The Useless Posts Thread

[SIZE=+3]French-bashing[/SIZE]

• [SIZE=-1]French-bashing favorite themes[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=-1]Some French-bashers[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=-1].. and a few examples[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=-1]The US press and French-bashing[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=-1]Sources[/SIZE][SIZE=-1] on French-bashing[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=-1]More to come....[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-2]credit miquelon.org[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+2]French-bashing favorite themes[/SIZE] Theme Typical French jokes

• [SIZE=-1]The French always surrender, they are cowards, ....[/SIZE]

• [SIZE=-1]Buy a French rifle on e-bay : never used, dropped once.[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=-1]The last time the French asked for "more proof", it came marching into Paris under a German flag (David Letterman)[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=-1]"For some reason, France and chicken match together" (a commercial campaign by Subway in 2004 about a new chicken sandwich)[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=-1]"French surrender again : this time, it's their cigarettes...": Herald, Everett WA (Jan.2008)[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=-1]Read my editorial about "surrender jokes" and American racism.[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=-1]More to come[/SIZE]

• [SIZE=-1]The French are ungrateful, we saved them several times, ....[/SIZE]

• [SIZE=-1]I don't know why people are surprised that France won't help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get the Germans out of France (Jay Leno)[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=-1]Read about gratefulness[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=-1]More to come[/SIZE]

• [SIZE=-1]They are conceited[/SIZE]

• [SIZE=-1]Buy a Frenchman for what he's worth and sell him for what he thinks he's worth[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=-1]More to come[/SIZE]

• [SIZE=-1]They are dirty[/SIZE]

• [SIZE=-1] They put on perfume rather than taking a bath (read a letter about it)[/SIZE]

 

"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes." Mark Twain.

 

"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me." General George S. Patton.

 

"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion." Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

 

"We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it." Marge Simpson

 

"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure" Jacques Chirac, President of France

 

"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee." Regis Philbin.

 

"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whisky I don't know." P.J O'Rourke (1989).

 

"You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it." John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona.

 

"You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses and wears a beret. He is French, people." Conan O'Brien

 

"I don't know why people are surprised that France won't help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get Hitler out of France either" Jay Leno.

 

"The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag." David Letterman

 

Canada is okay in my books.

Check out their navy.