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So 'jim' is the new in word is it, taken the place of roger? I've jimmed someone - ok, will get used to it. But jimmy riddle will have to go. Then there was Roger the Dodger. Should this now be Jimmy the Dodger, Jimmy the Lodger. Jammy Dodgers? Shut up tag, this is rogering on the ridiculous. Ooops

Probably, TreizeVents, it is time for a few economies in France. The State heaves taxpayers money down the pan without so much as a by-your-leave. Eg Presidential spending or The cumul des mandats, so loved by many politicians (but not at least my Madame Royal).Taxation is not a right, but a priviledge, something forgotten by succeeding French governments (and British by the way).

It is time the well off benefitted in France.

Mine hurt me so I bit him. Now he always checks whether I wand the needle or not. He is much tamer

Hornets love to nest in the trunks of old apple trees. But don't go looking for the nest by sticking you head in the trunk whatever you do. Maybe watch from a distance at dawn or dusk and find where they are, then get a professional to get rid of the nest. The locals will know who to call.

I once wrote a short story called Billy the Beaver and got into terrible trouble.

I guess younger folk with two salaries will be the ones concerned. Frith knows what will happen to the poorest. I know that one region (somewhere in the North) is trying to bring in affordable housing at one hundred thousand euros. Talking to a young couple locally who both work but probably don't get much more than the SMIC, they have been offered 150000 euros in loans which should see them settled here. In fact they seem to have found what they want. I'm sure you are right about the presence of work as a major factor. Does Sarko have developer friends I wonder? In Uk they are being begged to build more and are quite willing to do so but are held up by planning permissions and the deals insisted on by councils, which is also now the case in France. But I think the jury is out on Sarko on this one still.

What is peoples' experience of French dental treatment? How do the standards and cost compare with UK private and NHS? In the light of another post concerning the French health systerm, I thought I would stake my own position on the dental treatment I  have had which was excellent. Though it is getting difficult to get dentists in rural areas and appointments are being spaced very widely apparently.

Wonder if spatchcock makes it?

When I used the word pussy just now in a post about pets all I got was ***** and however often I type the word pussy, all I get is *****. Can anyone tell me why the word pussy used in the way I did should attract *****. Now if I had written pussy in this way, then it would have been *****ed. But I wrote pussy the nice way!

And here's one for our Spanish contributor Christine Manuel! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=453692&in_page_id=1770

One of the rumoured changes that Sarkozy is apparently going to make is allowing mortgage interest payments to be offset against income tax. I wonder which sectors of the market will benefit? Probably new build rabbit hutches, but there might be a some price changes in the older house area too.

Transportation or the old Indian army

Ali, don't you just love them, http://www.express.co.uk/features/view/6573

Seeing their behaviour, the word racaille comes to mind. Or do they claim a legitimacy of some sort.

Well, that's me up the Umbala without a paddle! http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/tobyharnden/may07/cleavagecam.htm Trouble is that some gels don't half show a lot. Wonder why it is always the same ones. Same idea as a china cabinet? No references to bulls please.

People give me the same sh** about my DVDs too cooperlola, but then they forget that there is a very long wet winter here and that I don't have telly. By the way, have you got Yangtse Incident or one of its manifestations. regards, Tag

Yes Andy, it was a scatter gun approach, I could have found better examples and I was oversimplifying. But then it is very often impossible to distinguish between inventor and developer or to decide who can 'claim' a complex piece of technology which uses patents from several national sources. Look at rocket  technology, developed by the Germans and then by a German in the USA with American money. But this I think reinforces my point that one cannot say 'nothing from the USA or China or whatever in my house.' It doesn't work, except at a very simplified level, eg wines, though I suspect Gallo might own vineyards in Europe. Tim

Yes I think we tend to think that when something exists it has been there forever. It is too easy to forget the struggles and the pain.

I thought it was later than that

Ah's a guy honey. Hetero as they cummmmmmmmm!

I would have thought that Royale and others of her supporters who mentioned the likelihood of violence were also coming pretty close to incitement which used to be a crime didn't it?

Oh and the French State could be made to apologize for the Genocide in the Vendée!

Seems good in theory. If he wants to be really radical why not make French a world language and not so elitist by simplifying the grammar and admitting it is owned by all its speakers. And drop the soixante-dix, quatre-vingt and quatre-vingt dix etc in favour of septante, octante and nonante. or at least admit quarante-dix, and allow any words, including anglo-saxon ones into the language as it wishes. But of course that needs a change in the way that the French establishment view their culture and State, probably a step too far.

I'm not really sure what you are trying to say now Aly. That you have no American products is doubtful - we should include fridge, washing machine, TV technology of course, and the fact you do not speak German as a first language. That you have decided to live without being an ostentatious consumer is not an anti-American statement either and is to be congratulated. I just don't think you can make blanket statements about one country as you did about the USA. After all, why not apply this to the Germans or the Chinese. That you were able to find an alternative route for your daughter's health is to be applauded but in no way repudiates my basic point. As to low wages, it is precisely because alternative industries cannot develop that people are forced to work in such places a clothes and furniture making and food processing, caused by the stupid socialist governments of France. As for food subsidies, hang on a bit there. If you take off the subsidies (and I am not really in favour of them), then many French farmers would be bust. And do you really think that African farmers should be growing food for Western markets when the food is needed in their own countries. You seem to be blaming the USA for all the perceived ills you were railing about in your message. They are hardly that. More that prosperity brings demands, a prosperity largely based on two wage households, women having the same rights as men. But I mustn't mention that as American women had the vote long before British and French women, as well as greater rights before the law. But no, I ain't jealous. I have my books, many brought new, DVDs, mostly bought new and a relatively modest lifestyle which includes a happy, happy, mongrel dog and a little car to carry him in when he needs. But I am also conscious that new and bright is sometimes better that old.