Europe unites in hatred of French

[DAVOUT]

Originally posted by Lancer
"My European friends have demonstrated an impressing perspicacity ; this portrait is really like me : I am agitated, arrogant, chauvinist, cold, dirty, disobedient, disorganised, distant, egocentric bons vivants, flesh-loving, frivolous, humourless, immoral, impolite, nannied, neo-colonialist, offhand, preaching, pretentious, righteous, self obsessed, shallow, snob, stubborn, talkative and vain."

DAVOUT, I don't think you're "offhand".

I will try to improve my offhandness because I intend to apply for the title of perfect French of the year.

[Lancer]

Well deserved, I might add.

[self biased]

so what the french? .fir

[alva]

I don't think the French are hated, it's more of a kind of thing, as in: "not again..always the same with them, i'nit".

Germans on the other hand...

There's a very persitent rumour going around that orginally the Bishops had elected an African pope, but Ratzinger already put his bathtowl on the balcony, so...

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by MikeH

Other than the generation that fought WWII I don't think anyone really has much of a problem with the Germans though, other than in football.

And the towels on sunbeds.

Edit - @alva, I take it its not just a British complaint about Germans then.

[alva]

Nope, pretty universal I'd say.

[duke o' york]

I love the French!!!!!

I prefer to hate individuals anyway - it saves me plenty of time (and spleen, to expend on those who most merit it).

[Bereta_Eder]

that "hatred"/rivalries the english/americans have for the french is unknown here. unknown is also the "surrender monkeys" bit. i'd say the overall feeling is rather positive because of old ties such as "grece - france alliance"that has endured in the past.
i dont know about the "north" but france is relatively viewed ok here. then you have the french culture. there are stong ties with certain politicians of the socialists with french and greek. like jacque lang and melina mercouri.... so the overall picture i would say is rather positive but not something special. france has no problems in greece. apart for the cultural ties france never seemed to threaten greece in recent history by giving leverage to countries that have difference with greece. that contradicts with other western countries who have far more negative image. but as i said nothing special but rather positive

[Bereta_Eder]

i've also come across english who have a beef with france but never french who have a beef with england. the french ennui with english is more... "refinely" placed. it's all very comical

[child of Thor]

I love the french too. I find their strong belief in their own 'frenchness' to be a nice character, as with most other european countries. I like the differnces, it makes it interesting when visiting those countries and meeting people.
I like their women(those school exchanges were a lot of fun!) and their food mostly. I like the fact they dislike the English in the same kind of way the welsh, scots and irish do - even if they are related through the norman conquest

Viva la france! viva la difference!

But they do drive really badly(edit: the only car crash i've been involved in was as a passenger in a car being driven by a french guy) and are pretty cruel to animals.

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by paiktis22
i've also come across english who have a beef with france but never french who have a beef with england. the french ennui with english is more... "refinely" placed. it's all very comical

well it's like that. it's like (some) english want to have a partner in their "superiority/hatred" for france. so they cajole you, like yeah... you know the french....

french on the other hand dont give a damn what you think (about the english)! and are generally more "high nosed" than them

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Stefu
In many respects France is kind of like the America of Europe.

I'd say Europe's Texas. They both manage to combine their nationalism with a greater nationalism, and they're both addicted to farm subsidies.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Sandman
I'd say Europe's Texas.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

not only that, the french eat cheese for desert. whats with that? everyone else eats cheeseCAKE for desert.

and they drink their hot chocolate out of a cereal bowl.

[Stefu]

Originally posted by Sandman


I'd say Europe's Texas. They both manage to combine their nationalism with a greater nationalism, and they're both addicted to farm subsidies.

Well, it is a widely known fact that Texas is, in fact, the America of America.