ExiledInIllinois Posted March 24, 2006 Posted March 24, 2006 Maybe it's because they had a penchant for human wave attacks against machine guns? Some of their generals never saw the front. It's simply history. I actually like France, and have a few French friends. 641590[/snapback] That too. Can't it be seen as a "honorable" thing amongst the macho types? Takes some serious troop discipline...
GG Posted March 24, 2006 Posted March 24, 2006 You couldn't make this stuff up if you had to. From the mouths of babes: ... "Isn't this magnificent?" said (Razzye Hammadi) the 27-year-old economics student and head of the Movement of Young Socialists, surveying a procession of people flowing from the Place d'Italie in Paris toward the city's Latin Quarter. French governments, he added, "always say they won't retreat, but they all retreat in the end."
Ghost of BiB Posted March 24, 2006 Posted March 24, 2006 That too. Can't it be seen as a "honorable" thing amongst the macho types? Takes some serious troop discipline... 641621[/snapback] Dead either way. If one did not attack, one was executed. At least attack gives one a chance. Old movie alert: "Paths of Glory" Kubrick does a very good job showing the French WW1 mind set. Also a sign of the times. The British lost 53,000 killed and wounded in one day at the Somme. That one battle alone resulted in 1 million killed, altogether.
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 24, 2006 Posted March 24, 2006 Dead either way. If one did not attack, one was executed. At least attack gives one a chance. Old movie alert: "Paths of Glory" Kubrick does a very good job showing the French WW1 mind set. Also a sign of the times. The British lost 53,000 killed and wounded in one day at the Somme. That one battle alone resulted in 1 million killed, altogether. 641631[/snapback] Ya... But... Discipline breaks down if you they have to kill a lot of your own troops during a mutiny... I guess they never got that far?... THAT I can fault...
meazza Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 Yes...but there's no real concept of anyone owing you a job. And realistically, an employer has to be able to show cause, or risk civil action for unfair labor practices. Theoretically they can get rid of workers at will...but as a practical matter, it's not nearly that easy, particularly if there's blatant bias at work (such as when an employer tried to fire me for being bipolar - a big no-no, as it's an illness covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act.) 640707[/snapback] you sure they didn't fire you for being an !@#$?
meazza Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 Maybe it's because they had a penchant for human wave attacks against machine guns? Some of their generals never saw the front. It's simply history. I actually like France, and have a few French friends. 641590[/snapback] blasphemy
Ghost of BiB Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 blasphemy 641799[/snapback] I thought you were Italian. Wanna start on the Wop jokes? Really, I have some good ones.
meazza Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 I thought you were Italian. Wanna start on the Wop jokes? Really, I have some good ones. 641814[/snapback] i was just saying it was blasphemy for an american to say he liked french people, but ya i'm not sensitive to jokes about wops. you know i have been receiving letters everyday from the Italian parties because they want me to mail in my vote. I even got one from the communist party of Italy.
Ghost of BiB Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 i was just saying it was blasphemy for an american to say he liked french people, but ya i'm not sensitive to jokes about wops. 641818[/snapback] That's good, because after they go flat, they go wop wop wop.
Ghost of BiB Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 i was just saying it was blasphemy for an american to say he liked french people, but ya i'm not sensitive to jokes about wops. you know i have been receiving letters everyday from the Italian parties because they want me to mail in my vote. I even got one from the communist party of Italy. 641818[/snapback] Fugg, I even get letters from Italian lobbies because I checked into a hotel. I don't speak Italalian, but they wrote me. I must be special.
meazza Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 Fugg, I even get letters from Italian lobbies because I checked into a hotel. I don't speak Italalian, but they wrote me. I must be special. 641828[/snapback] they sent you letters to vote?
meazza Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 Actually, yeah. 641855[/snapback] vote for berlusconi, biggest fraud artist of them all
X. Benedict Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 Old movie alert: "Paths of Glory" Kubrick does a very good job showing the French WW1 mind set. 641631[/snapback] Great movie. Kirk Douglas at his best.
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 That's good, because after they go flat, they go wop wop wop. 641821[/snapback] Doesn't the joke go like this: "What does sh*t sound like when it hits the wall?"
Ghost of BiB Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 Doesn't the joke go like this: "What does sh*t sound like when it hits the wall?" 642123[/snapback] No, it's the Italian snow tire. Dago through rain, Dago through snow and when Dago flat, Dago wop wop wop.
Ghost of BiB Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 (edited) Know how to tell the polock at the cockfights? He brings the duck. Know how to tell the wop at the cockfights? He bets on the duck. Know how to tell the mafia is at the cockfights? The duck wins. (Edit, I originally wrote the joke down wrong) Edited March 25, 2006 by Ghost of BiB
X. Benedict Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 Know how to tell the wop at the cockfights? He brings the duck. Know how to tell the polock at the cockfights? He bets on the duck. Know how to tell the mafia is at the cockfights? The duck wins. 642128[/snapback] That seems to work out for everyone involved, doesn't it?
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 No, it's the Italian snow tire. Dago through rain, Dago through snow and when Dago flat, Dago wop wop wop. 642125[/snapback] You are evil... Pure evil... I never heard that one... I must have grew up in a tempered enviroment? Now my mother (Polish---Grew up in the early 1950's)) wasn't so lucky... If she would bring an Italian date home... My grandfather would not say a word, get up from his "Archie Bunkeresque" chair and leave... Go to the bedroom and shut himself in till the guy left. Times have a changed?
Ghost of BiB Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 If we can't laugh at ourselves, what's the point in laughing at anyone else?
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