# French Asshats **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 2, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872 "2003-04-02T03:07:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/1 "2003-04-02T03:07:58Z")
**Stop!** Before you think that this another C.E.S.M. thread read [this](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2907701.stm): > [@](#): > > French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has pleaded for trans-Atlantic tolerance after graffiti was daubed on a British war cemetery in northern France. Slogans reading “Death to Yankees” and “Rosbeefs (Brits) go home” were painted on the central memorial in Etaples, near the Channel port of Boulogne in northern France. Brilliant move, no? You’re pissed at some folks, so what do you do? Vandalize the graves of the guys who died liberating your country from the Nazis (you remember the Nazis, obviously, since you spray painted a swastika on the cemetary wall)! At least the French government sees how utterly stupid this is. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/2 "2003-04-02T03:20:07Z")
“Rosbeefs”? Oooo, now _that’s_ nasty. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/3 "2003-04-02T03:33:44Z")
That is ridiculous, but I think I speak for the French public when I say that those kind of dorks are the very minor (and insignifigant) minority. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/4 "2003-04-02T03:34:03Z")
Asshats indeed.:mad: When will this madness stop? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/5 "2003-04-02T03:35:12Z")
Note, I’m not French, but I like to think Europeans as a rule are more civilized than that. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/6 "2003-04-02T03:37:42Z")
and the French public is dead either, one hopes.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/7 "2003-04-02T03:38:30Z")
Holy Schnoinkies BatMan, them French people suck. I find it hard to understand why tagging grave sites would be thought to be a valid political statement. On the bright side I think France is going to be so margainalized after the war that no one will pay attention to them anymore. Slee ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/8 "2003-04-02T03:54:08Z")
This whole thing has gotten way out of hand. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/9 "2003-04-02T06:56:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sleestak \* > **On the bright side I think France is going to be so margainalized after the war that no one will pay attention to them anymore.** You mean people listen to them now? ---
**Author:** ![Sionach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Sionach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sionach)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/10 "2003-04-02T07:01:22Z")
It’s a very shitty (and cowardly!) thing to do, but it definitely should not be taken as representative of the majority of French people. Remember in the US, there were Muslim Mosques vandalised following 9/11 . . . there are asshats in every country. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/11 "2003-04-02T07:15:55Z")
Ah well, good to see every country has a small percentage of asshole teenages. But what the fuck is "“Rosbeefs go home”. [life of brian]What’s this, then? ‘Romanes Eunt Domus’? ‘People called Romanes they go the house’? [/life of brian] ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/12 "2003-04-02T07:41:38Z")
**Tuckerfan** , this rates right up there with beaded purses depicting jetplanes crashing into tall buildings. Why don’t all of us Americans go and topple the headstones of our revolutionary war fighters? Youth (I refuse to call them French) who are so confused as to deface the graves of those who sought to free their own ancestors from Nazism are less than sentient, they are fools. ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/13 "2003-04-02T08:01:23Z")
One in three of the shitbags [is rooting for Saddam.](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-631671,00.html) Some grafitti suprises anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/14 "2003-04-02T08:14:51Z")
So the French are all shitbags now, **Brutus**? ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/15 "2003-04-02T08:16:29Z")
At least 33% of them are. Quite possibly more. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/16 "2003-04-02T08:18:47Z")
“One in three of the shitbags” This means that you’re calling all 100% of the French, including me and my family, shitbags. ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/17 "2003-04-02T08:19:48Z")
Well that must be hurtful. Please don’t cry too much! ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/18 "2003-04-02T08:30:12Z")
Don’t worry, I’ve had to listen to pissant little shits like you all my life growing up in the US, one more hardly makes a difference. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/19 "2003-04-02T08:55:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Speaker for the Dead \* > \*\*Note, I’m not French, but I like to think Europeans as a rule are more civilized than that. \*\* Unfortunately, no. ---
**Author:** ![Ben\_Hicks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Ben\_Hicks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben_Hicks)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872/20 "2003-04-02T08:56:20Z")
Rosbeefs? They risked imprisonment to desecrate the graves of fallen heroes, caused a small international outrage and all they could come up with was _Rosbeefs?!?_ Fuckin’ chumps :wally [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-asshats/165872.md?page=2)