We're better than the British, says Chirac

[ATFFL]

We're better than the British, says Chirac

Comments from the peanut gallery?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Just goes to show why chauvinism is named after a Frenchman.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Remind me again... what's the unemployment rate in France?

[MODU]

Just goes to show that all "leaders" say stupid things from time to time.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Good thing that no American has ever claimed that we're better than anyone else.

[Huckleberry Finn]

Nothing new here. Chirac angered Finnish people just two weeks ago by claiming that Finnish food is awful. He is a total asshole.

[A18]

Nothing new here. Chirac angered Finnish people just two weeks ago by claiming that Finnish food is awful.

Not only is Finnish food awful, Finnish people get offended too easily.

[MODU]

Nothing new here. Chirac angered Finnish people just two weeks ago by claiming that Finnish food is awful.

Not only is Finnish food awful, Finnish people get offended too easily.

Maybe, but they have some very lovely women. 

[Platypus]

well, it's not like you can get fat on finnish cuisine

[opebo]

Obviously it is better to be a French worker than a British worker.. conversely Britain is a better place to live if you are an owner.  Two sides of the same coin, of course.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Obviously it is better to be a French worker than a British worker..

Hahahaha!
I repeat: what's the unemployment rate in France these days?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Obviously it is better to be a French worker than a British worker..

Hahahaha!
I repeat: what's the unemployment rate in France these days?

He was talking about French workers, not French non-workers.

[dazzleman]

People who always have to make it a point to say they're better than others are usually inferior.  That's my experience at least, and this is no exception.

France must be experiencing a real crisis of confidence that Chirac must go around making unprovoked attacks against other countries, like Great Britain and Finland.

If you're great, you don't have to say so.  People know it.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

People who always have to make it a point to say they're better than others are usually inferior.  That's my experience at least, and this is no exception.

probably true in Chirac's case, but what about all the Americans (and Richius) who constantly rag on Europe?

[opebo]

Obviously it is better to be a French worker than a British worker..

Hahahaha!
I repeat: what's the unemployment rate in France these days?

Completely irrelevant if welfare is generous.

[opebo]

People who always have to make it a point to say they're better than others are usually inferior.  That's my experience at least, and this is no exception.

If you're great, you don't have to say so.  People know it.

probably true in Chirac's case, but what about all the Americans (and Richius) who constantly rag on Europe?

Precisely - America is full of boosters, while the place itself is repulsive and unlivable.  If anything the typical American is even more puffed up with baseless pride than the typical Frenchman.   Though admittedly the American can say his ruling class gets to beat up on the rest of the world, it is hard to see how that is something for the commonter to be proud of.  The Frenchman at least has a good lifestyle to be proud of.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Completely irrelevant if welfare is generous.

You sir, are an idiot

[opebo]

Completely irrelevant if welfare is generous.

You sir, are an idiot

No, I disagree with you.  You seem to believe that toil is necessary for the simple yoeman to be 'happy'.  I suggest that a life of leisure is just as good, if not better.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Er... what planet are you on? Do you even know what a Yeoman was or... no thought not...

[DanielX]

Isn't a Yeoman the guy or (usually) gal who fetches papers and coffee for the Starship Captain?

[JohnFKennedy]

Er... what planet are you on? Do you even know what a Yeoman was or... no thought not...

^^

[opebo]

Er... what planet are you on? Do you even know what a Yeoman was or... no thought not...

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4 entries found for yeoman.
yeo·man    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (ymn)
n.

An attendant, servant, or lesser official in a royal or noble household.
A yeoman of the guard.
A petty officer performing chiefly clerical duties in the U.S. Navy.
An assistant or other subordinate, as of a sheriff.
A diligent, dependable worker.
A farmer who cultivates his own land, especially a member of a former class of small freeholders in England.

In other words any of a variety of the working class and petty bourgeiosie.   All of these yeomen would be better off with more leisure.
 

[minionofmidas]

The last one is far and away the most important meaning...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

A Yeoman was a name for a sort of smallholder that developed from the Freemen (as opposed to Cotters/Villians/Serfs) at the fag end of the feudal system.
It might surpise you to know this, but there aren't exactly many of them still around.