French hospitality??
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7270401.stm

Is this guy a total idiot or are the French that unfriendly to hard up foreigners (or both) ?

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I think the guy is an idiot.

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He's gone quite a good way to proving why civilisation had to invent money as concept, really. Not sure that was what he set out to do, but it's an achievement of sorts...

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I think he would have been ok if he had language skills.

The way I see it, if you have money you can get along just fine not knowing the language, money talks.

If he had the language, he could have atleast explained what he was trying to do, and he might have found (some) people sympathetic - but what he did was doomed to fail, from the start, making him an idiot.

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But "If you speak slow enough, and loud enough, they usually understand" is all the language skills an Englishman abroad should need, isn't it? :D

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Don't forget hand gestures when doing difficult words

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It also helps if you speak English with a French accent apparently.

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Absolute Muppet!

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and don't forget to go 'Ohh la la' and 'oh-hew-oh-hew-hon' after every other sentence

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The French do historically have a problem with the English going over there and telling them they don't need money. This was usually because the English were looting the place of money at the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_year_war

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That's Welsh isn't it ?



:D

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Well I'm sure the French have and continue to do their own fair share of that ;)

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Completely Agree!

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Could be - I know many languages - I am a cunning linguist...

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i suggest we go to war with france.
we create some jobs (we need people to point guns)
we free up houses (people die)
we show the filthy johnny foreigner dogs what its like to mess with us!
it shouldnt take to long before we see them run up the national flag
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That'd have more mileage if we weren't already mired in conflicts around the world.... :)

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If he thinks that learning a little French is going to help him, what's he going to do when he hits another country with another language? Come back home in defeat again?

There used to be a Vagabond Law in France where anyone found with no money could be arrested....

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Absolutely hilarious :rofl:.

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The thing is French people in Calais are sick to death of Brits and act accordingly. Its only natural as it happens in most places that get a heavy influx of foreigners - the natives grow to resent them. If he perseveres beyond Calais, I think he'll find the situation very different.

I went on a coach trip to Calais when I was young, and the hosility displayed to me and my friends was really offensive. I swore I never wanted to go back. but after the missus got some cheap Eurostar tickets, I relented to go to Paris and it was quite different, despite Parisians also sick to death of Brits. It was almost pleasurable.

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As my old guvnor used to say, " If you cant take a joke you shouldn't have joined "

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My old guvnor used to say 'If you want to feel free, feel funky'. but then he was pretty odd.

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What did funky think about it?

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Yeah and apparently that was quickly repealed when they realised it was hindering asylum seekers, economic migrants et al on their way through France to the land of milk and honey. :)

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Had you let slip you were a moderator then ? ;);)

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Elephants.



He was quite strange too.

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Funky was the office bicycle then I guess ? :p:

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Oh and numbers, course then you get to stick two fingers up to them :D

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are the french unfriendly imo yes , do they speak English? they seem to manage to when there country is being invaded by fascists and they need help.:rolleyes:

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Try German first, that often gets them speaking English

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i see you've met my mum on holiday then, her language skills are a tad embarrassing ie [ you understandee me wantee fry upee brekee] etc :D

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My uncle, who left school at 14, was over in france with his family who could all speak french.
His wife taught him how to ask for 3 cokes, a beer, a glass of wine, and where are the toilets.
So he goes up to the barman and says his piece.
A blank look and "Pardon?" come back.
So he goes through the phrases all over again.
The barman looks blank, then bursts out grinning, and in a strong London accent says "You ain't from round 'ere are ya?" :D

He'd moved over to France 10 years before to run the pub.

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You're a funny Fella - Tio Pepe your drink? :erm:

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Hmm i am intrigued by this freeconomy can you really be that collectively stupid and not be locked up. How the hell does he plan to learn french walking around the coastline of the UK. Well i bid him well in torquay i got drunk one night fell asllep on what at the time seemed lovely little benches only to be woken by a policeman with a truncheon asking me to move on. I had heard they were redoing the muppet show never realised they had done away with the puppets.

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Yeah, scramble the bomber! knew that Vulcan would come in handy one of these days. Just need something to drop out of it - I suggest Tony Blair.

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I suggest a dual payload of Tony 'n Gordon....

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I wouldn't inflict either of them two on any nation even as payload.

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Actually by chance I think you may have stumbled across the manner by which Britain can re-establish its global empire and dominate the world. Surely all we have to do is drop the likes of Bliar, Prescott, Vaz, Mandelson, Straw, Harman, Brown, Darling, Hain, Robinson, Clarke, Reid, Hewitt, Blunkett, Cook, Jowell, etc etc etc etc at strategic locations across the globe and we will inherit the Earth............



:)

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Quite. Another useful phrase would be: Please kindly give me a visa to your country for free. I know you normally charge around £20, but I forgot to bring my Credit Card (and my razor, toothbrush, and soap).

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total prat,idiot,moron,:erm:

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didn't some one try something similar in the late 1930s ;)

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So she speaks fluent Chinese then papa lol?

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And how many tongues can you say that in? :D

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I have to say I remember when he was interviewed on the Today programme on R4, I thought to myself "he won't get far..."

Having seen that photo, it's not hard to see why really.