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New riots in France.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:09 pm
by Tsukiyumi
Looks like
'Gay Paris' is having another fight with its Muslim boyfriend...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071127/ap_ ... e_violence
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:13 pm
by Mikey
The Huguenots v. the Catholics; the Great Schism and the Pope of Nice; and now this. I think the US and the UK should just go in and split the damn place up between us.
BTW, is "unacceptable" the strongest adjective the Interior Minister could come up with to describe police officers getting shot in the face with buckshot? Even Dick Cheney only shoots people in the face with BIRDshot!
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:17 pm
by Tsukiyumi
Yeah, I'd say getting shot in the face with a 1/4 inch pellet rates a little higher than 'unacceptable'.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:35 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Every
Frackin'
Year!
Sorry, but didn't this happen around the same time last year as well? What the hell's up with France? I know Christmass is stressful and that, but come on!
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:40 pm
by Captain Seafort
Rioting does indeed seem to have taken over from striking as their national sport.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:28 pm
by shran
Striking is now more something of Dutch secondary education students. They think 1040 hours dedicated to educating is too much. I am NOT one of them.
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:28 am
by Mikey
1040 hours? That's even less than American students - who I had always figured were the laziest lot in the world!
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:03 am
by Monroe
Mikey wrote:The Huguenots v. the Catholics; the Great Schism and the Pope of Nice; and now this. I think the US and the UK should just go in and split the damn place up between us.
Not to mention all the Republics in the last 200 years.
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:41 pm
by Mikey
There's been so much of this crap in France, I was just trying to narrow it down to the more prevalent religious-ethnic issues.
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:31 pm
by shran
Mikey wrote:1040 hours? That's even less than American students - who I had always figured were the laziest lot in the world!
Doesn't matter how much education they get. It is always too much. you should know that. for us, 1040 hours per year means like 26 hours per week.
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:11 pm
by Deepcrush
Since when to people in france fight? I'm confused! I thought that it took, well 'balls' to fight and since the french haven't shown such in over 100 years that they would have lost them along with the tale!
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:22 pm
by Mikey
No, no - they fight with each other at the drop of a hat. It's only when their entire national existence is threatened that they can't fight, or when they are called upon to act in unison with the other powers of the globe.
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:57 pm
by Deepcrush
Ah, and now I know
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:48 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Deepcrush wrote:Ah, and now I know
And knowing is... ah, never mind. :p
Anyway, this is rather pathetic. No-go zones where the police fear to patrol? Yeesh!
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:00 pm
by Tsukiyumi
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Anyway, this is rather pathetic. No-go zones where the police fear to patrol? Yeesh!
Sounds a bit like my neighborhood, really.
