Originally Posted by happyhammers

Don't forget Blenheim, Trafalgar and Waterloo

Originally Posted by Porthcawl

Hi! I hadn't, just doing all that talking deserved a stop at the watering hole!

Originally Posted by Souvy

Presumably not Perrier water or, heaven forbid, Vichy.

Originally Posted by Jingsamichty

Errol Flynn had an enormous jumper?

Originally Posted by Porthcawl

Well Shard, sorry about the gorilla thing but I forgot your monica! I can give you a quick run down on why us Brits (more specifically Englishmen) really do not like the French. They (the french that is) love to claim victory for 1066 which had Absolutely nothing what so ever to do with French at all. A big fat NOTHING. The Normans who invaded England were French settled Vikings they had only just started using French ( using Old Norse language from William the Conqueror's grandfather) and had conformed to the rules of Viking settlement eveywhere, small scale raids for plunder and slaves, larger raids for whole scale invasions of settlement. When the land was won and safe to settle they sent for their women. This pattern was repeated all over Northern Europe (Ireland,England,Scotland, the Faroes you name it)...But when it comes to France its totally different! The French will have us believe they only took local women. lol It's the one and ONLY victory on English soil by a French speaking enemy (though not of French race) and they need that fact after what we done to them during the 100yrs war which is, due to the Norman conquest the subsequent rulers of England had a claim to the French throne. We went to war with them over this a war that lasted about 113 yrs.They won (well they would, they out numbered us 4-1)but the embarrassment comes from how long it took to kick such a small nations army out of their country..Not to mention the Battles of Crecy, Poitier's and the big one Agincourt! whereby we absolutely decimated the French nobles. They eventually won that but we left them destitute.

One of you people mentioned France being our Ally in W11?They just did not bother with that one preferring to leave the people across the channel (Us) to deal with it alone. This is what really gets up my nose about french arrogance. Thousands and thousands of British troops blood and guts were spilled in both wars for france and THEIR freedom. Yet they are arrogant and hostile to British people even now. Those Normandy beaches and those battlefields of WW11 are OURS by the British blood spilt there. They need to show respect because without us, they'd have no country. We saw them through two wars not one!
The French troops actually went on strike(they still do I think) leaving us the burden of holding our lines and theirs Know something else, I also dislike the Germans. I remember the war and my Mother having to put blackout curtains up at the windows in the house to hide the light in the evenings The drone of the German bomber planes flying over our town, the sirens going off and my parents getting my two brothers and myself up to take us to the air-raid shelter in the garden in the middle of the night. Oh! you're all saying you should have got over that by now. Let me tell the person who mentioned a"psychiatrist" in one response to me, that they nearly always seem to stem things back to childhood.

Originally Posted by Shard

That is possibly the most ridiculous argument to dislike the French that I have ever had the misfortune to hear. Are you serious? What absolute bollox to be hung up on the Norman Invasion. And ask the Scots (still part of Britain) whether they resent the French and you'll get a very different British view.

I'm perhaps 20 years younger than you and I'm more than ready to forgive and forget the Germans for their undeniable aggression in the 20th century, and you're holding grudges against the French for not bring adequate allies. You need move on. The Germans I've met are decent people and practically all have contrition for the wars of their grandparents. Why dwell on these ancient conflicts and resentments?

Bizarre views. Do stick around on the site, we need to re-educate you.

Originally Posted by Novocastrian

Troll. Don't feed the.

Originally Posted by Porthcawl

Unless you can write something constructive-Don't bother

Originally Posted by Porthcawl

Nice to know you want me around even if it's to ridicule me. It's not my education that needs to be changed and the truth will stand. One can't change history, and for me to change my feelings about these things is not going to happen. So, knock it on the head and have done. Let's discuss something else.

Originally Posted by rivingtonpike

Have you met my Father-in-Law? You two would get on like a house on fire! He still hates the Romans for invading Britain in 55 BC.

Originally Posted by Sally Redux

What have they ever done for us?

Originally Posted by rivingtonpike

Have you met my Father-in-Law? You two would get on like a house on fire! He still hates the Romans for invading Britain in 55 BC.

Originally Posted by Novocastrian

Constructive? Let me try. You're a troll. I deduce this because there's no person in the world who could possibly be (a) sane and (b) hold your ludicrous views in the present epoch.

That said, I'm sure you'd enjoy Stephen Clarke's little book called "One Thousand Years of Annoying the French". (just 650 pages and well worth the years it would take you to plough through)

It's a hoot, just like you.

Originally Posted by Partially discharged

If you think mastering a system that has units of 3 (3 feet = 1 yard), 12 (12 inches = 1 foot), 6 (6 feet = 1 fathom), 2240 (2240 lbs = 1 ton), 16 (16 ounces = 1lb) and has freezing and boiling points of 32 and 212, then more power to you...

I'm just happy plodding along with units of 10.