What's wrong with the French?
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>*Insert joke about France surrendering here.*<
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I didn't read anything in the article that struck me as odd or unusual...I've been through France a few times since the late 70's and the people were always more brazen there.
Last time I was in Lyon in 2001, for example, a hooker in purple suede thigh highs and matching coat saw the Geneva license plate on my Audi in heavy traffic on a 6 lane boulevard at 2 in the afternoon, stepped right in front of the car and slowly opened her coat and did a rather languid demi-strip to display her wares...they were quite lovely wares, in fact, and it was tres cool having a woman strip on the nose of your car in a traffic jam...so very French, really. She seemed oblivious to the traffic and people now yelling at her, and was quite determined to get into my... car.
Eating at a cafe you practically had to slap the street urchins in the head to get them to leave you alone.
France is just different than the USA.
Biggus dealus.
The more telling observation is how rabid Americans are about anyone who deigns to disagree with them.
Very unsophisticated, very poor form.
Last time I was in Lyon in 2001, for example, a hooker in purple suede thigh highs and matching coat saw the Geneva license plate on my Audi in heavy traffic on a 6 lane boulevard at 2 in the afternoon, stepped right in front of the car and slowly opened her coat and did a rather languid demi-strip to display her wares...they were quite lovely wares, in fact, and it was tres cool having a woman strip on the nose of your car in a traffic jam...so very French, really. She seemed oblivious to the traffic and people now yelling at her, and was quite determined to get into my... car.
Eating at a cafe you practically had to slap the street urchins in the head to get them to leave you alone.
France is just different than the USA.
Biggus dealus.
The more telling observation is how rabid Americans are about anyone who deigns to disagree with them.
Very unsophisticated, very poor form.
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It's why many Americans won't eat any more french fries. From now on, it's Freedom Fries. And French's Mustard will now be Freedom Mustard. And you can forget about French toast. It is now Freedom Toast.
C'mon people, get behind the initiative!
C'mon people, get behind the initiative!
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I enjoyed reading the article...
although it's taken me most of the afternoon! Real life kept interfering.
What struck me was the analysis the writer made as to why things are as they are. All major cities in all major countries have their 'utility housing' where people with very little earning ability live. I know we have them in the UK.
What is different is the majority of the people occupying these homes in Paris are Arab or of Arab descent. France's close ties with North Africa has certainly come home to roost.
The UK have had an ongoing dispute with the French (yes another one!) for a number of years. It centred around a refugee camp just inside France and next to the EuroStar rail link. Night after night hundreds of immigrants would walk along the track or attempt to board a train in their effort to enter the UK. Despite British protests and disruption to the EuroStar service the French did nothing about the camp until a few months ago.
Now they've moved it further inland.
Their attitude to this relatively small problem seemed to be that if it was ignored it would go away.
After reading the article they appear to think that way on a much larger scale as well...
ppman
although it's taken me most of the afternoon! Real life kept interfering.
What struck me was the analysis the writer made as to why things are as they are. All major cities in all major countries have their 'utility housing' where people with very little earning ability live. I know we have them in the UK.
What is different is the majority of the people occupying these homes in Paris are Arab or of Arab descent. France's close ties with North Africa has certainly come home to roost.
The UK have had an ongoing dispute with the French (yes another one!) for a number of years. It centred around a refugee camp just inside France and next to the EuroStar rail link. Night after night hundreds of immigrants would walk along the track or attempt to board a train in their effort to enter the UK. Despite British protests and disruption to the EuroStar service the French did nothing about the camp until a few months ago.
Now they've moved it further inland.
Their attitude to this relatively small problem seemed to be that if it was ignored it would go away.
After reading the article they appear to think that way on a much larger scale as well...
ppman
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Morwen said:
The US doesn't oppose Saddam out of some higher moral principal, either.
Freedom onion soup
Freedom kissing
Freedom onion dip
Freedom vanilla ice cream
Freedom manicure
and so on...
