So it's London

They had the world cup (and won). They have a much better climate than ours, their diesel is cheaper and even their Rugby League teams are beating ours. I think its only fair Londoners should pay huge council tax bills in return for blighty getting a slice of action. Anyway, if the dome, wembley stadium etc is anything to go by it'll be off-schedule and way over budget so the french can sit back and laugh.
 
T-bone Sanchez said:
Im insulted you've tarnished me as a xenophobe when you know nothing about me or my views
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Now it's you that needs to lighten up! It's one thing to say someone has made a xenophobic remark, quite another to call them a xenophobe.

Apologies if you or mr cat feel insulted. It was the Daily Mail's pages of crass anti-French jokes that really got me irritated. If instead of "a French man" they had put "a black man" they would be in very serious trouble indeed. I don't see why it's seen as acceptable in one case and not in the other. IMO they could reasonably be charged with inciting racial hatred (against the French).

Michael.
 
I guess they'll have tp upgrade the public transport...the underground too...that can't cope at the best of times...but hey, with all this freak weather we'rehaving, god knows (and him only?) what the conditions will be like anyway...
 
7_V said:
...and so soon after we celebrated the historic victory of the red team over the blue team. :D
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Was that the celebration of the "inconsequential sea battle in which a British admiral was killed" as the French like to describe it :)
 
May I kindly remind this assembly that London's successful bid was won against New York City, Moscow, Madrid and Paris, not just Paris ... and certainly not France as a whole, even if our president saw fit to show his face (which I for one objected to).

Which makes London's victory a truly great achievement.

As for Trafalgar, that was won against France and Spain. Quite an achievement too. :D
 
Not xenophobic at all me but in the style of infamous Norwegian football comentator Bjorn Minge I have to say:

Napoleon Boneparte, Louis XIV, Joan of Arc, Marie Antoinette, Charles De Gaulle, Marcel Marceau, Sasha Distell, Jacques Chirac – can you hear me Jacques Chirac! Your boys took one hell of a beating! Your boys took one hell of a beating!

Matt.
 
Matt F said:
Napoleon Boneparte, Louis XIV, Joan of Arc, Marie Antoinette, Charles De Gaulle, Marcel Marceau, Sasha Distell, Jacques Chirac ââ'¬â€œ can you hear me Jacques Chirac! Your boys took one hell of a beating! Your boys took one hell of a beating!
Matt.
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Technically, this should be addressed to Bertrand Delanoe, mayor of Paris and head of the Paris 2012 venture, not Jacques Chirac. But his/their boys did take one hell of a beating all the same. ;)

And BTW, its Bonaparte, Charles de Gaulle and Sacha Distel. No offence taken.
 
Hopefully that'll teach France to stop taking the p1$$ out of the UK, how do you like that Jacques? What was that about BSE again?? If Jacques opinions are not of those of the French people, then itsn't it time for a change of government?
Well done London anyway, I'm not personally interested in the games, but I'm sure it's good news for those who do.
 
i think you'll find the majority of the french feel similar about english food and our relativly uptight way of consuming it.
 

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