Small Minded Xenophobia
There appears to have been a minor outbreak of small minded xenophobia on this site recently, with the French receiving a fair amount of stick.
I would therefore like to apologise on behalf of PolicyBlender and promise that all xenophobia from now on will be of the traditional 'large minded' variety. Further, that the French will no longer cop a fair amount of stick, they will return to the more usual 'loads of stick' that we think they deserve, rather than a fair amount that the actually deserve.
I would therefore like to apologise on behalf of PolicyBlender and promise that all xenophobia from now on will be of the traditional 'large minded' variety. Further, that the French will no longer cop a fair amount of stick, they will return to the more usual 'loads of stick' that we think they deserve, rather than a fair amount that the actually deserve.
Q: How many Frenchmen does it take to change a light bulb?
A: One. He holds the bulb and all of Europe revolves around him.
Posted by
Ben |
Mon Jun 20, 05:37:00 pm
Surely if they disagree with us, we disagree with them too, ergo we have the same number, or amount, of bollocks?
I confess though, the fact that they were invaded 60 years ago doesn't make for terribly good humour anymore. No more than the fact that they successfully invaded us 950 years ago. Hastings, Agincourt, Waterloo, blah blah blah.
1: Vous voulez le constitution Europeen?
2: Alors... non. c'est non, buh.
1:Pourquoi?
2:Eeeurgh.... non. Buh.
1:Mais vous voulez trois billion livres anglais pour rien?
2:Oui. C'est oui, n'est-ce pas? Nous le méritons, seulement pour faire la meilleure nourriture qu'eux.
Not really very funny, but a good opportunity to practice my french.
Posted by
Matt |
Tue Jun 21, 10:38:00 am
Anyway, the Americans have lots of jokes about the French.
Posted by
Matt |
Tue Jun 21, 01:12:00 pm
I made no qualitative statement about the jokes, I merely pointed out that there was more than one of them. And a lot of the jokes about the Americans are shit if you don't happen to agree with them. They don't all eat burgers you know - they have a wide variety of fast food to make them horrendously obese.
Posted by
Matt |
Tue Jun 21, 04:17:00 pm