Emmeran wrote:

Ya know, Sea Lions have become a big problem lately also, perhaps a wall along the west coast?

Shark attacks on the East Coast.  Fuggit.  Fortress America here we come.

Baywolfe wrote:

Agreed, let's turn the Statue of Liberty around, take away the book, and have her give the finger to everybody.

Actually, I'm a firm believer that the French gave us that damned statue just to screw us.

Walker was asked Sunday morning on NBC's "Meet the Press" whether he wanted to build a wall on the northern border, too. Walker said some people in New Hampshire have asked the campaign about the topic.

In all fairness, the subject of locking out stinky french people has surfaced at regular intervals in NH for a couple hundred years.

choad wrote:

Walker was asked Sunday morning on NBC's "Meet the Press" whether he wanted to build a wall on the northern border, too. Walker said some people in New Hampshire have asked the campaign about the topic.

In all fairness, the subject of locking out stinky french people has surfaced at regular intervals in NH for a couple hundred years.

...as well as NYC and Mass folks.

I reworked a number of Census Bureau handouts into news stories in the early 80s. One of my favorites drew the unmistakable conclusion Vermont's Québécois accounted for a staggering 25% of the state's population, mostly occupying the bottom of the food chain. Anywhere else, their jobs were held by blacks, who at the time numbered less than 1,000.

Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1932

“What you call the French race is nothing but a collection of riff-raff like me, bleary-eyed, flea-bitten, chilled to the bone. They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumours and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any further because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people...

Hateful and spineless, raped and robbed, mangled and witless, they were as good as we are, you can say that again! We never change! Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we’re so slow about it that it’s no use. We were born loyal, and that’s what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery. He’s our lord and master! When we misbehave, he tightens his grip... his fingers are around our neck, that makes it hard to talk, got to be careful if we want to eat... For nothing at all he’ll choke you... It’s not a life...”

XregnaR wrote:

whosasailorthen wrote:

We see the stinky Frenchies all over the place near our lake house on Lake Champlain (Rouse's Point)... we're only 5 miles from Canada... there's almost nothing but "Je me souviens" license plates in the local Price Chopper parking lot... they come across the border in droves to buy the stuff cheaper.  The really annoying thing is that I do speak French, but I'll be danged if I can understand more than 50% of what they're saying.

Pourquoi s'embêter? Le français est une langue moribonde de toute façon.

C'est vrai.... mais malheureusement, le peuple francais ne sont pas.

choad wrote:

Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1932

“What you call the French race is nothing but a collection of riff-raff like me, bleary-eyed, flea-bitten, chilled to the bone. They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumours and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any further because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people...

Hateful and spineless, raped and robbed, mangled and witless, they were as good as we are, you can say that again! We never change! Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we’re so slow about it that it’s no use. We were born loyal, and that’s what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery. He’s our lord and master! When we misbehave, he tightens his grip... his fingers are around our neck, that makes it hard to talk, got to be careful if we want to eat... For nothing at all he’ll choke you... It’s not a life...”

I loved reading Celine whilst riding trains speeding through the night in France.

Emmeran wrote:

whosasailorthen wrote:

XregnaR wrote:

Pourquoi s'embêter? Le français est une langue moribonde de toute façon.

C'est vrai.... mais malheureusement, le peuple francais ne sont pas.

何を言っているのですか?

越来越多的人讲英语在中国比在英语世界相结合的休息。

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Tall Paul wrote:

Emmeran wrote:

XregnaR wrote:

越来越多的人讲英语在中国比在英语世界相结合的休息。

Sorry, can't read chinese.

ばかやろ！

漢字をファックします。

Tall Paul wrote:

Katakana not good enough for you, Faakuface?

Really? Fa-a-ku-shimasu??? Alright, I did drop the ウ on the end, but even so.....　

Tough language to stay fluent in, particularly the fucking hieroglyphics.  What kind of back-ass cultures still use pictures as the written word?

At this point I've turned my focus towards brushing up my German, I've punted on nihongo.