Britons boring, French rude, Americans ignorant: poll

Francis is a friend of mine. I can't afford to buy friends.

Haha, I very much doubt that, Steve.

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Dys, have you eaten the frog legs yet, you've stored in your freezer?

and have you notice the price of beer recently?

its enough to make a grown man

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Britons boring, French rude, Americans ignorant: poll


That's right.

Francis is a man of honor. I respect him very much.

I have noticed that Brits and Americans smell really bad compared to French people. Brits often have really bad breath and BO, and are often surly and rude. I have only met very friendly French people, maybe I am lucky, but think that if you look for the good in people you usually find some.

All English people I know are comparable to the French. I only met very few rude Americans but some here on this site. All the others, along with those I've personally met were quite fine people.

and those were the specially prepared ones we introduce to foreigners, the rest are really bad.

Francis is never rude, but frequently overly succinct.

Which, in my opinion, is not a sign of anything...other than that it is always intended.

On the other hand, I just put succinctness aside in real life. Ask people who have met me...

Lol! Define real.

Real: when you can kiss and shake hands.

Aaaaaahhhhh........how French for it to be in that order!



(wink)

Je rectifie une toute 'tite omission par avouer que moi chui belge (de Liège), et moi j'aime bien les français. Mais comme les sales flamands puent...

Un Belge de la "plus belle eau"...

Et les Val-de-Marains ont le Festival de l'Oh

Since I've just been again 4 days in France (and passed Belgium on the ways), I got again the impression that the French are most helpful and polite people - from officials who helped my despite my bad French to young pupils who said goodbye to me in their best German :wink:

What the? Just what in tarnation do you mean by that, boy?

Yep, them French are rude.....ruuuu---eewwwwd! And them English are booorrrrinnnngggg!

But Americans ignernt? You best be recalling them words faster'n a Ford exec with one of them Pinto cars.....ya hear me?

Now go on and git!! And don't you come aroun' here no more with that kinda back talk....

<Oops, this is to Calamity Jane, a fair number of posts ago -I think I skipped a batch of pages..>

That's a hundred people in ten nations? Which hundred? More people in the first poll, but, eh, so? Stereotyping is an acknowledged human behavior and is often at odds with reality. I think there have been many of these polls, or perhaps a few that have been mentioned over and over.

Poet Seductress -
On 'British' being capitalized, I was raised using american-english grammar, and therefore capitalized all over the place. Together with my massive use of exclamation points, it made my text look silly. When I got interested in italy (Italy) about two decades ago, I started reading everything I could get my hands on about it and noticed a general tendency among italians to not capitalize everything. Not sure if I'm right on my observation, just saying that was my take on my reading. Since then I've stopped capitalizing every country and its language every other minute. Much more restful.

As it turns out, I don't actually care now what the rule may be.

I don't care either, osso!

Yeh, I skipped four pages. Real sleight of hand...