The French

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by Rikao4

Calvados ,well sure pour me a glass.

Rika

my Grandma was born in a town in the Calvados region
still have ties with "the farm" there, sat around the table with them at uncles wedding, they came over to us this time...

i've tasted Calvados that cannot be purchased, anywhere
Not even if P-Diddy himself got out his cheque book or offered to trade all the bling on his person...

you'll get a bottle , if they really like who you are


(taking Belgian Beer along does help in that respect, Jean the old man on the farm really loves em )

[RPKESQ]

Originally Posted by island911

When you said "I have never experience any French person treating me badly because I am an American." I let it pass. But, I was thinking 'you are not likely too observant.' (I have family in France) The snooty French stereotype has roots; deep roots.

So, now there you are, calling finstone clueless. Could it be, that you are the clueless one? --that maybe, you have been dis'd behind your back, a few hundred times? . . .maybe?

Well, let's see. I live in France and am regularly invited to every event for miles around. People come to me for advice here. I buy and sell property here. I have to deal with the legal, cultural and social rules in order to profit. And I have been doing this for almost 25 years.

And your experience is that you have family in France?

Maybe you are treated that way because you cannot exist without the attitude that "USA is #1" dripping form your actions at every turn. Clueless indeed.

[javadog]

Originally Posted by tabs

An acquaintance of mine owns a Winery in CA. His real income is selling grapes to the larger vintners. His passion is making Ports and Sherry's...which regularly win Gold Medals in competitions.

He can have any wine he likes to drink, as the wine making community in CA is very small. What does he drink everyday...One of his Red Jug Wines that comes in gallon jugs with a screw cap....

So don't give me this BS about wine and wine making.

Hey, there's no accounting for taste. I have to agree with the Belgian above (first time for that, by the way) that there is a lot more to wine than the basic grape.

There are good California wines but to say that overall, they are superior to French wines, is just hogwash. Seriously. Not worth arguing about.

JR

[Rikao4]

Stijn, my friend Sophie had family in the region..
got the same drink & meal...
a most cherished gift was given to me by her grandma..
my 'petite baline' man could she cook & laugh.

Rika

[jcommin]

I have seen a program on the History Channel featuring the French Foreign Legion. They produce some tuff solders as does the French military. Anyone who 'shows up' has my respect. I don't care where they come from.

[Hawktel]

I've never read any account of a military leader worth his salt discounting the French fighting man.

Like most professional armies, their weak spot is the political system.

[svandamme]

Rika,
then you problably know the sugarlump too
"pour le mal au coeur"

hell, chances are they know eachother... (the grandma's and the farm's and stuff)

the one i know was chairman of the cooperation or whatever it was... not sure if he still is, or maybe he retired from the position ... still on the farm though...

[targa911S]

Originally Posted by island911

Speaking of showing some respect; do you really think that "our A -hole president started" it?

OK so let's take the president part out of it for the sake of my point.....did any less people die?

Try to follow me here....RESPECT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES IN A WAR.

life must be tough for you with that mini brain of yours.

[tabs]

Maybe its the way the French sstomp on the Grapes with their bare feet that makes French wine taste so peculiar....Its the French Toe Jam

[Rikao4]

the sugar cube bit, yes ..
while Sophie has been replaced with a better and more current model..
Sophie did have a killer apart. in Paris, real nice house in Deauville,and her family was very nice.

Rika

[fintstone]

Originally Posted by targa911S

OK so let's take the president part out of it for the sake of my point.....did any less people die?

Try to follow me here....RESPECT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES IN A WAR.

life must be tough for you with that mini brain of yours.

Hell, I think most anyone here respects soldiers...alive or dead...but when you belittle your own President...and the very cause the soldiers died for...you are the disrespectful one...who turned a eulogy to some fine soldiers who died for a righteous cause...into a tactless political thread. Congrats.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by Hawktel

I've never read any account of a military leader worth his salt discounting the French fighting man.

Like most professional armies, their weak spot is the political system.

Omar Brady does in, 'A Soldiers Story'.

I'm not sure I agree...he was commenting on tank battalions right after Paris was retaken.

Remember, though, the German's facing Omar were resting and refitting.

[scottbombedout]

Its a shame 10 French soldiers die fighting the common enemy and we just can't salute them for their sacrifice.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by scottbombedout

Its a shame 10 French soldiers die fighting the common enemy and we just can't salute them for their sacrifice.

My apologies if I over stepped my bounds. They are indeed brave and worthy men, whom I will salute.

The important aspect is now the families of the fallen, same as ever. No more smilies.

[scottbombedout]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

My apologies if I over stepped my bounds. They are indeed brave and worthy men, whom I will salute.

The important aspect is now the families of the fallen, same as ever. No more smilies.

Seahawk, my post wasn't aimed at you. It was the tone the thread took that bugged me.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by scottbombedout

Seahawk, my post wasn't aimed at you. It was the tone the thread took that bugged me.

Fair enough...I imagine none of us could have stood their watch. Worth remembering.

[RPKESQ]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Omar Brady does in, 'A Soldiers Story'.

I'm not sure I agree...he was commenting on tank battalions right after Paris was retaken.

Remember, though, the German's facing Omar were resting and refitting.

Now, now, let's not make sweeping innuendos. Not all German units on the Western Front were there for rest and refit and the French armor units at that time were spotty. Some good, some not so good.

[targa911S]

Originally Posted by fintstone

Hell, I think most anyone here respects soldiers...alive or dead...but when you belittle your own President...and the very cause the soldiers died for...you are the disrespectful one...who turned a eulogy to some fine soldiers who died for a righteous cause...into a tactless political thread. Congrats.

I know this is pointless to try to get through to you ...but I said take the president out of the statement. But as always you can only focus on that. I can admit that I should not have put W in the mix, I will even go back and change it if that will help you focus on the real point. I did that and now you still don't see what I was saying ..I mean you are telling me what I was saying but you are so blinded by the W factor you can even read that in what I said. I was asking for respect for the dead. Yet you still don't see it.

Another mini brain.

[creaturecat]

Shameful, truly shameful.
What a bunch of red-necked hypocrites.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by andrew15

Mule - Helping themselves and the rest of europe by sending gound troops to Afganistan and losing 10 soldier in a single ambush isn't enough gonads for you!?

Fixed it for you.