What are some good things and bad things about France?

France has nukes: good things for world stability
France has illegal immigrants rioting: bad thing for world stability

France has Le fromage: and it has lots of fat
France has red wine: and it subdues fromage's fat effect

France has women who put so much porfume on them, its impossible to smell the scent of their bodies for sexual pleasure: bad thing
France has very sexual women, finally tuned

Mihiro Taniguchi

0.5 French and 0.5 Japanese heritage

http://www.asianidolz.com/wp-content/softcore_mihiro00.jpg

The country itself has some of the best skiing, best surfing, best cycling & best climbing in Western Europe. So that is good.

The people however i'm not so fond of. Most of them are very French.

France has Alizée.

France has Alizée.

Yes! That was what I was thinking when I started this thread! :D

Good - they invented crepes. They have some of the best museums.
Bad - they have French people.

Good - Nice
Bad - Paris.

Good: French Jam, crepe, bread, well the food I suppose. Apart from snails and frog legs.

Bad: All the stinking foreigners pouring into the country and causing shit.

Good: French Foreign Legion
Bad: the French

Good: the landscape
Bad: the people

Why does everyone hate the French?

Why does everyone hate the French?

Because they are arrogant shitbags, that's why..

Generally bad character/attitude.

Because they are arrogant shitbags, that's why..

No, because they top all of you at it—with style.

No, because they top all of you at it—with style.

:roflmao:

Oh, I forgot hypocrisy..

Champagne, art, freedom of expression and cultural pluralism, democracy-the revolution.

good: country named after a weapon

:roflmao:

Oh, I forgot hypocrisy..See what I mean? A flat and dreary plunk, bordering on a design that almost begs for a rejoinder so that it might splash and give a fuck. The French, on the other hand, simply deliver their missives over the top of your heads—without giving a fuck. Lol.

The french people get 5 weeks of paid vacation every year.

Bad: The French people admire the americans for their ablility to go wild. This is mainly because they cannot dance. That is because the French are just about as funky as the Japenese. That is one thing the French admire about the USA, the other is California.

.....35 hr work week
paid maternal leave
free healthcare

ja, very good

The french people get 5 weeks of paid vacation every year.

So do I.

Good: they place a high value on good food, good company and enjoying life and have a contempt for big business and excessive consumerism. Two-hour lunch-breaks and long vacations.

Bad: they're very protective of French culture and the French way of life, which sometimes spills over into xenophobia. Basically, things are done the French way or no way. You are not a valued customer (see 'Good' again, it all ties in).

It is, of course, an attitude completely at odds with The American Way of Life™, which is why the two nations hate each other so much.

Good - Kronenbourg

Bad - Them stupid squat toilets

good. Standing up to the US and taking the shitstorm for not going to Iraq.
Bad. Electing a right leaning president.

Bad, yeah,.. arrogant fucks.
Good, when they stick their long snouts in the air and close their eyes for an extended 'Ah dernt give a ferk abert yuh' demonstration you can quietly disappear before their eyes re-open.

Why does everyone hate the French?

They don't. They think they hate the French, but what they really hate is Parisiens.
The rest of the French are lovely, and they also hate Parisiens.

Ohh! Schleebenhorst!

Citroen good.
Jaguar shit.

Renault good.
Wolesely shit.

Peugeot good.
Triumph shit.

So do I.

unemploymed?

unemploymed?

No. Unemploylaw.

lol

Nikcelodoen, you're half-French and that.

Your worthless thoughts?

Sacre blue! I'm not half French, I work for a French company. And all the ones I've met are good fun. I socialise more with the French guys at work than I do with the English guys, they're very freindly people. None of them seem to like Parisians either.

Yes, but they must suck in some way too, otherwise we'd only have half a thread.

Let me put in words of one syllable for you, with helpful and appropriate pictures:


What are the GOODhttp://www.sciforums.com/images/icons/icon14.gif things ab out France?

Aaaaaaaand... what are the BAD:spank: things ab out France?


Jesus Christ, it's like pulling teeth.:rolleyes:

Sorry to butt in chaps..Good, they stick it to the Poms.
Bad, their South Pacific abominations still hurt.

good-wine and crepes. Jaques Cousteau. Versailles
bad- those Canadians in Quebec

What are the GOODhttp://www.sciforums.com/images/icons/icon14.gif things ab out France?

Aaaaaaaand... what are the BAD:spank: things ab out France?

Dunno, havent been to France.

Oh right. You should, it's weird. All the signs are in French and that. Most perturbing. We went to this church once. All the inscriptions were in French!!!

Totally freaked me out.

I could once have said that they stink of Garlic,
but having become addicted to the evil French drug
I stink of it myself.

As regards cars, I once owned a Citroen, and the experience was like continually
holding my wallet over a drain while shaking it.

Every item on it was hideously exensive to replace.
Give me Le Ford anyday.

Good:

- Zinedine Zidane
- Thierry Henry
- Eva Green
- Down the road from England
- French crop (hairstyle)
- French language
- Hate America
- Paris (tourist attractions)
- Riots

Bad:

- Nicolas Sarkozy
- Arsene Wenger
- William Gallas
- Poor football league
- Rubbish cars
- French national rugby team
- My French teacher back in school
- French rap

Bon
Garlic
South of France
Steak au Poivre
Sophisticated and well dressed women
Cafes
The TGV train

Mal
Garlic
Paris
Sausages made with intestines
Snails
Citroen Cars

I cried when i watched those riots. So i cannot talk bad about them.

As far as I'm concerned all of France's sins are redeemed by 2 things -

Edith Piaf
&
Daft Punk

2 of the best things ever.

I cried when i watched those riots. So i cannot talk bad about them.

Why did the riots happen ?

Good: they place a high value on good food, good company and enjoying life and have a contempt for big business and excessive consumerism. Two-hour lunch-breaks and long vacations.

Bad: they're very protective of French culture and the French way of life, which sometimes spills over into xenophobia. Basically, things are done the French way or no way. You are not a valued customer (see 'Good' again, it all ties in).

It is, of course, an attitude completely at odds with The American Way of Life™, which is why the two nations hate each other so much.

First you say that their culture is good then you say that they suck for protecting it... ok

several people list paris as a bad thing, why?

several people list paris as a bad thing, why?

Atmosphere presumably.

I wonder how long its gonna take before muslims take over france (I saw some estimates that more than 50% of the country is going to be muslim not too far in the future)

I wonder how long its gonna take before muslims take over france (I saw some estimates that more than 50% of the country is going to be muslim not too far in the future)

Hmm I was under the impression they were at, or almost at, that point already.

Good: Cheese, Bread
Bad: The People

Uh so what's stopping them from having a half-muslim government/parliament then? and start pushing for islam laws?

Uh so what's stopping them from having a half-muslim government/parliament then? and start pushing for islam laws?

Good question.. I wouldn't know.
Maybe the French are doing a good job at integration.. :D

erotic love songs

Good:
democracy
human rights
pretty girls


Bad:
the French language
French hypocricy (they call on others to accept holocausts allegations while evade to confess the holocausts they committed in Algeria and assisted in Rwanda)
Arrogance

First you say that their culture is good then you say that they suck for protecting it... ok
Did you read the whole sentence? In fact, the whole post?

France

Good things
1- It's over there.
2- Cheese
3- Wine
4- Slutty French chicks.
5- Accent.
6- Not Americans.
7- White.


Bad things
1-It's over there.
2- Cheese.
3- Whine.
4- Slutty French chicks that want nothing to do with me.
5- Accent.
6- Becoming Americans
7- Off-white.

France



Bad things

4- Slutty French chicks that want nothing to do with me.


Just go to Quebec it's closer.

Quebec:

France light.

I was there once. They didn't like me either.

Shouldn't that be 'lite'?

Good - The government supports the small farmer with generous subsidies, enabling the economic viability of small towns throughout the countryside, with all its fabulous architecture.

The best nuclear energy tech in the world.
Height restrictions on urban buildings.

Bad - Catholicism and Islam.

they have jesus in their rugby team:

http://www.froggynews.net/images/sebastian-chabal11.jpg

Good: French kissing and Vincent Cassel.

Bad: *scratches head* Um, those two cancel out anything bad about France.

Voltaire, Rablelais, Chanel, Guerlain, le demi monde, the beautiful language itself and that oh so seductive Sebastien...I wonder whatever happened to him

The French didn't invent love but they sure turned it into a fine art.

Oh yes they make fabulous lingerie

What is the point of this thread?

This thread should be locked mods. It has no relavance.

You have no relevance...so go away

I quite enjoy Cotes Du Rhone wine and Fourme D'Ambert cheese.....