Oh c’mon! The first response after I scribe this gem and it doesn’t even get recognition. I swear, one of these days I’ll revert to boring posts and deny you all of my wit and humor.
Just you watch, I’ll do it.
Really.
Just let me back in if I really, really want to. 
Right. 'Scuse me.
Why do you hate the French anyway? I have a French last name (damn proud of it too) do you hate me? Why? What about all the other French Dopers?
Just pointing out what looks like bigotry, that’s all.
I hate the French because they haven’t given me a million dollars.
I also hate people from United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru; Republic Dominican, Cuba, Caribbean, Greenland, El Salvador too …
I’m always amused by opinions of the French by people who have never visited the country or even spoken to a real live French citizen.
The only real snootiness I’ve seen with the French is usually by Parisians and directed at their own countrymen (those awful cretins down in Marseilles, don’t you know). They have a strong national pride which can come across as snooty, I suppose, but it’s no worse than our own national pride that comes across as arrogance.
For what it’s worth, I have NEVER been treated poorly by the French in all the visits I have made to Paris, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Lyons, and other areas of the country. I’ve been there as a tourist and as a businessman, for periods between a couple of days and a month or more and have had zero problems. I look forward to a return visit.
I am a French woman, and I eat my meat well done, am I exempt from being hated?
(I know you meat lovers will hate me for eating my steaks shoe-sole style)
Ah, but I’ll bet you do it with style and joie de vivre, n’ est ce pas?
Wow! What a cool concept! My behavior is based on another living organism harbored inside this warm little vehicle, and I am completely absolved of all sins! It isn’t my fault! Holy cow…Twinkie Defense, anyone?
Seriously, ahem Jerk…so that’s the apparent side effect of being infected with that particular parasite? I think it’s obvious what the side effects are for being infected with you are…
I just got done reading the trainwreck of another thread he started. I’m all trolled out. Couldn’t help but feed it, I guess.
I’ve got to step back for a few days, sorry.
That phrase has a certain je ne sais quoi…
Apparently the worms have found a way to bore into our cerebral cortices. From the article: “For years scientists thought it had no effect on our behaviour, but now the parasite’s changing their minds.”
I’d like to see more on the research that correlates toxoplasmosis to traffic accidents. Perhaps there’s a French tradition of eating steak tartare with a carafe of wine at noon?
Hmmm…
My ancestry is mostly French (immigrants to Quebec a few hundred years ago, with some English and Irish added later on), though I was born in the good ol’ USA (first US native in my family, BTW).
What amazes me about my fellow US citizens bleating about how awful the French are is the monumental ignorance of French history and current events. C’mon, you bigotted shits! Read a little more than something supporting your own chauvinism! Fight your own (seemingly intractible) ignorance!
Seriously, I’ve heard other Americans squealing the same ignorant tripe about New Yorkers that is spewed about the “perfidious” French. Ignorant. Blinkered. Shit.
Fuck all of those who condemn my heritage without learning what the fuck they’re talking about! I’m not trying to portray my ancestry as the brightest and the best, but damn people!, don’t you fellow Americans know that we owe much to France? Do you really want to alienate someone who has been a valualble ally?
Same goes for Germany. Despite their two 20th Century experiments in Worldwide Evil, those people have done quite a bit for the good of humanity in general.
-Denis
decidedly NOT interested in teaching bigots a course in history, would much rather see the bigots take the time and trouble to learn something by exerting some skullsweat and looking up the facts for themselves, which “sticks to the ribs” much better than provided opinions.
posted by Uncle Beer
So after bashing the French, we’ll get some
American-bashing?
Denis I think you’ll find the Americans on this board very much in favour of the French.
No, gum, I was not American bashing.
I was dumbass bashing.
I want to hear my meat MOOOOOO when I cut into it:D