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No I'm not! I'm basically and very diplomatically saying that I prefer English humour and English and American (oh the shame..) music 😁 Although, since I've been listening to a Russian radio station I have discovered some very good German and Swiss groups. Listen to yourself making these sweeping generalisations! 😁 Some Brits do genuinely like chanson française. Good for them! I think Dave Lister has hit the nail on the head.....I'm completely out-of-date with current stuff of any nationality. That's what comes of not reproducing 😉

Jean Michel Jarre, Daft Punk, Stinky Toys. Sometimes you don't have to pretend. 🎸

I did a good job of faking enthousiasm for Jacques Brel 😂

Where do I start? The 85% crap TV, awful comedies or tele reality, transmitting episodes of series in the wrong order, thank god for Arte! The lack of courtesy on the roads, step boldly onto that zebra crossing, ignore those glued to your bumper. The obsession with la rentrée. Christmas decorations that stay up until Spring. No plates for breakfast! But really they are only small annoyances, which I accept with (I hope) grace, as this is my chosen country, where for me the good outweighs the bad. And anywhere else may well be the same, with just as many dislikeys.

The Intermarché in Sigean is another. The odour pervades the fruit and veg section as well.

We have just started as "bénévoles" in an British/French association here in Nantes. Our group are the "advanced English speakers". To be fair, this is the best group of English speakers we have met in France. As we are a British family (Scots and English) I put this question to them i.e. why always "les anglais". The chartered accountant in the group gave the best answer we have come across so far. It is, he explained, because France has always been at war against the English (in an historical context). The Scots they have always we friends with. So their focus has been/is on perfidious Albion. As to the "annoying question". I cannot understand the reason why, in French supermarkets, people walk alongside their trollies, pulling them along (rather then behind them) thus taking up twice the width in the already narrow aisle. Also, in some supermarkets, the tendency to set up the air system that dumps the stale air from the fish counter directly in the entrance. At our local Intermarche I have to hold my breath as we walk in. Same in the Leclec in Carcassonne.