US tourism to France, DOWN 80%!! - boycott is working

The difference, of course, is that a great many Americans trace their ancestry back to countries like Germany or the Netherlands or Russia and are likely to be a bit insulted by politicians slurring their ancestors and sorta-countrymen for political gelt...err, "freedom money."

By an odd quirk of history, there are very few French-Americans.

Hmm.

 

As I've said before, people like LFOD are ungrateful sods towards the French. Without them, there may not have been a USA. And they bankrupted the state helping. That must hurt some Americans real bad at the moment .

The whole boycott movement because Chirac didn't want to bomb Iraq (for whatever reason), just shows how childish nationalism, sorry, patriotism can get.

 

Yeah. When that highly productive collection of states called the EU takes over the world... <yawn>

 

See, that's where your wrong, unlike the US, we couldn't give a rats ass about taking over the world...

If I didn't know already you were an ignorant Schmuck, I could write this view down to paranoia, but it's just part of your narrow view of the world.

To you there is only US and THEM...

 

At least I deserve a capital Schmuck.

 

Sure about that one?

 

Now, now, are you sure about that? I mean, when issues get discussed around here, we spend ample time on discussing the Italian, French, and Belgian opinions of the matter.....

 

More than ample. Oddly over-ample, as it happens. One could almost term it a preoccupation.

 

Of course. Because their opinions matter, and we really want to gauge what our cultural betters think of such important issues before we dismiss their enlightened opinions.

 

No, I don't think it's that. It's more a 'bee in the bonnet' thing amongst jumpy right-wingers like your good self about nations that dare to question or contradict the (invariably cretinous) views and imperatives of the current US administration. And then, of course, there are the cartoon malapropisms of LFOD and the rest of that end of the evolutionary scale.

But hey! He 'LOL'd' you. I get the sneaky feeling that is not as life-affirming an experience as he may believe it to be, but we all have to start somewhere, I guess ...

 

A scouser accusing others of being lowlifes! You're a riot.

Almost as funny as Jimmy Tarbuck.

 

LOL! Spicy comeback. You a tiger!

What is it about Yanks and presumed knowledge about Scousers/Geordies/Poles/more or less nyone? I mean, LFOD can be accurately, effortlessly placed into context based on his self-evident lack of, hahem ... 'cerebral acuity' ... but you couldn't spot a Scouser in a crowd of one. So quite how you presume to have an opinion about one (and let's not even address your presumption that I conform to whatever third-hand image of Scousers you have managed to acquire from t't Interweb) is beyond me.

And yet, here you are ...

Besides, I wasn't 'accusing' him of being a lowlife, I was just according him the rank in life that his contributions to this public forum have, thus far, warranted.

 

That's the beauty of the web, I can disparage everyone worldwide.

However, I had to take a two-year assignment in Bangkok, of all places, to be educated on european stereotypes. I met lots of brits and got lots of good info. And there was this one Romanian guy who had bad things to say about everyone, especially Russians, gypsies and jews.......

 

Does LFOD actually like soccer?


vive le france!

 

If he does, I highly recommend he get a tape of the 1982 Germany-France world cup semifinal.

Toni Schumacher knew what to do with a Frenchman! The '86 semi is good too, another heartbreaker for the sniveling snaileaters.

 

I prefer the more contemporary Senegal match myself.

 

Yes, the Germans have always been experts at bending the rules to their advantage at major competitions,

 

Really? You don't? Is the cat out of the bag?

Right winger? Me? A guy who voted for Clinton in 96? I always considered myself moderate with certain libertarian leanings (I voted for Harry Browne in 2000). Yes, yes, I know Michael Moore is considered moderate here, and I'm considered to the right of William F Buckley.

Maybe it's the fact that nobody here gives a flying you know what about the opinions of France and et al. They can criticize whatever views they want, it just doesn't matter to me. But it does matter to the millions of Americans who do sit around and discuss the fine opinions of the good French and et al people, because like I said, they are our betters.

It was a proud moment, I admit.

 

Arf … yeah. Right. Hence number of posts and threads about those perfidious Frenchies around here.

If France didn’t exist, LFOD would finally have whittled his life options down to “help the planet save oxygen - blow my brains out”. By the evidence available here, there are a goodly number of people who give more or less their entire lives to “the opinions of France and [sic] et al”, never mind “you know what”.

 

That first sentence was a decent insult, but that second one....maybe you could have been a little less obtuse, we frog-bashers like simplicity

For me, I like LFOD's interminable anti-France threads. But don't worry, you English were once "Perfidious Albion" and with a little perseverance, you can rise to your former glory.

 

Not unless we swap our poodle for a good French terrier.

 

Ok.....let me rephrase that. Maybe most people don't give a flying you know what about France, etc. except when it comes to mocking them.

 

I think you're right there. Personally speaking we should not go against France over the fact they objected to the war, and......shock horror.....threatened to veto it. No, we should go against France because they're tosspots in general.