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I wish some of you lot would stop having a go at french people.....do you know them ?, apart from the crap our media put out about them....to me it is very irritating to see diagreements that can be resolved over a period of time between governments turn into a slanging match .....those who doubt the courage french people showed during the second world war should go to the museums and shrines dedicated to the resistance......I don't think that some of the televised prats on so called comedy shows help that much except inflame anti-european ideas !.

RF - its a 2 way street. I personally have had many excellent holidays in France over the years and find the French (once outside Paris) very hospitable.

One thing that separates us from most nations, is our ability to laugh at ourselves.

Q. What does a French military alliance and a French romance have in common?
A. Both are brief, sordid, and completely meaningless.


And for French - substitute any nation you wish !

Of course we are different...cultures etc....but being just plain nasty is not on !....by both sides....at the moment europe as a whole is in deep trouble and it will take a lot of pulling together from all sides to get things back in shape.....skinny...get a life....love the little cartoon figures stan......I'm not good enough at the internet to be able to do that....

RF,

Post 46,

I agree with your sentiments.

Once outside the major European municipalities cities have always found the majority of the population much of a muchness with ourselves.

Also, been surprised by their hospitality and how often they have gone out their ways to be helpful.

If you were referring to "Allo Allo" program, when I first saw it, I winced, but later did find it very funny.

Some of the French who told me the has seen the series, said that they had also found it very funny.

Also, a simple "Hello" often broke the ice.

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Last year, my grandchildren and parents stayed with my wife and self on a campsite in the Dordogne for three weeks.
For me, it was very pleasant to see the children of various nationalities (German. French, Dutch, Belgian, etc.) all playing happily together and the parents also being mutually helpful.

But there was low level banter without animosity.

Also interesting, to note how well the parents and offspring spoke and understood English compared with my own stuttering French.

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To get out of the economic mess we are in within the next 12-18mths, we need Europe to do it. I am sceptical whether Europe needs us.

Trying to lay down rules and hoping to plunder Europe to satisfy UK "independence" rightly grates.
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Also I am fed up with paying exchange rates and charges on purchases from Europe and the same must apply to those in the Euro-zone dealing with the UK.
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Some in the UK are celebrating the fall in value of the Euro. Marvellous for me, and my next holiday, but the effect on our exports. Umhh.

A good post from RichGit on another mm



Merkel prefers to push Euroland into recession than lose Her position
of power.

She may yet even make Gordon Brown look intelligent,as the costs of Her
clinging to power will no doubt be remembered far longer than Gordie`s,in their immensity and consequence


How long can the other Pantomime member. watch the Carnage as the loss
of His AAA rating must be looming ever faster.

Seems we have the same panic selling of all assets for cash as in 2008
as some Market players face huge losses.,and sell their Gold positions.

Cycles & re-cycles

Fred1new....I thought the same about Allo-Allo, the first time round but...just like you got to love the series !.....for british exports : a cheap pound must be helping....bought a car in calais 12 years ago : 1.54 euros to the pound was the rate then...just shows.....

RF,

You must have been in Calais the same time as me.

I remember it well.

8-)

Alds,

With the present strength of the German economy Angela and the German people are for the moment well off inside or outside the Euro-zone.

The Euro going down benefits German export and economy for a while, but the benefit of devaluation is momentary.

Unlike, you I think Merkel thinks not only of her political position, her country, but also Europe as a unit.

This will be for the longterm good for Germany and Europe.

In this country, we see a political leader, who thinks of what is opportune to his own immediate needs and his "here to-day gone to-morrow friends" and city backers.

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Look at the recent economic figures, forecast and trends, if you think these support a little englander's isolationist plunder policy, I would suggest you review it.

I think, the long term future of the UK is accepting that it is within Europe and part of it.


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Back to bread making, of far more immediate importance. So my wife says.

Unlike, you I think Merkel thinks not only of her political position, her country, but also Europe as a unit.

Right- Europe under her control, with the little french poodle on her lap. The euro is unworkable and we are best out of it. Period.

Just had a Christmas card from a mate of mine.

He and his wife are selling up and moving to live on the Rue Pasteur, Lamagistere, France.

I did a Google Maps search on it to see what it is like and in the process happened across the following 'XLS file' on the Internet. The personal data that is insecure on it is amazing! It looks as though it is something to do with free Online file sharing and storage with a site called 4shared.

Search for 'export2.xls' and see what I mean.

Are you sure the file is not a virus or something funny???

AVG Antivirus say it is fine and quite OK to open.

The world is flat, the cheque is in the post.................................

Fred wrote :Last year, my grandchildren and parents stayed with my wife and self on a campsite in the Dordogne for three weeks.
For me, it was very pleasant to see the children of various nationalities (German. French, Dutch, Belgian, etc.) all playing happily together and the parents also being mutually helpful.

Mean while in another part of Disney Land , sorry ment Euro Land.

It is not right that black people go to countries like England and take over whole cities with their own cultures and languages. That is not tolerated here.



The English fans have a reputation for hooliganism and our boys are ready to fight them.

There have been racist attacks in Kiev not killings, just serious beatings and I cannot guarantee that won't happen when the English come to Kiev.

A lot of the hooligans like me are supporters of the Svoboda Party and agree with their view that people should stay in their own lands.

It is not right that black people go to countries like England and take over whole cities with their own cultures and languages. That is not tolerated here.

Right-wing gangs in Kiev were at the centre of street battles in which travelling Scottish fans were injured there in 2008.

Meanwhile in Donetsk more than 4,000 police will throw three rings of steel around the city's 51,000-seat Donbass Arena stadium for two of our qualifiers.

But yobs are already laying plans to pick off drunk or unwary Three Lions followers who wander away from the protective cordon.

Hooligan ringleader Valdik whose gang, known as "Za Boys", is glorified on its own website insisted neo-Nazi influence was not as strong as in Kiev. But he warned that a 700-strong army of thugs is preparing a violent welcome. He said:

England fans may not appreciate our welcome if we catch them alone without the police to protect them.

Fulham fans came here a couple of years ago and 20 of us took on 100 of them. We had no weapons just fists but they looked at us as though we had Kalashnikovs and refused to fight.

We are hoping for better sport when the famous England hooligans come next summer.

'Well alds, you know where to go for your summer holidays.

Mind if you leant to speak a few different languages you could join some of the other groups other than the BNP.

If you repeat that lie ,that am a member of the BNP i will sue you for libel. You are a hypocrite. You are just the same as those SUN reporters who printed lie's about Christopher Jefferies.

And we all know how you got on your high horse about that.

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Fitch, the American ratings agency, concluded that a "comprehensive solution" to the eurozone crisis was "technically and politically beyond reach" and warned that France could lose its AAA rating next year.

Oh dear, is that why the French are suddenly so sensitive?