The disgusting French - again.

[Normy]

These people eat snails.....

Well, they also perfected nuclear power, and the Dassault Falcon line of business jets are the BEST in the industry. Airbus equipment has a serious flaw however, so they aren't perfect.

Damn, I love Paris!

N!

[Mothy]

Australia went to sleep at some stage in the competition - even the 3rd/4th final was a dozey affair

[AFC-911]

Originally Posted by look 171

I have. You were the guy that mention a lady locking their door when they saw an Asian man coming. They saw this Asian man and they f with all our train tickets after I wrote the f ing date down for him along with a bunch white Americans in our small group.

Fair enough. And like I said, that type of behavior can be found in any part of the world.

A rugby game and its fans shouldn't have led to an anti-French thread though. No one ever generalized the population of California when those beatings occurred during one of the opening games (I forget which sport). I honestly don't get why people think it's cool to bash on the French or somehow feel that it's ok...

Speaking of the game, it just seemed like American football where they run a bunch of laterals...I was expecting more blood from rugby.

Soccer fans have always looked down on it and rugby seemed sooooo tame.

[look 171]

Originally Posted by AFC-911

Fair enough. And like I said, that type of behavior can be found in any part of the world.

A rugby game and its fans shouldn't have led to an anti-French thread though. No one ever generalized the population of California when those beatings occurred during one of the opening games (I forget which sport). I honestly don't get why people think it's cool to bash on the French or somehow feel that it's ok...

Speaking of the game, it just seemed like American football where they run a bunch of laterals...I was expecting more blood from rugby.

Soccer fans have always looked down on it and rugby seemed sooooo tame.

Sorry, I am not a real man. I don't watch or play sport, so Ihave no idea what you are talking about. I race road bikes for more then 15 years. Tell you this much, the French suck at it now and its their race.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by look 171

Sorry, I am not a real man. I don't watch or play sport, so Ihave no idea what you are talking about. I race road bikes for more then 15 years. Tell you this much, the French suck at it now and its their race.

You forgot that they also try and make the rules favor their riders, kinda like like they do with the Le Mans race. Funny, while racing the BMX Worlds in England back in the 80s, I had my own experience with a French racer, if they can't win, cheat, but hey, what do Look 171 & I know, we have only actually competed against them, different eras, different forms, yet we both came away with the same opinion..

[look 171]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

You forgot that they also try and make the rules favor their riders, kinda like like they do with the Le Mans race. Funny, while racing the BMX Worlds in England back in the 80s, I had my own experience with a French racer, if they can't win, cheat, but hey, what do Look 171 & I know, we have only actually competed against them, different eras, different forms, yet we both came away with the same opinion..

Wild card entry BS.

Byron, thanks for the kind words. I was just a serious and very involved local amateur rider. I have gone to a few important races on the calender but understand professional road cycling very well. You have actually represented us and given those bastards an ass kicking for us here. Thank you for that. some of the guys that I use to train with were US national riders who rode in European pro/am races. They use to tell me in many of the French or Belgium races where they would laugh and punch our green horn American boys. The french would run them off into the ditch and lean on their handle bars. Chris Horner, still riding as a pro, use to tell us about his first season in European. Chris is the one guy (tough) that would not take their culture and their siht. He didn't make too many friends but got into it with a bunch of them all the time.

if you think they are / were clean, you got another thing coming. What is it that they think they have that are so superior to the rest of the world? I can't understand. l like to visit there, but my guards are always up after getting screw by more then a few of them. All of this happened in Paris. the French country side is a bit better, and have not had any issues there.

[Geronimo '74]

Originally Posted by afc-911

lower class behavior is the norm? You can find that type of behavior anywhere in the world!

Talk about over-generalization!

That's like saying we're all a bunch of baby killers here in florida...get off your high horse!

Ps - in all the times i've spent in france, i've never had anyone pull any "low class behavior" on me. So ymmv.

+1!

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by AFC-911

..Get off your high horse!

PS - In all the times I've spent in France, I've never had anyone pull any "low class behavior" on me. So YMMV.

Hahaha, I've spent time in France too and they are ARSEHOLES. There you go Mr. High horse

[look 171]

I purchased 5 tickets at the Paris train station going to Holland departing exactly three days later. I spoke perfect English to the butt head back there. I always ask if they speak English before I start just to be polite. I even wrote the date down on a piece of paper. the azzhold sold me the tickets for the next month on the exact day of the month. So much for assigned seats on the TVG. We didn't know until we were on the train after leaving the station. How does one f up that bad. That was not f ing mistake. We may azzholes in this country, but we willl never do anything like that. F em' and the high horse they rode in on. I will visit there again and I know not everyone is like that but my guard will always be up. that was not the only time.

[AFC-911]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Hahaha, I've spent time in France too and they are ARSEHOLES. There you go Mr. High horse

Ok, you've clearly had some bad experiences to be this biased, but it still doesn't justify generalizing the WHOLE country as "arseholes" or "disgusting."

I'm sure I can find some Kiwis that are arseholes too, but I won't be making blanket statements like you are...

I've lived with French people both in France and here in Florida and I take offense in you being racist.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by AFC-911

Ok, you've clearly had some bad experiences to be this biased, but it still doesn't justify generalizing the WHOLE country as "arseholes" or "disgusting."

I'm sure I can find some Kiwis that are arseholes too, but I won't be making blanket statements like you are...

I've lived with French people both in France and here in Florida and I take offense in you being racist.

So ..... french is now a race?
ROFLMFAO!

Lighten up Francois.
Lots of frenchies suck more than anybody when it comes to being downright RUDE, but that can be said about almost any country except maybe Japan.

The french CULTURE tends to give off a stench of underserved arrogance and superiority which annoys the heck out of lots of folks.
Maybe if they had actually accomplished something beside crapes and sauces they might get a pass for that arrogance and snobbiness.
The only war they ever kicked butt in was a war against themselves I know, it's funnier than all get out.

It isn't necessarily the individuals, it's the culture.

The US also stinks of arrogance and rudeness, but we earned it. Unlike the uppity panty-waists across the pond.

Anywho, do yourself a favoir (spelled like that on porpoise) and look up the definition of race and then pop off.

[dtw]

[911-32]

Seriously Bill, lay off the French. The ABs never take this stuff off the pitch - hence the radio silence from the AB camp. Its totally unseemly to tar all of France with this brush and more to the point, it makes us kiwis look like petty, moany, whiney little b!tchs. The world media (the parts that covered the RWC anyway) have since the final been running great stories about how good the cup was, how great the hospitality of the NZ people was and how NZ has finally got past the arrogant, one eyed view of nothing but the superiority of the ABs and showed the world a country that truly loves and embraces the game. Lets not drag down that good vibe

Said as one kiwi to another

[RPKESQ]

[QUOTE=Bill Douglas;6331415]Thanks, I thought so too.

And also thanks for the contribtion, if it wasn't for us guys they certainly would be speaking a different language.
[QUOTE]

Just what language would that be?

[911-32]

I think he was talking about the war - another unnecessary comment IMHO.

I for one appreciate that the French team came to play rugby and contributed to a great final. I also had a great holiday in Normandy last week, had a great time in Burgundy over the summer and I will be skiing in France over the winter, so I want to build up some good karma

[M.D. Holloway]

Someone sent me a video of Miss France having sex. I have to say, and while she took it in the pooper like a true American, those French coo's coming from her mouth got my attention!

[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by tevake

The Kiwis have had a grudge for the French since they conducted a terrorist attack on the Green Peace boat in Auckland Hbr. For good reason!

And the frogs deserve it!

[jmaxwell]

Just for my own info, why the fine for advancing on the Haka? Are you not supposed to be within 10 M or something?

[Bill Douglas]

A Kiwi guy and a French guy had been traveling around Europe and the Middle East together for about three months doing the usual, the Fench guy pretending he is the Sultan of Brunei's son and the other guy his body guard, and scoring girls by the dozen, you know, just the usual stuff. Then one day when they ran out of bus money they were walking across the desert when the Kiwi guy stumbled across a geni in a bottle. "Cool, you know what THIS means", the French guy replied "I have no idea, I don't speak English". The Kiwi guy replied "Sure that's fine, what it means is we let the genie out and he gives us three wishes each". "Yay" replied the French guy rubbing his crotch. The geni was let out and they both wished for drunk blonde 18 year old Swedish girls, all the beer you could drink, then with the last wish each left.... The French guy said to the geni "I would like a 100 foot high by 50 feet wide wall built arould beautiful France to keep the English speaking pigs out." The geni said done. The Kiwi guy said to the geni "Ya know how France is surounded by a wall; fill it with water.

[sammyg2]

Jacques Chirac, The French Prime Minister, was sitting in his office wondering what kind of mischief he could perpetrate against the United States when he was interrupted by a telephone call;

"Hallo, Mr. Chirac?" a heavily accented voice said.
"This is Paddy down at the Harp Pub in County Sligo, Ireland. I am ringing to inform you that we are officially declaring war on you!"

"Well, Paddy," Chirac replied, "this is indeed important news! How big is your army?"

"Right now," said Paddy, after a moment's calculation, "there is myself, me cousin Sean, me next door neighbour Seamus, and the entire dart team from the pub. That makes eight!"

Chirac paused. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have one hundred thousand men in my army waiting to move on my command."

"Begorra!" said Paddy. "I'll have to ring you back!"

Sure enough, the next day, Paddy called again. "Mr. Chirac, the war is still on. We have managed to get us some infantry equipment!"

"And what equipment would that be, Paddy?" Chirac asked

"Well, we have two combines, a bulldozer, and Murphy's farm tractor."

Chirac sighed, amused. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 6,000 tanks and 5,000 armoured personnel carriers. Also, I've increased my army to one hundred and fifty-thousand since we last spoke."

"Saints preserve us!" said Paddy. "I'll have to get back to you."

Sure enough, Paddy rang again the next day. "Mr. Chirac, the war is still on! We have managed to get ourselves airborne! We've modified Jackie McLaughlin's ultra-light with a couple of shotguns in the cockpit, and four boys from the Shamrock Pub have joined us as well!"

Chirac was silent for a minute and then cleared his throat. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 100 bombers and 200 fighter planes.
My military complex is surrounded by laser-guided, surface-to-air missile sites. And since we last spoke, I've increased my army to two hundred thousand!"

"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!", said Paddy; "I'll have to ring you back."

Sure enough, Paddy called again the next day. "Top o' the mornin', Mr. Chirac! I am sorry to tell you that we have had to call off the war."

"I'm sorry to hear that," said Chirac. "Why the sudden change of heart?"

"Well," said Paddy, "we've all had a long chat over a bunch of pints, and decided there's no foo-kin way we can feed two hundred thousand prisoners!"