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It's funny how the French are portrayed as cowards in American popular culture, when in reality the French would've gotten the guillotines out already while the
by saubeidl 11mo ago
It's funny how the French are portrayed as cowards in American popular culture, when in reality the French would've gotten the guillotines out already while the Americans... cower.
- pksebben 11mo agonot even a joke, we're skipping the 4th and celebrating bastille day this year. Ten days apart and the food and drink are just better.
- ekianjo 11mo agoCertainly not the current French, though.
- wongarsu 11mo agoThey no longer get the guillotines out, but they still protest like no one else. Not always about the right issues, but at least they have the spirit
- saubeidl 11mo agoYou sure? https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/block-everything-protests-sweep-across-france-scores-arrested-2025-09-10/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/block-everything-protes...
- 1718627440 11mo ago> It's funny how the French are portrayed as cowards Are they? Where does that come from?
- komali2 11mo agoIt used to be I guess a slur, "surrender monkeys," because France surrendered during WWII and there was a Nazi-collaborator government established filled with French politicians. It's unfair given the reality and importance of the French resistance, but, that's where it comes from.
- pksebben 11mo agoThat one was the brits if I'm not mistaken - Jeremy Clarkson specifically (who I have a lot of affection for - Top Gear was a significant part of my childhood, but he does make an art out of being offensively wrong).
- graemep 11mo agoIt seems to have originated in The Simpsons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese-eating_surrender_monkeys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese-eating_surrender_monkey...
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