Absolutely
Some of France is lovely. I just don't "get" the attraction of Paris.

Unless being raped for substandard food and wine whislt being treated like dogshit by waiting staff is somehow a pleasure that I don't properly understand?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 13:23, 3 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

My uncle recently said "In the UK and the US, the customer is always right.
"In France, the customer is always wrong. If you don't like something in their restaurant, then it's your fucking fault for not reading the menu properly."

He ent far wrong.
( Kroney, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 13:24, Reply)

I'm pretty sure, though
that your inability to read the menu doesn't actually excuse providing shit food.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 13:25, Reply)

In the eyes of the French, it does.

( Kroney, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 13:26, Reply)

So they are deliberately fucking up things
just as punishment for being english? makes sense.

Also, I speak French, and it's still mostly shit. Most bistros in any town in rural France piss on Paris from a height. Fuck, I ate in a pseudobistro in Leith at the weekend that did a better confit than anything I've ever had in Paris.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 13:29, Reply)

You have to let them know the meal's shit by doing some VERY passive-aggressive smoking.

( Slippery Mick ‏, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 13:29, Reply)

Oh I forgot.
They built a cathedral in the middle of a river which is at least in the top ten religious buildings in europe.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 13:24, Reply)

I tend to agree with you on the Paris thing
But I do still like it, in the same way that people like to go to London or Edinburgh.
However one thing that I would give in Paris' favour is you should go to the Fete De Vendange de mont marte which is great for a weekend
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 13:45, Reply)

Yeah, but Edinburgh really is a great town
for all I slag London off, it's OK except for most of the people.

But Paris is dirty, rude and stupendously overrated. A bit like YM.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 14:14, Reply)

So what you are saying is that Paris has better PR

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 14:30, Reply)