Originally Posted by KJ2007 (Post 5323906)

Oh - well that I definitely agree with! Have you ever heard French rap or hip hop? <shudder>

Originally Posted by Sally (Post 5323916)

I haven't had that pleasure :unsure:
I guess some of the trance-type music is French. (Is it? No idea really)

Originally Posted by KJ2007 (Post 5323906)

Oh - well that I definitely agree with! Have you ever heard French rap or hip hop? <shudder>

Originally Posted by Rushman (Post 5323931)

Have you ever heard ANY rap or hip hop? <shudder>

Originally Posted by Sally (Post 5323948)

Some of it I quite like, but not if it's just mutha****in this, that and the other.

Originally Posted by Rushman (Post 5323976)

You have now fallen greatly in my estimation.

Originally Posted by Sally (Post 5323986)

Come on - it's better than Kenny G or something

Originally Posted by Sally (Post 5323840)

In all seriousness this thread has surprised me. The OP said he got these comments at work. If they were said in a nasty and vindictive way, he would probably have grounds for some kind of action. I'm presuming it's a gentle ribbing which is nonetheless tiresome. Kids at school kept calling my son "Joe English", it wasn't meant unkindly but it really annoyed him. So I took it that OP just wanted a couple of good ripostes. As manc said, AJP Taylor-style analysis was not required.

Originally Posted by Rushman (Post 5323826)

Votre mare suce d'bit d'elephant always went down well.

Originally Posted by KJ2007 (Post 5323860)

Sadly no. I wish I did. We do have family friends in Provence, but I made my French friends as a teenager and unfortunately I don't know where they are today. Your comments about the French reminded me of something someone in France told me about the British years ago ... "they think they are better than we are because they have a Queen". I still think that's funny. :)

Believe it or not, but there aren't many French people in Cincinnati. ;) The only time I get to use my French now is when someone wants me to proof something at work that will be used in Quebec, and Canadian French is NOT the same as Parisian French. Probably like British vs. American English.

Originally Posted by Rushman (Post 5323795)

My literacy skills are a damn site better and more accurate than that loads of complete crap you posted sunshine.

Originally Posted by cindyabs (Post 5326008)

They speak joual there, which is a wee bit different. I swear in it here (I mean at work) when I get really po'ed. Nobody knows what I'm saying so, no harm done.

Originally Posted by Okachickima (Post 5323681)

"The Republicans threatened FDR with impeachment if he brought the US into 'Europe's War' and they only went in by one vote in Congress."

Where are you getting your facts from? The only member of Congress to vote against the U. S.' entry into WWII against Japan (after Pearl Harbor, of course) was Sen. Jeanette Rankin of Montana, and after Germany declared war on the U. S. she merely abstained from voting on the declaration against them.

Originally Posted by Philgr (Post 5312305)

Well you could try something along the lines of "and if it wasn't for us you'd all be speaking Spanish" although that requires a knowledge of the colonization of the US and loses something given they are reverting to that anyhow. ;)

Originally Posted by tamms_1965 (Post 5327059)

Or Native American of which their are many different tribes