C'mon guys. I thought my post on the other (now defunct) thread was hilarious. This is the clown bin, isn't it?
You make me feel like the guy in prison where they were telling jokes by number but nobody would laugh at his.
So be it. Before this thread shares the fate of the other one, maybe I can get in a few more words.
I didn't like France, either, when I went there, so I went elsewhere. (Scandinavia was nice - not much to do on those long, cold winter nights except ...ummm).
Omitted in the comical view of French history was perhaps THE most important battle in world history - Tours - where the French under Charles the Hammer defeated the moslems and prevented a possible complete destruction of the West (that's most of us).
In the DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (see, this topic is pertinent) Napoleonic law is in effect (at least theoretically). Needless to say, perhaps, Napoleon was certainly no buffoon - he seems to be generally acclaimed as the greatest battlefield commander ever. He also had the greatest coalition against him ever, including in his own government (ones who wanted to restore the crown).
Once when I was riding a train in Belgium, a Frenchman sat down beside me. I ignored him. After awhile he said, "Look, I know that you Americans think we hate you, but it's not true - it's your government that we don't understand."
Is it possible that he had a point?
A lot of the criticism of Charles de Gaul was true, but maybe the US should have heeded some of his advice about getting its financial house in order and minding its own business. After all, it is we, not the French, who have paid the price for not listening to him.
Here goes: *Chuckle*.