| Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys 11:26 - Aug 8 with 8188 views | real_loftus |
24,000 French have voted in an on-line poll/pole in L'Equipe, regarding Team GB's success in the cycling.
Currently, 73% feel the results have been "tainted by cheating"-
http://www.lequipe.fr/qdj/2671
(You may want to use Google translate)
Unbelievable Jeff!
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| Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 12:03 - Aug 9 with 769 views | baz_qpr |
| Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 11:50 - Aug 9 by londonscottish |
Hi Eric, sounds like a good summary.
Here are a couple of additonal points
Food; when I first went to France in the late 80's it's fair to say the standard of food in the UK was pretty appalling just about anywhere outside of a top restaurant whereas decent food was available just about anywhere in France. 25 years on I'd say food in England has improved beyond all recognition in terms of quality and variety and I'd say France has fallen behind, especially in terms of what you can expect at a fairly basic rural cafe/bar/restaurant. I'm not talking about whet people cook in their own homes, just what's available out and about
Families; the French have this one cracked - staying with French familes and eating with them is a lesson in spending very long periods of time eating all manner of carefully selected and prepared food. World class.
Cycling; we've got magic round wheels. |
I'd have to disagree with that re food, maybe in a cafe / fast food place, but in my experience and its quite limited to Burgundy pretty much every village of 100 or more properties will have a brasserie that is as good if not better than the best English / Modern European restaurant in a UK town of 100,000 or more.
We have great variety, and yes its miles better than what it was and our very top restaurants compete, but at the middle level the pish all over us on that front |  | | |
| Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 12:35 - Aug 9 with 754 views | willis1980 |
| Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 11:26 - Aug 9 by ericgen34 |
For what it's worth, here are my general feelings about both our countries
England:
For:
- QPR
- English popular culture (music and comedy the main one)
- London (best city in the world by miles)
- Real ale, anything to do with pubs
- The food (yes, I love sunday roast, curries and the fact that you can eat any type of food anywhere)
- Universities
- English people
Against:
- The monarchy
- the class system
- Little englandism
- Them and us attitude
- English countryside
- bigotry
France:
For:
- The way of life
- The unruliness (we just don't follow any orders)
- The food - real fresh fruits, you havent tasted a peach if you havent had one round here
- The wine
- The country side
- It's a republic
Against:
- Paris, beautiful but horrible to live in
- The national front
- The bureaucracy
- The elitist culture and shit popular culture
- The education system
I'm sure I could go on in all categories... |
not a fan of the monarchy personally, but i found this quite interesting:
Queen Beatrix the costliest monarch in Europe but French president the costliest head of state
Queen Beatrix costs more money than any other monarch in Europe although she's way
Queen Beatrix and the entire Dutch royal family are the most expensive royal family in Europe at a cost of £31 million a year paid for by the Dutch taxpayers.
However, it was revealed that the most expensive head of state in all of Europe was not a king or queen but a president! Matthijs’ group had found out that it costs the French people more to finance their president than they would had they been a monarchy. The country’s head of state, Francois Hollande, costs £87.2 million annually, a sum thrice the cost of keeping the Dutch House of Orange.
The report was made by Herman Matthijs, professor of administrative science and public finances at Ghent University, who found out that the cost of British monarchy, known for its transparency when it comes to its finances had been cut by 16 per cent to £29.7 million last year compared to £35.5 million the past two years.
Meanwhile, Queen Beatrix raked £30.7 million, £14 million of which were spent on personal allowances. This is quadruple the amount that the Spanish royal family had received. Spain in fact is at heart of the Europe’s debt crisis.
Queen Beatrix has made it known that she has no plans on cost cutting, while the Spanish royals have already agreed on a 7 percent pay cut. |  | | |
| Filthy, garlic munching surrender monkeys on 12:45 - Aug 9 with 744 views | willis1980 |
surely if the monarchy were abolished the likes of candy & candy, st georges would do their best to gentrify everywhere and hike property prices up | | | |
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