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Does anyone know why

the East and South of France voted Le Pen, and Central, North and West voted Chirac?

(james, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 9:58, archived)

Jesus fucking christ!

Is that real?

I'm going to hide in the cellar

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Spoon, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:01, archived)

well

it's because they are a bunch of fucking nazi's I should imagine...

(HoTWire, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:03, archived)

Didn't we

chase them all out?

Mais non, les collaborateurs.

(james, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:05, archived)

Don't panic mr mainwaring

needs some dads army arrows adding, but I'm too lame to try..

(b3tan senseless is slowly getting older, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:26, archived)

Yup.

If I remember my Frach politics correctly, they're all famers in the south and east, and it's a well known fact that farmers the world over are rightwing bastards. I speak from personal experience, having been shot at by several in my youth.

(tomsk, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:06, archived)

That's true

I've been shot at by farmers too. Twice in fact.

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Wifey, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:08, archived)

To be fair,

I probably invited it, as I had a bit of a habit of destroying their property for fun. But that's no reason to shoot me, is it?

(tomsk, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:09, archived)

Did you grow up

in East Anglia?

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Spoon, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:10, archived)

Yorkshire.

Rural bit though. Nothing to do except set fire to hillsides and abandonned cars. Ace fun.

(tomsk, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:13, archived)

Ahhh, yorkshire

Funnily enough that happens in the urban bits as well.

Well, in Bradford anyway

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Spoon, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:14, archived)

True.

Less sheep though.

(tomsk, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:17, archived)

Heh

Plenty of rats though

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Spoon, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:18, archived)

Did you set fire to round bails?

And roll them down hills?

Is it a b3ta thing to be shot at by farmers? I was shot at in a pheasant pen.

(james, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:16, archived)

We burnt

about 3 acres of hillside once. But it was an accident, and it wasn't proper farmland, it was all bracken and junk and rocks. Felt a bit bad about that one...
Never burnt bales though.

(tomsk, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:25, archived)

It's kind of satisfying,

but you have to keep up with them - deosn't look good if they roll through the village in flames with you running after it. Not that that ever happened to me.

We were once playing with matches in a barn, which burnt down a few hours later. Felt bad about that one. A few singed bails never hurt anyone, though.

(james, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:32, archived)

Actually, I tell a lie, we did burn bales.

Our local farmer used square bales. We used to use them to start fires with, but we burnt pallettes and stuff like that on top.

(tomsk, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:38, archived)

It's a bit harsh

The first time I was only about 6 and was taking a short cut with my big sisters. We weren't even scrumping.

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Wifey, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:11, archived)

I was about 9 and walking on

a public footpath with my 75 year old grandma. To be fair, he didn't really aim to kill us, just scare us shitless.
<voice of unreason>I hate farmers. Whingeing tory bastards.</unreason>

(tomsk, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:15, archived)

you never told me you were SHOT AT!!

Right, next time we go up there I'll find him (or his next of kin if necessary) and whup his right-wing foxhunting ARSE.

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Dr Phil Kitten, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:17, archived)

I'm sure I told you that story.

He wasn't one of the foxhunting ones though. I think he just hated people in general.

(tomsk, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:19, archived)

I don't CARE.

I'm going to FIND HIM, and then I'm going to HURT HIM.

You don't mess with MY tomsk and get away with it, all right?

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Dr Phil Kitten, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:23, archived)

Always complaining

about having no money as they drive around in mercs and bmw's and living in big houses. And scaring little kids with their guns. Evil they are.

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Wifey, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:19, archived)

The other time I was a student

and a crowd of us went camping in the Mourne Mountains. A farmers son who we met in a pub said we could camp on his land, but he negleted to tell his dad who thought we were some sort of terrorists using his land as a training camp. Oh how we all laughed when it was sorted out.

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Wifey, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:23, archived)

Theres lots of farmers in normandy

They are a bit backward though, I don't think they have heard of nazis yet

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Spoon, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:09, archived)

How can I reply to this

... logically without using the words "Nati" and "bastards"?

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blah, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:19, archived)

I suppose a simplistic way of looking at it

Is that all the areas that voted for the far right are on the borders and therefore are the areas where refugees travel through/settle, polarising the views of the people who live there. Or something. you know what I mean.

(qwerty, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:20, archived)

Something like that

I think those are all historically industrial areas. A lot of people were shipped up from the Mahgreb by the French governement to work in mines, factories etc, and the French made a lot of money out of them.

Then the factories closed, (sort of technically making them rural areas by default) and the people who worked in them (and their familes) got the blame for being poor.

LePen's policy (8 years ago at least) stemmed from the idea that if France had brought all these people over it could ship them back again. Despite the fact there are now three generations that are just as french as he is.

His sucess now has something to do with people allowing what they see on TV to dominate what they see through their own eyes. Although law n' order is a good ratings winnner, it does bugger about with democracy a lot.

Or something.

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mrbrong, Tue 23 Apr 2002, 10:37, archived)