Please, pray for France.🙏🏻🔥
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Tbh, i have traveled the world a lot and i am not rich. Ive always hated the disdain the french have for middle class Americans.
They know how to spot us and take pleasure in making us feel like rubes in their "sophisticated" country.
We kicked their ass in wine.
All the old grand cru wine families send their kids to California to learn how to make wine.
Fuck them.
I could go on and on about how we bettered them, but thing is?
I love a great french wine, but their pride is so great, they cannot appreciate us, today.
I've been to Paris twice and found the French people to be very hospitable. Two people helped us find our hotel when they noticed we looked lost, despite the fact they didn't speak a word of English. The key is to not barge into their country like entitled Americans. It doesn't matter how much French you know, or how badly you mangle it, they appreciate your efforts. I visited a church and wanted to buy a book in their bookshop. I spoke to the woman in French and she helped me out. I told her up front that I only spoke a little French, and not very well at that. At the end of our transaction, she took me over to the postcard rack and picked out two postcards showing the patron saints of the church and just gave them to me, saying that I spoke French very well. I knew it wasn't true, but I appreciated her gesture.
Sometimes in life, you get back exactly what you give.
Well-stated. That's been my experience as well the one time I visited Paris. My parents went there once or twice many years ago as well. We all felt the city was beautiful and interesting in so many ways and the French people were pleasant and lovely. I've heard the same kind of disparaging remarks made about Canadians and, again, my visits there in the past showed my "neighbors to the north" to also be lovely, nice, helpful, etc.
For the record, I've been there on two separate occasions.
Maybe, i am the bad man then. I just do not think so.
Thanks for your honesty, Fren, even though I think it was most tasteless to answer a request for prayers by uttering some off-topic insults to French people in general because of some bad interactions with a few assholes. Just keep these for the General Discussion thread.🙏🏻
Thanks for your concern Fren, my house here is in a hamlet 5km far from Cluny: unless cows riot, I won’t be bothered.🙏🏻
Dont ever underestimate cows! LoL!! Be safe, fren… thoughts and prayers with you!
Nah, i was spot on.
You're not setting a good example there bud. You complain about the French disdain for US middle class, but express great disdain for them. How are you any better?