France Surrenders
on 10/30/2006 at 10:24 AM
Damn those police! How dare they even attempt to impose and enforce fwench law?? This is not part of fwance just because it is an area in fwance, it is part of the greater caliphate!!
Hey I know, put towels on the cop’s heads and send them in to enforce sharia. Caught stealing? Off with your hand! Disturbing the peace of allah? Off with your head! Think that would make them happy?
I think the plaque should read “Dedicated to the two biggest dimwits ever born, love Charles Darwin”.
There’s gotta be a scientific reason for the French being the way they are...surely somebody has studied this , perhaps it goes back to Roman Legion times, could the Romans have wiped out the Gaul backbone genepool ?
I wonder what part of “black flash of lightning on yellow background” these assholes dident get? or should i say did? all 50,000 volts worth, where is the smoking scull smiley when you need him?
Bulldog, if you remember, the French during WW2 invited you all into Dunkirke and then had the Gaul to make you swim home, rotten Bastards!
The French: Inventors of the biggest bug-zapper in the world! And who says that they can’t do anything right… Once again, Darwin was right!
We just had to sink there navy after that, not because it would fall into German hands, but we saw what good swimmers they where, some of them made it back to Blighty faster than our boats
I met an old guy who said he was stamping on there fingers when they tried to board our boats, dont even mention france to some of the old guys that are still alive,
This is a bit unfair, as there where some brave french,who helped out our shot down pilots,
Some helped the allied pilots. ‘Allo ‘allo!
The French resistance, did help us, yes i have seen that Rickvid, we can talk about that great history program another time
"Dead for nothing,” is it?
“Lived for nothing” is more like it.
I agree, Drew and RP, Charles Darwin lives. The trouble is that the missing links did not stay missing!
It wasn’t the Romans that wasted the French spirit, Gizmo. It was World War I. Up until then, with the memory of Napoleon I to animate their elan, the French made warriors as willing as any. Up to 1870, their troops were the envy of every foreign country, many of which entertained French military missions for the training of their own armies (Japan among them). Our own Marines wore the kepis of Napoleon III’s armies until the debacle of the Franco-Prussian War (after which both the Marines and West Point adopted picklehauben spiked helmets). The French burned with a desire for revanche after the Franco-Prussian War and the loss of Alsace-Lorraine. And in 1918, they got it. But in the meantime, they paid a prohibitive price.
Nearly all European combatant nations suffered a hideous wastage of youth in that war, but the French toll was proportionally the heaviest by far. Out of that carnage grew the Maginot Line complex, the peace-at-any-pricers with their defeatism, and the subsequent payment of prices (while, incidentally, socialists and communists fiddled and fifed in merry accompaniment).
In every white-flag Frenchman we scorn today, you may see the ghost of a man who died at Verdun, or on the Marne, or in the Battle of the Frontiers, or in the ghastly Nivelle offensive that precipated an army mutiny that very damn near knocked France out of the war.
For a snapshot of it all, catch Kirk Douglas in Paths of Glory.
Beg pardon for a mispelling above!
The word is Pickelhaube. Sorry about that, troops. A long day.
Another incorrect spelling above! “Mispelling,” indeed! Damn it all, my typing is going to
, where is the cherry schnapps????
Merci Tannenberg! I forgot “Le petit homme” Napoleon ! I still struggle with the reasons for the typical French arrogance and the overall general Western European condensention of America.
I think that Tannenberg may have a point here.
Maybe we should stop calling the French the “Fwench” out of respect for Napoleon. Maybe we should stop calling the Mexicans the “Mess Cans” out of respect for Santa Anna. Great nations can fall and the tides can turn after all.
God bless America. Let’s try to avoid the same fate.
The modern French Navy has a fleet of glass bottom boats. That is, so they can view the remains of the Old French Navy…
Gizmo, I too am at a loss to explain the “French arrogance” you refer to.
I am familiar (as we all should be) with their long-standing cultural superiority complex, dating from the days when Paris was the center of the civilized world. French was (and to a great extent still is) the language of diplomacy and high culture. Envious Germans used to say that someone was “as well off as God in France.” The Arc de Triomphe still meant something that stretched all the way back to Charlemagne, and before. Frenchmen had no trouble seeing themselves as wellsprings and guardians of Western civilization, and they liked what they saw. Who could blame them?
If I had to hazard a guess, I would suspect that latterday “French arrogance” could be most closely paralleled by the bitter, defensive, contemptuous, pompous, and snobbish disposition you could expect out of a family of nobles who had everything their own way for centuries, only to be suddenly dispossessed and exiled. The French will naturally be conscious of their past glories, and cannot help being keenly and painfully aware that those are past (and receding) glories. Is there any prospect of a resurrection of such glories? If I were a Frenchman, I would have great difficulty mustering faith in such a prospect.
I am not certain that there is a condescending attitude toward America among Western Europeans in general. On the other hand, leftists of all sour flavors are always condescending toward us, and Western Europe happens to be infested with such scum, who historically have trouble with money in any hands other than their own.
And we need not be reminded of our own leftist scum who make a show of looking down their noses at their betters.
They met there Waterloo long befor WW1, you seem to have missed out quite a bit of history Tann, the endless kickings we gave them for example, heres just one, http://www.voodoo.cz/victory/trafalgar.html
Bulldog, my friend, I am well aware of Waterloo and Trafalgar (and incidentally, of Malplaquet and Agincourt, among others). And I agree, the French got a goodly number of thrashings (and not only at British hands) before World War I.
My point, however, was that none of these thrashings destroyed their fighting spirit or their faith in themselves, both of which were laid to rest (probably for all time) by World War I. Not even the debacle of 1870 accomplished this (even if Napoleon III himself was packed off to a Stalag, Empress Eugenie fled the country, and a substantial number of Communards fell by the wayside as collateral damage).
10/30/2006 at 01:43 PM
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