# About the French, or something. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 15, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-french-or-something/219189 "2003-12-15T21:13:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-french-or-something/219189/21 "2003-12-16T04:45:49Z")
What’s ugly? – thread titles? poodles? bicycles? rants? Christmas tinsel? _ambiguous posts_? ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-french-or-something/219189/22 "2003-12-16T05:12:23Z")
\>\> “It’s so BIG.” What’s _so_ big? The oui oui? Or were you thinking of the first story in [this page](http://perso.wanadoo.fr/mag2000/his/arc68.htm). ( I am too lazy to translate it but maybe someone else can post it here) ---
**Author:** ![Palewriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@Palewriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palewriter)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-french-or-something/219189/23 "2003-12-16T05:23:55Z")
Getting away from the BIG OUI post and back to the OP. “Saddam gave them $60 Bn of contracts to support him” Jeez. and there I thought they were on their high horse for reasons of ethics. My confidence in liberté, etc, is crushed. - PW ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-french-or-something/219189/24 "2003-12-16T06:23:03Z")
“America is just in this for oil money.” “Please. That is such a staggeringly ignorant knee-jerk partisan reaction that it’s not even worth tearing apart point by point.” “Why’s France opposed?” “Oil money.” ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-french-or-something/219189/25 "2003-12-16T08:54:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Boo Boo Foo \* > **Besides, as a former representative cyclist, I competed in both the amateur Tour de France, AND a race in America sponsored by Donald Trump called, wait for it, le Tour de Trump. No shit… that’s what he called it.** Bloody hell. I sure hope _le Tour de Trump_ didn’t lead through the scarier parts of Donald’s anatomy. You poor man! ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-french-or-something/219189/26 "2003-12-16T09:12:14Z")
I think you misunderstood, **Coldfire**. Trump called it “No shit”. So it obviously avoided the scariest part of Trump’s anatomy: his brain. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Stoneburg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Stoneburg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoneburg)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-french-or-something/219189/27 "2003-12-16T10:59:36Z")
Funny how when France opposed the war, some said it was because of oil money. After the war, when that motivation is gone and the ONLY way to get any money would be to change opinion and SUPPORT the war… France sticks to its position. The best-before date on “France is only in it for the oil” passed some time ago. ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-french-or-something/219189/28 "2003-12-16T11:15:14Z")
Pity the poor American (and UK) tax payer more like. They paid to support Saddam, paid to get rid of him and are now paying again to establish something in his place. I imagine the French are heart broken about that. :rolleyes: Poor French. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-french-or-something/219189.md?page=1)