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Osem	29-02-2008 13:08

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) ?

Mr_love_monkey

29-02-2008 13:09

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Originally Posted by Osem (Post 34497885)

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) ?

I think the guy is an idiot.

BBKing

29-02-2008 13:33

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I think the guy is an idiot.

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...

Mr_love_monkey

29-02-2008 13:38

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Originally Posted by BBKing (Post 34497901)

He's gone quite a good way to proving why civilisation had to invent money as concept, really.

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.

Xaccers

29-02-2008 13:56

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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

v0id	29-02-2008 14:02

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"...not only did no one not speak the language, they had also seen us as just a bunch of freeloading backpackers..."

Yeah, people thought you were a bunch of freeloaders because you are.
It'll be no different if they were to try it around here either, except begging here is a criminal offence.

Mr_love_monkey

29-02-2008 14:09

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Originally Posted by Xaccers (Post 34497912)

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

Don't forget hand gestures when doing difficult words

danielf

29-02-2008 14:11

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Originally Posted by Xaccers (Post 34497912)

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

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

webcrawler2050

29-02-2008 14:15

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Absolute Muppet!

Mr_love_monkey

29-02-2008 14:16

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Originally Posted by danielf (Post 34497933)

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

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

BBKing

29-02-2008 14:18

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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

Osem	29-02-2008 14:22

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Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey (Post 34497937)

and don't forget .... 'oh-hew-oh-hew-hon'

That's Welsh isn't it ?

:D

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Originally Posted by BBKing (Post 34497938)

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

Graham M

29-02-2008 14:27

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Originally Posted by v0id (Post 34497923)

Completely Agree!

Mr_love_monkey

29-02-2008 14:35

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Originally Posted by Osem (Post 34497939)

That's Welsh isn't it ?

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

SOSAGES

29-02-2008 14:37

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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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