I hear they do a mean barbeque in many suburbs--the car owners get quite
upset though.
Perhaps it relieves the boredom of suburbian living.
Oh and there is the national pastime of bringing the road traffic in and out
of France to a standstill.
When I was in Paris I witnessed the quaint custom of fighting with wheel
braces over a parking place.
Then there s the parking by smashing routine.
There s the Kafkaesque beaurocracy.
There s the inheritance laws destroying many rural villages.
I m getting bored.
Tam
"Old Boy" wrote in message
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> Yet more praise from the French...
>
> This time from a bastion of English-ness Peregrine Worsthorne, even
> suggesting the English media is biased against the French...
>
> "Would you like to live in a country which has no binge drinking, no
> ASBOS, no tabloid newspapers, no section of the country wanting to
> secede, no litter, no obesity problems, no teenage gun culture, no
> Olympic games, no soldiers dying in Iraq, little private debt and,
> above all, virtually no Muslim terrorist threat?
>
> Of course you would, particularly if, in addition, that same country
> had a public service transport system, an NHS and a national
> educational system that worked exceptionally well. I am referring, of
> course, to France, which the UK media, in its coverage of their
> elections, is writing off as the sick man of Europe, simply and solely
> due to its comparatively low economic growth, as if economic growth
> was the only significant test of a country's well-being."
>
> More: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=1&subID=1341
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