Kofi Annon needs rectal surgery

[St.Urho]

Annan, who graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Edudes Internationales in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also attended a Methodist primary school in his native Ghana. He credited his religious teachers and scripture with instilling in him the principles that guide his life and work. Annan is a Christian, who attends a number of Protestant churches in New York, according to his staff.

From here

[Miller]

@clairobscur

I’m fed up with France bashing and defamation against the french character!!! :mad:

I’m not sure if you’re really mad at my post or just playing along, but if you are pissed, I apologize. My post was a dumb joke poorly executed, and doesn’t reflect my actual feelings about France or the French people.

[clairobscur]

@Miller

I’m not sure if you’re really mad at my post or just playing along, but if you are pissed, I apologize. My post was a dumb joke poorly executed, and doesn’t reflect my actual feelings about France or the French people.

Don’t worry. I was just playing along.

[Roseworm]

Perhaps it is unfair to bash all the French. But it is difficult to resist the temptation after reading the following:

“How we have dreamt of this event…How all the world without exception dreamt of this event, for no one can avoid dreaming of the destruction of a power that has become hegemonic…It is they who acted, but we who wanted the deed.”

Excerpted from “The Spirit of Terrorism” (November 2, 2001), by Jean Baudrillard, professor of culture and media, commenting on the destruction of the World Trade Center.

He may not speak for all French people, but sentiments like his are bound to poison the way we think about his countrymen.

[Marley23]

@CuriousCanuck

This has to be a joke. No one could be willfully as ignorant as you. In an ironic sort of way, you have to work pretty fucking hard to be that clueless.

Never underestimate that American Christian work ethic.

@Roseworm

He may not speak for all French people, but sentiments like his are bound to poison the way we think about his countrymen.

Will you drop this “we” shit already? You’d feel the exact same way about the French if you’d never read that quote, so stop pretending any individual words would make a difference to you. You sound like you’re proud of being a moron, so just be a proud moron and quit with the phony rationalizations for your attitudes.

[tagos]

@Roseworm

Perhaps it is unfair to bash all the French. But it is difficult to resist the temptation after reading the following:

“How we have dreamt of this event…How all the world without exception dreamt of this event, for no one can avoid dreaming of the destruction of a power that has become hegemonic…It is they who acted, but we who wanted the deed.”

Excerpted from “The Spirit of Terrorism” (November 2, 2001), by Jean Baudrillard, professor of culture and media, commenting on the destruction of the World Trade Center.

He may not speak for all French people, but sentiments like his are bound to poison the way we think about his countrymen.

But Americans are free to sprout whatever crap they want it seems. :rolleyes:

Being an open-minded soul I’m going to refrain from letting the ignorant rantings of lunatics affect my view of the USA and it’s people.

[Bippy_the_Beardless]

Now now, we Brits don’t hate the French, we pitty them:) All their Good Wine Fancy Food, Warm topless Mediteranian Beaches, it must be terrible over there.

[Malodorous]

@Roseworm

He may not speak for all French people, but sentiments like his are bound to poison the way we think about his countrymen.

Careful. If we start judging the French by Baudrillard, they might start judging us by Jerry Fallwell.

Or you.

[clairobscur]

@Roseworm

Perhaps it is unfair to bash all the French. But it is difficult to resist the temptation after reading the following:

[…]
He may not speak for all French people, but sentiments like his are bound to poison the way we think about his countrymen.

And your statements on this board (not only this one about french people, but all the others about torture, about muslim people, etc…) are bound to poison the way everybody think about your countrymen.

And if you think you’re not famous enough to have a huge impact (only a small impact if, for instance, I explain to some friends of mine the kind of rubbish that can be read on american boards), I could be pick up Ann Coulter. Let’s print excerpts of her writings in some popular french paper, and let’s see how it plays out with the french audience and its perception of the USA.

[clairobscur]

@Roseworm

Perhaps it is unfair to bash all the French. .

Of course, I’m not insulting you personnally. Only your friends, your co-workers, your neighbors, your parents and your siblings.

[andros]

Hey, some of my best friends are French.

[FinnAgain]

clairobscur: by the way, I just wanted to apologize for an earlier thread in which I made some most likely undue and unfounded generalizations about french society (which I probably know very little about).

With that being said, carry on.