16 Aug 2008 2:13 AM:

We can't have music till 12 yet they can wake us all up at 8.00 am to let off fireworks or cannons or whatever they are. Also I hear the Candy Bar has live entertainment on Thursday night's and El Pantanico has live music outside on Friday's!!!! I guess they don't have a German living above them yet I fail to see how that is fair. Just because we have one resident who loves to complain, why we should be left with nothing?. Also I would like to address the lack of original ideas by the spanish bars next to us (except for 1 idea by maño's to get a wii) copying us with both getting internet and maño's doing english breakfast. I am all for healthy competition but copying is not that. Coming up with ideas that would bring them business , that didn't conflict with our ideas that we have in operation, is brilliant. 
There is not much more we can do to entertain the people until the ayuntamiento will let us have entertainment. I don't know if any of yous' were at our St. Patrick Day celebration, but that was a major sucess and enjoyed by everybody, ex-pat and Spanish, why can't we have even just 1 night of entertainment a week?? The German upstairs even cancelled our quiz on a Thursday. Every week the police came round and told us to shut it down. Furthermore, we have been robbed twice now. We have grills on the front windows and they robbed us the 2nd time that way. They pulled the grills off with a car ,or something, broke the window, stole 2 t.v's, cash register and a laptop and the police were not here in that time. Yet when 1 night I turned up the music loud they were here in 5 mins. Maybe it's me but I think it is a bit odd, don't  you think. Also Maño's has no grills and more expensive t.v's , a computerised till and a fruit machine (slot machine I don't know), and yet they are never touched. Maybe I'm being paranoid or a conspiracy theorist but I think there is discrimination going on. I know this nothing to do with this particular forum but I wanted you to have an insight to why I was angry. Sorry about that, once again. I would love some opinions, good or bad, on the matter. Thank you
                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                              Regards Gavin               

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16 Aug 2008 1:34 AM:

Hey people,
                     Just taking this time to apologise to everybody about my comments. I don't know why I did it and it will probably have reprecussions for me and the bar. I wanted to give my opinion on everything and it came across as extreme. I guess I saw people putting us down and reacted , which I shouldn't of done. I have lived here for 6 years and have learned a good standard of Spanish and have Spanish friends. I have heard people say they won't come here because we are Irish or British as some of you still think but , personally I would rather go to an English speaking pub because I find it easier to converse with people and have more in common with them. Also I find alot of Spanish bars to be sub-standard in terms of comfort, cleanliness and general attitude towards us ex-pats.Not saying all of them, of course, but I find in this village it is the case. Maybe I'm wrong, but in 6 years that's what I think. Maybe it's because I am young they treat me this way or they think I am a tourist and they will treat older people better, I don't know. To get to the point, I just want to retract my hostile comments and hope you can try to forget them when you judge me.
                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                   Sincerly 
                                                                                                                                                                    Gavin

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09 Aug 2008 4:52 AM:

hey,
im am tryin to reply to someone who was putting the liffey bar down but first i would like to tell you about a couple i was talking while their food order: the asked me if there was a new paper shop around formentera and i said in all honeslty i dont live here im over here working till end of august. so i asked my boyfriend who lived over in spain for 6 years. and he said no. they have bought an apartment in formentura and the people they was buyin the apartment off lied to them and told them there would be a bank and a supermarket and a english newspaper or shop (or as near as) there was already a spanish bar they also got told there would be a irish bar next to the spanish bar and that came true as well as the supermarket. but nothing else happened even though there is a bank in the centre of formentera which is a 5 min walk from the liffey and spanish bar. but what i gont get they asked  me if there is any shop which sell english magazines. ( i disagree with the english shop becuase people come away for a holiday and to forget about whats happening back at home if you live live over here its a differnt story but if u live here u can get english tv so u can still watch emerdale and all the soaps and thing.  but i do disagree with the english shop it would be nice. i admit i made my friend  friend go to a spanish shop in quesada because im only over her for 8 week and we have no english tv but my friends friend came over then  brough sum magazines over and be casuse i cum over 4 week before then it was the same stuff. anyway on to why im on here that was just something i wanted to say and to get my point across.

i dont apriciate people calling the liffey bar saying it is not the place to be or its rubbish or boring. i come over last september and i always come in to the lifey bar and it was always busy and i met alot of nice people from all over the world and some spanish too. i personaly think english people are stuck up. because we try and talk spanish and if you say something wrong they will correct you but if they was in england and tryed talkin english most english people would take the mick, but they dont over here and i apriciate it as i have been though it and seen it. buy i come back over to spain in may this year because my friends parents had an apartment in formentera for 2 week and i met the manager of the liffey and we are till to gether now. and i am not just righting this because im sticking up for my boyfriend or being selfish people have there right to there opinion and ive learnt not to jude people by first impressions and this also applys to bars etc.. i am over here till end of august because , my boyfriend asked me to work and it has not been busy enough but thats probily be cause of the exchange rate. ill add another section tommorrow time to go sleep so wait for the other bit tomorrow

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04 Aug 2008 2:40 AM:

Perhaps, that may be true but I am saying that some people have no knowledge of Spanish. I have heard "spanglish" been spoken in Spanish bars eg. dows serveses por favr( involving hand movements that make no sense). Hablas espanol? Creo que no,pero, ensena me que no.Espero tu respuesta. Hasta luego :) 

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04 Aug 2008 2:15 AM:

Hey all you Formentera lovers that love Spanish bars. You love them but do any of you actually have the decency to actually speak spanish in them??? Porque pienso que no hablais castellano. No creo. Y esta. Tengo ganas de conoceros. Hasta luego :)

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