dollars) is equal to everyone else's.
They have equal right to be there.
The actions of Kitz, if true, are outrageous.
Someone should remind them of another famous Austrian with strong views from the 1930s / 1940s... |
Any establishment in the UK has the right to refuse entry to people who are annoying rude and agressive. Austria is just exercising it's right for the benefit of it's other customers as any other resonable business would do.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Whitegold wrote: |
Russians are the new Brits.
Loud, annoying, rude, aggressive and swarming everywhere.
But that is not reason enough to ban them.
Their money (usually Euros or Dollars) is equal to everyone else's.
They have equal right to be there.
The actions of Kitz, if true, are outrageous.
Someone should remind them of another famous Austrian with strong views from the 1930s / 1940s... |
Any establishment in the UK has the right to refuse entry to people who are annoying rude and agressive. Austria is just exercising it's right for the benefit of it's other customers as any other resonable business would do. |
Err, deliberately barring almost an entire race or nation (i.e. Russia) from your establishment because you perceive them to be a bit annoying or downmarket is, let's say, on shaky ground.
Especially when one recalls a famous Austrian who, not so long ago, did some rather unpleasant things to a few people whose attitude and behavior he didn't very much like...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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The Austrians have done an excellent job of backtracking. Top marks.
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I am staying in a hotel in March in Kitz and they advertise that they have a quota on Russians!!
Maybe the Austrians are still pissed over Stalingrad.
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There was an article about a month ago in the Herald Tribune about a prominant russian who was arrested in France, I believe, and accused of flying in prostitutes for all the high roller russians who are swarming the resorts. I have noticed this year espescially the huge influx of russians here and they are a bit brash. They should just give them kitzbuhel because it sucks anyway
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Whitegold,
I don't see what the hell Hitler has to do with Russian ski holidays. Have you ever experienced first hand badly behaved Russians in a ski resort?
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Hi all, I'm new here so apologies for my first post being so Xenophobic, but a trip to Zell am See at new year incensed me so much that I would actively seek out a resort which was at least made less attractive to folks of the Russian persuasion, and at best banned the bugs. From barging through the lift queues, down the piste, and on two occasions through a ski school group (my girlfriend’s ski instructor was even taking people’s lift passes away), right the way through to nicking all the deserts from the cake trolley on their way into the restaurant then wasting it all (petty I know but you know what it is like when people bug you all week, you start to get annoyed by everything).
People say they are the new English tourists (are we really that bad?  ), and in the same way I do not represent the En-ger-land, 25 pints of Stella, George Cross wearing brigade, I appreciate that the selection of Russians I have encountered are not a fair representation of their fellow countrymen, the Russians who can afford to travel generally are of the sort I would seek to avoid, in the same way I avoid larger louts by not going to <insert>, it would be great to avoid places overrun by Russian Tourists, Austrian resorts putting a cap on the number of certain guests fantastic idea, at least you would have the option of moving to a different area of the resort if it was getting too ‘Russian’..
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Welcome to  lenniem, the issue of Russian tourists and their behaviour is one that seems to be on the increase unfortunately. I'm a little uneasy on the ban/quota system suggested by some resorts but it looks like some action is needed to bring them into line.
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Coming into this one a bit late, I raised the same concerns about the attitude of the Ruskies on a thread late last year. Are there any Russian Snowheads who'd like to put their point of view across?
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Does being half-Russian but born and raised in Romania and living in London for the last six years count?
I better phone up the hotels in Kitzbuhel.
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nicking all the deserts from the cake trolley
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What, not leaving so much as a few crumbs of Sahara? Shocking.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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nicking all the deserts from the cake trolley
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What, not leaving so much as a few crumbs of Sahara? Shocking. |
Hmmm, thanks for pointing that out (did I mention I was knew?) 
There is only so much proof reading you can do when you are supposed to be working on proper work rather than posting in forums. But if that's the way you want to play...........
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