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Ken
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14 hours ago, alittlebitfrench said:
Maybe Ken should tune into ‘100 days with the Gendarmes’´…..´insert place in France of your choice’ ..TV show that is on every weekend. C17 I think ? I love this programme.
We have had Beziers, Nimes, St Tropez, Normandy…Brittany…and others. Gendarmes doing their stuff.
It is mostly filled with fat French folk picking fights with each other on holiday. Or nicking stuff…having road accidents…and all the rest. Most if not all off their heads with either alcohol or drugs.
I think Ken needs to take off his glasses.
Who would be a cop in France. Not me.
Try getting out of the cess pits. There really is a nice world out there.
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15 hours ago, alittlebitfrench said:
Oh Ken you are such a card…..have a read and weep….if you can read French.
Have you noticed all the adverts on French TV selling weight losing food delivered to your door.
As I said, try living somewhere nice! And do stop 'smoking' It shows!!!
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15 hours ago, DraytonBoy said:
If they're on holiday maybe but that doesn't describe the majority of Brits living in rural France.
You know the majority then?
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3 minutes ago, alittlebitfrench said:
Funny, I had the image of them all being green, 10 ft tall with webbed feet.
But I smoke to much.
What do you smoke Ken ?
3 minutes ago, alittlebitfrench said:Funny, I had the image of them all being green, 10 ft tall with webbed feet.
But I smoke to much.
What do you smoke Ken ?
I think you should leave the 'funny stuff' alone!!! It has warped your view of life.
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3 minutes ago, alittlebitfrench said:
I have lived all over France. Have you ?
Peeps are the same wherever you go. The Pays Basque is no exception.
Nope, just been here for 24 years! travelled extensively though and the only time I would ever have come across the cesspits you describe would have been by mistake. You should get out more. You should try some nice places as you seem to be living in a not too pleasant place!!
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2 hours ago, alittlebitfrench said:
You are describing France you numbty again. Just substitute fish and ships with Kabab or Mc Dos and what you are describing is the majority of France.
I took my kids to that very nice shopping centre in Basingstoke and they were horrified to see how fat and disfigured the majority of people who were shopping there looked…..mostly dressed in pajamas.
Now I spend my time pointing out the same in France. It is the same.
Same peeps the world over….different coloured flag.
Maybe where you live, which I doubt is the 'majority' Try living in a decent place. In the Pays Basque people have respect for themselves and are very sporty minded. Pot bellies are seen only on pigs and rarely on humans!
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3 hours ago, betise said:
We really shouldn't start stereotyping people. Where on earth would it end?
No stereotyping going on. I said "by and large" and I stand by that. Pot bellied and drunk are all too common a factor with Brits abroad. Just to add a little oil to this fire, I would hazard a guess that just about the majority of people on this site are fat or obese!! They are usually the ones who try to excuse the malaise!!
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1 hour ago, DraytonBoy said:
What has the lack of your fellow countrymen locally got to do with rain?
That's easy, Two things that keep me happy: sufficient rain to keep everything beautiful and no , pot bellied drunks wanting fish and chips! I would have thought it was obvious! I'm afraid my 'fellow countrymen, and women' by and large, are shameful when abroad.
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12 hours ago, alittlebitfrench said:
You are a Brit you numbty…lol.
When you get up in the morning and look in the mirror…do you say to yourself ´not many Brits about’….😄
I'm a numpty! 'Not many Brits about here' Meaning 'there aren't many Brits about here'!! What's wrong with that? Incidentally, here in the pays Basque we (being one of the not many Brits) have had nearly 80 mm of rain this month. Reading the other posts, why on earth live in those places if you don't like it?
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Fortunately here in the pays Basque we have sufficient rain and very few Brits; Long ay it last!
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4 hours ago, alittlebitfrench said:
I have taken nothing personally I was just showing you how people can get upset so easily online.
Anyway you missed my point about the internet.
Personally I think life was a whole lot better without it.
Yes the internet does fuel crime, aggression, drugs, guns, murder…..or whatever. Social media is poisonous for kids. How many kids comitt suicide each day by using it ?
And just as importantly, all the tech we need to buy to use it is killing the planet.
So yeah, the world should rewind back to the 90’s or 80’s before it is too late.
We don’t need to all be conected. A simple telephone was good enough.
Of course you were just showing how people get upset, you did it very well!! I didn't miss your point, you have made it perfectly clear. You believe, and as it happens so do I , that the internet and other media sources fuel violent crime. The bottom line though is that parents are, or should be, responsible for what their youngsters do. Many parents in this modern world are abjectly moronic in believing their kids are perfect. Discipline! What's that? In fact they give children iPads and computers so that they keep quiet!!! Once an adolescent matures into an adult then it's too late. Whatever bad behaviour they got away with passes on to their offspring.
As for the 'Tollpuddle martyrs' comment: Sorry but we can't change what has happened or been invented. We can though, if we can be bothered, manage it all better! I standby completely with what I said. Parents are mainly responsible for violent crime. Secondly; the State is pathetic when its comes to punishment.
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11 hours ago, DraytonBoy said:
We have four children all very close in age (less than six years between youngest and oldest) who were brought up to show respect to everything and everybody, now as adults in their late 20's/early 30's they all have different takes on life which sometimes differs from how they were raised. When they behave inappropriately is that really our fault and if so what the **** can we do about it?
I don't think we are talking about 'inappropriate' behaviour; We are talking about bad and violent behaviour. Youngsters in their teens, even younger, carrying knives and being part of the gun and drug culture. Certainly there are other violent crazies out there in there 20s but they have been involved since they were teenagers and young children. And you say "what the **** can we do about it"? I doubt very much that you let your children carry knives etc and I doubt they do now! If I'm right and they don't then that is 'what the *** ' you did do about it!
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12 hours ago, alittlebitfrench said:
I would tame in your mouth my friend.
Btw…you have just proved my case.
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Today's typical parent. You have just proved my point! I don't know you or your children and I was speaking generally. Though you have taken it personally. Even so you absolve yourself by definition by blaming the internet. Always something, or someone else to blame.
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6 hours ago, alittlebitfrench said:
I put it all down to social media and the internet. In fact I put the worlds problems down to social media and the internet. The internet is humanity’s most shītiest invention.
It’s polluting peoples brains. Especially childrens and young adults.
They know nothing différent and they will never know how life was so much better before.
Off topic….but the same sort of thing. I bought my 16 year old a record player and a few records (she loves her music) just to prove to her how vinyl music can sound so much better than spotify through some airpods. She was blown away. Which makes me very happy.
Life in France was great in the 90´s. Today, not so much.
What you are doing is blaming someone, or something else! You raise your children, no one else! If they turn out to be dross you have to bear the responsibility; no one else. Blaming the internet is stupid.
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11 hours ago, betise said:
I'm not sure who that is aimed at, nor what you are trying to say?
11 hours ago, betise said:I'm not sure who that is aimed at, nor what you are trying to say?
I'll make it very clear then, despite Lister's childish dig, You don't offer a reason (in your opinion) and neither does anyone else for the apparent increase in lawlessness. I have said I believe it is because of poor parenting and a lack of action, because of liberal views, by the authorities. Is that clear enough?
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The few observations regarding violence in France, or generally, have said whatever, but none of them venture why! I have given my opinion so why so why not say what is your opinion as to why? Could it be that the way the liberal movement agrees with you and that conflicts with reality? You can't have it both ways despite wanting it that way!!
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Two very recent violent occurrences involving children throws the spotlight on violence in a terrible way. Marseille, I have given up on anyway, the drugs situation puts that city way out of control and it has been for many years; it's sort of accepted! Maybe it's my imagination, though I don't think so, but there does appear to be more and violence occurring all over France. Riots are almost commonplace now with associated violence but it is the 'isolated' incidents that appear to occur with more and more unsettling frequency that is concerning.
My feeling is that it is becoming a more violent country and if so why? I do have an opinion of course as no doubt most have, and no it isn't that I think it is down to immigration as the two recent attacks on children may have highlighted. My view is that society , in general, has become excessively tolerant with regards discipline within the family and discipline exerted by the state being lax. That , primarily, I believe are the two prime reasons. What will it take to change?
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4 hours ago, betise said:
There are few fake cards, it is illegal health tourism (the loaning of a card to overseas visitors) that the government is targeting. It won't be the reissuing of carte vitales, but rather including a social security number when a new carte d'identité is issued. Makes sense to me.
"On peut imaginer un modèle où, à compter d'une certaine date, quand vous refaites votre carte d'identité, cela devient automatiquement votre carte Vitale", a avancé le ministre délégué chargé des Comptes publics, sans plus de détails."
O.k. fake cards won't work. So what is the scale of 'Health Tourism'? We don't know. All we do know is that the media, presumably at the behest of the government are saying there is huge fraudulent activity regarding CVs! It is all anectdotal with no facts, stats or figures! If cards are being used illegally, how? We still don't know; at least I don't! I haven't read or heard any accusations regarding overseas 'health Tourists'.
If cards are being used this way then they must be cards with out photos and people using them risk being asked for I.D. I can't see this being 'major fraud'! As per my initial post starting this thread, no one has come up with any real answer as to why or how CVs are being used in a 'huge fraud'!
Even the Minister can't give any details! Just uses his 'imagination'!!
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9 hours ago, Judith said:
Not so, older cards do not have photos, my husband's doesn't. Mine does. Difference in time in obtaining .. about 3-4 years .. mine was amongst the first of the new role out with photos.
A fake card still won't work in the reading machine, with or without a photo!
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7 minutes ago, alittlebitfrench said:
Yes….I have the same problem with my shoulder…..i.e needs an infiltration.
OH managed to find the drug (guessing it is the same)….but it was the last one literally in the area. All places are now out of stock.
To get an appointment for infiltration takes three weeks. They are all fully booked with appointments.
So where are people getting this drug from ?
luck would have it, the the pain has gone and full movement has resumed. So I don’t need the infiltration at the moment.
So I could be the only person in the country with this drug.
Send it to Lister to stop his whinging!
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1 hour ago, alittlebitfrench said:
There are thousands and thousands of fake CV’s in circulation. It is big business. I think that is point. There must be a way of cross referencing your ID against your CV.
There is health tourism in France as well you know.
Go to any city A&E in France and half the people if not more look very dodge….or just very scary. Which is why you have bodyguards.
A&E is horrible in France. It is OK once you pass through to the care bit….but the waiting room. Horrible.
Sorry but your argument doesn't hold up about thousands of fake CV cards. To start with there has to be a photo on the card of the holder. Second, if a fake card was put into the machine that reads them it wouldn't work so what is the point of a 'fake' card'?
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16 hours ago, betise said:
This is what is *supposed* to happen in hospitals, anyone with an appointment is supposed to show a form of ID and their carte vitale. The problem arises when someone who is entitled to free healthcare "lends" their card to someone else, who then profits from free healthcare, creating an extra strain on the system.
I'm not at all sure that is what is 'supposed' to happen. The Carte Vitale has my photograph on it, surely that is the purpose of it, to prove my I.D! If cards are being 'lent' then surely the same fraudulent activity would apply to any other card , be it I.D. or a combined ID and CV if the person receiving it can't be bothered to even compare a photograph it doesn't matter what you present to them!! Incidentally, I have never been asked for I.D. when presenting my CV. I would ask the person why; given the CV has my photo on it, it's an absurdity!
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On 02/06/2023 at 09:49, ssomon said:
My Titre de Séjour has always been accepted as identification in situations like that. Try using yours.
You have missed the point completely. The French will combine their i.d. card with the carte Vitale, you don't have an I.d. card. It isn't about proving who you are, I would have thought that obvious; it is about combining two documents, one of which ex-pats don't have!! I have a Titre de Séjour, Passport , Driving licence even a gun licence; all with a photo on. Proving who I am is easy.
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15 hours ago, Lehaut said:
This topic was also on the French news at lunch time 30 May. I think there is going to be a move to copy Belgium - incorporating the Carte Vitale into the ID card chip. This should reduce the fraud aspect of it. It can be scanned at the pharmacy and Drs/Hospital with new equipment.
I believe the Government is, by the end of the year going to make the combining of the Carte Vitale and I.D into one. Aside from not knowing what fraud is actually taking place just why, if there is fraud, don't the government ( and chemists, doctors et. al.) ask for I.D when giving over the Carte Vitale. Surely that would be just as valid and a lot less expensive than setting up a whole new system! It also raises another question for ex pats who don't have an I.D. card. How are they going to accommodate us, there are many in this situation!
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When I walk I tend to pick days that show the weather forecast as being suitable. It would be irresponsible to walk in bad weather, particularly if it is bad enough to "walk off the hillside"!! Then again, as I live here and can pick my days you, being a tourist have to put up with it!!