Chirac: The French should be more British

[Dauphin]

Chirac tells French to be more like the British

The “civility” of the British motorist was held up as the ideal yesterday as President Chirac’s Government embarked on a campaign to force France to abandon a century of lethal driving habits.

“To summarise, we should drive more like les anglais,” a state official said

I love this bit:

On Tuesday, TF1, the main commercial TV channel, broadcast a report on British motoring manners. “We will show you that British drivers even stop for pedestrians at crossings, something we do not do,”

[The Viceroy]

Good for Chirac, its nice to see European nations looking at each other and discovering there are things done better elsewhere .. instead of poking fun at past failings..

I'll make you a deal Chirac, you can run our railways (and pay for them , we'll teach you how to drive !!

[Bereta_Eder]

old but still rather bearable

Definitely, definitely.

[HershOstropoler]

Austria can't even get a decent stereotype.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Should be "unblemished wartime record" of an Austrian.

[Bereta_Eder]

I dont get this "flexible as a swede" stereotype...?


what do they mean?

i keep looking at the girl and my mind goes to some sort of dubious porn inuendo


are the swedes always booked up?

[Apocalypse]

I'm guessing it means that the Swedes are stubborn.

[Gangerolf]

Flexible as a Swede:

They were quite flexible during WW2...

Letting German troops pass through their territory, AND accepting Jewish and Norwegian refugees (not all).

[Gangerolf]

it also means they can massage you with their feet while writng their diary or whatever

[Bereta_Eder]

i think its not a diary but a schedule book and that shes cheking her appointments.

i doubt an EU thing would have ANY referance to WW2

[DinoDoc]

So which country is going to give Chirac protection from the French populace?

[Gangerolf]

when EU expands, what's the slovenian or cypriotic stereotypes going to be? Famous as a slovenian, oh that's already taken.

I saw the same postcard (that's what it is?) with the NATO countries but I can't remember the American (humble?) or Norwegian (sober?) stereotypes. I definately can't remember the Canadian or Icelandic ones

i doubt an EU thing would have ANY referance to WW2

maybe not but I still think it has something to do with neutrality. because swedes aren't especially flexible in other matters

[Bereta_Eder]

-when EU expands, what's the slovenian or cypriotic stereotypes going to be?


i dont know.

and what about slovakia
or latvia and the baltic countries for example?

noone knows anything about them except probably their close neighboors

[Spiffor]

The French should be more German
How can Chirac tell something good about our millenia-long English enemy ? Our only concern should be to roadkill as many Brits as we can, to avenge Joan of Arc !

[Traianvs]

When i was in London,....

These cab drivers are crazy man... they don't stop, even if you cross a zebra-crossing!! (well the uk- version of it i mean)

Well i nearly got killed there so ... don't go to the british!! learn from the Belgians!!

(that's a joke, my ******* country is now full of this accident stuff.. according to the government, 1400 deaths a year in car accidents is too much... yea right, if you look at how we drive (most of the victims are were drunk as hell) no wonder!! anyway while millions of ppl in Ethiopia are facing starvation, we're trying to reduce that number by making fking laws so that we have to drive even slower, which causes more "embouteillages" so ppl get even more frustrated... (and then drive more aggressively as a result!)