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dumb frogs
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well duh how could anyone not know that? i mean, they are writing about it, shouldnt they know some stuff about the topic or get fired?
Except for when DeGaulle won that Ugly Bartender contest, the French have not done much right for 200 years.
The French have had two successful military leaders (DeGaulle wasn’t one of them). Napoleon, who wasn’t technically French, was exiled. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. Being part French-Canadian, I was often called a gorf (a backwards frog).
This is just a typical case of ignorant “tech” writers not knowing what they’re writing about. If these guys worked for me I’d have fired them long ago. It’s not like the iPods some obscure little niche player that could easily lead to the odd mistake. Crikey, EVERYONE’s been talking about it for months now. So either this guy’s in the wrong job or it was a deliberate attempt to spread misinformation.
Btw, I hope the jokes about the French are made in good humour. I’ve been seeing a few too many racist slurs coming mainly from the US recently to be able to tell how much of it is just good banta and how much is a product of misguided nationalism.
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Maybe a good dose of smilies would be a good idea
Racism has been hitting a high lately. Some dumb bubba NASCAR driver complained that Toyota has a new entry in their truck competition by saying “Remember that they bombed Pearl Harbor.” NASCAR spokesmen, when asked about it, dismissed it as “That’s just Jimmy.” What a bunch of ignorant bubbas.
Bush has attempted to make it chic to criticize the French for thinking for themselves and not following along in his step. I think that’s part of where the French slams are coming from.
Racism re Pearl Harbor? Hmmmmmmm…. The Mitsubishi company designed and built a dandy little airplane called the MU-2 during the 70’s and 80’s. For a long time, the adverts in Flying magazine showed a picture of the MU-2 banking in towards an island airport, with the words of the ad stating…
“The MU-2 – another great airplane from the friendly folks who brought you the Zero.” The ad then went on to say how the Zero was the scourge of the skys during the early days of WW2 – and how the same engineers and design team created the MU-2.
Racism? Nah… just the truth… The Japanese Imperial Armed Forces bombed Pearl Harbor – but it wasn’t anything compared with the slaughter of civilians at Nanking or a hundred other places.
Heck… you want racism? Japanese citizens of Korean heritage are still not allowed to vote in Japan. Check it out!
Signed – A son of a sailor, RCNVR. Hong Kong ’42
its the truth that everything japanese is responsible for pearl harbor? mistubishi made a plane the japanese armed forces used and so toyota is the enemy?
well that’s racism for ya. and yeah, so is the korean thing if that’s true.
And speaking of the French and their duplicity… Let’s not forget that during the Falkland War in 1982 – the French technicians loaded the French Exocet missles onto French supplied Argentinian Super Entendard fighters to kill British boys… this a mere 37 years after Britain and it’s allies handed France back to the French for the second time in the 20th Century.
Oh Yeah… Those French Exocet missles that killed so many British boys?… The French supplied them to the Argentinians on Credit.
And that just about sums up the French. Can’t trust ’em…. no honor, no historical memory.
Racism against the French??? Since most Americans and most French are of European heritage, racism would be the wrong word. The word you are looking for is xenophobia, fear of foreigners. But, since most Americans have never heard of “xenophobia,” racism will have to do.
As for Pearl Harbor, the Japanese did it in 1941, and have to live with it, just as we bailed out the French twice in the 20th century, a fact we have to live with – even if they chose to forget it.
The Toyota Tundra, which is what that racing truck is based upon, is made in Indiana by American workers. As a Canadian, I didn’t let that fact stop me, I bought one anyway. In my books it is the finest pickup made. Of course, I haven’t tested the Nissan Titan yet.
http://press.nokia.com/PR/199906/776817_5.html
Industry Leaders Establish Digital Media Licensing Body To Accelerate Rich Content On Digital Media Devices…
Read it. This is a nightmare if Apple is not in this.
Did France help USA to become intependent? I guess not?
Right?!
Re: Bill & Xenophobia
I agree. Wrong terminology, but xenophobia is wrong as well being as most Americans don’t fear or mistrust foreigners in general. The word you’re looking for (if how it’s portrayed is true–I know quite a few people who have beef with the French in general, but are happy to exclude “exceptions”) is bigotry:
In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.
As an aside, I don’t think most people who dislike the French currently do so for irrational reasons. They disagree strongly with the French’s idea of justice/threat and find the French’s lack of support for the US. That combined with some of the rather shady things the French have done recently make it at least reasonable to dislike them. I don’t necessarily agree with the degree to which some people take this, but the point is that there IS some justification for the opinion. Alas, this is rather off-topic, isn’t it?
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-Joel
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It doesn’t mean Jews will not drive Mercedes Benz automobiles after all that, they know it was Daimler (as in Daimler-Benz) that created the gas chambers along with Krupp (not to be confused with Krups) that killed many, many, many Jews…does that keep them from driving a well engineered automobile? That hasn’t stopped my attorney one bit.
Why get down on the French for one uninformed writer? What about Enderle and Thurrott?
Besides, have you ever seen a violent movie come out of France, like the “action-adventure” crap that comes out of the US?
“And speaking of the French and their duplicity… <snip> Can’t trust ’em…. no honor, no historical memory.”
You are accusing the French of something that can be levelled at EVERY arms exporting nation. Under the UK’s Defence Exporters Credit Scheme, if a British arms company fails to receive payment for goods supplied to a foreign government, the UK Government (ie the Taxpayers) picks up the bill. When Iraq invaded Kuwait, several British companies received handouts from the British taxpayer for supplying Saddam Hussein with the weapons he was using against our own troops. That’s right. Those bullets being fired at your soldiers were paid for from MY income tax. France has a similar scheme in place, and I would be VERY surprised if the US Government does not.
You can verbally attack the French all you like, but historically they have been a very good friend of the US, and the relationship has worked to the benefit of both. So maybe it is just as much your people having a go at France who have no honour.
How can you love the Mac and write so crapy things. There are some frenchy boys like Bertrand Serlet Senior Vice President Software Engineering, who work hard at Apple to make OS X and the mac things we all love. Don’t forget it.
Blick7 wrote:
“Japanese citizens of Korean heritage are still not allowed to vote in Japan. Check it out!”
Hmm, typical prose of subpar intellects affected with tunnel vision who would believe just about anything that happens to stroke their ignorant prejudices about France, Japan or the world, and will ridiculously pontificate from their feebel-minded vantage points…
To clarify something about the voting system in Japan: people of Korean descent who have chosen to take up the Japanese nationality are, for all practical purposes, considered Japanese, and are thus allowed to vote, just like any other Japanese citizen.
Peope of Korean descent who have chosen to keep their Korean nationality, OTOH, are considered as aliens, even if they were born in Japan, and are thus not allowed to vote.
Are people carrying e.g. German, French or Japanese passports allowed to vote in the US, for example?
As for racism, you ain’t seen nothing about the virulence of the Korean variety of it yet.
French a good friend of the US? I dunno Dave. Lafayette was a stand up guy, and that was a long time ago. The statue of Liberty is cool, and a nice gesture. That was enough to pay us back for WW1 I guess, but then the French filled the treaty of Versaille with so many reparations that they essentially gave Hitler all he needed. Then, who can forget the fun loving Vichy? Later we have DeGaulle abandoning NATO, while getting all the benefit from it. Fast forward to banning their airspace for overflights during the first Gulf War, and then the most recent, and most absurd efforts on their part to keep Saddam around for their oil rights.
I don’t really see a circumstance where the French would back up the US, as we have done for them. Say Mexico invades…….first the French would have to get off vacation……..
And yes folks, it’s not racism, it’s Francophobia. And I got it BAD.
“…and then the most recent, and most absurd efforts on their part to keep Saddam around for their oil rights.”
Joe, you are aware that the French government was one of the few that was in line with the sentiment of the overwhelming majority of europeans. Some of the greatest anti-war sentiment actually came from two of Bush’s biggest buddies over here, so much for democracy.
And, citing oil rights isn’t very wise, as anyone without their head in the sand can see that that’s the main reason Bush wanted Iraq in the first place.
Furthermore, had Bush not taken such an arrogant and bullying stance in the first place the outcome may have been quite different. If you go in saying “we’ve made up our mind already, and if you don’t agree we’ll marginalise you” is not how to win allies!
Anyway, as one poster has already stated, whether the guy who wrote this or not is irrelevant. Tech journalists in general are weasly little pimps who tend to not know what they’re talking about. There are plenty in the US too.
Yes Bo’ster they get paid by the word, good or not.
I would love to camp on a barstool and debate stuff with you, because we don’t see eye to eye, but having gone this far afield from the thread, I think I will stop.
Unless you want to keep going
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Talking about Nationalism, the french are most guilty of it. Otherwise they wouldn’t be so mean to the tourist in their country. I live in the U.S. and I will admit that in general I don’t like people that don’t like me BUT, I never would call them frogs. I like their women though. Their women need to be soothed by Americans like myself, then they may be nicer to others. YEAH!
Joe, pourquoi est-ce necessaire pour les Etats-Unis blaiment les francais toujours quand ils se trouvent sans amis en le monde.
Insecurite de patrie, peut etre?
(Pardonez-moi pour le francais. Malheuresment c’est seulement mon troisieme langue.)