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Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Screaming, falling down, cross-dressing, vomiting

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Konstantinos Lagoudakis, the mayor of Malai, Crete, interviewed in today’s New York Times: “They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit.”He's talking about British tourists.“It is only the British people,” he said, “not the Germans or the French.”The Times spoke to 21-year-old man from Essex who said that the night before he had drunk had five
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