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[Nyan Thousand]

Regardless of your jokes on the French, we can at least try to get this done, for the sake of the DF community in France.

Hey, at least I don't have the Gaul to make stupid French puns. That won't be Nice for anybody.

[lordcooper]

becoming a beautifull and honorable dwarf fortress.

Who, uh, who wrote the copy for this?

it's me, sorry again for the speed translation and my bad english 

Don't worry about it, your English is a hell of a lot better than my French

[unitedelite]

becoming a beautifull and honorable dwarf fortress.

Who, uh, who wrote the copy for this?

it's me, sorry again for the speed translation and my bad english 

Don't worry about it, your English is a hell of a lot better than my French

Thanks ^^
sorry for not having answered before I am in a training


We are #28 !
http://www.jeuxvideo.com/boite-a-idees/00053529-test-de-dwarf-fortress-pc-boite-a-idees.php

[Dae]

Haha, oh good heavens, you can pay ("Booster") to have a vote worth 50.

Nice take on voting there.

The French are known for... er, nice takes... on democratic concepts, to say the least.

We are ? I'd sure like to know more about how France is seen abroad. MP please ? I fear this could escalate into flamewar otherwise.
As far as I know, this booster thing is a private company trying to get money, that's all.

[Double A]

I'd sure like to know more about how France is seen abroad.

Cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

[Inarius]

100 people voting everyday during 3 months (the thread is opened for 3 months) are actually 9000 votes.
It's perhaps not a lot, but enough for being 2nd.

It's just that...it was already opened 2 months ago, so...

[Findulidas]

I'd sure like to know more about how France is seen abroad.

Had a discussion about this on vent with my 10 friends that were there atm.

Most swedish people seem to think french people eat strange stuff like toads and snails although they can make really good food if you pay attention and pick the right stuff in restaurants. They stubbornly refuse to speak english to tourists even though most people in france seem to understand basic english when pressed. They are very hairy and like to swear a lot. Many men over the age of 40 seem to wear a beret.

Thats about it on the racism I think, I dont really agree on them all but that was what most of them seem to agree on. Although they fully realize it might not be true thats the impression they had anyway.

[Double A]

Normans are awesome though. They hate the French just as much as everyone else.

[Inarius]

Most swedish people seem to think french people eat strange stuff like toads and snails although they can make really good food if you pay attention and pick the right stuff in restaurants. They stubbornly refuse to speak english to tourists even though most people in france seem to understand basic english when pressed. They are very hairy and like to swear a lot. Many men over the age of 40 seem to wear a beret.

Thats about it on the racism I think, I dont really agree on them all but that was what most of them seem to agree on. Although they fully realize it might not be true thats the impression they had anyway.

Fun :p

"French people eat strange stuff"...well toads, it's not true but some eat snails (especially in the region around Cognac-Bordeaux-Nantes, "Charente"). It is said to be tasty.  Frogs are said to be tasty too.

"They refuse to speak english"...partly true. Most of them will refuse to speak any FOREIGN languages. Actually, it's mainly because the learning of all foreign languages is very badly done. In France the most important thing is RECTITUDE. You have to speak well french (making mistakes is viewed as being slob, or even worse...). Making mistakes is...nearly sacrilege. And it's the same when you learn english. So people very often refuse to speak english because they fear looking ridiculous or making mistakes when speaking. But on the same time, if you speak to them and try to speak french, they will love you for that and as (I think) everybody in the world, french people love foreign accents (and even more if you are a (beautiful) girl...)

"They are very hairy and like to swear a lot" : lol :p You forgot "they never wash themselves and wear baguette ?"

Many men over the age of 40 seem to wear a beret.

Over 60, and mainly in the south-west of France (south of Bordeaux, west of Montpellier), true.


Oh, by the way, they hate parisian people (for the same reason everybody in the world hate french people). As a matter of fact, what people hate in "French" is what parisians are. Most people out of Paris don't like parisians for the same reasons and (even if they share some part of these clichés) are much nicer.

[Nyan Thousand]

In my mind, this is how the stereotypical Frenchmen act. Real Frenchmen probably don't act this way, but who cares:

They dress like hipsters, they smoke like a Turk, wear ascots and berets and striped shirts while they mull around in cafes talking about how sad their lives are before surrendering to their droll existence and saying, "Ah, c'est la vie." They hate Americans with a passion, but at the same time are the first to embrace blacks and Arabs. They talk big about their previous military accomplishments, about how Martel beat the Muslim in Toulouse, how Vercingetorix nearly ended Caesar, how Louis XIV expanded the glorious Empire, and of Napoleon and his accomplishments; but at the same time, they will surrender at the first sight of aggression. They're afraid of Germans. They're wine-guzzling, cheese-eating, insufferable self-important pricks whose greatest gift to humanity is the invention of the white flag.

That said, I don't hate the French. I've always wanted to go to France, and I've been trying to learn French on the side for so long. A lot of great minds came from France. Important French people include Laplace, Fourier, Galois, Hugo, Voltaire, de Sade and Zidane. The French have contributed so much in so many fields, from mathematics to literature to South-East Asian politics. Have you guys seen Savate? Shit's crazy. Point is, I love the French; or, at least, I would, if it wasn't for one thing.

They made Uffie fat. They made her fat and ugly and I hate them for that.

I hope this doesn't offend any French people... too much.

[Copain]

Hi !

Here is the new topic : http://www.jeuxvideo.com/boite-a-idees/00058599-dwarf-fortress-pc-boite-a-idees.php

Thanks !

[GoombaGeek]

becoming a beautifull and honorable dwarf fortress.

Who, uh, who wrote the copy for this?

it's me, sorry again for the speed translation and my bad english 

It's okay, I bet my French is even worse!

(for the record, I'm from Alberta)

[Inarius]

I voted !

[lordcooper]

Truly, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[misko27]

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