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Jeananas [2011-12-04 16:06:06 +0000 UTC]
OH MON DIEU !!! XD
Alors là, c'est trop fort !
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Jeananas In reply to Jeananas [2011-12-13 19:29:15 +0000 UTC]
C'est ça qui fait son intérêt x)
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AmiralAesir In reply to Jeananas [2011-12-12 18:31:49 +0000 UTC]
Un peu tiré par les cheveux XD
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MaKuZoKu [2011-11-26 07:37:21 +0000 UTC]
Haha ^^
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truemouse [2011-06-30 23:22:09 +0000 UTC]
Actually, there is one French cliche' I like.
From Doctor Who 'Girl In The Fireplace', one of Stephen Moffat's brilliant lines.
"Have you met the French? My God! They know how to party!"
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truemouse In reply to AmiralAesir [2011-07-07 13:29:18 +0000 UTC]
14th July . . . need we say more?
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truemouse [2011-06-29 17:26:04 +0000 UTC]
Some of these cliche's aren't bad. Nothing wrong with the 2cv, or even the R4 for that matter. (I'd rather have a 2cv) I have more experience of rural France where old men play petunk, where they do listen to accordian music, where they do have vineyards and olive or cherry groves, apple orchards or similar. Where fresh baked bread is delivered to every house along with the morning's newspaper. Where you can still get milk straight from the cow. Where you have two types of old ladies. Those that still cling to their youth and glamour of the city (usually Paris) that their loved one took them from, or the jolly old dame who smokes a clay pipe and isn't allowed to play petunk because she'd show up most of the men. Every one of these marvelous old characters could tell you of their exploits against 'Le Boche'. Of when they strapped themselves in the prone position to the fenders of a Citroën Traction Avant, aiming their carbines propped up against the headlights and would run German roadblocks, or perform strikes against ammunition dumps, spoiling their fuel with sand (one time having to resort to peeing in a commandant's staff car's fuel.)
I can only laugh at people who call the French cowards. Usually they're from countries that have never been invaded. (Pearl Harbour doesn't count.) I laugh at people who claim the French don't wash. Where do they believe modern hygiene originated? I have had a french girlfriend and let me tell you, they are very particular about personal hygiene.
I've always had a love for France, and while I'm proud to be Scottish, I've always felt at home there.
Vive la France!
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truemouse In reply to AmiralAesir [2011-07-07 13:19:37 +0000 UTC]
Sure was. The Auvergne. Although I have spent time in Nice and Paris. Nice reminded me of Edinburgh, except that Monaco was just a bus-ride away. Paris is like Seattle or Glasgow . . . only with better public transport . . . and catacombs.
We also have friends in Yvetot, way in the North West. One particular old dame (she passed away recently) had an amazing history. She owned a Xsara Picasso like mine, and like me she had problems with the clutch. Where mine was damaged by a dodgy service, she had ridden hers down. She explained that she had learned to ride a motorcycle before she learned to ride a bike, and that she would never let the clutch all the way out. I asked her when/where she learned to ride a motorcycle (I had difficulty picturing this lady with over 80 years riding a Ducati) she told me her German boyfriend taught her on his Zundapp in the second world war during the occupation of France. Before you cry out 'vichy' she was in the French Resistance. She used her relationship with the young German officer and the freedoms that were afforded her to transport and even aquire information. In 1945 when the Axis had folded she told him everything. He laughed at the idea that documents that his office were looking for were millimetres from him while she clung on the back of his bike as they rode through Paris. They married and settled down in Normandy. He died in the 90's.
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AmiralAesir In reply to truemouse [2011-07-09 19:43:26 +0000 UTC]
Awwww... She was such a lady, according to what you could have said of her life...
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truemouse In reply to AmiralAesir [2011-07-09 20:17:11 +0000 UTC]
I think both of them were, but she was obviously the most cunning of the two. That might explain how she got the clutch in her Xsara Picasso replaced that very morning under garantie, while I had to pay nearly £800 and wait a week for damage THEY did.
P.S. If you want an accurate stereotype, British Citroën mechanics are lazy, greedy and useless. If you want your Citroën repaired or serviced, take your car to France.
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AmiralAesir In reply to truemouse [2011-07-15 15:35:30 +0000 UTC]
British Citroën mechanics are lazy, greedy and useless? You could have summed it up to 'British', ... joking =9
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truemouse In reply to AmiralAesir [2011-07-15 22:21:21 +0000 UTC]
It's all down to mechanical philosophy and aptitude.
Americans think what makes a good car is the size of the engine.
British think what makes a good car is the amount of air you can throw into the engine.
French think what makes a good car is great timing.
The American realise this and so the British can build and service their own version of Ford and Chevrolet (Chrysler is more geared for the Germans). France, however, is a proud nation (And rightly so, BTW, happy Bastille day, I know I'm a little late, but still) and won't change their formula for anyone, least of all the 'Ros Boeufs'. The Brits think they know how to build and maintain cars and so won't learn any other way.
Now we're left with a British workforce in a French company who have little faith in the product and are caught in a vicious circle. The car is too difficult for them to work on because they won't put the effort into learning it, they won't put the effort into learning it because it's too difficult for them to work on.
In summary:
If you want a good American car, buy and service the car in America.
If you want a good British car, buy and service the car in Britain.
If you want a good French car, buy and service the car in France.
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truemouse In reply to AmiralAesir [2011-07-16 10:40:37 +0000 UTC]
Strangely enough I found that domestic market German cars suck and the only German cars worth having are export ones.
I asked a friend why so many German taxicabs were beige Mercedes or BMW's. He told me that the paint was cheap and the parts were readily available in scrapyards.
The standard for German export cars is way higher than for the cars it sells to Germans. It's almost as if Germany wants to impress every other nation.
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tofujelly [2011-06-18 23:01:01 +0000 UTC]
HAHA LE COQ !
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LounaZ In reply to AmiralAesir [2011-06-21 16:28:39 +0000 UTC]
Huhu la flemme en faites. 8'D
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LounaZ In reply to AmiralAesir [2011-06-22 01:31:05 +0000 UTC]
Mouahaha j'crois pas. Une de mes caractéristique à moi plutôt.
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AmiralAesir In reply to LounaZ [2011-06-22 09:07:24 +0000 UTC]
Un cas désespéré donc... ='(
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AmiralAesir In reply to Urus-28 [2011-06-21 16:03:21 +0000 UTC]
L'arrogance française? Ah oui tiens. Mais bon, y'a pas de mal à être arrogant surtout quand on vit dans le plus beau pays du monde! ... J'en connais d'autres qui se pavoisent de vivre dans le pays de Dieu
Plus sérieusement, ca reste effectivement un problème, mais le french break cache un autre fait - qu'en dehors de cette incivilité routière, on a moins de morts et/ou d'accidents au kilomètre que bon nombre de pays, occidental ou non. On avait ainsi démontré à un canadien lors d'un chan - chiffres à l'appui - que son pays était bien plus meurtrier que le notre, malgré une densité moindre. A sa défense, je pense que l'hiver est bien plus rigoureux et dangereux que le notre. Mais à comparer, on est en-dessous des USA...
Pour le reste, grenouilles incluses, je plussoie
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Urus-28 In reply to AmiralAesir [2011-06-21 16:50:36 +0000 UTC]
Ah mon sens le "french break" est clairement surfait, il suffit de conduire dans d'autres pays pour s'en rendre compte, mais il n’empêche que l'image est restée..
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AmiralAesir In reply to Urus-28 [2011-06-22 01:03:34 +0000 UTC]
J'ai vu pire également, mais en même temps, quand tu as survécu aux Parisiens, Bordelais et aux Marseillais, tu peux limite t'attaquer aux routes thailandaises t'es rodé xD
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Urus-28 In reply to AmiralAesir [2011-06-22 09:13:34 +0000 UTC]
Les routes de la chine continentale ne sont pas mal non plus... Là où ils mettent des feux sans expliquer aux gens à quoi ils servent et où il faut choisir sont taxi en fonction de l'état des pneus ^^
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AmiralAesir In reply to Urus-28 [2011-07-07 01:50:42 +0000 UTC]
Alors là, je retiendrai le conseil pour la prochaine fois XD
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Osottte [2011-06-14 09:51:53 +0000 UTC]
Ah tellement vrai.
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AmiralAesir In reply to dessinateur777 [2011-07-26 11:21:06 +0000 UTC]
Finalement, je suis plus connu que prévu sur ce petit blogspot XD
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x--Siegfried--x [2011-06-14 09:36:44 +0000 UTC]
Alors je porte effectivement des moustaches, mais pas à la Dali : je trouve ça moche X{(
C'est vrai, il n'y a que Paris et le reste de la France.
En attendant, cet hiver, Hollywood a découvert Strasbourg pour le tournage de Sherlock Holms II. Peut-être un changement ?
...
Nan, je rigole, ça ne changera certainement pas ;{)
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x--Siegfried--x In reply to AmiralAesir [2011-06-14 18:36:42 +0000 UTC]
Dans un même temps, comment voyons-nous nous-mêmes les autres pays (mis à part l'Allemagne parce que c'est les voisins et qu'on y va pour y faire les courses, donc à force de les côtoyer... )
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x--Siegfried--x In reply to AmiralAesir [2011-06-21 16:25:04 +0000 UTC]
Ah, l'image du bon gros bavarois en "Läderhosen" et sa choppe de bière de deux litres en main et de la charcuterie dans l'autre ;{)
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