Re: Euiropean friends- opinions on the French riots?
 

You're French and you have to ask where Geneva is?

Do you realize that you can practically walk to Geneva from the French border and that they speak French in Geneva?

HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

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Personally, I think Paris is an armpit, I hope they burn the whole place down and only leave a Micky D standing. :hmm:

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I don't think it's a particularly interesting place either... more of a cliche place for American couples to go pretend they're romantic.

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I like the place.. the undercurrent of dirt and sleeze mixed with good food, architecture and art makes it interesting. Early morning after being out all night,
plotted up in a pavement cafe watching the city wake up.. lovely.

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They should wrap that shit up and rebuild it as a theme park in Florida, will save Americans the trip to Europe :p

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A new Las Vegas hotel, right next to the one with Venice in..
Put braveheart on the T.V. and stick a red phonebox in the lobby.
The complete Euro experience.

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This is why I like Barcelona ;)


Paris is still just an armpit though :)

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armpit? more like that sweaty part of waste land between the scrotum and the anus! :hmm:

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Make it after a 10 mile run whilst wrapped in cling film (saran wrap) and you've hit the nail on the head ;)

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After 3 hours of shopping in a Bangladeshi cattle market with an "Indian food accident" in the first hour :o

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Now that's comparable to Paris imho :okthumb:

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Ok I'm glad we had this talk. :)

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I do love Barca, but apart from the barrio gotico it's built on a
grid like US cities, can't get lost or go exploring..

Madrid is good for getting lost in, I've spent days wandering about there.

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Cities that weren't built on a grid should be nuked.

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As am I :)

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It's been about 10 years since the last time I was in Madrid, but it seemed that no matter which direction I went off in, I always ended up at the Las Ventas... a very interesting city though :)

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Las Ventas.. it was the gay bars wasn't it.:whistling

Im off to Cartagena this weekend.
It's only an hour away, figured I should go have a look.

The wife is hassling me to go to San Sebastian,
but it takes about 10 hours to get there, and it's bound to be raining.

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Gay bars and matadors ;)

You should get up to San Sebastian, there's bound to be some football on the go. :)

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Not this week it's Spain - Slovakia

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Oh hell yeah, it's the internationals this week.

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Chisel that in stone, it's a :-pearl:

I get fucking sick of being told that we need to be more tolerant as a society and let these fuckers infest our countries. I'd love to see what would happen if I moved to Afghanistan and started bleating that none of the roadsigns were in English or that I couldn't find a Roman Catholic church.

Machine gun the lot of the fuckers for me.

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Interesting points about "driving down the streets of Tehran in a 64' impala with gold wire wheels, bumping Dr Dre" and Roman Catholic churches or English-language roadsigns in Afghanistan - but I wasn't aware that there were many Iraninans or Afghanis in Paris. The old "they all look alike" factor obviously isn't limited to the United States.

Well, now, that makes sense ... except that the people taking to the streets, for the most part, weren't taken in - they are native. The French are no different than any other nation - they have more than their share of ignorant bigoted fucks who think they are superior based on the chemical composition of their pigment and the accident of their lineage. (See the post below JRs for an excellent example of ignorance every bit the equal of the rioters.)

They have gone to French schools to learn about the "culture, values, history, traditions and language of the place that was kind enough to let [their parents or grandparents] in" but won't let them participate, socially or economically, on an equal footing.

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PD, you're falling behind old man... This thread is now about Paris being a shithole and football.

If you can't keep up then don't participate :p

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Hey - why you pickin' on me?

Pick on the klansman in the hockey mask.

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I can't, I didn't bother reading his post :p

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I'm not that bad !:blink:

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You weren't missing anything interesting ;)

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Fuck could you ever imagine anything worse than a mix of French and Australians........

The riots Can be blamed on lots of things...when we get them in UK its just usually an excuse for a ruck

I lived right on Oxford St London when the Mayday riots kicked of a few years back
The main protagonists and those shouting the people to start fighting the police, were strange men in hooded tops looking very scruffy but all of them had top pro camera's
Yep the fucking press photogs were starting rucks to snap them.

I saw one guy with a Nikon pro kit round his neck throw a bin through a shop window and then snap people looting the goods from the window display.

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Paris is a shitehole but So is Liverpool....BUT THE FOOTBALL IS THE GREATEST......Me i am off to live in Roma soon

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Ahh this thread is finally back on track.

So who likes Kebabs?

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extra chilli sauce and that white gunk please. mmm.

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In Holland we eat it with garlic sauce, it's delicious. Do you guys have garlic sauce on your kebabs in the Spain?

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Love keebabs.

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Nick, what kind of sauce do you like on your kebab?

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chilli.

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Have you ever tried garlic sauce?

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A kebab with loads of chili sauce and loads of garlic sauce, delish :okthumb:

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I never have. But love garlic

I really suspect that zeina is not zeina but her "maqnager"

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Kebabs here are pretty crap, made with beef aswell.
Chilli and a watery white stuff are the only options.

UK kebabs are tasty..

I've had the garlic sauce on kebabs in Holland, yep tasty.

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Hmmmmm.... I never considered that! This thread is turning out great, I am learning so much :okthumb: