The french - are they gits?

Console

Was watching the eurovision there last week.
Out of 43 countries, france was the only one to not speak english :rolleyes:

Does this add to, or indeed confirm that the french (as a nation) are up their own behinds?

The King of Moo

*shrugs shoulders arrogantly and walks away*

guitarzero

What did you expect? A mime artist in a beret with a baguette?? I know I did.

TeddyTedson

I actually quite like le french. Not enough to give them a capital letter but they don't just follow the crowd. They have character as a nation.

Will

They're just super proud of their heritage and language. Nothing wrong with that.

Console

How about the other 42 nations who spoke english during the eurovision voting?

doesnt really help their "rep" for hating the the english language, and anyone who speaks it now does it.

DWCommuter

The French will probably rename "The Ryder Cup", "Le Ryder Cup".

Saila

great bunch of lads





more annoying are dead horse floggers...cnuts

OutlawPete

French fries, French kissing, French toast .. a they're not a bad lot.

Henry, may you grandchildren walk with limps.

WoollyRedHat

Console wrote: »

Was watching the eurovision there last week.
Out of 43 countries, france was the only one to not speak english :rolleyes:

Does this add to, or indeed confirm that the french (as a nation) are up their own behinds?

Non parlez-vous Francais? Haha, incroyable, exactement de probleme avec des Irelandais, les gens penser que tout le monde peux parler Anglais, mais ne nous, dans le France, nous parlons Francais et Eurovison est terrible et nous ne donnons pas pointes pour la Irelandais, sauf haha!

Karona

As i was told its the official language of the eurovision, so maybe all the rest were wrong.

guitarzero

Fair play to the French, they aint having anyones sheeaat and they're no ones bitches. It just means you better get your french on next time the euros come round.

The King of Moo

Saila wrote: »

great bunch of lads





more annoying are dead horse floggers...cnuts

I don't know, I think I'd trust people who flog dead horses more than people who eat them!

DyldeBrill

yeh but id ride the birds, the fellas are gits

brilliantboy

French and English are the official languages of Eurovision....so I don't think it's too strange that the French decided to speak French :eek:
And if I recall correctly, the Belgians and someone else threw a few words of Francais in too

Wolfe Tone

inb4 Henry

DyldeBrill

brilliantboy wrote: »

French and English are the official languages of Eurovision....so I don't think it's too strange that the French decided to speak French :eek:
And if I recall correctly, the Belgians and someone else threw a few words of Francais in too

ah but they look gas looking withe their gas lookin hats and trimmed beards...i hear the birds are hairy.....you know...

WoollyRedHat

brilliantboy wrote: »

French and English are the official languages of Eurovision....so I don't think it's too strange that the French decided to speak French :eek:
And if I recall correctly, the Belgians and someone else threw a few words of Francais in too

Les Belges , ils ont parle Francais? Les Basteaurds!

OutlawPete

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

inb4 Henry

No you were not

Wolfe Tone

The King of Moo wrote: »

*shrugs shoulders arrogantly and walks away*

OutlawPete wrote: »

No you were not

Wolfe Tone

OutlawPete wrote: »

No you were not

Its near 3 am, too late for sneaky stuff like that, I went searching and embarrassed myself

K-9

I find the Liechtensteiner's worse.

DWCommuter

K-9 wrote: »

I find the Liechtensteiner's worse.

They don't really exist.

Jimmy Garlic

French women love rustic unshaven men that stink of cigarette smoke and manliness.

grenache

Console wrote: »

Was watching the eurovision there last week.
Out of 43 countries, france was the only one to not speak english :rolleyes:

Does this add to, or indeed confirm that the french (as a nation) are up their own behinds?

Surely a contender for most ironic post of the year. Maybe you are "up your own derrière" for expecting every nation to speak Anglais, non?

you know when you heard the presenter saying "huit points, dix points, douze points" after every country gave its votes? Well that's French. And the reason she spoke it is because it's one of the two official languages of Eurovision.

Would expect the Irish and British to speak French when awarding points??!

Console

grenache wrote: »

Surely a contender for most ironic post of the year. Maybe you are "up your own derrière" for expecting every nation to speak Anglais, non?

you know when you heard the presenter saying "huit points, dix points, douze points" after every country gave its votes? Well that's French. And the reason she spoke it is because it's one of the two official languages of Eurovision.

Would expect the Irish and British to speak French when awarding points??!

But why didnt the other countries speak their native language too?
and dont give me the "french and english are the official languages" too. After all, its all of europe. In fact, a non european country won it.

deathrider

This thread has the best title I've seen in AH in quite a while.

grenache

Console wrote: »

But why didnt the other countries speak their native language too?
and dont give me the "french and english are the official languages" too. After all, its all of europe. In fact, a non european country won it.

Go onto the Eurovision website. The only two languages ever spoken when giving points is English and French. They are international mainstay widely spoken languages. The Azerbaijanis, Czechs, Albanians, etc dont announce points in their own languages because outside of those countries nobody would understand them. I thought that was pretty obvious.

Console

grenache wrote: »

Go onto the Eurovision website. The only two languages ever spoken when giving points is English and French. They are international mainstay widely spoken languages. The Azerbaijanis, Czechs, Albanians, etc dont announce points in their own languages because outside of those countries nobody would understand them. I thought that was pretty obvious.

So I was right.
You come back with the "official" spiel to try and win the debate.

But since you quote english and french are the two official ones. Lets take on board. Lets accept that.

Then ... why was the presenter speaking in english? you know, the blonde host. Dont know her name. Why wasnt she speaking in both? after all, both are official?

*edit*
So basically, any other country speaking their own language would be wrong? ...
that theres nothing behind france, the only country to not speak english during voting. Since its official. Disregarding any current stigma that the french dislike any english-nation speakers? (american, canada, england, ireland etc) .. so ... thats a myth? and untrue? ... and you dont see a connection what so ever?

just me i guess?

marcsignal

Will wrote: »

They're just super proud of their heritage and language. Nothing wrong with that.

yeah, and they dont have a jacks you can sit down on :rolleyes:

thebman

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Non parlez-vous Francais?

You don't speak French?

Haha, incroyable, exactement de probleme avec des Irelandais,

Haha, incredible. Exactly the problem with the Irish.

les gens penser que tout le monde peux parler Anglais, mais ne nous, dans le France,

expect the rest fo the world to speak English but no not in France.

nous parlons Francais et Eurovison est terrible et nous ne donnons pas pointes pour la Irelandais, sauf haha!

now speaking French at Eurovision is terrible and no points for Ireland, haha!

Or thats the general gist of it (I did just scrape a pass in leaving cert :P) but it was still just uncalled for to elect that a**hole Sarkosy :P

And to go after our Corporate tax rate when theres is also very low because we got a bail out that they are going to make a profit off of :P Funny sort of a bail out :P

AlkalineAcid

I think WoolyRedHat pulled that out of an online translator, so don't worry about it.

Kev_ps3

Console wrote: »

Was watching the eurovision there last week.
Out of 43 countries, france was the only one to not speak english :rolleyes:

Does this add to, or indeed confirm that the french (as a nation) are up their own behinds?

Are you serious? Have you actually read what you typed or you on drugs?

Apanachi

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Non parlez-vous Francais? Haha, incroyable, exactement de probleme avec des Irelandais, les gens penser que tout le monde peux parler Anglais, mais ne nous, dans le France, nous parlons Francais et Eurovison est terrible et nous ne donnons pas pointes pour la Irelandais, sauf haha!

Delighted I understood all of that, learning french in school wasn't a total waste of time after all

grenache

Console wrote: »

So I was right.
You come back with the "official" spiel to try and win the debate.

But since you quote english and french are the two official ones. Lets take on board. Lets accept that.

Then ... why was the presenter speaking in english? you know, the blonde host. Dont know her name. Why wasnt she speaking in both? after all, both are official?

*edit*
So basically, any other country speaking their own language would be wrong? ...
that theres nothing behind france, the only country to not speak english during voting. Since its official. Disregarding any current stigma that the french dislike any english-nation speakers? (american, canada, england, ireland etc) .. so ... thats a myth? and untrue? ... and you dont see a connection what so ever?

just me i guess?

i threw back the "official languages line" as French is one of the two official tongues of the competition. And the French are more than entitled to speak it and solely it if they so choose. If you dont like it, maybe you should enlighten yourself and learn some French. If you have a problem with this then i suggest you write to the EBU and demand that all countries must speak in English only :rolleyes:

The blonde presenter did speak French, at regular intervals. The reason they speak more in English is because it's a more widely spoken language than French.

From my experience, the French speak a lot more English than the Americans/British/Irish speak French. If anyone has a chip on their shoulders about foreign languages, its people in the Anglophone world, not the Francophone one.

Console

Console wrote: »

Was watching the eurovision there last week.
Out of 43 countries, france was the only one to not speak english :rolleyes:

Belgium didn't either

df1985

There's a line between pride and arrogance and a lot of French people ive met anyway cross it.

mikemac

Back in the 90's in Ireland you qualified for Eurovision through Eurosong

If you won they gave you extra money if it was as Gaelige.
Never happened but it was a rule in place

Wantobe

The french singer was singing in Corsican/ sort of Italian, you know, cause it was operatic- and Italian is the language of Opera, mostly.:p

Does that make it better or worse?:)

franklyon

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Non parlez-vous Francais? Haha, incroyable, exactement de probleme avec des Irelandais, les gens penser que tout le monde peux parler Anglais, mais ne nous, dans le France, nous parlons Francais et Eurovison est terrible et nous ne donnons pas pointes pour la Irelandais, sauf haha!

Oh my God, where do I start? Your French teacher should be sacked.
Could correct it but couldn't be assed, will just say this
Irlandais not Irelandais and les Irlandais or l'irlandais not what you wrote. :rolleyes:

AlkalineAcid wrote: »

I think WoolyRedHat pulled that out of an online translator, so don't worry about it.

Not even online translators are that bad

mikemac

Console wrote: »

Was watching the eurovision there last week.
Out of 43 countries, france was the only one to not speak english :rolleyes:

FAIL, France wasn't alone

The Serbian song was in Serbian.

Another fiercely nationalistic country

Edit, a link for you OP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy2MSddSL3M

Luxie

Console wrote: »

But why didnt the other countries speak their native language too?
and dont give me the "french and english are the official languages" too. After all, its all of europe. In fact, a non european country won it.

They used be obliged to sing in their own language, the rules changed, most of them opt for English as it's the most international language for pop songs.

Is all.

ElaElaElano

So, essentially, Eurovision behaviour determines an entire nation's character.

We're fúcked in that case.

prinz

Love the French, moi. Great spot. I'm a francophile.

jim69

cheese eating surrender monkeys

cosmicfart

Console wrote: »

Was watching the eurovision there last week.
Out of 43 countries, france was the only one to not speak english :rolleyes:

Does this add to, or indeed confirm that the french (as a nation) are up their own behinds?

sounds like your jealous that you and 90% of the rest of us cant speak Irish.

Duggy747

Lè women are hot and nice but the guys I've met have been complete and utter plebs.

They all seem to have that same face you could spot a mile away. Like a cross between Blue Steel and squeezing out a tight fart.

Latchy

Will wrote: »

They're just super proud of their heritage and language. Nothing wrong with that.

And they don't half churn out some great Eurovision winning songs to ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppv2m9pVvnE

Wackawacka

Console wrote: »

Was watching the eurovision there last week.
Out of 43 countries, france was the only one to not speak english :rolleyes:

Does this add to, or indeed confirm that the french (as a nation) are up their own behinds?

It just means that, of all the countries that will almost completely abandon their language to speak a foreign one because it happens to be popular... well, France is never gonna be one of those countries. The rules allow them to do it, and they'll damn well use it at every opportunity. Gotta admire their neverending willingness to stick it to the English.

Computer Sci

Console wrote: »

Was watching the eurovision there last week.
Out of 43 countries, france was the only one to not speak english :rolleyes:

Does this add to, or indeed confirm that the french (as a nation) are up their own behinds?

Absolutely not, they are a civilised people and have a very beautiful country and culture – as I’m sure many people can attest to having been there on holidays. This comes across as the sort of rubbish you’d expect to read in the Daily Mail to be honest.

Big Nasty

DWCommuter wrote: »

The French will probably rename "The Ryder Cup", "Le Ryder Cup".

Just like 'Le Big Mac'?;)