Do you HATE the FRENCH?

[Commander]

I've just rung up my mate who works the Sun.

You're in for it now, everyone in this thread is going to be exposed as racists.

 

[Trigger]

Oh come now London Irish, please tell me you're not that sad to go back months on NSC looking for faults, or do you just save every message i post? Either way that's very sad, you gotta admit....

 

[zefarelly]

being Sussex born and bred, If I had to move anywhere else it'd be 150 miles(or 240 Km) south, not north.

 

[Seagull over SW France]

Having lived here permanently for 5 years after retiring from Sussex Police,doing a radio show (blues) every week,drinking cheap wine,smoking cheap fags,eating good food,what a relief to get away from the nanny state called England............

 

[zefarelly]

you lucky lucky bastard SoSWF . . . .sounds idyllic

I saw that bridge on TV last night, awesome, a shame we can't do things like that in this Country anymore

 

[Hungry Joe]

My Sister has recently moved to France and I visited her there last Summer. The impression that stuck with me was that of the French's attitude to family life. All the kids in the village, including the hormonal teenagers, came round to see us and mucked in with pretty much everything the adults were doing. They were polite and at ease with conversation and stayed up with us playing petanque and generally having a good time. Contrast that with the attitude of many of our young people (and parents for that matter). I think you can probably apply that attitude to most of Continental Europe, certainly from what I've seen of it. I'm sure it was more like that over here at one time too but we really have lost the plot of late and have a whole generation of adults-to-be that are seriously maladjusted to social life and how to behave towards other people in general.

 

[pasty]

In fact I will probably end up living there when I retire (providing Mrs Hut is of the same ilk)

Moi aussi - except with Mrs Pasty obviously.

 

[Southy]

We offered kindly to donate them Calais
And all they gave us back was the bidet
And now they won't let us go on holiday
They bottle bath-water [or 7 Up] and call it Perrier
They eat poor froggie's legs then throw the rest away
They even like the look of Johnny Holliday
They eat raw garlic and invented croquet
They think the height of chic is John Paul Gautier
That's why I hate the French, mmm,
That's why I hate the French

They all wear berets and they're all called Jacques,
They even steal from us the words they lack
Le weekend, Le Camping and cul de sac
That's why I hate the French, oh,
That's why I hate the French.

They claim their films are the best we've ever had
Well I suppose Emmannuelle wasn't bad
All their songs sound more or less the same
La la la la la la la la.........je t'aime
Charles Aznavour is always so depressed
Wouldn't you be if oui oui meant yes?

Sacha Distel has raindrops falling on his head
I wonder if Jean Paul Sartre knows he is dead
What I resent is that they're so good in bed
That's why I hate the French, oh,
That's why I hate the French.

They bake their bread in such a naughty shape
They brag about their wine and worship the grape
They criticise our food but then they eat crepe
That's why I hate the French, oh,
That's why I hate the French.

And now they started coming here in droves
French cigarettes, French letters and French clothes
For breakfast they have croissant or French toast
And there's always some French letters in the post
I'm sick and tired of eating all this brie
A day trip to Boulougne is fine by me
And I'll be buggered if I go to [Oops!] Paris.

They're pretty cocky 'bout their games in the dark
They think with girls they light a special spark
But look what the bastards did to Joan of Arc
That's why I hate the French, oh,
That's why I hate the French, mmm,
That's why I hate the French.

Neil Innes - Secret Policeman's Ball 1979

 

[London Irish]

Cheese-eating surrender monkey.

It's amazing how many times you see Littlejohn types and rightwing Americans spout this phrase as some kind of witty put-down of the French.

Yet it was invented by Matt Groening to take the piss out of people who take the piss out of the French.

To see it getting recycled constantly by Francophobes with all the irony stripped right out of it - well, that's an irony in itself.

 

[Hungry Joe]

Cheese-eating surrender monkey.

It's amazing how many times you see Littlejohn types and rightwing Americans spout this phrase as some kind of witty put-down of the French.

Yet it was invented by Matt Groening to take the piss out of people who take the piss out of the French.

To see it getting recycled constantly by Francophobes with all the irony stripped right out of it - well, that's an irony in itself.

A bit like Ronald Reagan using 'Born In The USA' as his Election Anthem. Dumb ass Americans. The French should ask for The Statue Of Liberty back.

 

[zefarelly]

I'd Like a retreat in France, Mrs Zefarellys not so keen at the moment, although I saw a nice little Chatau on the market she liked, it had a few hundred acres and a motor racing circuit.

just a small matter of 9m Euros to get my hands on the Deeds !

 

[Normandy seagull]

I am going to start a thread- why you hate the English