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Blame the French

Postby yanpa » Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:49 am

Horsemeat: French finally blamed

AN inquiry has been launched into why it has taken a month to blame the horsemeat scandal on the French.

The French were finally blamed yesterday afternoon, bringing the issue to a close.

But now the government must explain why the French were not blamed as soon as it emerged that British people had been eating questionable mince.

In angry exchanges in the House of Commons, Labour’s Mary Creagh told food minister David Heath: “This is catastrophic complacency. At any time in the last four weeks you could just have said ‘it was the French’.

“No-one would have questioned it and we could all have congratulated ourselves and moved on.

“Instead you caused unnecessary anxiety which led to vile accusations being made against dozens of hard-working Romanian gangsters.”

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Re: Blame the French

Postby Screwed-down Hairdo » Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:40 am

I thought it was taking an inordinately long time to blame the French for this...typical Pommy horsing around.
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Re: Blame the French

Postby yanpa » Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:44 am

They've got the bit between their teeth now and will be riding this for all it's worth.
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Postby Screwed-down Hairdo » Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:48 am

I could imagine. I can just see the punters baying for blood until they go hoarse....Bloody gall of the French.
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Re: Blame the French

Postby Yokohammer » Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:56 am

Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:I could imagine. I can just see the punters baying for blood until they go hoarse....Bloody gall of the French.

Shouldn't that be "Bloody Gaul of the French"?

Well ... I thought it was kinda funny ... sorry ...
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Re: Blame the French

Postby Samurai_Jerk » Mon Feb 18, 2013 12:45 pm

Yokohammer wrote:
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:I could imagine. I can just see the punters baying for blood until they go hoarse....Bloody gall of the French.

Shouldn't that be "Bloody Gaul of the French"?

Well ... I thought it was kinda funny ... sorry ...


I think that was the point. He was just being more subtle than you.
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Re: Blame the French

Postby Screwed-down Hairdo » Mon Feb 18, 2013 12:50 pm

I'll write slower next time...
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Re: Blame the French

Postby Yokohammer » Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:06 pm

Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:I'll write slower next time...

Please do. With annotations if possible.
I've been a little slow on the uptake lately ... too much work is frying (what's left of) my brain.
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Re: Blame the French

Postby Screwed-down Hairdo » Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:47 pm

Yokohammer wrote:
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:I'll write slower next time...

Please do. With annotations if possible.
I've been a little slow on the uptake lately ... too much work is frying (what's left of) my brain.


That seems to happen at times to those who're always dealing with cacophonics. Sounds like you need to get a fix....Then again, perhaps we should just give you a break instead of being a couple of old dogmatic geriatrics? Whatever way, now I know you're facing impedimenta, I've noted it with an asterisk.
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Re: Blame the French

Postby legion » Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:11 pm

Personally I'd blame the Young Parisians

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Postby Screwed-down Hairdo » Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:01 pm

legion wrote:Personally I'd blame the Young Parisians



Cor blimey...no wonder they wanted to unplug the jukebox and do us all a favor.
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Re: Blame the French

Postby J.A.F.O » Fri Feb 22, 2013 12:09 am

Sorry, Totally off topic and irrelevant but long forgotten synapses started firing...
http://www.youtube.com/embed/i3SzI92FDFo
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Re: Blame the French

Postby yanpa » Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:54 am

Le Grauniad wrote:French are 'taught to be gloomy by their culture'

Research finds that despite high standard of living happiness is elusive
France, once famous for its joie de vivre, is suffering from existential gloom – and the French have only themselves to blame for their malaise, according to a study to be presented in London next month. Research by a French academic to be delivered to the Royal Economic Society suggests that the country's citizens are "taught" to be miserable by elements of their own culture.

Claudia Senik, a professor at the Paris School of Economics, argues that her country's education system and its cultural "mentality" make the French far less happy than their wealth and lifestyle suggest they should be.

The French enjoy a high standard of living, Senik notes. The country has a generous welfare state, plus universal and free access to healthcare, hospitals, public schools and universities. It also has a 35-hour working week and many foreigners aspire to make it their home – 150,000 Britons have chosen to live there.

Yet the French are gloomy. A recent WIN-Gallup poll found that their expectations for the coming year ranked lower than those in Iraq or Afghanistan.

...plus...


Are they expecting to be liberated by the US this year?
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Re: Blame the French

Postby Samurai_Jerk » Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:36 am

yanpa wrote:
Le Grauniad wrote:French are 'taught to be gloomy by their culture'

Research finds that despite high standard of living happiness is elusive
France, once famous for its joie de vivre, is suffering from existential gloom – and the French have only themselves to blame for their malaise, according to a study to be presented in London next month. Research by a French academic to be delivered to the Royal Economic Society suggests that the country's citizens are "taught" to be miserable by elements of their own culture.

Claudia Senik, a professor at the Paris School of Economics, argues that her country's education system and its cultural "mentality" make the French far less happy than their wealth and lifestyle suggest they should be.

The French enjoy a high standard of living, Senik notes. The country has a generous welfare state, plus universal and free access to healthcare, hospitals, public schools and universities. It also has a 35-hour working week and many foreigners aspire to make it their home – 150,000 Britons have chosen to live there.

Yet the French are gloomy. A recent WIN-Gallup poll found that their expectations for the coming year ranked lower than those in Iraq or Afghanistan.

...plus...


Are they expecting to be liberated by the US this year?


Interesting. I thought I just had the bad luck of meeting a bunch of miserable bastards in Tokyo but I guess it really is a French thing. I mean these motherfuckers make me look like I shit rainbows and piss sunshine.
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Re: Blame the French

Postby matsuki » Mon Mar 25, 2013 12:36 pm

I wouldn't discount your theory here. Most of the random French people I've met here are really depressing Japonophiles/Animetards in contrast to many cheery French I've met in LA.
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Re: Blame the French

Postby Screwed-down Hairdo » Mon Mar 25, 2013 1:37 pm

I just thought it was the Gitanes, brush drumming, shitting on McDonald's floors, shielas with hairy armpits, Jerry Lewis and living between the Hun and Le roasbifs.

Plastic Betrand is kinda cool, though.
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Re: Blame the French

Postby yanpa » Mon Mar 25, 2013 1:49 pm

Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:shitting on McDonald's floors


Shurely you mean Germany China?
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Postby Screwed-down Hairdo » Mon Mar 25, 2013 1:51 pm

yanpa wrote:
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:shitting on McDonald's floors


Shurely you mean Germany China?


I'm sure the Chinese do it, too, but the French shit on Maccas floors to stop the Merkin farmers from forcing them to be competitive.
(Germ-mans, <and others of Teutonic ilk> I believe, only shit on Ronald McDonald)

French Shitting on McDonald's
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/frances-farmers-cause-a-stink-over-fast-food-1115226.html
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Re: Blame the French

Postby yanpa » Mon Mar 25, 2013 1:57 pm

Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:
yanpa wrote:
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:shitting on McDonald's floors


Shurely you mean Germany China?


I'm sure the Chinese do it, too, but the French shit on Maccas floors to stop the Merkin farmers from forcing them to be competitive.
(Germ-mans, <and others of Teutonic ilk> I believe, only shit on Ronald McDonald)

French Shitting on McDonald's
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/frances-farmers-cause-a-stink-over-fast-food-1115226.html


Fascinating. Given your obssession with German porn I jumped to the wrong conclusion :twisted:
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Re: Blame the French

Postby Screwed-down Hairdo » Mon Mar 25, 2013 2:01 pm

yanpa wrote:Given your obssession with German porn I jumped to the wrong conclusion :twisted:


German porn makes me jump, too....(especially when they start doing things like doppelfaust...Can never watch a gattsu poozu again.)
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Re: Blame the French

Postby wagyl » Mon Mar 25, 2013 2:35 pm

Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Plastic Betrand is kinda cool, though.

Do you want to know why? It is because he is Belgian, not French.

(when wikiing to conform my memory, I discovered "Plastic Bertrand previously disputed the allegation, but on 28 July 2010 the singer finally revealed that he is indeed not the singer of any of the songs in the first four albums released under the name Plastic Bertrand." :keyboardcoffee: Quel Milli Vanilli!
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Re: Blame the French

Postby Screwed-down Hairdo » Mon Mar 25, 2013 2:48 pm

wagyl wrote:
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Plastic Betrand is kinda cool, though.

Do you want to know why? It is because he is Belgian, not French.


Shhhhhh....I know that and I know you know that, but -- far more importantly -- I know that our resident Frenchman also knows that. I was trying to rile him with my own gentle kind of McMerde...

OK, so have to concede Plastic Betrand is not French, but at least TinTin is kinda OK in a kiddish way.
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Re: Blame the French

Postby wagyl » Mon Mar 25, 2013 2:51 pm

:biggrin2:

You will also be amused by the added text I edited into my previous post.
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Postby Screwed-down Hairdo » Mon Mar 25, 2013 3:12 pm

wagyl wrote::biggrin2:

You will also be amused by the added text I edited into my previous post.


I'd actually read up on that before, I think while trying to find out what the lyrics to the song were. I knew Jet Boy, Jet Girl and thought it was the same song...it's not: instead of giving head, Plastic (or, his manager, as things turned out) was singing about trying to beat his cat to the best seat on the couch.

Once again, I was convinced that there's no need for courture when you can have culcha.
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Re: Blame the French

Postby Coligny » Mon Mar 25, 2013 6:31 pm

chokonen888 wrote:I wouldn't discount your theory here. Most of the random French people I've met here are really depressing Japonophiles/Animetards in contrast to many cheery French I've met in LA.


Don't shiver yet... compared to the "big in japan" cheeze eating surrendur monkey they are... enjoyabul...

Why ya think I'm hanging out with 'Merkunz...
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Re: Blame the French

Postby james » Mon Mar 25, 2013 6:50 pm

Coligny wrote:Why ya think I'm hanging out with 'Merkunz...


Because they smell better? ;)
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Re: Blame the French

Postby Screwed-down Hairdo » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:22 am

james wrote:
Coligny wrote:
chokonen888 wrote:Why ya think I'm hanging out with 'Merkunz...


Because they smell better? ;)



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