French "loath them or hate them"

SexPistoL · Jul 18, 2005, 01:17 AM

It's not my fault, it's theirs, as always, give your reasons and justify (as if you need to) why you "loath or hate them" There is absolutely no bias at all in this!!!! hehe

riles9262 · Jul 18, 2005, 01:53 AM

The just smoke too much, drink too much white wine, and have a crooked tower with an ugly light show as their tourist attraction. Other than that they're great.

SexPistoL · Jul 18, 2005, 01:56 AM

So can I put you in the ..."I like them box" hehe

riles9262 · Jul 18, 2005, 02:30 AM

Sure why not

The_Neon_Cowboy · Jul 18, 2005, 03:07 AM

I would be in the, there over there, I'm over here, don't give a shit catagory...
Other then when thier fucking with us, then thier a bunch of asshats

Ðamage™ · Jul 18, 2005, 05:05 AM

It's not "French Fries anymore!!" It's "Freedom Fries!!" bahahah

swatX · Jul 18, 2005, 05:37 AM

of course. its not like fries were first originated from france.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Jul 18, 2005, 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted by swatX

of course. its not like fries were first originated from france.

yep came from belguim but got there name from back in like WWI / WWII with troops
eating then in france as well the prsident when he paid a visit and brung the idea over
to the states

Ðamage™ · Jul 18, 2005, 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by The_Neon_Cowboy

yep came from belguim but got there name from WWII with troops eating then in france as well the prsident when he paid a visit and brung the idea over to to the states

LoL you guys kill me..

History of the French Fry:

The original name for french fries was "potatoes, fried in the French manner" that is how Thomas Jefferson first described the dish. Jefferson introduced french fries to the colonies in the late 1700s

swatx can you please do your research before you post something.. you really don't know what you're talking about.. again.

SexPistoL · Jul 18, 2005, 11:29 AM

History of the French Fry:

M8's you are all wrong.....They are "chips"

Sandok · Jul 18, 2005, 12:28 PM

I love em... Very hot french chicks

Ðamage™ · Jul 18, 2005, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by SexPistoL

History of the French Fry:

M8's you are all wrong.....They are "chips"

Why you little..!! lmao

Ubergrendle · Jul 18, 2005, 07:10 PM

Why France rocks:
- Voltaire & rationalism, Napoleonic Code = foundation of western society post-renaissance
- Wine, cheese, fashion, art, architecture
- Paris
- not embarrassed of its greatness (e.g. doesn't apologise to ever culture it might have harmed 200 years ago)
- Jean Renoir, Goddard, Truffaut, cinema verite', French New Wave
- Betrand Russell
- French women
- corollary to the above: Laetita Casta, Juliette Binoche

SexPistoL · Jul 18, 2005, 08:50 PM

M8,
you forgot:
!. Smelly
2. Hairy armpits (and thats the women)
3. And there "FRENCH"
4. Dont need any more...........

The_Neon_Cowboy · Jul 18, 2005, 09:39 PM

hmm?

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In the beginning was the potato. How it found its way from the South American highlands into those little sacks of McDonald's fries is a long, adventurous tale, involving Conquistadors, Marie Antoinette, and Thomas Jefferson. Millionaires have been made and millions more have died from dependence on that simple, innocent potato. Here, then, is the story of the spud, which reached its crowning achievement only once it had been paired with oil.
The potato seems to us today to be such a staple food that it is hard to believe that it has only been accepted as edible by most of the Western world for the past 200 years. Our story begins thousands of years ago, in South America—Peru, Ecuador, and the Northern part of Chile, to be exact—where the Andean Incas first discovered potatoes growing wild in the highlands, and were cultivating them as early as 750 BC. As well as being their staple source of food, the Incas also used potatoes for telling time, treating illness and injury, and divination. They worshipped potato deities, and when potato crops failed, the noses and lips of a few unlucky Incas would be mutilated in ceremonies designed to appease the potato gods. Although the Incas did many things with their potatoes, they did not fry them. Instead, their most popular potato dish involved laying them out in the sun for a period of weeks, then trampling on them with their bare feet to get all of the liquids out. Yummy.

Potatoes were a well-kept Incan secret for thousands of years, as were the Incas themselves, until, in the early decades of the sixteenth century, the Spanish conquered the Incan empire and brought some of the strange little tubers back to Spain with them. The Spaniards, however, were not too keen on consuming what they called an "edible stone." Nevertheless, the invading soldiers in South America used the vegetable as emergency provisions, and it was there that the English were introduced to the charming spud. In 1596, Englishman Sir Francis Drake, setting sail for England after having successfully battled the Spanish in the Caribbean, grabbed up some potatoes for the trip, and made a stopover in Virginia to pick up some homesick British colonialists. One of these passengers took a sample of this intriguing plant to his horticulturist friend, John Gerard. Gerard mistakenly believed the potatoes to have come from Virginia, and, described them to the world in his 1597 Herball as Virginia potatoes. In fact, it was not for another century and a half that the potato would even set foot in Virginia, which it did only after having crossed the Atlantic ocean once more, finally arriving in North America in the hands of Irishmen settling in New Hampshire.

In fact, overseas, nobody but the Irish were willing to actually eat this hearty little vegetable. Sir Walter Raleigh was cultivating potatoes on the Emerald Isles as early as 1576, but when he presented them to Queen Elizabeth, it was a disaster: the cook served the greens to the Queen and threw away the tubers. She was not pleased, and rejected the disgusting meal. Although this was bad news for the struggling staple, it was not the only negative publicity it was to receive in Europe. The Scots found no mention of the potato in the Bible and deemed the vegetable unholy; horticulturists discovered it to be in the same family as such plants as belladonna and feared that it was poisonous; the innocent potato was even thought to be a cause of leprosy when it was found that a substance in the tuber (solanine) could result in a skin-rash. The Irish, however, could not afford to be so cautious. They were suffering from inadequate food supplies, and the tuber grew fabulously in their climate. Possibly as a result of it's popularity in Ireland and concurrent population explosion, the misunderstood potato even became known as an aphrodisiac. In 1733, the English seedsman Stephen Switzer summed up popular opinion of the potato as "that which was heretofore reckon'd a food fit only for Irishmen and clowns."

The potato arrived in Germany in 1588 and was considered suitable only for livestock and prisoners, until 1744 when King William ordered peasants to plant potatoes to save them from famine. He distributed potatoes and instructions for planting them to the lowly folk, and threatened to cut off the nose of anyone who disobeyed.

It was in Germany, too, that the potato met it's greatest ally. Antoine August Parmentier was a French chemist who served as a soldier in the Seven Years War, and was fed only potatoes while in captivity there. When he returned to France, he made it his mission to popularize the tuber, which he felt had been unjustly rejected by his countrymen. A skillful public relations man, Parmentier published a thesis, "Inquiry into nourishing vegetables that at times of necessity could be substituted for ordinary food" in 1773, and soon afterwards brought a bouquet of potato flowers to the birthday party of King Louis XVI. Graciously accepting the gift, the King promptly placed the flower in his lapel, and his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette, wore them in her hair, and potato flowers quickly became a fashion among the aristocracy. Still, Legrand d'Aussy wrote of the potato, in his 1783 Histoire de la Vie Privee des Francais (History of the Private Life of the French) "The pasty taste, the natural insipidity, the unhealthy quality of this food, which is flatulent and indigestible, has caused it to be rejected from refined households."

Parmentier, however, was on a roll. He began throwing parties for the French upper-class, at which he served as many as twenty dishes at a time, all containing potatoes. Then, in a display of marketing genius, Parmentier obtained permission to plant an acre of potatoes in the French countryside. He had the plot fastidiously guarded by day, but at night left the land unsupervised. Acting exactly according to his predictions, the peasants assumed that anything watched so closely must be valuable, and they stole the plants by night. Soon, potatoes were being planted all over France. It became a staple food as well as a status symbol, and by 1813, almost one hundred and fifty years since it's introduction, the potato finally gained acceptance in Scotland, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Italy. Thanks to the French, potatoes were finally deemed chic enough to eat.

The Irish dependence on potatoes not only accounts for their great immigration to the United States after the potato famines of 1845, but also resulted in Irishmen making their way to these shores in the mid 1700's, when a crop failure resulted in the deaths of one fifth of the Irish population. These earlier immigrants brought their beloved spud to America but it received little attention. It was not until an adventurous farmer and admitted Francophile—Thomas Jefferson—began to cultivate them that Americans developed a taste for the tuber, although some were still insisting that they were poisonous.

It was not long after this widespread embracing of the potato that some genius decided to drop slices of it into a pot of boiling fat. The identity of this individual is unknown; the French claim it was one of their countrymen, while the Belgians fiercely hold that it was one of their own who first frenched a fry. Expert opinion on this matter is divided as well. Whatever the case, by the 1830's deep fried potatoes had become a popular taste sensation in both France and Belgium. It took another hundred years for them to become a fast-food staple in the United States. Although Thomas Jefferson is rumored to have served them in Monticello as early as 1802—a daring thing to do at the time, since tubers were still believed to lead to death unless the poisons were boiled out of them—it was American soldiers, having been stationed in France (or Belgium, depending on who you ask) during World War I who brought back a hunger for the fried potatoes they had eaten while overseas. Although today fries are commonly eaten in many other countries, they are only associated with the Gallic culture here in the U.S.

French fries were born to be fast food. Deep frying foods in large vats of (expensive) fat is a smelly and messy task that was impossible for most people to carry out in their humble kitchens. At the beginning of their popularity, one's only chance to obtain the delectable treat was at a restaurant, whose cooking facilities were better equipped to handle such a procedure, or from street vendors in Paris and Brussels. (The first place in Paris to do this was by the bridge Pont Neuf, and thick-cut fries in France are still known as pommes de terre Pont Neuf). To this day, in Belgium, where pomme frites are considered a national treasure, they are still prepared from fresh potatoes and sold on the streets from numerous french-fry shacks, known as a fritures or frietkoets.

Given the difficulty of preparing the perfect fry, it is truly a wonder that McDonald's manages to turn out millions of them each day. But that, too, was a process that took decades to perfect. A long, long time ago, when the McDonald brothers opened their first restaurant in Des Plaines, Iowa, the fries they served were made from fresh potatoes, but unlike today, they were not all uniformly yummy. Sometimes limp, sometimes greasy, sometimes too dark on the outside and not cooked enough on the inside, the path to total fry perfection constantly eluded them. The little restaurant quickly developed into a large food chain, but the brothers remained frustrated with their fries. They began pouring millions of dollars into research. At first, they tried to establish the perfect temperature for frying. What they found was that different batches of potatoes would reduce the temperature of the oil they were hurled into by different amounts. Fixing the frying equipment was not going to help this problem. Instead, they discovered that the variance was due to how long the potatoes had been stored before they met their fate in the fryer. The spuds that had been waiting for longer periods cooked up better than those that went immediately into the fryer. Curing potatoes for exactly three weeks prior to frying them became standard practice, allowing for enough of the spuds sugars to be converted into starches. Without this waiting period, the sugars in the potato make the fry turn brown too quickly.

But McDonald's potato predicament was far from over. There were questions about the best shortening to use, how to cultivate the right breed of potato that would contain the perfect amount of solids to water ratio, and whether to switch over to the two-step frying method (which had been used in Belgium for years). In 1957, the company even opened a research lab dedicated to turning the production of fries from an art into a science. The labs developed a potato computer, used to this day, which could monitor the temperature of the frying oil and notify the operator when a batch of fries was perfectly cooked. Flawless French fries had finally become a reality.

Today, French fries account for more than one-fourth of all potatoes sold in the U.S. market—over six million pounds of potatoes are processed into frozen fries annually. Twenty-five percent of kids report eating French fries instead of other vegetables, and the average American eats thirty pounds of the greasy things in a year. The potato has come from being reviled to being revered, and is now the second most popular staple food in the world. So the next time someone says, "You want fries with that?", take a moment to remember the long, hard journey of the poor little spud. And answer, "Yes, thank you."
ttp://www.stim.com/Stim-x/9.2/fries/fries-09.2.html

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Potatoes, Potato Chips or French Fries
History of the French Fry
The original name for french fries was "potatoes, fried in the French manner" that is how Thomas Jefferson first described the dish. Jefferson introduced french fries to the colonies in the late 1700s.
http://inventors.about.com/library/i...potatochip.htm

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French fries, or chips, are potatoes that have been cut and deep-fried (i.e., french-fried potatoes). Called 'french fries' in North America, the name is often shortened to just 'fries'. They are usually known as 'chips' in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Commonwealth, excluding Canada, "patatas fritas" in Spain, and "frites", "frieten" or "pommes frites" in Belgium, France and Germany. In the regions where the word "chips" is in more common usage, the term "french fries" is usually also understood; "chips" in these regions, however, usually refer to much thicker, and slightly less greasy, slices of potato than "french fries" (see fish and chips). In the US and Canada, "chips" are usually potato chips (also called 'crisps'), which are thinner, and distinct from french fries. Usually, the first f in french fries is not an uppercase f, since it does not refer to the nationality.
The Belgians are noted for claiming that french fries are Belgian in origin, but have presented no absolute evidence; the French have also been cited as possible creators of the dish. The Spanish claim that the dish was invented in Spain, the first European country in which the potato appeared via the New World colonies, and then spread to Belgium which was then under Spanish rule. Whether or not french fries were invented in Belgium, they have become the national dish, and they are the "symbolic" creators, at least for the rest of Europe. French fries have gained international prominence perhaps partly due to their pre-eminence in fast-food menus, propagated by fast-food chains like McDonald's and Burger King (Hungry Jacks in Australia). This came about through the introduction of the frozen french fry invented by the J.R. Simplot Company in the early 1950's. Prior to the legendary hand shake deal between Ray Kroc of McDonald's and Jack Simplot of the J.R. Simplot Company, fries were hand cut and peeled in the back of McDonald's stores, but the advent of the frozen product dovetailed with Kroc's need for quick prep products and expansion of his new franchise across America. In America, french fries are typically served with hamburgers, a latter-day descendent of the French "steak-frites" combination. They are also often eaten with meat, fish, and vegetables or by themselves. They also make up half of the classic food combinations fish and chips and "moules-frites", a popular Belgian dish consisting of steamed mussels and french fries.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Jul 18, 2005, 09:46 PM

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The largest producer of french fries in the world is McCain Foods Limited, a Canadian company in Florenceville, New Brunswick. Such is the popularity of french fries that McCain Foods Limited can produce potato products at the rate of more than 1,000,000 lb/h (125 kg/s) in its 30 potato processing plants on six continents around the world.

Origin of the name

The logical explanation of the origin of the North American name of the dish is that it derives from potatoes that have been "fried in the french manner". The English verb fry is ambiguous: it can refer to both to sautéing and to deep-fat frying, while the French verb it derives from refers unambiguously to the latter.

Some feel that the word "french" in "french fries" is refers to the verb "to french", which means "to cut in thin lengthwise strips before cooking" (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Ed.) On the other hand, "to french" is defined as "to prepare, as a chop, by partially cutting the meat from the shank and leaving bare the bone so as to fit it for convenient handling." (Oxford English Dictionary) in other dictionaries, seeming to suggest that the meaning of this process is not necessarily as set as it may appear. In addition, the verb "to french" did not start appearing until after "french fried potatoes" had appeared in the English-speaking world.

Many other widely disseminated legends for the origin of the name also exist.

By one account, the fried potatoes are called 'french fries' because they are commonly fried in the Belgo-French manner (that is to say, frying them twice with a small pause in the middle). This is plausible, and seems to suggest the word "french" implies the manner in which the food is fried.

Other accounts say that they were once called 'German fries' but the name was changed either for political reasons (Germany was once the enemy of the United States) or simple historical reasons (a traditional theory poses that it was in France during World War I that American soldiers first encountered the dish). This seems unlikely, as Germany was not as famous for its "french fries" as other European countries, in addition to the fact that German immigrants did not seem to bring the dish over to the United States.

Another claim is that the inclusion of the word "French" in the fried potatoes is most likely a confusion as to the nationality of those who introduced the food to American and Canadian soldiers in World War I. When American and Canadian soldiers were stationed in southern Belgium, where many major battles of World War I took place, they were served "pomme frites". Since the region of Belgium the soldiers were in was predominantly French-speaking, the soldiers brought the dish back to the United States as "french fries".

History

Many possible claims as to the origin of "french fries" exist.

Many attribute the dish to France, and offer as evidence a notation by President Jefferson. "Potatoes deep-fried while raw, in small slices" are noted in a manuscript in Thomas Jefferson's hand (circa 1801) and the recipe almost certainly comes from his French chef, Honoré Julien. In addition, from 1813 ("The French Cook" by Louis Ude) on recipes for what can be described as "french fries" occur in popular American cookbooks. Recipes for fried potatoes in French cookbooks date back at least to Menon's "Les soupers de la cour" (1755). However, according to the Food Reference Web site, the first reference to French fried potatoes in English was in 1894 in O. Henry's Rolling Stones, "Our countries are great friends. We have given you Lafayette and French fried potatoes." In addition, when the controversy over Freedom Fries first began, the French embassy claimed that the food was actually Belgian.

Belgium itself also lays claim as the "origin" of French Fries, even though it acknowledges the possibility of the dish being from northern France. According to the popular Belgian belief, this recipe for potatoes was first used in the Meuse valley, between Dinant and Liège, Belgium. The poor inhabitants of this region had the custom of accompanying their meals with small fried fish, but when the river was frozen and they were unable to fish, they cut potatoes lengthwise and fried them in oil to accompany their meals. (Belgian Federal Portal) In 1861, a Belgian entrepreneur named Frits is said to have opened a stand selling this product. He is also said to have given it its own name, frites, which is the french name for the dish in Belgium.

The Spanish claim for originating french fries credits the first appearance of the recipe to have been in Galicia, where it was used as an accompaniment for fish dishes, and from which it spread to the rest of the country and then to Belgium.

There are many stories and clamied histroy of where french fries come from
but they got thier name and thier polulaity from the war

micron · Jul 18, 2005, 09:47 PM

French chicks are cool.

SexPistoL · Jul 18, 2005, 11:07 PM

Hey Cowboy,
They are only "CHIPS" M8. hehe

Ðamage™ · Jul 19, 2005, 12:34 AM

Thanks for that long and boring post you've put up cowboy.. I can't sucumb myself to reading it all, sorry. But thanks for the info nonetheless.. I'm sure it'll help anyone in their life long struggle to nail "were did the french fry first originate from" question we've all been dying to know.

p.s. why didn't you just post the link.. my god.. lmao

Cowboy get me some "french fies", and me love you long time..

SexPistoL · Jul 19, 2005, 01:35 AM

And while your at it....get me a bag of chips M8, loads of salt and vinegar!

Anyway the topic was about the "filthy french" !!!!!

HMS-Dreadnought · Jul 19, 2005, 04:52 AM

two pints of larger plz!!!, and a packet of crisps.

(just to confuse matters even more)

El Kapitano · Jul 19, 2005, 07:19 AM

Still a good song even after all this time..

Falstaff · Jul 19, 2005, 02:52 PM

The damn French...they are almost as arrogant and cerebrally challenged as Americans...
I remember living overseas with French people...they clearly gave us lots of competition..LOL
Ugly French? I have a lot seen a lot more ugly Americans...

Ubergrendle · Jul 19, 2005, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Falstaff

The damn French...they are almost as arrogant and cerebrally challenged as Americans...
I remember living overseas with French people...they clearly gave us lots of competition..LOL
Ugly French? I have a lot seen a lot more ugly Americans...

I suspect the dynamic range of French beauty is more wide than American beauty.

e.g. ugly french is uglier than ugly american, but hottie french is more beautiful than hottie american.

In terms of stupidity and arrogance, I think the french have more than their fair share...but they also have great thinkers and have maintained a culture of rationalism and secularism that the alot of the western world has forgotten.

violat3 · Jul 19, 2005, 04:40 PM

Allez les bleus

La France et l'Ecosse ont collé par sang .... la vieille alliance

HMS-Dreadnought · Jul 19, 2005, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Ubergrendle

...........e.g. ugly french is uglier than ugly american, but hottie french is more beautiful than hottie american.

In terms of stupidity and arrogance, I think the french have more than their fair share...........

I don't know,...

that all sounded a bit arrogant to me.

HMS-Dreadnought · Jul 20, 2005, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Ubergrendle

.....but they also have great thinkers ......

This is of corse true.

Hey,.. I like the frence,
I just like the germans a bit more though.

(we are afterall related)

Falstaff · Jul 20, 2005, 12:29 AM

Les Français sont absolument magnifiques, et je dois dire en termes de goût qu'ils sont les plus de bon goût, mais en termes de puis havent de I mangés assez de femmes américaines encore.

SexPistoL · Jul 20, 2005, 01:11 AM

Hey uber you missed the "S" off thinkers hehe

row · Jul 20, 2005, 11:30 PM

mentioned elsewhere but to repeat the obvious:

they smell

they don't shave

besides that

the language of love is italian, french language just sounds gay

the biggest reason to dislike them though is they are in effect a nation of cowards and collaborators

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Ðamage™ DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 545 Rep Power: 0	It's not "French Fries anymore!!" It's "Freedom Fries!!" bahahah __________________ [COLOR=black][COLOR=red]ATi[/COLOR] Bios Flashing: The Proper Way.[/COLOR][COLOR=red][/COLOR] [COLOR=red]How to properly Install a VGA/CPU Cooler.[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]How to uninstall\install your ATi vga drivers properly[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]*It's not who we are, but what we do in life that defines us.*[/COLOR]

Jul 18, 2005, 01:56 AM	Thread Starter #3
SexPistoL DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: UK Posts: 604 Rep Power: 0	So can I put you in the ..."I like them box" hehe

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swatX ba\|\\|\\|ed Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 618 Rep Power: 0	of course. its not like fries were first originated from france. __________________ thx stick for the sig

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SexPistoL DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: UK Posts: 604 Rep Power: 0	History of the French Fry: M8's you are all wrong.....They are "chips" __________________

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Sandok DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,472 Rep Power: 0	I love em... Very hot french chicks

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Ubergrendle Semper ubi sub ubi Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Toronto Posts: 702 Rep Power: 51	Why France rocks: - Voltaire & rationalism, Napoleonic Code = foundation of western society post-renaissance - Wine, cheese, fashion, art, architecture - Paris - not embarrassed of its greatness (e.g. doesn't apologise to ever culture it might have harmed 200 years ago) - Jean Renoir, Goddard, Truffaut, cinema verite', French New Wave - Betrand Russell - French women - corollary to the above: Laetita Casta, Juliette Binoche __________________ Veteran of the PC Microchannel / EISA wars of the late 1980s.

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SexPistoL DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: UK Posts: 604 Rep Power: 0	M8, you forgot: !. Smelly 2. Hairy armpits (and thats the women) 3. And there "FRENCH" 4. Dont need any more...........

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Jul 18, 2005, 11:07 PM	Thread Starter #18
SexPistoL DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: UK Posts: 604 Rep Power: 0	Hey Cowboy, They are only "CHIPS" M8. hehe

Jul 19, 2005, 12:34 AM	#19
Ðamage™ DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 545 Rep Power: 0	Thanks for that long and boring post you've put up cowboy.. I can't sucumb myself to reading it all, sorry. But thanks for the info nonetheless.. I'm sure it'll help anyone in their life long struggle to nail "were did the french fry first originate from" question we've all been dying to know. p.s. why didn't you just post the link.. my god.. lmao Cowboy get me some "french fies", and me love you long time.. __________________ [COLOR=black][COLOR=red]ATi[/COLOR] Bios Flashing: The Proper Way.[/COLOR][COLOR=red][/COLOR] [COLOR=red]How to properly Install a VGA/CPU Cooler.[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]How to uninstall\install your ATi vga drivers properly[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]*It's not who we are, but what we do in life that defines us.*[/COLOR]

Jul 19, 2005, 01:35 AM	Thread Starter #20
SexPistoL DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: UK Posts: 604 Rep Power: 0	And while your at it....get me a bag of chips M8, loads of salt and vinegar! Anyway the topic was about the "filthy french" !!!!!

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Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 19,048 Rep Power: 207	The damn French...they are almost as arrogant and cerebrally challenged as Americans... I remember living overseas with French people...they clearly gave us lots of competition..LOL Ugly French? I have a lot seen a lot more ugly Americans... __________________ "Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."

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Jul 20, 2005, 12:29 AM	#28
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 19,048 Rep Power: 207	Les Français sont absolument magnifiques, et je dois dire en termes de goût qu'ils sont les plus de bon goût, mais en termes de puis havent de I mangés assez de femmes américaines encore. __________________ "Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."

Jul 20, 2005, 01:11 AM	Thread Starter #29
SexPistoL DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: UK Posts: 604 Rep Power: 0	Hey uber you missed the "S" off thinkers hehe __________________

Jul 20, 2005, 11:30 PM	#30
row DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: northern calif Posts: 85 Rep Power: 0	mentioned elsewhere but to repeat the obvious: they smell they don't shave besides that the language of love is italian, french language just sounds gay the biggest reason to dislike them though is they are in effect a nation of cowards and collaborators __________________ [color=red]dysfunction:[/color] soyo dragon kt880 - antec 1080amg case - koolance exos liquid cooler - rev b xp 2700+ - corsair cmx512-3200c2pro x4 - wd se 80g x4 raid 0 - yamaha crw f1ze cd burner- sony dru 720a dvd burner - sony dru 510a dvd brnr - audigy 2zs plat - logitech z680's - ati aiw 9700 pro - ideazon crossfire kb - ms inteli 4.0 mse - view sonic a90f+ 19" monitor - antec tru480w psu - belkin 900va ups - xp home/sp2/dx 9.0 [color=palegreen]impulse:[/color] abit av8 mb - coolermaster wave case - coolermaster aerogate II thermal controller - coolermaster cooldrive hd hsf x2 - zalman reserator 1 liquid cooling - fx 53 - 4 gigs corsair twinx cmx1024-3200pt - wd 74g raptor x2 - plextor px712a dvd brnr - audigy 4 pro - klipsch pro media ultra 5.1- sony studio monitor headphone mdr700 - evga 6800 ultra - nec fe2111sb blk 22" monitor - ideazon doom3 kb - razer diamondback mse - coolergiant 480w psu - belkin 900va ups - xp home/sp2dx 9.0 [color=blue]fair and balanced posting[/color]