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Racerbvd 01-06-2012 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by recycled sixtie (Post 6477332)
It helps if you speak French. I worked 2 summer holidays there - once on a farm and the next year as a guide in a Chateau. French beer not good, French wine great of course. French women? Well I was 16 then and....:)
Sorry, but I wouldn't be ordering any Beer in France,, too many Wines to sample...

wdfifteen 01-06-2012 02:21 PM
And, one of life's greatest pleasures is having a cute French waitress place a beautifully broiled plaice on your table saying, "Voila Monsieur!" in that little sing-song voice they commonly use.

Jrboulder 01-06-2012 02:58 PM
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The French
Can't fly airplanes

imcarthur 01-06-2012 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by kundensport (Post 6477342)
i love France;

24 Heures du Mans
Renault A 110
Renault 5 Turbo
Gordini
Sauterne wines
fois gras
Bob Wollek
Henri Pescarolo
Sonauto
Guy Ligier
Gérard Larrousse
tour de france (car or bicycle, doesn't matter)
Bugatti
Matra V12
french foreign legion (just ask Gen. Schwarzkopf)
Coco Chanel
photography (invented by Niepce)
parachute
first modern Olympics (initiated by Pierre de Coubertin)
Renoir, Cezanne, Gauguin, Monet

every nation contributed to a better world.... and for worse,
i just like thinking positive,SmileWavy
Agreed. But I would also add:

Burgundy wines
Baguettes
Sitting in a café in the 5th Arr on a warm day
French cheese

Ian

Dottore 01-06-2012 03:26 PM
Driving a rented Renault at full tilt through the French landscape, occasionally stopping at some little village for a meal that will convince you there is a God and that he's French...I can think of few finer ways to waste time.

RWebb 01-06-2012 03:58 PM
I agree with the pro-French comments above; however, many French foods can be improved -- you add some Spanish, Caribbean, and African to them, some red pepper (from So. America), mix and wait 300 years. This also works with French women...

patssle 01-06-2012 03:58 PM
The French were right on Iraq. So much for those freedom fries.

Racerbvd 01-06-2012 04:07 PM
Real or not, I have always loved this..

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kundensport 01-06-2012 04:30 PM
Rendezvous, +1
good call Byron

Moses 01-06-2012 04:34 PM
Many people resent French cultural arrogance. Having spent a fair amount of time in France, I believe their cultural arrogance is richly deserved. Beautiful people, beautiful country. Amazing food. Ahhhh... France.

imcarthur 01-06-2012 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Moses (Post 6477729)
Many people resent French cultural arrogance.
Gee. some other country comes to mind when I think of arrogance . . . but I can't quite remember which one . . . now, let me think . . .

Ian

Moses 01-06-2012 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by imcarthur (Post 6477736)
Gee. some other country comes to mind when I think of arrogance . . . but I can't quite remember which one . . . now, let me think . . .

Ian
Ah, Canada. America's hat.

imcarthur 01-06-2012 04:55 PM
No oil for you! (Spoken in my best Soup Nazi voice)

Ian

Flieger 01-06-2012 04:56 PM
Canada? Oh, that is where Rush came from.

john70t 01-06-2012 05:14 PM
Wiki: "While two-piece bathing suits had been worn on the beach before, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946. He named it after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the site of the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon tests in July that year."

Of course they have the topless beaches as well;)

Aurel 01-06-2012 07:08 PM
Damn, you guys are so right. What the heck am I doing in Albuquerque, New Mexico? Ohh, I remember now, saving for retirement in France...Dads house is waiting for me.

stuartj 01-06-2012 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Moses (Post 6477729)
Many people resent French cultural arrogance. Having spent a fair amount of time in France, I believe their cultural arrogance is richly deserved. Beautiful people, beautiful country. Amazing food. Ahhhh... France.
And the the charming confidence to not give a **** about what we think....

Id live there in a blink. Paris is, just well, Paris....

Moses 01-06-2012 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by stuartj (Post 6478125)
And the the charming confidence to not give a **** about what we think....

Id live there in a blink. Paris is, just well, Paris....
I love Paris. And every other part of France I've visited.

Paul K 01-06-2012 08:21 PM
The English invented arrogance.

The French perfected it...

creaturecat 01-07-2012 08:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Moses (Post 6478193)
I love Paris. And every other part of France I've visited.
Same here. Fantastic.


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