# since french bashing is the trend..... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 13, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182 "2003-03-13T21:31:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![greck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@greck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greck)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182/1 "2003-03-13T21:31:03Z")
Fucking poodles! They’re an insult to dogs everywhere and they always fucking win dog shows. That stupid big poofy hair and the stupid pom pom butt thing. My aunt had poodles and they were the least friendly dogs ever. I hate them. Any other french crap we could do without? ---
**Author:** ![yme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/35a633/32.png) [@yme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yme)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182/2 "2003-03-13T21:34:19Z")
The stench? ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182/3 "2003-03-13T21:45:08Z")
Can you imagine how embaressing it must be to be a male poodle? I didn’t know poodles were french? huh, learn something new every day. hmm, french crap we can do without…nah, I like most french things - unless Caviar is a french idea. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182/4 "2003-03-13T21:56:22Z")
Couldn’t we just… not? ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182/5 "2003-03-13T22:01:50Z")
Mmm…baguettes and brie cheese…real Champagne…Luc Besson movies… > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yme \* > \*\*The stench? \*\* Jackass. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![greck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@greck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greck)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182/6 "2003-03-13T22:04:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Francesca \* > \*\*Couldn’t we just… not? \*\* nope, we have to. And actually I’m not 100% certain that poodles are french, but they’re associated that way so… other stuff: the sheer pretentiousness of the language. I mean, why do they have to manner it so much, why cant they just talk normal? snails and frog legs are not food, no matter what anyone says. perrier tastes like crap so does french dressing and arent the french responsible for Pantemime? ---
**Author:** ![greck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@greck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greck)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182/7 "2003-03-13T22:07:09Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Ferrous \* \*\*Mmm…baguettes and brie cheese… That’s freedom bread to you pal! ---
**Author:** ![greck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@greck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greck)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182/8 "2003-03-13T22:20:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mayberrydan \* > \*\* I didn’t know poodles were french? \*\* I looked it up, they’re probably german in origin, but the poodle is the national dog of france, and I’m convinced that it was the french that thought up the hairdo. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_The\_Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Buck\_The\_Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_The_Diver)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182/9 "2003-03-13T22:34:03Z")
Darn cheese-eating surrender-poodles! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182/10 "2003-03-13T22:58:30Z")
So it makes no sense whatsoever to refer to Tony Blair as Bush’s poodle. But “Bush’s redtick coonhound” just doesn’t sound right. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182/11 "2003-03-13T23:04:02Z")
The French? Mere foreigners. The Bulgarians are with us, what more could we ask? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182/12 "2003-03-13T23:06:49Z")
Raise your hand if you like the French. Raise both hands if you are French. Hey, **Ferrous** , like it or not, a great many of “those folks” pack a mean funk. I’m not trying to be a “Jackass” or anything. Its just a cultural differance regarding personal hygene, nothing more. Monterey smells like fish, Gilroy smells like garlic and Paris smells like dirty underarm. * * * Fagjunk Theology: Not just for sodomite propagandists anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182/13 "2003-03-13T23:16:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gatopescado \* > **Hey, Ferrous, like it or not, a great many of “those folks” pack a mean funk. I’m not trying to be a “Jackass” or anything. Its just a cultural differance regarding personal hygene, nothing more. Monterey smells like fish, Gilroy smells like garlic and Paris smells like dirty underarm.** I guess your smeller is more sensitive than mine, because I’ve been in all those places, and I’ve not found that to be the case. Unless you’re at the Monterey wharf, the Gilroy Garlic Festival (fun!) or…um, I don’t know…sniffing a Parisian’s armpit… ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182/14 "2003-03-13T23:39:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gatopescado \* > \*\*Raise your hand if you like the French. > Raise both hands if you are French… \*\* Holy fuck, that was funny! I spit out my latte’ when I…err, I meant to say ‘Liberty Cappuchino’, when I read that! ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182/15 "2003-03-14T00:08:08Z")
Hmmm,I think some of you are like the people in this story. [http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious\_murders/not\_guilty/sacco/1.html](http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/not_guilty/sacco/1.html) What’s all this fuss they’re making about them guys? Darned if some people ain’t kickin’ because they got What was comin’ to ‘em; Sayin’, be Jesus, It’s cause they’re reds. That’s bad enough, But that ain’t all — Not by a damn sight. Why, man alive, They’re only a couple o’ God damn dagoes!.. Now me: I’m an American, I am … Send 'em up, say I, Show 'em that our courts is American. We don’t get our law from Italy. We don’t care whether they done it or not. To hell with 'em! They’re dagoes. Cultural intolerance is just not my thing. _Glares around at the people who said such things_ You guys are over the top! There are many cultures blended into this country,French,Irish,Italian,and many many others. Each of the ones I have mentioned have withstood hate at some point in the history of this country. Do we as a country really want to revert to those ways? Shame! Shame! Shame! If this is what being an American is about,then I think I may end up giving up the country of my birth yet… ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182/16 "2003-03-14T00:13:29Z")
Well, **Brutus** , if you liked that one, try this: Advertised in French newspaper: “French Military Surplus Rifles. Excellent condition. Never fired and only dropped once!” **Ferrous** , it is true I have an incredible sense of smell. I have never smoked, or lived with smokers. I once diagnosed a weeping waterpump by smelling the anti-freeze through the vent. It didn’t even leak enough to drip, but I nailed it! If you want, I can tell you what citys and town all over the west coast smell like. 😃 * * * Somebodys gotta go back and git a shitload of dimes! ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182/17 "2003-03-14T00:20:00Z")
I agree \*\* Francesca \*\*,they shouldn’t have… :eek: :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-french-bashing-is-the-trend/161182/18 "2003-03-14T01:18:09Z")
French bashing may be the trend, but I think that we can get along without THIS trendiness. We don’t want hate speech on this message board. Lynn