My best friend recently came out as francais. Well, he used to be my best friend.
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Now we’re just amis sharing the ménage of trois.
More than friends, less than lovers?
That's disgusting! He's FRENCH!
Did you never notice it when he kissed you?
It used to just be on the lips, but now it's on both cheeks. It makes me uncomfortable.
There are only two things I can’t stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the D̶u̶t̶c̶h̶ French.
Nah, fuck the fr*nch
The French get a bad rep, they riot for anti-worker bullshit, they helped the US win the revolution,and they didn’t go along with dubya’s stupid Iraq war
I've never been impressed with my fellow Americans who talk shit on the French. We have mostly let go of our revolutionary spirit, and they never did. We would do well to pick up where we left off at Blair mountain.
I've always thought that perhaps all the stereotypes about the French being arseholes come from American tourists being entitled and disrespectful and the French just not taking any of their shit
Lived in Paris for a year and this is 100% the reason, according to Parisian waitstaff I knew. Same for the Brits.
Apparently the reason is the french motto "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité"
They take that shit seriously. Every job is equally valuable and to be respected. You speak to and treat a waiter or a cleaner the same way you speak to a doctor or a lawyer, they're all égal humans
A sizeable portion of American and British tourists treat waitstaff like animals, and cleaners as though they don't exist, then wonder why they're rude to them
It's égalité, and yous started it, yous cunts 😂
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The current bad reputation of the French is mostly because of WW2. They surrendered after only 6 weeks of fighting and then heavily collaborated with the Nazis. French collaboration was so heartfelt that they refused to hand over their navy to the British when requested to do so. They even fired on American ships and troops in North Africa when the Americans arrived to liberate them from German occupation.
The French were also enthusiastic participants in the Final Solution. According to Wikipedia, "the Nazis in France relied to a considerable extent on the co-operation of local authorities to carry out what they called the Final Solution. The government of Vichy France and the French police organized and implemented the roundups of Jews."
After the war, De Gaulle promoted the narrative that the French heroically resisted the Nazis, but this was not at all true. The famous French Resistance was tiny until the last part of the war, and only grew once it became clear that Germany would lose. The French government also denied their role in the Holocaust for over 50 years until 1995 when Jacques Chirac finally admitted that, "[T]hose black hours soiled our history forever. ... [T]he criminal madness of the occupier was assisted by the French people, by the French State. ... France, that day, committed the irreparable."
So, yeah, that's why people dunk on France, particularly when it comes to military matters. They certainly did not live up to the ideals of the Revolution or the martial prowess of Napoleon.
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the French liked this
J’suis pas le seul français ici apparement
Bless you
Bien sûr que non, vive la république et vive la France! 🇲🇫 😉
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Being french is not a problem in this household.
Being British on the other hand...
As a French I approve this
My condolences
I hate the "new" gay flag :(
I have only seen this flag in this here post and it looks to me as if it were the lesbian and gay pride flags next to each other.
That'd be because they are the lesbian and gay pride flags next to each other.
I'm okay with all of these except the French
Wait is the gay flag not a rainbow anymore? I can't keep up. The rainbow was so cool.
Left is lesbian pride flag, right is gay male pride flag. Rainbow is basically the catch all LGBTQ pride flag.
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Thankfully I don't know anyone like that lol
Well, we can still talk, if only they stopped talking about OCaml
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