A Few Great Things About France
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Wino wrote: It is politcally correct to smoke............in public!
not for long yet...
your cat Tom is very nice. I had almost the same one but her black stain on the nose was bit bigger...
Tom's ashes are still on the kitchen window cill; I can't bear to bury them! He was the most fantastic cat........and I still miss him dreadfully. That was 9 months ago...........my poor old Tom! x
All 3 stone of him!
Wino wrote: Tom's ashes are still on the kitchen window cill; I can't bear to bury them! He was the most fantastic cat........and I still miss him dreadfully. That was 9 months ago...........my poor old Tom! x
All 3 stone of him!
I feel so sorry for you.
I found my Daria in the middle of the street, her body was still warm... A bloody sad day because I had dreamed of her dead body at the very same place a few mounths before (sometimes I feel like Barney in EGG)... I still feel responsible for this, in some ways, even if it happened three years ago... On this day, when I drove away from home, I had a last glance at her thinking "why the fuck do you always think about this crappy dream ? See, she's afraid of your car, she will never be run over"...
My Name Is John Barnes wrote: They haven't had to surrender to anybody lately...
That is great, isn't it ?!!! Because if we went with you to Iraq, the whole coalition should have to surrender with us !!! Thanks to our non-involment, you have won !!!
Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: Le Tour de France
On the 14th of July, the étape of the Tour de France will be Carcassonne. There will be a mega fireworks for the celebration of the two events just at the olde forteresse.
Jiphy wrote:
My Name Is John Barnes wrote: They haven't had to surrender to anybody lately...
That is great, isn't it ?!!! Because if we went with you to Iraq, the whole coalition should have to surrender with us !!! Thanks to our non-involment, you have won !!!
erm...when the French surrendered to the Nazis, I believe the Brits carried on...so I'm not quite sure that your logic is entirely sound...but hey, whatever floats your boat...
Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: Comrade always raises a toast of champagne on Bastille Day.
I see that Comrade Shampanyov also enjoys bourgeois champagne... I wonder how much a bottle of this very one can cost on the other side of the Ocean ?
Jiphy wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: Comrade always raises a toast of champagne on Bastille Day.
I see that Comrade Shampanyov also enjoys bourgeois champagne... I wonder how much a bottle of this very one can cost on the other side of the Ocean ?
It can be as high as $50 at one shop across the street, but Comrade prefers the shop across the street that sell it for $33. 
My Name Is John Barnes wrote: erm...when the French surrendered to the Nazis, I believe the Brits carried on...so I'm not quite sure that your logic is entirely sound...but hey, whatever floats your boat...
Brits were (and still are) on an island... and you were on the other side of the Ocean until 1942 (by the way, nobody complained about your non-involment at the League of Nations in 1939 as you did with us a few years ago at the UN)... I am not sure that even with American troops on the Continent in 1939 - May 1940, the three armies could have stop the Nazis, who invaded two neutral countries to invade France by the North instead of the East. What would have thought the Belgians if the French built the same fortifications they built by the French-German border ? Incident diplomatique ?
Then, the British carried on - that was the Battle of Britain and I think you know that 1/3 of the RAF pilots were pilots from disbanded continental air forces + some American pilots who decided to fight for Democracy before the USA officially entered in the war...
Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: but Comrade prefers the shop across the street that sell it for $33.
fair price
I guess we shouldn't forget, they did lend us a hand defeating the Brits in that rebellion...
and France was the only country that ever established a diplomatic mission in the Republic of Texas...
MORE: There are definitely more than a few things I love about France! -
People: Mireille MathieuBrigitte BardotClaudine LongetJean-Marie GuyoBernard BuffetArthur Rimbaud Paul VerlaineLouis de FunesClaude MonetJules VerneVoltaireCharles BaudelaireJacques TatiJacque-Luc GodardJean MaraisPierre RichardGerard DepardieuGustave Flaubert and many more! :)
Fragrance industry
Alcohol industry (wines, cognac, champagne, absenth)
Architecture (Paris, Strassbourg, Avignon and Saint-Tropez). 
Red Wine
Nice people in the rural areas I found,let you join in and play bouls,and the wine flows
Cheap fags and Booze always a bonus too...
J.A.K wrote: mines better Ste
France's number one lover PEPE LE PEW
Ah, yes. Best thing yet!
The food of course (but then it better be good, we Brits pay enough for it via the CAP). We eat complete swill in comparison, no matter how many poncy TV celebrity chefs try and claim otherwise.
Public transport
The fact that they understand the value of public investment in infrastructure.
The Sans Coulottes. And the fact they when they got rid of their monarchy it _stayed_ gotten rid of.
Oh yeah, Emile Zola and Jules Verne.
That, while they tend to like the cure, they aren't as fat as Robert Smith.
(Why the French aren't fat is one of life's mysteries. All that good food, all those restaurants, and no fatties. Or is it only Paris? Is Paris patrolled by a special branch of the Surete, the Chic Police, who arrest anyone with a BMI>25 or any woman who is less than stylishly dressed, and haul them off to re-education camps, where amongst other things, they are forced to wear nicotine patches till they take up a heavy Galouis habit so they lose their appetite? Yes, I think that must be it.)
404 error wrote: That, while they tend to like the cure, they aren't as fat as Robert Smith.
(Why the French aren't fat is one of life's mysteries. All that good food, all those restaurants, and no fatties. Or is it only Paris? Is Paris patrolled by a special branch of the Surete, the Chic Police, who arrest anyone with a BMI>25 or any woman who is less than stylishly dressed, and haul them off to re-education camps, where amongst other things, they are forced to wear nicotine patches till they take up a heavy Galouis habit so they lose their appetite? Yes, I think that must be it.)
I've wondered that about the French. Also about the Argentinians. They'll be eating steaks at midnight, and they're still thin!
Existentialism the French Resistance in WWII The language (makes you sound romantic even if all you're saying is "where is the library?") :p
Taboo # 7 wrote:
The language (makes you sound romantic even if all you're saying is "where is the library?") :p
Or, to quote the Merovingian from Matrix Reloaded "I love French wine, like I the French language. I have sampled every language, French is my favorite. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with. Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculé de ta mère. It's like wiping your arse with silk. I love it."
Always interesting to read what foreigners are thinking about France
Paris je t'aime
with Fanny Ardant, Juliette Binoche, Gérard Depardieu, Yolande Moreau 
Nick Nolte, Natalie Portman...and many many more...
Super Ally wrote: The most friendly and genuine people you'd ever likely to meet...
tu crains des représailles ?
Jiphy wrote:
Super Ally wrote: The most friendly and genuine people you'd ever likely to meet...
tu crains des représailles ?
Reprisals? From us? Nah. Besides, I'm sure SuperAlly must be right. 
- the wine
- the cheese
- the bread
- Airbus
- the scenery
- le tour de france
- cheap hotels
- the fact that they dont give a f*** about anyone else and are prepared to go their own way when its in their best interest
- the fact they havent abandoned their social principles in the face of rampant commercialism and capitalism
Shellshocker wrote: Reprisals? From us? Nah. Besides, I'm sure SuperAlly must be right.
he may fear to see his car, say, burn...
Jiphy wrote:
Shellshocker wrote: Reprisals? From us? Nah. Besides, I'm sure SuperAlly must be right.
he may fear to see his car, say, burn...
I thought that sort of thing was done by France's own poor and disenfranchised?
Shellshocker wrote: I thought that sort of thing was done by France's own poor and disenfranchised?
You thought well...
But do not forget that Bretagne has been the poorest part of the country for ages... so... But if SupperAlly is from Scottish, Irish or Welsh origin, no problem... he is from the family...
darran clarke wrote: 4) Airbus
that is an European achievment... they are only assembled in Toulouse...
