French Losers
Hee hee.
For those that have never seen this little trick, type in 'french victories' into google and select the very first link and you'll find a great little spoof google search page.
God I love the French.
Ok, I can't back that up!
BV
God I love the French.
Ok, I can't back that up!
BV
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SLF - I was the air trafficker who had the pleasure of informing the Reds that we had won the bid and the flypast was a "go". You're right, they had spent some time lurking over East Anglia, slowly moving south, and were over Colchester at the time I passed the message.
That's my little claim to fame, anyway. Oh, and I've played piano with the Nolan Sisters, but that's a different story!
That's my little claim to fame, anyway. Oh, and I've played piano with the Nolan Sisters, but that's a different story!
And the French are NOT sore Losers
from Here
French cry foul over London's 2012 bid tactics
Thu 07 Jul, 3:12 PM
PARIS (Reuters) - French politicians, media and sports officials cried foul on Thursday over London's snatching of the 2012 Olympic Games from Paris, suggesting underhand tactics may have played a part.
Many congratulated London on its surprise victory. Others said they were convinced Paris's bid was better. Some said London had gone beyond the bounds of fair play.
"An injustice has been done to us by the IOC (International Olympic Committee) members. It's an affront to France," said Francis Luyce, head of France's swimming federation.
Paris bid chief Bertrand Delanoe, the city's mayor, questioned the tactics that helped London win Wednesday's vote in Singapore by the IOC.
"I am simply not sure that we (London and Paris) behaved in the same way as regards the rules of the competitition," he told Le Figaro newspaper.
"Our bid was excellent. Our state of mind was really appropriate to sport and the Olympic spirit. Other things brought London victory but I am not sure they are to do with sport."
London won the final vote at Wednesday's IOC session by 54 votes to 50.
"London, the miraculous survivor, led by the charismatic Sebastian Coe, knew how to work every tactic from aggressive marketing to pure rabble-rousing, promising a better a future to the underprivileged youth of the world," sports daily L'Equipe said.
"They overstepped the mark."
The popular Le Parisien newspaper said the Paris team had paid the price for trying to be irreproachable in its tactics.
"For two years London infringed the rules...but each time the IOC forgave the English," it said.
SECRET SERVICES AT PLAY?
Le Parisien said there had been rumours circulating that Britain had employed its secret services in some way to help the bid before reassuring readers there was no proof of this.
"I am incredulous because the French bid was without doubt better," said Bernard Ansalem, head of the French athletics federation.
Trying to explain Paris's third failed Oluympic bid in 20 years, many blamed France's inferior lobbying skills and declining political influence in the IOC and the wider world.
France lost out because of a strong U.S., British and Spanish alliance built around the group of nations who backed the U.S.-led war in Iraq, some suggested.
The dynamism of Prime Minister Tony Blair and London bid leader Sebastian Coe was also compared with the older-looking Paris team and unpopular President Jacques Chirac.
AP - More about the Nolans PLEASE
French cry foul over London's 2012 bid tactics
Thu 07 Jul, 3:12 PM
PARIS (Reuters) - French politicians, media and sports officials cried foul on Thursday over London's snatching of the 2012 Olympic Games from Paris, suggesting underhand tactics may have played a part.
Many congratulated London on its surprise victory. Others said they were convinced Paris's bid was better. Some said London had gone beyond the bounds of fair play.
"An injustice has been done to us by the IOC (International Olympic Committee) members. It's an affront to France," said Francis Luyce, head of France's swimming federation.
Paris bid chief Bertrand Delanoe, the city's mayor, questioned the tactics that helped London win Wednesday's vote in Singapore by the IOC.
"I am simply not sure that we (London and Paris) behaved in the same way as regards the rules of the competitition," he told Le Figaro newspaper.
"Our bid was excellent. Our state of mind was really appropriate to sport and the Olympic spirit. Other things brought London victory but I am not sure they are to do with sport."
London won the final vote at Wednesday's IOC session by 54 votes to 50.
"London, the miraculous survivor, led by the charismatic Sebastian Coe, knew how to work every tactic from aggressive marketing to pure rabble-rousing, promising a better a future to the underprivileged youth of the world," sports daily L'Equipe said.
"They overstepped the mark."
The popular Le Parisien newspaper said the Paris team had paid the price for trying to be irreproachable in its tactics.
"For two years London infringed the rules...but each time the IOC forgave the English," it said.
SECRET SERVICES AT PLAY?
Le Parisien said there had been rumours circulating that Britain had employed its secret services in some way to help the bid before reassuring readers there was no proof of this.
"I am incredulous because the French bid was without doubt better," said Bernard Ansalem, head of the French athletics federation.
Trying to explain Paris's third failed Oluympic bid in 20 years, many blamed France's inferior lobbying skills and declining political influence in the IOC and the wider world.
France lost out because of a strong U.S., British and Spanish alliance built around the group of nations who backed the U.S.-led war in Iraq, some suggested.
The dynamism of Prime Minister Tony Blair and London bid leader Sebastian Coe was also compared with the older-looking Paris team and unpopular President Jacques Chirac.
AP - More about the Nolans PLEASE
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Oi, Pilgrim! They may well have, but it wasn't me!
ZH875 - Oh, the years have clouded my memory! It was a long time ago... I was a mere ATCO cadet, moonlighting as a piano man in a nearby hostelry, when in they came! Such lovely girls... if I tell you any more I'll have to retain Max Clifford. Only this much - none of them got me pregnant!
ZH875 - Oh, the years have clouded my memory! It was a long time ago... I was a mere ATCO cadet, moonlighting as a piano man in a nearby hostelry, when in they came! Such lovely girls... if I tell you any more I'll have to retain Max Clifford. Only this much - none of them got me pregnant!
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For a collection of all the best of the London 2012 jokes .... try here http://www.rowingservice.com/London2012jokes/ (link provide thanks to my rowing mates).
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After going through that appalling display of human stupidity that some are happy to call banter such is their shame at being so grossly xenophobic, I must admit I am very proud of being French.
Chirac was very wrong in accusing English cuisine as to be fair it is utterly unjustified.
If you eat junk food in England, it is just because your wives are too lazy to cook properly for their kids and they much prefer sending them to boarding school than taking care of them.
And the men in this country have long given up their authority on the family (they probably never recovered from beeing defeated by that french girl). They much prefer to play Games, Wars, anything that will take them away from home.
Commenting on Fair Play, did you know this word was invented by the Brits to the exclusive use of any opponent they might encounter, for themselves they only resort to dirty tricks.
I think the Brits have never admitted to be just an ex French colony, after all Guillaume Le Conquerant was Norman but French too… This hatred of the old colonizer is fuelled everyday by the trash papers published in England as for a declining country like England it is so much better to put the blame on the foreigner than construct something positive.
I whish you the best for the Olympics and pleased you are going to foot the bill.
Chirac was very wrong in accusing English cuisine as to be fair it is utterly unjustified.
If you eat junk food in England, it is just because your wives are too lazy to cook properly for their kids and they much prefer sending them to boarding school than taking care of them.
And the men in this country have long given up their authority on the family (they probably never recovered from beeing defeated by that french girl). They much prefer to play Games, Wars, anything that will take them away from home.
Commenting on Fair Play, did you know this word was invented by the Brits to the exclusive use of any opponent they might encounter, for themselves they only resort to dirty tricks.
I think the Brits have never admitted to be just an ex French colony, after all Guillaume Le Conquerant was Norman but French too… This hatred of the old colonizer is fuelled everyday by the trash papers published in England as for a declining country like England it is so much better to put the blame on the foreigner than construct something positive.
I whish you the best for the Olympics and pleased you are going to foot the bill.
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I whish you the best for the Olympics and pleased you are going to foot the bill.
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Dave
Buy yourself a sense of humour. Who on this lighthearted thread mentioned the Holocaust you prat ? You really are sick if you can make such a perverted connection. Many on this forum put their lives on the line every day for their Country and to defend it against real threats, not the ones you go home and make up to justify lost ideals.
I suggest you edit that scandalous remark immediately !
Buy yourself a sense of humour. Who on this lighthearted thread mentioned the Holocaust you prat ? You really are sick if you can make such a perverted connection. Many on this forum put their lives on the line every day for their Country and to defend it against real threats, not the ones you go home and make up to justify lost ideals.
I suggest you edit that scandalous remark immediately !
Allez la France!
Weez your smelly cheeses, votre vin superbe, un system de transport qui marche, votre pouting mademoiselles tres jolie...
Qui sont meilleur que le slab du Cheddar, l' ale brune, les bus lanes de l'emmerdeur Prescott et le chemin du fer qui est bien bug.gered - et les fat slag ladettes horrible de l'Angleterre!
Sorry about le BSE, tant pis!
Et vive le Franglais!
Weez your smelly cheeses, votre vin superbe, un system de transport qui marche, votre pouting mademoiselles tres jolie...
Qui sont meilleur que le slab du Cheddar, l' ale brune, les bus lanes de l'emmerdeur Prescott et le chemin du fer qui est bien bug.gered - et les fat slag ladettes horrible de l'Angleterre!
Sorry about le BSE, tant pis!
Et vive le Franglais!
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Pilgrim101 -> how come some subjects are 'politically correct' and others not ?
how come a remark stating that the French people is a 'sub-race' compared to the American one isn't pointed at, by anybody ? I quote : " Sadly, the American fascination with personal hygiene (a fascination totally foreign to French women) incites widespread use of condoms by American soldiers, thus precluding any improvement in the French bloodline ..."
Isn't that apalling and scandalous too ?
Some would say : "hey, it's humour !! sheer banter !!"
and talking about cuisine... not the French eat marmite... berk...
how come a remark stating that the French people is a 'sub-race' compared to the American one isn't pointed at, by anybody ? I quote : " Sadly, the American fascination with personal hygiene (a fascination totally foreign to French women) incites widespread use of condoms by American soldiers, thus precluding any improvement in the French bloodline ..."
Isn't that apalling and scandalous too ?
Some would say : "hey, it's humour !! sheer banter !!"
and talking about cuisine... not the French eat marmite... berk...
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So you equate ripping gold teeth out of Holocaust victims with humorous rivalries with the French ? You do take yourselves very seriously in France. Anyway, if it hurts, you can always become European.
So you equate ripping gold teeth out of Holocaust victims with humorous rivalries with the French ? You do take yourselves very seriously in France. Anyway, if it hurts, you can always become European.
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I once happened to crack a joke about the British Royals in the presence of British friends of a French friend of mine living near London... I obviously had made a blunder...
just to say that what might sound funny for some might not for some others... and what begins with a touch of irony ends up with disrespectful and xenophobic remarks... that's all...
just to say that what might sound funny for some might not for some others... and what begins with a touch of irony ends up with disrespectful and xenophobic remarks... that's all...
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I apologise profusely for any offence I might have caused you Duckbutt (
) and I'll rush out and put a bouquet of flowers at the garish, mawkish memorial to the daft bint at Pont de l'Alma
) and I'll rush out and put a bouquet of flowers at the garish, mawkish memorial to the daft bint at Pont de l'Alma
Hmmmm...reckon it is around which bunch of Brits you make jokes about the Royals matters....some think the Royals are the joke. Poor ol' Jug Ears....battered by the media...but finally with his true love. Never mind the adulterous relationship issues...but what are mere wedding vows to the next King (assuming he lives longer than Mum).
Pilgrim....you must lighten up on the Wogs.....one should not be impolite to the disadvantaged. Now talk about jokes....the French and hygiene....yeah right!
Tasteless usually applies to English cooking as I recall....
Pilgrim....you must lighten up on the Wogs.....one should not be impolite to the disadvantaged. Now talk about jokes....the French and hygiene....yeah right!
Tasteless usually applies to English cooking as I recall....