Vraititi<P>PSG till I die -fluctuat nec mergitur.<P>

AS: Apologies for this rambling post, apol. as well for the French thrown in for good measure, but as it's my last posting ever I'm sure you'll forgive me. First things 1st, thanks to Tresco and Admin Maestro for kind PM's. James, to answer yr PM, won't be necessary mate, read on, you'll see why. I often compare in my head this LF forum to a cruise-liner trailblazing through the Web oceans, don't ask me why, I just do. Suppose it's more exciting than being on the Tube all of us together, standing cheek-by-armpits, going round on the Circular line all flipping day. Maybe also because I'd have loved to be a modern Captain Haddock, if only to swear at all hours in 5 languages at Tintin and his cretinous mutt. Bit of a Love boat then, with Isaac serving his cocktails de fillette on Top Deck, Captain James at the helm, the rest of us either unwinding in our posh cabins, poking our heads out in turns, milling around in the casino exchanging pleasantries or sunbathing topless on the many open-air decks. With only the occasional guest from time to time requesting urgent visits on Terra Firma (when the going gets tough that is, or to get a bit of space), life on board is indeed harmony incarnate, with an edge at times, but nobody minds. There's a Parisian bar as well, bit louche has to be said, 9th level below deck, between the engine-rooms and the giant boilers. Not a very cosy place to spend your time in. Cold place, welcoming but bleudy cold. Has no name, but nice landlady, a bit of a speakeasy in truth where the speaking is everything but easy for the noise. Rarely visited of course, cheap 'goutte' and only one cocktail: Pastis and Water. I like the music there, well, I've chosen it so I'd be a right cretin not to like it (still, that seems well w/i my possibilities), a bit of Renaud, always the same song though in a loop, 'Amoureux de Paname', a bit of Lavilliers, 'Promenade des Anglais', a bit of Thiéfaine, Léo Ferré, that sort of things. That's where I am to be found most of the time these days. It's become a bit of a depressing place. Entirely of my own making, I am the first one to joke about it with the lost souls who mistakingly venture down there. Trouble is, I'm now seriously 'gonfler la taulière' ('getting on the landlady's tits'), I can tell, and not just her. I prop up the zinc silently for hours or suddenly for no reasons will ramble and rabbit on and on and on and on w/o making much sense. I've managed to put the only 2 other regulars off and frankly, I'm starting to get on me own tits as well, grave. On a bad day, I've even been known to vomit directly into me own marine jumper sleeves, not a pretty sight. Am getting seriously seasick. I'm just not well enough mentally to resurface and socialise like everybody else, and I hate pretending. I need to get off the ship for good. C'est con la vie quand même, a 17 ans, tu fais la 'révolution', t'y crois dur comme fer puis rien, ou pas grand chose. Bercé d'illusions, tu t'es finalement fait berner par ces mêmes illusions. Les études finies, tu pars a l'aventure, fais le tour du monde, pensant que la vie commence vraiment, pis tu r'viens un peu décu. Tu penses: 'putain, y'a tellement de misère ds le monde ! Puis 2 ans + tard, tu repars parce que t'as toujours la bougeotte, mais bon pas loin cette fois, de l'autre coté de la Manche, mais c'est qd même l'aventure ds ta tete. Ça marche pas trop, un peu la galère mais bon tu t'accroches. Pis un jour, tu rencontres une belle p'tite dam'zelle, tout va bien ! Tu t' maries même, t'as un beau gamin, la belle vie quoi. Un jour, a 35 ans, tu rentres du boulot, coup de fil, on t'apprend que ta femme et ton gamin se sont fait éclater ds un accident de bagnole. Tu t'en remets jamais vraiment. T'essayes, tu t'accroches, tu r'fais surface, pis t'as 2 ou 3 'health scares' des familles. Là tu sais que t'auras plus jms de gamin. Tu ralentis, puis tu repars, doucement d'abord puis ensuite, tu sors, beaucoup, c'est reparti, comme en 40 ! Un jour tu rencontres une qqu'une sympa, un peu par hasard. Ça remarche ! Pis, un beau jour, t'apprends qu'elle te fais cocu avec ton meilleur pote. Et ouais, c'est con qd même, juste au moment ou tu pensais y etre arrivé ! Pis c'est le trou noir pendant X années. Que du classique quoi, mid-life crisis, depression, bref, c'est pas la joie ! Pis, par hasard, au gré des rencontres ('serendipity'), ça repart. Pis ça dérape. Encore une séparation à l'horizon. Le bon Sisyphe de base quoi. Un jour, y'a 8 jours en fait, tu reviens chez toi a Paris, pis tu t'apercois que ca a tellement changé, tes vieux potes de déroute calanchent les uns apres les autres, etc. c'est devenu tellement cher que tu t'rends compte que tu peux meme plus esperer revenir habiter la ou tu voulais. Et ouais, t'as trop fait le con mon vieux, fallait pas claquer ton oseille en frivolités, fallait économiser Ducon ! Et pis, par hasard, tu discutes avec un vieux pote qu'est moins con que toi: 'Well, Vraititi, can't afford Paris ? Well, not cut out for French provincial life ? Well, you can thank God for the 'new' EU countries mate, why don't you try that option out ?' he jokes. 'Actually Andy, you're right, why not give it a go ?'. Looks like I'll be handing in my notice soon (not on a permanent contract thankfully). Life goes on. It has to. PS: Please Captain James, find me a little creek to get off on. It's been great but too seasick to carry on I'm afraid, sorry and thanks again. P.P.S: And de-activate my Registration, de-register me, neuter my PM, send Vraititi into the ether. Please, no PM's, thanks. Happy cruising.

Thanks MissYesbut, truly flattered to be likened to Del Boy, I'm nowhere near as witty as the lovable rogue, and as for having his ressourcefulness, well, I wish ! Ah, the infamous tales of Parisian Titis engrossing innocent provincials willy-nilly just with their looks alone ! So many such tales were doing the rounds not so long ago, started circa 1880 with the Titis practically snatching the poor Poitevines and Bretonnes directly from Montpar, apocryphal tales of course; truth is of course that we never had to actually do the hard work, the rosy-cheeked provincial belles all naturally fell in our arms like ripe peaches, we just had to shake a little.

No, didn't know (putaing, t'en sais des choses toi !), saw her chez Fogiel recently - about a month ago was it ? (or was it a year ago ? -have totally lost track of time, come to think of it, could well have been about 10 yrs ago !), isn't it sad though that somebody like her has chosen to live as a recluse (somewhere on the Côte d'Azur I think) ? Such a Grande dame du cinéma francais, ça fout les jetons quand même, I mean, anyway. And if you think the 'modern' actors can claim her place 'pas de problème Harlem', think again, certainly not in the dignity stakes, that's for sure ! They've all  become  half-yobs half-egomonsters with age ! Read on.  Nothing to do with la Jeanne, but somewhere here you mentioned G Darmon, well, a word of warning fillette, never go near him ! In the mid 80's it was, a v. respectable female friend of mine (the only one admittedly in them days), in her 20's, was an extra in one of his films (partly shot in the Sologne -can't remember which film it was), one day, at the end of the day, he asked her for a lift to the nearest train station to Paris which was a good 30 minutes away, she duly obliged, and then in the car, totally out of the blue, he started pestering her like hell (on which lines I leave it to your imagination -something to do with stroking his little 'titi', as in 'gros minet' titi), and could/would she do this and that and the other (tedious stuff really), etc. this went on for a good 20 minits. With hindsight, she said to me afterwards that she'd made the mistake of refusing straight away with a blunt NO, like within 3 minits (instead of stringing him along before dumping him off like an anchor at the station), as a result, affronted by such a bolshie stance, the man started to become overtly nasty, and did not take blunt NO for an answer, etc. eventually, after insulting her profusely, he nearly slapped her ! yeah, that's G Darmon. I think I'd like his latest film 'Les parrains', if only because it would somehow remind me of les vieilles 'Grandes Gueulles' and other Monstres Sacrés (Gabin, Ventura and Co). Did you see also what happened to Lanvin in Bruxelles 3 days ago, ended up in a police cell for being abusive to the cops ! What with pathetic Depardieu thumping all and sundry and making a tit of himself just about everywhere on the planet and desperately after the smallest sniff of dosh (and with Villeret now dead of course) that does not leave a lot of respectable 'top' French actors around ! Slight exaggeration, maybe but what a bunch a prats so many are, except for a few, like, what's her name, J. Binoche, great girl, top actress, I was amazed to find out that she'd stayed for 2 weeks in a very modest house near a friend's place at BARNSLEY (of all places) when she went over there to see Joanne Harris (for 'Chocolat' I think it was), apparently she refused point-blank to stay in a top hotel (OK, not that easy to find I suppose), went out, got drunk, just like a local lass, well, Chapeau bas, I say. 

No, didn't know (putaing, t'en sais des choses toi !), saw her chez Fogiel recently - about a month ago was it ? (or was it a year ago ? -have totally lost track of time, come to think of it, could well have been about 10 yrs ago !), isn't it sad though that somebody like her has chosen to live as a recluse (somewhere on the Côte d'Azur I think) ? Such a Grande dame du cinéma francais, ça fout les jetons quand même, I mean, anyway. And if you think the 'modern' actors can claim her place 'pas de problème Harlem', think again, certainly not in the dignity stakes, that's for sure ! They've all  become  half-yobs half-egomonsters with age ! Read on.  Nothing to do with la Jeanne, but somewhere here you mentioned G Darmon, well, a word of warning fillette, never go near him ! In the mid 80's it was, a v. respectable female friend of mine (the only one admittedly in them days), in her 20's, was an extra in one of his films (partly shot in the Sologne -can't remember which film it was), one day, at the end of the day, he asked her for a lift to the nearest train station to Paris which was a good 30 minutes away, she duly obliged, and then in the car, totally out of the blue, he started pestering her like hell (on which lines I leave it to your imagination -something to do with stroking his little 'titi', as in 'gros minet' titi), and could/would she do this and that and the other (tedious stuff really), etc. this went on for a good 20 minits. With hindsight, she said to me afterwards that she'd made the mistake of refusing straight away with a blunt NO, like within 3 minits (instead of stringing him along before dumping him off like an anchor at the station), as a result, affronted by such a bolshie stance, the man started to become overtly nasty, and did not take blunt NO for an answer, etc. eventually, after insulting her profusely, he nearly slapped her ! yeah, that's G Darmon. I think I'd like his latest film 'Les parrains', if only because it would somehow remind me of les vieilles 'Grandes Gueulles' and other Monstres Sacrés (Gabin, Ventura and Co). Did you see also what happened to Lanvin in Bruxelles 3 days ago, ended up in a police cell for being abusive to the cops ! What with pathetic Depardieu thumping all and sundry and making a tit of himself just about everywhere on the planet and desperately after the smallest sniff of dosh (and with Villeret now dead of course) that does not leave a lot of respectable 'top' French actors around ! Slight exaggeration, maybe but what a bunch a prats so many are, except for a few, like, what's her name, J. Binoche, great girl, top actress, I was amazed to find out that she'd stayed for 2 weeks in a very modest house near a friend's place at BARNSLEY (of all places) when she went over there to see Joanne Harris (for 'Chocolat' I think it was), apparently she refused point-blank to stay in a top hotel (OK, not that easy to find I suppose), went out, got drunk, just like a local lass, well, Chapeau bas, I say. 

I do know that PSG stands for "Partir Sans Gagner".    And it was a Frenchman who told me that, so it must be true.  Can you confirm, Vraititi?  You cheeky thing, it's meant many different things over the yrs in our short but glorious history, but yeah I suppose of late (until this season I hasten to add) it's been dire. The worst really was when we had Laurent Perpère as Chairman (now LOOK AGAIN at the name) as few yrs ago, I remember Laurent Ruquier (host and famous 'humoriste') on France2 saying: 'No wonder PSG can't win any game with Laurent Perpère at the helm, they should have appointed Monsieur Gagnegagne' he's so witty this Ruquier ! This yr is more like 'Paris S'enflamme Grave', well until the next 'crisis', probably right on cue, January as usual !

I stand corrected, 'burnt-out mole' was comment for muggins of course, although 'neurotic overstressed marmot' would probably be more accurate to describe myself. I imagine you're probably more like an over-alert perpetually exalted meerkat TU.

This has always been of the more enduring stereotypes between France and England. Broadly speaking France is seen (maybe less so now) from the UK as 'individualistic' (whatever that really means), and the UK as more of a gregarious, let's-do-everything-together sort of society, etc. Well, there's obviously a bit of truth in that but when you start unpicking the whole tangle of reasons, realities, and so on, you soon find out that there are so many exceptions to that statement that by the end, you cannot help concluding, once more, that it is really but a lot of b*******.

Putaing, mille milliards de foies de morue pourris, I can't believe I've just said 'impersonificate' instead of 'impersonate' f'course, don't know what I was thinking about, can't possibly have been..., no surely not, anyway, my English's going to pots really these days on here, have just read my last post in Postbag, one or 2 shockers there as well, maybe too much of TalkRadio football these days, that must be what it is, they're all foreign on there, Marcotti and Co

Et ouais, bien sûr, jeanne Moreau, who else, j'ai l'air d'un vieux con quand j'dis ça, mais bon, you know I cringe when I see the likes of L. Gerra impersonificate her on telly, he is excellent par ailleurs, but don't know I recoil with embarrassment when he starts his paltry imitation of la Moreau, but having said that, who really knows her amongst the younger generations ? Example A: I asked one of them the other day (family), he says: 'oh yeah, great rider' I says: 'what do you mean, great rider ?' Turned out he'd confused her with Jeannie Longo ! Hadn't heard of J Moreau, et ouais, or else Example B: they know of her through L Gerra which is even worse than example A, eh ouais, starting to sound like an old grizzled con des familles, so I'll stop here.

Talking of MIL's + OH's and large sizes, why not kill two large birds with one stone and shop at TATI, they store large sizes all right, in fact they only seem to do the juggernaut ones, but, attention hein, not any TATI, for yr street cred, only the best of the bestest will do (not one of them pale provincial imitations, perish the thought), NO, only the original will do, the real Mc Coy, j'ai nommé the TATI on Bvd Barbès, I go there all the time for corky high heelers and 'p'tite' lingerie fine (yes my MIL only will not have them from anywhere else now), cabines d'essayage très chic évidemment, entre deux cartons, you can see instantly if it's occupied or not, no complaints either, all in all great afternoon of free fun for the family.

Thanks for the insults, I don't mind when they are witty, the wittier the better ! Just visited TF, they have 2 French bar/café ongoing threads, one in English, one in French, to which DOMY contributes superbly and yes, granted, not the whole forum users butt in, but there seems to be a hard core of maybe 10/15 people who regularly join in, and most importantly a few users regularly comment on how beneficial it is for them, etc. I know that if I were learning English I'd certainly appreciate. I was not aware that it had been attempted on here, even a few posts a day could prove useful, no ? I would think that with the new-ish arrivals and engine-rooms on here and DOMY here, MWJ, Tourangelle, Saligo, Christine (right up yr street that Christine, non ?) it could be worth another try, non ?Bon m'enfin, moi ce que j'en dis hein !  Anyway must really dash off now (bon, faut que je me sauve maintenant), got the dog to walk and the cooking to sort out (y'a le chien à promener et la popotte à préparer), if not my OH will make mincemeat of me ! (ou sinon ma bergère va m'astiquer les côtes, grave !) 

Gosh, if only there were more religious figureheads like himself to speak up, the Catholic church would not be in the mess they're in. Did you hear his interview yesterday (can't remember which radio) ? He is so spot-on though, he criticised the Rome apparatchiks so shrewdly and even went as far as declaring that there is nothing wrong with homosexual marriages and adoptions and tutti quanti, which for somebody so high up in the catholic church (at least in the French people's minds), surely that must be unprecedented ! He even suggested it was better to grow up in that same-sex family set-up rather than in an unwieldly family structure, or something to that effect. Shame he is only speaking out now ! Domy, nice to see you ici parmi nous, not sure there are many 'chauds lapins or lapines' amongst us, more like burnt-out moles ! ('des taupes flinguées/déglinguées')

Sorry Tresco, forgot to ask you, any short O'Brien book to recommend for pleasant reading ?

While I'm on here, before I toddle off to the woods with my dog and then prepare la popotte for tonight, I'd like to share with you the following: - Tomorrow Saturday, on FranceInter 17h00 (French time), programme on John Lennon (with Y. Ono), the host is American, her name escapes me but she is excellent, all her musical and non-musical programmes (often on American/UK topics) on FranceInter are well worth listening to. - Tomorrow as well on TF1 Reportages, 30 minutes on a very very strange Canadian custom which I remember reading about a while ago, called 'le grand chambranle' (French-Canadian for 'the great move' I presume -'branle' means 'on the move' in French but 'chambranle' only means 'the door frame') where 100's of 1000's of lodgers and tenants have to move out of their digs at the same time, very strange ! Often worth it to hear their charming accents... - The film 'Ascenseur pour l'échaffaud' on Arte next thursday with Jeanne Moreau, great film.

Thanks for your kind PM. I am sorry to hear about Alexis's current predicament, obviously it was not in my intention to bring her to the fore in such difficult circumstances. I, too, am going through difficult times at the minit, of which I sketchily outlined the nature of recently on here, anyway, one often sees one's own matters in a 'different' light as you put it, but I, for one, like the fact that, unlike other forums, this forum is a relative heaven of peace where people can debate, and passionately at times, without resorting to facile insults. As to the 'there were no complaints, so let's do nothing about it' bit, maybe so, but most probably because it is such a rarely visited and 'viewed' rubric, and that is a shame. Anyhow in the light of your information I will of course close the matter here (so NO to the question in yr PM), on va pas en faire un Munster, c'est pas mon genre.  As for the French café in other forums, thanks for the Info, I've never visited Total France, we have got plenty of SKAWU's (So Knowledgeable And Witty Users) and learners of French here, why don't we start one of our own, could benefit many many people and learners alike, beginners, Intermediates and Advanced ones as well. So, do I detect some reticence to allow one from Admin here, or would you be all for it Russethouse ?

Thanks Russet, well, I've done my job, have duly highlighted it, you've seen it now I presume, so please Web Maestro, ô Grand Vizir de Adminland devant l'Eternel, remove it a.s.a.p as it's insulting and has nothing to do in a civilized and proper forum like ours, I guess there are plenty of other forums/fora/forumuses/forumx of lesser standing where the likes of Alexis can go and insult others to their heart's content. I wouldn't PM you about it as this is not just about me (I don't care I'm rarely on here anyway) but these serious infrigements need to be 'discussed' in the open, as it were others also have come forward to express their concerns over the matter, not a PM job I'm afraid, we cannot pander to the abusive posters by seeking to minimise their actions ! We all must be vigilant not to let that sort of abusive posts slip through the net, anyway will go now as I have got plenty to get busy with, not least prepare the popotte and walk the dog for his cherished hour-long balade in the woods, lucky ******. Tresco, excuse my ignorance but who is P. O'Brien ? We look forward to hearing your 'naval' insults, if it's OK with ADMIN of course. I personally love Captain's Haddock insults, in F/E, hats off to the translators, many are gems and such a tribute to translators who are too often unsung heros IMHO, even the bad ones deserve praise ! What would the world be w/o translators, hein ? yet they are taken for granted, c'est con hein ? Talking of 'language outbreaks' in French, isn't it time on here that we open a French bar, a bar that we could all run, taking turns to serve drinks, in French preferably, but English is OK 'course, even short French posts translated in English (and vice-versa) on request, a place where people could come and try out new French vocab, and maybe be corrected by the resident language erudites, no ?

Tresco, thanks a lot, were you at the Parc as well ? I really feel it is our season, the best for 10 yrs, not all our games are entertaining (even Chelsea cannot manage that !) but things are looking up, and how can you read a book when we play so well ? Whcih book was it ? I might find you mitigating circumstances. Russet, I appreciate you cannot see all the posts IMMEDIATELY but this one is 2 weeks' old for God's sake, read below. Ron, you made me laugh, and I mean this in a genuine non-sarky way, a 'Titi' is a 'tit' in French now ? You must have been out with some pretty linguistically confused French or English lasses in yr time ! Cannot for the life of me imagine what you got up to with them if that's the case... Was she a Marseille supporter by any chance ? I think I call tell a humourous post to an insulting one, God knows how much humour you need in teaching to survive nearly 30 yrs in the British system, no-one's ever called me a 'Real Tit' though in the classroom and in my books it is a serious insult desperately trying in this case to pass itself off as a light-hearted one. It is obvious to me, given the context and the tenor of Alexis's post (Cultural section, about 2 weeks ago Russet) that is was DEFO not jocular, and considering she is bi-cultural by her own admission it was an insult, pure and simple. I accept she misread my previous posts, and that she has trouble discerning between my non-serious posts and my light ones (not much difference but there you are). You have to draw the line somewhere in a civilized Forum like ours, and surely that means throwing insults at each others, no ? I am the first one to take criticisms on board and in the same thread 2 other users criticised me (part of it was for long-ish posts in French) and that is fine, no complaints, it is their prerogative bien entendu and I agree to a degree that they had a point (even if one of them -name forgotten- NEVER EVER posts in that section !) about the post in French, even if they totally misunderstood the nature of my post, but to come on line and plainly insult others for no other reason than you disagreeing with them is the lowest form of contribution in my books and summat should be done about it.

Well absolutely La Bez, couldn't agree more with you, and I'd like to add a few things to your spot-on assessment of the situation. If it were just (carefully argumented) criticisms, well fine, great even, that would spur a debate, and what better than a debate or two to have in a Forum like ours ? But, the Intelligentsia ? a class system ? Not sure they are the right terms La Bez, these people could not tell Class if an Intelligent person hit them in the nose with it, more like 'crass' anarchy to me, regimented by the touchy Thought Police and dangerously condoned by ADMIN (more hits on yr site, is that the real reason James ?), whereby it is OK to throw gratuitous insults at others, those who have the temerity to express opinions, often jokingly in my case, that rankle with them. Unfortunately I am an 'occasional' on here, can't come to this site very often at present (severe work commitments and personal matters have a tendency to get in the way), I thought I was going to be able to a few weeks ago but following massive and sudden staff probs (and desertion !) at my school and with an inspection looming I was persuaded to take on 200 roles at the same time, well what wouldn't you do for the good of the nation, hein ? Unfortunate as I like to answer queries and help others if I can, and most importantly because I derive a great deal from our resident S.K.A.W.U's (So Knowledgeable And Witty Users). Undoubtedly, now more than ever I feel since I've been registered on here (May 05), they deserve praise, after all they are the ones registered and non-registered users in their great majority log on 'to be with'. A few names spring to mind obviously (Christine, SB, TU, Miki, Tresco, Ray, Dick, MotorHead, and many others), sincere apologies to the many other SKAWU's I haven't mentioned, it has been a while since I've been with you.  We should now all celebrate our SKAWU's, they are our treasure and they are truly unique, let's not get too despondent because of a few users who really are no more than amoebas who have acquired an ego by mistake, probably 'coz it rhymes with Lego.

I personally think that the top top top surefire way to see if you are 'seriously fluent' is when you get Christine's impenetrable (albeit delightful) bilingual play on words straight away. Well, I'm not fluent just but I'm getting there, encore un petit effort. We need more of them tronche de cake' types Christine ! (honestly, where do you get them ? Local boozer ? Les Grosses Têtes ? Restos du Coeur ?)

Yes, saw the film  'il ne faut jurer de rien' on Monday, very good I thought, a cross between 'Les mariés de l'An II' meets 'Fanfan La Tulipe'  and  'Ridicule' meets 'Cartouche'. This Alexandre (?) Dujardin is the new Belmondo to me (the Bébel of the aforementioned 'Les mariés de l'An II'), à voir c'est sûr.

Josa, if you google in 'organigramme de clubs de rugby' you'll have a good idea of the hierarchical structure of a typical French club, there seems to be different versions depending on the size of the club of course but in 99% of cases: 'Chairman': 'Président', 'Vice-chairman' :  'Vice-président' -possibly 'président-adjoint' in some cases 'Secretary': Secrétaire I suppose you might find some smaller clubs where the Chairperson/man/woman might be addressed as 'Monsieur/Madame  le or la Responsable' out of habit or convenience.

Just back from Paris this PM, and lovely it was too, just like in the summer. We trounced ESTAC last night, superb atmosphere (shame we're not meeting in Europe this season MIKI as I reckon by March we'd have been ready to give your spent forces a hellish time !), le Salon du Chocolat with my sis was mint, greatly recommended, and most importantly for me in my mad schedule these last 2 months it was so gret to unwind and saunter about le Cirque D'Hiver (well, more like desperately trying to find the 3 Euros a pint bar some wag had told me about -apparently called 'L'Introuvable' -  what a wind-up, can't believe I fell for it !). Well, things must have changed drastically since I last visited this Forum as it seems to be OK for some users to insult others (muggins in this case -'Real Tit'- and it was not a miscued translation ! given the tenor of the posting wasn't a joke either). I mean, if it's OK with ADMIN, we can all go down that route, I'll volunteer to start dishing out a few chosen expletives ! Seems to me that there's one set of rules for some and other rules for the, shall we say, the 'more established' users. Shame, it is a great forum, but if we start insulting each other willy-nilly won't stay pleasant for long !

Domy, permets que je te tutoies ? Suis rudement content que tu aies atteri sur ce forum car ça fait plusieurs semaines que j'espérais voir arriver un(e) successeur Français(e) pour, ds un avenir hyper proche me relever de mes 'fonctions', pour parler pompeusement, étant professionnellement débordé, maritalement en bisbille, familialement pas franchement en odeur de sainteté, etc. (c'est une longue histoire) et que, ça m'faisait un peu d' peine de laisser en plan mes qqes compagnons et gnones ici. Ta mission en gros (et accepte-la merde), serait d'être une sorte de lien culturello-informatif entre le monde Britannico-anglophone et le monde Francophone, mondes que, je n'en doute pas, tu connais très bien et auxquels tu t'intéresses à l'évidence puisque tu es là (et fais pas le con, te barre pas maintenant, c'est pas le moment). Ce forum jouit d'un rayonnement énorme (planétaire et bien au-delà) et a vraiment besoin de gens comme toi pr de multiples raisons et tu verras, y'a plein de gens sympas ici. J'vois que, déjà, tu distilles de très bons conseils médiatico-culturels et suis sûr que tu t' sentiras bien ici. Domy, la France et l'Angleterre comptent sur toi, au moins ici en ce lieu, cet endroit même qui est bien + important pour faire connaître la France que ttes les missions Françaises à l'étranger. Ici, ça déconne mais c'est du sérieux vieux.

Non, mais t'as raison, je radote sec, surtout a l'heure de l'apéro (12-18 hrs). I don't buy DVD's, bad for my health, unless they're on the Belleville market at 6 euros a piece but they do sell Dévédés of Les Inconnus in the more legit outlets, outrageously expensive though, Amazon.fr it if you wish but could well be £40/£50+ for the series. I think they released a 'bôcoup meilleur des Inconnus' special duda a few yrs ago if you can copy it somehow, well worth it. I also remember seeing one of these 'rire' specials last yr and thinking to myself how good these 'Les Inconnus' trio were, etc.

Being of an excessively soft and lenient bent I suppose I can just about give you that one BizzyLiz (about the 'pruneau'), not a bullet but a blow/smack in the face. ('pruneau' or 'prune' -note that 'prune' can also mean 'fine' or 'ticket' in colloquial French -CUT*) Nothing to do w/ saucisson for the Lyon one, can't give you a clue, unless you beg for it of course. Keep trying, you're nearly there. Not.   *Commonly Used Term