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Almost everyone. Don't forget that doing anything naughty to the French flag is actually an arrestable crime in France. Chirac has managed to pass a law that even the most hardcore right wing US leader hasn't.
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Look, you're just peeved because he (the French people, WHOEVER) got in the way of your agenda. Big deal, thats freedom of experssion. Get over it.
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quote:Originally posted by Daryus Aden: Look, you're just peeved because he (the French people, WHOEVER) got in the way of your agenda. Big deal, thats freedom of experssion. Get over it.
If that's true, then so is reacting to it in any non-military way we choose. Including not buying their crummy wine, or having a "Royale with cheese"
(HEY! Talk about changing the names of your food!!)
Of course, that whole "freedom of experssion" thing is a First Amendment thing. I don't know that France has one of those (not having studied the French Constitution) -- but they certainly have less, with the passage of those laws.
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quote:Originally posted by First of Two: The previous announcement was made possible by your Total Shite Network.
Try this for positions. And I'm not even boycotting the weasels.
boycotters: We think the French are abusing their position on the Security Council to hold on to their oil interests in Iraq, continued to sell weapons to Iraq, are unwilling to take ANY measures to bring about positive change in the Middle East, are willing to endanger others to maintain their power base, are willing to threaten other countries who disagree with them, are hypocritically involving themselves militarily in the Ivory Coast, are jerks for trying to control a defense organization whose military arm they pulled out of, and should finally be given a taste of their own arrogance and smugness that we've had to put up with for the last several decades.
Oooh! I like this one! Pretty darned kewel statement and something I totally agree with.
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Sorry. I should point out that I don't LIKE wine. I've had many different varieties, including some rather expensive French wines, and the expensive French kind is no less crummy than the kind they make up in the Laurel Highlands in PA.
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Actually Firsty, you're not that wrong.French wine isn't the best. The best wines are made in South & Eastern Australia, California, Spain and South Africa. French, Italian etc wines are a bit futher down the list.
Of course that doesn't excuse the fact that the boycot is a bunch of gobshite.
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quote:Originally posted by First of Two: If that's true, then so is reacting to it in any non-military way we choose. Including not buying their crummy wine, or having a "Royale with cheese"
(HEY! Talk about changing the names of your food!!)
Ooh, look at Mr "I have a 168 IQ" and marvel at his ability to watch Tarantino movies. MARVEL!
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The quality of wine varies so widely, I hesitate to say that one country's wine is better than another. I do know I'd sooner drink a Cotes du Rhone than anything else, and am fond of a nice chilled Vouvray. But apart from that, I'm not a massive fan of French wine any more than I am of any other country.
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