ugh, an old friend just emailed me a snarky francophobe attachment

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an M$ Word file, c/w anti-french shit quoted from across thee ages, as well as various pics. i thought he ws smarter than that. Should i tell him I don't like such stuff (I like the French generally) or not? I've known this guy for 20yrs+ and care about him very much.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

tell him to fermez le bouche.

― hstencil, Monday, 17 March 2003 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

you could try a "dude, what's up with that?", rather than an outright rebuke.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Friendly rebuke maybe - "I think this is k-lame - want to argue over a beer??"

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Does he read the daily express? i had the misfortune to end up reading a copy yesterday. They could only come up with 6 reasons to hate the french one of which was 'they didn't exactly put up a fight in 1940, did they?'.

otherwise Tom's suggestion seems appropriate

― Ed (dali), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Send him links to rathergood.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:34 (twenty-three years ago)

If you've known him for 20 years, surely the friendship can withstand you mentioning that you don't like to receive such things. (Besides, he should be mildly scolded for sending something in MS Word format when it's more likely that plain ASCII text would have sufficed.) Beer good!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:41 (twenty-three years ago)

france is the european america

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

answer him in french. my french is rusty, but if you do want to answer him in french feel free to run it past me.

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:47 (twenty-three years ago)

gareth i used your arg last night to defuse a HORRIBLE situation in which close friend of French gf and myself leads off convo by looking around table and going "so we're all well-traveled here, right? some of us VERY well-travelled. so i think we all know what we're talking about" and proceeds to insist that there IS something in the French national character that would lead them to be contrarians abt war in Iraq, basically just spouting off the litany of things you hear on stupid-ass right-wing late-nite talk shows on the radio. i know that the correct response to this type of krap is to LAUGH IN HER FACE but me and Emma B unfortunately played her game for probably about 5 minutes too long before i remembered your gem, gareth - about how both US and France see themselves as having a unique destniy in the world, how we think we are topp at this and that and don't mind saying so, how we're nations w/strong individualist streaks, and that we secretly want to fuck each other so we end up fiting, it was MAGICKAL, as if a golden ramp had appeared from nowhere to lower us back down gracefully to unhostile pathways... thank you!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Hit him with a baguette.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes or slice up a string of onions until he sobs for mercy!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 17 March 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

go on strike

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 17 March 2003 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

i got that same sh*t email last week from a coworker.
mark twain, general patton. etc. quotes knocking the french.

― kephm, Monday, 17 March 2003 22:34 (twenty-three years ago)

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