France is a Kip

[PalazioVecchio]

The whole place seems to have been ripped apart again - another crime-wave. PSG win the title, and all hell breaks loose.

If you see television or films from 1970s France, you can get an inkling of what has been lost. And surely now lost forever ? Seems to have been a low-crime, high-trust society. Although, as you can see from the footage below, even then people did not leave their i-phones on the table at a restaurant-terrace.

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[ASCPFC]

The Nouveau French. So nice for everyone.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

And now they're banning smoking in lots of outdoor areas. Quite a change from when the air was thick with the fumes of Gauloises and Gitanes.

 

[Badger11]

And now they're banning smoking in lots of outdoor areas. Quite a change from when the air was thick with the fumes of Gauloises and Gitanes.

Don't forget the onions and the shoulder shrugging 😀

 

[Spindle]

They will never ever know the joy of opening a tin of beans and having little sausages inside

 

[kingdowieonthewall]

They will never ever know the joy of opening a tin of beans and having little sausages inside

my wife does....

 

[chris123]

Another PM gone today.

 

[HKOwen]

Their debt to GDP ratio very bad, even worse than UK.

That being said, I drove around there 3 1/2 weeks recently, not one pothole, safe towns, people en joying their lives.

You can safely use your phone in Central Paris without some ferrel troglodyte stealing it, no aggressive beggars, just nice

 

[HKOwen]

They will never ever know the joy of opening a tin of beans and having little sausages inside

Actually they do, its called cassoulet, every supermarket has the cans

 

[georgenorman]

Their debt to GDP ratio very bad, even worse than UK.

That being said, I drove around there 3 1/2 weeks recently, not one pothole, safe towns, people en joying their lives.

You can safely use your phone in Central Paris without some ferrel troglodyte stealing it, no aggressive beggars, just nice

Yes, and of course they are breaking EU rules with the size of their deficit and will have EU measures imposed on them - one of the joys of being in the undemocratic, authoritarian EU where countries are not in control of their own economies.

 

[Rudi Hedman]

Their debt to GDP ratio very bad, even worse than UK.

That being said, I drove around there 3 1/2 weeks recently, not one pothole, safe towns, people en joying their lives.

You can safely use your phone in Central Paris without some ferrel troglodyte stealing it, no aggressive beggars, just nice

Their unemployment payments are insane. Last I heard they match salaries. 5 star 3 course school dinners. Large maternity and paternity pay. It’s all great, but somehow it has to be paid for.

 

[chris123]

Yes, and of course they are breaking EU rules with the size of their deficit and will have EU measures imposed on them - one of the joys of being in the undemocratic, authoritarian EU where countries are not in control of their own economies.

I voted to stay in at 1974 referendum and out when it was becoming too federal. Not sure why anyone would want to join now

 

[PalazioVecchio]

Cars ? Carbon-footprints more like.

Almost 1,000 cars set ablaze during New Year celebrations in France

Despite nearly 1,000 cars being set ablaze, hundreds of thousands of people in France welcomed the New Year with largely peaceful celebrations, according to Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau. Retailleau announced late on Wednesday that 984 cars went up in flames across the country. Some 420...

www.yahoo.com

 

[PalazioVecchio]

And now they're banning smoking in lots of outdoor areas. Quite a change from when the air was thick with the fumes of Gauloises and Gitanes.

burning cigarettes, burning Churches, burning Cars...........the only thing they seem to refuse to burn is Steak.......eaten bloody and cold. yuk.

 

[JRW2]

They will never ever know the joy of opening a tin of beans and having little sausages inside

You evidently haven't tried cassoulet - the best autumn/winter/comfort food ever invented.