Just reflecting that apart from some SF members I have met IRL, we know no British people in France at all now. There was an Irish drunk who would latch on to us when we went into town where we used to live, who was beyond irritating.
I miss British humour and the dry wit more than bangers and bacon. Which is good as humour can be found on SF!
It was more the Pakistani side of things that aroused my curiosity
With such a strong dislike of the (perceived) practice why don’t you consider reporting them? It’s very easy to check online for VED (tax), MoT and even insurance. If you are certain that the registered keeper is resident in France DVLA will be interested.
Are you sure? If they SORN’d it thats about where it ends for DVLA. (No money to collect).
If a check reveals it is SORNed then report it to the gendarmerie as well as DVLA.
I was so angry at being cut up by one of these plonkers that I did report them as it was obvious where they lived. The gendarmes weren’t interested unless caught in the act of doing something else illegal.
Generally years out of date. To be fair, there are fewer now than it was in 2023 when we bought here.
But the French can do dry wit, listen to Inter at midday.
Here is a Frenchman, well British born, explaining Brexit amongst other things to Aussies.
Ah okay…he was trying to cheat the EU system in the knowledge that all fines etc would be a waste of time for the authorities to pursue.
In the end, he went back to Afghanistan.
Yes some can, and many of our friends are in that category. Althoughcan be painful explaining a joke sometimes ( and vice-versa of course). However if you move countries as an adult there are a lot of common cultural references etc that make comminication more fluid with people from similar backgrounds. It’s not a big deal, and happily satisfied quite easily.
And as time goes by the French cultural references are catching up. My latest in conversation with a friend here saying I was not overly impressed with the eclipse, got response on en fait tout un fromage here as its rare.
Yes, but when you move from region to region the cultural references change, de Gualle’s 246 varieties of cheese was to illustrate the point of difference.
I have been out my original culture for many times so you learn to adapt and accept.
As an Aussie in the UK in the 70s I was an odd ball, I moved to BE and again I was an outsider, but adapted. In France I am assumed to be Belgium as I speak French avec une patate chaude dans la bouche and get the appropriate level of ridicule, but I have a sense of humour having naturalised as a Belgium.
A game I used to play to adapt non Belgiums into the office was name 10 famous Belgiums.
I lived in Earl’s Court in the 70’s and it was packed full of Aussies, so I guess you must have been outside the Aussie centres of UK life?
We had Oz and Kiwi friends who got as far as Britain doing the grand tour, then stayed. It seemed quite common in the 70s.
But hadn’t a generation of brilliant Aussies - Germaine Greer, Barry Humphries, Clive James, Richard Neville et al already paved the way in the Sixties?
However, we’ll pass over Rolf Harris…
As a 12-year old with an Aussie accent in a midlands school, I was an odd ball, but I quickly learnt to “take no prisoners” and speak with a pom accent.
And there was us thinking, to quote Tom Lehrer, he was into “animal husbandry”.
Crikey, I thought that I had written my original post in a humorous style about Bacon and Bangers from the UK.
How the replies have morphed into quite a few other subjects 
Interesting.
SF members are good at thread morphing. 
“good at” or “notorious for”
To date, correct me if I am wring SF has outlasted most if not all of the other french/ english forums?