Absolutely. Time off from work should be as peaceful as possible, as far as I am concerned. If I’m going to get in a tizzy about something, I’d rather just not do it.
Exactly, that’s why I avoid Bali, Thailand, Spain and Greece like the plague to dodge Brits and Aussies “beg packers” street fighting and stepping on their blood and puke afterwards.
Whenever my wife asks me what I want to do for my birthday, it's like four days at home without interruptions please, I could catch up on a tonne of projects and then just sit and enjoy my home. "Oh, but you've got to do something"
I lived in Manchester as a kid and the highlight of the summer was a day trip to Liverpool with my nan, with the afternoon on the ‘beach’ in New Brighton and a paddle in the River Mersey😂😂😂
My mother keeps calling me and pressuring me to go on vacation and it's stressing me out. I wanna just take time off, stay home, and read books and exercise for 3 weeks.
Having a holiday to just read, watch Netflix, browse charity shops and catch up with friends is cheaper and less stressful than travelling anywhere. If I travel I like to go alone so I can do what I want without worrying about others not enjoying it.
My favourite holiday is one where I cease to do any sort of activity. I cease breathing, eating, sleeping and just enter a hypovigilant state of non-being to help me escape my failed life
@@dod642 When I phone my boss and tell him "im entering a hypovigilant state of non-being" and cannot come to the office, he just responds with silence. So I am unwilling to confirm whether this counts as phoning in sick due to lack of feedback on his part.
Reading the fantastic book "On Holiday", I learned that already 1800s tourists complained about tourists running their tourism at the Niagara falls and that the handrail at the otherwise hard to reach tourist destination was ruining their authentic tourist experience.
Social media and marketing has raised the bar of expectation far too high. Holidays should just be what he described at the start of the video; quality time with loved ones, in a different place to where you normally are.
A few yrs ago I was sent to Italy to convince an artist to return to NY City by his parents. I liked Italy so much that I assumed his identity, learned the language and began to paint.
Yes, there is nothing like getting off a cruise ship at a stop with 3000+ other tourists. Then when you finally get off, the crowd just all move in the same direction. By the time you get away and start to enjoy your stop, it’s time to go back to the ship. What fun.
The real fun is the game of chance with door handles and rails. Which of them has Norovirus, and what percentage of the passengers will be incapacitated? Enough to prevent any disembarking at a port? Not for me.
Went on my first cruise last year. Never again. Went from the U.K. so no flying but this meant it was full of people that chose it because they couldn’t fly. They could eat though. Non stop. Pizza, burgers, fries. Hordes of skinny Filipinos running around being polite to these slobs was frankly embarrassing. Came back with Covid.
I find going on holiday a massive faff. Booking the damn thing, planning the journey, negotiating the time off work (and realising that no one will do anything while you’re away), trying to predict what drama will occur at work while you’re off, which will result in mass panic when you get back, packing, driving to the place, and trying to find your accommodation in the dark with no phone signal, unpacking, then, finally 4 days of ‘holiday’ (out of the 7 you booked off work). Then all of that in reverse. Plus the washing. Then the return to work, with hundreds of emails. And finally, the month after of being skint because you dared to eat out once while away.
It made me nauseous watching this video- it was a word to word re-enactment of my conversations with vile bosses. The absolute best part of being retired is never having to ask for time off.
@@syrus3k I'm laughing at you being the beginning and end of this comment (ignoring this one). "We're off on holiday tomorrow...." "Yeah, it was ok." That's such a perfect expression of the situation. Also - why am I thinking of 'The Stepford Wives'? Will you do it again? Your life stretching away before you punctuated by nightmare/holiday - one after another. I always had to be prized out of my sanctum. Sometimes my family were threatened to make me go on holiday. I would not have gone without being forced. I can now say that I will never, ever be made to go on holiday again.
My favourite part of the classic beach holiday is the 5 minutes my kids are playing nicely on the beach with their toys before children from another family (who set up weirdly close to us on the beach) start to play with them and proceed to take their toys while they're parents chug San Miguel at 11 in the morning and ignore their kids, wonderful stuff!
That set up weirdly close to us lmao I just had a trip to the beach alone, a single lady with two young boys set up weirdly close to me then set up some goal posts aiming my way!?
I travel full time, since I have a fully remote job. People kinda think it’s like being on holiday 24/7 but I can’t really understand how people want to do traditional holidays. By the time you’ve got there, you’ve been shipped like cattle through an airport, you’re all stressed, potentially jetlagged, sit around by a pool or get exhausted walking around a city, see nothing because you’re inevitably stuck to a strip mall of mediocre restaurants and flip flop shops because you have no transport. Then by the time you’re ready to enjoy yourself, boom done back to normal life more tired than you started and an entire months paycheck poorer.
There's nothing traditional about holidays and traveling anymore. It's all turned into work and business. There's no longer any magic in it, but the same mundaneness as in the daily routine.
These videos have become a very comfortable part of my weekly routine, in a world of fast paced mrbeast style videos, its so refreshing to just watch a 10 minute stand up routine on a different topic
I literally won't travel to any of the ex-pat islands or resorts for that exact reason. I'm a tatooed white bloke from Essex, I seem to give off 'lets chat about the EDL' vibes
Holidays are about as relaxing as baths. Takes forever for the bath to fill, you 'relax' in the tub with a book while trying not to slip under, then you gotta clean the tub destroying any stress-relief the 20min. soak may have offered! With holidays, I like to get back early so I can de-stress from the holiday before returning to work.
English hairdresser, english supermarket, english manners, english friends and hopefully a nice and clean English garden too with a tidy, white, wooden fence.
I'm from Barcelona and I am so relieved to see that not every British person considers us as their holiday place and nothing more. It does feel like that sometimes. It feels like we're not being truly appreciated but just being "used" for our sun and cheap beer (of course it's only cheap for northern Europeans, not for us with our small wages). I find it particularly upsetting considering the historical connections Britain and Spain have had for many centuries. So a huge thanks to you!
Finally someone says it. Last year I went on my first “real” holiday in my adult life and it was great. However, this year, thinking last year was great we went again but a week after returning I’m still recovering from the stress and exhaustion of the “holiday”.
This reminds me of the time I had a terrible office job in a university and asked for some holiday. At first I asked for July or August, declined due to other staff holidays. Then September, declined due to it being too busy. I thought 'I know how about January then I could go somewhere sunny over new year.' Declined because the office manager, who'd been off sick for an entire year whilst somehow accruing holiday said "you can't go in January, that's when I always go on holiday." The only times they offered me were November or February. It felt like a nightmare, I quit and felt so relieved to be free of that place.
Im glad its not just me that struggles to see the enjoyment in holidays when they're so stressful. Until technology can beam me to my destination like star trek so i can avoid traffic jams, airports and planes etc.. im staying put in my garden.
Loved the bit about brutal murders in/around European churches that are still marvelled at today. My hometown of Münster Germany takes the cake though, famously heretics were hung up high above the church in cages and left there to die in misery. The cages are still up there today.
@@TheKingWhoWins technically the real ones are in a museum nearby, replicas up there - wouldn't be shocked at all if in the past people were allowed to take photos in them... like in old red uk phone boxes lol
We used to feel like this but we started going on cruises and it’s totally more relaxed. And you wake up in a new place every day. Not for everyone I know.
The thing about delegating all your work to other team members while you're away - i don't remember once returning from holiday to find my actual workload had progressed an inch further than how I left it. Totally pointless.
In my company nobody delegates. Stuff just gets stuck for the whole of August due to people not being here. We all cheerfully accept that and look forward to the crunch from sept to Nov where we try to catch everything up and then get ahead before the next unofficial shut down at Xmas. We also actively refuse to acknowledge this in our quarterly planning despite it being a fixture for decades.
Got to say i have a sister who always asks "are you going away anywhere" then in the same breath lists off her next 3-4 international trips. Ask about her last one and almost nothing to report. It's almost like the planning and having something to look forward to (and humblebrag?) is the mission...
I am convinced our airports are the cause of nearly all the stress, and unfortunately there seems to be zero incentive to fix it. I prefer holidays where flying isn't apart of it. Road trips and rail trips are quite enjoyable, anything where it is possible to get away from the crowds!
Ive only been abroad 5 times in the past decade, Kefalonia, Stockholm, Copenhagen, a tour of Austria including Vienna, Innsbruck and Salzburg, and to Madeira. Each of those holdays filled me with dread as a result of an irrational fear of my bugdet airline, and you know which 3 I am referring to, careering into either the sea or mountains!
I worked in a contact centre. They wouldnt let me take two weeks off because on the second wednesday there was less than the required 60 per cent cover for the last two hours of the day. I worked that day and in those two hours tokk 3 calls totalling 20 minutes. Never work in a CC.
I 100% agree. I want to go on a holiday where you're picked up from your house with just the clothes you're wearing and flown to the destination, where all clothes and amenities are provided... Pool, jacuzzi, a great view, cooked meals delivered every day. Anything other than that just wouldn't be relaxing.
"I'm not racist buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut, oh who am I kidding, I am".
@@johnpoo1662 True, true, but he wasn't doing that here, amiright? He was talking about a perfect example of when it actually is a little bigoted - namely, expats, lol. I thought that that twist on the "I'm not racist, but" meme was f'n brilliant...😂😂
👍🏻Brilliant assessment of today’s mass tourism nightmare. 😂😂. So pleased I visited most of the “hot spots” when they were still worth seeing, stress free. Now I can enjoy the many off the tourist map places and never in August.
I’ve been preaching this for years at this point. Travelling is just an expensive, time-consuming chore. It is exhausting to plan and prepare for, the actual trip is stressful and once you’re back you realise that there is a pile of backlogged stuff waiting for you back home. I’d rather take a week home to relax in my home town, catch-up on errands and appointments, home repairs etc. This makes me feel like my life is actually more peaceful and comfortable when I go back to work
I moved abroad so in essence I would not need to go on holiday, to get good weather and nice beaches etc but at home. It all worked out perfectly until I married a lovely woman from here and now she insists on leaving here to go on holiday somewhere else. There's no escape from holidays.
The finale of my last holiday was slipping over on a slippery pavement in Lisbon and fracturing my shoulder. I am so relaxed in my sling with constant pain and hospital visits and physical therapy, all ready for the rest of my summer.
I go on holiday once every a few years. On my last holiday, I walked to local parks and read books at home, creating adventures in my head. With some saved money, I enrolled in a kickboxing course and got a bit fitter by spending more time at the gym. Somewhat, I didn't miss security checkout. Next holiday, I am doing a relatively local scuba diving course, so perhaps I can do conservation work when I take a break to mix it up and do something outside the usual holiday schema. I think I will be thinking more about sustainability.
Last year I was taken on holiday by Brazilian cousins visiting our ancestral homeland Portugal. It was a whirlwind if it's Tuesday, we're in Lagos experience which while exhilarating was exhausting and I returned sleep-deprived, but with a large bottle of duty-free rum in hand. So glad it's not happening again this year!
i haven't been "on holiday" in 20 years. I understand this video is meant to be comedy and such but for someone like me the joke rings hollow, right now I have other concerns like if I can afford to eat food this week or how the hell am I going to rid myself of this crippling anxiety and depression wtih zero help from the joke that counts as a mental health service in this country.
I'm so sorry that you're going through that. I'm lucky enough that my family helped me get private therapy and it's changed my life. I really hope you're able to get the help you need very soon x
@@MustraOrdo My guess is the U.K. People don't want to pay high taxes, or really respect a health system that is free at point of service, but moan about a system that is understaffed, not respected, and requires a lot of education to be someone who contributes (Psychiatric staff etc.) I know, because I use the system and am so very grateful for staff who work amongst signs that warn against physical assaults on them. But hey. "They" (whoever "they" are) should work harder for less money. Then nobody will be able to gripe about waiting lists, or exhausted health service staff.
my last holiday 1,5month ago, included 2weeks of self isolation in my house, the only uv was from my tv and pc screen. sunlight only when i went to the movies and in the morning with a cup of coffee. never felt more relaxed when i returned to work.
Your portrayal of an English boss was spot on. It was my asking of my boss for a tiny minuscule pay rise and being fobbed off about money being tight despite the company recording record profits that I chose to leave the UK for good in 2007!
Hell is other people, and it starts the moment u see the taxi driver, or airport security. 10k later, pink, deflated, not unwound, u hit the office Monday morning thankful that a large part of your job doesn't involve people.
The problem is some people go on a holiday because they feel compelled to do it, instead of going because they enjoy it. The reasons to go on holiday are to fit in, to keep up with the Joneses, to have something to tell to friends and colleagues when asked about, to bragg about, to check a list of places to visit, and so on.
Spanish here, went to Tenerife south for work and had to stay at a hotel where there were mostly British people and most people around were British, I ended speaking english with Spanish people in the shops, everywhere everyone was speaking english. The only newspapers in the hotel were News of the World and The Sun, top notch, also you did not get a TV remote for the room unless you paid for it in advance, very telling of the tourist´s quality. British people please, stay in the UK or go to Australia for holidays.
@@dh7314 Yep, that was during 2003 I believe, but I had to go to Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Mallorca a lot of times for work, again, during many years, and the "experience" in tourist venues was increasingly awful. And never forget Benidorm, one of the most disgusting and stinkiest places I have ever been, for so many reasons, also went there for work a couple of times, what an awful place.
Lo siento. Yo soy británico y español pero no puedo aguantar estar con otros guiris cuando estoy en España tampoco porque me dan asco por la manera que hablan y la falta de respeto que muestran a los españoles
Re: toilet brushes honestly you never know. Did housekeeping at a hotel, told management one of the toilet brushes was disgusting and needed replacing and they just threw it away. No replacement or anything. Maybe you do need to pack a toilet brush after all
I like holidays where I stay at home and fix up the house, or go for bike rides around the local area. It's much better when the biggest problem you have is running out of rawlplugs or getting a puncture.
You forgot the bit about when you have to make up for all the work you missed before and after the holiday, so you end up even more stressed and then need another holiday from your holiday 😂
The few times I’ve been on holiday, I’ve mostly enjoyed them! I think it’s because I actually try to respect the places I’m going to and have family who do the same, lmao (definitely got lucky for the most part). However, I’ve been mostly staying in the UK these days and there’s some lovely places here that I can just drive to for days out, so less stress all round.
Don't forget about showing off you holiday photos on Facebook, desperately trying to prove to everybody that you are better than them. Reminds me of a story from the early-mid 1990s; on first day of school every kid in the class was asked by the teacher where did they travel on holiday. Each kid tried to top the previous one by name dropping the fanciest Spanish or Italian resorts, when the got to the poorest kid who didn't travel anywhere, so he could name drop the only place he heard in the news: Bosnia
So good, excellent pacing, always funny, great use of facial hair!! Your vids are my favourite source of comedy at the moment. Wish I had money to throw your way totally appreciate the art going into your work!!
Ha! This is why housesitting is such a great option! Taking care of someone's pets in their house means you don't have to pack all the "might needs" 😂 Cleaning up cat vomit in another country is VERY EXOTIC.
I HATE hearing people in their 20s constantly remind everyone about every country they’ve solo travelled to and where they’re going next month Nothing screams I’m rich as fuck and don’t have to work more than that
"... that it would give Christopher Columbus second thoughts..." 🤣. First time watching a video of yours. Likely not the last time. Nicely summed up and good comic add-ons. I believe I've 'transcended' the ordeal of going on holiday. I tell work my dates, they are not up for negotiation on their part, I pack light, avoid places that are overrun by UK expats, no Air B&Bs, find my own attractions and don't mind the more macabre stuff. If I would have the time off and money, I'd be off on holiday every other month. 🙃
In Swedish we use the roughly translated word ”homecation” which means enjoying your vacation at home and maybe discovering somethng new in your city. My favorite kind of vacation!
@@c.v.yardleyexcept that's been hijacked by people who thinks a staycation is staying in the UK, somewhere that isn't actually at home and is, in fact, a holiday away from home involving travel
@@baraitalo That's what I thought, but the Oxford dictionary says this: Noun: staycation; plural noun: staycations; noun: stay-cation; plural noun: stay-cations a holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips
When I was in the Army, I rarely used to take vacations yearly because it was always so much paper work. At least back in the days, I had to fill out a form in my unit; fill out the leave form (the most important document to sign out and sign in for vacation); a composite risk assessment; a flight ticket (if flying); if I was driving to my destination, a map and driving instructions from google or other type of map that showed where I was heading to and back (this was to calculate the many hours of driving), and if the drive was longer than 4 hours, I had to add on the risk assessment the break times, and if I was flying, I still had to add the map and instructions (I always added my drive or ride to the airport and back); I also needed a signing sheet from my unit's chain of command (up to the company commander), and all of them had to sign in order for the folder to move forward; I needed to add my vehicle inspection with a copy of my driver's license, vehicle registration, and car insurance to make sure that all were up to date; other extra paperwork, and such. And if vacation was outside the United States, I would have to do it at least 2 months prior, and add more paperwork because the intelligence department had to be involved to check the risk level of a country. For example, if I was going to Mexico, they could approve or disapprove vacation depending on where I was going there. Surprisingly, when I was stationed abroad, it was less paperwork.
Top tip wait until all the schools in England go back at the beginning of September then go on holiday much cheaper and less people everywhere cos quite a few other countries follow this same school timetable
I remember a colleague coming back from a sun and beach holiday , not sure if it had been in Spain or in Greece ! I had no money for holiday but I sure didn’t feel envious of that kind of holiday !
I think the worst part of going on holiday is coming across other holidaymakers who are hell bent on enjoying themselves.
Gotta justify it somehow
Absolutely. Time off from work should be as peaceful as possible, as far as I am concerned. If I’m going to get in a tizzy about something, I’d rather just not do it.
Worse yet, the really smug ones who actually are enjoying themselves... Enjoyment of holidays should only ever be an aspiration.
Classic British comments!
Exactly, that’s why I avoid Bali, Thailand, Spain and Greece like the plague to dodge Brits and Aussies “beg packers” street fighting and stepping on their blood and puke afterwards.
don't worry people. michael is not depressed. he's just british.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 so true
I've increasingly been finding staying in the UK and being disappointed is much easier and less stressful than going abroad and being disappointed.
Cheaper, too
😂😂😂😂 Exactly
At least you know ‘what’s’ going to disappoint you in the UK ;-)
And it's easier to bail out and naff off back home, if its really bad!
You're not doing it well.
There's something to be said about taking a week off work and just sitting at home. It's great.
THAT is a true HOLIDAY. Travel is a different thing. IMO.
Whenever my wife asks me what I want to do for my birthday, it's like four days at home without interruptions please, I could catch up on a tonne of projects and then just sit and enjoy my home.
"Oh, but you've got to do something"
My equivalent of a holiday as a kid was staying at my nan’s house. She lives in Manchester, I live in Liverpool, so it’s a very exotic place to me.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
To be fair Manchester can be quite 'exotic' at times. 😆
Same here - a fortnight with each nan and granddad every school holiday - it was great!
I lived in Manchester as a kid and the highlight of the summer was a day trip to Liverpool with my nan, with the afternoon on the ‘beach’ in New Brighton and a paddle in the River Mersey😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
My mother keeps calling me and pressuring me to go on vacation and it's stressing me out. I wanna just take time off, stay home, and read books and exercise for 3 weeks.
So true!!
You need a holiday - from your mother.
Exactly @@davidpanton3192
Change your phone number. 😆
Exercise? Hideous behaviour
I am convinced most people go on vacation because they would be too embarrassed to tell their friends and coworkers that they just stayed home.
Lol yeah sure if that helps you cope 😅
So did they actually go away and take a vacation or did they just stay home 😂
I used to tell people I was abroad so no one from work would call me on my holiday, I was just enjoying being at home
yes, it's the main reason, sad...ppl living other peoples lives, keeping up with the Joneses...
Whaat? Most people definitely enjoy their holidays, but if you don't then of course you shouldn't force yourself and just stay home
My favourite kind of holiday is having the house to myself. It's free and relaxing.
Underrated
Oh, the things that we long for.
Why don't you live alone, you'd have it to yourself all the time. Makes sense really.
@@obscurum6 Not affordable
Exactly
Spot on!! As someone who worked with patients with chronic stress and chronic fatigue, I learned quickly that TRAVELLING IS WORK.
Having a holiday to just read, watch Netflix, browse charity shops and catch up with friends is cheaper and less stressful than travelling anywhere. If I travel I like to go alone so I can do what I want without worrying about others not enjoying it.
The same) ❤
Doing nothing is the best holiday. Zero stress
My favourite holiday is one where I cease to do any sort of activity. I cease breathing, eating, sleeping and just enter a hypovigilant state of non-being to help me escape my failed life
Omg how great is having nothing to do! So great!
@@Randomstuffs261 It sounds to me like you have accrued more wisdom than most in this crazy world. There's nothing failed about a life like that.
@@Randomstuffs261 That's just phoning in sick isn't it?
@@dod642 When I phone my boss and tell him "im entering a hypovigilant state of non-being" and cannot come to the office, he just responds with silence. So I am unwilling to confirm whether this counts as phoning in sick due to lack of feedback on his part.
A week off from work staying at home is the best holiday. All my stuff is there
A holiday for me is absolute isolation from other people
Your username tells that story. 🤔
Literally same
The problem is that you never can or ever will actually escape yourself 😂
@@mariajenkins6039
Why is that a problem?
Reading the fantastic book "On Holiday", I learned that already 1800s tourists complained about tourists running their tourism at the Niagara falls and that the handrail at the otherwise hard to reach tourist destination was ruining their authentic tourist experience.
@zeecaptain42 - Sounds like a book I'd like to read.
Social media and marketing has raised the bar of expectation far too high. Holidays should just be what he described at the start of the video; quality time with loved ones, in a different place to where you normally are.
As someone who lived in southern Spain for 12 years, your depiction of some ex pats is spot on
They’re not ex pats. They’re immigrants.
an immigrant is a citizen an expat is not
So proud of my country that I don’t ever go to 😅
@@sirsillybillywrong
A few yrs ago I was sent to Italy to convince an artist to return to NY City by his parents. I liked Italy so much that I assumed his identity, learned the language and began to paint.
It made a good film
The AirBNB two-way mirror skit was hilarious! It cracked me up! 😂😂😂
To quote... someone... "I planned a holiday doing nothing, and it was everything I dreamed it would be"
That "I'm not racist, buuuuuuuuut" killed me 😂
Brilliant, weren' it!!??
Hahahaha 😅😅😅 me too
Yes, there is nothing like getting off a cruise ship at a stop with 3000+ other tourists. Then when you finally get off, the crowd just all move in the same direction. By the time you get away and start to enjoy your stop, it’s time to go back to the ship. What fun.
The real fun is the game of chance with door handles and rails. Which of them has Norovirus, and what percentage of the passengers will be incapacitated? Enough to prevent any disembarking at a port?
Not for me.
Went on my first cruise last year. Never again. Went from the U.K. so no flying but this meant it was full of people that chose it because they couldn’t fly. They could eat though. Non stop. Pizza, burgers, fries. Hordes of skinny Filipinos running around being polite to these slobs was frankly embarrassing. Came back with Covid.
😂😂
I find going on holiday a massive faff. Booking the damn thing, planning the journey, negotiating the time off work (and realising that no one will do anything while you’re away), trying to predict what drama will occur at work while you’re off, which will result in mass panic when you get back, packing, driving to the place, and trying to find your accommodation in the dark with no phone signal, unpacking, then, finally 4 days of ‘holiday’ (out of the 7 you booked off work). Then all of that in reverse. Plus the washing. Then the return to work, with hundreds of emails. And finally, the month after of being skint because you dared to eat out once while away.
Spot on!!
Everything you said there!
That's so sad that you need to worry about a job can't enjoy time off, you need to change something in your life
That's depressing, almost makes me re-thinking even getting out of bed let alone making it to the front door to leave for some holiday 😂
Finding someone to take care of your animals, garden indoor plants. etc etc etc.
It made me nauseous watching this video- it was a word to word re-enactment of my conversations with vile bosses. The absolute best part of being retired is never having to ask for time off.
We're off on holiday tomorrow and I have a family and yes it's a fucking nightmare. Everyone screaming at each other already
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Well, I hope you have a good time, I guess?
@@evilcritter yeah it was ok
@@syrus3k I'm laughing at you being the beginning and end of this comment (ignoring this one). "We're off on holiday tomorrow...." "Yeah, it was ok." That's such a perfect expression of the situation. Also - why am I thinking of 'The Stepford Wives'?
Will you do it again? Your life stretching away before you punctuated by nightmare/holiday - one after another.
I always had to be prized out of my sanctum. Sometimes my family were threatened to make me go on holiday. I would not have gone without being forced. I can now say that I will never, ever be made to go on holiday again.
'Chances are, the thing that will ruin your holiday is someone else's holiday.' So many good lines in this one.
My favourite part of the classic beach holiday is the 5 minutes my kids are playing nicely on the beach with their toys before children from another family (who set up weirdly close to us on the beach) start to play with them and proceed to take their toys while they're parents chug San Miguel at 11 in the morning and ignore their kids, wonderful stuff!
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That set up weirdly close to us lmao I just had a trip to the beach alone, a single lady with two young boys set up weirdly close to me then set up some goal posts aiming my way!?
@@Hester141
Did you score? 😉
I travel full time, since I have a fully remote job. People kinda think it’s like being on holiday 24/7 but I can’t really understand how people want to do traditional holidays. By the time you’ve got there, you’ve been shipped like cattle through an airport, you’re all stressed, potentially jetlagged, sit around by a pool or get exhausted walking around a city, see nothing because you’re inevitably stuck to a strip mall of mediocre restaurants and flip flop shops because you have no transport. Then by the time you’re ready to enjoy yourself, boom done back to normal life more tired than you started and an entire months paycheck poorer.
Flip flops shops! 😆
What is your fully remote job that you're allowed to do outside the UK? I want one!
@@dmn1000000 I work as a sys admin, basically get any "UK remote job" then setup a VPN and leave without telling anyone at your job.
I get you completely.
There's nothing traditional about holidays and traveling anymore. It's all turned into work and business. There's no longer any magic in it, but the same mundaneness as in the daily routine.
These videos have become a very comfortable part of my weekly routine, in a world of fast paced mrbeast style videos, its so refreshing to just watch a 10 minute stand up routine on a different topic
I literally won't travel to any of the ex-pat islands or resorts for that exact reason. I'm a tatooed white bloke from Essex, I seem to give off 'lets chat about the EDL' vibes
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But you're actually a guardian reading, tofu eating member of the wokerati?
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You think that's funny?
@@thadtuiol1717that is very realistically funny! 😂😂😂
Holidays are about as relaxing as baths. Takes forever for the bath to fill, you 'relax' in the tub with a book while trying not to slip under, then you gotta clean the tub destroying any stress-relief the 20min. soak may have offered! With holidays, I like to get back early so I can de-stress from the holiday before returning to work.
Always I needed a few days to "de-brief" from a holiday!
@@nelliemelba4967 I would lie to folks about my return date. Add on a few days so I could sneak back quietly and be left to myself.
Your take on the Brit ‘expats’ is spot on… they voted for brexit and hate the locals, the food and pretty much everything 🤷
The fact Britain isn't an empire anymore hasn't registered in their psyche, mixed in with Victorian-style contempt for other cultures.
Brits are never immigrants, they're always 'ex-pats'.
They voted for Brexit, then got pissed off that they had to get in longer (non EU) passport queues…
Slow hand clap
English hairdresser, english supermarket, english manners, english friends and hopefully a nice and clean English garden too with a tidy, white, wooden fence.
And a lawn.@@activ8me3
Yes, there are alternatives to going abroad and being disappointed; stay in the UK and be disappointed.
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"We've got disappointment at home."
Stay at home.
Or stay at home, sit in the garden, and enjoy the birdies……….
I'm from Barcelona and I am so relieved to see that not every British person considers us as their holiday place and nothing more. It does feel like that sometimes. It feels like we're not being truly appreciated but just being "used" for our sun and cheap beer (of course it's only cheap for northern Europeans, not for us with our small wages). I find it particularly upsetting considering the historical connections Britain and Spain have had for many centuries. So a huge thanks to you!
That cathedral tour guide bit was brilliant!
I work with a guy who thinks just like this. Quote: “Why go on holiday when you can read a guide book”
Finally someone says it. Last year I went on my first “real” holiday in my adult life and it was great. However, this year, thinking last year was great we went again but a week after returning I’m still recovering from the stress and exhaustion of the “holiday”.
This reminds me of the time I had a terrible office job in a university and asked for some holiday. At first I asked for July or August, declined due to other staff holidays. Then September, declined due to it being too busy. I thought 'I know how about January then I could go somewhere sunny over new year.' Declined because the office manager, who'd been off sick for an entire year whilst somehow accruing holiday said "you can't go in January, that's when I always go on holiday." The only times they offered me were November or February. It felt like a nightmare, I quit and felt so relieved to be free of that place.
Do like me! Take an 1/2 day off and go in the woods .... it's quiet and relaxing and reinvigorating in a way (apart from the mosquitos ...)
Im glad its not just me that struggles to see the enjoyment in holidays when they're so stressful. Until technology can beam me to my destination like star trek so i can avoid traffic jams, airports and planes etc.. im staying put in my garden.
Yes, I am waiting for teleportation to be invented. I like seeing new places but actually getting there and back is often stressful.
Loved the bit about brutal murders in/around European churches that are still marvelled at today. My hometown of Münster Germany takes the cake though, famously heretics were hung up high above the church in cages and left there to die in misery. The cages are still up there today.
Have you been in them ? You know just for the immersion?
How delightful!
@@TheKingWhoWins technically the real ones are in a museum nearby, replicas up there - wouldn't be shocked at all if in the past people were allowed to take photos in them... like in old red uk phone boxes lol
@@JaneAustenAteMyCat haha yeah, they made a tv mini series about this whole time period - it starred Christopher Waltz long before he became famous
@@Patrick-jj5nh Cool. I love historical drama. The more accurate the better
We used to feel like this but we started going on cruises and it’s totally more relaxed. And you wake up in a new place every day. Not for everyone I know.
"...pulled inside-out by four horses." 😂
Yeah i totally lost it at this 😂
in the rose garden
The thing about delegating all your work to other team members while you're away - i don't remember once returning from holiday to find my actual workload had progressed an inch further than how I left it. Totally pointless.
In my company nobody delegates. Stuff just gets stuck for the whole of August due to people not being here. We all cheerfully accept that and look forward to the crunch from sept to Nov where we try to catch everything up and then get ahead before the next unofficial shut down at Xmas.
We also actively refuse to acknowledge this in our quarterly planning despite it being a fixture for decades.
You can travel to the other side of the world and there is always a family from Essex around the pool being all loud and annoying
That and dam northerners
“Have you delegated all your duties to members of your team so that they can take care of things whilst you’re away?”
“Isn’t that your job?"
Got to say i have a sister who always asks "are you going away anywhere" then in the same breath lists off her next 3-4 international trips. Ask about her last one and almost nothing to report.
It's almost like the planning and having something to look forward to (and humblebrag?) is the mission...
I am convinced our airports are the cause of nearly all the stress, and unfortunately there seems to be zero incentive to fix it. I prefer holidays where flying isn't apart of it. Road trips and rail trips are quite enjoyable, anything where it is possible to get away from the crowds!
‘Cried on by elves’. Classic!
Ive only been abroad 5 times in the past decade, Kefalonia, Stockholm, Copenhagen, a tour of Austria including Vienna, Innsbruck and Salzburg, and to Madeira. Each of those holdays filled me with dread as a result of an irrational fear of my bugdet airline, and you know which 3 I am referring to, careering into either the sea or mountains!
I'm scared shitless when flying, every slight turbulence bump sees me white-knuckling the arm rest and saying my prayers
It's why I never fly business class - as Billy Connolly said "you never see the plane fly into the mountain backwards"
I worked in a contact centre. They wouldnt let me take two weeks off because on the second wednesday there was less than the required 60 per cent cover for the last two hours of the day. I worked that day and in those two hours tokk 3 calls totalling 20 minutes. Never work in a CC.
The headclamps sucking your soul slowly out! 🎧👻
That's illegal. Time off is a legal right not a privilage they are giving you. If they can't organise the roater, that's their fault.
@@TheStevenWhiting In my experience they'll just cite 'business needs' which was in the contract.
@@LimeyRedneckooh jeez that's what happened me 🤣🥴🫨🤯
Life hack:
1. Book holiday
2. Tell no-one, especially your family
I 100% agree. I want to go on a holiday where you're picked up from your house with just the clothes you're wearing and flown to the destination, where all clothes and amenities are provided... Pool, jacuzzi, a great view, cooked meals delivered every day. Anything other than that just wouldn't be relaxing.
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I think Saga do that sort of holiday for a elderly. Give it a try.
Ah the old "I'm not racist, but..." love it.
aka 'Doing a Farage'
"I'm not racist buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut, oh who am I kidding, I am".
@@speleokeir noticing differences is not racist.
@@johnpoo1662 tell me you are racist without actually...you are
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True, true, but he wasn't doing that here, amiright? He was talking about a perfect example of when it actually is a little bigoted - namely, expats, lol.
I thought that that twist on the "I'm not racist, but" meme was f'n brilliant...😂😂
👍🏻Brilliant assessment of today’s mass tourism nightmare. 😂😂. So pleased I visited most of the “hot spots” when they were still worth seeing, stress free. Now I can enjoy the many off the tourist map places and never in August.
I’ve been preaching this for years at this point. Travelling is just an expensive, time-consuming chore. It is exhausting to plan and prepare for, the actual trip is stressful and once you’re back you realise that there is a pile of backlogged stuff waiting for you back home.
I’d rather take a week home to relax in my home town, catch-up on errands and appointments, home repairs etc. This makes me feel like my life is actually more peaceful and comfortable when I go back to work
I moved abroad so in essence I would not need to go on holiday, to get good weather and nice beaches etc but at home. It all worked out perfectly until I married a lovely woman from here and now she insists on leaving here to go on holiday somewhere else. There's no escape from holidays.
I come across so many people nowadays who are basically 'ticking off' places on a list!
The finale of my last holiday was slipping over on a slippery pavement in Lisbon and fracturing my shoulder. I am so relaxed in my sling with constant pain and hospital visits and physical therapy, all ready for the rest of my summer.
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Best wishes for healing quickly…..
Ah yes, traditional portuguese paving, the most dangerous thing in the world when wet. Thousands of injuries every year but it looks pretty so.....
Rookie mistake you should have gone to your british inclave "albufeira"
@@weird-guy no, I should have gone to Margate, I hear it’s delightful.
Now I'm definitely going to talk to the mirror at the next airbnb I stay at 😂
I used to have Wanderlust quite badly, however, the last 3 years, I’ve only done 3 trips, very short and out of season. Bliss.
I go on holiday once every a few years. On my last holiday, I walked to local parks and read books at home, creating adventures in my head.
With some saved money, I enrolled in a kickboxing course and got a bit fitter by spending more time at the gym.
Somewhat, I didn't miss security checkout.
Next holiday, I am doing a relatively local scuba diving course, so perhaps I can do conservation work when I take a break to mix it up and do something outside the usual holiday schema.
I think I will be thinking more about sustainability.
This is why “staycation” was invented.
Last year I was taken on holiday by Brazilian cousins visiting our ancestral homeland Portugal. It was a whirlwind if it's Tuesday, we're in Lagos experience which while exhilarating was exhausting and I returned sleep-deprived, but with a large bottle of duty-free rum in hand. So glad it's not happening again this year!
The best holiday is peace and quiet, probably on your own maybe
i haven't been "on holiday" in 20 years.
I understand this video is meant to be comedy and such but for someone like me the joke rings hollow, right now I have other concerns like if I can afford to eat food this week or how the hell am I going to rid myself of this crippling anxiety and depression wtih zero help from the joke that counts as a mental health service in this country.
I’m really sorry to hear that, hope things get better for you. I also have reasons I can’t go on holiday and felt the same.
sounds like my f-ing life. and i've been on a holiday TWICE in 25 years
I'm so sorry that you're going through that. I'm lucky enough that my family helped me get private therapy and it's changed my life. I really hope you're able to get the help you need very soon x
Which country might I ask?
@@MustraOrdo My guess is the U.K. People don't want to pay high taxes, or really respect a health system that is free at point of service, but moan about a system that is understaffed, not respected, and requires a lot of education to be someone who contributes (Psychiatric staff etc.)
I know, because I use the system and am so very grateful for staff who work amongst signs that warn against physical assaults on them.
But hey. "They" (whoever "they" are) should work harder for less money. Then nobody will be able to gripe about waiting lists, or exhausted health service staff.
my last holiday 1,5month ago, included 2weeks of self isolation in my house, the only uv was from my tv and pc screen.
sunlight only when i went to the movies and in the morning with a cup of coffee.
never felt more relaxed when i returned to work.
Your portrayal of an English boss was spot on. It was my asking of my boss for a tiny minuscule pay rise and being fobbed off about money being tight despite the company recording record profits that I chose to leave the UK for good in 2007!
Hell is other people, and it starts the moment u see the taxi driver, or airport security. 10k later, pink, deflated, not unwound, u hit the office Monday morning thankful that a large part of your job doesn't involve people.
The problem is some people go on a holiday because they feel compelled to do it, instead of going because they enjoy it.
The reasons to go on holiday are to fit in, to keep up with the Joneses, to have something to tell to friends and colleagues when asked about, to bragg about, to check a list of places to visit, and so on.
Staycation is the new holiday.
You work so hard to get the house, maintain the house and pay all the bills for the house. Might as well stay in the house and enjoy it!
Spanish here, went to Tenerife south for work and had to stay at a hotel where there were mostly British people and most people around were British, I ended speaking english with Spanish people in the shops, everywhere everyone was speaking english.
The only newspapers in the hotel were News of the World and The Sun, top notch, also you did not get a TV remote for the room unless you paid for it in advance, very telling of the tourist´s quality.
British people please, stay in the UK or go to Australia for holidays.
News of the World hasn’t existed for 13 years, thanks for reminding me how quickly time passes
@@dh7314 Yep, that was during 2003 I believe, but I had to go to Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Mallorca a lot of times for work, again, during many years, and the "experience" in tourist venues was increasingly awful.
And never forget Benidorm, one of the most disgusting and stinkiest places I have ever been, for so many reasons, also went there for work a couple of times, what an awful place.
@@GA-br8wjWe all saw how your economy tanked during Lockdowns. If you want to turn away tourists, you first need something to replace the income with
Lo siento. Yo soy británico y español pero no puedo aguantar estar con otros guiris cuando estoy en España tampoco porque me dan asco por la manera que hablan y la falta de respeto que muestran a los españoles
Generalisation. Not all people of a nationality are the same. Many people born in a country are very different from one another.
Taking photos in the cathedral with an old iPhone 5 or 6 was it. I have the same colour 6 in a kitchen drawer !
Re: toilet brushes honestly you never know. Did housekeeping at a hotel, told management one of the toilet brushes was disgusting and needed replacing and they just threw it away. No replacement or anything. Maybe you do need to pack a toilet brush after all
So glad this popped up,very funny and absolutely true.
I like holidays where I stay at home and fix up the house, or go for bike rides around the local area. It's much better when the biggest problem you have is running out of rawlplugs or getting a puncture.
Getting to go to Screwfix in the middle of a workday is a special pleasure 😁
You forgot the bit about when you have to make up for all the work you missed before and after the holiday, so you end up even more stressed and then need another holiday from your holiday 😂
The few times I’ve been on holiday, I’ve mostly enjoyed them! I think it’s because I actually try to respect the places I’m going to and have family who do the same, lmao (definitely got lucky for the most part). However, I’ve been mostly staying in the UK these days and there’s some lovely places here that I can just drive to for days out, so less stress all round.
I love how whenever the tourist character is filming he has his finger over the camera...😂
Don't forget about showing off you holiday photos on Facebook, desperately trying to prove to everybody that you are better than them.
Reminds me of a story from the early-mid 1990s; on first day of school every kid in the class was asked by the teacher where did they travel on holiday. Each kid tried to top the previous one by name dropping the fanciest Spanish or Italian resorts, when the got to the poorest kid who didn't travel anywhere, so he could name drop the only place he heard in the news: Bosnia
I love the part where I need to spend the next year or so paying off my credit card
So good, excellent pacing, always funny, great use of facial hair!! Your vids are my favourite source of comedy at the moment. Wish I had money to throw your way totally appreciate the art going into your work!!
Went on a holiday 25 years ago... never came back!!
Ha! This is why housesitting is such a great option! Taking care of someone's pets in their house means you don't have to pack all the "might needs" 😂 Cleaning up cat vomit in another country is VERY EXOTIC.
I HATE hearing people in their 20s constantly remind everyone about every country they’ve solo travelled to and where they’re going next month
Nothing screams I’m rich as fuck and don’t have to work more than that
No need to be jealous
They're not rich they just have 1/3 the costs and obligations of a family, and no point in saving for a house
@@judithtoroa no need for them to constantly remind everyone how privileged they are
"... that it would give Christopher Columbus second thoughts..." 🤣. First time watching a video of yours. Likely not the last time. Nicely summed up and good comic add-ons. I believe I've 'transcended' the ordeal of going on holiday. I tell work my dates, they are not up for negotiation on their part, I pack light, avoid places that are overrun by UK expats, no Air B&Bs, find my own attractions and don't mind the more macabre stuff. If I would have the time off and money, I'd be off on holiday every other month. 🙃
The problem with holidays is they only exist within the context of slavery the rest of the time.
In Swedish we use the roughly translated word ”homecation” which means enjoying your vacation at home and maybe discovering somethng new in your city. My favorite kind of vacation!
I think it's called 'staycation' in English.
@@c.v.yardleyexcept that's been hijacked by people who thinks a staycation is staying in the UK, somewhere that isn't actually at home and is, in fact, a holiday away from home involving travel
@@baraitalo That's what I thought, but the Oxford dictionary says this:
Noun: staycation; plural noun: staycations; noun: stay-cation; plural noun: stay-cations
a holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips
@@c.v.yardley bloody languages evolving again
For me vacations are for doing my hobbies. Not for spending a fortune on foreign hotels. Road trips with a van are fun though
OH MY GOD
I needed this video so bad
The "I'm not racist, BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT..." 😅😂
When I was in the Army, I rarely used to take vacations yearly because it was always so much paper work. At least back in the days, I had to fill out a form in my unit; fill out the leave form (the most important document to sign out and sign in for vacation); a composite risk assessment; a flight ticket (if flying); if I was driving to my destination, a map and driving instructions from google or other type of map that showed where I was heading to and back (this was to calculate the many hours of driving), and if the drive was longer than 4 hours, I had to add on the risk assessment the break times, and if I was flying, I still had to add the map and instructions (I always added my drive or ride to the airport and back); I also needed a signing sheet from my unit's chain of command (up to the company commander), and all of them had to sign in order for the folder to move forward; I needed to add my vehicle inspection with a copy of my driver's license, vehicle registration, and car insurance to make sure that all were up to date; other extra paperwork, and such. And if vacation was outside the United States, I would have to do it at least 2 months prior, and add more paperwork because the intelligence department had to be involved to check the risk level of a country. For example, if I was going to Mexico, they could approve or disapprove vacation depending on where I was going there. Surprisingly, when I was stationed abroad, it was less paperwork.
Staycations all the way
The two things I hate the most about holidays are how much everything costs nowadays and airports/flying. Might as well stay home
Top tip wait until all the schools in England go back at the beginning of September then go on holiday much cheaper and less people everywhere cos quite a few other countries follow this same school timetable
I go on holiday to get away from work, I come back to get away from family.
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feel you....
The mirror spying dialogue 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀
2:37 I know this bit is hyperbole but it’s exactly how packing triggers my hoarding. I feel like I’m on Oregon trail and then I forget my deodorant
That epic "buuuuut" was too real. Brilliant.
I remember a colleague coming back from a sun and beach holiday , not sure if it had been in Spain or in Greece ! I had no money for holiday but I sure didn’t feel envious of that kind of holiday !
None of Mike's videos are funny, it's just pure truth delivered with some pure humour. ❤