The French and their socialist riots - Andrew Neal

[Mick Mac]

Just watched the end of "This week".

Andrew Neal just said;

"There are riots in France

The French like a good war - that's what they are good at

At least where their pensions are concerned

If only the Germans had threatened to take away their pensions in 1940...."

I said:

Sacre Blue, I must post that. So I did,

I regret nothing.

Not sure he would get away with that comment on any other country - but are the French fair game?

[????]

Mais Oui

[????]

..a classic from the Mash

[Loz]

On a related, but different note... what is about This Week that brings out the best in politicians? It showed the world that, against all expectations, Michael Portillo is a nice, interesting guy and it did the same last night for Alastair Darling, showing he was far from a block of wood with no personality.

Maybe they should go on there before their careers are over.

[Huguenot]

I think the BBC comedy guidelines stipulate that humour directed at groups of individuals must consider the risk of giving offence, must be proportionate to the target, and avoid risk of humiliation.

Given how far down their nose the French regard the English they're about as likely to take personal offence as we are to take offence at a sarcastic bluebottle.

They're quite capable of looking after themselves, and start as many wars as they lose, so it seems proportionate.

And in the end it's impossible to humiliate someone further thatn the French have managed to humiliate themselves!

[huncamunca]

Snigger at the garlic stinking frogs in their comdey berets and stipey jumpers, but at least they have the gumption to kick off for what they consider important. Maybe a little more civil disobedience in the UK would pull us out of the sucking mire of forelock tugging resignation so typified by the " we are in this together" shit of late.

[Brendan]

Lazy fuckers. The English work twice as hard in order the fukc things up to the same degree.

[mockney piers]

I've actually really liked Portillo (small door, great name) ever since he retired from politics. If he'd shown himself to be so thoughtful and measured during his tory era he mightn't have ended up the poster boy for Tory smarm that he was.

His documentaries, especially the one on the Spanish Civil War are actually pretty good too.

[mockney piers]

ACtually, for once I completely agree snorks, I've been thinking that myself every night they come on the news.

[????]

Le Snorky...C'est magnifique

[Ted Max]

Is Snorky back on the buroo?

[Jah Lush]

huncamunca Wrote:

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Maybe a little more civil disobedience in the UK would pull us out of the

> sucking mire of forelock tugging resignation so

> typified by the " we are in this together" shit of

> late.

I couldn't agree more. I like the French. When they get pissed off about being stitched up they take to the streets complain passionately. Compared to the French us Brits are apathetic.

[Brendan]

Who you calling a pathetic?

[Huguenot]

I don't think they're being stiched up. I think they're just being stupid aren't they?

I don't even think most of them know what they're protesting about.

They were given three options to collect enough pension money to pay OAPs - either to reduce pensions, increase contributions, or to work for longer. Even the Unions recognised that the money had to come from somewhere. The problem is that none of them could decide which was the preferred solution.

Since the French couldn't get a majority agreement on any of the three options, they unanimously opted for Plan D, which mostly involved doing feck all for days on end and bringing the country to a standstill, which is precisely what got them into this mess.

Most of the action is now being fronted by students anyway, who mainly protest because it's a sexual ritual. In that sense then Snorky and Mockney are both right, they really do protest because they care about something. It's just that 'something' is a pompier.

They're not the brightest people in the world.

[Brendan]

Don?t knock it. A day out in the fresh autumn air on an impassioned, civil disobedience fuelled quest for energetic, ideological derri?re has more to recommend it than a Friday night on shit lager and cheap drugs trying to drink the Bishop interesting.

[????]

Actually, most of the rioting is from the 'non-studenty at all' ethnic minority areas, who have always been treated like crap by the the preachers of Libertie, fraternitie, equalitie etc.

[Brendan]

So it?s not all sticking it to the man with Sartre, gauloises and a blatant disregard for modern hair removal techniques?

[Ridgley]

I feel if the cuts get any deeper.it might happen over here.

[DJKillaQueen]

I love the french!

[Telboyofpeckham]

For all their issues, the French are, however, do a very good tube strikes.

They all go to work so that the metro still has to pay them, then open up all the gates so that the public can travel for free.

Triple whammy; the staff get full pay, the metro gets no income & the public remain happy because the service runs as normal.

It makes our underground unions seems very, very stupid (rightly so?)

[SimonM]

In defence of the French I offer the following without further comment or clarification....:-

Catherine Deneuve & Francoise Dorleac

Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Huppert

Beatrice Dalle

Emmanuelle Beart

Sophie Marceau

Jeanne Moreau

Eva Green

etc etc etc

[Pearson]

SimonM Wrote:

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> In defence of the French I offer the following

> without further comment or clarification....:-

>

> Catherine Deneuve & Francoise Dorleac

> Isabelle Adjani

> Isabelle Huppert

> Beatrice Dalle

> Emmanuelle Beart

> Sophie Marceau

> Jeanne Moreau

> Eva Green

>

> etc etc etc

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^ ?, All Greek to me ;-)

[Huguenot]

Whilst it's plausible that one bloke is so fazed by the moment that he can't wrestle his way through this teaser, that fact that over 50% of the audience are brain dead does suggest something untoward about the French..

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