Looks like someone needs an enema.

[POINTER94]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20070710/ap_tr_ge/travel_brief_polite_paris_1

 

[BoatBuoy]

Re: Looks like someone needs an enema.

Kinda surprising the cab drivers speak French. I thought all they spoke was Arabic.

 

[ricksrster]

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I'm still don't think kindly of the French. I still eat freedom Fries. If American tourists want to go somewhere to speak French they can visit Canada. The people are a whole bunch friendlier.

 

[Haut Medoc]

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I'm still don't think kindly of the French. I still eat freedom Fries. If American tourists want to go somewhere to speak French they can visit Canada. The people are a whole bunch friendlier.

None of you have been to France, I'd wager........
And go right ahead with that enema Pointer, ya might loosen up a little!...

 

[OldMercsRule]

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I'm still don't think kindly of the French. I still eat freedom Fries. If American tourists want to go somewhere to speak French they can visit Canada. The people are a whole bunch friendlier.

They do have a new president: Rickster. He is very openly pro American, and that does mean a majority of the French people elected him with their eyes wide open, (his opponent was very hard Left anti American).

The French are historically very irritating to anyone who is not French. That said: we would not even exist as a Country today without them, and I for one never forget the debt we owe them for that minor lil' gift of LIBERTY.

Helpin' them in WW2 helped to repay the debt, but as irritating as they are, I'd rather have them on our side. My $.02 Respectfully, JR

 

[POINTER94]

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OMR,

We have repaid them twice (three times if you count Vietnam). I think we have paid that debt plus interest a couple of times over.

 

[OldMercsRule]

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OMR,

We have repaid them twice (three times if you count Vietnam). I think we have paid that debt plus interest a couple of times over.

Hard to repay any debt if we woulda never existed. That said: the French are very self absorbed and irritating. They thought it was in their interest to help us beat King George, n' we thought it was in our interest to help them beat the Germans a couple of times. We would have never done it just for them and visa versa. (BTW, I wish we had stayed out of WW1, WW2 we had no choice, IMHO).

My main point is a majority of the French people made a pro America choice in leadership that was not an insignificant event, (the Germans elected a relatively pro American Leader recently as well). We can use all the friends we can get: Pointer.

I will save my anti French fire for another day when they revert to their Liberal pompous look down their nose ways as they surely will sometime in the future. Ya think American Libs learned their snotty cornduct from copyin' the snoooooooty French? Respectfully JR

 

[ricksrster]

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None of you have been to France, I'd wager........
And go right ahead with that enema Pointer, ya might loosen up a little!...

I've been to France. 1971. The Paris peace talks were going on. Just like now with us at war in Iraq the French hated us back then.

 

[ricksrster]

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They do have a new president: Rickster. He is very openly pro American, and that does mean a majority of the French people elected him with their eyes wide open, (his opponent was very hard Left anti American).

The French are historically very irritating to anyone who is not French. That said: we would not even exist as a Country today without them, and I for one never forget the debt we owe them for that minor lil' gift of LIBERTY.

Helpin' them in WW2 helped to repay the debt, but as irritating as they are, I'd rather have them on our side. My $.02 Respectfully, JR

It's still their elected representatives in their politburo that calls the shots.

 

[OldMercsRule]

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I've been to France. 1971. The Paris peace talks were going on. Just like now with us at war in Iraq the French hated us back then.

Yah, brings back fond memories of John French Kerry meetin' with the Commies to do some serious back stabbin' in 'gay Paris' against military regulations governing his cornduct. Guess that's what happened to delay his 'honorable' discharge; eh? Senator Kerry is such a great American, I sure wish he was our President, don't you?

 

[OldMercsRule]

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It's still their elected representatives in their politburo that calls the shots.

That maybe, I don't know much about the French political structure other then the fact that it is one of the most openly corrupt in the world. Most Liberal n' most corrupt, (any cornnection)? I still think it IS A BIG DEAL THE FRENCH people choose an openly pro American Leader. My $.02 Respectfully, JR

 

[POINTER94]

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OMR,

The french had two choices in the last election. One (liberal) had a complete meltdown just weeks prior to the election. I wouldn't state so absolutely that they voted for their current leader out of a desire to mend fences with the USA. I will say I am encouraged by the change and look forward to them acting as allies instead of adversaries, which is how they have conducted themselves in the UN and in other matters of state the past 30 years.

With the change, comes hope. I am looking for some tangible modifications in their economic and political positions before I extend my hand to someone who has time and time and time and time and time again, tried to bite it. The french have been the dirty little bastages behind the scenes on almost every dirty deal in illegal arms and illegal trade underminding our foreign policy for the past couple decades.

This open arms approach wouldn't be prudent. I am cautiously optimistic. You seem to be ascribing the same type of mandate from the French elections that the democrats are pretending to ascribe to our past election. It wasn't a vote of confidence in democrats as much as a smite against the existing rabble.

 

[OldMercsRule]

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OMR,

The french had two choices in the last election. One (liberal) had a complete meltdown just weeks prior to the election. I wouldn't state so absolutely that they voted for their current leader out of a desire to mend fences with the USA. I will say I am encouraged by the change and look forward to them acting as allies instead of adversaries, which is how they have conducted themselves in the UN and in other matters of state the past 30 years.

With the change, comes hope. I am looking for some tangible modifications in their economic and political positions before I extend my hand to someone who has time and time and time and time and time again, tried to bite it. The french have been the dirty little bastages behind the scenes on almost every dirty deal in illegal arms and illegal trade underminding our foreign policy for the past couple decades.

This open arms approach wouldn't be prudent. I am cautiously optimistic. You seem to be ascribing the same type of mandate from the French elections that the democrats are pretending to ascribe to our past election. It wasn't a vote of confidence in democrats as much as a smite against the existing rabble.

I totally agree with yer cautious assesment Pointer. I just wanted the non thinking or underinformed anti French types, (anonomus straw men cornvenient fer ol' Murky ta kick from time to time), to notice the POTENTIAL CHANGE FER THE BETTER! N' hope fer the best, (as you succinctly state here)
Respectfully, JR

 

[Nos4r2]

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I'd just rather they stayed on their side of the channel. I don't like France much and I've been there a few times. They make it hell for me when they blockade Boulogne and the other seaports too.

Oh, and they burn our sheep while raising the white flag...

 

[ricksrster]

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I totally agree with yer cautious assesment Pointer. I just wanted the non thinking or underinformed anti French types, (anonomus straw men cornvenient fer ol' Murky ta kick from time to time), to notice the POTENTIAL CHANGE FER THE BETTER! N' hope fer the best, (as you succinctly state here)
Respectfully, JR

I will pray for them to be our friends again just like the Marquis de Lafayette was. We need allies in this world.

 

[RPJS]

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I for one never forget the debt we owe them for that minor lil' gift of LIBERTY.

JR

The USofA. The only country in the history of the world which has ever had to rely on the French to win a war.

 

[Vlad D Impeller]

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Screw the French!

 

[Haut Medoc]

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The USofA. The only country in the history of the world which has ever had to rely on the French to win a war.

Good thing , too!....
Or you'd be speakin' German........

 

[RPJS]

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I seem to remember from my history lessons that we had delt with that problem before you lot arrived

You turned up just in time to help mop up the mess and take the glory

 

[Kenneth Brown]

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I seem to remember from my history lessons that we had delt with that problem before you lot arrived

You turned up just in time to help mop up the mess and take the glory

Ya think? I reckon history is taught to fit where ya live. We were taught a different version.