Let's face it: the French will never really get over Lemond's :08 second upset win
03-22-07, 03:47 PM
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Does anyone have a cycling hero? Or do you have cycling heroes that have to be born in your country?
03-22-07, 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by ri_us
WTF?! Do you think that that slang term for French people is less offensive than the N-bomb? More acceptable than saying that Asians can't drive well?
I realize that a lot of you would never say these things but feel comfortable making generalizations out of the behavior of 45 million French people. Prejudice is prejudice, even if it's against French people.
A wise woman once said to me, "Don't write down anything you wouldn't want the world to read." Guess you guys missed that one.
I realize that a lot of you would never say these things but feel comfortable making generalizations out of the behavior of 45 million French people. Prejudice is prejudice, even if it's against French people.
A wise woman once said to me, "Don't write down anything you wouldn't want the world to read." Guess you guys missed that one.
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03-22-07, 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by ri_us
WTF?! Do you think that that slang term for French people is less offensive than the N-bomb? More acceptable than saying that Asians can't drive well?
I realize that a lot of you would never say these things but feel comfortable making generalizations out of the behavior of 45 million French people. Prejudice is prejudice, even if it's against French people.
A wise woman once said to me, "Don't write down anything you wouldn't want the world to read." Guess you guys missed that one.
I realize that a lot of you would never say these things but feel comfortable making generalizations out of the behavior of 45 million French people. Prejudice is prejudice, even if it's against French people.
A wise woman once said to me, "Don't write down anything you wouldn't want the world to read." Guess you guys missed that one.
On topic, I wouldn't know if the French have gotten over it. Tough spot for them, as Fignon was an a55 in public, but was French. Also, the French have a thing for suffering in sport, but the ultimate Tour suffering (excluding deaths and injuries) involved a Frenchman losing to an upstart American they probably hated for taking Hinault's sixth away. Perhaps they haven't gotten over '86?
03-22-07, 04:37 PM
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Maybe it's a cultural thing, with Caucasians being widely derided in places like China for being lousy drivers.
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Originally Posted by oboeguy
ri_us makes good points, though I must admit I didn't realize that the other f-word, so to speak, was quite that pejorative. Anyway, I have to wonder, is it the case that, say, the majority of French-bashers haven't spent much time in France?
On topic, I wouldn't know if the French have gotten over it. Tough spot for them, as Fignon was an a55 in public, but was French. Also, the French have a thing for suffering in sport, but the ultimate Tour suffering (excluding deaths and injuries) involved a Frenchman losing to an upstart American they probably hated for taking Hinault's sixth away. Perhaps they haven't gotten over '86?
On topic, I wouldn't know if the French have gotten over it. Tough spot for them, as Fignon was an a55 in public, but was French. Also, the French have a thing for suffering in sport, but the ultimate Tour suffering (excluding deaths and injuries) involved a Frenchman losing to an upstart American they probably hated for taking Hinault's sixth away. Perhaps they haven't gotten over '86?
03-22-07, 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by patentcad
Maybe it's a cultural thing, with Caucasians being widely derided in places like China for being lousy drivers.
03-22-07, 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by botto
perhaps, although i wonder if ri_us has spent any time in Sense of Humor Land?
And yet I miss him still. I am demented, I must say.
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Originally Posted by dog hair
freedom fries.
03-22-07, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by RockyMtnMerlin
You do know, I'm sure, that the former congressman who coined the term Freedom Fries in response to the French not supporting the USA in the current Iraq war (Representative Bob Ney Republican of Ohio) is now in jail. He plead guilty to corruption charges in connection with the Abramhoff scandal.
03-22-07, 04:42 PM
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Originally Posted by botto
le warum nicht?
Le becausetheytastelikefriedcrapontoast.
Besides, frogs are for licking, not eating.
03-22-07, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Namenda
Besides, frogs are for licking, not eating.
That movie sucked pole.
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The mentality required to actually suggest French Fries should be called Freedom Fries is sufficiently infantile to fit in nicely here @ BF. Let's give that former Congressman/felon an honorary membership/avatar. He may have Internet access in prison.
03-22-07, 04:52 PM
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You know what happens to a frog when its struck by lightning?
The same thing that happens to anything else.
The same thing that happens to anything else.
03-22-07, 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by patentcad
The mentality required to actually suggest French Fries should be called Freedom Fries is sufficiently infantile to fit in nicely here @ BF. Let's give that former Congressman/felon an honorary membership/avatar. He may have Internet access in prison.
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Originally Posted by Namenda
There was a movie? Where have I been...
Les Triplettes de Belleville.
Terrible movie.
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Originally Posted by Cypress
Les Triplettes de Belleville.
Terrible movie.
Terrible movie.
FWIW I don't think the French give a rats about what happened, they seem to love the loser more than the winner anyway.
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Originally Posted by botto
incorrect. 
03-22-07, 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by RockyMtnMerlin
Okay, when I googled his name for images this actually came up. Might be appropriate. Too bad its a motorcycle instead of a bicycle.
But the global warming dilemma remains.
This would appear to be an image worth saving for those times when 'blow it out of your ass' is the only appropriate response.
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Originally Posted by RockyMtnMerlin
You do know, I'm sure, that the former congressman who coined the term Freedom Fries in response to the French not supporting the USA in the current Iraq war (Representative Bob Ney Republican of Ohio) is now in jail. He plead guilty to corruption charges in connection with the Abramhoff scandal.
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