The French deserve some respect. If you want to know what a true strike or protest looks like, look to the French.
More and more these days French disrespect feels like boomer shit. Look what the French did when the government came for their pensions. The industrial action within the transport sector alone.
I was visiting Paris during some of the aforementioned protest. Theyâre out and about (in numbers) and will gladly get out to protest when they feel it necessary. Plenty of other western countries could learn, a lot, from the French people.
I keep saying this and people look at me like Iâm some kind of extremist
Like no dude I just want universal healthcare
universal healthcare
*me, looking at you like youâre some sort of communist
Look what the French did when the government came for their pensions.
For the record we did get it down from 65 to 64, but we still got +2 years.
I appreciate that the outcome may not have been what was strictly desired. The French populace still get off their arse and do more than complain on social media while effectively doing three fifths of fuck all. More than what can be said about some others, especially those who are inclined to make brain devoid white flag jokes.
A lot of it now goes back to the Iraq war, when France refused to join the Coalition of the Willing and invade. Nearly constant derision of the French in the media for a decade will do that to people.
This already started with the Vietnam war, where France warned the US not to get involved. Thereâs a lesson here but I canât quite put my finger on it.
Even today, they just donât give a fuck about rules.
In Southern France there are speed cameras being set up everywhere, and theyâll catch you for being even a few kmâs over. The locals (mostly rural) have responded by either torching them, encasing them in hay bales, painting over them, or chopping them down. The police keep putting them up, alongside cameras to watch the cameras, and the locals keep destroying them overnight.
The important thing is to burn lots of peopleâs cars. Probably locals who are also protesting.
Thatâs how you really get the attention of the authorities.
In France, but also Belgium and the Netherlands, you have a very malcontent population of 2nd or 3rd generation offspring (mostly male) of migrants who feel left out by the system and take any opportunity to cause chaos. It are these kids who set cars alight, not the protestors.
Often when there is a truly large protest, they are there to âfight against the systemâ by getting into fights with the police and burning cars and just causing overall mayhem.
- French fries might be from Paris where it was sold on the Pont Neuf in 1780.. They are called frite so no claim of national dish.
- French press was first patented in 1852 in France. Again it just called cafetiĂšre Ă piston so piston coffee machine.
- Idk from where it is from but again we just call it pain perdu which translate to lost bread because it is a good recipe for old bread you forgot in the kitchen.
- Last one is the normal kiss here and fun fact a kiss with the mouth close is called a smack
So yeah why does the american/english donât do more research about origins and call everything french ?
Yeah, it never occurred to anyone ever to stick their tongues in each others mouths until it was documented in ancient India.
We generally attribute discoveries to whoever documented it first. Itâs almost laughable to attribute it to the French based on a kissing style that was widespread there in 1923. Surely people were doing it before then. Yet, the Americans and British found it so unique they referred to it as French kissing.
Perhaps it was common before ancient India, but then the question is, why didnât the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians, Chinese, Romans, and Greek document on it then?
We barely document how we wipe our asses or shower because itâs such a mundane, day to day thing.
Writing was limited, so I hypothesize that people would focus on important things like tax collections, kingly births or even that cunt Ea-Nasir. Less so on kissing or things they would find mundane.
Arabic numerals came to Europe from India via Arabia. The Sine function does too, but itâs name is garbled and doesnât mean anything.
Venetian blinds came from Persia via Venice.
Spanish Flu was everywhere, but everyone at the time was lying about it due to being at war, except for Spain.
Many First Nations peoples are known by what other peoples called them (often pejorative names) rather than their name for themselves.
Words usually arenât authoritative declarations of truth, but rather snapshots of what was a useful distinction to someone somewhere a some time. Did the French think their style of kissing was a unique cultural phenomenon? Will Skibidi be known about in 500 years? No one documents graffiti, was it âdiscoveredâ by Pompeii?
We live in a truely unique age, where nearly any question can have a relavent answer of some kind in moments. We can see people streaming everyday things from around the globe, or find the best research about what we know about ancient peopleâs daily lives. Is any of this worth carving into a monument though? How many copies of an archeological journal are going to survive the ages vs copies of Game of Thrones? Iâd say there are countless things about our lives we think are special to today that even prehistoric people did, it just isnât notable enought to build monuments to or copy manuscripts of.
Just have to triple check whether French revolution occured in French.
Nobody in France calls French fries or French toast âFrenchâ. Weâre definitely happy to attribute the fries to our Belgian friends and nobody thinks something as ubiquitous as toasts could have a single inventor. I think those are Anglo-Saxon cultural elements.
No we are not attributing fries to the Belgian, fries are french. The Belgian improved on our invention and make the best fries, but Frenchs invented it.
Content warning, a lot of french: https://www.musee-gourmandise.be/fr/musee-gourmandise/articles-de-fond?view=article&id=132:la-veritable-histoire-de-la-frite&catid=77:articles-fond
The article states hypothesis and guesses, it doesnât seem to provide a definitive answer.
Its conclusion, machine translated:
In the first two chapters, we talked about the unlikely birth of the deep-fried potato, the result of a marriage between the potato, a popular vegetable par excellence, and cooking in a fat bath, reserved for high society. Where could this marriage have taken place? In a well-to-do kitchen with a fine frying pan? Impossible, as we saw earlier. Potatoes have no place there. In the home of the poor potato-eating bastard? Impossible too. They donât have enough fat.
Isnât the answer to this question to be found in the streets of Paris, where in the 18th century, itinerant merchants carried their frying pans filled with dubious grease, into which they plunged meats and vegetables smeared with doughnut batter? Or is it to be found in a rotisserie with more extensive equipment? Itâs a tempting hypothesis. As we know, the fried potato has spread through commerce. Wasnât it born there? Is it not a purely commercial product? The inventor of the French fried potato will probably always remain anonymous, but we can guess his trade: a merchant. We can also guess his origin: Parisian.
Pierre Leclercq
March 2009 - December 2010
Who the hell calls it a French press, Iâve never heard anyone call it that.
I never knew there was a different name for it. The cafetiĂšre is a new one on me, and I did French in high school. Guess we werenât talking about coffee much, though apparently french fries came up enough for me to remember pommes frites (they probably donât fry apples much over there).
The US calls everything âFrenchâ because they think itâll sell better.
Anglo-Saxon cultural elements
You did your best to stamp those out back in 1066