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The BBC’s Caroline Wyatt continues monitoring French aromas. March 25:
The crisp early springtime air on the Left Bank is filled once more with the heady scent of revolution, black coffee and Gauloises.
And March 28:
As darkness fell at Place de La Republique, the acrid smell of tear gas drifted through the early evening air. It mingled with a distinct smell of cannabis ...
She never mentions the scent of molten Peugeots, which might overwhelm even tear gas. The latest demonstrations, as always, didn’t end happily:
The festival atmosphere quickly darkened as a small group of troublemakers began to target trade union stewards trying to keep order on the march.
The atmosphere darkened? Someone needs racial-awareness training:
According to the riot police, many of these youths had come in from the suburbs outside Paris looking for trouble: this violence seen by some as a continuation in Paris city centre of what began in November’s riots in the suburbs ...
On the worst of the housing estates, joblessness among the young, especially those whose families are of Arab or north African origin, is about 40%.
Proceed to the BBC Punishment Room, Ms Wyatt. CNN remains welded to political correctness:
CNN anchor Kyra Phillips said that images of protesters defiantly standing in front of the water cannons brought back memories of pro-democracy activists who stood in front of tanks during the 1989 pro-democracy rallies in Tiananmen Square.
Were she to emigrate, Kyra Phillips would even drag down French IQ ratings:
Germans are the most intelligent people in Europe, well ahead of the British (in eighth place) and the French (15th), according to a new study by Northern Ireland’s University of Ulster, The Times reported Monday. With an average intelligence quotient (IQ) of 107, a scintilla of brainpower above the Dutch who also scored 107, the Polish (106), the Swedish (104) and the Italians (102). They all came out better in the intelligence stakes than the British who rated an even 100 IQ according to the study, ahead of the Spanish (98) and the French (94) who could only comfort themselves by checking the study results for Bulgarians, Romanians, the Turkish and Serbians who languished at the bottom of the table on 89.
All the clever Frenchsters live in Australia or LA.
CNN anchor Kyra Phillips said that images of protesters defiantly standing in front of the water cannons brought back memories of pro-democracy activists who stood in front of tanks during the 1989 pro-democracy rallies in Tiananmen Square.
I have my problems with the French, but comparing their government to the Chinese Communists seems a bit strong.
Posted by tim maguire on 2006 03 29 at 01:19 PM • permalink“Sort of brings back memories of Tiananmen Square, when you saw these activists in front of tanks.”
It sort of does nothing of the kind, you silly twit.
At one time at least, the average IQ range was 90-110. When you remember that a sizeable percentage of “average” earthlings have IQs in single digits, it explains quite a lot, doesn’t it?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 03 29 at 01:41 PM • permalinkTear gas mixed with cannabis probably smells better than the heady scent of revolution, black coffee and, in particular, Gauloises.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 03 29 at 01:44 PM • permalinkCNN anchor Kyra Phillips said that images of protesters defiantly standing in front of the water cannons brought back memories of pro-democracy activists who stood in front of tanks during the 1989 pro-democracy rallies in Tiananmen Square.
WTF? A despotic regime that sends in the army to kill its protestors, or a government that sits idly by while the “youth” protest, loot, fight, burn cars and make asses of themselves. Yeah, Kyra, I can see why you would think that. Everytime I think I have seen the lowest CNN can go… they prove me worng.
Posted by Major John on 2006 03 29 at 01:49 PM • permalink1st off, she’s lying through her arse. Tear-gas doesn’t smell “acrid” it smells “HOLY SHIT!”, and secondly, she wouldn’t have smelled “cannabis” mingling with it if Bob Marley had blown a hit right in her face. She’d have been too busy trying not to drown in her own snot.
And even more bad news in the IQ ratings. In one paragraph, 100 years of perfectly good Polish jokes were rendered useless. Perhaps we can just replace the word “pollock” with “frog”? Would they still be funny?
Lets find out…
Q. Why Dont “Frogs” breast feed their children?
A. It hurts to bad to boil thier nipplesCNN anchor Kyra Phillips said that images of protesters defiantly standing in front of the water cannons brought back memories of pro-democracy activists who stood in front of tanks during the 1989 pro-democracy rallies in Tiananmen Square.
This is true only if the eeeeevvuuuulllll police mixed soap in with the water, thereby forcing the French to bathe.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 03 29 at 04:05 PM • permalinkThanks to Kyra, I’ve finally figured out what CNN means in French:
Complètement No-No
(roughly: completely silly and naive; childish.)
Posted by JJM Ballantyne on 2006 03 29 at 04:06 PM • permalinkCNN anchor Kyra Phillips said that images of protesters defiantly standing in front of the water cannons brought back memories of pro-democracy activists who stood in front of tanks during the 1989 pro-democracy rallies in Tiananmen Square.
Now there’s a comparison that again calls upon us to bless the Maker of the Universe for providing the blogs. Comparing those who braved death to break the bonds that enslaved their poverty stricken countrymen comparing them with spoiled brats braving water while intent on saving their mortgages and pensions (thirty years hence) and Arabs intent on imposing terror and the stench of slavery is the true mark of the MSM in general and CNN in particular.CNN have now apologised for this piece of silliness….
“French Tiananmen comparison regrettable: CNN
PARIS, March 29, 2006 (AFP) - A CNN journalist in Paris on Wednesday described as “regrettable” a comparison made by the US chain’s anchor between jobs protests in Paris and the Tiananmen Square uprising in Beijing.
“Unfortunately I have to say that this reference to Tiananmen was regrettable,” said Chris Burns during a reception with French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy.
“It was one small comment by a presenter. Apart from that, for anyone watching yesterday’s coverage, it was very detailed and very balanced,” Burns said.
CNN anchor Kyra Phillips mused that images of protesters standing in front of the water cannons in Paris Tuesday brought back memories of Chinese pro-democracy
activists who stood in front of tanks during the 1989 rallies in Tiananmen Square.
“We’re going to continue to follow the Pentagon briefing, but we just can’t ignore these live pictures coming out of France right now,” Phillips told viewers. “Sort of brings back memories of Tiananmen Square, when you saw these activists in front of tanks.” Copyright AFP”Posted by arnienelly on 2006 03 29 at 04:30 PM • permalink#3 Some very disturbing images over the last few days of “youths from the suburbs” taking advantage of the disorder caused by the student marches to engage openly in physical violence, criminal damage and theft. The main news media seem shy of using the M word as usual.—rexie
The M word? Which M word? Moms? Mucous? Measles? Merry-go-round? Mums? Mississippi? Menagerie? Motown? Motown music (which I guess would be the double M words)? Oh gee whiz, I’ll be thinking about this all night.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 03 29 at 05:11 PM • permalinkOne of those interviewed in the Duffy article suggests that Parisians have a stronger larrikin streak than Australians.
Well, if the price of losing this contest is a few less Ford Fiesta flambes, it’s a crown I’m happy to relinquish.
And someone call The Guardian, we have a new euphemism:
Abu Hamza - larrikin.
The article on the opinions of French emigrants in Australia was probably just a piece of “fluff” and one would hope that the opinions stated were part of a larger, more intelligent set of comments by these people. In my acquaintance French people move to Australia for:
1. The ability to access clean and attractive beaches
2. Availability of childcare
3. Good jobs
4. Good and relatively spacious and affordable housing
5. Safety for themselves and their kids.Although I have numbered the above I am not ranking the importance of each item. The fact is that France is in trouble. Young and intelligent and highly educated people are leaving in great quantities. All of the demographic warnings of Mark Steyn are working against it.
As for the journalists reporting the current troubles in Paris, they suffer from envy that they were not part of the ‘68 riots which have long been emblematic on th left. If we were reporting those today we would probably be a lot more critical.
Don’t know if it’ll help Wron, but “misanthrope” works.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 03 29 at 06:12 PM • permalinkA concierge at my Paris hotel worked for several years in the US (same industry, summers in NYC, winters in Miami—not a bad life). He would have given anything to get back here.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 03 29 at 06:16 PM • permalinkShouldn’t that be mansewer?
I would have to question either the validity or the usefullness of those I.Q. figures.
Both killed off the flower of their youth in two bloody wars, not to mention all of those ancient wars.
One attempted the genocide of a whole class of people while the other certainly collaborated to a large degree.
And both have unemployment rates exceedig 10%! In Arizona we call that over twice what the stupid, backward and cultureless Americans are experiencing.
So where’s the beef? Just asking.
Seems to me strange that the head of “l’Oreal”, (famous for its support other extreme right wing Cagoulards) in the thirties amd the aid it gave to the extreme tight) should claim that the French are more Individual than the Aussies.
Are not the thousands of young french revolutionary students protesting at new laws which would prevent them from being part of a cradle to grave nanny state!They live in Ulster and they insult other people’s intelligence?
(said the man whose family came from County Cavan.)
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 29 at 09:19 PM • permalinkWhere is John Kerry when you need him to give us a brief lecture in French on how civilized French society is compared to the violent lands way west of his Mass. Mansions?
Can’t Phillips nose her way to LaLa Mass. and nose out a scoop that would make CNN viewers spill their Latte all over their TV trays. Or is she afraid he would speak down his nose to her?
I’m grateful to the Irish for not including the Democratic Party of the USA in that survey. Any party that could run that snot Kerry must have IQs so low even gravity will have nothing to do with them.Shockingly, half of the respondents had IQ’s below the average.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 03 29 at 10:10 PM • permalinkIf you think you can smell Tear Gas then you obviously aren’t in contact with it. In my experience you can’t smell tear gas because of the shite and corruption pouring out of your nose, eyes and sometimes vomit, too.
I rate it with Wasabi and Tobasco for clearing the sinuses. (Please excuse me if sinuses is not the correct plural.)
#7 Texas Bob,
The Germans call anything totally FUBARed a Polnische Wirtschaft, that is a Polish Economy. Let’s try the new IQ data on this phrase: French Economy. Yep, it fits perfectly.#14 Rebecca,
I think it is because of the superficiality of the journalists’ grasp of logic. Their syllogism seems to be:The French students and the beurs are opposing a government.
The Tienanmin Square demonstrators opposed a government.
Therefore the two are the same.
QEDPosted by Michael Lonie on 2006 03 29 at 11:06 PM • permalinkHey as an Ulsterman I deeply resent the implication that we are ignoramuses who are prone to violence and if yeese say that again I’ll bate the livin’ shite outta yeese all so I will.
Oh and yes CS gas is really, really unpleasant, British bastards!
Posted by Harry Flashman on 2006 03 30 at 01:00 AM • permalinkJust for the record, tear gas up the sniffer is much MUCH more a sensation than a scent…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 30 at 01:18 AM • permalinkTear gas is much nicer than a dose of “black panadol” (baton) to the kneecap anyway.
As I still proudly have a certificate calling me a “chemical munitions handler” and our training involved using it on each other I shall make the following observation.
It doesnt hurt, so much as make anything else you were doing much less important than leaving the affected area.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 03 30 at 01:36 AM • permalinkI hate to be serious for a moment, but:
The Germans call anything totally FUBARed a Polnische Wirtschaft, that is a Polish Economy.
I must admit I’d never heard that one before. Googling for it, I see some meta-commentary on how that phrase has fallen out of favour in recent years, but almost no actual use of it in that sense.
Difficult not to feel some schadenfreude over the realisation that it is not only the jews who are targeted for vicious beatings.
Of course the French media will soon reassure them that this is all the fault of the Jews and the americans.
The truth is that the hatred felt by the young islamic casseurs towards the French is as deep as the hatred they feel towards Israelis and Jews.
“How can this be? we have also shown our dislike of the Zionist entity and have swallowed all the Pallywood propaganda without question”
Soon the French will have to think about build walls to protect themselves from the Islamic territories that have now sprung up. How will that go down at the UN?
And all those french Journalists and metteurs en scene who collaborated in the Palestinian Al Durah production. Will they now ask themselves if they are contributing to beatings and car burnings by simply being there? Questions they never dreamt of asking themselves at Netzarim junction.
NO better not cover these attacks on protestors in case it fuels support for the right wing.
Something not easy to do when it’s now happening in the centre of Paris.#20.
The French certainly want to migrate; anyone with any get up and go has got up and gone. I am just back from a month in France, and everywhere you go (even the cashiers in the department stores) will tell you that it is “mon rêve” (my dream) to go/migrate to Australia.
But in his list of reasons several were left out.
*The gloomy climate (in Paris it is currently 8 degrees Celsius, and it is now almost April). From mid February to mid March, we had the first 6 days of snow followed by 20 of rain; the Euros get very sick of it (you try living with constant rain and frost and snow from November to early April) especially now that they know about Bondi and Florida etc (unlike their grandparents).
*Although it does not always show up in statistics relating to living standards, you have to consider the large amount of money they have to spend on, for example, central heating (you pay for it or you freeze, about $2000 to $3000 US pa), petrol costs $1.65 US a litre, and all sorts of stuff (e.g. kitchen utensils, DIY stuff) costs much more in France (try doing a comparison with the prices for the same items in an Australian or U.S. supermarket)
The ability to get a job, keep it if you work hard, get another one if you get the sack, not get bogged down with bureaucrats and tax men and crushing tedium of the demands on small business (yes it is bad in Australia or USA but in France, Belgium etc it is far worse, esp. for employers)
All these lead to a level of optimism in Australia or USA (or even Britain) which is totally absent in France. ‘Fully 70% .. (believe) that future generations would live less well than they did today, and 72% thought that the French were unhappy’ (the Economist) . ‘The French have also become an astonishingly pessimistic nation: 83 per cent believe that their economy is getting worse, more than in any nation bar Zimbabwe’ (the Spectator)
The average French person holds political beliefs that are bizarre by our standards and are totally away with the pixies. This annoys a lot of the brighter people (esp. the young) who find it easier to migrate than deal with it. E.g. 46 percent of Socialist sympathisers believe that the party is “too far to the right”; e.g. France is the only one among 20 large nations surveyed where a majority of the population rejects the free market as the best system. The country whose population most favours the free market is China, followed by the Philippines and the United States. The least favourable are Turkey, Russia, Argentina and France. E.g. “Lenin and Trotsky would feel at home with the capitalism-versus-the proletariat rhetoric that still defines public discourse.” All these from Charles Bremner ( Times correspondent)Posted by arnienelly on 2006 03 30 at 02:53 AM • permalinkFighting cops for their right to Work In Crap Jobs On Low Pay…bloody troublemakers.
Viva Le Revolution, or something.
A few dozen F-wits out of a crowd of almost a million doesn’t even rate. Some of that footage of fighting actually showed the peaceful protestors trying to stop the bottle throwers from attacking the cops.
Posted by LeftieLatteLover on 2006 03 30 at 12:44 PM • permalinkAs i said in my previous post, the French will try to NOT report as much of this as they can.
BLAME THE AMERIKKKANS
THE rule is simple to understand
When America presents a bad image, that image must be magnified and Blamed by the french “progressive liberal media”.
When France presents a bad image, it is the fault of the biased American media . Rioting and car burnings cannot be given front page positions unless they occur in the USA.
Yes for the french, Katrina is more important than the burning of 100,000 cars because to the french it shows the Americans to be a degenerate racist society -which is precisely what the french are trying to hide about themselvesRazor—first time I got tear gassed was in training. Once I pulled off my mask, the Drill Sergeant decided it was time for a nice long conversation.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 30 at 09:57 PM • permalinkCS is genuine tear gas. OC is pepper spray. Check out this *Wikipedia* article. Grain of salt advised as always, but this looks reasonable.
But the deal with CS is that it is an irritant, very fine particles dispersed by emulsions. It goes into your eyes, nose, and mouth, and burns. It takes very little. And the crap is persistant; if you dust a gravel road with CS, it will stay until the next rainfall. I know, I watched this happen in the National Guard when someone got playful, and gassed the brigade HQ one night. The access road was unusable, and when the wind blew, hoo doggie! Hell, CS sticks to clothing.
There’s a very fine line between “smelling” CS and getting your nasal passages involuntarily and nastily purged. Not to mention your eyes. Been there, done that. No fun, people.
So, in my humble experience, if Wyatt “smelled” CS, she either whiffed the far outer edges of the cloud, or she was high on the pot, and thought she smelled the tear gas.
Trust me, you know when that happens.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 03 31 at 05:55 PM • permalinkTrue enough about the BBC, geoff. That is a third option, and the most likely. Ain’t nuthin’ like poetic license to improve a story, eh?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 04 01 at 12:07 PM • permalinkRazor—maybe those people are unaffected in small quantities. But my first unit had one idiot who saw a bunch of CS on the ground (someone had “chemically attacked” a bridging site), and didn’t even smell it. Wondering what it was, and (admittedly) egged by his fellow soldiers, he tested the “unknown subtance” in situ. His fellow soldiers (OK, OK, his platoon sergeant) knew what it was, and told him to carefully smell a tiny sample.
But no, this guy grabbed a handfull, and practically snorted it like cocaine.
Needless to say, he made positive identification of the “unknown substance” instantly. To the amusement of the entire platoon.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 04 01 at 12:15 PM • permalinkRazor — No, no, this fine guardian of our nation wanted to have a conversation (apparently the drill sergeants had somehow found out my then GF had been a former mistress of the head of the Worker’s Revolutionary Party in the UK). This afforded them plenty of material for an extended discussion…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 04 01 at 08:00 PM • permalinkWe had a fogger type during our room extraction training. Looks a bit like an aerosol air horn but contains CS.
On the instructions were “not to be used less than 5 meters from target”.
The officer who was plating the “extracee” thought hed be a bit cute and burst out of the room and tried to break our shieldwall. He bounced off it, then continued to try and resist us. BIG mistake.
The lovely, cute, gentle, female officer with the fogger gave him a 10 second burst. In the face. Less than a foot away.
He ceased to resist about the quickest ive ever seen. His whole face was slicked with the crap.Another thing I learnt was that ladies should avoid being naked when this stuff goes off. It affects mucous membranes ALL of them. Top and bottom….
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 04 02 at 04:38 AM • permalink
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