Re: Why I Feel Sorry For The French

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> > | > Why I feel sorry for the French:
> > |
> > | One of my favorite all-time Letterman Top 10 lists is:
> > |
> > | TOP TEN WAYS LAS VEGAS IS BETTER THAN PARIS
> > |
> > | 10. Vegas not crawling with Frenchmen
> > | 9. Impossible to get "I Crapped Out In Paris" T-****rts
> > | 8. Hard to get change in Louvre at 4 A.M.
> > | 7. Paris inconveniently located thousands of miles from nuclear test
sites
> > | 6. Sorbonne basketball team is five tiny white guys   [ed. note:
this list
> > | was broadcast way back when UNLV was good..]
> > | 5. Paris: men in berets on bicycles.  Las Vegas: orangutans in
cowboy hats
> > | on unicycles.
> > | 4. Vegas didn't lose a single inch of ground to Nazi war machine
> > | 3. Palace of Versailles does not offer double jackpot time every 15 
> > minutes
> > | 2. Ten dollars won't buy you *** act in desert outside Paris
> > | 1. Las Vegans: hardworking, patriotic citizens.  Parisians: lazy,
> > | wine-swilling cheeseheads.
> > |
> >
> > But what is the difference between Las Vegas and a youghurt?
> >
> > You'll find a culture in the youghurt.
> >
> > The one thing all of the USA lacks (not just vegas) is any heritage or
> > culture.
> > Of course, that is not to mention that it also lacks any friends
anywhere 
> > else
> > in the world. Even most of the British now hate yanks. Whilst Prime
Minister
> > Blair may baiser de derrière de Bush, the 'allies' really don't care
for
> > Americans, or their most common ex****t - Obesity.
>
> Most people I talked to over there said they just hated our leaders -
> other than the blanket "all Americans".
>
> Not at all, most of the English blanket hate Americans for a number of
reasons
> (and not 'the leaders')

  " Gee, the ones I've met must've been lying. They seemed to despise
the French."

Probably didn't want to hurt your feelings. The French and English tend to
take 
the piss out of one another but the English people wish they had the balls
of 
the French at times to stand up to things.

> For such a 'mighty' land, you did **** all to help Europe until the last

> minute
> of the 2nd world war,

  " We weren't very mighty at the time. We didn't start building up
until 1940....after y'all showed (again) that you weren't able to
police your own backyard."

With the exception of the IRA (largely funded by Americans) we seem to
have done 
pretty well for the last 60 or so years.
If only the same could be said for the wars the Americans have started in
the 
same period and been unable to resolve.
It's the laughing stock of the world.


"The truth is, without the US, the Brits would be staring across the
channel at a German or Soviet dominated continent."
And had you have joined in the rest of the world some years earlier 6
million 
jews may still be alive.

 You dumped nuclear weapons at our air
> bases during the 80's

  " Those were "our" airbases....by treaty."
Were they also your surround towns, schools and villages?

, and in general, you are an obnoxious race. It's like all
> the bad parts of a persons character multiplied and made into a whole
new race
> 'the american'.

   "You sound bitter. Are you bitter? Did some lonely GI knock up your
mother and then go home?"

Not at all, I just hate Americans, blanket. Every time I hear that one is
killed 
I don't blink, in fact I often laugh.
That's as an English guy with a French wife.

 Word on UK street is that Americans are the most hated race in
> the world. And thats an individual thing person on person. The problem
is, 
> until
> 9/11 the Americans believed the rest of the world respected them and the

> notion
> that ordinary people all accross the world had no respect for them, and
> basically hated them, comes as a shock to most normal americans. I sat
in an
> ordinary country English pub watching 9/11 on TV and people were
cracking 
> jokes
> like 'Who ordered the jumbo' and saying 'After all the **** they have
done in
> the world they do deserve it'.

   "I hope they were riding the subway last year."
And I am sure they wish you and your family were in WTC on sept 11th 2001.

>
> """I think Bush's people have something on Blair."""
>
> Perhaps it methods of mass oil production - ooops I mean weapons of mass
> destruction. After all, Bush's people's inteligence is all American (ie 
> missing)
> and legendary throughout the world.