• Twinklebreeze @lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        The one thing I will give the French, they don’t take shit. When the French gov tried to raise the retirement age (if I remember correctly) people took to the streets in a big way. It was glorious.

          • Noodle07@lemmy.world
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            20 hours ago

            The secret is spicing it up with an empire every now and then… Oh fuck the Americans are doing exactly that

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        23 hours ago

        Like traffic laws.

        The way the French traffic laws work, it would literally be safer if it was just a free-for-all.

    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org
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      21 hours ago

      People say all kinds of things yet France remains an incredibly popular holiday destination. It’s mostly tsundere bickering. French people can be arrogant but honestly not nearly as much as the Dutch and they get zero shit for it. And the other stereotypes like being romantic, liking good food or having a knack for arts aren’t actually negative if you think about it. They just get overexaggerated.

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        21 hours ago

        Right. They have contributed a lot to culture. A lot of literary, scientific, technological, philosophical and artistic achievements. Idk why people that have only benefited from France by enjoying these achievements, and not at all suffered from it as some have, unfortunately, hate on it.