You don’t do jokes, do you?
I have a good sense of humor but if you intended your remark to be a joke, I still find it offensive. I am fatigued with the jokes, sarcasm, unjust and denigrating remarks against the French people. I am not French, but I have spent much time in France and have never encountered a difficult situation there that there was not a French person on the spot immediately to help me sort things out, usually because I was an American. The stories are too numerous to recount, but one of these days I’ll probably write a book about a truly warmhearted, friendly people and the funny things that happened to me in France. At the moment I am writing a book which takes place in Lorraine in Northeastern France during World War I. I wish more people to learn about a country which was invaded three times in one lifetime by the Germans and what they had to put up with. Why don’t we joke about the Germans? Why do we support their economy by buying their cars and other products? Germany never paid the retributions it owed us, so why do they get off Scot free? They have never been on the battlefield on our side. I could go on but this is not a rant.
If you meant your comment as a joke, I apologize. You’re entitled to your opinion as to whom you wish to castigate. I only wish there would be a little more justice for a lovely people.