Ontopic What would Americans think of the French Strike?

How is that when they aren't even SHOWING they are on strike? Work is still going on, life is still going on, it's just the streets are even smellier than before.

And boo fucking who about a retirement age elevating to 62 with the expectation that medical and even living expenses will be covered for the next 15+ years of your life by the government. I cannot access (without penalty) money I have saved up for myself until 70. I cannot gather a pension because I am lucky enough to work with a company that can provide one (extremely rare now) until 69.5. I cannot get SS (the retirement plan that France has basically, just far less) until after 67. And I am still responsible in part for my medical care after 70 and responsible for most if not all before then.

Nope, no patience for those millions on strike. It is just being lazy so as to silently protest having to be lazy at 60 instead of 62.

The amusing part is if they tried to raise it to 75 you wouldn't react like the French. Your personal responsibility ends right there - with yourself. There is no big feeling and something done about it like the French. They have a fantastic way of living and are much happier in general than most the world because of it yet some people (Americans included) are happy to be dictated to, trodden on and made to work til they die without trying to change that.

Viva la francais I say. For once. :)
 
I also like how this true democracy frightens people in other countries. Is true democracy having a poor choice of candidates and voting for the lesser evil or it a large percentage of the population uprising when they view something as unjust? I never got how you vote someone in then have no say for 4 years, we all know politicians lie in their manifesto's which you voted them in for. :lol:
 
They are happier because they don't do anything and are allowing their country to wallow in bankruptcy. They are short term thinkers by nature and this will be yet another example of the french thinking the world owes them something when they collapse in on themselves like some kind of...help me out here dave
 
They are happier because they don't do anything and are allowing their country to wallow in bankruptcy. They are short term thinkers by nature and this will be yet another example of the french thinking the world owes them something when they collapse in on themselves like some kind of...help me out here dave
Yeah, short term thinkers who have a very long history of politics and have somehow managed to stay afloat for hundreds of years. Wonder how they do it.

It's not that they're heading for bankrupcy - the UK will be bankrupt a lot quicker than France ever will be. I think it must be very hard to accept that you work your ass off, get fucked over constantly, are dictated to and take it like a good little servant and some people out there have it much, much better than you without working as hard.
 
They stay "afloat" because until recently people who were lazy and useless were shot.

You have no idea what you're talking about, servant. :lol:
 
the Le Car!

J: Je voudrais une croissant
J: Je suis enchante
J: Ou est le bibliotheque?
J: Voila mon passport
J: Ah, Gerard Depardieu
B + J:Un baguette, ah ha ha, oh oh oh oh
B: Ba Ba ba-ba Bow!
B: Foux da fa fa
Foux da fa fa fa fa
Foux da fa fa
Ah ee ah
B: Foux da fa fa
Foux da fa fa fa fa
Foux da fa fa
Ah ee ah
B: Et maintenant le voyage a la supermarche!
B: Le pamplemousse (grapefruit)
B: Ananas (pineapple)
B: Jus d�orange
B: Boeuf
B: Soup du jour
B: Le camembert
B: Jacque Cousteau
B: Baguettte
J: Mais oui
J: Bon jour
F: Bon jour
J: Bon jour
F: Bon jour, monsieur
J: Bonjour mon petit bureau de change
B: Ca va?
L: Ca va.
B: Ca va?
L: Ca va.
B: Voila � le conversation a la parc.
 
The amusing part is if they tried to raise it to 75 you wouldn't react like the French. Your personal responsibility ends right there - with yourself. There is no big feeling and something done about it like the French. They have a fantastic way of living and are much happier in general than most the world because of it yet some people (Americans included) are happy to be dictated to, trodden on and made to work til they die without trying to change that.

Viva la francais I say. For once. :)

when my retirement was raised from 67 to 70 I didn't stop working. I worked harder so that hopefully I can make enough to retire "early" at 67 again. I didn't just sit at a cafe and puff a ciggy with a glass of wine and bitch to no one about it.
 
They stay "afloat" because until recently people who were lazy and useless were shot.

You have no idea what you're talking about, servant. :lol:

But....apparently they're all lazy now. Where, pray tell are the walls for them to be all shot against?

I get it though man, I work my ass off to pay for millions of people to sit on their asses and get handouts in this country, it must be a similar feeling. It's hard to be happy for someone when you feel you put in more but don't get as much out. The French don't have to put as much in as Americans do to get far more out.
 
when my retirement was raised from 67 to 70 I didn't stop working. I worked harder so that hopefully I can make enough to retire "early" at 67 again. I didn't just sit at a cafe and puff a ciggy with a glass of wine and bitch to no one about it.

70? Jesus fuck, I'm outta here at 58.