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Originally Posted by Giorgio_Xo
As a French citizen, I can say the following: All people in France suck except the goodlooking women.
PS: Jean Yves Lecastel shoots some kick ass stuff.
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Let me state for the official record that I LOVE France! It is a wonderful place to live and when you find good people they are phenominal! The art, culture, etc is beyond anything I could hope to experience in North America.
However, no place is perfect. And there is a very ugly side to French society. And it isn't just the bureaucratic nightmare. It is also the cultural-elitism, arrogance and hypocrasy that is common in many of the true french.
When we moved to France it was a huge culture shock to us. The first was to my husband because he is half Acadien (via newfoundland and cape bretton) and his father is Italian. Needless to say his dialect is harsh.
About 2 weeks later I went crazyfrom everyone correcting my pronounciation. - I'm from Paspebiac, Quebec. (Gaspesie)
In our first month of settling in, we were quickly taught that are 2 French sayings. And these proverbs get under our skins:
(I'm stealing this from my husband's writtings)
1. To be happy you must you must hide.
eg: 90% of the french female pornstars escort. But they assume different names, register their domains under swiss extensions and viciously attack the pornchick that gets found out. Despite being guilty of it themselves. Furthermore, they think porn is somehow NOT prostitution and that there is a cop around every corner.
(And obviously they don't care that a P.S.E earns tons more - or the fact that their domains maybe swiss but their phone numbers listed on the sites are french.)
2. Do not fart higher then your ass.
Simply explained - Do not draw attention to yourself.
Now both my husband and I learned how to hunt and fish at an early age and grew up in cold remote areas. So we have two sayings that are completely contradictory to the above.
1. To eat you must hunt.
self-explanitory
2. It doesn't matter how long that rabbit hides. Be patient because sooner or later it will believe it is safe and pop it's head up. That's when you blow it off
Also self-evident
And anyone knows that when you go hunting with a group. You want to make damn certain that everyone knows where you are before the shooting starts.
And yes! He does make some kick ass stuff!