On Apr 27, 4:29 pm, "tam" wrote:
> 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
>
> news:1177607795.949323.23480@n15g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
>
> > 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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