tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post5962503737068458..comments2024-01-12T00:35:16.941+01:00Comments on French Leave: Don't laugh at me, Argentina...but, on the other hand, why not?the fly in the webhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-81805830265671418812010-11-04T13:06:24.361+01:002010-11-04T13:06:24.361+01:00French Fancy, when you see what's outside it.....French Fancy, when you see what's outside it....then vive the bubble!the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-50647638513563633552010-11-04T12:29:41.454+01:002010-11-04T12:29:41.454+01:00I also heaved a sigh at the image of Sarko and Dav...I also heaved a sigh at the image of Sarko and Dave, side by side, entente bloody cordiale and all that twaddle. I can't stand Cameron and am a bit surprised that I dislike him even more than I do Sarko (for whom I do have a tiny bit of sympathy). The thing is that are there ever any genuine political figures any more - the decent ones will no doubt be led astray by their mandarins?<br /><br />I just continue to live in my little bubble here.French Fancy...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04941577892849157015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-82518299148143501532010-11-04T01:59:50.997+01:002010-11-04T01:59:50.997+01:00e..that's just what I'm doing...
Though I ...e..that's just what I'm doing...<br />Though I was never convinced by Obama...he's too like Blair...the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-7131439970009416762010-11-04T01:10:04.243+01:002010-11-04T01:10:04.243+01:00Well, all I can manage after the recent spate of e...Well, all I can manage after the recent spate of elections is to think that most Americans are brain dead...<br /><br />I agree that America should never have gotten involved in Iraq or Afganistan.<br /><br />Unfortunately, Obama is no likely a lame duck president whose policies, including the attempt at healthcare reform, will eventually be undone...<br /><br />I wish I had another country or two to run off to right about now...ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11376645220662546020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-43155865948198568712010-11-03T12:07:52.784+01:002010-11-03T12:07:52.784+01:00Sarah, I think thinking the impossible was the Whi...Sarah, I think thinking the impossible was the White Queen in...I think...Alice through the Looking Glass...who suggested believing six impossible things before breakfast shortly before turning into a sheep....<br />If only that would happen to politicians.<br /><br />nodamnblog...easy peasy...<br />'Non'the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-44855069322580681472010-11-03T11:23:36.729+01:002010-11-03T11:23:36.729+01:00What would de Gaulle have to say on the subject?What would de Gaulle have to say on the subject?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-46343580118333534392010-11-03T09:19:53.558+01:002010-11-03T09:19:53.558+01:00We're all shaking our heads in wonder at this ...We're all shaking our heads in wonder at this 'initiative'. How anyone came up with in the first place is a mystery. It just seems so, on the face of it, obviously impossible. <br /><br />Who was it who said you should believe in one impossible thing every day?<br /><br />I agree with your observation on shaking up the workings of the MofD. That's more obvious, but apparently more impossible than an impossible initiative with the French.<br /><br />Strange times.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13195684182481935384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-29881622824600358452010-11-03T00:41:06.405+01:002010-11-03T00:41:06.405+01:00Mark, Blogger has swallowed your comment...it may ...Mark, Blogger has swallowed your comment...it may regurgitate it later.<br /><br />Sleeping in Lloyd George's room indeed...now there was a 'no good boyo' in 'respectable' terms, but not bad for a small town Welsh solicitor in terms of where he ended up!the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-7591970088947024042010-11-03T00:27:28.374+01:002010-11-03T00:27:28.374+01:00P(V)LiF, first, what a shame that the 'living ...P(V)LiF, first, what a shame that the 'living the dreamers' made writing your blog no longer a pleasure to you.<br />Curse the lot of them. It was a super blog.<br /><br />Yes, I said 'arse'! I'm getting quite sprightly in my old age...I said 'Niq ta mere' recently, too - but both only in comments!<br /><br />Of course it won't work...and as for putting the nuclear testing site in France! All their unions need is a nuclear testing site to blockade!<br />Thank you, I received your e mail and replied.the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-4967080770769358172010-11-03T00:23:04.285+01:002010-11-03T00:23:04.285+01:00Excellent post.
By coincidence, I was staying a...Excellent post. <br /><br />By coincidence, I was staying at Lloyd George's family home last week - reading in the room he died in even! Probably sleeping in a room he'd shagged in - and not with his wife either!<br /><br />There's a boy, as they say in WalesThe bike shedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05195882998271591934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-70890159042889505352010-11-02T23:39:23.536+01:002010-11-02T23:39:23.536+01:00Ooh, Fly, you said 'arse'!! Another super...Ooh, Fly, you said 'arse'!! Another superlative post from the Queen of Superlative posting. I can't see how this can work. The French will just shrug their shoulders and the English will just talk loudly to them. I sent you an e-mail. Will you let me know you got it?The Accidental Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01146937745719946782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-1355092693344220812010-11-02T22:49:11.744+01:002010-11-02T22:49:11.744+01:00mrwriteon , ah yes...the sunburned armpit brigade....mrwriteon , ah yes...the sunburned armpit brigade....the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-8946428645669529992010-11-02T22:44:28.336+01:002010-11-02T22:44:28.336+01:00The only worse allies than the French are the Ital...The only worse allies than the French are the Italians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-4830642405648543982010-11-02T20:54:29.382+01:002010-11-02T20:54:29.382+01:00Clippy Mat, I can remember honest ones....either t...Clippy Mat, I can remember honest ones....either the press disposed of them by ridicule or their own parties by gerrymandering.<br />Sick.the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-72544639672297971292010-11-02T20:43:47.295+01:002010-11-02T20:43:47.295+01:00Lloyd George must be spinning a bit too considerin...Lloyd George must be spinning a bit too considering your last comment regarding him. 92 years!<br />How do you demand honesty of politicians? Is anyone even capable of that anymore?<br />I despair.<br />;-)Clippy Mathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15922234265229327474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-64286576795584739892010-11-02T19:19:28.892+01:002010-11-02T19:19:28.892+01:00Steve,no. I agree, it won't. Not least because...Steve,no. I agree, it won't. Not least because it has been agreed that all French troops participating should speak English.....<br /><br />Trisha, you're right, there's no return to the past and I worry that our societies seem to have run out of gas...no ideals, no guts.the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-66889241846805367932010-11-02T19:02:42.889+01:002010-11-02T19:02:42.889+01:00Well said, my Father has joined yours in creating ...Well said, my Father has joined yours in creating the rumble, my Grand-dad, who lost his life out here in 1915, also I think.<br /><br />Mr Sarkozy is afraid of the populace and has worries about his safety. I read a little of what is said and hear also from our French friends, but then politics is not an easy subject for our mixed conversation. They had a choice of who they have now got, and our lovely, fragrant Segolene.. No, our neighbours preferred Mr. Sarkozy so now they have to live with the policies he has created, as do the voters in the UK with the Cameron/Clegg partnership. <br /><br />I also see that in the USA there is a 'Tea Party' party that would like to return the US to its original (Victorian??) ideals... One wonders what gives them the idea that life can return to the past..Trishahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14456012541796765737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-28333387552069349692010-11-02T18:59:25.641+01:002010-11-02T18:59:25.641+01:00I shook my head when I heard the news of this... w...I shook my head when I heard the news of this... wonderful in spirit and ethos but in practise? This is not going to work. Two sisters cannot wear the same dress to the same ball. Not without ripping it and each other to shreds...Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-61542654888032427912010-11-02T18:53:37.099+01:002010-11-02T18:53:37.099+01:00Dumdad...what are we doing in Afghanistan?
Licking...Dumdad...what are we doing in Afghanistan?<br />Licking American arse...that's what.the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6021650718999668529.post-89990542271275782010-11-02T18:51:30.890+01:002010-11-02T18:51:30.890+01:00Veterans of the Second World War must soemtimes wo...Veterans of the Second World War must soemtimes wonder what has become of their beloved Britain. But perhaps it was ever thus as each generation looks on in bewilderment at the new generation. I do wonder, though, what the hell we're doing in Afghanistan. Don't get me started!Dumdadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00070838905120958459noreply@blogger.com