Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Perhaps this belongs on the "French-bashing" thread, or not?!

J- (whatever) tha's OK buddy, sometimes I don't get it either. Thank you right on for the rundown on those names though.

BCR

BCR, I suspect we've already been doing that for quite a while. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> As the French say, "Vive la diff�rence!" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

B'sW

Unfortunately, I'm not sure they all agree with Voltaire & J-J Rousseau...... (but it's more or less the same all over the world isn't it? )....

by the way, don't be afraid to correct some of the worse mistakes I'm obviously writing..... as long as it does not clutter the forum (Or, maybe via an "MP" but I'm not sure this kind of alternative is available here...)

Welcome J-P....from J.P.
(Jared Pereau)
Your english is very good!

Voltaire and Rousseau didn't agree with each other very much during their lifetime! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Look up at the top of your screen, and there should be a link that says "My Home." If you click on that, it will take you to a screen that gives you the opportunity to send a personal message.

B'sW

Maybe like the G in "mirage?"

YES, Honey! That's exactly what I was looking for and couldn't think of! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

It's true what they say about married folks finishing each other's thoughts... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

B'sW

Barak has a thought? Wow poor thing must have been lonely lol. Sorry barak could not resist. tom

In a previous post, I told that I appreciate alot of things in France and that I have some french friends

(not "french-fries" , as the so-called "french-fries" have always been belgians ones and frenchmen just knows nothing about that .....just one more thing they try to corner)

but having french neihbours is not always that funny; I promised I would tell you about "Chooz"

Chooz is a french enclave in belgian territory. There, rivers are flowing toward Belgium and winds are blowing toward Belgium too.

For the french government this was a perfect place for building nuclear installations.
So did they.
And when belgian citizen came to protest, the CRS were waiting ...... Of course the "ball-less " belgian authorities just shut up.
Yes, frenchmen are lovely people but they just don't know what shame is.



I' v been told that froggies were making experiments in order to create an new animal. It would be a kind of cow, mixed with a giraffe.
So that it could graze in Belgium and get milked in France <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I know they are named "Deutsche" - which is correct ethically - oops ethnologically .
Regards from S�ddeutschland
RD

Ah yes the belgian fries. The wife and I were just talking about those last week. We remember stopping at the stands along the roads. I also miss filet american. We hope to revisit Belgium some time in the next few years
to see the places we went when we were dating and visit the little greek restaurant along the grand rue where we had dinner the day after we were married. tom

I' v been told that froggies were making experiments in order to create an new animal. It would be a kind of cow, mixed with a giraffe.
So that it could graze in Belgium and get milked in France

EXCELLANT Sir. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

pumpgun,
good new! Don't forget to tell me when you decide to come...

J P. Pleased to have you on with us. My old friend from the 101st Airborne was in Bastogne during the battle and he was highly complimentary of your compatriots. He said he went to Bastogne to visit in the late 60's and the folks there treated him like royalty. Any of your folks are OK with me. Come over to the USA sometime and some of the fellas here would help you have a hunting and fishing trip to write a book about.

Eviltwin,

you'r hiting my most sensitive point..... having a trip in the USA is just my greatest dream.... but "l'homme propose et Dieu dispose"... thank you anyway for being so convivial.

In fact, I'm a bit afraid....watchin' tv, I can see how it looks like on your side of the ocean... life seems to be so different from what we know here....

once we had some youngsters from Oklahoma here, in my home town.
I talked a lot with them, for sure, we live in differents worlds.

One thing is certain to me, most of the Americans are incredibly hospitable
but Jesus! your highways are just scaring me!


last year was THE anniversary of the battle of Bastogne

I wish you had seen that! they were just back in 1944!

The whole US army seemed to be there with a great number of veterans.....streets were so crowded, you couldn't even walk.
People here have not forget what the GI's did for us.......

My Dad's lifelong friend, and Godfather to one of my sisters, spent some time in Belgium. He was blown through the hatch of a Sherman tank and through the side of a barn where he lay for 3-days. He's got a steel plate in his head that can hold refrigerator magnets.

He might be the most gentle man I know, and spent his carreer as a librarian. Go figure.

Is there someone alive Here?......France is burning, you know........ nothing to tell about that?

Yeah, J-P we alive. Most of us is just sort of setting around watching and laughing up our sleeves about how the Frenchies was so high and mighty telling us how to fix our race relations. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

BCR

All alive Jp. Most of us have a distinct warm and fuzzy about chickens come home to roost.

Fun thread.
The French do from time to time get full of themselves, I find it amusing to point this out. It's not really bashing so much as nose rubbing.
French coverage of Hurricane Katrina ran such,

On Sept. 4, the daily French newspaper Le Figaro proclaimed the hurricane "reminds us that the United States has refused to ratify the Kyoto accords. Let's hope the U.S. can from now on stop ignoring the rest of the world. If you want to run things, you must first lead by example. Arrogance is never a good adviser."
The newspaper Liberation said: "Bush is completely out of his depth in this disaster. Katrina has revealed America's weaknesses: its racial divisions, the poverty of those left behind by its society, and especially its president's lack of leadership."
Le Monde opined: "Americans are upset at the fragility of their super power."

And they let a riot run two weeks. They discouraged citizens forming militas. Stupid, arrogant and short sighted.
Hopefully the French cops are learning to use a little smackdown...

State television showed images of two officers hitting and kicking a young man while six colleagues stood by watching in the northern Paris suburb of La Courneuve on Monday. One officer is being held in detention while four others are also under formal investigation.
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