Those wacky french!

[Deepcrush]

I think that would be about the same. Normandy is just a very powerful place for Americans.

[Reliant121]

French roads are shit, so you need to update them too. And you need to introduce a little thing called "hygiene".

[Nickswitz]

Well, I will be Repopulating it, so I guess I could do that much

[Foxfyre]

also recomend that you introduce a little thing called oh whats it again....politiness......I hate dealing with the french.

[Nickswitz]

Yeah, It's gonna be a whole new culture.

[Tyyr]

I dare anyone to go to Normandy and look down on the beaches and graves not be moved to tears. Everything those men gave, and the french are still bastards.

Ungrateful bastards. I'm not going to say their men should carry Americans or Brits through the streets on their shoulders while their women line up to service us but can we at least not get spit on when in their country?

Living in Orlando means I get to meet lots of tourists. In fact in the hospital recently I met one very nice guy from Ireland. Anyways, most of the people here are well mannered, happy, and just generally pleasant. (It's the tourists from my own country I'd like to fucking kill) The French though are total shitheads. Please, thank you, you're welcome, are apparently all foreign phrases to them. Half the words out of their mouthes are about how shitty our country is compared to theirs.

The one stand out incident though was when I was in the airport heading out on a business trip. I sat down on a bench while waiting for my flight and put my bags beside me. Well it was kinda crowded so when I see this guy looking around for a seat I moved my stuff to the floor so he could sit down. He did, and immediately ignored me. Ok, whatever. Then he reaches over, yanks my laptop's power cord out of the socket and plugs his in. Of course his adapter takes up the whole fucking socket. I protest, he babbles in French. I tell him I don't speak French but we don't do that kind of shit here and if he'll just wait in fifteen minutes my laptop will be charged and he can have the socket. He responds with what amounted to, "What kind of barbarian doesn't speak French," and leaves his shit plugged in till I removed it for him.

"Welcome to the US shithead, we speak English here*."

*Or Spanish if you go far enough south.

[Teaos]

Well to be fair your country wouldnt even exist with out the French helping you out.

But we dont look back any further than 100 years do we? Nah fuck them.

Hey BTW who gave you that great big statue in NY harbour?

[Reliant121]

Who saved their asses in both world wars? US wasn't so involved in numero une, however they pretty much liberated France with our and other allied nation's help.

[Tyyr]

Way to miss the point.

1) I don't spit on the French just because they're French. I may dislike them in general but on a case by case basis I treat them decently and with respect until they prove themselves to be shitheads. Which takes most of them about two minutes. I may grouse about them on the whole but I don't start acting like an asshole to a Frenchman/woman just because of their country of origin.
2) Yes, I'm happy they helped us out in the Revolutionary War. However that in no way shape or form means they can be total cocks at will or that I will take their shit just because. Helping someone out doesn't give you the right to be an asshole to them.
3) The statue is nice, however giving someone a gift doesn't give you the right to be an asshole to them.

Off the top of my head I can recall several run ins personally with the French. In only two of them were the French decent human beings.

[Aaron]

Who saved their asses in both world wars? US wasn't so involved in numero une, however they pretty much liberated France with our and other allied nation's help.

Yeah but the Revolutionary War doesn't give the French the right to be shit heads, nor does the US help in WWII give them the right to be douches and demand subservience from their allies forever.

[Teaos]

Way to miss the point.

Did I?

Ungrateful bastards. I'm not going to say their men should carry Americans or Brits through the streets on their shoulders while their women line up to service us but can we at least not get spit on when in their country?

You are obivously refering to the war. You say they are ungreatful and should be nice to you because you helped out. Yet I don't hear many... or any, americans thanking the French for what they did for you. You independence day was this month... you thank the French in your celebrations?


I dont give a fuck if you hate the French for being a bunch of rude pricks. Good on you. I think they're a bunch of cocks as well.

But the idea that they owe you for the war is pathetic.

[Mikey]

Hey, Teaos - congratulation on being retained as France's PR attorney.

But the idea that they owe you for the war is pathetic.

Yeah, you did miss the point. Nobody said that they owe us, or that we don't owe them. What people have said is that they have no reason to be categorical pricks - and even less reason when one considers the historical ties between us, both ways.

New Zealand has never done anything for the US, except maybe provide a suitable base for some mint jelly - but that still doesn't mean I should go to your country and treat you like an asshole.

[Aaron]

Yeah, you did miss the point. Nobody said that they owe us, or that we don't owe them. What people have said is that they have no reason to be categorical pricks - and even less reason when one considers the historical ties between us, both ways.

Actually, various members of your government have said as much or heavily implied it. Bush the Younger for one, not on this board though.

Personally I think that France and the US can't get along because their attitudes are so much alike.

New Zealand has never done anything for the US, except maybe provide a suitable base for some mint jelly - but that still doesn't mean I should go to your country and treat you like an asshole.

I think you ought to google ANZAC.

[Tyyr]

Did I?

Completely.

Ungrateful bastards. I'm not going to say their men should carry Americans or Brits through the streets on their shoulders while their women line up to service us but can we at least not get spit on when in their country?

You are obivously refering to the war. You say they are ungreatful and should be nice to you because you helped out...

But the idea that they owe you for the war is pathetic.

Wow, then it's a really good thing that's not what I said isn't it?

...can we at least not get spit on when in their country?

That's not expecting them to be nice, it's expecting them to be decent human beings. Not spitting on someone isn't being nice, it's common-fucking-courtesy. Then again if you accept that the French are wall to wall cocksuckers and are allowed to act that way to everyone then I suppose I am expecting them to be nice to us for our help.Where the hell do I get off huh?

[Monroe]

Well to be fair France only helped in the American Revolution because they hoped to take over America. They wanted new colonies. I think we owe the Dutch more personally. They gave us money during the Revolutionary War and we did not almost go to war with them within a few decades.

Besides WWI and WWII you have the Vietnam War to thank the French for. So I think we've been more than adequate in repaying the frogs. That's not even counting the Marshal Plan.