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From: Tosspot on 1 Oct 2009 12:54 Phil Launchbury wrote: > In article <ha08u2$5b1$02$2(a)news.t-online.com>, Tosspot wrote: >> Hog wrote: >>> Veggie Dave wrote: >>>> Let's be honest, though, the vast majority of it is simply posturing >>>> rather than a genuine hatred. >>> If it hadn't been for WW1 we would have let the Krauts turn the place >>> over and germanize them. >> Yeah, but that would have been a cruel and unusual punishment for the >> krauts. > > When I was at Windriver we had a couple of other EU admins - one in > Germany (really good bloke) and one in Belgium (who we all cordially > hated). > > One time we were all in Austria the German guy (after much aggro with > the Belgian guy) muttered something to the effect of "now I know why we > tried to flatten you lot in 1940". > > My response was "yeah - we should never have given them Beguim back in > 1945". Belgian guy was deeply unamused - especially when the old joke > about the reasons why Belgian roads are so straight came up a bit > later. I think it's time to forget the job in the Foreign Office...
From: davethedave on 1 Oct 2009 13:47 On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:23:34 +0100, Charlie wrote: > "Chris H" <fazer.1000thousand(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message > news:7ihob1F31m5ocU1(a)mid.individual.net... > >> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mots_fran%C3%A7ais_d%27origine_anglaise > > Did anyone else have to do some research to discover what a 'paltok' is, > or am I the only hopelessly ignorant one around here? I thought for a while then came to the conclusion I didn't really care enough to look. What is it then? -- davethedave
From: Marc on 1 Oct 2009 16:03 Andy Bonwick wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:57:56 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon > <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote: > >> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the >> drugs began to take hold. I remember "Beav" >> <beavis.original(a)ntlwoxorld.com> saying something like: >> >>> Coz it's fashionable. Like calling them Surrender Monkeys. >> Always got up my nose, that term. >> I mean, it's the right and proper thing for the Brits to slag the French >> off, but the Americans have no place in it at all. >> Colonial upstarts. > > My biggest issue with the merkins is their inability to win a war when > they're fighting on their own. American Civil War?
From: SD on 1 Oct 2009 16:58 On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:47:37 +0100, "Beav" <beavis.original(a)ntlwoxorld.com> wrote: > >"Marc" <initial.surname(a)btintenret.com> wrote in message >news:VMWdnZnOT7WCXl7XnZ2dnUVZ8kudnZ2d(a)bt.com... >>The French lost over twice that many just at Verdun, > >And another 90,000 in Vietnam before the tanks stuck their oar in over >there. "before"? Who do you think was helping Uncle Ho against the evil French colonialists? -- Salad Dodger
From: wessie on 1 Oct 2009 17:33
Colonel Tupperware <russ.goff(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:6960df46-526a-4c06- 9218-93d533e374e0(a)k33g2000yqa.googlegroups.com: > On 30 Sep, 14:50, Cab <ros...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm expecting [1] some wonderful responses to this but hopefully some >> sensible ones too. >> >> I know that a lot of you love coming over here and enjoy the roads. >> The ex-pat population is sizeable in France now and there are loads of >> other "links" between England and France. >> >> But why is it that there is always an air of "The English hate the >> French" (and vv, I suppose)? What is(are) the reason(s)? > > But the French hate the French. > Well, the Normans hate the French, the Bretons hate everybody. > Everybody hates the Parisiens and the Parisiens don't even know the > rest of France exists outside August. > > Waves from Normandie. > Heh There was a chef on the telly tonight, working in Wales and identified as French by the commentary. The chef made a point of stating he is Breton and proud to be using ingredients from the Celtic sibling. -- wessie at tesco dot net BMW R1150GS |