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Now French are pooh la la (The poll is in, the French DO stink)
The Sun ^ | no date | HARRY MACADAM

Posted on 10/10/2005 1:22:06 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants

FINALLY it’s official. The French DO smell.

After generations of jibes about hygiene over the Channel, a study yesterday revealed nine out of ten French people do NOT wash regularly.

That means that out of a population of 60.5million, more than 54million risk being whiffy.

Shockingly, 2.5million NEVER shower or bath while 1.8million NEVER brush their teeth.

The French do spend between 48 and 56 minutes in the bathroom each day — but much of that is applying cosmetics.

Nine out of ten French women and half of the men regularly apply perfume and cosmetics.

A third spend time in the bathroom reading, while a quarter daydream, 14 per cent make phone calls, eight per cent sing, six per cent smoke and one per cent eat.

The findings were published by a respected Paris-based weekly magazine. Their statistical supplement was entitled: “24 hours in France — An Unusual Portrait of France and the French.”

But last night former French leisure boss Pierre-Yves Gerbeau, once in charge of the Millennium Dome, fumed: “This is ridiculous, bloody annoying and unhelpful.”

The 39-year-old went on: “This idea of the ‘Frog’ who doesn’t wash, has a baguette on his head and a string of onions around his neck is passe.

“It’s about as real as the idea of the Englishman in his pinstripe suit and bowler hat.”

The French national statistics also revealed that on average around 2,000 French citizens go on strike each day, while 2.4million French people take prescription drugs.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bo; bodyodor; france; french; smell; smelly; stink
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To: Blood of Tyrants
OK fellow Euro travelers, why don't Europeans provide small wash cloths in their hotel bathrooms?

Is it: a) Only Americans use them. b) Environmentally conscious - less laundry without them. c) Wash cloth? What's a wash cloth?. d) None of the above.

If d) supply your own conclusion.

21 posted on 10/10/2005 1:42:19 PM PDT by add925 (The Left = Xenophobes in Denial)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I don't know about all Frogs, but I was working with one on a drilling rig in Africa, and that was the foulest smelling human being I have ever had the displeasure of being near.


22 posted on 10/10/2005 1:57:50 PM PDT by SailormanCGA72
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Thank you for the posting.
Its the best and loudest laugh I have had in some time.


23 posted on 10/10/2005 1:58:51 PM PDT by ConservativeGreek
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I can tell, the author of this never went down into Mexico.


24 posted on 10/10/2005 2:00:19 PM PDT by Black Tooth (The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
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This idea of the Frog who has a string of onions around his neck is passe.

and doesn't scare anything.
25 posted on 10/10/2005 2:01:30 PM PDT by evets (God bless president Bush!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Eau my! I think the French word for their odor is "decollatege." I think it is how they find their cars in parking lots since all the little Citroens and Renaults look the same.

parsy, the eurodite. (A word that means "smart", I think.)


26 posted on 10/10/2005 2:05:16 PM PDT by parsifal
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Shockingly, 2.5million NEVER shower or bath while 1.8million NEVER brush their teeth

Gawd - makes me wonder if the dude who touches up Vladimir Lenin is french...
27 posted on 10/10/2005 2:08:48 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
A third spend time in the bathroom reading, while a quarter daydream,........... and one per cent eat.

Eating in the bathroom? That is just wrong.

28 posted on 10/10/2005 2:14:00 PM PDT by A message (The Democrat party platform is NOT in the mainstream. It is just foolish.)
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To: gondramB

I don't believe that an average of 2,000 Frenchmen are on strike a day. To go on a strike you actually have to have a job and do some work every once in a while.


29 posted on 10/10/2005 2:17:47 PM PDT by Bouchart ("I was saying boo-urns.....")
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To: add925

We travel frequently overseas on business. The lack of wash cloths not only all over Europe, but also in South America and Latin America, is my pet peeve. We now buy bundles of really cheap white washcloths at WalMart or Target and pack them when we travel. We leave the wet, soiled ones in our hotels when we leave. Maybe they will get a hint.


30 posted on 10/10/2005 2:21:26 PM PDT by Rushmore Rocks
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To: brooklyn dave
They better put the Evian on other body parts than their mouths.



Ooh, la, la.
31 posted on 10/10/2005 2:25:42 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Blood of Tyrants

They must have a fear of water because they don't drink it, either!


32 posted on 10/10/2005 2:38:55 PM PDT by RoadTest (We need our borders, language and culture secured.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
"Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemmingway

"Gave up American showers for French bidets.

"Her wit was dry, his style was clean-

"Their crotches were somewhere in between"

Burma Shave

33 posted on 10/10/2005 2:46:45 PM PDT by fat city ("The nation that controls magnetism controls the world.")
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Lathering up on cologne was known as a "whore Bath" and is now known as a "frog bath"


34 posted on 10/10/2005 2:50:59 PM PDT by bert (K.E. ; N.P . I smell a dead rat in Baton Rouge!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
We used to do business with a French company and we made several trips to France over the years. On one of the trips one of the Frenchmen asked us over to dinner at his apartment. While there I asked for the water closet. The lady of the house showed me to the bathroom and politely told me that in France it is very rude to ask to use the bathroom while you are in someones house. WHAT the frick am I supposed to do, go outside? I replied, or something similar, I don't really know what I said, I was just the dumb American. But I was shocked.
35 posted on 10/10/2005 2:54:08 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
"This idea of the ‘Frog’ who doesn’t wash, has a baguette on his head and a string of onions around his neck is passe"

I think they mean beret on his head--cause the baguette probably would absorb some of the odor. Or wait maybe that's why he has the onions--to mask the smell.
36 posted on 10/10/2005 3:05:43 PM PDT by adgirl
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To: Ditter

They love that word "rude". Some people from Quebec were visiting French neighbors this past weekend. They let their dogs run wild, and when I caught them in my garden; that was it. I informed them that their dogs needed to be on a leash (NH state law), and if they couldn't keep their animals out of my plants, I would be calling the police. I was called "rude" and a "bad man". Screw France AND Quebec...arrogant SOB's.


37 posted on 10/10/2005 3:12:18 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (New England...the Sodom and Gomorrah of the 21st Century, and they're proud of it!)
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To: parsifal; Blood of Tyrants
The French word for odor is odour.

Décolletage refers to cutting around the neck and has come to refer to a plunging neckline on a woman's dress and hence the showing of cleavage.

I much prefer the latter.

The signature block says it all.

Il n'y a pas d'honte être français. Il y a seulement l'honte dans rester de français.
(There is no shame in being French. There is only shame in staying French.)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

38 posted on 10/10/2005 3:13:44 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I don't understand this. Taking a bath/shower is one of life's little pleasures. I would think the French would pursue such a thing.. :o)


39 posted on 10/10/2005 3:16:15 PM PDT by k2blader (Hic sunt dracones..)
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To: A message

I snack in the tub.


40 posted on 10/10/2005 3:22:41 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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