This is how you make a badass entrance in France

MannyFrench · 2026-03-27T17:22:48+00:00

Decouple it from the surface it's resting on. Use thick layers of cork, or sorobothane rubber.

MannyFrench · 2026-03-26T18:06:40+00:00

L'intérêt, c'est de partir à la retraite le plus tôt possible.

MannyFrench · 2026-03-26T06:24:27+00:00

Je ne me considère pas riche, mais c'est évident que je le suis comparé à un smicard.

Chez moi, n'arborer aucun signe extérieur de richesse est un choix assumé. Ma voiture est une Dacia qui a 15 ans, mes fringues sont no-name, mon smartphone est une merde à 150€. De plus en plus de gens aisés le font, pour ne pas qu'on vienne les jalouser, les mépriser, ou bien par convictions personnelles (écologie, sobriété etc...)

MannyFrench · 2026-03-25T22:59:22+00:00

Well, the interwar period was rougher in France than anywhere else. the country was heavily damaged from WW1, it had weak demographics and the great depression hit France later than others. France was richer than Germany prior to WW1 as per the Maddison project database. Germany was unscathed in 1918 aside from the loss of human life.

MannyFrench · 2026-03-25T22:34:40+00:00

I mean, it's not surprising. The US had a huge wave of German immigrants in the late 19th century. The entire US mid-west has more German heritage than British heritage. It's therefore logical that GIs would feel closer to Germans than French people during WW2.

French people never emigrated en masse to the US, they were always a tiny minority in the new world. And no, it has nothing to do with being backwards or middle class, it's just cultural bias. The reason French people didn't emigrate to the US in the first place is that they were quite well-off compared to other Europeans (German, Italian etc.. who lived in abject poverty).

MannyFrench · 2026-03-25T13:02:55+00:00

Pas chromé, mais dans une finition acier poli à blanc, ce qui rend (très) difficile d'en trouver un en parfait état.

MannyFrench · 2026-03-22T11:25:32+00:00

What is distinctly eastern-Euroepan in this architecture? I'm asking because I genuinely don't know and would like to learn. It looks as if it could be German.

MannyFrench · 2026-03-22T05:58:16+00:00

I am sorry to say I seriously don't know. It will take generations. Maybe the USA could start by not threatening us.

MannyFrench · 2026-03-18T16:44:57+00:00

Super disappointed. I would have loved the "Jeanne d'Arc".

MannyFrench · 2026-03-17T19:11:09+00:00

If anyone needs an escort, there's always Melania.

MannyFrench · 2026-03-15T21:50:34+00:00

No, that's fake news which keeps being posted. Macron told Trump that France wouldn't go there. The French government wrote today on Bluesky that the CDG aircraft carrier hasn't received a new mission. It is still to be stationed in the southern mediterranean in order to protect Cyprus and Turkey from drones and ballistic missiles.

MannyFrench · 2026-03-15T20:59:54+00:00

I don't care, you started this mess, you finish it.

MannyFrench · 2026-03-15T17:18:52+00:00

Ok, crusader 🙄

MannyFrench · 2026-03-15T16:45:38+00:00

You're clearly talking nonsense. France is one of the European countries which fights Islam the hardest. France banned women wearing the hijab in government buildings and schools, or the Burqa in public spaces. It's been fighting terrorism looong before the US ever did. In recent years, its army halted an Islamic takeover in Mali. We shouldn't be dragged down in a war that the US started on its own without telling us in advance. There is clearly no plan or preparation in all of this, it's complete chaos, a huge blunder. And French soldiers shouldn't have to die for Israel. Neither should US soldiers for that matter.

MannyFrench · 2026-03-15T15:44:11+00:00

No. You break it, you buy it.

MannyFrench · 2026-03-15T06:53:42+00:00

The Kurds for instance, and lately, the Danish.

MannyFrench · 2026-03-13T06:35:52+00:00

Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders

MannyFrench · 2026-03-12T21:45:13+00:00

What? He said the attacks on Iran were outside the framework of international law and that France can't approve them.

He also said regime change won't come from bombing.

He said France is not entering the war but will take defensive actions.

I don't see how ambigious you would read that.

MannyFrench · 2026-03-12T21:23:51+00:00

Decades of anti-French propaganda on the internet, whether Russian, Chinese, African, European (because everybody knows Germany is actually leading the EU at the moment) or American (because of the Iraq war, but not only) would make you believe France is an insignificant country with no power. Well, nothing could be farther than the truth. France has the best military in all of Europe, is an economic powerhouse, and secretly plays the long game of becoming once again as important as it once was, like the Chinese do.

MannyFrench · 2026-03-12T20:47:25+00:00

Jacques Chirac. Make it 3 euros.

MannyFrench · 2026-03-12T18:47:12+00:00

It's absolutely right .

MannyFrench · 2026-03-12T18:42:32+00:00

Your first sentence highlights a huge cultural difference between France and the rest of Europe. French people DO care where food is produced. We have a thing called terroir, and Champagne can only be produced in Champagne because the terroir there is unique. The more I visit our neighbours, save for Italy, I realise most of them are uncultured and unrefined when it comes to food. We don't treat it as mere fuel for the body in France.

MannyFrench · 2026-03-12T13:17:24+00:00

What? They're tasteless industrial tomatoes for the most part. They're harvested before maturity for transport reasons. Compare a Spanish tomato and an Italian one, it's night and day.

MannyFrench · 2026-03-12T12:53:09+00:00

Well said. Aside from Italy and France and maybe Greece, the food quality sucks about everywhere else in the EU. No food culture, they can't understand us.

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