One Way the French Are Much, Much Better Than Us

[BudAshes]

Bullshit

I've been posting here since the K6-3 days and I can tell you one thing for fucking sure: The 'old days' were not more lax. Good god damn, Fucking NowhereMan was executed for starting a thread about legal homosexual marriage in Hawaii.

Much less a mod-call out, or just SAYING the word porn or fuck (why do you think fusck an pr0n was used prolifically for years?) Hell I remember an 'autonomous' mod perm-banning me in the early 00s for little more than being a loud-mouth, ignorant-ass, conservative.

NO; the mods may be zealous in their use of force, particularly when dealing with even the slightest hint of referring to a member's 'mod' status; but they sure aren't nearly the gestapo that we had "in the good old days".

There's always room for improvement; but nostalgic bullshit is just that: bullshit.

Seriously, I used to get banned enough that I stopped visiting for a long time. Now you just get warnings for what you used to get banned for.

 

[PowerEngineer]

America on the other hand won every major battle in Vietnam. We forced them to take a peace deal and left.

We may have won every battle, but most certainly lost the war!

We were so intent on leaving Vietnam that we happily embraced the delusion that South Vietnam would survive because of the "peace deal". The North Vietnamese understood that we were giving them the South on a two-year layaway plan.

The good old days, we should wish for such a pleasant time.

I remember the good old days when there was much stricter enforcement of rule #6 on "excessive foul language" :thumbsup:

Frankly, I think it was a mistake to lift the anonymity of the moderators in the social forums. Some members predicted at the time that their moderator status would make them targets, and this seems to have turned out to be true. At least IMHO some of us are quick to hold moderators to higher standard when it comes to their postings. I don't believe that the admittedly over-the-top comments that Perknose made would have drawn many comments if he wasn't also a forum moderator.

My two cents...

 

[BudAshes]

TFP has made some inquiries and I'm not sure you have fully answered his request. Don't Syringer us BudAshes, just don't go there. :sneaky:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=29084154&postcount=2

TFP was a worthy adversary. If you bring him back I'll answer whatever retarded questions you have.

 

[PowerEngineer]

Much less a mod-call out, or just SAYING the word porn or fuck (why do you think fusck an pr0n was used prolifically for years?) Hell I remember an 'anonymous' mod perm-banning me in the early 00s for little more than being a loud-mouth, ignorant-ass, conservative.

I like you better now that you're just a conservative! ()

While I'm far from scandalized by an occassional profanity (and sometimes use a choice term or two myself), I suggest that it should be done sparingly. I am put off by the indiscriminate, prolific use of profanity in some thread posting; it's usually a sign that the post is devoid of thought.

 

[schneiderguy]

No, Freedom Fries were created in AMERICA. Stop being taken in by Liberal lies.

:thumbsup:

 

[zinfamous]

Why all the french-envy from the non-frog Candianianis?

Honestly I don't think being French has been sexy since Prohibition (To use a US-centric time reference )

seriously?

 

[zinfamous]

Not really. What I mean by extinct is their culture is gone. They're either a bunch of fat fucks eating at McDonalds, or processing coke for degenerate Americans. When the articles were made, there was virtually zero contact with the outside world. The outside world forced itself on the people. Some joined willingly for immediate conveniences, and others joined under duress. I best most regret the day the funny looking people showed up with the interesting equipment.

Oh, OK.

:thumbsup:

(Still sounds funny when you suggest that the people are extinct, while praising their ways, rather than the culture being extinct. )

 

[darkewaffle]

Matsigenka stories often feature characters undone by laziness; kids who still don’t get the message are rubbed with an itch-inducing plant.

Hahahahaha, thats awesome

 

[SlitheryDee]

I think there are two things going on here, none of which necessarily means anyone is better than anyone else.

1) The newest crop of kids always seem like helpless, self-entitled ignoramuses to the folks who are on the verge of passing into their "golden years"

2) It's fun to fantasize that how people do things in random other countries is somehow better than how we do things here based on a few isolated cases.

Chances are that right now there's someone in France writing an article for some french publication we'll never read praising the parenting skill of some soccer mom in Wyoming.

 

[darkewaffle]

seriously?

I love Marion Cotillard.

 

[0roo0roo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13hdlmvhOaE

 

[Ashenor]

I thought this was about Mustard.

 

[freegeeks]

I think of no less than 100 reasons the French are better than Americans




those are Dutch.

Belgian invention

 

[dank69]

Belgian invention

Poirot would be disappoint.

 

[Sluggo]

TFP was a worthy adversary. If you bring him back I'll answer whatever retarded questions you have.

I miss him.

I just happened to remember the thread, was a long time ago though.

 

[Murloc]

I always thought that it's normal for parents to ignore the children's bickering and continous blahblah, because honestly it would lead me to burn-out.
As a kid I found it frustrating but now I perfectly understand why someone would not asnwer questions when he's talking with someone else.

 

[Kadarin]

The only thing the French ever got right was fries.

They did pretty good with toast, too.

 

[BudAshes]

What ever happened to the French anyway? They used to be a world power and now... umm they are featured on the food channel?

 

[KMFJD]

Belgian invention

same thing

 

[brianmanahan]

What ever happened to the French anyway? They used to be a world power and now... umm they are featured on the food channel?

kinda makes you wonder about their supposedly awesome methods of child raising :hmm:

 

[Ichinisan]

seriously?

The first two pics do nothing for me.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

The first two pics do nothing for me.

Shut your dirty mouth-hole Audrey Tautou is more attractive than all of these women combined! (except )

 

[RaistlinZ]

And french maids

And French toast.

 

[qliveur]

Good thing to know this thread isn't a trap... :hmm:

 

[rhino56]

that article is just complete BS. I'm sure every french mother is the same, druckerman is a troll.