Comments by "Guinness" (@GuinessOriginal) on "RobWords"
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Hold on a moment. We had perfectly good letters for them 500 years ago until you Europeans forced your printing press and alphabet on us without our consent, meaning we had to lose them. We’ve finally developed an alternative that we all know and love, and you want to come and impose your foreign alphabet on us once again, with all those funny squiggles and wavy lines? No, no, a thousand times no! They’re not English, it wouldn’t be British, it’s just not cricket. We’re not in Europe anymore, when is Johnny Foreigner going to get it into his head that we don’t like being told what to do. It’s bad enough when it’s a southerner trying to do it, or even worse a Scot, but when it’s a foreigner, and trying to tell us to change our language, it’s just not bleeding on! 😭
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@leroyjean-michel4423 ah whataboutism. Another french invention I believe. That certainly absolves your nation of any nationalistic tendencies because, of course, what about others? Tell me the % of the vote any national party has ever got in the UK? We have our fair share of problems and I, unlike you, am happy to hear anyone criticise us, foreign or otherwise, but one problem we don’t have and have never had is one of nationalism, and certainly nowhere near as much as France. Why do you french react so negatively to valid constructive criticism when it comes from foreigners? If you really want to talk about fascism you need to talk about Ukraine, but I suspect you just repeat the approved narrative there.
I have no argument with you or France, I love you both equally very much. We both share the opinion that the academie de francaise can be critiqued, however you are of the opinion that as a foreigner, I cannot be allowed to critique France in any way. Do the french as a nation suffer from a national character flaw of insecurity? If I can gently remind you that my ancestors fought and died to free you from German occupation twice, and if it hadn’t been for Churchill de Gaulle would never have got to power in France, in fact a great many resistance fighters who fought valiantly for France during the occupation, while de Gaulle fled and hid in Britain, were quietly disappeared after the war as de Gaulle tightened and cemented his grip on power, with the help of the British oss, I am ashamed to say. They did a similar thing in my ancestors country of Ireland.
I repeat, I have no argument with you or your beautiful country, as i love you both equally very much, however that does not mean either of you are above criticism, which you unfortunately seem to think you are.
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@leroyjean-michel4423 be mean to foreigners? You must be a millennial or gen z to be such a snowflake ! Mean indeed. Man up. The Gauls would never have been this wimpy. I haven’t been mean at all, on the contrary I love beautiful France, the french and french culture. You should learn to accept a bit of constructive criticism from time to time. Nationalism is so out of favour here it is still seen as boorish and uncouth to fly the Union Jack or god forbid, the flag of st George. Even with the World Cup on there are hardly any England flags flying, in fact there are far more Ukraine flags. Pray tell me mon ami, is there many tricolours flying in Paris? The idea that brexit was nationalism is a European folly. It was democracy, and the whole of Europe showed its true colours when it was aghast that a country could be democratic. Ireland, Denmark, Italy and Greece all voted to leave to the EU and all were prevented from doing so. Italy actually had their democratically elected president deposed and an unelected eu appointed technocrat took his place for two years. That’s what the eu thinks of democracy, and that is why Britain said no. That and because when we first tried to join in the early 70s, de Gaulle, the man the British took in and sheltered and gave our lives to free his country and the man Churchill put upon the french throne, that man said “Non!” to Britain joining. And ever since then, eurosceptism was born in Britain, an construct entirely of the France’s, and de Gaulle’s specifically, building.
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