Why we love The French

[vitusvivi]

Cos when i was standing at a urinal (which was the side of the road) the Frenchmen thought i had the biggest cock they had ever seen. I must admit its only 3 inches flacid. This is why France is a great country.

 

[Acker79]

Doesn't change the fact our men died to save their country and the selected few seem to have forgotten this

World war 2 was not solely about freeing france. Our men died and fought for many things, including preventing the spread of fascism, defending our own land.

Freeing france was not the motivating factor. And as others have said, France were sold down the river by politicians, the people fought and helped free their own country.

 

[Trufflehound]

Haha, All I know about luxembourg is their football team is utter garbage they lose most matches like 10-0 dont they..?

Then I heartily recommend this excellent book as the perfect way to address this shameful gap in your knowledge:

Luxembourg (Country Guides): Tim Skelton: Amazon.co.uk: Books

And the author is an Albion fan to boot...



The Luxembourg football team may be shite, but the cloggies only managed to beat them 1-0 in the Euro 2008 qualifiers.

 

[Icy Gull]

Surrender monkeys? Look what happened here in response to the French Resistance, these sort of things get forgotten in the oh so British slagging off of the French.

Oradour-sur-Glane 10 June 1944


Summary of: In a Ruined State

 

[jharris]

I used to go out with a girl who was half English and half French !
She used to shave under one arm !!

 

[beorhthelm]

we dont.

France is lovely, shame its wasted on the French.

 

[Gwylan]

I really like the French - Parisians excepted - until we had the kids every summer holiday was spent in France (and often spring breaks too). I've never known a more relaxed place and a friendlier bunch of people. I'd live there like a shot, but Mrs Gwylan wouldn't go for it.

Why do we like them? Fine wine, fine cheeses, beautiful bread, the art of the long lunch (I remember spending five hours on a lunch with a Norman family), sumptuous cakes, the unalloyed pleasure of people-watching (all right, ogling women) from a French cafe, a fine literary tradition, the best train service in the world - what's not to like?

 

[Uncle C]

I quote the late great Bob Monkhouse

The channel tunnel should have been built with a downward gradient towards France, so that England could use it as a sewer.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I really like the French - Parisians excepted - until we had the kids every summer holiday was spent in France (and often spring breaks too). I've never known a more relaxed place and a friendlier bunch of people. I'd live there like a shot, but Mrs Gwylan wouldn't go for it.

Why do we like them? Fine wine, fine cheeses, beautiful bread, the art of the long lunch (I remember spending five hours on a lunch with a Norman family), sumptuous cakes, the unalloyed pleasure of people-watching (all right, ogling women) from a French cafe, a fine literary tradition, the best train service in the world - what's not to like?

C'mon. You saying that those lovely patisseries in EVERY french high street where EVERY cake is the work of fine hands and pride is better than Greggs?

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

I like the French because so many of the ones that I've met live gloriously up to their (negative...)stereotype- aloof, arrogant, sense of superiority, shoulder shrugging, hairy, philosophising and overly horny. It's like being in a cartoon world when I meet them. No doubt they think the same when they meet the handsome, smooth, suave James Bond-alike me...

 

[NMH]

The is something effeminate about the French. It works well though, for the women - not so much for the men.

 

[NMH]

Where the f*** is luxembourg anyway?

A very small place, but they too could take France, in a war.

 

[Don Quixote]

I don't know why people think the French are bad at fighting in wars. They had that Nepoleon bloke didn't they. Oh wait, he was really from Italian decent.

 

[Padders]

Food, wine, armagnac, way of life, empty roads, play good rugby, have some great footballers, a french accent on a good looking girl is just toooo sexy ..getting bored now

Magnificent countryside

 

[Padders]

Has anybody mentioned Bordeaux yet

 

[Icy Gull]

Has anybody mentioned Bordeaux yet

Flying from there on Monday

 

[Stoo82]

 

[Gwylan]

A very small place, but they too could take France, in a war.

Hmm...England was conquered by the Normans in 1066 and hasn't been conquered since.

England was beaten by France in the 100 years war, losing all its residual possessions except Calais. 100 years later, it loses that too.

The Severn Years War was a score draw - although France lost the sub-plot to that in Canada. Then Napoleon stomped all over Europe, only losing to Russian weather and finally the alliance between Britain and Prussia.

Since then, France and Britain/UK have been on the same side. As others have pointed out, ten of thousands of French died in the two world wars of the last century - scarcely a people prepared to fight.

The French military record is about the same as ours: win some, lose some and some draws. I see no reason to get sniffy about it.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

1. eric cantona

2. eva green

3. saian supa crew

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Doesn't change the fact our men died to save their country and the selected few seem to have forgotten this

And this is a reason for putting down the French?

Good grief. Maybe "our men" had a better opionion of France and the French than you do.