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Offline funkedup

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« on: October 10, 2002, 05:32:15 AM »
Are getting kind of old.

Read this if you have doubts about bravery of French soldiers:  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/030681157X
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Offline Dowding (Work)

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« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2002, 05:43:35 AM »
Agree 100%, FunkedUp.

You only need to look to WW1 to see French bravery in the face of idiotic orders from an idiotic higher command.

Same goes for the early days of WW2.

Also, read any account of French partisan action against the Nazis and you'll see bravery is not a thing that can be attributed (or not attributed, as in this case) to one nation or another.
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« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2002, 06:27:47 AM »
They'd have to be brave to walk around everyday not wearing deodorant and reeking of B.O.
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Offline straffo

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« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2002, 06:32:25 AM »
it's just old ... if used as a tongue in cheek (I hope I use it right :)) I can laught otherwise I just forget it in the instant ...

And now I'm used to it as I know what happened in real ...


What bother me more is when some ignorant use it ...
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« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2002, 06:35:35 AM »
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Originally posted by Raubvogel
They'd have to be brave to walk around everyday not wearing deodorant and reeking of B.O.



After seeing this kind of remark more than thousand time I don't find it anymore humorous ...

Be kind try to find something new

btw my sens of humour is seriously lacking since the 'Handle' affair
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Offline miko2d

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« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2002, 07:53:05 AM »
All french surrender jokes I've heard refer not to the soldiers but to the french civilians who are in charge of politics.

 When a soldier is in charge of french nation, it's quite the opposite - if the last historical example is any indication they just keep attacking everyone in sight until they run out of males to draft.

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« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2002, 08:55:35 AM »
Looks like a good read...thanks Funked, it's otw to me now.


SOB

PS...French surrender jokes will NEVER get old.
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« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2002, 09:05:51 AM »
Sorry but a joke is a joke.

Now that being said there IS taking a joke to far AND sometimes a joke is said at the wrong time.

Most people here have a good sense of humor AND they know when to kid someone and when not to.

I did say most not all!
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« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2002, 09:10:10 AM »
ya know... I never really thought about the jokes being about french soldiers.   I allways felt it was about their government.   I also feel that any joke about french govenment is probly not mean spirited enough.
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Offline straffo

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« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2002, 09:12:43 AM »
I agree , as we say in France  "on peut rire de tout mais pas avec tout le monde"(mean something like : we can laugh about anything but not with everyone ...)

it depend of the context and of the reader mood at the time he read the message...

Actually I'm a bit humour impared because of over work ...
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« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2002, 09:12:46 AM »
I wouldn't worry about it Straffo. It just shows their complete lack of knowledge of military history. Napoleon and his Frenchmen even gave the British a run for their money.

Austerlitz was one of the greatest victories ever won by any general, anywhere.
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« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2002, 09:39:57 AM »
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Originally posted by SOB


PS...French surrender jokes will NEVER get old.


Hear hear!

I think I'll change my sig to

French Battlecry: "We Surrender!" *


*Credit to Raubvogel
« Last Edit: October 10, 2002, 09:42:22 AM by UserName »
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Offline Dowding (Work)

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« Reply #12 on: October 10, 2002, 10:01:40 AM »
For a long while, the battlecry was 'Vive l'Empereur'. And the troops that shouted it would have beaten anything put in front of them, into a bloody pulp.
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« Reply #13 on: October 10, 2002, 10:03:05 AM »
What ever happened to that Emperor, pray tell?

Cheese-eating surrender monkey sympathiser.
« Last Edit: October 10, 2002, 10:06:25 AM by UserName »
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« Reply #14 on: October 10, 2002, 10:07:18 AM »
"Mont joye saint denis" was used previoulsy


"Dieu et mon droit" anyone  ;) ?
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