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Oerdin is offline Oerdin
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Alright I stole this from Koshco on CG; sue me.:

The Complete Military History of France

- Gallic Wars - Lost. In a war whose ending foreshadows the next 2000 years of French history, France is conquered by of all things, an Italian.

- Hundred Years War - Mostly lost, saved at last by female schizophrenic who inadvertently creates The First Rule of French Warfare; "France's armies are victorious only when not led by a Frenchman."

- Italian Wars - Lost. France becomes the first and only country to ever lose two wars when fighting Italians.

- Wars of Religion - France goes 0-5-4 against the Huguenots

- Thirty Years War - France is technically not a participant, but manages to get invaded anyway. Claims a tie on the basis that eventually the other participants started ignoring her.

- War of Devolution - Tied. Frenchmen take to wearing red flowerpots as chapeaux.

- The Dutch War - Tied

- War of the Augsburg League/King William's War/French and Indian War Lost, but claimed as a tie. Three ties in a row induces deluded Frogophiles the world over to label the period as the height of French military power.

- War of the Spanish Succession - Lost. The War also gave the French their first taste of a Marlborough, which they have loved every since.

- American Revolution - In a move that will become quite familiar to future Americans, France claims a win even though the English colonists saw far more action. This is later known as "de Gaulle Syndrome", and leads to the Second Rule of French Warfare; "France only wins when America does most of the fighting."

- French Revolution - Won, primarily due the fact that the opponent was also French.

- The Napoleonic Wars - Lost. Temporary victories (remember the First Rule!)

due to leadership of a Corsican, who ended up being no match for a British footwear designer.

- The Franco-Prussian War - Lost. Germany first plays the role of drunk Frat boy to France's ugly girl home alone on a Saturday night.

- World War I - Tied and on the way to losing, France is saved by the United States. Thousands of French women find out what it's like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn't call her "Fraulein." Sadly, widespread use of condoms by American forces forestalls any improvement in the French bloodline.

- World War II - Lost. Conquered French liberated by the United States and Britain just as they finish learning the Horst Wessel Song.

- War in Indochina- Lost. French forces plead sickness, take to bed with the Dien Bien Flu

- Algerian Rebellion - Lost. Loss marks the first defeat of a western army by a Non-Turkic Muslim force since the Crusades, and produces the First Rule of Muslim Warfare; "We can always beat the French." This rule is identical to the First Rules of the Italians, Russians, Germans, English, Dutch, Spanish, Vietnamese and Esquimaux.

- War on Terrorism - France, keeping in mind its recent history, surrenders to Germans and Muslims just to be safe. Attempts to surrender to Vietnamese ambassador fail after he takes refuge in a McDonald's.

The question for any country silly enough to count on the French should not be "Can we count on the French?", but rather "How long until France collapses?"

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I'm getting a little tired of all the France bashing...

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At least put dates in.

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Brits and Americans suffer severe inferiority complex against the French. That much is clear.

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Hah, superiority complex is more like it.

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Great post.

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Yes it WAS A GREAT POST, THE 1st TIME IT WAS POSTED.

#35446 KINDA SUCKS THOUGH.

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- French Revolution - Won, primarily due the fact that the opponent was also French.

:-D

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Hah, superiority complex is more like it.

An inferiority complex is when you are scared that you are inferior so you have to put down other people. That's what this thread is and that's what you have.

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Brits and Americans suffer severe inferiority complex against the French. That much is clear.



This is funny comming from you

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Why would we have an inferiority complex? It's just a joke. Maybe it hits a nerve with people who may have an inferior or superiority complex.

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This is really getting tired and most of what is claimed is simply untrue (30 years war e.g.), victories are left out. Plain stupid thread

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most of what is claimed is simply untrue

Have facts ever got in the way of humor before?

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Have facts ever got in the way of humor before?

Oh, now I get it. Maybe if it was ecplicitely stated in the first post that it was humor...

It does say a lot about the people that actually think it's funny though...

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Oh, now I get it. Maybe if it was ecplicitely stated in the first post that it was humor...

If I didn't know better I'd swear that you were an American after a statement like that.

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It didn't seem like humor to me... Huejj

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There is a limit to political correctness. If you take it too far it just gets ridiculous and you stop yourself from laughing at some good jokes.

Oh, and I don't think it would be funny if you put a big disclaimer up before you tell a joke.

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If I didn't know better I'd swear that you were an American after a statement like that.

Nah, being a Eurokommie American humor goes totally over my head. I mean, being here on ACS learned me that, to name something, Seinfeld is funny. I would never figure that out by myself...

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There is a limit to political correctness. If you take it too far it just gets ridiculous and you stop yourself from laughing at some good jokes.

Oh, and I don't think it would be funny if you put a big disclaimer up before you tell a joke.

What has this to do with political correctness? I don't mind making fun of any nationality, just try to be original for once...

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Judging from the nature of Oerdin's posts, I simply assumed it was a serious jab at the French.

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this is great. and not just the original post.

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World War I - Tied and on the way to losing, France is saved by the United States. Thousands of French women find out what it's like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn't call her "Fraulein." Sadly, widespread use of condoms by American forces forestalls any improvement in the French bloodline.


Funny? I don't think so.

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I'm getting a little tired of all the France bashing...


Can this be a genuine statement if you knew it was a joke?

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Can this be a genuine statement if you knew it was a joke?

Yes. A joke can be funny when you hear it the first time. Hearing it for the umptieth time however...

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Utterly vile racist slurs. Shameful.

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An inferiority complex is when you are scared that you are inferior so you have to put down other people. That's what this thread is and that's what you have.


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- Thirty Years War - France is technically not a participant, but manages to get invaded anyway. Claims a tie on the basis that eventually the other participants started ignoring her.

France won this one and won it spectacularly. At Rocroi in the Low Countries, it mercilessly crushed Spain's invincible tercios and ended Austria's bid to swallow up all the puny German principalities.

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Yup! Glad to see you never stopped.

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Sounds like a few of the posters on this thread have missed their calling by not posting on FFZ where all the BS is usually spewed...

For all the Americans on this thread who take it personally and moan and whinge about 'being attacked by the Euros all the time' (you f***ing crybabies! ), the sh*t you spew constantly about France is really beginning to annoy me!

There is absolutely NO justification for this behaviour - for a start it's not like there's a band of surly French posters taking the piss out of the US. It's a stream of one-sided petty borderline (if not actually at times!) racist abuse...

Is it because the French on this board (such as any may be made to feel welcome!) don't fight back that you do it?

Either grow up and STOP IT - or ship out with all the other weenies who can't take their opponents fighting back at the Feeble F*cker Zone where you evidently belong...!



It's BS, just like most of the other Anti French crap that's spewed by small minded people on this forum - there's having fun and then there's been this vindictive sh*t that's been increasing for the last few months that's just plain nasty and not funny anymore...

FOR THE RECORD!

As Jack Straw said the other day...

The French are responsible for defeating us in 1066 and thus shaping who the British are today and...

Without French help america would not have been able to win the war of independence against Britain!

I'd say those are two pretty good achievement that our biased reported conveniently missed out...

 
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