France is a shit country not because it opposes American foreign policy or because it fought several wars with Britain in the past but rather because it's inhabited by wankers

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― discus thrower with attitude (weldrick), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

"A final and odious headbutt. We were left speechless by such stupidity" - Figaro
"This exit from football is unworthy of him" - Le Parisien
"How could this happen to a man like you?" - L'Equipe
"He is prone like all of us to weakness and anger" - La Montagne
"Too much pressure, too much worshipping of a player who was made for a quiet, simple life" - La Republique du Centre
"Zidane botched his exit" - L'Est republicain

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

france is no worse a country than most.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Unlike any other country on the planet, France is solely inhabited by wankers. There's no-one there but wankers, and well, people who post wildly prejudicial polemical generalizations on message boards to assuage the damage done to their fragile egos not so much because of the inadequacy of their genital organs but because their timid souls deny them the faculty of empathy thus making them terrifically poor lovers. Soyez le bienvenu, weldrick, Vous êtes d'où en France?

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Unlike any other country on the planet, France is solely inhabited by wankers. There's no-one there but wankers

Glad someone agrees

― Breean Weldrick (weldrick), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Soyez le bienvenu, weldrick, Vous êtes d'où en France?

PTDR!

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish I'd heard the rest of a segment I caught the end of on NPR yesterday: it was about economic literacy in France and how people didn't understand the definition of "debt" or how free market economies work. Not that it'd be much better in the US, just that the French government felt this was an issue worth addressing.

― taco freebie (mike h.), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme#Financial_pyramids_in_post-communist_states

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

taco feebie, I heard the same thing. I'm not that surprised. This government (the Villepin government, that is) is also studying the American SBA (Small Business Administration) with a view to helping what the French call PMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) become not only more competitive but easier to start.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Thread title made me roffle, but I've never been to France so I have nothing much more to add. I like French films, literature and Serge Gainsbourg, though.

― Marmot 4-Tay: You are beautiful, and you are alone. (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Stan, does that mean PT "pété" (D)e (R)ire?

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

PTDR is french for ROFL :-)

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

(par terre de rire) I didn't know it was an abbreviation for pété as well. Péter = éclater (make a loud noise - also some vulgar meanings, but this'll do)

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

it was about economic literacy in France and how people didn't understand the definition of "debt" or how free market economies work.

Which is inflamed in turn by the monopoly that ENA grads have on all higher levels of French political establishment. They've basically made it impossible for anyone else to get power/set policy.

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyway, I've been to France three times and can't wait to go back.

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been to France a twice (once as an adult). People there were nice to me, so that's all I know. I was prepared for bad experiences, but really didn't find any...except a little bit in Canne, but that was more of a rich people thing than a French thing...

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Every french person I've ever met (except for one) has been very very nice.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I was also amazed at both the quality of the produce at the small produce markets in France, and also the pride with which the shopkeepers maintained their stock...I remember walking every morning to go get breakfast and seeing a guy polishing each individual piece of fruit by hand.

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

well, of course they think it's an issue worth addressing after they were forced to repeal that (very necessary) youth labor law in the spring. the youth demonstrated that they had absolutely zero knowledge of economics.

― lf (lfam), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link

and the entire world saw! i felt embarrassed for france.

― lf (lfam), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I love France, I think I'd like to move back some day.

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I was quite anti-France in my youth, and still find their puffed up sense of national pride somewhat ridiculous. But I have quite enjoyed all my visits, and the country's cultural contributions are undeniable.

I will say, however, that it's the only one of the some thirty countries I've been to where attempts to used a few learned phrases of the local language has been met with derision.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 03:40 (seventeen years ago) link

great films, great food & drink, great literature, and sexy women

no rock & roll

(it's give and take, I guess)

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 03:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I agree with the thread title. Europe's flyover country.

― David Orton (scarlet), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:08 (seventeen years ago) link

France is fantastic and the French, in my experience, with the exception of a few Parisian waiters who feel they have a stereotype to live down to, are charming.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:19 (seventeen years ago) link

love france. spent a month there every summer except one from about age 3-17. gimme the atlantic coast over the boring med every time, but the lakes and rivers and canyons everywhere else are satisfactorily stunning too. and they dig their son et lumiere and so do i. and dude, ROQUEFORT. and i have never had a french person take the piss out of my appalling french grammar, except french people who know me and they're allowed.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:22 (seventeen years ago) link

France sux.

― ed slanders (edslanders), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Country in Europe most similar to the US.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:56 (seventeen years ago) link

the most romantic city in the wahhhrld

we'll see

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:03 (seventeen years ago) link

^_^

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:03 (seventeen years ago) link

On est peut-être un pays de branleurs, mais on a la danse du coup de boule...

― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:04 (seventeen years ago) link

mitya, are you russian?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I am in love with the girl from the Renault ads.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't think french people actually wank as much as other western nations

this is just anecdotal though, perhaps a more exacting study ought to be undertaken

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

(anecdotal = one [1] after-dinner conversation)

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Country in Europe most similar to the US.
-- Ed (dal...), July 12th, 2006.

http://www.airport-transfer-paris.com/orly-teaser.jpg

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

very smilar political systems, similar (very independent) sense of national identity, similar urban sprawl exacerbated by administrative boundaries not following realities on the ground...

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link

http://members.aol.com/poishpo/sketti.jpg

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not too surprising that France and America should be similar in many ways, because many of the concepts underlying their current systems were developed at the same time.

And, of course, America wouldn't have won the Revolutionary War if it wasn't for the French navy.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't think french people actually wank as much as other western nations

They wank whenever their sisters tell them too. Didn't you see The Dreamers?

― Marmot 4-Tay: You are beautiful, and you are alone. (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

ten years pass...

This one appears to have come into existence fully sorted and should probably have been locked? Moss?

― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 23:38 (seven years ago) link

is this moss you speak of green and a plant and growing in this thread?

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 29 September 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link

https://youtu.be/st3qZFtot8s

― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 29 September 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link

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