Travel Guides On Itv

[tezmand]

anyone been watching this, the two girls from birmingham are coming across as being very thick , i sit ranting at tv with some of the things they come out with one girl last week as she sat in hotel in dubai said i must be culteral because i eat chinese and indian food and i know a muslem durrr

[SpikeyBush]

I thought it would be like that from reading the previews and as such haven't watched it. I once worked with a girl (Michelle) who went to Magaluf every year and couldn't understand why anyone would ever want to go anywhere else, especially when I mentioned once I would like to visit Iceland and she said "Why? To see the penguins?". A few years later watching "The Royle Family" Anthony Royle was talking about his new girlfriend's family playing parlour games after having Christmas dinner and Denise pipes up "What? Is their telly broke?"

That could have been my former colleague Michelle making that remark.

[VHG]

I though this was going to be an interesting program, sending "ordinary" people to Thailand and Dubai to comment on what it was like to visit those places.

But having watched the Dubai show it seems in some cases they chose the worst people they could and then filmed them moaning about things they saw and places they went to.

For example sending "poor" people or "working class" people to a VERY posh hotel in Dubai and hearing them saying they were going to "strip the place bare" before they left.

So it was nothing more than a reality TV show using exotic places as a backdrop.

I fast forwarded through much of the Dubai show, and wont even bother to watch the Thailand show.

Terrible.

[piggynose]

are you sure its not a send up? Some of us brummies do get some stick regarding our accents, we`re supposed to sound thick when we talk. You`ve only got to look at many tv shows, for many examples.

[tezmand]

piggynose it cant be a send up i mean its not the accent that sounds thick saying youre cultural because you eat indian and chinese !! then they eat in a 5 star restaurant and all they can say is i dont like this food why cant they serve bread ! you have to watch the programme to understand its tenerife tonight

[tezmand]

ps im from west bromwich so i know about accents sounding awful , i hate hearing myself speak

[hc4361]

I've said it elsewhere on AnswerBank - I'm sure they producers have tried to reproduce the characters from Benidorm. You've got the parents with the two children (the Garveys); the two gay chaps (Gavin and Troy); the older couple (Jackie and Donald); the stupid girls (Sam and Natalie) and the 'posh' younger couple (Martin and Kate).

[tezmand]

Lmao love how you call them the stupid girls so fitting they havnt a clue about real life

[hc4361]

The one that takes all the limelight with the 'me, me, look at meeeee' attitude drives me up the wall. I'd love to see her without the hair extensions, slap and OTT clothes, I bet she's quite a pretty girl behind that freak look she goes for.

[losgigs]

Watched the one last night on Tenerife, having missed the first 2 programmes. They chose the (imo) worst part of the island to send them to. Having spent many fantastic holidays on the island, we always steer well clear of Las Americas because we know what it's like, as portrayed on the show. We did laugh at the comments though, especially one of the 3 brummie girls saying she thought wine came from 'wine factories', not vineyards!

[tezmand]

Losgigs you need to watch the previous two episodes last nights wasn't as hilarious get it on catch up it will crack you up the things they say

[tonyav]

Must have been Blues fans ;-)

[Mosaic]

It's not always ignorance, sometimes it's just an inability to read a map, like my friend back in the 1970s who would not have it that berlin was in the eastern bloc - even though she visted there overland and endured all the visas, guard searches and checkpoints.....
Mind, she also believed nobody could see through her net curtains when she had the light on.
takes all sorts.

[losgigs]

Ok, tez, will do. :)

[tezmand]

footballs too complicated for them tonyav :)

[piggynose]

is tezmand a baggies fan?

[tezmand]

for my sins piggynose yes im a baggies fan boing boing

[Samuraisan]

I'm sure the producers knew exactly what kind of people to look for. I can't believe ( well I do !) that those three girls are sooo ignorant. I bet they have never read a book, WAG wannabes.. I have never seen anyone go in a pool or sea with make up on. I like the Fat mother, she has a go at everything, her kids are real whingers though. I wonder how they turned out like that having such gung-ho parents. The older couple, no comment, nor on the gay couple ( another whingers) . I find it quite an amusing program. To each his own, I suppose.

[hc4361]

I've seen plenty of women in a swimming pool with make up on, they usually do the breast stroke holding their heads out of the water to protect their make up and hair

[lynette123]

Yes it's THREE girls from Birmingham, not two. They are quite annoying but especially the one who wears all the make-up. The other two don't seem as stupid and quite willing to learn about the culture and customs of the places they visit. It would have been more interesting to have used a larger selection of people, rather than stick with the same groups/families every week.

[piggynose]

hey tezmand we´re growing on AB, theres 4 of us officially.
up the baggies!!