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Post by Pyjakson on Mar 15, 2019 10:43:50 GMT
What have the French ever done for us?  |
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 15, 2019 11:01:34 GMT
This is perfect Friday chat for me. Anywho, I went to a camera club open print competition last night, with a judge called Bob Webzell. Bob doesn't like my photos. In fact, he says it even if he hands out a 20/20 for a photo. Last night's commentary was no different, and I came home with a 17 for The Things I've Seen, and an 18 for Watching From the Shore. I like 'Skewed'. This is what I imagine cobblers house to be like. |
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 15, 2019 11:05:05 GMT
I'm tempted by these:- ![]()  |
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Post by cobblers on Mar 15, 2019 11:05:30 GMT
Slight stand-offishness? Slight?
I once went pretty much straight to France after spending a fortnight skiing in western Canada. The culture shock was amazing. Antipathy bordering on outright hostility. It’s a marvellous national trait.
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Post by tenthenemy on Mar 15, 2019 11:16:01 GMT
I'm in a cafe eating a croissant and the only other person here is a girl in a black polo neck reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. I'm starting to wonder if this is actually the holodeck from a 1960s episode of star trek. Could this be any more French? Um, yes? She could be reading Sartre. |
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Post by Shenguin on Mar 15, 2019 11:32:29 GMT
Slight stand-offishness? Slight? I once went pretty much straight to France after spending a fortnight skiing in western Canada. The culture shock was amazing. Antipathy bordering on outright hostility. It’s a marvellous national trait. I'm guessing you weren't in Quebec city? "C'est ne pas Canada! C'est Quebec!" and further ranting was my introduction to Quebec. It included pointing at the Quebecois flag and demonstrative spitting at every mention of Canada. Except for Paris, I've often found the French to be quite friendly and welcoming, and much more likely to make an effort with language than the English. English people often seem to expect to be able to walk into a small town bar in France and talk English making no effort. I've seen French people talking good English in equivalent places in England, and the English staff refusing to understand. Much as I think it's fine to hate the French, to criticise then for rudeness and linguistic xenophobia is the height of obtuse cultural hypocrisy. Not the waiters in Paris though, they're proper bastarding rude. |
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 15, 2019 11:33:36 GMT
Charles de Gaulle
Get it roon ye.
Morning!
Nothing to report as per.
Back to the hoovering.
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Post by amipal on Mar 15, 2019 11:41:02 GMT
I like 'Skewed'. This is what I imagine cobblers house to be like. I had to go back some way to work out which photo you were talking about. I think you're doing the dwelling in the photo a disservice by comparing it to cobblers' hovel. |
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 15, 2019 11:46:34 GMT
I like 'Skewed'. This is what I imagine cobblers house to be like. I had to go back some way to work out which photo you were talking about. I think you're doing the dwelling in the photo a disservice by comparing it to cobblers ' hovel. Very true, it is what cobblers can only aspire to. OTTM: Wetherspoon's profits plunge by 19%. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Mar 15, 2019 11:47:12 GMT
Slight stand-offishness? Slight? I once went pretty much straight to France after spending a fortnight skiing in western Canada. The culture shock was amazing. Antipathy bordering on outright hostility. It’s a marvellous national trait. Maybe they just didn't like you? All of them. There is something deeply unpleasant lurking beneath the politeness of USanians and Canadians. white teeth, cheery smile, dead eyed hatred. The French have it about right. I have almost always found that if you are polite to them and make an effort they are fine. You get one or two who are a bit rude occasionally. For proper laconic misanthropy you can't beat a Belgian. |
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Post by Felice Landry on Mar 15, 2019 12:06:41 GMT
All this hatred towards France makes very nervous about Dip
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Post by Tuffers on Mar 15, 2019 12:08:55 GMT
My favourite Frenchman is the one that made BabyF cry when he was acting up in the casino. Top lad he was.
Top 5 French?
1.BabyFs bully
2.Henri Leconte
3.Zidane
4.inspector clouseau
5. One of them artists
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Post by tenthenemy on Mar 15, 2019 12:18:53 GMT
All this hatred towards France makes very nervous about Dip You should be okay as long as you are not employing your contingent of rude Parisian waiters. |
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Post by mlu035rsc on Mar 15, 2019 12:29:56 GMT
Afternoon 'boxers.
Top France chat today, given I lived there for a year, speak fluent French and have a flippin' French degree I feel heavily qualified to weigh in on this one. L'enfer, c'est les autres. Boom. French. Sartre and not a hint of cliché. Four *s.
Games: None
Movies: None but Captain Marvel was ok on Tuesday night.
TV: None, but now I have NowTV will hammer through True Detective S3.
OTTM: The dog has started peeing indoors again and was sick last night. I hope he's not eaten something else that's bunged up his tummy, off for an x-ray next Friday if things don't improve. I've got arthritis in my hips. Right now life pretty much sucks.
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 15, 2019 12:31:34 GMT
Beef and tomato pot noodle with sardine & tomato paste sammidges. I may be rather unwell later.
Great story etc..
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Post by Shenguin on Mar 15, 2019 12:33:49 GMT
Have you tried homeopathy for the dog? Or maybe a spiritualist healing? Sounds like the poor fellow is being let down by so-called conventional medicine. Maybe get them to look at your hips as well?
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 15, 2019 12:34:07 GMT
Garlic croissant, half a bottle of wine.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 15, 2019 12:35:22 GMT
I dedicate that last post to amipal.
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 15, 2019 12:36:33 GMT
I don't need a degree in French, just Google translate. I'd like to speak German, though. Just for shouting at things. It sounds the best.
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Post by Sheep2 on Mar 15, 2019 12:36:57 GMT
Cinq Meilleurs Francais
1) Le Dieu (Christophe Dugarry)
2) Maxime Colin
3) Franck Quedrue
4) Bruno N'Gotty
5) Olivier Kapo
Bouillonnant sous
Gregory Vignal, Eddy Gnahore
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Post by Felice Landry on Mar 15, 2019 12:38:01 GMT
Garlic croissant, half a bottle of wine. Why only half a bottle? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2019 12:43:27 GMT
I bathe in water with the essence of hips. One part per million.
What I mean to say is that I get into the bath with my wife.
I now have glorious hips.
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Post by Shenguin on Mar 15, 2019 12:44:58 GMT
I'm in a cafe eating a croissant and the only other person here is a girl in a black polo neck reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. I'm starting to wonder if this is actually the holodeck from a 1960s episode of star trek. How does the price of comes compare with Copenhagen? I'm still struggling slightly with this. How much do comes cost in Copenhagen? What, erm, what does it even mean? Does the purchaser have a happy ending? Receive straws? I mean, how does this work? Edit: I'm asking for a friend, obvs. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Mar 15, 2019 12:51:16 GMT
No wonder the waiter was a bit surly with you.
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Post by gongfarmer on Mar 15, 2019 13:00:03 GMT
Garlic croissant, half a bottle of wine. Why only half a bottle? I think maybe he is sharing it with Madamoiselle Polo-neck |
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