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Topic: Why The French Don't Like Us Very Much

Easy T on Wed 02-Dec-2015 | 07:31AM
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The warning sign is because this topic can be seen on the World Wide Web as it is on our 'front page' rather than 'behind closed doors' so to speak
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Lila1410 on Wed 02-Dec-2015 | 07:37AM
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I hadn't noticed before that daft old duffer had left.
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Walkingwithtime on Thu 31-Mar-2016 | 17:10PM
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The French and Germans just love the control they have over us through the E U, why? So many reasons for the French but easy one to answer for the Germans. The E U has taken us for a ride over the years while the French and Germans have sat and sniggered. I do like the French people, yet when it comes to politics run for the hills as they go on for weeks on end over such small points, a bit like me here. lol 
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krypton on Thu 13-Oct-2016 | 21:54PM
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there was another doco sometime back about French village life and its customs and practices - rather charming and they seem to cherish and maintain these customs and practices with much more zeal than the British? ::)
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Mong KH on Fri 04-Nov-2016 | 09:16AM
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Why the French don't like us very much? You may as well ask why most of the world doesn't like us very much and the EU will be overjoyed to get us out as quickly as possible! Could it be because we're fundamentally stupid? Surely in the ignorance stakes we come a close second behind the Americans as a nation of sheep who swallow all the tripe our tabloid newspapers feed us?

I felt there was a glimmer of hope for the UK and the world in the years following WW2. Then Britain gave Europe some tremendous assistance and Europe was grateful for it. We had a strong state which was led by humanists and others who put social progress before financial gain. Many beneficial organizations were founded, including NATO and, dare one say it, the Common Market. And our foreign policy wasn't all bad then. But the "special relationship" has been catastrophic and has lost us the respect of many nations across the globe. We may as well be the 51st state of the American Union. Funny how people say we got bossed around by Europe (our lack of enthusiasm to participate constructively would be more accurate) but are happy to have this country bossed by the USA!

Mind you, many here don't like the French either, for no apparently good reason. My father-in-law is a typical example. But he adores a French friend because "she's different". I don't suppose the Germans are much more popular either.

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krypton on Sun 18-Mar-2018 | 07:43AM
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I hadn't noticed before that daft old duffer had left.

that's great heh - guest comes on and gets us all talking!!
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Lila1410 on Sun 18-Mar-2018 | 07:48AM
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(That was quite a long time ago.)
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guest2620 on Sun 08-Apr-2018 | 14:48PM
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Part of my ancestry is French, I don't think they look down on the Brits, although this CRAZY Brexit has really screwed things up. :?:
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Lila1410 on Sun 08-Apr-2018 | 16:19PM
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that's great heh - guest comes on and gets us all talking!!

daft old duffer was a member http://www.fiftyplusforum.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=14602.msg475099#msg475099

As I understand it only became a guest when leaving.  And so did dinnerlaydee.
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guest1273 on Sun 08-Apr-2018 | 16:38PM
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Part of my ancestry is French, I don't think they look down on the Brits, although this CRAZY Brexit has really screwed things up. :?:
Do you think the French will like us any the less after we leave the European Union?
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Orac on Thu 12-Apr-2018 | 23:31PM
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Not as individuals, no . . . . . . but as a nation? Definitely!

Where I live (when I'm in France) I'm within sight of the Spanish border and the French love us because we're not Spanish. Needless to say, the Spanish love us because we're not French! As for the Andorrans just round the corner, they love anyone with money to spend. :chuckle:
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jock364 on Fri 13-Apr-2018 | 00:17AM
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The Scots and the French have always got on well - even today. It's an English problem.
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Orac on Fri 13-Apr-2018 | 06:32AM
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But it's like most non-Dutch think Holland and The Netherlands are the same thing; the French, along with most other nationalities, think Great Britain and the United Kingdom are the same thing and that Scotland is a part of England anyway. :chuckle:
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guest1273 on Fri 13-Apr-2018 | 08:03AM
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Not as individuals, no . . . . . . but as a nation? Definitely!

Where I live (when I'm in France) I'm within sight of the Spanish border and the French love us because we're not Spanish. Needless to say, the Spanish love us because we're not French! As for the Andorrans just round the corner, they love anyone with money to spend. :chuckle:
That's exactly my experience (of Andorra (and also of France and the French). I'm in France most years as my father lives there in the summer. The French like the English, but there's a centuries-old competitiveness between the nations. There's a bit more needle from the Northern French than those in the South perhaps, unsurprisingly.

I think that as a nation, we have rather more in common with the Germans, really.
 
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Orac on Fri 13-Apr-2018 | 09:21AM
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Ah! - My house is almost certainly amongst the thousand most southerly in the whole of France and I have more French friends than British friends there.
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