Author Topic: French bashing (Read 822 times)

Hangtime · « **Reply #30 on:** May 28, 2005, 12:40:04 AM »

because all the nancy-boy spitfire handles were taken?

.. just guessing.

Rino · « **Reply #31 on:** May 28, 2005, 12:43:54 AM »

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Originally posted by spitfiremkv
Actually, I read somewhere that the guy who put most terrorists behind bars is a French judge. So yeah, I'd rather have France as an ally in the war on terror.

You pick the allies you want, I'll pick the ones I want. I'll
take the Brits over the French any day of the week. YMMV.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #32 on:** May 28, 2005, 12:45:51 AM »

Wait Wait! Wait!!

Frenchy is ..........French???

Hangtime · « **Reply #33 on:** May 28, 2005, 12:56:28 AM »

You should hear him on comms. Christ.. I die laffin about it still.

Nicest guy you'd ever wanna meet.

Frenchy!

Dago · « **Reply #34 on:** May 28, 2005, 01:26:04 AM »

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Originally posted by spitfiremkv
and may I ask why your name is a slur for Italians?

Sure, you can ask.

Dago · « **Reply #35 on:** May 28, 2005, 01:29:01 AM »

Oh heck, I'll play along:

Dago comes from the Spanish given name Diego. Its nautical in origin and originally referred to Spanish or Portuguese sailors on English or American ships. This usage dates to the 1830s. The meaning eventually broadened to include anyone from southern Europe, before narrowing again and restricting usage to Italians. The sense meaning Italian dates to at least the 1870s.

The term "Dago" by those who understand the correct context know that "Dago" in and of itself wasn't an insult or slur, but used in phrase such as "dumb Dago" would be accepted to mean "dumb Italian".

Somehow I am not surprised you had to ask and didn't understand the historical beginning, actual meaning or the way it became associated as a slur.

But then, based on your posts, you don't appear to me to be to bright or learned. Thanks for highlighting that for everyone to see.

dago

Saintaw · « **Reply #36 on:** May 28, 2005, 01:33:48 AM »

France... whutsat?

Dago · « **Reply #37 on:** May 28, 2005, 01:38:39 AM »

Q: Why is the wearing of undergarments not as common in France as in other countries?

A: Because almost all of the available white cloth material is used making surrender flags.

Q: Why do French tanks have a rear view mirror?

A: So they can see the battle

dago

beet1e · « **Reply #38 on:** May 28, 2005, 03:52:03 AM »

Hi Dago! Hmmm - could be time for some more America bashing, as you have shown your inability/refusal to keep your side of our bargain.

moot · « **Reply #39 on:** May 28, 2005, 03:58:37 AM »

How to make a belgian go ape****:
Drop him in a spherical room, telling him there's a fry hidden in a corner.

Momus-- · « **Reply #40 on:** May 28, 2005, 04:19:20 AM »

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Originally posted by Dago
The French idea of a terrorist is someone who forces others to drink red wine with fowl.

The French were fighting violent islamism years before the issue was even on the USA's radar.

The French have a record of arresting, trying and convicting islamic extremists superior to any other european nation and far in advance of that of the US.

The french intelligence services have arguably the best human intel setup in the middle east after Israel. The DGSE had agents within the Iraqi regime prior to the recent invasion who warned against exactly the type of insugency we are seeing currently.

France has a good record of cooperating with its allies in counter terrorism; good examples would be with Spain against ETA and with the UK against the IRA. The US on the other hand tolerated for decades extreme irish republicans fundraising on behalf of the IRA within US borders out of pure domestic political expediency.

Lazerus · « **Reply #41 on:** May 28, 2005, 04:53:19 AM »

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Originally posted by moot
How to make a belgian go ape****:
Drop him in a spherical room, telling him there's a fry hidden in a corner.

got yer email, i'll get back with ya

Habu · « **Reply #42 on:** May 28, 2005, 06:03:34 AM »

The French president lied to Bush and to the public about the war in Iraq.
President Jacques Chirac had personally told President George W. Bush well ahead of time that France would be at America’s side.

France urged Saddam to commit genocide.
Saddam launched his genocidal campaign against the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq to make their region “safe” for French oil engineers.

France helped build Saddam’s long-range missiles and nukes.
Based on exclusive access to new documents, provided by Iraq to the United Nations — that French defense companies were key partners in helping Saddam Hussein perfect the long-range missiles that killed U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia in 1991 and rained terror onto Israel.

Chirac has blocked cooperation on a high-profile terrorism case.
France’s top counter-terrorism judge was ordered to stop cooperating with the United States in the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui despite mounds of documents that would have helped the United States to convict Moussaoui of conspiracy to commit mass murder.

France illegally sold U.S. military secrets to Saddam Hussein.
A prominent French defense company shipped U.S.-designed laser designator pods to Iraq in the 1980s that compromised the most high-tech weapons in the U.S. arsenal.

President Chirac almost went to jail for corruption.
Chirac was on the verge of getting indicted on corruption charges in 1999 until he cooked up an immunity deal with the head of the French Supreme Court, former Socialist foreign minister Roland Dumas. While the French corruption scandals are well known in France, they have rarely been reported in the United States and will alternately shock and amuse American readers.

straffo · « **Reply #43 on:** May 28, 2005, 07:32:23 AM »

^ dumkopf