Seriously, though, what's this 'we' basiness - I'm referring to the original post, here. I don't know anyone that hates French folks other than my dad and he thinks India is in the Middle East!

that's because you are in california. californians, REAL californians, aren't that different than the french - they just don't have history to back up their attitudes. ;)

HAHAHA!

Are you saying that Californians are ARROGANT?! What do YOU kow about US?! Your simple mind cannot begin to fathom the complexity of what it is to be Californian. ;)

ain't that the truth.

My wife and i went to the St Regis (dana point, i think?)for sunday brunch a couple of months back. fortunately our old roommate works there and we didn't have to pay because there is no way in hell i'm paying $200 for breakfast. that was just stupid.

it sure was yummy though. and lots of famous people. but that is it. oh, and the view was beautiful too...

Ooooh, can we start bashing Californians now? I know LOT'S about Californians. Colorado has Californians like other people have termites. People here have bumper stickers that read "DON'T CALIFORTNICATE COLORADO!" I did have a friend who was from California once. I forget what happened to him. I think he either got shot by a rancher or eaten by a mountain lion. Can't remember now... :apaw: :unsure:

Oh, nothing personal, Mr. Mouse! ;)

I spent a good year travelling around California, from Lakeside to Merced to Napa to Redding, and found really cool people all the way up. San Francisco and L.A. have high concentrations of weird, but much of the state is indistinguishable from the midwest, attitude wise.

When I was growing up, I thought everyone from California had a surfboard. I thought every child could swim underwater for 5 minutes, and everyone had seen a dolphin in the wild.

They thought we all skiied. 35 years and counting, and I've skiied 5-10 times. I think it's close to the higher number, but I'm not sure. People around here go skiing like others go on a picnic, so it's not particularly memorable.

Gosh, do people count how often they strap on a pair of ski's? When I lived in Durango, I was in charge of opening the library every morning. Our director wanted to break some kind of record, so he never closed the library for ANY reason, not EVER! On bad snow days, I'd strap on my cross countries and ski in to work, open up the library for all the non-existant patrons that day, stack my ski's and poles next to the entrance, go in and make myself some coffee, and spend the day with my feet propped up on the reference desk reading. Now THERE was a cool job! How many times have I been skiing? HAHAHAHAHA! :lol:

Only when it becomes acceptable for Californians to make fun of the bumpkins that insist on moving here to become

A) Movie stars
B) Dot.com tycoons
C) Carpet-bagging politicians
D) Undocumented farm workers
or
E) Rock stars



I have a friend from Colorado, ironically. He loves it here and wouldn't live anywhere else in the world, other than Germany, sans Munich, I think. Thankfully, he's smart enough to realize that people are people wherever you go.

When I lived in Switzerland I never snow-ski'ied. It was considered 'vulgar', or, in other words, "like some tourist."

I was just having a little fun with you, Mr. Mouse. I actually do know several pretty cool folks from Cali. My only real complaint against you guys is that you have made Colorado real estate prices go up, cuz a lot of you have moved here and exchanged your more expensive West coast properties for houses here in the Rockies. But I don't blame any Californian PERSONALLY for this phenomenon.

In France Amelie is called “Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain”.
The director, Jean Pierre Jeunet has realised after : ”Un long dimanche de fiançailles” about the WW1 with the same esthetic. I found it quite intricate with a lot of characters. We must be well awake, and ready to see the same actors than in Amelie plus Jodie Foster. Nevertheless it’s a very beautiful film dealing with WW1 in a realist way. Go and see it ! :thumb:
http://wwws.warnerbros.fr/movies/unl...lash-640.html#
Our last successful film is “les choristes” that reminds me of “Billy Elliot”
http://www.leschoristes-lefilm.com/

“It's cheap, soulless, mass-produced crap, marketed to cheap, soulless, mass-produced people” I will copy it. I hope you’ve got no patent on it !

In France Walmart is still not here but we’ve got clones named : Leclerc, Carrefour, Auchan, Casino… (They sell also lettuce but no rifles !). It’s the same problem. 20 years ago medias were proud to say that we were the first in the world to invent such sh.. and bring cheap material happiness to middle class families (which are sometimes now unemployed). “Communism promised heaven, Leclerc made it !”. Now nobody boast about them.

Is it common in the US to talk about the mark of the Beast ? In France it’s not well known. As we’re a Cartesian country you’ve got chance to be seen as mad for most of French people .
I was looking forWalmart's smiley and found others symbols.
They are not really positive : the 666 gencode over US and the star of the Illuminati… Brrr :worried:

Pierre Capretz : ???

Yes if you want real French headaches you can read Sartre or Proust. But I’ve appreciated Camus “la Peste” despite it’s not funny.

I’ve heard that French (and Belgian, like French fries) comics are not well known abroad despite the latest ones are very creative. You can have a look at some (sorry it’s not those I prefer) :
http://www.read-box.com/
Clic ENTRER, bibliothèque on top, chose a picture, clic “lancer la lecture”, suite, zoom, suite page suivante…
I prefer page 9 : ”La conjuration d’opale”, ”le combat ordinaire” (excellent, need to be french to understand ?), p13 ”Où le regard ne porte pas”, p16 ”Thorgal”, p1 ”Bételgeuse”, p19 ”XIII”…

If you can find them in Walmart, then they are not so bad !

Most Americans' exposure to French bandes-dessinées has been either Heavy Metal magazine (Métal Hurlant in translation) or Astérix.

Merci beaucoup pour ca - useful and enjoyable way to keep my rusty French from seizing up altogether during the winter months

I want to hug some French folks and tell them nice things.