French Rejection

2004-09-25 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: *waits for random people, watches Gwen pass through*

2004-09-25 [Bobolo]: MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA eeevil

2004-09-25 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: You know how I feel about my stepmom, but that doesn't mean all are like that.

2004-09-25 [Bobolo]: true true

2004-09-25 [Thorgin]: Did any of you see the british comedy " 'Allo 'Allo"?

2004-09-25 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: Nope, I don't think so, why?

2004-09-25 [Thorgin]: Well it was a good comedy about a cowardly café owner, René Artois, that collaborates with the germans while also aiding the French resistance

2004-09-25 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: LOL oh that would be choice

2004-09-25 [Thorgin]: hehe :) Yeah. I mean he's a hero of the french resistance, but is at one point awarded a medal of collaboration from the germans. hehe

2004-09-25 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: LOL

2004-09-25 [Bobolo]: sounds really funny

2004-09-25 [Thorgin]: Well it really has it's moments, but like any show it has it's ups and down

2004-09-26 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: yeah

2004-10-03 [Lone Ninja]: lol, your search for french military victories...

2004-10-03 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: Me? No, I found it in a forum and asked the owner if I could share it because it reminded me so much of my stepmother

2004-10-03 [Ironballs "the Preposterous One"]: all I can say... LOL!

2004-10-03 [Thorgin]: Well the french must have had some military victories since they had colonies, but most were probably against badly equipped natives

2004-10-03 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: Or trickery, I know I've seen that...

2004-10-03 [Thorgin]: Yeah it depends

2004-10-03 [Thorgin]: Anything is better than the genocide that the americans committed against the native americans

2004-10-03 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: oh yeah, that was awful, and the Germans with the Jews,

2004-10-03 [Thorgin]: Yeah and Cortez with the aztecs

2004-10-03 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: Sorry, I shouldn't have said "Germans" more accurately "Nazis" Cuz some Germans help the Jews.  yeah I know, what is it with people and trying to wipe out another?

2004-10-03 [Thorgin]: I have no idea. Oh also... The romans and the Carthaginians "Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam" -Marcus Porcius Cato

2004-10-03 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: yeah they were brutal too.

2004-10-03 [Thorgin]: yeah. Slaughtered the carthaginians, burned Carthage, pulled down the buildings and spread salt in the earth so nothing would grow.

2004-10-03 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: *shivers and shakes head* Yeah I know the Celts were brutal, but they weren't like that, and for the most part other then their internal wars, usually had a good reason for fighting

2004-10-03 [Thorgin]: It was awful

2004-10-04 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: yes

2004-10-08 [aimfire]: lol

2004-10-09 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: Glad you like it

2004-10-12 [aimfire]: I love it

2004-10-12 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: :D

2004-10-25 [aimfire]: Weren't the Hugonauts French also?

2004-10-25 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: I don't think so.... *goes to find a dictionary*

2004-10-25 [aimfire]: I think they are French Calvinists. In fact a Hugonaut became Catholic so he could become the French King nd grant them (the hugonaunts) religious freedom

2004-10-25 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: Yes French Reformed, I think the reformation is what saved them, but still look at the civil war reference

2004-10-25 [aimfire]: still gotta check your sources

2004-10-25 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: huh?

2004-12-10 [Thorgin]: I just thought of putting in a quote from the Simpsons "Bonjour, ye cheese-eatin' surrendermonkeys" - Groundskeeper Willie in French Class

2004-12-10 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: LOL *snickers*

2004-12-12 [Deirdre O'Kelly]: BWAHAHA! The only sane people are French, because to be completely sane one must be a coward. ;)

2004-12-12 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: *snickers* but sanity is no fun

2004-12-12 [aimfire]: nope, not at all...much brather be a Scot. lol, of corse I'm not...

2004-12-13 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: I've got some Scot, more Irish and Swiss though

2004-12-13 [aimfire]: Angry Europeans Unite!

2004-12-14 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: LOL

2004-12-30 [Jay Ladlehaus]: Wasn't it King Phillips' War, not King Williams'? Also, you might want to add something for the Crimean War, the rebellion of Haiti, and the current events in Ivory Coast. Oh yeah, and check this out: http://www.soupsandwich.net/hatefrench.html

2005-01-02 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: This was something I found in a forum on http://www.tolkienonline.com

2005-02-21 [nokaredes]: hmm...I am watching this page. No one's commented...

2005-02-21 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: Not in a bit...

2005-02-21 [aimfire]: Too true, but that is because this wonderous piece speaks for its self.

2005-02-23 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: LOL yes it certainly does. Did I tell you I had a dream my stepmom tried to ruin my wedding, Aim?

2005-02-23 [Jay Ladlehaus]: Is your stepmom French?

2005-02-23 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: LOL How'd you guess?

2005-02-23 [Jay Ladlehaus]: it sounds like something the French would do.

2005-02-23 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: LOL Especially that one. Being a bitch was second nature to her. And it's been a constant back and forth on inviting my family from Cali to the wedding cuz I wouldn't put it past her to "accidently" do something that would put a kink in things.

2005-02-23 [Jay Ladlehaus]: the parallels between that and the war in Iraq are stunning...France doesn't want the war to happen, it does anyways, so then she goes out of her way to prevent as many as possible from participation (namely NATO forces). She even goes so far as to try and prevent NATO aid from going to a NATO country (Turkey). Then when everything is said and done, she is sour yet still tries to claim victory for herself.

2005-02-23 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: Oh, yeah, and on top of that giving the terrorists the guns to attack the other countries. Don't you love the irony that surrounds them?

2005-02-23 [Jay Ladlehaus]: yeah they're a funny people...I guess it's what happens when your capital has the same name as the biggest pussy in the Trojan War.

2005-02-23 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: LOL *snickers* And your stereotypical male is what most others consider gay.

2005-02-23 [Jay Ladlehaus]: and dirty...and smelly.

2005-02-23 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: huh?

2005-02-23 [Jay Ladlehaus]: the stereotype

2005-02-23 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: I thought they all dressed like fags.

2005-02-23 [Jay Ladlehaus]: yeah they do, but haven't you ever heard of smelly Frenchman. Or seen that Simpsons episode where Marge throws Homer out and in less than a day he's as dirty as a Frenchman?

2005-02-23 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: LOL Nope I didn't see it. But... I'm thinking that refers to something other then hygien.... Kind of like the Italians...

2005-02-23 [Jay Ladlehaus]: erm, if you saw Homer, it was across the board. I should have put "dirty as a Frenchman" in quotes up there.

2005-02-23 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: *shrugs* Who knows

2005-03-30 [Lokasenna]: I love It!(and I'm french!)

2005-03-31 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: LOL Well, I'm glad you aren't offended. I've had some very bad, as well as very good experiences with the French, so I don't totally dislike them ^.~  Besides, my bf speaks French.

2005-03-31 [Jay Ladlehaus]: I hadn't really had any good French experiences from when I was very young til recently. When I was younger I would always be sad when I heard about Napolean being defeated. Recently, I take classes with a French woman who is pretty cool.

2005-03-31 [Thorgin]: Well americans doesn't really have anything to say about the french. If it weren't for the french i'm not too sure they would have defeated the british in the revolutionary war, although it is possible.

2005-03-31 [Jay Ladlehaus]: No, America still would have won. The Revolution was growing more powerful every year. The French, with their military aid, military advisors, and soldiers helped to hasten its close. It also helped that the French Navy surrounded Yorktown by sea, preventing any escape from oncoming American forces, thus forcing Cornwall's surrender.

2005-03-31 [Jay Ladlehaus]: What upsets Americans comes after the war. (1) French scientist states that all species of life and by extension human in the New World are inferior, which the first anti-American remark in the true, hateful sense of the word. This was during the term of America's third president, Thomas Jefferson. (2) French and English navies raid, capture, and sink American merchant ships in an effort to starve the other side. There is some limited military retaliation against the French by America (mostly against French assets in the Caribbean), but America eventually goes to war with the British, who not only were more aggressive in the raids,

2005-03-31 [Jay Ladlehaus]: and additionally were gang-pressing American sailors off their ships to serve in the Royal Navy. (3) French support the South during America's Civil War. (4) After being saved in two World Wars and given Vietnam, the French proceed to make the Vietnamese situation worse, and the greatest benefactor of America's liberation, Charles deGaulle, quits NATO, trying to create a third force in Cold War. This is when France develops nuclear arms. France only rejoins NATO when Europe and former French colonies decline to go under France's nuclear umbrella. Second Gulf War: in conjunction with Germany, France comes out strongly against the invasion of Iraq,

2005-03-31 [Jay Ladlehaus]: in which France has important oil contracts with Saddam Hussein. Additionally, France attempts to work within NATO to deny military aid to Turkey if Turkey allows its soil to be used for launching attacks. This maneuver fails, largely due to France losing its NATO seniority when it walked out previously. (5) French rioters assault McDonalds, killing one employee, accusing America of cultural imperialism. Nevermind that the French are constantly sneering at pretty much all non-European culture and that the action would be like Americans lining up at the docks to destroy shipments of French wine and cheese.

2005-03-31 [Jay Ladlehaus]: And yes, they do sneer. When Californian, Chiliean, and Australian wines started edging out French wines in quality, the French media claims the wine industry is being taken over by "barbarians."

2005-04-04 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: I agree with Blue, most of what France contributed was supplies or Money, I'm sure America would have come up with something if France wasn't there, we are fairly resourseful

2005-06-02 [Jay Ladlehaus]: http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/analysis/toons/2005/05/31/lang/index.html

2005-06-02 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: Oh that was choice! I love it! Too bad I can't frame it and put it up in my house! I'll have to e-mail the link to my fiance.

2005-06-02 [Jay Ladlehaus]: heh heh :)

2005-06-02 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: poor boy doesn't understand political cartoons, I had to explain it to him.

2005-06-09 [Jay Ladlehaus]: Here's the latest French rejection courtesy of the British: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4078230.stm Although in this case the British are doing the rejection. Funny how there isn't much rejection when it comes to bringing more money into France...

2005-06-09 [nokaredes]: That link has one period too many.

2005-06-09 [Jay Ladlehaus]: fixed

2005-06-10 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: LOL that's choice, thanks, Blue.

2005-06-10 [Jay Ladlehaus]: no prob :)

2005-06-12 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: Hope you don't mind my adding it.

2005-06-14 [Jay Ladlehaus]: not at all :)

2005-06-15 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: Thankies

2005-10-19 [kay-chan]: Has anybody here heard of the song, "Everybody Hates the French"?

2005-10-21 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: No, who's it by? Where can I find the lyrics?

2005-10-21 [kay-chan]: It was actually done by the RSC (Reduced Shakespeare Company)... I've been unsuccessfully looking for the lyrics online. I might just write them out in my diary, or something, later.

2005-10-22 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: Let me know how that goes ^.^

2005-10-23 [kay-chan]: Mwahaha, just finished typing it. (There are some things I couldn't really hear, or didn't know how to spell, like foreign words.)

2005-10-24 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: That's ok

2006-03-19 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: Kay... Do you think I could add the lyrics like I added blue's link?

2006-03-20 [kay-chan]: Sure, if you can find it buried in my diary, if you didn't copy it... It's the one written... 2005-10-23.

2006-03-21 [Lady Edana-Arianrhod Rós]: I don't think I did... I look after I complete the What If... contest.