The official bird of France is the Rooster. Not only is this a completely retarded bird to represent your country with, but it also proves the long held theory that all Frenchmen love cocks.
Posted on 02/11/2002 7:08:01 AM PST by CatoRenasci
Have they ever thought it could be related to the contempt THEY hold for the rest of the world?
This excessive anti-France bias on this board, if it was observed by the French people, it will not help keeping them our allies.
Yup. The irony is not lost on me. "Some people" do not understand that the greatest threat to world peace is, in fact, Islam, and that the surest bulwark against this threat is militant Christian nationalism.
"Sometimes you reap what you sow."
Unfortunately, we also reap what they sow.
Please, spread the word in France that we think of them as nicely as they think of us. Whats wrong with that?
The Germans have been held "somewhat" responsible? "At least a modicum of guilt" felt by the Germans? "Not much" guilt felt? Umm, have you read a newspaper the last few decades?
However never have the Frogs considered demonstrating one second of guilt for following that psycho Italian, Bonaparte, who laid waste to so much of Europe for so many years. Today they still laud that bozo who nearly destroyed their own nation with his wars.
Why should the French of today feel guilty about Napolean? Should I feel guilty about slavery?
Twas the Frogs who gave us our first (semi)industrialized World War. They are proud of this fact.
Have you read any of the hundreds of history books which explain the origins of WWI? True, the worst battles (if you can even call the slow slaughters in the trenches a battle) took place on French soil. But the French are one of the least culpable of the European powers for starting WWI.
France will ruin any country that allies with it. Look at the Vietnam War, a direct result of attempting to be friends with France.
A little bit more to it than that, don't you think?
France is a cancer. Burn it out.
This tells me everything I need to know about you. Hypocrite.
You too, one day, when you find the time to think, you too may find that organized religions are responsible for lots of hate on this planet. We may actually discover the obvious, that religions were invented by men to establish good codes of conduct between people.
Now back to the real world.
Oh, please, can you forward these thread (and all of the others like it) to someone in authority in the French Government? Maybe something good will come of this after all.
Agreed. One forgets that until very recently there was no Germany or France per se. I think that the aberration you speak about was due to the nation building which occurred throughout Europe during the mid-nineteenth century.
I will admit French wine can be exquisite, an accident of geography, but it is only Pinot Noir wines that have not been equalled elswhere by now.
Wrong! The French government is perhaps the most responsible for the outbreak of war in 1914:
Virtually all of the Powers agreed that the Serbs had a drubbing coming for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, although many thought the Austrian ultimatum both late and overharsh.
Nonetheless, the Russians, supporting the Serbs based on pan-Slavic associations egged on by the French, wanted to protect Serbia without a wider war. The Russians had a problem: they wanted to mobilize only against Austria, not Germany, but since 1910 there had been no updated plans for doing this. The Tsar vacillated, not wanting to go to war with Germany. But, who else but the French Ambassador (whose government was at sea, returning from a visit to Russia), Maurice Peleologue, turned himself to the task of ensuring that the Russians mobilized, which meant mobilizing against Germany. Once Russia declared mobilization, the Germans had no choice but to mobilize and put their Schlieffen Plan (as unfortuantely modified by von Moltke the Younger, weaking the right wing that was to wheel through Belgium). The absolute critical point on the decision tree, the one point at which the whole thing could have been localized in the Balkans, was the Russian mobilization decision. The weak Tsar, egged on by Peleologue and Russian generals under his influence, was pushed into a decision he did not want to make. More than any single individual, Mo Peleologue is responsible for the millions of deaths in WWI and its aftermath, and hence, as he represented France, the French government is responsible!
Why don't you go soak your head in a bucket of another one of France's gifts to the world.... Thorazine.
THAT'S A LIE!
The Brits always use a fork and knife - very daintily, I might add!
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