Fuck the ancient thread!
Personally, I blame Canada. (French-Canada, just to be relevant to the thread)
Congrats on falling for pretty much the oldest trick in the book!
In addition to being smelly, rude, arrogant and stupid, they’re also conniving. 
They gave us Emmanuelle Béart-all is forgiven.
It really wasn’t that old when the thread was started.
I thought that was, “Look!”
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“Madest thou look.”
No.
God to Adam: “Pull my finger…”
Well as long as someone went to the insane lengths to dredge up this old thread just to blame France for the shell game, the least I can do is add a more recent and French-specific complaint.
Just got back from a wonderful vacation in Europe. Flew in to Amsterdam, took the train around Belgium and Luxembourg and down to Paris - but what I was most looking forward to was the TGV down to Barcelona (where I’ve never been) just in time to catch the World Cup game between Spain and the Netherlands. That never happened because, in true French fashion, there was a railway strike going on and our train to Spain was cancelled. It was very helpfully suggested to us that we could get on a train to our random choice of city somewhere in the south of France at which point we could hope that a train would be heading towards Barcelona from there. We did not choose to follow that sage advice, but bought plane tickets out of town instead. Of course, same-day tickets to Barcelona being jaw-droppingly expensive, we never made it to Spain (who got thrashed by the Dutch anyway, but I digress).
So fuck you France and your stupid, endless transportation strikes. I’ve been to France twice now, and there will likely not be a third trip.
Fuck All the French!
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Strikes are basically France’s version of national holidays.
You know you have to buy us dinner first, right ? All of us, we know a little hole in the wall, super expensive but the chef is an artiste…
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Strikes are basically France’s version of national holidays.
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Naah, we have plenty of those, too. Strikes are more like holidays overtime. Pissing off tourists, Brits in particular, is a big honking schadenfreuding plus, naturally :p.
Fuck France and the French. Fuck them up their stupid asses.
I might be tempted to write a “Fuck FuckTheFrench” post, but its one and only contribution here makes it look like the stupidest shit I’ve heard from in a long time. Even the normal stupid shits don’t get fooled by that game.
With a username like that, I have my fingers crossed for a banning before it manages a second post, anyway.
This is a great thread. I laughed, I cried, I stared vacantly into space, then laughed some more. I don’t get the French, either. The OP asks an interesting question. Oh, it was a statement. I enjoy his telling of his experiences more than he enjoyed living them. Sorry.
Well, now the French are. :p;)
Griezmann Crying After Loss To Germany (Germany vs France)
Fuck the French.
I just thought I should pile on.
It is threads like this that reassure me that this is greatest single reason for the invention of the internet…SDMB!!! Oh, an porn.
Too many times you people make me uncontrollably laugh that if I am on this site, I will not drink a soda while reading.
The French: having more sex than I ever thought possible…
My cousin calls that “French Birth Control”.
The French invented the glory hole?