Happy Bastille Day

Agent Smith · 14-07-2011 04:53AM

grenache wrote: »

The French do not call today 'Bastille Day'.

They call it La Fête Nationale.

Whatever you think about the French, you cannot deny they have the best wine, women and language in the world.

GET THE FUCK OUT NOW

TheUsual · 14-07-2011 05:10AM

Agent Smith wrote: »

GET THE FUCK OUT NOW

Damn straight. Nearly forgot about that sin.

policarp · 14-07-2011 05:10AM

Who was this basteel fellow?
The Man in the Iron Mask?
Or one of the Musketeers?

Saila · 14-07-2011 05:49AM

hondasam wrote: »

Les Français sont des gens charmants et pas un seul peu arrogant.

daccord!

Naikon · 14-07-2011 05:57AM

I like france.

/runs

Eve_Dublin · 14-07-2011 06:22AM

grenache wrote: »

The French do not call today 'Bastille Day'.

They call it La Fête Nationale.

Whatever you think about the French, you cannot deny they have the best wine, women and language in the world.

These are all true. I'm actively jealous of French women..how do they pull it off? I remember I was in a cafe here in Madrid one day and was getting the eye from some guy across the bar. As I walked out, he followed me and asked me was I French and I told him no, I was Irish, like Shane McGowan, the guy with no teeth (don't know why I said that). He looked disappointed to the extreme and just walked off. Haha! SOUND!

The wine is delish and the language had some thought put into it. If I could change my nationality, I'd opt to be French, I reckon. Well done France!

Agent Smith · 14-07-2011 06:49AM

TheUsual wrote: »

Damn straight. Nearly forgot about that sin.

We do not Forgive, Nor forget

KeithAFC · 14-07-2011 06:59AM

The French are an odd one. Although i love the footballers they have produced over the years, i don't like the part they played in fighting the British Empire. Although i like napoleon for his general skills. Happy that Arthur Wellesley got the last laugh in the end.

Cú Giobach · 14-07-2011 08:09AM

KeithAFC wrote: »

The French are an odd one. Although i love the footballers they have produced over the years, i don't like the part they played in fighting the British Empire. Although i like napoleon for his general skills. Happy that Arthur Wellesley got the last laugh in the end.

You must also have issues with, America, India, Japan, South Africa, China, Germany, Spain, Zimbabwe, Ireland (obviously), Italy, Russia, Turkey, Palestine/Israel, I could go on but would wear out my keyboard typing the names of all the countries that were fighting Britain/England (often to try and prevent genocide or enslavement) at some stage or another.

the groutch · 14-07-2011 09:13AM

The French are a great bunch of lads, because a common hatred of them helps bring the rest of the world closer together

Pherekydes · 14-07-2011 09:16AM

I miss the French holidays, the wine, the Bastille Day fireworks on the beach at St Jean-de-Monts, driving on their roads, Puy du Fou, your wife getting her purse back with everything still in it after she dropped it (where else in the world would that happen?), the world's greatest cycle race, the weather...

Ah, sh1t, I'm going to be depressed now.

Allez France!

bnt · 14-07-2011 09:17AM

If you do go, my advice is to get the hell out of Paris as quickly as possible. Millions of tourists over the years have left the locals with a schizoid superiority complex: if you don't speak the lingo in a perfect Parisian accent, they hate you by default. See the sights, then hit the TGV. I intend to visit Cognac at some point: go on, ask me why.

kfallon · 14-07-2011 09:28AM

Love Bastille Day - we have a Group 1 horse race to look forward to of a Thursday evening - vive La France!!!!

coco_lola · 14-07-2011 09:40AM

I work in a bilingual company and all the French are off today... This makes me sad

I want to be off work today!

biko · 14-07-2011 09:50AM

Vive la République!

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

ejmaztec · 14-07-2011 10:10AM

bnt wrote: »

If you do go, my advice is to get the hell out of Paris as quickly as possible. Millions of tourists over the years have left the locals with a schizoid superiority complex: if you don't speak the lingo in a perfect Parisian accent, they hate you by default. See the sights, then hit the TGV. I intend to visit Cognac at some point: go on, ask me why.

If you can speak German, they're a lot more polite, and they give you a lot of free gifts, as well as allowing you to even run the country.

Pompey Magnus · 14-07-2011 10:14AM

I wished my French housemate a happy Bastille Day and she got annoyed complaining that I shouldn't be commemorating the vicious thugs who murdered the King and Queen...just my luck to be living with a French royalist :rolleyes:.

ejmaztec · 14-07-2011 10:18AM

Pompey Magnus wrote: »

I wished my French housemate a happy Bastille Day and she got annoyed complaining that I shouldn't be commemorating the vicious thugs who murdered the King and Queen...just my luck to be living with a French royalist :rolleyes:.

I think that's why the French are so feckin miserable, because they didn't really want to get rid of the monarchy, and think that they can't be real snobs without one.

Magic Beans · 14-07-2011 10:19AM

When the French had a government who were living in luxury while the the man in the street was struggling to get by they chopped their heads off. The Irish gave theirs big fat pensions.

Vive La France.

orourkeda · 14-07-2011 10:54AM

grenache wrote: »

The French do not call today 'Bastille Day'.

They call it La Fête Nationale.

Whatever you think about the French, you cannot deny they have the best wine, women and language in the world.

Wine is gay.

The beauty of their women is open to opinion and they only have the nicest language in the world if one could be bothered to learn it.

orourkeda · 14-07-2011 10:54AM

Magic Beans wrote: »

When the French had a government who were living in luxury while the the man in the street was struggling to get by they chopped their heads off. The Irish gave theirs big fat pensions.

Vive La France.

I see Nicholas Sarkozy still has his head.

prinz · 14-07-2011 10:59AM

bnt wrote: »

If you do go, my advice is to get the hell out of Paris as quickly as possible. Millions of tourists over the years have left the locals with a schizoid superiority complex: if you don't speak the lingo in a perfect Parisian accent, they hate you by default.

Non. Stereotypical nonsense. Wish I was in Paris today.

ejmaztec · 14-07-2011 11:07AM

orourkeda wrote: »

I see Nicholas Sarkozy still has his head.

He did used to be a lot taller, so something must have gone.

prinz · 14-07-2011 11:15AM

ejmaztec wrote: »

He did used to be a lot taller, so something must have gone.

The box he used to stand on?

ejmaztec · 14-07-2011 11:47AM

prinz wrote: »

The box he used to stand on?

I think that his original head was lost after it was lopped off, and the surgeons had to shape a new one out of his rib-cage. I've a hunch that his old head is actually inside that box, and it hasn't dawned on anyone to have a look.

prinz · 14-07-2011 11:52AM

ejmaztec wrote: »

I think that his original head was lost after it was lopped off, and the surgeons had to shape a new one out of his rib-cage. I've a hunch that his old head is actually inside that box, and it hasn't dawned on anyone to have a look.

Interesting theory. It would certainly explain the shape of his head anyway.

Does Carla fit into this plot somewhere? :pac:

Pherekydes · 14-07-2011 12:39PM

orourkeda wrote: »

Wine is gay.

At least it's not Budweiser.

ejmaztec · 14-07-2011 12:52PM

prinz wrote: »

Interesting theory. It would certainly explain the shape of his head anyway.

Does Carla fit into this plot somewhere? :pac:

I'm saving the best till last.

..when I work out what it is.

Agus · 14-07-2011 01:03PM

grenache wrote: »

The French do not call today 'Bastille Day'.

They call it La Fête Nationale.

Whatever you think about the French, you cannot deny they have the best wine, women and language in the world.

Yes you can.

Agricola · 14-07-2011 01:43PM

grenache wrote: »

The French do not call today 'Bastille Day'.

They call it La Fête Nationale.

Whatever you think about the French, you cannot deny they have the best wine, women and language in the world.

The Italians might disagree!

Cant say Im too gone on the French. Im basing this on Sarkosy's reluctance to lower our loan interest rate, Thierry Henry being a cheating prick and the fact that a Parisian taxi driver was one of the most ignorant human beings I have yet come across!

Happy Bastille Day

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