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I puff out the chest, spread the arms a bit and repeat very loudly, "ERST aussteigen, DANN einsteigen" (Airst OWSS'-shty-gn, DON' Ine-shty-gn) as I push through the bastards.

While they don't listen too well and sometimes get huffy about being pushed out of the way, I certainly get no small amount of satisfaction occasionally knocking some of the rude bastards out of the way. the thing is, they know them's the rules and still push through.

I could really go off on a rant here...

woof.

"Non videri sed esse." — Tycho Brahe
"Not to be seen but to be."

Group of annoying yoofs pushed not only in front of us (which frankly I wouldn't be too bothered about) but also in front of a group of young girls who'd been waiting for ages.

Mark K politely (well, maybe not) told the yoofs to get to the back of the queue but was subject to an attempted assault. I say attempted because the yoof in question was about 1/3 of Marks size. Mark then preceeded to simply hold the person by the throat until they stopped being an ass. In the meantime all his mates were kicking off (although not physically doing anything). Getting bored of this, Nick who was with us (a policeman but a really cool bloke) had them arrested them for being drunk and disorderly by some nearby coppers.

Laugh - I nearly dropped my kebab.

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'But they're adults and perfectly capable of working it out themselves. And if not, well, fuck em.' - Nebbish '06.

If you line up for anything (line up in the loosest sense of the term) and you pause for a fraction of a second, then POW, someone is in there.

If you don't push forward yourself then the person behind you starts trying to push you forward.

We have found this in all European countries we have travelled except the UK and Malta. Oh, and Tallinn, but in Tallin there is generally not enough people to foram a queue.

I guess it's just an Anglo thing to be polite in terms of queuing.

A classic mrs Creo quote goes along the lines of...

me: It's just a cultural thing, get used to it.
her: Bullshit - they are just rude bastards.

Cheers
Creo.

"I shall do what I believe to be right and honourable" - Guderian

What is interesting, though, are those circumstances where it's perfectly acceptable to ignore "the rules" - the "all bets are off" scenarios.

You know the ones I mean. Trolley full of sustainance, eleven people between you and checkout satisfaction, air conditioning has gone, everybody watched you just so they could decide to shop at exactly the same time. Suddenly - 10 o'clock - new till front opening up - 'No way, fucker; that's mine...'

I'm thinking that they need a good stabbing through the ear with a bull's dick.
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That's what I always say about you, boz, you have a good memory for random facts about pussy. -- joh3n

First of all, this queueing thing may happen in the provinces, but in London nobody queues. Ever. The clearest proof is underneath the city, in the underground, where people pushes each other out of the way quite viciously. And it's the Londoners who do this, not the tourists, most of which are utterly unprepared for this and sometimes end up pushed onto the wrong train.

Secondly, queueing is not necessarily the mark of a higher civilisation. An alternative view is that it is the sign of a lack of wits.
According to this alternative theory, queueing is a mechanism designed to allow people in a group to interact with each other without talking and without physical contact. It takes a lot of skills to push your way to the front without queueing - a little smile here, an apology, a funny comment, or an insult said with exactly the right tone of voice at the right momen in time, a knee stuck strategically into the precise spot which will ensure you move up two positions within half an hour.
All this skills are, unfortunately, lacking amongst the Brits, and therefore the authorities had to invent queueing, which, as also the side effect of creating a sheep-like mentality amongst the masses.

Yes, that's right, I'm talking to you, the otherwise good people of Austria, and what the hell, pretty much everywhere other than Great Briton and perhaps the United States of America.
Funny how you assume the Brits are more similar to the Yanks than the rest of Europe - you don't travel much, do you?
Even if they queued in the States, it would be because everyone carry guns, and people don't want to get shot down while waiting for a Whopper Meal.


[Ed.: currently a dormant account - posting on behalf of extremely tedious HuSer]

I am way too sickly to be sick all over me as well as everyone else!!

besides, this was a very slow queue of like 4 people, noone complained at the jumpee (who was turkish, does that make a difference??)

So Austrians dont seem to complain either, they just suck at queueing and dont complain!!

Andie

Maybe you act better when the queen is near enought to bitch-slap you...