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I made a thread in the general talk about JC guitars about how the inscriptions in French on the DeMartini guitars meant nothing. I was honestly hoping to interest a few people (On a forum as big as this, I'd have thought some people would be interested on the correct form, or at least laugh about it) and instead I got a lot of French jokes. I don't see what I did to warrant these, and I know my responses were not the most mature, and I am sorry for that. However I do not regret them, everything I said had a purpose. Don't read if you don't want a history lesson:
French are pussies:
100,000 Frenchmen died defending our country from Germany during the invasion. Some of you feel that's joke worthy, ok, feel free.
French surrendered:
Yeah that one is true. One half of our country was held hostage so Petin chose to save the other half. Maybe some of you would have fought and let another 100,000 of our people die. Maybe not. Ah well we didn't have any army left though. Oh and Hitler himself said that he encountered more losses in Poland, The Netherlands, Belgium and France than he expected. But ok, we're cowards.
French people hate American people:
Ah that one's new. Now, I can't comment too much. But I can surely tell you that everyone in France when I lived there (5 and a half years ago) LOVE America. We're fascinated by the culture, by the cities, but its history. WE LOVE YOU!!! Stop saying we don't! We don't love you those who threw wine and French cheese away, we don't love those who invented the freedom fry (and believe me I laughed at that one). But we don't pick on the nation for that. At least not in what I heard, and I do believe I'm well enough placed to comment on that [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
We have no respect for what the US did for us:
Well back when I was in middle school, the biggest emphasis in WWII was placed on DDay. We went to the cemetary, the memorials, the museums... And as far as I know, all the schools who can do it do it. It's a bit of a tradition. Every 9th grade student (still middle school in France) expects to go to Caen to the museums as a field trip. Believe me, we KNOW what the allies did for us during WWII, and WWI. And we respect that, and we'll never stop thanking you. Trust me on that.
Oh and in my history classes, we barely ever spent more than 20 minutes on Lafayette [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] How's that for respect and thankfullness?
French girls don't shave their armpits:
Eh... ok... I don't shave mines but I'm a guy [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] and trust me, TRUST me, French girls do. And not just armpits.
Now believe me, I'm not a patriotic person at all. I am French, but I don't live in France. I didn't chose to have been born there, I see no reasons to care for my country other than just 'liking it'. I now live in Scotland and I chose it. By the way I think, it'd be the only country I could feel patriotic towards. But I just don't really care. I care for cultures and how to blend in. Languages and how to speak them (I'm trillingual with a couple of words in others, and learning another one now). I care for individual people, no matter what country they're form. I'd be the first to joke about France, trust me. But you don't see me taking cheap shot about the US when a thread is about US guitars or the English language. I'm asking those of you do take the cheap shots to respect that. This is a GUITAR forum, and as much as the next guy I'd love to keep it that way.
Sorry if I offend anyone with this. But in my experience the history lesson is more than needed.
French are pussies:
100,000 Frenchmen died defending our country from Germany during the invasion. Some of you feel that's joke worthy, ok, feel free.
French surrendered:
Yeah that one is true. One half of our country was held hostage so Petin chose to save the other half. Maybe some of you would have fought and let another 100,000 of our people die. Maybe not. Ah well we didn't have any army left though. Oh and Hitler himself said that he encountered more losses in Poland, The Netherlands, Belgium and France than he expected. But ok, we're cowards.
French people hate American people:
Ah that one's new. Now, I can't comment too much. But I can surely tell you that everyone in France when I lived there (5 and a half years ago) LOVE America. We're fascinated by the culture, by the cities, but its history. WE LOVE YOU!!! Stop saying we don't! We don't love you those who threw wine and French cheese away, we don't love those who invented the freedom fry (and believe me I laughed at that one). But we don't pick on the nation for that. At least not in what I heard, and I do believe I'm well enough placed to comment on that [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
We have no respect for what the US did for us:
Well back when I was in middle school, the biggest emphasis in WWII was placed on DDay. We went to the cemetary, the memorials, the museums... And as far as I know, all the schools who can do it do it. It's a bit of a tradition. Every 9th grade student (still middle school in France) expects to go to Caen to the museums as a field trip. Believe me, we KNOW what the allies did for us during WWII, and WWI. And we respect that, and we'll never stop thanking you. Trust me on that.
Oh and in my history classes, we barely ever spent more than 20 minutes on Lafayette [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] How's that for respect and thankfullness?
French girls don't shave their armpits:
Eh... ok... I don't shave mines but I'm a guy [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] and trust me, TRUST me, French girls do. And not just armpits.
Now believe me, I'm not a patriotic person at all. I am French, but I don't live in France. I didn't chose to have been born there, I see no reasons to care for my country other than just 'liking it'. I now live in Scotland and I chose it. By the way I think, it'd be the only country I could feel patriotic towards. But I just don't really care. I care for cultures and how to blend in. Languages and how to speak them (I'm trillingual with a couple of words in others, and learning another one now). I care for individual people, no matter what country they're form. I'd be the first to joke about France, trust me. But you don't see me taking cheap shot about the US when a thread is about US guitars or the English language. I'm asking those of you do take the cheap shots to respect that. This is a GUITAR forum, and as much as the next guy I'd love to keep it that way.
Sorry if I offend anyone with this. But in my experience the history lesson is more than needed.
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