France pensions

@divegeester said
So when you were tell Trev about how you “drank in moderation” you were referring to the days between your 10 pints a night escapades?

@fmf said
Satire or not. It's a lazy trope that involves you pissing on the graves of a nation's fallen soldiers in a feeble attempt to raise a laugh. Just sayin'. No offence intended.

@fmf said
I refer back to the first two world wars.

OK, I will refer back to them too.

Do you seriously think something happened in WW1 that can be likened to Germany "taking over" France and doing so "with a peashooter"?

Surely, in WW1, the 1,300,000 French soldiers who died ~ successfully repelling the German invaders ~ say something different?

As for WW2, in Europe ...[text shortened]... historically-illiterate fatuous American trope that deserves to be retired from adult conversations.

My great grandfather and his 3 brothers fought in France in WWI. 3 returned home. Grandpa had bad lungs from chlorine gas which killed his brother. Grandpa called Frenchman cheese eating surrender monkeys or fr*gs.
Interesting historical note. The ancient coat of arms of France was 3 toads, Englishmen then called them fr*gs. An angel appeared before the king of France and gave him the fleur de Lis. Or so goes the legend of the switch from toads to the modern design.

@gambrel said
My great grandfather and his 3 brothers fought in France in WWI. 3 returned home. Grandpa had bad lungs from chlorine gas which killed his brother. Grandpa called Frenchman cheese eating surrender monkeys or fr*gs.
Interesting historical note. The ancient coat of arms of France was 3 toads, English men then called them fr*gs. An angel appeared before the king if France and g ...[text shortened]... ve him the fleur di Liz design. Or so goes the legend of the switch from toads to the modern design.

@gambrel said
hinky dinky parlez-vous

@badradger said
I have kept amphibians for many years but not once have I heard one with a french accent.

@badradger said....its all a bit of a blur really plus I was coked out of my skull most of the 70s.

@divegeester said
It’s not about the pensions…it’s about the dictator.

Thoughts?

@gambrel said
My great grandfather and his 3 brothers fought in France in WWI. 3 returned home. Grandpa had bad lungs from chlorine gas which killed his brother. Grandpa called Frenchman cheese eating surrender monkeys or fr*gs.

@fmf said
Grandpa called Frenchman cheese eating surrender monkeys

So you mean your grandpa was watching The Simpsons in the 90s?

@fmf said
@Gambrel
What next? "Satirical" tropes about Jews? Black people?

@moonbus said
The French voted long ago for less work and more benefits and proposed to finance it with a generational Ponzi scheme. The current government made the mistake of moving the goal posts without explaining the necessity of it to those affected. It should have been explained better and put to a plebiscite.

@gambrel said
That phrase predates the Simpsons by 50 years. It was used during WWII.

@fmf said
You are mistaken.