Americans: Have you thanked a frenchman today?

[minionofmidas]

What's so bad about being British?

The rain, the sleet and the fog

I said British, not Britain :-P

Living through all the rain, the sleet and the fog

If only there ever were any sleet in Britain! It'd make live a lot more like worth living.

[minionofmidas]

If only there ever were any sleet in Britain! It'd make live a lot more like worth living.

We get sleet up here most of the winter

You define winter as those three days of the year when the thermometer drops below 5°, right?

[minionofmidas]

Celsius.
I'm exaggerating for effect, of course.

[minionofmidas]

If only there ever were any sleet in Britain! It'd make live a lot more like worth living.

We get sleet up here most of the winter

You define winter as those three days of the year when the thermometer drops below 5°, right?

For us, yes

Although today was bloody freezing-14 degrees, but windy and overcast.

I call that un-weather, ie no weather of any kind could be detected.

[minionofmidas]

One of my heroes, Johann Gottfried Seume, "helped the king lose the 13 provinces", in his own words. He was a Hessian conscript. Really a soldier slave.

[minionofmidas]

Every American should go to France for a year after high school, or perhaps after univeristy, in order to learn how to live well.

How about no. I have friends who have been to France and they say it is naste.  I think we Americans know how to live that is why we have health codes and they don't.

What do you mean 'health codes'?  Certainly french food is far superior to american food - in fact our law about pastuerization is one reason cheese in america is garbage.  The quality of ones food has more to do with who prepares it than the laws regulating it - in america the underclass toils in the food industry spitting in everything they can get their hands on.  In healthy societies like France (or Thailand), people care about the quality of their products as they tend to be small proprieters rather than low-wage serfs.

Oh Your pastuerization what? French milk is not even pastuerization. That is why America has cheese call American cheese. I never heard of French cheese. And we don't eat the slug off our back deck now do we. FDA here to make sure our food is healthy and don't kill us.

Did you just come back from the leadership conference on cheese?


You sure seem to know a lot about it.

And you've spent time in France, too, right? I heard they had a leadership conference on the French health system the other day. Your friends must have gone.

You can't make edible cheese from pasteurized milk, that's for sure.

[minionofmidas]

Talking of Frenchmen, I once had a pen friend who was adamant that the only reason France capitulated to Hitler in 1940 was because French troops were over in the UK defending us!

See, it's not only Chirac who's delusional

Dave

Lol, that's weird.

Of course, it's true that there were French troops in England defending you...after you'd evacuated them out in 1940.