# Screw France
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [February 4, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792 "2003-02-04T21:28:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/1 "2003-02-04T21:28:21Z")
They have been a thorn in our side for way too long.
I say add them to the axis of evil and add them to our hit list.
I would give them the chance to come around.
Hey France, wake up and decide, you are either with us or against us.
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/2 "2003-02-04T21:31:43Z")
In other words
Lafayette get your butt over here.
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### Author:  [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/3 "2003-02-04T21:35:54Z")
They have been a thorn in our side for way too long.
I say add them to the axis of evil and add them to our hit list.
I would give them the chance to come around.
Hey Pope, wake up and decide, you are either with us or against us.
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### Author:  [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/4 "2003-02-04T21:37:11Z")
… one _mademoiselle_ at a time.
OK, or two. 😃
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### Author:  [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/5 "2003-02-04T21:45:31Z")
In addition to the 8 European countries who made a statement in support of Bush and the US, now [up to 10 Eastern European nations](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=584&e=9&cid=584&u=/nm/20030204/pl_nm/iraq_usa_support_dc) plan to do so. Looks like France isn’t much of a leader among European nations. To bad for them.
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### Author:  [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/6 "2003-02-04T21:54:52Z")
They have been a thorn in our side for way too long.
I say add them to the axis of evil and add them to our hit list.
I would give them the chance to come around.
Hey Montreal, wake up and decide, you are either with us or against us.
Don’t mess with us, we’ll take away the Expos and, um…give them to Puerto Rico?
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### Author:  [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/7 "2003-02-04T21:58:06Z")
France is one of our greatest enemies and God, I just loave Chirac, he just embodies everything that is France.
Arrogant frogs!
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/8 "2003-02-04T21:59:35Z")
Yeah and the French tricked us in to fighting Viet Nam!
Bastards.
Lady Liberty is certainly not French!
(wait a second)
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### Author:  [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/9 "2003-02-04T22:06:12Z")
Aiiii, is this really necessary?
[When is enough enough?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=159255)
Isn’t it so annoying how some people use “us” and “our” and “we” as if we all are on their side? As if we are all of the same nationality/mindset/political views as they are? I’m American, and I’m ashamed to say there are gobshites out there who would say things\* like this. I apologize for them.
\*Gross generalizations, calls for violence and dessimation of a nation and just plain bigotry. See above.
See, it’s so bad, I can’t even make sense!
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### Author:  [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/10 "2003-02-04T22:21:49Z")
I love France. It’s not only the wine, the cheese, the pastries and the lifestyle that’s based around consuming them. It’s also the scenery, the hip-hop and dub music, but mostly for the fact that they will always be the butt of jokes for liking Jerry Lewis and David Hasselhoff, and they don’t seem to care. That’s classy.
I even like Quebec.
Now, Americans, on the other hand … :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/11 "2003-02-04T22:30:38Z")
fuck off Dave, you ignorant asshole.
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### Author:  [@ScoobyTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScoobyTX)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/12 "2003-02-04T22:53:11Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by cowgirl \*
> \*\*…they will always be the butt of jokes for liking Jerry Lewis and David Hasselhoff, and they don’t seem to care. \*\*
If you’re going to spout off stereotypes, at least get them right- the French love Jerry Lewis and the Germans love David Hasselhoff.
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### Author:  [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/13 "2003-02-04T22:57:31Z")
Thank you for making me ashamed to be American.
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### Author:  [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/14 "2003-02-04T23:07:11Z")
I’m just waiting for the night when the windows get broken around here and it all looks like crystal as it lies on the pavement. With the mindset that has been exhibited above, can it be far away?
Now are we the ones with the Fatherland or is it the Homeland? I seem to be getting them confused of late.
TV
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/15 "2003-02-04T23:11:23Z")
I think that the U.S. should just surrender to the French. Think of the possibilities: Our vineyards would be magnificent. The language would be more melodious and our capital would be the most beautiful city in the world. Southerners would become wealthy. Oh! the sauces! the sauces!
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### Author:  [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/16 "2003-02-04T23:11:47Z")
Fatherland? Dear god, we’re not Nazis!
What, Motherland? We’re not Commies either!
Please. It’s HOMELAND. We’re AMERICANS.
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### Author:  [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/17 "2003-02-04T23:17:59Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Zoe \*
> \*\*I think that the U.S. should just surrender to the French. Think of the possibilities: Our vineyards would be magnificent. The language would be more melodious and our capital would be the most beautiful city in the world. Southerners would become wealthy. Oh! the sauces! the sauces! \*\*
So then, you’d recommend a vacation in Algeria?
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### Author:  [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/18 "2003-02-04T23:18:44Z")
Oh yeah?
OH YEAH?
Well MY daddy is BIGGER and STRONGER than YOUR daddy!
NYEH!
::: pushes dave off the swing and scampers off :::
(Grow up. Read. Get your hands on Le Monde Diplomatique, a french publication on geopolitical thought. Learn something.)
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### Author:  [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/19 "2003-02-04T23:38:07Z")
Do they call them “French Letters” in France?
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### Author:  [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-france/152792/20 "2003-02-04T23:42:12Z")
When I see a thread like this I can only think of one thing, do you remember that French language instruction TV show with the really beautiful girl? Um, urg, ug, doh, damn, MIREILLE! Damn, I’d screw her.
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