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Happy Bastille Day

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  • #62
    annascott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭annascott


    I love France but hate what they did to Marie Antionette...


  • #63
    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    Agent Smith wrote: »

    GET THE FUCK OUT NOW

    Ffs, this again. Keane does something similar v Georgia, and nobody gives a ****. Get over it, it was embarrassing enough in the immediate aftermath, but now it's beyond a joke.
    annascott wrote: »
    I love France but hate what they did to Marie Antionette...

    Ah, she had it coming.


  • #64
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


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

    Christ!:eek: How wrong can one possibly be.


  • #65
    Luxie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Luxie


    Agricola wrote: »
    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!

    There's a Parisien bloke here at work who's lack of manners and downright ignorance actually shocks me.


  • #66
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    Corvus Maximus wrote: »
    Christ!:eek: How wrong can one possibly be.

    They do have very hairy women though.


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  • #67
    Spread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭Spread


    coco_lola wrote: »
    I work in a bilingual company and all the French are off today... This makes me sad :( I want to be off work today!

    Hey Lola baby! Practice your French phonetics. But I thought you worked in a club down in old .............: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixqbc7X2NQY


  • #68
    Borat_Sagdiyev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭Borat_Sagdiyev


    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.

    Midfielder?


  • #69
    Sonnenblumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    75 mio tourists visit France each year making it the most popular holiday destination in the world. Imagine what the figure would be if only the French could try a little harder at being nice.


  • #70
    languagenerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    I know I'm going against the tide here, but I've always found the French to be nice, helpful and generally accomodating. They always make sure to be polite in shops etc. and anyone I've ever asked for information/directions was happy to help. People often say "Bonjour" as you pass them on a quiet street too.

    I was at the Fetes de Saint Jean last month and even their equivalent to skangers were polite!

    I think if you make an effort to embrace their culture and speak their language, they generally respond well. You talk about arrogance - well, going to another country and expecting everyone to speak English is pretty arrogant too!


  • #71
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    languagenerd wrote: »
    I know I'm going against the tide here, but I've always found the French to be nice, helpful and generally accomodating. They always make sure to be polite in shops etc. and anyone I've ever asked for information/directions was happy to help. People often say "Bonjour" as you pass them on a quiet street too.

    I was at the Fetes de Saint Jean last month and even their equivalent to skangers were polite!

    I think if you make an effort to embrace their culture and speak their language, they generally respond well. You talk about arrogance - well, going to another country and expecting everyone to speak English is pretty arrogant too!

    You sound awfully French to me.


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  • #72
    languagenerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    PseudoFamous wrote: »
    You sound awfully French to me.

    Nope, I'm Irish!


  • #73
    Dionysus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    hussey wrote: »
    Happy Bastille day, the day commemorates the storming of the Bastille.

    Please lads no French jokes - they're crêpe ;)

    Not forgetting the (by all accounts) insane Irishman who was one of the seven (some sources say six) prisoners in the Bastille when it was stormed,

    Jacques de Whyte, who apparently believed that he was Julius Ceasar and was brought on a cart through the streets to entertain Parisians.

    According to Richard Francis Hayes (Ireland and Irishmen in the French Revolution), Whyte had been born in Dublin in 1730 and fled to France where he fought in an Irish brigade, attaining the rank of major. According to Hayes, he went insane eight years before the Bastille was stormed.


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