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All I can say is the french make crappy movies!:D

THE FRENCH AND US

1. "We came to Europe twice in twenty-five years..."
2. "At first, when we came into Normandy.. the French gave us everything..."
3. "The French don't invite us into their homes.".
4. "The French rub me the wrong way.".
5. "I'll never love the French.." "I hate the French!"
6. "We're always pulling the French out of a jam..."
7. "We can't rely on these French."
8. "We've had more beefing from the French than from the Germans..."
9. "We gave the French uniforms, jeeps, trucks, supplies, ammunition - everything."
10. "We gave the French billions of dollars worth of stuff. They'll never pay it back."
11. "The French are using our gas, but they won't give it to Americans."
12. "One Frenchman told me the French practically gave us the Statue of Liberty... "
13. "We are not welcome in French Restaurants."
14. "Every time we go into a night club, we get soaked by these Frenchmen".
15. "The French are terrible scroungers. They keep mooching candy... "
16. "The French welcomed us at first; now they want us to get out."
17. "The French brag a lot about the fighting they did... "
18. "The French let us down when the fighting got tough. What did THEY do?"
19. "They ride in our jeeps and waste our gas."
20. "The French aren't friendly."
21. "Why bother about the French?"

THE FRENCH

22. "The French are too damned independent."
23. "The French are out for what they they can get."
24. "The French are mercenary..."
25. "The French are gypping us."
26. "The French are cynical."
27. "The French are not up-to-date..."
28. "The French won't accept new ideas..."
29. "The French are always criticizing..."
30. "All the French want is a good time..."
31. "The French are insincere..."
32. "The French just don't care about anything..."
33. "The French have no guts; they're decadent."
34. "What did these frogs ever contribute to the world anyway?"
35. "The French do things different than we do..."
36. "All the French do is talk."
37. "I never heard people gab so much. Gab, gab, gab."
38. "Why do Frenchmen look so shabby?"
39. "What amazes me is how, with all their stories about suffering..."
40. "Why do the French parade all the the time..."
41. "At the Folies Bergere or the Casino de Paris..."
42. "Why isn't there decent plumbing in French houses..."
43. "French cities are filthy."
44. "The French are unsanitary."
45. "The French don't bathe."
46. "You ride on the subway and the smell almost knocks you out..."
47. "The French villages are pigsties..."
48. "I'd like the French a lot better if they were cleaner."
49. "Why do they knock off work for two to three hours every day?"
50. "The French spend all their time at these cafes..."
51. "They are lazy."
52. "You can drive all through Paris and never see anyone working."
53. "They're primitive. French farmers still wear wooden shoes."
54. "Why don't the French work their fields? "
55. "French women are easy pick-ups."
56. "French women are immoral."
57. "How do the French themselves feel about all the street-walkers... "
58. "French women are too damned expensive."
59. "The French drink too much."
60. "Every time a French girl sits down she pulls her dress or skirt up."
61. "The French are immoral. They are morally decayed."
62. "They kiss right in the open - in the streets."
63. "How can they put up with the custom... "
64. "Why do the French drive so g-d- fast ?"
65. "The French drive like lunatics!"
66. "The French can't drive a car..."
67. "French railroads are a mess."
68. "We give them locomotives and they don't even run them."

THE FRENCH AND THE GERMANS

69. "The French aren't our kind of people. The Germans are."
70. "The French are not as clean as the Germans."
71. "The Germans are easier to get along with than the French..."
72. "The French are not as efficient as the Germans... in mass production."
73. "The French are trouble-makers..."
74. "We'd be a lot smarter to be allies of the Germans..."
75. "The French aren't industrious..."
76. "The French have no courage..."
77. "The French don't even have enough men to..."
78. "The French didn't put up a real fight against the Germans..."
79. "The French aren't cleaning up their bombed cities..."
80. "The French cleaned out Stuttgart..."
81. "The French troops in Germany had the women terrorized."
82. "The French soldiers... didn't waste any time shacking up with German girls."

THE PRICES: "We're being gypped"

83. "Fifty francs to a dollar is blackmail..."
84. "The high prices and inflation in France are a disgrace."
85. "When we buy nice presents to send home, we pay through the nose!"
86. "The prices we are getting soaked is a scandal."
87. "What did the French ever do to...."
88. "Giving us 850 francs a month is just a way..."
89. "This 850 francs a month gift to us..."

THE BLACK MARKET

90. "The black market in France is disgraceful!"
91. "Why don't the French use stronger methods to stop the black market?"
92. "The leaders of the French resistance were behind the black market."
93. "The French haven't done a damn thing to stop pleasure driving..."

THOSE FRENCH SOLDIERS

94. "It burns me up to see a Frenchman using American uniforms."
95. "The French act has if they won the war single-handed."
96. "Why don't French soldiers ever clean their uniforms?"
97. "In Paris you see hundreds of young Frenchmen, our age, in civilian clothes...?"
98. "The French are sloppy-looking soldiers..."
99. "Why do French soldiers look so sloppy in their uniforms?"
100. "What got my goat was all the publicity the French soldiers got..."
101. "The French soldiers stole everything they could get their hands on..."

FRENCH COLLABORATION

102. "The French were all collaborationists."
103. "The French mostly collaborated with the Germans."
104. "After France fell, the French laid down and let the Germans walk all over them..."
105. "You wouldn't think they'd even been in the war..."

"THEY GOT OFF PRETTY EASY IN THIS WAR"

106. "The French got off pretty easy in the war."
107. "Why don't they get to work and rebuild their country?"

FRENCH POLITICS

108. "All French politicians are corrupt."
109. "The French don't have a decent political system..."
110. "The French are too radical in politics."
111. "The French are Communist."
112. "France is a decadent nation."

69. "The French aren't our kind of people. The Germans are."

What makes a nation "our kind of people" ? The way they look? The clothes they wear? The kind of plumbing they have? Or the things they believe in - the things they fight for; the things they fight against?

The French believe that all men are born and created equal. They believe in freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, the rights of minorities, government of the people, by the people, and for the people. What do the Germans believe in ?

The French were our allies during the American Revolution. They were our allies in 1917-1918. They were our allies in 1941-1945. What were the Germans?

The French proved, by their acts, that they are "our kind of people". The Germans proved, by their acts, that they are not "our kind of people". Look. at the record. It's a record of facts, not assumptions; it's a record of deeds, not pretense.

You can't tell what Germany is really like, because you are not seeing Germany: you are seeing a Germany that has been beaten, conquered, and occupied. You are seeing a Germany that has had the arrogance and insolence knocked out of her. You can't tell what "the Germans" are really like, because you are seeing Germans who are being forced to obey themselves - under military government.

"Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him".
- Ecelesiasticus, IX, 10 -

Originally posted by Criminal
69. "The French aren't our kind of people. The Germans are."


LOL Who said the Germans are 'our kind of people'? What kind of strawman is that?


What makes a nation "our kind of people" ?


Shared values. Shared interests.


The way they look? The clothes they wear? The kind of plumbing they have? Or the things they believe in - the things they fight for; the things they fight against?


Good question. What do the French fight for and against? How many Algerian fingers need to be cut off before you radicals who so loathe the United States stop your rampant revisionism?


The French believe that all men are born and created equal.


France: The New Anti-Semitism



NOTE: The following is based on a special report which was published in Response, Simon Wiesenthal Center's Magazine:

The report lists 57 of the most serious attacks. The volume of violent incidents against Jewish targets reached a peak immediately after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, especially around the New Year and Yom Kippur.
Most incidents have occurred in Paris suburbs and other neighborhoods where Jews and Muslims live in close proximity. Indeed, Muslim anti-Jewish activity has increased with the rising intensity of the Intifada represented through the extreme imagery and anti-Israel hostility of the media.

A demonstration of Jewish leadership assembled in January in the Créteil Synagogue - twice the target of violence - was marked by the sparseness of non-Jews. Indeed, the town's Deputy Mayor used the occasion to publicly revile the Sharon government and was met by jeers from the audience. One of the Créteil worshippers asked, "Why are only synagogues targeted... no mosques, no churches? And still the authorities call it general violence and claim that we are oversensitive. The policy of silence regarding Islamic Judeophobia must end."

The report quotes University of Paris Professor of French Literature, Eric Marty, who wrote in LeMonde, "There has been no voice of political authority ready to say simply that there is nothing that can justify a policy of terror against Jews. Individual or group violence against the Jews of France could never have gone so far without the perception that, even if not authorized, there has at least been a certain indulgence or understanding." His conclusion: "Every Jewish building in Paris requires protection, every Jewish festival is an occasion for concern and anguish, anyone walking in Paris or its suburbs wearing a 'kippa' is imprudent and any child leaving school may be beaten because he is Jewish, only because he is a Jew."


http://www.jewishpost.com/jp0807/jpn0807p.htm

Lets not get ahead of ourselves here.


They believe in freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, the rights of minorities, government of the people, by the people, and for the people. What do the Germans believe in ?


I'm sorry, is this a pro-French post or an Anti-German one? Can you tell us what the difference between the French and Germans are on these issues?


The French were our allies during the American Revolution.


Opportunism.


They were our allies in 1917-1918.

They were our allies in 1941-1945. What were the Germans?


It is better stated that we were THEIR allies during these periods. The US gained nothing from these alliances, the French gained a great deal. The US sacrificed a great deal, as well.


The French proved, by their acts, that they are "our kind of people".


Like when they flirted with the Soviet Union, and retained a hegemony over swaths of Africa regardless of the consequences during the Cold War?


The Germans proved, by their acts, that they are not "our kind of people". Look. at the record. It's a record of facts, not assumptions; it's a record of deeds, not pretense.

You can't tell what Germany is really like, because you are not seeing Germany: you are seeing a Germany that has been beaten, conquered, and occupied.


IE, Civilized. Roman conquest civilized 'France'. American conquest civilized Germany. So what?

Nor are we seeing "France", I suppose. We're seeing a "France" that was liberated by American forces, and created by the circumstances surrounding that liberation.

France was comitting atrocities, BTW, long after Nuremberg put the Germans out of that business.


You are seeing a Germany that has had the arrogance and insolence knocked out of her.


LOL Lets hope someone doesn't make that necessary for France. :p

Originally posted by Sulla the Dictator


LOL Who said the Germans are 'our kind of people'? What kind of strawman is that?
:shrug:
I did not write this. I only put it up for discussion. The truth is that my stepmother is French Canadian. She is also a sweet woman. I myself do not hate french though they make terrible movies.

The French don't care what they say as long as they pronounce it right.