It’s nice to know that the French like some things American.
The UK is a huge place for Country and Western music, too.
Funny, they will soon have mosques in place of Notre Dame and they hate Americans.
Wow.
**”“We love American magic and the American dream,” he said. “But we hate Americans when we confront the hard reality of their behaviour throughout the world. We go for the cowboy hats but not George Bush.”**
Well, Frenchie we like the Fwench when they cower in fear due to lack of spines BUT we hate the fwench when they have to call us to bail them out.
Carry on with your inferiority complex and good luck on some good ole American line dancin, my gutless pardner! Yee HAaaa
Do they require 200 hours for Honor Killing 101; living on the Dole 102 or strapping bombs on myself 103?
Morons.
Get a LIFE...
le idiot.
I guess keeping a distance from each other is a result of lack of contact with soap and water.
Amateur instructors will have to take 200 hours of training under the new rules. Professionals will get
600 hours, including such subjects as line dancing techniques, “the mechanics of the human body” and the English (or at least Texan) language. They will also learn how to teach line dancing to the elderly.
The cost of the courses, about €2,000 (£1,570) for the professionals and €500 for the amateurs, will be largely met by taxpayers. Mr Chauveau said the regulations highlighted the French state's obsessive desire to organise all public activity. “France is the only country in Europe apart from Greece where sport is controlled through the state,” he said. “Line dancing is now considered a sport, so it is being controlled, too.”
OMG, articles like these must send chills up the spines of the staff at The Onion. Indeed, if something like this can happen in the real world, what is there left to satirize? And how would anyone know the difference? 600 hours of training...? Holy crap, if you can't learn line dancing in 6 hours you probably shouldn't even be sweeping the frickin floor!
They love line dancing but are ever so quick to use the word “cowboy” in a derogatory fashion against Americans.
This is what happens after generations of Socialism and demanding that everyone else fight your battles for you....no brains, no spine, and no honor.
There are so many things wrong with this that I don’t even know where to begin. I guess it can be summed up by saying that this is what nanny state socialism leads to. Sniveling, good for nothing, useless bureaucrats who will always find just one more thing to have total control over. Truely pathetic and pitiful creatures. I thank God that I don’t live there and have pity on those who do.
Is the French version played with accordion bands as a backdrop?
Have they gone in for bolos and turquoise?
The french dealing with muslim youth rioting and burning is so fun to watch.
It’s like a comedy watching them surrender to these criminals.
Step one: regulate non-french culture dancing/customs.
Step two: ban said dancing.
Step three: institute sharia rules regarding any dancing.
I’m conflicted.
One one hand, we have Country Music. If they have a jukebox in Hell, that baby is loaded with it. On the other hand, we have bureaucrats and government employees. Enough said on that.
I’ve got it, just nuke France and start over!
Yeah, like a few years ago when America invaded the Ivory Coast and in several instances fired on unarmed protesters.
Oh wait. That was France.
My daughter and her band are performing at a festival in France this summer called Equiblues, in the Rhone-Alpes region. There will be several Texas-country artists, they have a rodeo, vendors of leather goods, etc. Artists I’ve spoken to that have been to previous fests there say they are overwhelmingly welcomed and routinely sell out their merchandise. She did a festival in England two years ago and line dancing, while still popular, was on the wane.
My band used to play at clubs that catered to line dancers. I’d always get the band to slip in one bar of 3/4 in a 4/4 song. The confusion on the dancefloor was monumental!