http://faerye.net/post/foutez-moi-la-paix-heinComments on "Foutez-moi la paix, hein?" - Faerye Net2004-11-09T16:11:18+00:00http://faerye.net/post/foutez-moi-la-paix-hein#comment-1516Re: Yay France2004-11-09T16:11:18+00:002004-11-09T16:11:18+00:00<p>Oh, hey … French Toast, is most definately not a French Invention. It, in reality, was created to insult the French’s cooking. It’s slopped together “junk” as some would say, and is not half as creative as the French make their food (it’s an art over there!!). So, never compliment the French for their “French Toast”, they’ll think you may be insulting them.<br />
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How do I know this? 6th grade mini-course cooking class.</p>Franglaishttp://faerye.net/post/foutez-moi-la-paix-hein#comment-1429Re: Nice!2004-10-05T10:44:57+00:002004-10-05T10:44:57+00:00<p>Hee! Thanks for dropping by. And maybe you should be thanking the Republican in the bumper-stickered Yukon for gettin’ me all riled up!</p>felicityhttp://faerye.net/post/foutez-moi-la-paix-hein#comment-1428Nice!2004-10-05T10:26:08+00:002004-10-05T10:26:08+00:00<p>Hello,<br />
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I actually wound up here following your link from an RPG.Net post – but I wanted to tell you that this little rant (in a good way) is one of the best things I’ve read in months :D Thanks for posting it!</p>mookhttp://faerye.net/post/foutez-moi-la-paix-hein#comment-1419Re: You made my Thursday!2004-09-30T16:43:01+00:002004-09-30T16:43:01+00:00<p>HEE HEE HEE! Hello Bon-bon! Hugs back, and I’m dreadfully sorry you are such a burnt-out grad student! Hope I can distract - I mean, AMUSE - you for a while with my stuff and nonsense. Welcome!</p>felicityhttp://faerye.net/post/foutez-moi-la-paix-hein#comment-1418You made my Thursday!2004-09-30T15:17:36+00:002004-09-30T15:17:36+00:00<p>Fel! OMG! This is the bestest! I’m excited to explore more. Anyhow, hugs for you. I sent you a snail mail today so I won’t bore you here. (Well, at least don’t tell me if I do…) Oh, and I took that Nat’l Geog survey, but it didn’t tell me how well I did! I wouldn’t be a proper grad student if I didn’t expect someone else to keep track of stuff for me, now would I? :-) The funny part (well, sad, I suppose) is that when I clicked the submit button I didn’t pay attention to what I had answered on the previous page. Can you say burnout???</p>lindseyhttp://faerye.net/post/foutez-moi-la-paix-hein#comment-1417Re: John Kerry and France2004-09-30T08:49:43+00:002004-09-30T08:49:43+00:00<p>Well, yes, I won’t argue that France is the jolliest place in the world. For one thing, there’s a reason it was a FRENCH woman who said, “There are two kinds of people in the world: human beings and women.” In France, you really do feel that difference in the way you are treated, every single day. There are other things off about France, too, but as an angry little post-feminist thinker, that’s pretty damn annoying!</p>felicityhttp://faerye.net/post/foutez-moi-la-paix-hein#comment-1416Re: John Kerry and France2004-09-29T23:01:15+00:002004-09-29T23:01:15+00:00<p>Well, I do read the CBN every day!<br />
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(Well, really it was just near the top of the results on Google and illustrated my point.)<br />
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I like what Eddie Izzard says about the French: “I like the French, but they can be kind of French”. Personally, though, the few French people I have met have been very nice people, and, as far as I know, have never bombed any major cities.</p>meephttp://faerye.net/post/foutez-moi-la-paix-hein#comment-1415Re: John Kerry and France2004-09-29T14:12:46+00:002004-09-29T14:12:46+00:00<p><strong>blink</strong> Good info, meepster. Lovely spin on the facts from the Christian Broadcasting Network though. :) <br />
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I’m afraid I still assume, however, that they meant French in the new meaning of ‘decadent soft-on-terror surrender monkey’. I’ve heard far too many right-wingers go on and on about France being our biggest obstacle to an effective War on Terror, “maybe we should invade France next, they wouldn’t put up a fight”, “You Democrats would turn our foreign policy decisions over to Chirac,” blah blah blah, to imagine such a nuanced meaning was meant. Certainly there wouldn’t be many people out there who would know your French Kerry factoid. You are unusually well-informed, my friend.</p>felicityhttp://faerye.net/post/foutez-moi-la-paix-hein#comment-1414John Kerry and France2004-09-29T12:08:37+00:002004-09-29T12:08:37+00:00<p>I don’t think that the bumper sticker chose France because it is the “cesspool of the Earth”, but rather because John Kerry, apparently, has connections to France. I’d heard something about him being part French, and a google search turns up lots of results. According to <a href="http://www.cbn.com/CBNNews/News/040601a.asp">this article</a>, he’s not part French himself, but has connections.</p>meephttp://faerye.net/post/foutez-moi-la-paix-hein#comment-1413Re: Yay France2004-09-29T11:43:32+00:002004-09-29T11:43:32+00:00<p><strong>blink</strong> Wonko, wonko. If I digressed into food (I dunno if French Toast is ACTUALLY French, by the by) we would have been here all day. And I’d have lost my sharp ranty focus in a haze of butter and brioche.</p>felicityhttp://faerye.net/post/foutez-moi-la-paix-hein#comment-1412Yay France2004-09-29T10:22:59+00:002004-09-29T10:22:59+00:00<p>How can you have a discussion about the greatness of France without mentioning the greatest breakfast food ever invented? French Toast!</p>wonko