Upvoted because I'm French. You're all jealous anyway (emoji with dark glasses and shit).
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emoji with dark glasses and shit
Cool shades. Shame about the feces on them, though.
The French are insufferable but very entertaining so I love you guys.
Same, only no one hates the Basque because they fear our space internship program.
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I don't get why everyone hates France.
Its mostly for fun and not seriouse.
Germany and france had the Erbfeindschaft (french-german enmity), a rivalery whoms origin you can trace back all the way to the splitting of the franconian empire or even way back to roman empire times. Because romans vs germanic tribes, and the bor
England and france have something similair due to the hundred years war shenanigans.
Spain and Austria and france due to the Habsburgs and French Kingdom having always been at each others throats for dominance over europe
Russia and France due to Napoleon
The dutch and the french due to the Kingdom of Burgundy and Napoleon
Italy and france could be traced back to romans vs gauls but defenetly also has to do with the italian wars, papal shenanigans like the whole avignion popes and constantly interfearing in papal state situations
I do not know of any more actually proper rivaleries with the france. Today its all jokes and giggles, italy and france only culturally are in a friendly rivalery, germany and france have one of the tightes friendships and is now the franco german friendship :) (im just saying ARTE) I am german and we germans can learn a lot from france, especially cultural wise lots of things i admire about the french people. <3
Continuons à œuvrer pour une Europe unie et pacifique!
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I’m English and I was driving through Europe and ended up in France. I was at a petrol station and when a new cashier opened up and everybody behind me in the queue just walked past me to the new. I was sort of stood there in shock waiting for someone to let me go in front of them before I suddenly remembered and I was like “Oh yeah, I’m in France”.
As a fellow Brit, that sort of behavior is unthinkable. I hope you tutted loudly.
Go and visit a German supermarket. When a new queue opens you will see grandma's running at speeds that would qualify them for an Olympic sprint race if they could keep it up for more than the distance to the next cashier. I am always amazed that nobody is tripping and hurting themselves in their panic to get to new cashier as quickly as possible.
In stark contrast to that, when the fire alarm goes off in the supermarket, they will calmly continue shopping as if nothing happened in the happy ignorance of the roof they are shopping under being of the same structural integrity as the frozen pizza sold underneath it: 12 Minutes at 220 degrees and it's done.
As a European I'm confused.
Did the cashier you were queued for stop accepting customers? If not, what exactly is the queue etiquette supposed to be here? Nobody moves to the new queue until the person in front of them confirms they don't desire to switch?
What I'm used to from grocery shops/supermarkets is that, as soon as a new cashier opens, everyone in the queue evaluates for themselves whether their place in the new queue would be faster and moves accordingly. If practical (new queue is close to the old one and can be reached by simply walking over) the order from the old queue is generally preserved. If instead the natural way to move would invert the order (tight isles, obstacles between the queues) that is simply what happens. In either case, this usually splits the queue into roughly equal parts in a quick and efficient manner and does so organically, without the need for verbal communication.
I'm curious how this is normally done in the UK/US.
Something I've always hated myself, but the Germans are even worse with this ;)
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Turns out rampaging through the Netherlands, the Rhineland principalities, northern Italy, the Balkans, Austria, Prussia, Poland, Russia, Egypt, Spain, and Portugal in the span of 20 years earns you some longstanding animosity.
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I am french so super biased, but I think the joke is that nobody really hates the French so we're eligible to be joke-hated.
I love how the French are largely ungovernable, but y’all are definitely snooty. I remember having a French exchange student who refused to eat corn because it was for cows. And who refused to eat cheese in the us, even when it was properly fancy cheese. But he loved epoisse.
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Napoleon. Also punching up is acceptable mostly.
It's an old joke I guess. I'm French and I don't know why though. It give me an excuse to pretend I'm better than everyone else, everyone laughs, it's the point of the meme I guess, no need to think about it further.
In my experiences as a German visiting France a few times they are more pretentious about speaking french.
I feel like in other countries people care less about me not speaking their native language, most often we both just speak english and everything is fine.
And even if neither of us speaks any language of the other I feel people are more willing to communicate with hands and feet. In France they just look at you annoyed and hope you go away.
in Canada, we pretend hate anything about Toronto... but it's just a running joke, except the Leafs, they do suck for real
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If there's something that unites Europeans more than anything in the world... that's their hate for the French.
I'm certain every European country has a different yet accurate slur to refer to them.
Yeah but fuck Americans when they criticise France. They're not allowed.
France might be a shithole. But it's OUR shithole. Don't they fucking dare saying a thing about France, we've gone to wars for much less.
This.☝️ It’s like family. Only us can insult our brothers.
Let's be honest for most Europeans dissing France is punching up. Even though the general American is not the personification of their country, from the outside, it's icky. Also ~~y'all~~they lie or hyperfocus on the white flag bullshit, there's plenty legit petty bullshit to diss France about, no need to lie!
y'all
I'm not American. I'm Italian. If there's a country in Europe whose citizens can beef with the French it's ours.
If there’s a country in Europe whose citizens can beef with the French it’s ours.
U wot m8
To paraphrase Corrado Guzzanti: "The English, people who went around butt-naked hunting marmots while we were already busy ~~stabbing Julius Caesar.~~ killing Gauls"
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Legitimately, France did so much to help early America (primarily to spite Britain, but whatever, we take those), and didn't just turn us into a French colony about it, and gets NO recognition at all for most of it. We owe them a certain ancestral debt of gratitude and respect which isn't really the case for the rest of Europe.
Some of us Americans love the French, most of us are indifferent, and a few like to jump on the European joke-hate(?) bandwagon without really understanding the context behind it. European banter is just legitimately different because y'all have thousands of years of cultural history behind it. We don't.
I don't know here we just say: "putain de français", maybe the Belgians have a more original way?
Putain de frouche I'd say
Quebec people say "maudits Français".
Slur? Pfft, they're our auld pals!
Scotland+France <3 4ever
American: I'm 5% Italian!11!11!!11!one!
Same American when she comes to Florence: American students start a fire in their kitchen when they try to boil some pasta WITHOUT WATER.
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Is this some sort of Columbus stanning? Other europeana dissing on the French is like me calling Texans awful people.
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i like bringing up to "irish" americans thaylt actual ireland doesn't consider them irish anymore
Americans who identify as Irish were granted their privileges in society/ heirarchy by breaking their ties with the native/Indians and the black man/woman. They became everything the people of Ireland fought to oppose.
There’s a book called How the Irish became White that deals with this.
An Irish nationalist leader called out Irish-Americans for being racist towards Native Americans, and told Irish-Americans they are unsympathetic towards fellow oppressed folks.
Bernadette Devlin. She also gave her golden key to NY city to the Black Panthers, in solidarity with Black liberation. https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/03/archives/irish-give-key-to-city-to-panthers-as-symbol.html
It only takes one to unite europe. A frenchy.
France is our older brother so ofc we pick on him :3
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