# Not another day of this shite! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 14, 2000, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164 "2000-09-14T08:48:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/81 "2000-09-14T18:47:29Z")
Wait, wait. I think you’re all missing the point here. The Statue of Liberty isn’t painted. That’s a pateen. It’s made of copper, and copper’s rust is green. The only flakes of paint falling off of the Stat would be graffitti, so “fall away!” –Tim ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/82 "2000-09-14T19:49:07Z")
Yeah !! It **is** a bit of a soap opera. OK, how about: CD Milk starring as JR (boo hiss), Ugly\_bloke as the poisoned dwarf (can’t recall her name, the 4’ blonde mess) sloblock\_uk as Cliff Barnes (Cliff, the unwanted love child), Biffer as Sue Ellen (looking shocked / confused - what else ?), UncleBeer as Bobby (was it all just a dream ?), and Lyn Bodini as Pam (great breasts, are they real ?) Or maybe, ‘Sunset Beach’. Hmmm… **To be continued…** ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/83 "2000-09-14T23:50:46Z")
Okay, you Brits can stay. Welcome aboard. Most of the football fans are off at MPSIMS this time of night. Females are required to submit nude photos, preferably of themselves. I will miss **CD Milk** , even. She was like a sociopathic **Techchick** on angel dust and homemade liquor. (TC is off on her trip, isn’t she?) Remind her that she’s supposed to abuse the Dopers and not the mods, and that excessive nationalism for any nation is usually grounds for flammage. Maybe she can skulk back later when she sobers up some. Have fun, baffle us Yanks with your cant, and be reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![Joachim\_Pieper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Joachim\_Pieper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joachim_Pieper)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/84 "2000-09-15T02:26:54Z")
Can someone translate ‘Blowtorch’ into my ‘english cant’ for me? That one has me confused! ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/85 "2000-09-15T02:56:43Z")
Well, old chap, I’m not sure what you are refering to,but if I had to guess, I’d say that you are probobly refering to the term for a broad flame. A flame is an insult on an internet message board,e.g.: Man, you French suck! That’s a pretty weak flame, but a flame none the less. An example of a blowtoarch might be: Why don’t you crawl you frog ass back behind the Maginot line and shut the fuck up. You French are so arrogent and opiniated that you convienently forget the little yellow stream that runs down your legs whenever you hear a word in German. I suggest you get busy and install 5 speeds of reverse in all of your LeClerk main battle tanks, so you can outrun the Albanians if they try to invade. You’ve got your kepi wearing heads so far up the arabs’ ass that you idea of a foreign policy is to ask “How much can we pay for oil today?”. Take your snail-sucking, pugeot-driving, champaign-drinking, flambee`-making cheese dicks away from here and worry about how fast your wives and mistresses will leave you when they find out men in the rest of the world don’t pee sitting down. That would be a blowtorch. Oh, God, now I’ve set us up for an invasion of _French_ trolls. ---
**Author:** ![Joachim\_Pieper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Joachim\_Pieper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joachim_Pieper)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/86 "2000-09-15T03:11:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kvallulf \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Joachim Pieper \* > > > > * * * > > Blowtorch! \*\* I was referring to this. Which was referring to my first post, in which I offered the opportunity for some free-and-easy Brit-bashing. Thanks for the clarification, but it still leaves me wondering why it applies to me. Ah, well, I may never know… ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/87 "2000-09-15T03:41:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by QuickSilver \* > **I suppose that’s not too dissimilar to hockey. Used to be, the best Canadian teams didn’t have a enough teeth in all the heads of the players to fill a single adult mouth. Then came the helmets and the masks and the expansions teams… Would someone please explain to me what business Florida has playing hockey?!** “ **FLORIDA.** Former American state. Latin Americans are now locked in a long-term struggle with Canadians for control. The Latin Americans are driven by their need for financial and political stability, the Canadians by theirs for warmth and a place to die. The ultimate weapons of the Latin Americans are politically based para-military groups and organized crime financed by drug money. The Canadians have set up a professional hockey team.” -John Ralston Saul, _The Doubter’s Companion_ ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/88 "2000-09-15T03:47:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Joachim Pieper \* > \*\* > Sophie Marceau. And, next time you’re in France (!), check out the trashy tabloids, 'cos she has the uniquely French habit of taking her clothes off and looking foxy. You know, one of those ‘arty’ actresses. \*\* Yes! Sophie Marceau! Too bad she’s not gay. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Joachim\_Pieper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Joachim\_Pieper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joachim_Pieper)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/89 "2000-09-15T03:52:22Z")
I’m sure she can be persuaded, she’s French, after all. Besides, what matters is that she looks like she’ll do annything to anybody. Which is always good in an actress… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/90 "2000-09-15T03:59:20Z")
So that explains the Florida Panthers. But what about Anaheim? Home of Disneyland yet! What the hell is a hockey team doing there?! I’m sorry, I know this isn’t a sports thread, but I had to get that out. ---
**Author:** ![Biffer\_Spice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Biffer\_Spice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffer_Spice)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/91 "2000-09-15T08:00:45Z")
Sloblock - cheers for the support. I’m back! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/92 "2000-09-15T09:17:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by weirddave \* > **pugeot-driving** It’s **Peugeot** , and it’s the only good thing ever to come out of France. Only really cool people drive them. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2000, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/93 "2000-09-15T09:20:43Z")
Ah, you’d be a pug driver then. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/94 "2000-09-15T09:30:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > It’s **Peugeot** , and it’s the only good thing ever to come out of France. Not true . There’s all them roads that lead to other countries . ---
**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:** [September 15, 2000, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/95 "2000-09-15T09:35:00Z")
I sometimes feel like the only non French person in the world who really likes France. ---
**Author:** ![Joachim\_Pieper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Joachim\_Pieper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joachim_Pieper)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/96 "2000-09-15T11:25:37Z")
That might be becasue you are… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/97 "2000-09-15T12:52:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gary Kumquat \* > \*\*I sometimes feel like the only non French person in the world who really likes France. \*\* I like France very much, outside of Paris. I had a simply wonderful time at Le Havre and Nantes. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2000, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/98 "2000-09-15T12:56:16Z")
But I even like Paris - seriously. Had a great time there, the wine is fantastic, the women gorgeous, the people funny, excellent food, gorgeous architecture. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/99 "2000-09-15T13:01:29Z")
Gary, take it from this Pug-driver: If you thought the Parisian women were gorgeous and the people were funny, you were either drunk or stoned. France is a great and varied country, with a population that varies from friendly to obnoxious. Just like anywhere else, I suppose. The trouble is that ALL the obnoxious people have gathered in Paris. The most depressing thing about that city is that NO ONE SMILES. Ever. Paris is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and it deserves better inhabitants. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2000, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164/100 "2000-09-15T13:58:28Z")
On some occasions I was drunk, on some I was stoned and on others I was both - but in all three states, and hell even sober, the women were still pretty and the people still funny. It is a good idea to speak french though, I think Parisians appreciate it if you make some effort to dip a toe in the culture. Sorry you had a bad time though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-day-of-this-shite/33164.md?page=6)