GOT Country Discussion: France

[johnnydawg68]

I know I'm going to be in the minority here, but I love France and everything French. There's a reason the Germans have a saying about the good life. "To live like God. In France".

Retiring in Provence sounds like a super plan.

 

[LocalNative]

Preferred Germany to France. Too expensive in and around Paris.

 

[Allezfan]

Utterly despise the snobby, contrary, rude, smelly, sex obsessed, moaning, insect eating, work shy sociopaths as every good english man should.

 

[Tubey]

They really aren't pleasant people. I've tried to be nice to them but they have an automatic "annoy English people" mode that they switch on whenever around us.

If you try to be nice and adopt their language by saying the odd "merci" or whatever, they look at you like you've just called their mothers stony waste matter separated from metals during the smelting or refining of ore.

 

[Jib in lad]

Couldn't agree more , love the place and to retire to Provence would be a dream come true .

I'm going to make this happen BTW.

 

[roydo]

Know a few frenchies. Ones I have known are good lads.

Also nailed an absolutely lovely one on Jersey a few years back. There could be a Monsieur Roydo in St Malo for all I know!

 

[Moomin]

When Scotland jib us off next year, we should invade France and move the French to England.

We will have more room, better weather and we don't have to live next door to the jocks anymore.

 

[dholliday]

never really had an opinion on France, even tho' i've been there 4 times and had two (very nice) girlfriends who are french.

but as a country, it's just never seemed to click with anything within me.

 

[johnnydawg68]

They really aren't pleasant people. I've tried to be nice to them but they have an automatic "annoy English people" mode that they switch on whenever around us.

If you try to be nice and adopt their language by saying the odd "merci" or whatever, they look at you like you've just called their mothers stony waste matter separated from metals during the smelting or refining of ore.

Not my experience at all. They seem genuinely thrilled if you've taken the time to learn their language a bit. I think they get annoyed when the English and the Americanos come over there and just expect them to know English. Most of them do of course, but it's the assumption that bothers them.

 

[johnnydawg68]

Couldn't agree more , love the place and to retire to Provence would be a dream come true .

I'm going to make this happen BTW.

Well in Jib. We can get places near each other and pop down to the pub to watch Everton.

 

[obc]

No complaints here. Only been to Paris - six days worth over two trips - and can count on my thumbs the number of people who were actually rude. Simply trying to say a few phrases got me a smile at most places, and a few folks were downright friendly helpful.

Yeah, it was expensive - particularly the beer (which was "meh" at best to begin with) - but bread was awesome and cheap, as were gyros and crepes.

From my limited experience abroad, Italians were the warmest, friendliest people we encountered, and we found the locals in Munich to be the most absolutely helpful. It's like the Chamber of Commerce or Department of Tourism pays the locals to find tourists scratching their heads and immediately go out of their way to help the visitors. No complaints about the Frenchies, though, aside from the one woman working at the wine shop on Blvd Saint Michel...

 

[Jib in lad]

Well in Jib. We can get places near each other and pop down to the pub to watch Everton.

It would be boss mate .

 

[johnnydawg68]

No complaints here. Only been to Paris - six days worth over two trips - and can count on my thumbs the number of people who were actually rude. Simply trying to say a few phrases got me a smile at most places, and a few folks were downright friendly helpful.

Yeah, it was expensive - particularly the beer (which was "meh" at best to begin with) - but bread was awesome and cheap, as were gyros and crepes.

From my limited experience abroad, Italians were the warmest, friendliest people we encountered, and we found the locals in Munich to be the most absolutely helpful. It's like the Chamber of Commerce or Department of Tourism pays the locals to find tourists scratching their heads and immediately go out of their way to help the visitors. No complaints about the Frenchies, though, aside from the one woman working at the wine shop on Blvd Saint Michel...

I remember trying out my schoolboy french on a waiter, and he just smiled and said "It's ok, you can speak English".

 

[Ralphie Boy]

Bail them out in two world wars and they **** us over with mad cow disease, says it all really, horrible people with a **** attitude and more arrogant than Germans, nuke em!!!!!!!!

 

[johnnydawg68]

Bail them out in two world wars and they **** us over with mad cow disease, says it all really, horrible people with a **** attitude and more arrogant than Germans, nuke em!!!!!!!!

Don't hold back Ralphie.