Off Topic France

How about Christmas markets all over the UK which sell nothing German

Unless of course some sort of Trojan horse invasion plan??

 

Looks like a lurch to the right at the next elections:

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The socialist candidate is to the left and will suffer post Hollande

 

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Just to complete your gallery Yorkie, and this one is very much to the left.

 

1a. Wine - I like Fito
1b. Spirits - Armagnac all the way
2. Cheese - bleu de Bresse, bleu d'Auvergne, conte
3. Food - fussy, but interesting
4. Cars - rubbish, and my wife drives a Citroën
5. Language - difficult
6. Politicians - truly awful, like everywhere else
7. Football and Rugby - good
8. Women - I worked in France and all the females in the office were good looking, even for the girl who liked girls, as an aside the Austrian woman was a babe.
9. Music - yé-yé; give me Françoise Hardy and I'll show you a very happy man
10. Arts - lots of it.
11. General life style - Bonjour madame!
12. Press freedom - don't know
13. People - Great on an individual level.
14. Roads. Motorways and Paris --- if they haven't changed in 15 year great, even Paris to drive in (no sat nav then). Paris is a lovely place, just full of Parisiens.

 

Le Pen has a passing resemblance to Tati, I think.

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I had another giggle at this today.

 

Seriously. Lose her syrup, plonk Tati's titfer on her bonce, shove his pipe in her north and south, and we see who her father really was.

 

In light of the 'fake job' allegation, 69% of people in France want Francois Fillon to drop his bid to become the country's president, according to a poll today.

Don't they know it could be impossible to find a French political candidate not on the fiddle?

 

... and probably an American in recent time..... (apart from of course Obama who was lambasted by the US establishment media, probably because they couldn't buy him)

 

Am I alone in finding Marine Le Pen curiously attractive?

 

Speak for yourself Brag.

 

I seem to remember AK having similar feelings

 

Were you aroused by Jacques Tati?

 

In a minority I should think, perhaps depending on how you intend 'curiously' to be interpreted

 

It is the curiously which intrigues me

 

Is Le Pen really ahead in the polls and does it look like France will end up far right and Frexiting?

 

Which country are we going to take the mick out of next?

 

I could only find one we can MIC-ronsesia <Exits fast>

 

According to the latest polls she is on 25% - Macron is on 21%, Fillon 18.5% and Hamon 14%, but that is only the first round (like a semi final) - they then go onto the second round involving the 2 highest candidates, where she is bound to lose. The only certainty is that one of the other 3 will end up as the new president. A similar system in the UK. would see a second election with the Tories facing up against only Labour. They also have a PR system which balances this, which rules out the kind of 'winner takes all' farce which we have in the UK. Britain is the only country in the EU. where a situation exists along the equation - we got 37% of the vote = majority - we got the majority and so we have a referendum = 52%-48%, meaning winner takes all. Most other countries have more mature political systems.