Simple as
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European Memesi like bringing up to "irish" americans thaylt actual ireland doesn't consider them irish anymore
It only takes one to unite europe. A frenchy.
France is our older brother so ofc we pick on him :3
Upvoted because I'm French. You're all jealous anyway (emoji with dark glasses and shit).
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Those are what you meant, right?
Same, only no one hates the Basque because they fear our space internship program.
emoji with dark glasses and shit
Cool shades. Shame about the feces on them, though.
The French are insufferable but very entertaining so I love you guys.
If there's something that unites Europeans more than anything in the world... that's their hate for the French.
I'm certain every European country has a different yet accurate slur to refer to them.
Yeah but fuck Americans when they criticise France. They're not allowed.
Let's be honest for most Europeans dissing France is punching up. Even though the general American is not the personification of their country, from the outside, it's icky. Also ~~y'all~~they lie or hyperfocus on the white flag bullshit, there's plenty legit petty bullshit to diss France about, no need to lie!
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I'm not American. I'm Italian. If there's a country in Europe whose citizens can beef with the French it's ours.
If there’s a country in Europe whose citizens can beef with the French it’s ours.
U wot m8
To paraphrase Corrado Guzzanti: "The English, people who went around butt-naked hunting marmots while we were already busy ~~stabbing Julius Caesar.~~ killing Gauls"
Sorry my bad, I read your comment as you complaining. You were clearly making a strong statement, I agree <3
Also nah I'm Spaniard/Basque, I have zero knowledge on your beef but also full confidence we can beef more. Trust xD.
Idk aside from millennias of wars (since Rome vs Gauls to WWII), artistic competition (and thievery on their part!), renaissance, etc, I think we may have a little more beef.
France might be a shithole. But it's OUR shithole. Don't they fucking dare saying a thing about France, we've gone to wars for much less.
This.☝️ It’s like family. Only us can insult our brothers.
Legitimately, France did so much to help early America (primarily to spite Britain, but whatever, we take those), and didn't just turn us into a French colony about it, and gets NO recognition at all for most of it. We owe them a certain ancestral debt of gratitude and respect which isn't really the case for the rest of Europe.
Some of us Americans love the French, most of us are indifferent, and a few like to jump on the European joke-hate(?) bandwagon without really understanding the context behind it. European banter is just legitimately different because y'all have thousands of years of cultural history behind it. We don't.
Strangely enough, the US has never been at war with France.
Slur? Pfft, they're our auld pals!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Alliance
Scotland+France <3 4ever
I don't know here we just say: "putain de français", maybe the Belgians have a more original way?
Putain de frouche I'd say
Quebec people say "maudits Français".
I don't get why everyone hates France.
Napoleon. Also punching up is acceptable mostly.
Its mostly for fun and not seriouse.
Germany and france had the Erbfeindschaft (french-german enmity), a rivalery whoms origin you can trace back all the way to the splitting of the franconian empire or even way back to roman empire times. Because romans vs germanic tribes, and the bor
England and france have something similair due to the hundred years war shenanigans.
Spain and Austria and france due to the Habsburgs and French Kingdom having always been at each others throats for dominance over europe
Russia and France due to Napoleon
The dutch and the french due to the Kingdom of Burgundy and Napoleon
Italy and france could be traced back to romans vs gauls but defenetly also has to do with the italian wars, papal shenanigans like the whole avignion popes and constantly interfearing in papal state situations
I do not know of any more actually proper rivaleries with the france. Today its all jokes and giggles, italy and france only culturally are in a friendly rivalery, germany and france have one of the tightes friendships and is now the franco german friendship :) (im just saying ARTE) I am german and we germans can learn a lot from france, especially cultural wise lots of things i admire about the french people. <3
Continuons à œuvrer pour une Europe unie et pacifique!
Today its all jokes and giggles
Some jokes and giggles are very long standing, a pretty large part of the Rhinelandic carnival tradition traces back to mocking the (napoleonic) French, for example...
Which once? None of them that i know come from the occupation but like the rest to mock clergy, nobility, the upper crust in general and ofc some good old germanic paganism
Especially the carnival sessions (with the council of 11, and fanfares after someone speaks, which is a mockery of the official proceedings the French occupation introduced), and the significance of the number 11 as such, as a mockery of the French revolutionary slogan "Egalité, Liberteé, Fraternité", which was frequently abbreviated as ELF, meaning eleven in German, in all sorts of documents and inscriptions.
The more you know :)
I’m English and I was driving through Europe and ended up in France. I was at a petrol station and when a new cashier opened up and everybody behind me in the queue just walked past me to the new. I was sort of stood there in shock waiting for someone to let me go in front of them before I suddenly remembered and I was like “Oh yeah, I’m in France”.
Go and visit a German supermarket. When a new queue opens you will see grandma's running at speeds that would qualify them for an Olympic sprint race if they could keep it up for more than the distance to the next cashier. I am always amazed that nobody is tripping and hurting themselves in their panic to get to new cashier as quickly as possible.
Something I've always hated myself, but the Germans are even worse with this ;)
As a European I'm confused.
Did the cashier you were queued for stop accepting customers? If not, what exactly is the queue etiquette supposed to be here? Nobody moves to the new queue until the person in front of them confirms they don't desire to switch?
What I'm used to from grocery shops/supermarkets is that, as soon as a new cashier opens, everyone in the queue evaluates for themselves whether their place in the new queue would be faster and moves accordingly. If practical (new queue is close to the old one and can be reached by simply walking over) the order from the old queue is generally preserved. If instead the natural way to move would invert the order (tight isles, obstacles between the queues) that is simply what happens. In either case, this usually splits the queue into roughly equal parts in a quick and efficient manner and does so organically, without the need for verbal communication.
I'm curious how this is normally done in the UK/US.
As a fellow Brit, that sort of behavior is unthinkable. I hope you tutted loudly.
I'm American and experienced the same thing in Germany. Not everyone has the enlightened tradition of the queue we got from you guys!
Or maybe everybody just instantly clocked you as an Ami who needs to go home. :P
Should of given them an old chelsea smile.
Turns out rampaging through the Netherlands, the Rhineland principalities, northern Italy, the Balkans, Austria, Prussia, Poland, Russia, Egypt, Spain, and Portugal in the span of 20 years earns you some longstanding animosity.
in Canada, we pretend hate anything about Toronto... but it's just a running joke, except the Leafs, they do suck for real
Obviously because of the attitude of the French people displayed here in the comments.
Cliché about French people being pretentious exists => everyone hates the French => the French try to get in on the joke and pretend to be pretentious in the comments => cliché about French people is reinforced => etc.
American: I'm 5% Italian!11!11!!11!one!
Same American when she comes to Florence: American students start a fire in their kitchen when they try to boil some pasta WITHOUT WATER.
And we are vastly superior to anyone of you :P
This really is true, everyone is a white knight in the states
they all seem to be expert pearl clutchers in Murica... but when anything actually requires action or just a voice, they all start bleating
I'm just here for the ignorant euros talking out of their ass, it's like going to the zoo
Bada bing fuggetaboutit
