Crap Towns, Crap Jobs, Crap Holidays
Welcome to the Crap archives. Here you’ll find a selection of our favourite crap town, crap job and crap holiday nominations.
The Idler Book of Crap Holidays: 50 Tales of Holiday Hell – Published October
In Crap Holidays, Dan Kieran highlights 50 of the most disastrous – and hilarious – holidays from hell…From leaky caravans in Wales, to crushingly disappointing luxury hotels in Barbados…From dysentery in Goa, to bloody awful holiday companions who won’t leave you alone…In fact, from Butlins to Ball, here you’ll find stories of crap holiday sex, crime, food, accommodation, and of course, the inevitable famliy fights! Focusing on the gap between the wonderful promise and the grim reality, Crap Holidays takes a step back in time to look at hellish holidays from the past, whilst also examining 21st-century holiday culture – including information on a variety of more serious subjects, such as…The number of ‘holiday’ deaths that occur each year…The number and type of complaints received by different operators each year…The profits made – and the prices paid for holiday hell holes…Written once again by the Idler’s readers and contributors, Crap Holidays will be packed with hilarious holiday snaps and, of course, savage cartoons satirising the whole hellish business!
"All pubs are terrible places now. I mean you wouldn't have known a decent pub at your age, I shouldn't think. They didn't have fucking music. They didn't have cigarette machines. They didn't sell the chemical beer. They were for proper drinkers, not for fucking yobs, hooligans. I want to go into a pub and meet interesting people, not to look at a lot of people sitting on the floor drinking out of tins. I can't stand it. Mostly people in your age group. Ruin pubs."