Modern Manners

Patrick   Wed May 12, 2010 11:37 pm GMT
"Foreigners may pretend otherwise, but if English is spoken loudly enough, anyone can understand it, the British included. Actually, there’s no such thing as a foreign language. The world is just filled with people who grunt and squeak instead of speaking sensibly. French may be an exception. But since it’s impossible to figure out what French people are saying, we’ll never know for sure."
Quote from P. J. O'Rourke,
an American political satirist.

The guy is funny as hell,
read this:
"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know."

ROFLMAO!!!
Mon Dieu, so funny !!!!! I think I'm gonna pee-pee !!!
Norvégien   Thu May 13, 2010 1:13 am GMT
*Haussement d'épaules gaulois*
挪威   Thu May 13, 2010 4:59 am GMT
挪威国王哈拉尔五世和宋雅王后的长女
Her   Thu May 13, 2010 7:08 am GMT
Always curtsey while you speak.
Baldewin   Thu May 13, 2010 9:53 am GMT
France will invade other European countries, in an idle attempt to bring back the glorious time of the 1st Empire. Keep in mind that the French Revolution is indirectly inspired by Dutch culture and Calvinism (de Plakaet Van Verlatinghe later insired the British Glorious Revolution which indirectly inspired the Americans Revolution which has inspired French soldiers who saw a people able to throw down their government, this inspired the French Revolution)
Baldewin   Thu May 13, 2010 9:55 am GMT
Also, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also an important figure in both the American and French Revolutions, he was a Calvinist Swiss Francophone. It's of course more complicated than that.
Baldewin   Thu May 13, 2010 9:57 am GMT
Okay, he wasn't a Calvinist, but Roman Catholic. But he was Swiss alright which is practically the same. Nutpickers! ;-)
PARISIEN   Thu May 13, 2010 10:00 am GMT
Patrick, veuillez cesser cette stupide propagande anti-américaine.

P. J. O'Rourke est mondialement connu comme l'incarnation d'une forme spécifiquement américaine de stupidité, mais est-il nécessaire d'attirer l'attention sur son triste cas ?


<< the French Revolution is indirectly inspired by Dutch culture and Calvinism (de Plakaet Van Verlatinghe later insired the British Glorious Revolution which indirectly inspired the Americans Revolution which has inspired French soldiers who saw a people able to throw down their government, this inspired the French Revolution) >>

-- La Révolution Française a été effectivement une revanche (méritée) contre la catastrophique révocation de l'Edit de Nantes.
Franco   Thu May 13, 2010 2:13 pm GMT
French men are pansies who have sex with Arab men and their camels.
Matematik   Thu May 13, 2010 2:45 pm GMT
By the looks of you Spaniards I think it's quite clear to see who's been having sex with Arabs.
Ali Bobo   Thu May 13, 2010 5:06 pm GMT
Spaniards have had sex with Arabs for over 800 years.

Prior to that they had sex with Romans, Goths, Phoenicians, and just about anything that moved.

After that, things only got even much worse, and Spaniards embarked on a global race to have sex with as many races as possible.

They succeeded admirably, it must be said.
Franco   Fri May 14, 2010 3:36 am GMT
What are you talking about! We got rid of the Jews and Muslims a long time ago. Just look at the state your crap France is in! Muslims left and right. And yet you do nothing about it. It must be all the sex those Arabs offer you.