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Pardon my French (yall.theatl.social)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 months ago (2 children)

French is such a beautiful language

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (2 children)

She actually used English (for 'fuck' anyway), which surprised me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's been commonly used as a pejorative in French for a decade or so.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. A French equivalent could be "Nique l'extrème-droite", but that would come out as ruder. Both words have the same literal meaning and same use in their respective language, but when " fuck" is used in French, it's further from it's literal meaning. "Fuck X" is then always perceived as a vague statement of hostility towards X, without the sexual connotation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I remember sitting in a cafe in Copenhagen and overhearing a conversation at the table next to mine. I had no idea what they were talking about but "fucking" was the only word I recognized. It was about every third word they said.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Au Canada, le juron francais que j'entends est 'tabarnak', 'calice', 'ostie' au lieu de 'fuck.'

(So I was surprised)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pourtant c'est plutôt commun au Québec. Ça s'enchaîne pas comme les sacres liturgiques mais c'est bien utilisé. Quelque chose peut être fucké. Une personne peut être fuckée. C'est fucking chiant. Fuck ça! Juste, fuck!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

ourtant c’est plutôt commun au Québec. Ça s’enchaîne pas comme les sacres liturgiques mais c’est bien utilisé. Quelque chose peut être fucké. Une personne peut être fuckée. C’est fucking chiant. Fuck ça! Juste, fuck!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Did she say "Pardon my English" afterwards?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Baise aux réacs !

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Actually Based Beyond Belief 🙌 that's a W quote if there ever was one

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

Hell yeah

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

Rad

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Big time hypocrite

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

average global-northern leftist elected politician, unfortunately.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I am seeing no hypocrisy here based on her motto

How are you reading it? Angrily?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Technically wouldn't being a democracy be an aggravating factor for Israel wrongdoings, which makes the population more responsible compared to Russian or Belarussian one (therefore including athletes)?

I don't really agree with the rationale, although I personally wouldn't have supported a ban on Israelis athletes (similarly to how I generally don't agree with the same ban on Russian athletes - unless you are specifically a supporter of values that go against the Olympics such as genocide...- e.g., I agree with Karjakin being banned from any chess competition).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

agree with Karjakin being banned from any chess competition

What for? Not familiar with the guy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Blind (I mean literally, he said he supports doesn't matter what) support to Putin and his imperial effort, public support for the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, helped gathering money for military equipment, showed up to the front to "support troops" and other stuff like that.

Wikipedia has a few lines, with a few sources linked.

You can see also a video (in Russian): https://smotrim.ru/video/2587296

Essentially the equivalent of an IDF groupie. Yuck.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Fuck all y'all.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't aware of her comment. Googling for it showed me an article in English saying she dropped the F bomb. I thought it was in an interview in English but no, she used it in French, which makes it a bit less impressive.

Pour les gens qui veulent pas googler, voici la citation exacte

« Fuck aux réacs, fuck à cette extrême droite, fuck à tous ceux qui voudraient nous enfermer dans la guerre de tous contre tous ! »

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Merci pour la citation. Indeed the fact she's used the English word makes it lose a bit of edge but still, the sentiment is there.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

https://www.politico.eu/article/anne-hildago-paris-mayor-olympics-opening-ceremony-critics/

I was sure this was fake until I saw some of the comments and looked it up. This is amazing!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

She's kind of hated though. Also she absolutely is a hard lib, siding with Macron's government

Edit: i'm not saying lib as socially liberal as opposed to conservative

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I can't believe Viggo Mortensen rode this bad boy all the way across that desert.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I feel like "fuck the French" is a prerequisite to being mayor or Paris