Love for Britain, love for America, no love for France?

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**dogma**

Sarkozy's wife is hot, and their food is delicious. Napoleon was awesome too. DeGaule didn't take any gak, and they have Descartes. Without cognac there would be fewer rap videos too.

Truly, it is a superior nation.

**Slarg232**

dogma wrote: Napoleon was awesome too.

France is awesome, but their problem is that they know they are awesome, and are therefore full of themselves and not fun to hang out with...

**alarmingrick**

Does a never ending love for my 6th, 7th and 8th grade French teacher count?
A truly beautiful woman.

i personally don't have a problem with them. love their toast alot.

**LordofHats**

dogma wrote:Sarkozy's wife is okay, and their food ranges from 'meh' to nasty. Napoleon was the only awesome personality since Charlamagne. DeGaule took all the credit for liberating Paris, and they have Descartes who wishes he was as awesome as Issac Newton. Because of cognac we have all these damn rap videos too.

Truly, it was a superior nation.

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**Ahtman**

They have the superior alcohol, in comparison to the US and Britain, to be sure.

**Asherian Command**

Actually no Napolean was from an Island nation that was captured by the french. But he was born when they conquered it.
And we make fun of it because they failed during world war 1 & 2.
Though the italians failed more in my opinion. Retreating during the african war in world war 2 because they used all of their water to make pasta HA!
And then having tanks that travel 10 miles per a day when advancing, then when retreating traveling 50 miles......
(That is all 100% historical fact by the way except the Napoleon stuff that is mostly false.)

**alarmingrick**

Asherian Command wrote:Actually no Napolean was from an Island nation that was captured by the french.

Canada?

**Cheesecat**

Charlemagne is also a badass Frenchie.

**remilia_scarlet**

I love french food

French TV

French women

And, now this is nsfw

Spoiler:

**Avatar 720**

The wine is okay. Some of the food is tolerable. Some of the people are borderline pleasant.

That's all I can force myself to say in their favour. Excuse me whilst I wash my mouth out with Scrumpy.

**Monster Rain**

Ahtman wrote:They have the superior alcohol, in comparison to the US and Britain, to be sure.

While this is heresy, I agree with the general sentiment that France is awesome.

**Coolyo294**

Cheese eating surrender monkeys. But after saying that... http://www.cracked.com/article_18409_the-5-most-statistically-full-gak-national-stereotypes.html

**Ratius**

And you also booze demon.

**SilverMK2**

Ahtman wrote:They have the superior alcohol, in comparison to the US and Britain, to be sure.

Although not compared to Australian wine, or English beer (or indeed beer from most other beer producing nations).

**dogma**

I think we can all agree that, in the face of France, America is terrible.

**SilverMK2**

dogma wrote:I think we can all agree that, in the face of France, America is terrible.

I don't think you need to bring France into this

**Ahtman**

SilverMK2 wrote:Although not compared to Australian wine

Australian wine is fine for those who know little about wine.

SilverMK2 wrote:or English beer (or indeed beer from most other beer producing nations).

Wine > liquor > beer (especially English)

**SilverMK2**

Ahtman wrote:Australian wine is fine for those who know little about wine.

French wine is for people who know even less than that, but think they are experts

However, to return slightly to topic - France is OK. Been there a few times and the people there were pretty much the same as the people anywhere else.

**Mr Mystery**

But France? Really? It's a country rammed deep into it's own arse, choking on delusions of adequacy!

**Orlanth**

Of course we love France. Any attempts to say otherwise are vain.

We love France so much every few centuries or so we try to invade.

France is worth having: Lush fields, lazy rivers, good vineyards, forests to hunt boar in.

**Hyenajoe**

Asherian Command wrote:And we make fun of it because they failed during world war 1 .

Err, what?

remilia_scarlet wrote:
And, now this is nsfw

Spoiler:

70% of french women are bisexual

I'm sure 80% of the French male population would be pleased with that, but I think more reasonably that you're talking about another country called France...(or possibly a lesbian club with the same name

)

**htj**

Mr Mystery wrote:But France? Really? It's a country rammed deep into it's own arse, choking on delusions of adequacy!

Yeah, but Britain has its good points too-- oh, whoops! You're talking about France, my mistake!

**dogma**

Mr Mystery wrote:But the US ? Really? It's a country rammed deep into it's own arse, choking on delusions of adequacy!

Also true.

**Mannahnin**

I drink beer more often, but they have excellent wine and vodka.

I also always liked the quote from Quicksilver.

Elsewhere, the same amount of labor might've made a keg of butter or a week's worth of firewood; here it was spent on raising a block several inches, so that it could be carted into the city and raised by other workers, higher and higher, so that Parisians could have rooms higher than they were wide, and windows taller than the trees they looked out at. Paris was a city of stone, the color of bone, beautiful and hard — you could dash yourself against it and never leave a mark. It was built, so far as Jack could tell, on the principle that there was nothing you couldn't accomplish if you crowded a few tens of millions of peasants together on the best land in the world and then never stopped raping their brains out for a thousand years.

**MeanGreenStompa**

Audrey Tautou...

**Albatross**

The French are cool, but I do always permit myself a chuckle at pretentious Americans who are in love with France.

Besides, Spain is better. Better food, better-looking women, better art, better weather, better beer, friendlier people.. the list goes on. Plus, they have a nap in the middle of the day!

**Brushfire**

I love their Film Noir; "Diabolique", "Rififi", "Elevator to the Gallows". Great stuff.

I think Jacques Cousteau was cool.

The French Foreign Legion in its day was a unit to be be reckon with. Messed up Rommel's desert offensive at Bir Hakeim.

Bernard B. Fall tried to warn us about the pitfalls of fighting in Vietnam. Wish we had took his books to heart.

**Mr. Burning**

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Audrey Tautou...

....

yeah she has that quite quirky, pixie look about her, but she ain't stunningly awesome.

**Toastedandy**

Brushfire wrote:
The French Foreign Legion in its day was a unit to be be reckon with. Messed up Rommel's desert offensive at Bir Hakeim.

Still is man, scariest blokes I ever drank with.

**dogma**

Albatross wrote:The French are cool, but I do always permit myself a chuckle at pretentious Americans who are in love with France.

What about the pretentious Americans in love with Britain, or America?