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The funny thing is, the French are even more insecure than the British about their national identity. The depth of the insecurity is shown by the fact that veils have been banned in France.
Air hostess clique
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Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 12:51 - Aug 8 with 1419 views
Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 12:50 - Aug 8 by TacticalR
The funny thing is, the French are even more insecure than the British about their national identity. The depth of the insecurity is shown by the fact that veils have been banned in France.
Ooh dangerous territory there..
Shit but local
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Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 12:53 - Aug 8 with 1412 views
Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 12:19 - Aug 8 by eastside_r
and presumably the French guy that posts on here - is it Ericgen?
God only knows what he makes of threads like this.
Just a big sigh mate. I lived 11 years in London and know what to expect from the less educated brits.
About cycling, you'll find that the huge majority of french people (myself included) believe all top cyclists take some form of drug (whatever the nationality). It is a never ending race between the chemists and the anti-doping enforcers. How could a normal person cycle a couple of hundred kilometres at high speed everyday, with a few mountains to climb thrown in, for 3 weeks? People were already taking on the tour de France in the 1910s.
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Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 12:59 - Aug 8 with 1396 views
A cover of the Rowan Atkinson song.... Skip the first two minutes of banter with the audience.
RFA
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 13:13 - Aug 8 with 1350 views
Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 13:22 - Aug 8 by Hayesender
Wasn't Bob Marleys old man from Liverpool?
We can claim him I'm sure
I have it on very authority ( the late great Charlie Gillett) that whenever they had a kick-about. Mr. Marley always wore a QPR shirt. Whether he ever went to LR is another question, but I think that we can claim him as a "fan"
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Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 13:33 - Aug 8 with 1300 views
I quite like the French and their quirky eccentricities,anybody who's driven a Citroen Ami 8 might agree. Guy de Maupassant hated the Eiffel Tower so much that he lunched there every day because it was the only place in Paris where he couldn't see it.
Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 13:33 - Aug 8 by TheBlob
I quite like the French and their quirky eccentricities,anybody who's driven a Citroen Ami 8 might agree. Guy de Maupassant hated the Eiffel Tower so much that he lunched there every day because it was the only place in Paris where he couldn't see it.
Ami 8? Hey my mate had one. What a machine! Golf ball gear shift, no synchromesh between first and second. We had to pull over on a hill so he could stop, put it into first, and restart. A feat of garlic err I mean Gallic engineering!
RFA
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 13:52 - Aug 8 with 1240 views
Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 11:59 - Aug 8 by Bluce_Ree
Fk them, frankly. I went to Paris about 12 years ago. Literally everyone was a c*nt. I was being pleasant enough, tried to speak a bit of French here and there. Pure horrible snooty fking pricks.
In the end I got so fked off with having my food thrown on the table at restaurants that I only ever ate Chinese ones in the end. Chinese people aren't c*nts.
No prejudice, no racism. I'm just going on experience. Everyone I met in Paris was an infinite c*nt and I hope they all get AIDS of the FACE. Le C*nts. Frankly.
I'm in France now, but not Paris which is quite different to the rest of France. Even the French are not keen on Parisians. I have some good friends in France from the country areas and I find they love France and support its industry and products and feel real pain when their country does not perform as well as they would like. Generally we could learn something from their attitude and if we supported our country and its products better we would understand them more. If the situation was reversed I imagine the Sun would have a field day. I am a proud Englishman which does not stop me admiring my equivalents in France.
Who's Next?
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Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 13:53 - Aug 8 with 1239 views
Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 13:46 - Aug 8 by R_from_afar
Ami 8? Hey my mate had one. What a machine! Golf ball gear shift, no synchromesh between first and second. We had to pull over on a hill so he could stop, put it into first, and restart. A feat of garlic err I mean Gallic engineering!
+1 to liking France and the French. I've friends who in their early 30's moved out to rural Burgundy. I've found the people their to be extremely friendly, welcoming, fun and they have a great standard of living (not masses of possessions, but good food, fun, nice pace of life etc)
As to the original posting / point it is well known that Sky and Team GB have invested a huge amount in bike technology to give us an edge which is particularly evident in the Velodrome where its all about raw speed. That's not to take away from the coaching, fitness and application of all the cyclists which of course is a massive factor as well but when you are delaing in 10th and 100th of seconds the tech makes a difference
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Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 14:43 - Aug 8 with 1186 views
Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 13:28 - Aug 8 by rongould
I have it on very authority ( the late great Charlie Gillett) that whenever they had a kick-about. Mr. Marley always wore a QPR shirt. Whether he ever went to LR is another question, but I think that we can claim him as a "fan"
Riding a motorbike in France is a much more pleasurable experience than in the UK.
Car/van/lorry etc drivers over there are considerate, observant and understanding and sometimes pull over almost into the verge to let you go by whereas here they try and drive YOU into the verge.... as happened to me yesterday, again.
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Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 14:53 - Aug 8 with 1171 views
Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 14:29 - Aug 8 by baz_qpr
+1 to liking France and the French. I've friends who in their early 30's moved out to rural Burgundy. I've found the people their to be extremely friendly, welcoming, fun and they have a great standard of living (not masses of possessions, but good food, fun, nice pace of life etc)
As to the original posting / point it is well known that Sky and Team GB have invested a huge amount in bike technology to give us an edge which is particularly evident in the Velodrome where its all about raw speed. That's not to take away from the coaching, fitness and application of all the cyclists which of course is a massive factor as well but when you are delaing in 10th and 100th of seconds the tech makes a difference
F1 racing is very much the same and also deals with very fine times and technology is updated season after season.
But unlike the whinging moaning French if a team is outdone in the technology department on the F1 circuit it rolls it's sleeves up and makes sure it's not done the next season.
The French have had 4 years to roll up their sleeves since the UK kicked eveyones arse in the velodrome in Beijing olympics. Invest some money and stop fcking moaning,French fckers.
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Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 15:03 - Aug 8 with 1156 views
I actually like the French too and have always found them quite friendly on my many trips there. even the legendary rude Parisian waiters were fine. We went for breakfast in one place and they'd run out of croissants. We looked a bit crestfallen, so he held up a finger and then jogged off. He disappeared round the corner and emerged a minute later, triumphantly waving two croissants in the air for us that h bought from a shop or nearby cafe.
It's funny, really, because if ever there was a nation similar to us, it's probably them, in terms of attitudes. Here's an interesting thing, though, if the roles were reversed and the Sun were to run that poll, would the results have been any different? I suspect not. And the French LOVE Wiggo - actually probably took him to their hearts before we did - as they did with Ellen MacArthur, who we basically ignored for SAILING AROUND THE WORLD SINGLE HANDED AT THE AGE OF ABOUT 21. I'd take that poll with a pinch of salt too.
Plus I've never got this garlic cr@p. Most meals I eat have garlic in them. It's a pretty vital ingredient to cooking, is it not?
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