29-02-2008, 13:09
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Re: French hospitality??
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I think the guy is an idiot.
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29-02-2008, 13:33
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Re: French hospitality??
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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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29-02-2008, 13:38
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Re: French hospitality??
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He's gone quite a good way to proving why civilisation had to invent money as concept, really.
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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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29-02-2008, 13:56
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Re: French hospitality??
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? 
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29-02-2008, 14:02
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Re: French hospitality??
"...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.
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29-02-2008, 14:09
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Re: French hospitality??
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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? |
Don't forget hand gestures when doing difficult words
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29-02-2008, 14:11
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Re: French hospitality??
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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? |
It also helps if you speak English with a French accent apparently.
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29-02-2008, 14:15
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Absolute Muppet!
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29-02-2008, 14:16
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Re: French hospitality??
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It also helps if you speak English with a French accent apparently.
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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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29-02-2008, 14:18
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Re: French hospitality??
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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29-02-2008, 14:22
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Re: French hospitality??
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and don't forget .... 'oh-hew-oh-hew-hon'
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That's Welsh isn't it ?
---------- Post added at 14:22 ---------- Previous post was at 14:21 ----------
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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 |
Well I'm sure the French have and continue to do their own fair share of that 
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29-02-2008, 14:27
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Re: French hospitality??
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Originally Posted by v0id
"...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.
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Completely Agree!
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29-02-2008, 14:35
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Re: French hospitality??
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That's Welsh isn't it ?
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Could be - I know many languages - I am a cunning linguist...
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29-02-2008, 14:37
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Re: French hospitality??
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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