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WTH is up with Frenchie?

Posted on 8/25/14 at 8:40 am
Posted by bamarep
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Posted on 8/25/14 at 8:40 am
Posted by heartbreakTiger
grinding for my grinders
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Posted on 8/25/14 at 8:42 am to
they haven't surrendered to anyone in a while so they are probably getting a bitch itchy
Posted by DrunkenStuporMan
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Posted on 8/25/14 at 8:45 am to
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President Francois Hollande asked Prime Minister Manuel Valls to form a new government, which will be announced Tuesday,


Their going to form a government in one day?

Nice.
Posted by Radiojones
The Twilight Zone
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Posted on 8/25/14 at 8:48 am to
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they haven't surrendered to anyone in a while so they are probably getting a bitch itchy


I have been studying WWI recently and have gained a new respect for the French military. Frankly their commanders sucked in both WWI and WWII but the troops are tough as nails.
Posted by HonoraryCoonass
Member since Jan 2005
18054 posts
Posted on 8/25/14 at 8:49 am to
Some people call that a "fundamental transformation."
Posted by themunch
Earth. maybe
Member since Jan 2007
64595 posts
Posted on 8/25/14 at 8:50 am to
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President Francois Hollande asked Prime Minister Manuel Valls to form a new government



Much like Obama.
Posted by Vegas Bengal
Member since Feb 2008
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Posted on 8/25/14 at 8:50 am to
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WTH is up with Frenchie?




Posted by Paluka
One State Over
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 8/25/14 at 9:06 am to
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Vegas Bengal


Posted by NukemVol
Member since Jan 2010
1633 posts
Posted on 8/25/14 at 9:40 am to
If I understand this right...they aren't rallying against the socialist president because he's socialist, but because he isn't socialist enough?
Posted by DrunkerThanThou
Unfortunately Mississippi
Member since Feb 2013
2846 posts
Posted on 8/25/14 at 9:56 am to
They should whip out the guillotine for this... for old times sake
Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
Bat'n Rudge
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Posted on 8/25/14 at 10:04 am to
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Vegas Bengal


You're telling your age, Mr. French!

One of my first crushes:



This post was edited on 8/25/14 at 10:05 am
Posted by Taxing Authority
Houston
Member since Feb 2010
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Posted on 8/25/14 at 10:45 am to
I thought this was going to be a thread about a cook at Louie's!
Posted by Bard
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Posted on 8/25/14 at 11:46 am to
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they haven't surrendered to anyone in a while so they surrendered to themselves


FIFY
Posted by REG861
Ocelot, Iowa
Member since Oct 2011
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Posted on 8/25/14 at 11:47 am to
the socialist dipshit is an abysmal failure? shocking
Posted by bamarep
Member since Nov 2013
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Posted on 8/25/14 at 12:09 pm to
This was a thread about France brah, not Obama. Keep up!!

Posted by ChewyDante
Member since Jan 2007
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Posted on 8/25/14 at 1:20 pm to
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I have been studying WWI recently and have gained a new respect for the French military. Frankly their commanders sucked in both WWI and WWII but the troops are tough as nails.


Foch & Petain were solid commanders, if course it helps to have more than 2.

In WWII they were simply doomed to a flawed strategy and outclassed by innovative new tactics and daring commanders on the enemy side, along with the geographic misfortune of being next to Germany. If the entire British (Isles) population and military was swapped into geographic France, they likely would have suffered the same fate. The BEF was also routed in France by the Germans in WWII. But the heroic French defense of Dunkirk illustrated the valor of French soldiers. They fight well, contrary to their reputation. Of the major powers, the most pathetic military display had to have come from the Italians, particularly given all the bravado.
Posted by Esquire
Chiraq
Member since Apr 2014
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Posted on 8/25/14 at 1:45 pm to
France never should have copied us and revolted. They turned into pansies after they killed the king. I mean, who fights an entire revolution in song?
Posted by Vegas Bengal
Member since Feb 2008
26344 posts
Posted on 8/25/14 at 2:07 pm to
quote:


You're telling your age, Mr. French!


Ah yes Sissy. But it was Buffy who was way before her time:

quote:

Shortly before noon on August 28, 1976, after partying all night in the beach town of Oceanside, California, with her new boyfriend Allan "Butch" Koven and others, Jones was found dead in the bedroom of a house belonging to the father of a 14-year-old friend named Helen Hennessey.[3]:28 The coroner's report listed her death as an accidental drug overdose:[4] cocaine, PCP, Quaaludes and Seconal were found in her body during an autopsy toxicology examination. The coroner who examined Jones reported she died from one of the most severe drug overdoses he had ever seen. Anissa Jones was only 18 years old.[3]:28

Jones had no funeral and was cremated. Her ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean.[4] She left $63,000 in cash and more than $100,000 in savings bonds when she died.

Six days after Jones' death, Dr. Don Carlos Moshos, who had prescribed the Seconal identified in Jones' toxicology report, was arrested and charged with illegally prescribing the drug to Jones, among other drugs-for-profit charges from a concurrent criminal investigation. While awaiting trial, Moshos died of a terminal illness. His estate was sued by Jones' surviving family for $400,000; in July 1979, the verdict found Dr. Moshos 30% liable and Jones 70% responsible for her death and the resulting judgment was reduced to $79,500.

In 1984, her brother Paul also died of a drug overdose. He was 24 years old. [3]:29 In 2010, her mother Mary Paula Jones died. There were no surviving heirs to the family name.
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RIP Buffy
Posted by trackfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2010
19691 posts
Posted on 8/25/14 at 3:24 pm to
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I have been studying WWI recently and have gained a new respect for the French military. Frankly their commanders sucked in both WWI and WWII but the troops are tough as nails.

Some folks either haven't read history or don't understand the difference between surrendering and getting your arse kicked. France lost more troops (1.4 miilion) in WWI than the U.S. has lost in its entire history, and it lost more troops in WWII during the six weeks after Germany invaded trying defend Paris than the U.S. lost in Korea and Vietnam combined. The British behaved more cowardly than the French during this period IMO.

Also, Petain was never elected to anything, he was a German collorator/puppet who was rightfully tried and convicted for treason after the war, not to mention the 10,000 summary executions that were carried out in France to rid the country of the rest of its collaborators both during and after the war.
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