French..... Some of my best friends are French, but really....
Nah, the French are okay: they beat us a couple of times, we beat them a couple of times and we both almost lost to Germany a couple of times: but all this was in a very different era. We're almost grown up now and have other forms of national expression.
A country that can nurture a Napoleon, and follow him to Moscow, can't be that inclined to surrender without good reason (overwhelming odds for example). The Brits have an insula stubborness that sometimes means we don't realise that odds are overwhelming, so we keep at it anyway. Sometimes the rest of the world thinks we're brave: when it's often just pig-headed stubborness.
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Date: 2007-11-23 10:15 am (UTC)Some of my best friends are French, but really....
Nah, the French are okay: they beat us a couple of times, we beat them a couple of times and we both almost lost to Germany a couple of times: but all this was in a very different era. We're almost grown up now and have other forms of national expression.
A country that can nurture a Napoleon, and follow him to Moscow, can't be that inclined to surrender without good reason (overwhelming odds for example). The Brits have an insula stubborness that sometimes means we don't realise that odds are overwhelming, so we keep at it anyway. Sometimes the rest of the world thinks we're brave: when it's often just pig-headed stubborness.
But sometimes we're brave, & so are the French.