Fair enough Izzy, why not post that on Peter’s Macron thread. It has nothing to do with how good a job Bojo has bone (edit: done 
), has it?
Just following the discussion. Lots of people posted about Macron before I did. I think you call it thread drift.
Night night!
And this is relevant to how well Johnson has done ? For a French forum it is awfully fixated on the UK
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If contributors were predominately from Greenland I would expect to see that country’s affairs covered in the same way. So much hangs on agreements between, in this case, the EU or France and the UK for many on here, not to mention concerns for friends and relatives back in the old country. As someone who is carefully considering a move to France I’m very worried about Johnson ruining things re- WA / trade deal.
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There are cures…try Leipicol
thought you had one looking at the tiny thumbnail pic’
It is and I find it so frustrating as what the French government does has far more relevance to my day to day life than Johnson and co’s latest cock-up. People justify their constant anti UK rants with the ‘I’ve got a UK pension, family and friends’ line which is laughable because we all have.
IMO it would be useful if there was a separate section for UK discussions where people could rant away to their hearts content.
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Freedom of movement? We only have the choice of France or the UK now unless we want to go through all the red tape elsewhere.
Having spent most of my life working in other countries I was proud to consider myself part of the European community but now I’ve regressed to being lumped in with a bunch of Brexiteer f…wits.
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Note that the AZ vaccine is an mRNA vaccine - the difference between it and the Pfizer/Moderna vaccines is that it uses an adenovirus vector to get the Covid mRNA into your cells.
Fair enough,but it does sometimes seem that people just jump on any chance to bash the UK ,see this thread and it’s length,and yet ignore stuff far more relevant to day to day life in France
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Well it confused me…
Talking about being ´ blinded by science ´, here is Dr Magnus Pyke at his best…
Categories and tags do that no?
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I find this perspective so odd Timothy, Eddie, etc…
The site is split up into threads - this one - that you have decided to take part in - is explicitly focused on the UK government’s record in office. What did you expect?
Nor do I see the site as a whole as a ‘French forum’ - it is, again explicitly, focused on life in France for English-speaking people, whose interests are bound to include what’s going on for family and friends in their countries of birth.
If you only want to read or contribute to threads focused specifically on France, why not just do that? Why read a thread you’re not interested in, then complain that it’s not interesting?
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Sorry James - you jumped in while I was writing my comment - interrupted by phone call.
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when people exploit them correctly, yes.
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Because even French subject matter threads often include ‘the UK is ****’ comments which puts off so many people from participating and makes discussion pointless.
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So what you’re asking for is the whole site to be moderated so heavily that negative comments on the UK are banned?
Just the UK? What about the USA? Should negative comment on Trump, for example, also be banned?
Perhaps we should only be allowed to comment negatively about France?
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But most of you are British and that is what has shaped your life experience and world view, so obviously that is what you have to compare France with. It is often perfectly relevant to compare things and ways of doing things in different countries after all, many people from all over the globe have no idea that the rest if the world isn’t exactly like their bit of it.
Here in France in spite of many similarities and geographical propinquity, we don’t do things or think the same way about quite a lot of things as you do, I know this is something many British people find incomprehensible and annoying but that’s how it is.
I have had a lifetime of code-switching thanks to being half and half and continually shuttling back and forth and I have seen this incomprehension from both sides. People learn about linguistic faux-amis at school but not cultural ones.
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That’s not what I’ve suggested at all Geof, if people want to slag off the UK they welcome to, just not in threads about life here. Clearly though that’s not going too happen so as you’ve suggested I’ll have to be selective in what discussions I participate in.
These cultural differences are endlessly fascinating to me. My childhood was very mono-cultural - English working class, no foreign travel; the code-switching started when I left home for university, and subsequently lived mainly in middle-class and multicultural milieus - but of course constantly switching back to my working class roots. Then 30 years working internationally across Europe, Asia and Africa, specialising in transition (former communist) economies - and hours of discussion - ‘talking soul to soul’ as they say in Russia - exploring the profound cultural, economic and political differences between England and whatever country I happened to be working in.
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