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If there's one thing French people love more than talking about themselves, it's seizing the opportunity to take collective action against some ridiculous non-threat. [Edit. Note: Please forgive our writer. He lives in France, and longs for his terra patria.] In a country where union workers strike faster than you can say "40-hour work week," governmental officials have to tread carefully whenever they make even the most innocuous of moves to As Reuters reports, Facebook users around France have recently begun organizing massive public parties, or "Facebook aperitifs," where people gather to socialize, binge drink and sing "La Marseillaise" ad infinitum. On Thursday, however, one party in the western part of the country got so out of control that one reveler died after drunkenly plunging headfirst over a parapet. The incident, as well as similar reports of partygoers being hospitalized for alcohol poisoning, led Parisian police to force the cancellation of the upcoming aperitif at the Eiffel Tower; which was scheduled to take place on May 23rd. Rachida Dati, mayor of the 7th arrondissement, supported the decision, saying, "We want to safeguard this site... It's a great site, where more than four million tourists visit and we are protecting the residents." French partiers, as expected, wasted no time in organizing a protesting Facebook group titled, "All for the giant aperitif in Paris." It already boasts more than 3,800 members.
C'mon, France. Aren't you guys supposed to be a bunch of gourmands? You're supposed to be the ones nursing glasses of wine and waxing poetic about its flavor -- not the ones getting soused on a box of Franzia and urinating in the Seine. That's what Americans studying abroad are supposed to do. Look, if you're gonna throw yourselves a little 'Facebook fête,' go ahead. Just do it with the kind of epicurean arrogance and neurotic pseudo-intellectualism that would do your forefathers proud. [From: Reuters]
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Subscribe to commentsdddanodn2May 17th 2010 8:45PM
The party will soon be over for the french people..You see muslims do not permit these so called partys...sorry.france will; be a muslim nation with-in 20 short years..
joel rambaudMay 18th 2010 12:18AM
Isn't the last Miss America MUSLIM .....we beat the French . LMAO!
OpihiMay 18th 2010 2:13AM
Well perhaps the french do tend to take collecgtive action against a "non-threat". I wish AOL users would take collective action against a very real threat to their privacy on these comment boards. Yep ... including this one.
WARNING ... there is a Hyperlink under your display name on this comment board. Try it. WOW .... isn't that neat?. There's your "profile'.
That profile was created the first time you signed on to ANY comment board on AOL ... and there are almost a hundred of them, including this one. It's linked to your EMail address . Permanently.
Now look at the nice archives of EVERY comment you've ever made, right there on your profile. To be seen by anyone who clicks onto it.
AOL never warned you that whatever name you first used would be DISPLAYED online and on that profile. Even if you later post under a pseudonym .... heck ... that original name is still on your profile. Gee whiz .... they never even warned you a "profile" was being made. Only that your comment had been "verified". Sneaky sneaky ....
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Linda BeesonMay 17th 2010 9:24PM
and, the United States?
hoverZeroMay 17th 2010 10:45PM
They want to 'play get drunk & fall off Eiffel tower!'
wow...May 17th 2010 11:08PM
yeah cuz america has this 'country-wide religion' and muslims will not be tolerated right? its people like you that cause hate crimes and racism worldwide. way to go genius. way to go
jacquelineMay 17th 2010 11:49PM
I am not so much interested in your article than I am about the first sentence. Two days ago, I was explaining to a very good American friend that I don't like to talk about myself and my private life as was another French young woman we had just met. I am always surprised by American people very willing to confide about intimate stories, their family status, work etc...and asking very personal questions. Consequently I am surprised by your comment that doesn't seem to be accurate. Maybe you want to generalize by lack of real knowledge or resentment toward French people. As you have already guessed, I am French.
CharlesMay 18th 2010 12:22AM
Jacqueline: Well said. You speak better English than the assinine writer of this story who obviously is lacking some attention that would make the sob a bit happier. All he can do is critisize the French. The most socially inept passtime is to critisize another country, particularly your host country. To the writer of this story: You sound pathetic. The French words you use are innapropriate, disconnected from the topic and your entire article is a put down. Get a life or better yet, leave France and go where the likes of you are appreciated. However I doubt you'd be appreciated anywhere.
SireMay 18th 2010 1:13AM
Yeah- the french. Why do we have to worry about them again? Remind me plz.
JanMay 18th 2010 2:07AM
AMAR TOOR...
Aside from the obvious fact that you hate the French, you are one lousy writer.
Don't give up your day job. You would starve.
jabeehlerMay 18th 2010 2:35AM
To the writer -- Look up the word "gourmand" . If you are going to use a word, be sure you actually know how to use it properly. Very irritating when writers are so smug and superior and then write so poorly.
roswoMay 18th 2010 6:34AM
No more ugly Americans- rather drunken unemployed europeans- they are miserable because they created their own paradise!
HermesbaggerMay 18th 2010 6:36AM
No more ugly Americans- just drunken unemployed europeans. They created this paradise- so comrades enjoy it!!!
The anesthetistJul 13th 2010 3:48AM
@ Lyla: sounds like you wasted most of your life, cherie. I read the article several times but could not find any reference to Muslims. Can you please tell us this urge for being so racist and so off-topic? Also, I bet you lived in the white, posh, left bank side. Yeah, you are quite right, there are no Muslims there (guess why, ma poulette- maybe they cannot afford it?).
...I've never seen as many Muslims in Paris …mais non...France has the largest Muslim population of immigrants (over 5 million), 15% of which are living in the Paris metropolitan area. And yes, racial discrimination is banned in France but you don’t need to be a genius to realise that Paris is not exactly haven for immigrants (unless you think that "racaille" means "integration").
...Nor have I seen any Muslims burn a French flag in the middle of the street… Banlieue riots, Clichy-sous-Bois, le Neuf-Trois, ring any bells to you?
@Jacqueline: thanks for the neat example of "being French" (you are not interested in the article yet you have to comment it letting us know how much private you are about yourself...who cares?). You just proved the writer's right: French people should learn how to laugh at themselves, rather than only laugh at others. Smile a little bit, it won’t hurt..
@ Charles: what does J’s English have to do with this article? Oh wait! Is there another racist jokes lying there? I see.. .how funny. Unless you also wanted to sound pathetically disconnected from the topic of discussion…you also French?
Surprising how French readers are careless about the real topic of the article. I take none of you will be parking your cars in the streets next to champ de mars that day. Inshallah i have a garage...now will you all excuse me- we are busy blocking trains at montparnasse station today (..another day, another grève..).