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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

I failed to see the source of this 'statistics'. Who did the poll? Who are the subjects?


41 posted on 10/10/2005 3:43:22 PM PDT by paudio (Four More Years..... Let's Use Them Wisely...)
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To: Vaquero

I hear that the French and English women never shave their legs or pits! Yuck! Must be like going to bed with a wire haired terrier every night. How sexy!


42 posted on 10/10/2005 3:48:53 PM PDT by derllak
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine
English are just as nasty as the french...

That's a fact. I know an Englishman whose breath can strip paint off the wall.

43 posted on 10/10/2005 3:55:27 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Democrats are guilty of whatever they scream the loudest about.)
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To: adgirl
Or wait maybe that's why he has the onions--to mask the smell.

It used to be common a few decades ago to see Frenchmen in England wearing berets, with onions around their neck and lots more hanging from a study black bicycle. As far as I could tell these were just farmers who travelled across the Channel to peddle their wares.

44 posted on 10/10/2005 3:59:22 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: pesto

ping


45 posted on 10/10/2005 4:50:55 PM PDT by basil (Exercise your Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
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To: Xenalyte
I snack in the tub.

Ah, yes... Mineral bath as hot as I can physically stand it, bowl of cubed watermelon and strawberries, very large glass of lime and tonic...

Heaven... :-)

46 posted on 10/10/2005 5:00:12 PM PDT by wyattearp (The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
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To: wideminded

no baguettes?


47 posted on 10/10/2005 5:42:26 PM PDT by adgirl
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To: Ditter

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.




Perhaps you should have used Le Fireplace!! Seriously I have lived in Europe during the 1980'S and never heard of this complaint. Gosh I must have been one rude guy. Thanks for the story. I couldn't tell who stunk or not, they all smelled like cigarettes.


48 posted on 10/10/2005 5:51:34 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (Lead...follow...or get the HELL out of the way!)
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To: manic4organic
"Try applying deodorant."

Actually the use of "deo" is the problem in Europe. They should be using antiperspirant....deoderants only mask the smell and control the initial odor causing bacteria. Here in the states, most of us use products which are a combi of the two, deo and anti-perspirant.
And while I love to rag on the french as much as the next person...it's not just the french who smell.

49 posted on 10/10/2005 6:30:22 PM PDT by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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To: Xenalyte

So do I!

A glass of wine, a book, some nibbles and I can spend a good afternoon.


50 posted on 10/10/2005 6:32:58 PM PDT by najida (The internet is for kids grown up-- Where else could you have 10,000 imaginary friends?)
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To: bert

I think that it is safe to assume that the full name was "French whore bath".


51 posted on 10/10/2005 7:16:20 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Ditter

I guess you were supposed to do like the French and just go in your pants. Who would notice a little addition to the stench?


52 posted on 10/10/2005 7:17:52 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: gondramB

Ah, Gondram, don't let facts and reality stand in the face of dearly-held prejudices.

Naturally, one could wonder, if this poll was even remotely connected to reality, why French homes are still equipped with a bathroom instead of a wine cellar, or why the French supermarkets are full of soaps, shampoos, shower gels, after-shaves, anti-perspirant sticks, toothpaste, brushes, beauty and hygiene products...

As always, it's amazing the "facts" I "learn" in these threads about the country I live in.


53 posted on 10/11/2005 11:18:38 PM PDT by Atlantic Friend (Cursum Perficio)
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To: Atlantic Friend

"As always, it's amazing the "facts" I "learn" in these threads about the country I live in."

I am confident that the people that I hang out with both in real time and online are smarter and better educated than average... and yet sometimes the level of gullibility is amazing.


54 posted on 10/12/2005 7:39:07 AM PDT by gondramB (Conservatism is a positive doctrine. Reactionaryism is a negative doctrine.)
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To: LonePalm

The french word for odor is not odour but "odeur".

Il n'y a pas de honte à être con, seulement à le rester...


55 posted on 10/13/2005 3:18:52 AM PDT by montreal
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To: gondramB
"I am confident that the people that I hang out with both in real time and online are smarter and better educated than average... and yet sometimes the level of gullibility is amazing."

Ah, I guess it's not a question of gullibility, just a question of really wanting to believe certain things are true.

We also have our shares of biased people, so it's really not a big issue !
56 posted on 10/23/2005 5:39:13 AM PDT by Atlantic Friend (Cursum Perficio)
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To: Atlantic Friend

" Ah, I guess it's not a question of gullibility, just a question of really wanting to believe certain things are true. "


Your right that it doesn't matter much on articles like this ..but in political issues the gullibility can be a real problem.


57 posted on 10/23/2005 10:59:46 AM PDT by gondramB
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