Foreign stereotypes about your country

[Tangfastic]

Originally Posted by Étienne

(in Europe)

• arrogant, moralistic knowitalls
• suck at English
• love cheese and cooking
• have the best women

(in the UK) all the above, plus

• bad personal hygiene

(in the US) all the above plus

• suck at war (cheese-eating surredering monkeys)

It is commonly understood that the French aren't very good at war in the UK as well.

 

[kwilkinson]

Originally Posted by Étienne

(in Europe)

• arrogant, moralistic knowitalls
  
• suck at English
  
• love cheese and cooking
  
• have the best women

You guys all smoke too, right? Anyway, this seems like a pretty ******* good situation to be in.

BTW, you should poast moar.

 

[Etienne]

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

BTW, you should poast moar.
I will get around to posting regularly again, but probably not before a few months.

 

[austerlitz]

they have largely confirmed that in the last century...

Originally Posted by Tangfastic

It is commonly understood that the French aren't very good at war in the UK as well.

 

[austerlitz]

do we have any deutsch folk..... you old war hungry fellows

 

[HgaleK]

Originally Posted by austerlitz

they have largely confirmed that in the last century...

I'd forgotten that WWI was part of the 20th century

 

[acidboy]

Originally Posted by Étienne

(in Europe)

• arrogant, moralistic knowitalls
  
• suck at English
  
• love cheese and cooking
  
• have the best women

(in the UK)
all the above, plus

• bad personal hygiene

(in the US)
all the above plus

• suck at war (cheese-eating surredering monkeys)

you guys also wear nautical horizontal striped shirts, white pants and black berets.

 

[Neo_Version 7]

All we eat are spring rolls.

 

[austerlitz]

i wouldnt exactly call that performance stellar

Originally Posted by HgaleK

I'd forgotten that WWI was part of the 20th century

 

[Etienne]

Originally Posted by austerlitz

they have largely confirmed that in the last century...
For a while, francophobic slurs and stereotypes had become rarer on SF. Aaah, the good ol' days.

 

[HgaleK]

Originally Posted by austerlitz

i wouldnt exactly call that performance stellar

Then we can look at WWII. Do the word "Maquis" mean anything to you? What about FFI?

 

[Telleur]

I'm Trinidadian (Carribbean), and it always pisses me off when people try to speak with a carribean accent and the all that Rasta bullshit.

 

[Mr Herbert]

you need to chill mon

 

[TourbillonTurk.]

Known to all have one profession.

 

[austerlitz]

you are kidding right

do the words Hitler, Compiegne, Vichy mean anything to you? back to the thread now.

Originally Posted by HgaleK

Then we can look at WWII. Do the word "Maquis" mean anything to you? What about FFI?