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| Do you like the French? |
| I love 'em. France, French culture, the French language...all fabulous! |
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| I don't like the French. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
Drama queen.
Sparkles*_* |
Touche if that's a guess.
Even closer touche if you have read him.
(Note how I have stuck with the French theme throughout.) |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:00 am Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| (Note how I have stuck with the French theme throughout.) |
I'm eating an omelet right now.
Sparkles*_* |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:02 am Post subject: |
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| I cannot stand French literature |
Oh, pshaw! And phooey, too. Zola's and Sartre's novels are first rate. Although once J-P died there hasn't been any reason to be able to read modern French.
And why are you complaining about nuke tests in the South Pacific? For my money, the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor is the only brave thing the French did the whole century. Infringing the sovereignty of a small country with almost no military defense on the opposite side of the world takes courage.
When you no longer lead the world in any area whatsoever, not politics, philosophy, art, literature, science, sports or even fashion design it makes sense that your great contribution is 'Non'. It's kind of like the Chinese. I'm a little surprised both of them are not more popular with the whiny part of the crowd here at Dave's. [/quote] |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:04 am Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
| flotsam wrote: |
| (Note how I have stuck with the French theme throughout.) |
I'm eating an omelet right now.
Sparkles*_* |
Omelette, fou. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:22 am Post subject: |
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Toushay.
Sparkelles*_* |
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WorldWide
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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I like and respect the French a lot more than americans. All this French bashing in the usa is really childish. Remember freedom Fries? "Waaa waaa...theyall don't done bend over n' take our ear-mongering ways, lets mock em' mercilessly in the media."  
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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| WorldWide wrote: |
| ear-mongering ways |
Oh nono. WW, you're confused: Mishima and Murakami aren't the same person. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| WorldWide wrote: |
I like and respect the French a lot more than americans. All this French bashing in the usa is really childish. Remember freedom Fries? "Waaa waaa...theyall don't done bend over n' take our ear-mongering ways, lets mock em' mercilessly in the media."
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I'm afraid that was sheer stupidity though (the freedom frees thing - not you). They're called French fries not because they're from France, rather that they are frenched. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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I'm afraid that was sheer stupidity though (the freedom frees thing - not you). They're called French fries not because they're from France, rather that they are frenched. |
Oh whatever .
Next you'll be claiming it's not called wine because the French are the biggest in the world...or that they're not called croissants because the French are all secretly Muslim.
Some people are soooooo easily taken in. |
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coolsage
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: The overcast afternoon of the soul
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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| There was no category for 'I like them, but'... for their perceived arrogance and questionable hygiene. The food, the wine, the passionate women: all good with me. And the legacy of their former empire. In Vientiane, Laos, there's a French restaurant on every block. A breakfast there consists of a horizontally-sliced baguette filled with pate (or at least I was told it was pate), washed down with the excellent Beer Lao. Now that's fusion. And in the evening, a rack of lamb lubricated with a fine Burgundy. You'd never guess that you're in an impoverished, nominally communist country. Clearly the French are good at some things other than hosting the occasional invasion. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:15 am Post subject: |
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| I like the French very much. But it's just so much fun to pretend to hate them. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:29 am Post subject: |
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| I like the French very much. But it's just so much fun to pretend to hate them. |
Nice. I wish I had been cool enough to say this. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:47 am Post subject: |
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Pretending to hate the French is a national pastime in the UK! 
Oh and some of the Francophone women in those photos are to die for. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:54 am Post subject: |
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Pretending to hate the French is a national pastime in the UK!
Oh and some of the Francophone women in those photos are to die for. |
Yeah, unfortunately where I'm from no one is pretending and 7 out of 10 high school students can't find France on a map. Aigoo. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 1:15 am Post subject: |
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| SPINOZA wrote: |
| flotsam wrote: |
I cannot stand French literature--the poetry lisps, buzzes and nasals like thin berry syrup dripping out of a hairy nose with one nostril clogged and whistling. Their philosophy is only one baguette length less barmy than that of the Germans, and their entire politics is based on whiningly maintaining a world power status they no longer deserve.
I'm American, and the only (ridiculous generalization wise for the sake of this OP) country's culture and politics I respect less than America's is France's. Balance of poweur my freckled Irish ass. Don't get me started on the odour of a Parisian bus in August.
On the other hand, what I would do for a night out with Irene Jacob and Julie Delpy. Lordy, lordy, oh my lord. |
German philosophy hammers French philosophy. Kant, Nietzsche, Frege...very cool guys...and the best the French can do is Rousseau and his 'general will'! Pish. |
Beauvoir, Foucault, Derrida, important foundations of post modernism and deconstructionism... |
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