[HKMk23]

Yes, we were, and the analogy is quite apropos, but I shifted metaphoric gears on you and linked the frog in the pot with real-life "frogs" who are currently in hotter water than we "over here", completing the thought with the notation that, after the French allowed the rioting to go beyond two days, whatever hope I had of their "jumping out of the soon-boiling pot" was, metaphorically, shot down over Paris and forced to eject.