Jacques Chirac

[TC]

I didn\'t say it was \"wrong\" Davy.....I asked the question \"How is it possible to hate an entire nation?\"

I also didn\'t say that people were \"ignorant for having their own beliefs\".....I said that making such generalised comments was ignorant - in much the same way that Rory pointed out a blokes ignorance in Big Brother.......\"Did you hear that Derek on Big Brother saying the North East is a backward place\"..........would you not consider Derek as ignorant of the North East?

 

[Davyred]

So its ignorant for making generalised statements that are our beliefs?

 

[TC]

Lol Davy......I asked my question first

 

[Davyred]

I\'m over the moon Derek said that, because as long as he actually thinks that we won\'t have to suffer the likes of him polluting the North East

Could be worse, he could be french as well

 

[TC]

Oh heck........lol.......I\'m not going down THAT road :exclam:

and on that note, I\'m closing this topic before it goes any further.

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[Marc]

Seems appropriate

 

[Mike.Haley]

TC, I made the statement that I dont like the french either, That is not a statement that i dont like or hate a whole nation. Its just yhat i have never met a french person that i do like and untill I do meet one that i like i shall cotinue to say I dont like the french and that does not make me ignorant. I can recall a few posts on this site when Macams have said they hate magpies and magpies have said they hate macams. does that make a lot of NESA members ignorant?

 

[TC]

Sorry, Mike......I was gonna use the Newcastle / Sunderland rivalry analogy, as there have been MANY topics over the years about macums hating maggies and vice versa, but I assumed (maybe wrongly), that that was just friendly rival banter.

Back to your statement, \"I don\'t like the French either\"........maybe I misinterpreted what you said, but I think most people reading it would have read it the same way.....ie the French as a nation. It wasn\'t until your last post where you qualified your statement by saying that your view was based on those French people you have met, which is a different matter altogether.

[Edited on 6/7/2005 by TC]

[Edited on 6/7/2005 by TC]

 

[Davyred]

Like it Marc Sorry for laughing at the TV coverage of the french delegates crying at the decision

 

[TC]

Oooops.....fporgot to close the topic when I said I would.

Pleased I did forget actually, as it gave Mike the opportunity to reply.

Closing it now, though.

For further discussion on the 2012 Olympics being hosted by London, see the topic \"2012 OLYMPICS.....GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY?\"