The French Never Stop Whining, Do They?

[JooK]

French marchers say 'non' to 2007

Hundreds of protesters in France have rung in the New Year by holding a light-hearted march against it.

Parodying the French readiness to say "non", the demonstrators in the western city of Nantes waved banners reading: "No to 2007" and "Now is better!"

The marchers called on governments and the UN to stop time's "mad race" and declare a moratorium on the future.

The protest was held in the rain and organisers joked that even the weather was against the New Year.

The tension mounted as the minutes ticked away towards midnight - but the arrival of 2007 did nothing to dampen their enthusiasm.

The protesters began to chant: "No to 2008!"

They vowed to stage a similar protest on 31 December 2007 on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6222153.stm

You have got to give them credit for this, in very good taste.
They get some kudos.

[Poser Park]

I have to admit, that is kind of funny.

"They called upon the UN to stop time's 'mad race'." lol

[Nocturnal]

Funny stuff, it's good when you can laugh at yourself.

[rand0m]

What they protesting about?

[Nocturnal]

What they protesting about?

They are making fun of themselves it seems. Spoofing the notorious habit of the French to say "No" to everything.

[Rapex]

The only thing the French are good at is whining and surrendering.

[CandyMandy]

That's pretty funny. It's nice to see that the French finally are getting a sense of humor.

[L1mp_3rection]

"The tension mounted as the minutes ticked away towards midnight - but the arrival of 2007 did nothing to dampen their enthusiasm.

The protesters began to chant: "No to 2008!""

Ace :D

[Strike-Anywhere]

The only thing the French are good at is whining and surrendering.

i lawl at ignorance.

[bergshadow]

A certain respect for the French Resistance - courage in an apparently hopeless cause, betrayed to evil but not quitting, etc And Nantes, where this march was, had a place in that: http://www.answers.com/topic/nantes
Nantes was a center of resistance to the German occupation in World War II, and its civilian population suffered ruthless reprisals.
Wikipedia: Most of the Maquis cells - like the Vercors - took names after the area they were operating in. The size of these cells varied from tens to thousands of men and women.

Politically, maquis were very diverse - from right-wing nationalists to communists and anarchists. Some Maquis bands that operated in southwest France were composed entirely of left-wing Spanish veterans of the Spanish Civil War.
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. For example, Nancy Wake's group of 7,000 maquisards was involved in a pitched battle with 22,000 Germans on June 20, 1944.
But France, as many others have been, was afflicted by conservatives at a key moment: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/france.html?nav=el The Popular Front, a coalition led by Léon Blum, of Socialists, Radical Socialists, and Communists, won the elections of 1936; Popular Front governments (1936–38) enacted important social and labor reforms before being overturned by conservative opposition.

After Blum's fall, Édouard Daladier assented to the appeasement policy toward Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Spain favored by Britain and made France a party to the Munich Pact (1938).
Just for background - - -

[Capt_Canada]

They werent joking.

[The Machine]

A certain respect for the French Resistance - courage in an apparently hopeless cause, betrayed to evil but not quitting, etc

Thanks for defending against ignorance. I'm French myself and live in SC (conservative southern state) and am bashed frequently, especially since my last name is obviously French :uhoh:

Surrending jokes have never been funny to me.

[J.T.]

No, they never stop complaining.