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what do boards people think of people from paris/france

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    #32
    Nichololas
    Registered Users Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭Nichololas


    French people? They're the worst.


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    #33
    Jumpy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    Im marrying one.


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    #34
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    France is a great country to just drive around. Love the place. I shall live there one day. Been over there loads, Paris, the south, the north. Never found the people rude if you can speak a bit of the lingo. Paris is the only place I've ever seen a 40 year old doctor with a designer suit scoot to work.


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    #35
    metaoblivia
    Registered Users Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭metaoblivia


    Despite all of the stereotypes I heard about French people - and Parisians particularly - I've had good experiences all three times I've visited. Maybe it's because I can speak enough French to hold a conversation or because, for some weird reason, a lot of people think I "look French," including every Brit I've ever met and my own mother. But French people and Parisians have always been decent to me!


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    #36
    dlofnep
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    Couldn't tell ya.


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    #37
    PhysiologyRocks
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    I love France!


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    #38
    30txsbzmcu2k9w
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    dubois90 wrote: »
    we have the style, the best city in the world and well basically everything so whats your view on Parisiens?

    p.s born in paris and feel french and irish.:D

    nah your more Irish than French. French people don't care what people think of them that's why i admire them, but you think you're French and you brag to your mates about it too i'm guessing. Oh vindicate me, vindicate me please! Im so continental!! yeah.


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    #39
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Love them! My niece is half French half Irish and lives in Paris. I hear people going on about them having a stick up their bum my my ex inlaws have the same sense of humour as us.


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    #40
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Them chicks are hot...


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    #41
    Biggins
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    I reserve the right not to answer that question, on the grounds that when Sarkosy becomes our new EU master, he might have me shot! :D


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    #42
    Medievalist
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    I'm growing to strongly dislike my French neighbour. He keeps stealing my parking space, kicking a football against the garden wall, and jabbering away really loudly. But I'm presuming not all French people are space-stealing, jabbering, football playing tossers...so I reckon they're probably ok as a whole....just not the one living next to me....stupid right-hand drive banger taking my space...:mad:

    But then to cheer myself up I've opened a bottle of French red wine....so French people are now, in general, wonderful!


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    #43
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Biggins wrote: »
    I reserve the right not to answer that question, on the grounds that when Sarkosy becomes our new EU master, he might have me shot! :D

    What did you do to Sarkozy now? Was it his wife? Cos in fairness we've all done his wife.


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    #44
    Biggins
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    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    What did you do to Sarkozy now? Was it his wife? Cos in fairness we've all done his wife.

    LOL You and I wish! :pac:


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    #45
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,025 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    I have family that live over in Paris so i'm over pretty often and i think its a deadly city.
    Sure it has its problems but i mean its a city of c. 8m people, you cant expect all of them to be friendly


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    #46
    FutureTaoiseach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭FutureTaoiseach


    Rebellious and freedom-loving. Not terribly fond of kings.


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    #47
    Local-womanizer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Local-womanizer


    mikom wrote: »
    French people chomp onions and go "hoh-hee-hoh-hee-hoh"

    A french Enniscorthy:pac:

    I have found the French to be more welcoming in the south than in the north.Lovely country though,and it was hard to beat the fresh bread in the morning.


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    #48
    Iang87
    Registered Users Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭Iang87


    views on paris and frenchys,

    Paris - dirty

    Frenchys - arrogant


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    #49
    minidazzler
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    Damn French, the Yanks saved your ass in 2 world wars!!! And ye pulled out of Nam to early.:D


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    #50
    liah
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuXdhow3uqQ


    ...That's all I have to say on that matter.


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    #51
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    Spent all of my childhood summers (and 4 full years) in France, unwillingly. Would have preferred to be able to stay here with my friends. Therefore I have a sh*t perception on the place. But you know, I guess it's grand. Never liked Paris until I was there this January, and it was snowing! Very beautiful. All my memories of Paris before that were of the musky, stuffy, smelly type.


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    #52
    milehip1
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭milehip1


    Just back from the Alps, great food/scenery, the French people i spoke to and dealt with were A1 and their women have a certian je n'ai sais quoi.
    Deffo be back.


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    #53
    netwhizkid
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    I met a French student from Paris who was friends with my sister when we were younger and she was the nicest (and very attractive) girl you could ask for, She left me with a really good impression of French people. I think that French women they way they speak english have one of the sexiest accents in the world, to hear a beautiful French women speak English adds to the charm!

    My view of France in general is:

    Bad Cars, bad design and worse build quality.
    Great food and wine, very laid back culture.
    Liberal in the extreme, it is practically a socialist country
    Very rebelious, if Sarko tried a NAMAesque robbery his head would be in a basket
    Multicultural society which has damaged France highly, far too many immigrants and the French are a minority in certain districts/

    Nice women:rolleyes:


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    #54
    whatdoicare
    Registered Users Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    People from Paris are lovely in general. I have a few friends from the area and they don't have any better than thou attitude (none that I noticed anyway). It's all just a stereotype :p IMO.


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    #55
    Dudess
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    netwhizkid wrote: »
    I met a French student from Paris who was friends with my sister when we were younger and she was the nicest (and very attractive) girl you could ask for, She left me with a really good impression of French people. I think that French women they way they speak english have one of the sexiest accents in the world, to hear a beautiful French women speak English adds to the charm!

    My view of France in general is:

    Bad Cars, bad design and worse build quality.
    Great food and wine, very laid back culture.
    Liberal in the extreme, it is practically a socialist country
    Very rebelious, if Sarko tried a NAMAesque robbery his head would be in a basket
    Multicultural society which has damaged France highly, far too many immigrants and the French are a minority in certain districts/

    Nice women:rolleyes:
    Actually France is considered a generally rather intolerant society when it comes to immigration. Assimilation is favoured over multiculturalism - "our way or you're on your own" which has led to ghettoisation.


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    #56
    ejmaztec
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    caseyann wrote: »
    ^^^^ yeah but when they hear you are Irish different story :D



    Cool nice people :)

    But once they've assumed that you're English, and told you to fuck off, the damage is done.:P


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    #57
    FutureTaoiseach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭FutureTaoiseach


    Dudess wrote: »
    Actually France is considered a generally rather intolerant society when it comes to immigration. Assimilation is favoured over multiculturalism - "our way or you're on your own" which has led to ghettoisation.
    I look at it differently. True assimilationism is incompatible with ghettoisation. They talk the talk but don't walk the walk. If cities are effectively segregated along ethnic-lines, then you don't get assimilation. The US is an example of a society where assimilation actually occurs, with 80% saying they can only speak English in a poll I saw some years back.

    Multiculturalism is not the same as immigration, and attitudes to it should not be confused with attitudes to immigration. For a society to be cohesive, it has to have common values and a common focus of loyality to the State. The French model has failed but not because it claims to be assimilationist - but rather, because it has not practiced what it preached. Planning policies should aim to maximise social-interaction between newcomer and native. That way, a "them an us" mentality isn't allowed to take root. Western values like democracy and women's rights are ones we should try to cultivate in newcomers, and citizenship-tests should play a role in that. Cultural-relativism and Political-Correctness should not blind us to the fact that whatever our faults, the West is more liberal on these issues than much of the developing world.


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    #58
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Well I'd far from subscribe to the "genital mutilation is part of their culture, leave them alone!" point of view, but forcing e.g. secularism on people is only going to cause discontent.


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    #59
    FutureTaoiseach
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    Dudess wrote: »
    Well I'd far from subscribe to the "genital mutilation is part of their culture, leave them alone!" point of view, but forcing e.g. secularism on people is only going to cause discontent.
    Secularism has been the cultural trend in Europe since the Enlightenment (1700s). Do we want to go back to the way Europe was before then?


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    #60
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    No, I'm not suggesting that at all. I'm just saying I believe a person has the right to practise their religion. To take that away from them, as part of that society's tolerant, liberal agenda... would be rather ironic.


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    #61
    FutureTaoiseach
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    I don't think the State should take away someone's right to practice their religion in a mainstream way. But the State needs to be separated from religion because history teaches us that persecution otherwise can result.


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