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This is one of the many reasons why the French are cool.

I know something good came from France...
Wine with very expensive bubbles.
And...
Uhmmm...
Err...
Bread.

Wow I understand what he's saying!

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This is one of the many reasons why the French are cool.
Awesome! That guy's a freak, but he is just amazing :D

Wow, thats one hell of a bad twitch he's got. Was he just released from Guantanamo or something (orange boiler suit), or maybe he was the entertainment.
"I'll tell you anything. Just don't let him play Bach!" :D

What about all these great french people?

Enzo Scifo
Jean Claude Van Damme
Peter Brugel The Elder (15th Century Painter)
Hercule Poirot
King Leopold I
Pierre Culliford (creator of the smurfs)
Audrey Hepburn
Tintin
Adolphe Sax (creator of the saxophone)
Georges Lemaitre (Big Bang theory)

Wow. That is hillarious.

What about all these great french people?

Enzo Scifo
Jean Claude Van Damme
Peter Brugel The Elder (15th Century Painter)
Hercule Poirot
King Leopold I
Pierre Culliford (creator of the smurfs)
Audrey Hepburn
Tintin
Adolphe Sax (creator of the saxophone)
Georges Lemaitre (Big Bang theory)
Your mix of the humourous, the ridiculous and the laudable is an accomplishment in itself.

What about all these great french people?

Enzo Scifo
Jean Claude Van Damme
Peter Brugel The Elder (15th Century Painter)
Hercule Poirot
King Leopold I
Pierre Culliford (creator of the smurfs)
Audrey Hepburn
Tintin
Adolphe Sax (creator of the saxophone)
Georges Lemaitre (Big Bang theory)
Are you sure these are all French? Enzo Scifo sounds suspiciously Italian and Peter Brugel sounds very German. Haven't ever heard of them though, so I might very well be wrong.
Hehe. I love Tintin! But I'm pretty sure he's from Belgium.

That was pretty incredible. Though I believe that everyone agree that France was so much more awesome pre-Roman, when they were Celtic Gaul!

What about all these great french people?
I think that everyone can agree that Jean-Paul Sartre is truly the greatest Frenchman ever.

That was pretty incredible. Though I believe that everyone agree that France was so much more awesome pre-Roman, when they were Celtic Gaul!
Vercingetorix kicked so much ass!

That was pretty incredible. Though I believe that everyone agree that France was so much more awesome pre-Roman, when they were Celtic Gaul!



There was no Celtic Gaul, only Gaul.

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This is one of the many reasons why the French are cool.

LOL! Well, I may just have to rethink my hostility toward most things French after viewing that! :D

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This is one of the many reasons why the French are cool.
Wow. I wish I could do that.

There was no Celtic Gaul, only Gaul.

Gaul was the roman name for an area which occupied a similar (but not exactly the same) area to that which the modern state of france occupies. While the "Gauls" spoke similar languages to each other, it is entirely uncertain that they regarded themselves as a single people, and they certainly were not united under a single political entity analogous to a modern state.

Ethnically the "Gauls" were the result of the same migrations into and out of the area called Gaul as were all people in western Europe since Homo Sapiens first arrived in Europe (Estimated at about 30,000 BC if memory serves)

that was disturbing, yet hilarious

Wow I understand what he's saying!

Me too... I'm afraid of myself... :rolleyes:

That was the most awesome thing EVER

What about all these great french people?-snip-
King Leopold I
Pierre Culliford (creator of the smurfs)
-snip-
Adolphe Sax (creator of the saxophone)
Georges Lemaitre (Big Bang theory)
As for the first two, rock on. As for the last, those that are hating the french will only hate them more because of that. ;)

I really enjoyed that. Thank you.

What about all these great french people?

Jean Claude Van Damme

Hes Belgian too

There is still nothing good currently coming out of France, despite this thread.

Vercingetorix kicked so much ass!
Hells fecking yeah!

There was no Celtic Gaul, only Gaul.
I was referring to Gaul before it was conquered by the Romans. Since Gaul is occasionally used in reference to modern France, I wanted to clarify that I meant it in a pre-Roman way. And the Gauls were indeed Celtic.

Gaul was the roman name for an area which occupied a similar (but not exactly the same) area to that which the modern state of france occupies. While the "Gauls" spoke similar languages to each other, it is entirely uncertain that they regarded themselves as a single people, and they certainly were not united under a single political entity analogous to a modern state.

Ethnically the "Gauls" were the result of the same migrations into and out of the area called Gaul as were all people in western Europe since Homo Sapiens first arrived in Europe (Estimated at about 30,000 BC if memory serves)
Yes, but they were still indeed considered a Celtic people. Though, to be accurate, the Roman name for Gaul was Gallia, as "Gaul" is derived from the French Gaule, which came from the Latin Gallia. And yes indeed, they were sorely divided. If they had just developed in such a way that they were not constantly bickering with each other, they probably would have been able to conquer Rome (for more than a year), instead of the other way around. And the Celts were indeed their own "race", in the loosest sense of the word (I don't want to get into that right now), with distinctive ethnological characteristics. Roughly 1 in 11 Celts had straight out red hair, and many had hues of red in their hair. That's all I can remember right now, but I'm pretty sure there were other traits that were typically Celtic.

Hmm, I thought a Nazi created the smurfs...
Anyway, some other nice things that came out of France:
Jean Jacques Rousseau (He had this crazy idea about the General Will of the people)
Voltaire
Abbe Sieyes and the other revolutionaries and founders of the National Assembly (who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen).
Robbespiere is debatable. Maybe he's great, maybe he's evil. Could go either way.
Sartre, too, is not to be left out.
And what about Cartier, who led the expeditions that first settled in Canada?
There's more, I'm sure..

Robbespiere is debatable. Maybe he's great, maybe he's evil. Could go either way.
I'd say both, depending on the time.

Yes, but they were still indeed considered a Celtic people. Though, to be accurate, the Roman name for Gaul was Gallia, as "Gaul" is derived from the French Gaule, which came from the Latin Gallia. And yes indeed, they were sorely divided. If they had just developed in such a way that they were not constantly bickering with each other, they probably would have been able to conquer Rome (for more than a year), instead of the other way around. And the Celts were indeed their own "race", in the loosest sense of the word (I don't want to get into that right now), with distinctive ethnological characteristics. Roughly 1 in 11 Celts had straight out red hair, and many had hues of red in their hair. That's all I can remember right now, but I'm pretty sure there were other traits that were typically Celtic.

What? How many "celts" have you seen. 1/11 with red hair, they were practically inbred. The idea that language and ethnicity are corresponding traits has been dead since WWII.

Ok if you feel the need to be pedantic, "gaul" is a translation of the Roman name for said area!

The Romans had a peculiar view of foreign peoples. Just because they spoke Celtic languages, doesn't mean that the "Celts" were a unique ethnic group!

Hmm, I thought a Nazi created the smurfs...
Anyway, some other nice things that came out of France:
Jean Jacques Rousseau (He had this crazy idea about the General Will of the people)
Voltaire
Abbe Sieyes and the other revolutionaries and founders of the National Assembly (who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen).
Robbespiere is debatable. Maybe he's great, maybe he's evil. Could go either way.
Sartre, too, is not to be left out.
And what about Cartier, who led the expeditions that first settled in Canada?
There's more, I'm sure..

Actually all the people I listed were Belgian. It was meant as a Joke, although I realise it may cause offence to French and Belgian people, Sorry.

I dislike the French, mainly for this reason! (http://www.pantomime-norman.de/bilder/fantasy_mimes_1_lo.jpg)

Humor makes the world go around. =D

There is still nothing good currently coming out of France, despite this thread.

AWwwwww, poor baby feels hurt?

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The only thing france has going for them is that Vivendi Universal published Half-Life 2 for Valve.

The only thing france has going for them is that Vivendi Universal published Half-Life 2 for Valve.

Sauternes is quite nice too!

What about all these great french people?

Enzo Scifo
Jean Claude Van Damme
Peter Brugel The Elder (15th Century Painter)
Hercule Poirot
King Leopold I
Pierre Culliford (creator of the smurfs)
Audrey Hepburn
Tintin
Adolphe Sax (creator of the saxophone)
Georges Lemaitre (Big Bang theory)

Jean Claude van Damme: Sounds french, but I thought he was dutch
Pieter Brugel: Either a Belgian or dutch
King Leopold: Again, more likely than not a Belgian. Or even an Austrian
Pierre Culliford: Belgian, most certainly
Tintin: created by Hergé (a Belgian anti-semitist, if I recall)

That leaves us with...Well, not much. But who could forget Napoleon, Voltaire and Charlemagne? Or the guy who wrote the Astrix and Obelix comics?

All things put together, the french have a buttload of creative geniusses. Nevermind that they rarely win battles.

One word:
Matra

Very cool... x_x

Vercingetorix kicked so much ass!Well in Asterix and Obelisk I do believe he was a great character, but if memory serves me correctly I do believe that in history Vercingetorix was a much beloved Gaulish Warlord who did nothing but get his ass handed to him on plate by the Romans.

Are you sure these are all French? Enzo Scifo sounds suspiciously Italian and Peter Brugel sounds very German. Haven't ever heard of them though, so I might very well be wrong.
Hehe. I love Tintin! But I'm pretty sure he's from Belgium.

What I can say is that Bruegel the Elder is for sure a genius but unfortunately he's not French but flemish. Hercule Poirot is belgian (been reading all books by Agatha Christie from 12 to 15 so I can tell for sure).
Van Damme is belgian too. And Tintin was drawn by Georges Rémi aka Hergé, a belgian collaborateur with quite a racist and colonialist frame of mind (see "Tintin au Congo", for example).
About these last two I'm really glad they're not french (though I'm feeling sorry for Belgians, who are generally very nice people, they didn't deserve such a plague)

The only thing france has going for them is that Vivendi Universal published Half-Life 2 for Valve.

Vivendi and the Half life 2 staff deserve to be horsewhipped in a town square for attaching steam to the glorious Half life. It’s like having a stickman drawing scrawled all over the Mona Lisa. If that stick man then followed you home and crashed your computer every half an hour of course.
They then should be let go without further punishment provided they hunt down and destroy every single one of their legions of lawyers and rip up all their cease and desist orders.



Well in Asterix and Obelisk I do believe he was a great character, but if memory serves me correctly I do believe that in history Vercingetorix was a much beloved Gaulish Warlord who did nothing but get his ass handed to him on plate by the Romans.

Give him a break, he was fighting against Caesar and he almost won. It was only one moment of kindness that let him down.

What about all these great french people?

Enzo Scifo
Jean Claude Van Damme
Peter Brugel The Elder (15th Century Painter)
Hercule Poirot
King Leopold I
Pierre Culliford (creator of the smurfs)
Audrey Hepburn
Tintin
Adolphe Sax (creator of the saxophone)
Georges Lemaitre (Big Bang theory)

Yeah sure, and George W. Bush is from Mexico.....
Get your Belgians straight. (If that can be done with Belgians, that is....)

.. George W. Bush is from Mexico....
Will you stop insulting the Mexicans.

What about all these great french people?

Enzo Scifo
Jean Claude Van Damme
Peter Brugel The Elder (15th Century Painter)
Hercule Poirot
King Leopold I
Pierre Culliford (creator of the smurfs)
Audrey Hepburn
Tintin
Adolphe Sax (creator of the saxophone)
Georges Lemaitre (Big Bang theory)
all belgians :confused:

You know a lot about Belgium for someone who knows nothing about France.

All things put together, the french have a buttload of creative geniusses. Nevermind that they rarely win battles.
The French can win battles, and even wars. However, if their forces are led by a male of French persuasion then they will inevitably lose. Napoleon was Corsican, so he kicked serious ass for a while, but he stupidly decided to invade Russia. Joan of Arc, on the other hand, kicked english ass, but even she was killed on the eve of victory by the damned preists. Or deacons, or whatever the hell they were called.

Will you stop insulting the Mexicans.
Ah yes, Mexico, ransom capital of the world.

Give him a break, he was fighting against Caesar and he almost won. It was only one moment of kindness that let him down.I've only ever read that Caesar won decisively.I just read about how he managed to unite many gaulish tribes. That is amazing on its own.

Give him a break, he was fighting against Caesar and he almost won. It was only one moment of kindness that let him down.
Moment of kindness? Please explain. :)

Ah yes, Mexico, ransom capital of the world.
That's Colombia. But Mexico is in the semifinal.

hehe, that was funny. Thank you! :D

France is a lovely country :-)

Peugeots are excellent & they (mostly) come from France.