It’s Official: The French Are Rude

The Constitutional Alamo ^ | 07/09/09 | Michael Naragon

[FreeManWhoCan]

I worked with French people for 5 years. 90% of the ones I knew were back-stabbing rude aholes.

[razorback-bert]

I put the German’s first.

[hout8475]

Or like these other fine French ladies:

[Impy]

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[Cincinna]

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I would have to agree. This is true for the lower classes of French. They are mal alevees, they never tip, and expect you to speak their language.

[Joe 6-pack]

Here you go...

[stephenjohnbanker]

I’ve met 4 and they were all........you guessed it....A-Holes.

One was the quintessence of A-Holedom ;-)

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

At one time I had the misfortune to have a French manager. As a consultant I had lots of bosses, but only one whom I finally called a ba*t*rd and walked out on in the middle of the day.

[stephenjohnbanker]

The French will do that to ya ;-)

[flaglady47]

I’m actually going to say something nice about the French and my experience in Paris. I was wandering around one day trying to find a couple of shops, one a shop that still used the original molds Napoleon had made to make “flats”, two dimensional soldiers that were then hand painted w/the colors and uniforms of Napoleonic soldiers, some were calvary, some foot soldiers, etc. I wanted to bring back some of these metal flats for a friend of mine who asked if I would do so. Wouldn’t you know, the store had recently moved from the address I had, and, using my pidgeon French, I tried to ask the workers remodeling the store to what it next would be, where the previous store had moved to. They went out of their way to help me out and give me directions to where the store had moved.

I also went to Channel, to get some perfume for a friend back in the U.S. who wanted a particular fragrance, and got some for myself. Again, the storekeepers were as nice as could be to me, putting up once again, with my pigeon French. At a coffee shop I went into, I tried to place my order, once again in pigeon French, and I knew they were laughing at me (it was obvious), buy I believe they gave me credit for trying, as once again, they were very nice.

Where I found a more rude variety of French was at the bottom of the country, around the Cote d’Azur, especially the cabbies, who were crooks too, driving you what should have been a short distance, by going a long distance to gather more $$$$ from us tourist suckers. However, that being a tourist area, I suspect they had a shorter tolerance level for all the tourists in general.

Now, granted, I am part French, and that may color my opinion somewhat, and maybe my last name being French helped somewhat in certain circumstances, but I thoroughly enjoyed my time in France, and would go back at the drop of a hat to Paris, a beautiful city.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

part french spells Channel

american spells Chanel

[flaglady47]

“part french spells Channel

american spells Chanel”

LOL! My bad. I wanted the perfume, not a channel. Maybe I was thinking about the Chunnel. It’s getting late, a slip of the typo finger. Pardonez-moi, she says, in pidgeon French.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]