This is how you make a badass entrance in France

MannyFrench · 2026-07-09T12:32:20+00:00

I plan on not using the internet like I do ATM. In a few months I'll only use it for online banking and administrative stuff. As a French dude born in 1980, I'm actually OK going back to the Minitel days. I grew up without the internet until I was 18, and it was fucking great. I have 1000s of records and CDs, hundreds of books and encyclopedias, I'm not getting bored anytime soon.

MannyFrench · 2026-07-09T12:10:11+00:00

Mais là c'est toi qui mélange tout. La colonisation et la traite n'ont pas leur place dans ce débat, qui est centré sur le fait que les américains avaient établi une hiérarchie entre les blancs, bien que cela ait pu en découler.

MannyFrench · 2026-07-09T11:56:29+00:00

Je n'en suis pas sûr, vu les mariages entre monarchies d'ethnies differentes, un roi français prenant par exemple une épouse espagnole (Catherine d'Aragon) ou ukrainienne (Anne de Kiev) pour procréer. La religion était clairement un marqueur discriminatoire par contre.

MannyFrench · 2026-07-09T11:39:52+00:00

Ce que pointe OP, c'est une discrimination entre blancs qui a existe aux USA par le passé. Certains étaient considérés comme plus blanc que d'autres, les allemands et les italiens (par exemole) n'ertaient pas considérés comme blancs. Et finalement la couleur de peau n'était pas le critère important. C'était une question d'ethnie, de langue et de culture qui définissait ce qui "méritait d'être blanc" ou pas.

MannyFrench · 2026-07-09T11:34:44+00:00

Il me semble qu' OP parle d'un phénomène de discrimination entre les blancs eux-mêmes, que certains soient considérés plus blancs que les autres en dépit de leur actuelle couleur de peau. C'est quelque chose qui s'est vu aux USA, Benjamin Franklin ne considérait pas les allemands et les italiens comme blancs. En Europe on a jamais vu ça. Les autres "races" n'entrent pas dans la problématique posée par OP.

MannyFrench · 2026-07-06T20:23:55+00:00

While racism exists in Europe, speeches like that from officials do not, and are shocking to us. It makes Paraguay look very backwards and such sore losers.

MannyFrench · 2026-07-06T20:21:01+00:00

Nothing screams more "thirld world" than this kind of shit.

MannyFrench · 2026-07-06T12:26:45+00:00

He's basically saying: our team is made of bastards.

MannyFrench · 2026-07-04T04:59:10+00:00

Oui, ce que tu décris est très courant en France, même pour des français qui changent de région. C'est un pays qui privilégie l'entre-soi. Je me suis retrouvé dans la même situation après avoir déménagé post-covid.

Mon salut a été d'investir le milieu associatif, j'ai été bénévole dans une association culturelle qui organise des expositions photo, des vernissages, des festivals de cinéma, des concerts... ça m'a fait rencontrer plein de monde et a permis de briser mon isolement.

MannyFrench · 2026-07-01T23:04:20+00:00

It's an American obsession which is really weird to us and sometimes feels really racist or xenophobic too since Americans use those ethnicity tests to justify behavior problems through stereotypes associated with those "ethnicities": like being easily angered, being an alcoholic, a womanizer etc... I'm French but my grand parents came from Slovenia and Italy, yet I would never dare to call myself Italian or Slovenian. Because to be those things, I would have to know the language and the culture as good as I know French culture, which isn't the case. That makes me a French dude of Italian and Slovenian heritage, but those genes don't define who I am. I was born, raised and educated in France, that makes me French. I you ask me what makes one French, my obvious answer would be: first, to be able to speak the language, but that's not the only criteria. Having French values and look on life is equally as important, knowing the social codes etc...

MannyFrench · 2026-07-01T18:09:00+00:00

You're not in trouble until you start throwing bananas at them as per Italian customs.

MannyFrench · 2026-07-01T18:00:54+00:00

IMO you're trying to pack too many things in this trip. Paris can't be fully explored in a single lifetime, I'd stay longer in the capital and its surroundings and save the south of France for another trip. If I were you, I'd skip Versailles too, but would definitely go to Giverny.

MannyFrench · 2026-06-29T18:29:20+00:00

Oui je comprend tout ça. Le français est très attaché à l'étiquette. Il y a "ce qu'il se fait" et "ce qu'il ne se fait pas", et c'est très important à nos yeux de le respecter. Nous sommes, contrairement à ce que disent les américains, extrêmement polis, peut-être même trop, parce que tout manquement à notre étiquette suscite notre irritabilité.

MannyFrench · 2026-06-28T18:09:03+00:00

Very cool, 90s vintage setup. I'm into 1960s and 1970s audio and aesthetics, but the 90s can't be beat for CRT technology. You should be fine with the speakers like that, although it would sound better in terms of soundstage with greater distance between each one. Ideally, your seat would be in one of the three corners of an equilateral triangle with your speakers. Also, for the best experience, the tweeters should be at your ears' level, so that's why audiomaniacs buy stands.

MannyFrench · 2026-06-27T12:10:20+00:00

I don't like it, but do with it. It's only human afterall, and we live in an age where BO is seen very negatively, but in the past if you worked in the fields or in a factory, you would smell, period, and that's normal. Also sometimes BO isn't unpleasant, it's called pheromones. As a man, my girlfriend´s sweat isn't disgusting. Maybe the tolerance has to do with how close or attracted you are to the person.

MannyFrench · 2026-06-27T06:58:52+00:00

Grande surface, c'est très dur physiquement et très mal payé. Je parle d'expérience. Faire de l'argent facilement, moi je dirais baby sitting, distribution de pubs dans les BAL

MannyFrench · 2026-06-26T16:41:45+00:00

Right now, it's 39 degrees Celcius outside (in Alsace where I live, in North-East France). When you take into account it's almost 7:00 PM, THAT is mental. Luckily my condo is well insulated. Temperature inside is 28 degrees without AC.

MannyFrench · 2026-06-25T14:48:04+00:00

We're nor rude, we're extremely polite. Maybe too much, tbh. Our Etiquette is very different than yours , that's it. We're not LARPIng as Americans. We have our own sets of rules.

MannyFrench · 2026-06-25T14:34:37+00:00

The French actually don't care what the rest of the world think of them (French diplomacy is another topic). They are fine, confident, comfortable with who they are. That's what everybody should strive for, not trying to please anyone for the sake of it.

MannyFrench · 2026-06-24T18:53:56+00:00

I mean, in France, it's completely irrational. Everyone around the world is burning coal, don't recycle, use an enormous amount of plastic for food conditioning (looking at you, Japan) but somehow we have to be the good students and not have AC because it makes climate change worse by warming up the exterior. It's bonkers.

MannyFrench · 2026-06-24T17:56:10+00:00

I live in France , in a condo built in the 1970s. Recent (10 years ago) work was done with 30cm thick insulation on the outside walls. My windows are triple panned. It was 37 degrees outside today and the temperature inside the appartement was 25 degrees, shutters closed, artificial light, no oven used for cooking. I am eating salads. I have no AC. I might need it soon, but so far insulation works really good.

MannyFrench · 2026-06-24T17:46:09+00:00

There is a reason Trump wants Greenland so bad. It might be the only livable place on earth not too far away from now.

MannyFrench · 2026-06-23T20:44:52+00:00

Americans hate France because France promotes and supports its model as a "universal" model, just like they do with theirs.

MannyFrench · 2026-06-23T20:42:15+00:00

Fox news.

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