The French will get over it too!
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Seems to me, people in different countries are always looking for others when the want to 'ventilate'.
There were those 'jokes' dicriminating the Japanese by the same, who make now jokes about the French, by the Germans about the Jews, the English about the Irish/Scots ... ...
Psychologists have some nice ideas while people act this way.
Dlowan, I remember that shameful bit of history. I could understand the anger, but the american's patholigical hatred is weird. Reminds of the cold war, the ruskies were coming and the commies were out to get you.
You know, btw, what is in a "Semi" in British Navy jargon?
A 'semi' (pronounced "sem-eye") is either a member of the USN, or more generally, everything American: especially things that do not work so well.
Other British jokes about Americans can't be posted before 11 PM.
Ceili wrote:Dlowan, I remember that shameful bit of history. I could understand the anger, but the american's patholigical hatred is weird. Reminds of the cold war, the ruskies were coming and the commies were out to get you.
Oh - I couldn't agree more.
Prolly why I have not often touched it here on A2k.
It IS weird.
dlowan wrote:We were dumb enough to go to Iraq - but the last time there was anti-French hysteria here, it was when they were testing nukes in the South Pacific, and sent two of their Secret Service agents to blow up the protesting Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior, in Auckland harbour - killing a crew-member - and, when the French government repatriated the agents - found guilty in a NZ court, on the promise that they would serve out their sentence in France - they released them, to a heroes' welcome, almost immediately.
But - we got over it.
Blowing up that Greenpeace boat was the last successful French military operation. Even I raised a glass of champagne to toast them that day.
cjhsa wrote:Blowing up that Greenpeace boat was the last successful French military operation. Even I raised a glass of champagne to toast them that day.
With all respect: you are an ...
Let's lighten up. Americans that know some history I'm sure don't hate the French. We're thankful for their help in throwing off the yoke of George III.And the country was bled dry in WWI. Dunno what happened in WWII.
There's as many anti-American jokes around as there are French or German or Canadian. It doesnt mean anything unless it leads to some sort of genocide.
Walter Hinteler wrote:With all respect: you are an ...
I love being called names by euros. It makes my day.
cjhsa wrote:
I love being called names by euros. It makes my day.
Didn't you notice that the Euro fall today?
Good. New BMW's are already an arm and a leg, and I need one.
panzade got it right! Let's not make it more than it really is. We all pick on each other; even friends and family members.
> Subject: Only in America
> Tim Allen, comedian, had this to say about Martha Stewart:
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> "Boy, I feel safer now that she's behind bars. O.J. and Kobe are walking around, but they take the one woman in America willing to cook,
clean, and work in the yard and haul her ass to jail."
1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
3. Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
4. Only in America......do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet Coke.
5. Only in America......do banks leave both doors to the vault open and then chain the pens to the counters.
6. Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
7. Only in America......do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.
8. Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
9. Only in America......do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.
10. Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.
panzade wrote:Let's lighten up. Americans that know some history I'm sure don't hate the French. We're thankful for their help in throwing off the yoke of George III.And the country was bled dry in WWI. Dunno what happened in WWII.
There's as many anti-American jokes around as there are French or German or Canadian. It doesnt mean anything unless it leads to some sort of genocide.
Pan - I am happy to let it drop - but it really IS bizarre - have you seen this
http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39573&start=0 thread for instance?
OK ... <grins> ... I was so going to post some kind of snide remark about oh yeah, this kind of thing deserves to be put up on a thread of its own in mega-sized brightly coloured font?
And then I read cjhsa's last post and I was reminded that yeah, I laugh out loud at "nation-jokes" as well - I dont get the French ones, but if the ones about Americans like the ones he posted make me LOL I guess I'm in no position to judge eh?
Oh - I think we all love to carry on like that - I have no objection - but this French thing has got way beyond that for some here.
This one will piss off everyone. It's from a retired professor who sends me jokes regularly. Talk about politically incorrect...
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A bigot joke designed to piss off almost everyone
Subject: How the Jews got the 10 Commandments
A Jewish friend sent this to me:
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God went to the Arabs and said, "I have
Commandments for you that will make your lives better."
And the Arabs asked, "What are Commandments?"
And the Lord said, "They are rules for living."
"Can you give us an example?"
"Thou shalt not kill."
"Not kill? We're not interested."
So He went to the Blacks and said, "I have Commandments
And the Blacks wanted an example, and the Lord said, "Honor thy Father and Mother."
"Father? We don't know who our fathers are."
So He went to the Mexicans and said, "I have Commandments."
And the Mexicans wanted an example, and the Lord said, "Thou shalt not steal."
"Not steal? We're not interested."
He then went to the French and said, "I have Commandments."
The French wanted an example and the Lord said, "Thou shalt not commit adultery."
"Not commit adultery? We're not interested."
He went to the Jews and said, "I have Commandments."
"Commandments?" they said, "How much are they?"
"They're free."
"We'll take 10."
You guys got it all wrong, anyway. I'll probably be going to Paris on my honeymoon. How's that for love.
