What about the French makes you mad?

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sat Sep 01, 2001 1:38 pm

What I don't like about the french??
There is to much to sum up here

(j/k

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Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Sat Sep 01, 2001 2:47 pm

Hmmm, what don’t I like about France? That’s a hard one. Being an average American I know next to nothing about foreign nations, nor do I have any desire to learn more about them.

God bless the U.S.

(can you guys see a patern developing here?

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C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Sat Sep 01, 2001 2:49 pm

Originally posted by Ve(rybad)h(umour)ence:

That isn't the only thing Frenchmen are supposedly good at eating

Hmmm... my humour has sunk to a new level...

Yes, that was certainly an establishent of a new low ;D

Originally posted by Yshania:

@C E - so it is coffee in England, and tea in France?

Yes, it seems like it's impossible for any European country have both

The US have neither

But the Arab world has genreally both good coffee and good tea (Oh no, now I'm hungry again...)

Originally posted by ki-master2:

I'm not French but I still think this topic is lame because ur openly discriminating ppl.A persons behaviour doesn't lay with his nationality.

Ki-master, I would agree with you if these "what makes you mad"-threads were serious, but they are not, I assure you. On the contrary, it's an opportunity to examine out own stupid prejudices, and joke about them. Now, I certainly don't think every sterotype or prejudice holds or once held some truth, many stereotypes are totally unfair and have nothing to do with reality at all.

Welcome to SYM, btw. You'll soon get used to the humour here

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Sep 01, 2001 7:05 pm

Originally posted by C Elegans:
Yes, it seems like it's impossible for any European country have both The US have neither

Eh? America has undergone a coffee revolution in the last decade. There are now dozens of fresh roasted bean styles, flavored and un-, in the average grocery mart, with indoor and outdoor coffee cafes in many malls. Good coffee is provided in many decent restaurants.

Ki-master, I would agree with you if these "what makes you mad"-threads were serious, but they are not, I assure you. On the contrary, it's an opportunity to examine out own stupid prejudices, and joke about them.

10 out of 10, @CE.

Anybody who takes topics like these, or the opinions expresed within them, seriously, needs to look long and hard in a mirror--and laugh.

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Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Sun Sep 02, 2001 5:46 am

Originally posted by fable:
Anybody who takes topics like these, or the opinions expresed within them, seriously, needs to look long and hard in a mirror--and laugh.

I do that all the time irregardless

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Sun Sep 02, 2001 4:39 pm

Originally posted by fable:
Eh? America has undergone a coffee revolution in the last decade. There are now dozens of fresh roasted bean styles, flavored and un-, in the average grocery mart, with indoor and outdoor coffee cafes in many malls. Good coffee is provided in many decent restaurants.

Yes, but still it all tastes like it has about triple the amount of water than it should have

Most people in Scandinavia drink much stronger coffee than people is US/UK/Australia/NZ seems to do. Maybe it's to keep us awake during the long, dark winter...

(Decaffeinated coffee does hardly exist here.)

Azeroth · Post by **Azeroth** » Sun Sep 02, 2001 4:49 pm

Originally posted by Vehemence:
That isn't the only thing Frenchmen are supposedly good at eating

Hmmm... my humour has sunk to a new level... Coool

Tuna Fish???? Oh god my humor has now sunk lower than Veh's.

fable · Post by **fable** » Sun Sep 02, 2001 4:57 pm

Originally posted by C Elegans:
Yes, but still it all tastes like it has about triple the amount of water than it should have Most people in Scandinavia drink much stronger coffee than people is US/UK/Australia/NZ seems to do. Maybe it's to keep us awake during the long, dark winter... (Decaffeinated coffee does hardly exist here.)

No argument, there, but it doesn't mean good coffee is unavailable in the US--you just have to brew it, yourself.

And I agree: my taste for strong coffee was formed in Venezuela. I find the American stuff weak paint, by comparison.

Yanlee · Post by **Yanlee** » Sun Sep 02, 2001 9:39 pm

I hate it how French agents blew up the Rainbow Warrior (Greenpeace ship) in a New Zealand port, killing one man, and just got away with it.

Nuclear testing makes me sick as well

nael · Post by **nael** » Sun Sep 02, 2001 10:26 pm

okay, that was actually the coolest thing the french have ever done

Azeroth · Post by **Azeroth** » Sun Sep 02, 2001 10:31 pm

The fact that they made the Statue of Liberty out of copper. Of course it may have been our fault for placing it next to the ocean....

General · Post by **General** » Sun Sep 02, 2001 11:00 pm

I haven't read any of the other replies yet, but what I hate most about the french is having to learn their language in school

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun Sep 02, 2001 11:02 pm

Originally posted by General:
I haven't read any of the other replies yet, but what I hate most about the french is having to learn their language in school

I thought french was also official language in canada??

, so it is acutally your own language you are learning

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