Paris...
My dad was French and as such, I've seen a lot of the area he grew up in (and where a lot of my family still live). I've always found the French to be polite, friendly people...until I went to Paris fairly recently.

Bunch of arrogant tossers - they refuse to even pretend to understand my French (which is fairly good - I've laughed and joked with French speakers in Morocco and got along fine there).

Highlight of my trip to Paris? when the arsehole taxi driver dropped me off then got a 200 Euro fine for stopping in the wrong place.

French - lovely people unless from Paris/have adopted the Paris attitude.
( snee held his breath since, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 15:22, 1 reply)

the one thing I have heard most from French people I have met over the years is "The Parisians are NOT French!"

( theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 15:54, closed)

This is
true, the rest of France hates the way that their national identity has been hijacked by Paris, and a lot of the world assumes this applies to the whole of France :(
(Obi wanker nobi Its not a bug, its an unexpected feature, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 16:28, closed)

Lets face it
Would any of the brits here want to be represented by the festering, reeking, shitpit that is our capital?

I work there occasionally, and the entire city seems populated by ignorant fuck-knuckles.

Apologies to any of the B3tans I've just tarred with the same brush. In my defence, my home-town's full of cretinous northern radges who point at aeroplanes.
(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_ =o.o=, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 19:33, closed)