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[Seeking the truth]

Here's a good way to hate the French!

Screw La France

[TomB]

For your enjoyment.

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lsufan, wideawake

[LizardQueen]

If what they want is the attention, why don't we just ignore them? Totally and completely?

Don't do business with them, don't talk to them at the UN or anywhere else, don't even acknowledge that they exist.

It works for me.

LQ

[peeve23]

I prefer to be more pragmatic when engaged in injuring the French.

I boycott things like peugeots, citroens, and renaults....and, yes, I have rented a renault from Hertz in the past. I don't rent them, lease them, or buy them. I don't buy their silly bottles of water. I refuse to buy anything with a label or marker that says, "made in france."

[LOC1]

The opposite of "like" is not "hate," it is "indifference."

[StonyMan451]

Michael Lewis is right on!

I think W ought to start quietly spreading the idea among the 3rd world countries in the U.N. that France's position on the Security Council is an anachronism of history and that their concerns would be more effectively represented by a country like, say, India.

After all, France has what?, 60 million people, while India has over 1 billion.

Aside from making the Security Council more relevant, it would have the added appeal of dissing the French in a way that would truly wound their pride.

There are only 2 problems with this plan: 1) it keeps us involved in the U.N. when I think we should get the helk out; and 2) the same logic could be used for England.

And another thing: We should propose that English or Spanish be used as the international language of diplomacy, rather than French. Have you ever noticed that nothing, absolutely NOTHING sounds manly in French? You simply can't have a masculine sounding sports team in French. But in Spanish, EVERYTHING sounds masculine. Examples:

English: The Bulls
Spanish: Los Toros
French: Les Taureaux

English: The Dodgers
Spanish: Los Trampistas
French: Les Embusqués

In Spanish even laughably feminine names sound good:

English: The Pussycats
Spanish: Los Mininos
French: Les minous

Use Google's Language tools at http://www.google.com/language_tools to try some yourself, and you'll see what I mean.

[M Kehoe]

The more I read about the French, the more I know how irrelevant they truely are.

5.56mm

[dfwgator]

Let's not hate them, let's just ignore them.

[Stay the course]

The French are wittier than us.

That would explain their reverence for Jerry Lewis. (Not!)

[tuna_battle_slight_return]

"He wanted importance, or its illusion, and the way to create the illusion of importance was to oppose the war."

More and more these French "leaders" are reminding me of other "leaders" who oppress their own people (I'm not naming any names). However, thanks to De Villepin and Chirac, the French economy is going to end up on life support, at best. And these two "leaders" did this to their own people. Even if 1/3 did support Hussein's regime, the other 2/3 who didn't will suffer as well (again, thanks to the French gov't opposition).

[longtermmemmory]

Defund french language education in high schools and colleges. If you want to learn french there are always those six week private courses.

Hurt the french? eliminate the french language.

[martianagent]

Anybody wanting a historical perspective of some sort on the nature of the French, their culture, government etc. etc. should rent a movie called "Queen Margot", which describes the French court and its intrigues a few hundred years ago. Even if Christ had returned to Earth to live in France in perpetuity at that time you'd figure it would take 2000 years to produce anything resembling righteousness starting from such a base.

[enemy9oclock]

I think there is probably some truth to this. I've personally noticed that there is almost NOTHING that riles a Frenchman (or Quebec) like being treated as insignificant. I think GWB probably knows this, as Chiraq has been reduced to sending messages to the Whitehouse through Tony Blair. As far as I can tell Bush has had no direct contact with or even direct comments toward the French in quite some time.

[Enemy Of The State]

"How to Hate the French"

hmm..I always thought that was just a gift all Americans were born with.

[Minty]

Forget the fries, forget the words, target their pockets. Money talks.....

[Tribune7]

The best way to handle France is to declare it not to exist. Change the name on the maps to South Germany.

[Happy2BMe]

DESECRATION OF GRAVES

By SIMON HUGHES

SICK French yobs daubed a swastika and vile anti-war slurs at a cemetery for 11,000 British troops.

The showpiece cenotaph at the graveyard in Northern France was smeared in red paint with the words: “Dig up your rubbish. It’s fouling our soil.”

Other slogans at the Etaples cemetery near Boulogne included “Death to the Yankees” and “Saddam Hussein will win and spill your blood.”

And the vandals wrote “Rosbeefs go home” — the French insult for Brits is roast-beefs. Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George Bush were also branded war criminals.

The graffiti was discovered by a shocked gardener and spotted by around 80 visitors. It was cleaned off the same day.

Roy Hemmington — spokesman for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission — said: “We are deeply offended. This is the strongest language and most vile graffiti I have witnessed at a war graves cemetery.

“The suggestion that the bodies of soldiers who died for France should be dug up is particularly foul.”

Most soldiers buried at the cemetery were defending France at the Somme and Ypres during World War I.

Another 122 are troops who died fighting the Nazis in World War II.

Among the dead are a winner of the Victoria Cross, 217 holders of the Military Medal and 69 holders of the Military Cross.

A number had been awarded France’s top military decoration, the Legion d’Honneur.

Roy added: “Almost every British regiment has war dead here. This insults just about the entire British Army.”

Anti-British feeling has been whipped up in France since President Jacques Chirac refused to let the UN back action against Iraq.

Last night Jim Kelleher, chief clerk to the Royal Fusiliers Association, said: “No sane person would do this. It is a disgrace. I have family buried in France and if I could get my hands on whoever did this I’d bury them too.”

Jeremy Lillies, of the Royal British Legion, added: “It is distressing.”

The Sun’s Military Adviser Major-General Perkins said: “It is despicable.”

Appalled local MP Jacques Lang said: “It is an attack on the memory of the British and American soldiers who contributed to the liberation of our soil.”

Police captain Thibault Martin added: “It is sick and cowardly.”

The shocking news comes as a new poll reveals that a third of the French want SADDAM to win the war.

A massive 78 per cent of 1,000 people in the poll by French newspaper Le Monde disapproved of the Allied action.

But 16 per cent “really wish for” a Coalition victory — while 37 per cent said they would prefer one.