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guignol
12 Jan 2007, 04:03 AM
push for a NSR section in Guignol's thread from the Forum Request board!
http://bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?p=10410547&posted=1#post10410547 yes, do!
Douai
20 Jan 2007, 07:00 PM
"British-French merger was considered"
http://www.therecord.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=record/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1169247016079&call_pageid=1024322168441&col=1024322596091
http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aID/580213
ilv2
21 Jan 2007, 08:45 PM
^ haha too many pints [or replace with another random british stereotype]
By the way, the push for a NSR section has only a total of 5 people voicing their favor. Holidays are over folks, I know you're all either at work or school, which means time is begging to be wasted!
Douai
23 Jan 2007, 07:43 PM
I was watching the 20h news for TF1 and France2, and I saw that some parts of France received several inches of snow recently.
Breakwood
23 Jan 2007, 08:38 PM
Not that many people will care but Cristobal Huet was the first ever Frenchman selected for the NHL All-Star game. He was selected as one of the three goalies for the Eastern conference.
This man is a cult hero in Montreal and for all Montreal fans.
guignol
24 Jan 2007, 02:50 AM
I was watching the 20h news for TF1 and France2, and I saw that some parts of France received several inches of snow recently.we got the first snow of the season last night, it's only about 2-3cm, but farther north i know some autoroutes were temporarily closed... here's a shocker! my daughter just spent a week in finland and saw no snow! :eek:
Anti-footix
24 Jan 2007, 06:31 AM
There is 25 cm where I live, 35 km away from Lyon.
Not that many people will care but Cristobal Huet was the first ever Frenchman selected for the NHL All-Star game. He was selected as one of the three goalies for the Eastern conference.
This man is a cult hero in Montreal and for all Montreal fans.
I used to attend Grenoble Hockey team ("Les Brûleurs de Loups" de Grenoble) games when he was a player of the team.
guignol
24 Jan 2007, 07:00 AM
do you ever go watch the LHC at charlemagne?
Ali_reza
24 Jan 2007, 02:44 PM
L'abbé Pierre died the 22 jan 2007 at the age of 94.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abb%C3%A9_Pierre
http://www.afrik.com/IMG/arton11076.jpg
Rest in peace l'abbé :(
P.S. : It'd be nice to have a french NSR forum for a topic like this one.
YankBastard
24 Jan 2007, 02:51 PM
L'abbé Pierre died the 22 jan 2007 at the age of 94.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abb%C3%A9_Pierre
http://www.afrik.com/IMG/arton11076.jpg
Rest in peace l'abbé :(
P.S. : It'd be nice to have a french NSR forum for a topic like this one.
Well whom do you have to apply pressure to this NSR be made? Huss?
Ali_reza
24 Jan 2007, 03:12 PM
I have no idea ?
Douai
24 Jan 2007, 04:37 PM
Not that many people will care but Cristobal Huet was the first ever Frenchman selected for the NHL All-Star game. He was selected as one of the three goalies for the Eastern conference.
This man is a cult hero in Montreal and for all Montreal fans.
I used to really follow the NHL, but after the rule changes I lost a lot of interest.I rarely watch a little NHL on tv.I have seen Cristobal Huet play before.When I saw him in goal I did not consider him anything special.However, he was a rookie then so he probably has increased his game.
Vive le Québec libre!
YankBastard
24 Jan 2007, 06:55 PM
Vive le Québec libre!
Libre from what? Is Canada oppressing someone? I always wondered why Quebec wanted to seperate.
ilv2
24 Jan 2007, 07:10 PM
well yes, in a way, as they do not have political autonomy. Decisions passed through the Canadian parliament consequently applies to the province. Honestly, Canada is pretty accomodating (they're canadians for crying out loud) for Quebec so there's no practical reason to separate.
However, they can raise valid cultural and historical logics.
YankBastard
24 Jan 2007, 07:11 PM
well yes, in a way, as they do not have political autonomy. Decisions passed through the Canadian parliament consequently applies to the province. Honestly, Canada is pretty accomodating (they're canadians for crying out loud) for Quebec so there's no practical reason to separate.
However, they can raise valid cultural and historical logics.
Yeah but that's what the state..errr province system is for isn't it. Every province has a little autonomy, or is that not true with Canada?
ilv2
24 Jan 2007, 07:32 PM
right, but 'vive le quebec libre' is employed by those who view Quebec as a sovereign country for x reasons. Therefore, decisions occurring actually means that the lives of citizens in the province are still dictated by a power separate from that which should "ideally" be running the region - hence, a form of oppression. In any case, libre shouldn't be viewed as severely as a desire to escape oppression, but rather simply as a wish for complete political autonomy.
Which is funny, because my friend who is a quebecois separatist wishes for political autonomy but still wants status quo economic ties with the rest of Canada.
guignol
25 Jan 2007, 03:33 AM
i lived 6 months in a little village in quebec (that's where i learned to speak french) back in the days when the PQ was very strong...
among the young folk it was very cool to talk separatism over a bottle of wine, but speaking to them individually i saw they mostly realized it made very little sense, and of course the referendum was defeated, to the surprise of very few outside of the city of québec.
Pierre-Henri
25 Jan 2007, 06:53 AM
We had 20cm cm of snow yesterday.
Look at a map of Canada. If Quebec is independant, what will they do with the Maritimes ? A country separated in two, with an independent Quebec in the middle ? Under no circumstances this will work. Plus, we are not in the 18-19th centuries anymore. Don't tell me that Quebec is oppressed by the evil anglophones.
Canadians are really weird people. They have one of the most succesfull, welcoming and operative country on earth ... and the first thing they want to do is to tear it in shreds :confused: .
guignol
25 Jan 2007, 07:11 AM
minute papillon!
the number of canadians that want independance for Q are fewer than those that want independance for corsica...
so no one wants to tear canada in shreds... except for maybe a few corsicans, for whom tearing things into shreds is a life choice.
to divert this thread onto the corsican question, i may be a closet corsican independantist... since sinking an island that size is not a realistic project. what irony that global warming will make the seychelles disappear and leave l'ile de beauté high and dry...
Pierre-Henri
25 Jan 2007, 03:46 PM
About Corse, when I was in the army, they used to joke about a very specific trait in their struggle for freedom. Corsican independists fearlessly attack all the things related to the colonialist oppressor, all administrations that take what's rightfully their, they threaten all the representants of the french fascist state... all, but one, in Calvi : the foreign legion stormtroopers.
2ème REP (http://www.2rep.com/)
They never had any trouble with the indepedentists.
Ah, pour attaquer les bureaux de postes, les indépendantistes, ce sont des vrais durs. Le 2ème REP, par contre, ouh là là, pas touche ! :D