Away from home.

[magooagain]

Some of you know that i am working in the UK at the moment.
The reason for this is that i am constructing an extension for my life long friend so that he can create accomidation for his father (also my life long friend and my late dads pal )

So i am living 24/7 on the job.

We go out to a few pubs etc in the evening for a chill.

Fecking anti French Brits are now getting me down.

What the hell are british people thinking ? And why are they so anti. The common comment i get is that France is great and the only thing that spoils it are the French !!
I am pissed off to be honest.

[Bodo]

A German posting here. Have you seen 'Easy Rider'? It's all a bit jealously on lessez-faire and that you manage to be open enough to leave your familiar surroundings. Actually, most Brits that I have met were generally open and courteous; and I think you have funny small minded people everywhere.

[rdjohn]

I think the Jeremy Clarkson effect is all important – if he says it and gets a laugh, it must be true.

My friend is one such bigot; he was touring here last week in his 1968 280SL and was amazed when all traffic stopped to allow him to take a photograph of the car on the Mulsanne straight and then when a breakdown truck stopped to check that everything was OK, when he was just having a picnic.

When I pressed him, it seems that the French people he met in business when he was an expat in the Far East would not associate and had a “French is Best” attitude to all business, services and products. They also tended not to associate with non-French expats and so seemed to be aloof to him. The two French men that he was very friendly with both derided France and claimed to be glad to have left.

[racerbob]

I blame the Daily Mail, seem to have a continous 'hate the French' agenda, so most folk take it all in.

A Brit mate of mine emailed me the other day saying ' I see that the French are really p***ed off about the British performance at the Olympics !!!?? I replied that most of the French I speak to and the French TV are quite satisfied with 'their' home results and acknowledge that the Brits did a good job. He'd obviously been reading the 'Daily Fail'

[S2Mike]

It must be a jealousy or ignorance thing.
You obviously speak and write excellent english, they probably have trouble speaking english, so please rise above their comments.
Try some other pubs or restaurants.

[jimbo fr]

Have a look at the thanks france topic , it may well help a bit ?

[J B L]

French living in UK posting here. (10 years and still going strong)

Usually said by people who never travelled further than their local. I now have more good Brit friends than French ones...

I reckon living in France has made you forget how to take things with a pinch of salt and has awaken the sanguine Latin in you

[marshalla]

On behalf of the Scots, I'd like to point out that your experience relates to the English. They don't like the fact that we have them surrounded.


Vive l'alliance ancienne!