Watching them squirm

Oh people can query away at what I say, no problem, obviously although I am a French person we aren’t a hive mind so there’s little doubt my personal foibles will influence what I say, no matter how objective I try to be.

And obviously I have no experience of the life of a French person whose circumstances are hugely different from my own, even if I try to imagine them.

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I have a large number if threads muted too :grin:

And sometimes I go there just to see if I’m here

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Watch out you don’t meet yourself coming back :wink:

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Think you are running ahead and reading between the lines to read something I have not said. Just interested is all and I do not understand anybody coming to France who does not want to integrate. Simple. As I do not understand anybody going to live in any country and not wishng to integrate. It is not a Brit thing for me but they just have a bad reputation here. Maybe as @vero says about the Dutch in that neck of the woods?

Aren’t the Dutch just Scots with the generosity squeezed out?

I suppose I should add the disclaimer that I’m Scottish.

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And, although I’ve liked your comment, I should add the disclaimer that some of my best friends are Dutch, I adore Amsterdam and I had a fantastic Dutch boss when I worked in Brazil.

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We were once asked to leave a Scottish Highland hotel when one of my crew asked the owner/patron (perfectly innocently) “What’s a Scottish breakfast?” and my cameraman replied “The same as an English, only much smaller.” No sense of humour…

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I don’t know about that, I lived and worked in Antwerp for a few years and the Belgians didn’t like Dutch visitors either and were vile about them. But then the Danes in Copenhagen didn’t like the Swedes coming over the Øresund from Malmö on the booze train either.

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I’ve never knowingly let the facts interfere with a cheap joke :wink:

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I thought the joke was:

Q: What’s the difference between a Scot and a Yorkshireman?

A: Well, they are both the same, except that a Yorkshireman doesn’t have the Scot’s generosity.

Disclaimer - I’m a Yorkshireman :slight_smile:

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It’s a multi-purpose joke.

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Absolutely the sentiment in our neck of the woods.

I’ve sussed it!!!

Blade is one of those interrogators who you have to face when you have applied for French Citizenship - you know…the ones who demand to know why you want citizenship, what you have done to integrate and the one you have to make a promise to, to never again speak English in public!!

Hence all the questions and no answers :rofl:

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I embarked on a big clean up of the cave last week. It took days so I downloaded this to keep me company.

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Twas the same in Bretagne plus the jeermans too. Rent a camper van and fill it to the ceiling with food, drink and everything they needed for their hols. The dutch also never paid to park in sites, preferring the sides of the road or laybys which were free. The small port next to me banned campers from entering so they could not stay for free overnight.

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Nothing, nada

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Better than the sucker uppers on the side that thinks it knows the answers and gets found out that they know SFA at the end of the day. Easily spotted with all the sources posted. Ego strokers at their best.

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Never heard of electrostatic charging in medical devices in almost 25 years in the industry. Any reprocessing has to be done the same as if they are a new product. Accordng to FD 820, MDR 2021 and Iso 13405, they must be unpacked, visually inspected, samples taken and tested either (statistically or AQL - number of samples to be taken) repacked and re labelled with a new lot and expiry date if needed.

So they only left their $hit behind? Literally?