Take it easy qlanettint, one day your comments won't amuse yourself and you'll be left with a vast hole of nothing staring back at you. Enjoy it while your ignorance lasts.
Canadian troops also played a vital role in the Battle of the Somme, with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment suffering 90% casualties, and were the only army of the Allies to be successful in capturing Vimy Ridge. Canadian soldiers were also some of the first to be exposed to poison gas attacks by the Germans. Unlike America, Canada participated fully in both World Wars and saw them out from start to finish. All of the Atlantic naval convoys during WW2, the only reason Hitler did not gain full control over Europe, were escorted by the Canadian Navy.
skids he is looking in the mirror of ignorance and is to ignorant to know it . You have to much to offer others here ,so don't wast your time on him. Remember backbone he started here as raciest ,now he wants to be accepted .
Chacon ce gue!
canadacretin do'nt mention me you don't know the full story so shut your pie hole and another thing before you try and start writing in French (and I believe you were trying to say - Chacon ce que) first try and master the English language!
I think, maybe, different views of the same events are not only possible, but inevitable.
Having visited France a number of times I may hold warmer sentiments(please understand, I am not French, but aggressively adore their genius in "kitchen arts"). What I have now as recollections of my visits, among many other things, are Verdun and its nearby Ossuary, and the beaches of Normandy, and the US graveyards there...and others less notables elsewhere.
Wherever one travels in Europe, France included most conspicuously, one finds depressing remnants of bloody wars over the ages...graveyards of foreigners (US) maintained in remote villages, shell-holes in older buildings, and so on.
These people are not cowards - at one time in history they were aggressors, at another, victims, as in most recent times.......victims in ways that we in our "free-world" can not fully appreciate.
As always, when we speak of a country, we speak of the leadership, not of the people.
I recall this these days when slighting the French takes on a sort of contemporary fashion. Our leadership has been frightful, and perhaps that might be said of France....and any of another number of "democratic" countries. Yet the French, quite apart from "France", are enormously congenial...almost naive, in our experience, most especially as seen away from the overly Anglized northern areas.
Ah well, so much for philosophy today.
Happy Thanksgiving to all, en retard....(was visiting in the snowy north over the holiday and had no link to the internet whilst doing so...hence the late greetings).
And....now to my duck...yes, a confite de cuisse de canard....actually poorly translated I'm sure, and poorly executed as well....but damn.....IT's GOOD.
1. canadaman, skidmarks and sauerkraut are all canuck. qlanettint you're kind of dumb... why don't you try saying something interesting.
Regarding the French. Just because they didn't buy into the lies about Iraq... does that make them weak?
And gee... what is the consensus? That it was not a good idea after all? Perhaps they actually had some good sense this time.
Do we say the same about the Russians and Germans for not joining the "coallition of the willing"?
Perhaps it's time for some of you out there to start learning how to think critically... start using those brains of yours. That's what makes us the rulers of the planet right? Our big brains?
She was waiting at the bus stop. So shouldn't the bus have been slowing down to pick her up? And therefore, the chance of him being hit by it, (let alone dieing from it,) are actually very low.
"Vous conduisez comme vous avez acheter la rue!" Non...vous conduisez comme il n'y a personne autre.
We saw auto speeds, and motorcycle shenanigans that were patently unfreakingbelievable. Passing on mountain switchbacks... PIECE OF CAKE.
Slowing for corners.......bah....shunned and laughed at.
French civilian casualties in WW2 make interesting reading. And bear in mind that many of those were at the hands of the RAF and US Army Air Force. I think I'm right in saying that more French civilians died in Caan than British and German troops combined. (I wonder if it makes things easier to know that your family died as collateral damage...)
It seems plain to me that current US resentment of the French is as a result of the fact that they were the only nation to publicly tell Dubya not to be such a twat. Therefore all the anti-French jokes and so on just make the Yanks look like sulky, resentful schoolkids.
There may be some truth in what you say about current US resentment for the French, but not in its entirety.
US resentment and derision (most of which is light-hearted) towards our Gaulic sisters is hundreds of years old. Start with Twain and work backwards. Most of this piquing and moquery comes from French aristocratic arrogance because the experiment here...succeeded.
American Civil War - 100,000
Vietnam War US deaths - 50,000
New York State road deaths 2005AD - 1867
South Africa Aids 2007 - 59,000
European Flu Epidemic 1920 - 20,000,000
Glumbert humor bypasses 2008 - 6 trillion.
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