Hey Phil

Like GB says:
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It's a tradition. The Brits make fun of the French and the French make fun of "Le Bosch Anglaise". Been thay way for centuries. Much more civilized than what they do in the middle east



Goes back a long way I'm afraid.
Many nations dislike the English ... I suppose the English dislike many nations too!
(Hey GB, would that be more acurate that the French call us "Roast Beefs" ?).

I've only met the French people in a commercial sense. Namely as a consumer and they've been great.
They've put up with my crap French and I've understood their English (didn't the French decide not to speak English a while ago? didn't they refuse to play English / American music and films etc?).

Funny story:
When I went to Normandy last September with the RAT guys, myself and two guys in our party spent a very enjoyable evening getting totally mullered with the guy and his wife who owned the nearby bar.
We chewed the fat from around 10pm until approx 3:30am when my so-called hard drinking comrades gave up!

Next night was a bit wierd though, when we arrived, he was already VERY drunk and we, well, weren't.
We had a couple but he was in what can best be described as 'a funny mood'.

He turned to us and said " ..the French hate the English and the English hate the French .. ".
As the bar was frequented by 'locals' and it was next to a very seedy area, we took that as our signal to retire for the evening!!