| French 101 | Cours de langue française: niveau débutant |
| I get mail from guys who ask me what is the quickest way to learn French. Forget your college French class and Berlitz and just shack up with a French broad. Preferably a Parisian one so you don't have to decypher her hick regional accent. Listen to her bullshit and write down the words you don't understand in a notebook. Later on when she splits to go back to | Il y a des mecs qui m'écrivent pour me demander le meilleur moyen d'apprendre le français. Laissez tomber vos cours de fac et les cours de Berlitz et mettez-vous en couple avec une gonzesse française. Prenez-en une parisienne de préférence pour ne pas être obligé de décrypter son accent régional de plouc. Ecoutez bien quand elle raconte des conneries et notez les mots que vous ne captez pas dans un cahier. Plus tard, quand elle se tire pour aller |
Monday, June 07, 2004
| Is that a French tickler in your pocket or are you glad to see me? | Gerhard, c'est clouté pour maximiser ton plaisir |
| At Allah.
| Chez Allah.
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| Blowing a gasket | Casser la voix |
| You will all be caught with your diapers down! That is a promise! I make you this promise on my mother's head! For right here, today, standing on the very head of my mother, which is our God Green Earth, which everybody who wasn't born in a fucking sewer ought to know and understand to the very marrow of their bones! They will invade you in your beds! They will snap you from your hot tubs! They will pluck you right out of your fancy sports cars! There is nowhere! Absolutely nowhere in this Godforsaken valley! I'm talking about from the range of my voice right here, clear out to the goddamn Mojave Desert and beyond that! Clear out past Barstow and everywhere else in the valley all the way to Arizona! None of that area will be called a Safety Zone! There will be no Safety Zone! I can guarantee you the Safety Zone will be eliminated! Eradicated! You will all be extradited to the Land of No Return! It's a Navigation to Nowhere! And if you think that's going to be fun, you've got another think coming! I may be a slimebucket but believe me, I know what the hell I'm talking about! I'm not crazy! And don't say I didn't warn you! I warned you! I warned all of you!
| Vous serez surpris les couches-culottes baissées! C'est une promesse! Je vous fais cette promesse en jurant sur la tête de ma mère! À ce lieu précis, aujourd'hui, debout sur la tête même de ma mère, qui est notre Verte Terre bénie de Dieu, qui devrait être connue et comprise au plus profond de son for intérieur par chacun qui n'est pas né dans un putain d'égout! Ils vont venir jusqu'à dans vos lits! Ils vont vous enlever à vos jacuzzis! Ils vont vous prendre directement dans vos voitures de sport! Il n'y a nulle part! Absolumment nulle part dans cette vallée oubliée de Dieu! Par là j'entends à partir d'ici à la limite de la portée de ma voix et jusqu'au Désert de Mojave et au delà! Bien plus loins que Barstow et partout ailleurs dans cette vallée jusqu'à l'Arizona! Aucune partie de ce territoire-là ne constiturera la Zone de Sécurité! Il n'y aura point de Zone de Sécurité! Je peux vous garantir que la Zone de Sécurité sera éliminée! Supprimée! Vous serez tous expédiés au Royaume du Non Retour! Ce sera une Navigation vers Nulle Part! Et si vous êtes persuadés que vous allez vous amuser, vous vous mettez le doigt dans l'oeil! Il se peut que je sois un taré de fumier mais croyez-moi, je sais foutrement bien de quoi je parle! Je ne suis pas fou! Et ne me dites pas que je ne vous avais pas avertis! Je vous ai avertis! Je vous ai tous avertis!
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| Monologue of the 'Screaming Man' from the film: Paris, Texas, Wim Wenders
| Monologue du 'Mec qui gueule' de film: Paris, Texas, Wim Wenders. VF traduite par W.
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Sunday, June 06, 2004
| Last Exit to Brooklyn | Dernière Sortie pour Brooklyn |
| The West's choice: pull out of everywhere or fight. Kill faster. Total war.
| Le dilemme de l'Occident: se retirer de partout ou se battre. Tuer plus vite. Guerre totale.
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Disagreements on the Left
The presence of George Bush at the ceremonies commemorating June 6 1944...On June 3, Libération reported that there were a few minor disagreements, shall we say, among the Greens on whether to protest Bush's arrival. Communist Party member of parliament Maxime Gremetz said that Bush "should be greeted with the respect due a head of state, the heir to our liberators." For his part, Gilles Lemaire, leader of the Green Party, says that Bush's presence is "legitimate" but that his arrival "calls for strong demonstrations." The results of Lemaire's words are visible in the actions of Green and PRG delegates blogged below. (Note that in that post I misspoke: Communist elected officials are attending all celebrations. The information comes from this article in Le Monde). Lemaire also told Libé that our "participation in the demonstration has met with no objections among the Greens."...bothers you because of the US action in Iraq: 30.6%
...or pleases you: he is the representative of the country that liberated France: 64.4%
No opinion: 5%
This statement had to be corrected yesterday. Euro MP Daniel Cohn-Bendit (aka Danny The Red), a German elected to represent France, is currently on the campaign trail in Nantes. When he received the party's official communique, he reportedly hit the roof. "Bush must be greeted as the president of the country that liberated France. I was born nine months after the landings and, at this time, what is most important for me is gratitude. This is not the right time to demonstrate." (See this excellent debate between Cohn-Bendit and Adam Michnik over the Iraq war that originally appeared in Le Monde.)
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One of the great things about the French national library is the National Audiovisual Insitute. The library itself, though highly controversial in design, is an amazing place to visit. It is located on the left bank of the Seine in the east of Paris not far from the Gare d'Austerlitz. The exterior of the structure consists in four glass towers shaped like open books stood on end at the corners of a rectangle. These buildings are where books are stored and contain some areas for library patrons. In the middle is an enormous garden that is set on a surface six or seven stories below ground and surrounded by the glass windows of the library, which is itself below ground and which also surrounds the garden. One enters the library and is immediately struck by the light which passes through the garden and then the windows, illuminating long corridors with blood-red carpets. It's quite something.
The Audiovisual institute is several floors down and it contains an enormous archive of radio, television and film. One can view DVDs of practically every television program broadcast over the French airwaves going back several years.
On the occasion of the D-Day ceremonies, the INA Web site is making a special selection of streaming video available from its archived footage of the war and the landings. Here is an hour of Vichy propaganda called France Actualités, lionizing the German response to the invasion giving a lengthy inventory of German military capabilities; all read by a man with a strong, nasal vichyssoise accent. (At least I think that's a vichyssoise accent). It includes a speech by Vichy information minister Philippe Henriot, who accuses the allies of using French troops in the invasion to protect their own soldiers. A large number of other editions of France Actualités are available here. There is also a selection of photographs. See here for a 27 second film from June 16 1944 with shots of newspapers "reporting" the allied invasion and showing German convoy on the Champs Elysées.
| Oh the humanity! | S'il te dit que tu es belle c'est parce qu'il se fout de ta gueule connasse! |
| June 6 ceremony: Patricia Kass, who is very ugly, is now warbling a song from the repertoire of Edith Piaf, who was also very ugly but thankfully is dead.
| cérémonies du 6 juin: Patricia Casse-Couille, qui est vraiment très moche, est en train de gazouiller une chanson tirée du repertoire de Edith Piaf, qui était aussi très laide mais qui est décédée heureusement pour nous tous.
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| The French wouldn't know true resistance if it bit them on the ass | Résistance? En Fwance? Connais pas |
| The Dissident Frogman pays his tribute to Ronald Reagan.
| Le Dissident Frogman rend hommage à Ronald Reagan.
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Behind Enemy Lines
You're not in Kansas anymore!
Wait a minute!…
What's this?!
(Answer)
Yes, There Are American Flags in Paris
Ronald Reagan 1911-2004
On the one hand is our belief that the people can and will decide what is best for themselves, and on the other side is the belief that a "few" can best decide what is good for all the rest. (January 1951)While pundits denounced the "evil empire" speech, political prisoners in Russia spread the word in their dark, damp cells. They tapped on walls and quietly talked through toilets to share what Reagan had said. Natan Scharansky remembers feeling energized and emboldened; Reagan had given them hope.We are called materialistic. Maybe so … but our materialism has made our children the biggest, tallest, most handsome, and intelligent generation of Americans yet. They will live longer with fewer illnesses, learn more, see more of the world, and have more successes in realizing their personal dreams and ambitions than any other people in any other period of our history — because of our materialism. (Summer 1968)
In all of history, one can find few, if any, instances where people have started a war. War is the province of government, and therefore the more autocratic government is, the more centralized, the more totalitarian, the more government can direct and control the will of the people — the greater the chance of war. (1967)
…a little less détente with the Politburo and more encouragement to the dissenters might be worth a lot of armored divisions [in the Cold War] (1979)
Reagan's War by Peter Schweizer
We in the West have a responsibility not only to preserve our own freedom but to nurture it where it does not exist. (Official US statement after Poland's imposition of martial law, January 1982)
| Stone them back to the bong age | C'est vrai que le style de Willem est plutôt gai et celui de Ramadan plutôt lapidaire |
| Support same sex marriage. Yes, that way Willem could marry Tariq Ramadan and become eligible to be stoned to death.
| Il faut soutenir les mariages gay. Parfaitement, comme ça Willem pourrait se marier avec Tariq Ramadan et de ce fait risquer la mort par lapidation.
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Les 'Ricains
| If the Yankees weren't there
You'd all be in Germany Talking of God knows what Saluting God knows whom Of course, the years have passed The rifles have changed hands Is this any reason to forget That one day we needed them? A kid come from Georgia Who didn't owe you a damn Came to die in Normandy One morning when you weren't around Of course, the years have passed We've become friends In friendship, we say of those who were shot That they died for nothing If the Yankees weren't there You'd all be in Germany Talking of God knows what Saluting God knows whom | Si les ricains n'étaient pas là
Vous seriez tous en Germanie A parler de je ne sais quoi A saluer je ne sais qui Bien sûr les années ont passé Les fusils ont changé de mains Est-ce une raison pour oublier Qu'un jour on en a eu besoin Un gars venu de Géorgie Qui se foutait pas mal de toi Est v'nu mourir en Normandie Un matin où tu n'y étais pas Bien sûr les années ont passé On est devenus des copains A l'amicale du fusillé On dit qu'ils sont tombés pour rien Si les ricains n'étaient pas là Vous seriez tous en Germanie A parler de je ne sais quoi A saluer je ne sais qui |
Benoît Hopquin writes of Sardou's song: "Though in 1967 Michel Sardou sang Les 'Ricains, France would forget the allied sacrifice anyway. The emaciated faces of GIs bogged down in Vietnam replaced the chubby cheeks of 1944. The post '68 generation fell into 'anti-Yankism.'"
Saturday, June 05, 2004
It Gets Worse/It's Been Worse
Yet with impeccable timing, the CSA poling company has released the results of a survey which found that 50% of the French public feel that France has no moral debt to the United States. This opinion is shared by 63% of those aged 18 to 24 years, 58% of those 25 to 34, 54% of those 35 to 49, 48% of those 50 to 64 and even 32% of those 65 and older. Among the professions, farmers thought this in the greatest majority (62%) while retirees and the self-employed were the least likely to share this view (39%). The study also found that 82% of the French felt that France was sufficiently grateful to the US and that as little as 3% admire the US.
Worse yet, the Figaro reports in a survey it commissioned which finds that 82% of French feel that Germany is France's strongest ally while only 55% feel that the US is a trustworthy ally. Thirty-seven percent (and 61% of National Front, i.e. fascist, voters) now feel that Iraq is the country that threatens them most (a head of Iran and North Korea.)
Strangely, fifty-seven percent of French people still feel that the D-Day landings were the event that has had the most profound effect on the present day, reports the AP, citing another CSA opinion poll. Seventy-two percent of French feel that the landings signify the Liberation of France.
Pro-American feeling often runs highest in the regions that saw the deadliest fighting and heaviest American sacrifices but in Caen, six local elected officials (Greens, Communists and members of the Radical Left Party — there are 47 seats on the regional council all together), will be leaving their places empty at the largest event of ceremonies at Arromanches to protest the presence of presidents Bush and Putin, they say. Regional Council vice-president Yannick Soubien, a Green, said, "The treatment of Iraqi prisoners by the Americans and the genocide committed by the Russians in Chechnya run counter to the values that unite us to-day to celebrate the victory against Nazism. We'll be at other ceremonies but not at those where Messrs. Bush and Putin will be." Alain Touret, another Regional Council vice-president, of the Radical Left Pary says, "It's no small thing to go against the feeling of unanimity brought on by the commemoration but, at any rate, perhaps we'll honor in a better way the sacrifice of all those young allies who shed their blood on our soil."
Le Monde's Benoît Hopquin has filed another historical report detailing the tribulations of decennial June 6 commemorations through the ages. "In the speeches, the memories and the behavior of those present, each commemoration has become a sort of snap shot of the mood on either side of the Atlantic," he writes.
"What remains of that dawn on June 6 1944 when everything seemed possible?" wrote Le Monde on that anniversary in 1954.In 1964, "the D-Day veterans returned to a France that was at peace once again and that was, frankly, ungrateful," writes Hopquin. President de Gaulle declined even to come to the ceremonies. General Omar Bradley and Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus Vance were accompanied only by two cabinet minsiters (Veterans Affairs and Cooperation). In 1974, "though a reenactment with 2,000 participants was staged before a minister in fatigues, it all appeared a formality; so much so that a thousand French fighters and resisters lit a memorial flame in Washington rather than in Sainte-Mère-Eglise."
At that moment, France was beset with neurasthenia. The military defeat at Diên Biên Phú in Indochina a month earlier had profoundly shocked the country. Dreams of grandeur regained are wiped away and the "singing to-morrows" grow husky-voiced in the pettiness of the Fourth Republic.
Springtime for Germany; Winter for the US
ON JANUARY 22 1963, Charles de Gaulle embraced Konrad Adenauer in parlor of the Elysée Palace. This moving scene has been played repeatedly the last few days on every television channel in France, Germany and Navarre. We will see it again and again this Wednesday, on the fortieth anniversarty of the Elysée treaty. It is a deeply rooted image, just like the sight of Helmut Kohl and François Mitterrand holding hands in 1984 at Verdun. Franco-German reconciliation made European construction possible and we all agree on that. Waves of editorials are crashing down on us on this occasion, including in this newspaper, and so much the better.If only Dhombres had the balls to publish a similar statement right now. It would be very much appropriate. The cartoon that W. posted below — monuments to French and German soldiers holding hands as hearts float upwards from between them. Bush appears on a landing craft and says, "Oh, my God. We've landed at Bègles!" (Bègles is the town in which the mayor, former Green presidential candidate Noël Mamère, has long threatened to marry gay couples) — is commenting on the same reality that Dhombres described in January of last year. And this is a phenomenon that is now startlingly strong and growing stronger.
Is it possible to discern a false note from this necessary and just chorus? It comes from a lengthy stay in England by the author of these lines. Why, our British friends wonder, such passionate demonstrations of friendship? Churchill, Thatcher and, to-day, Blair never saw fit to allow themselves such effusive sentiments with their German counterparts. Why? The answer is not pleasant to hear. The British do not need to act in this way. They have no problem of memory with the Second World War. They won it.
And what of us? Françoise Giroud mentioned this national wound, which is probably beyond repair, in the surprising interview she gave to Philippe Labro on September 11 and which France 3 rebroadcast Tuesday evening. For a warlike country, such as France was, June 1940 has never been digested. De Gaulle, who knew better than anyone that we lost the war, had the extraordinary design of having the French believe they won it, but things like that don't work, she said. That is why the French, whom she remembered from her youth before the war as being so spruce, have become doleful and circumspect. [...]
Yet it is not simply love for Germany that is on the rise but also what appears to be a negative corollary, anger at the US — the incontrovertible reminder of the wound that Giroud describes. Perhaps you were expecting that, as the D-Day anniversary grew closer, increasingly powerful displays of emotion, reemerging as if unchanged from so many years ago, along with abundant witness accounts and personal histories, would flood the pages of newspapers, making the story of D-Day inescapable, and that grief and gratitude would almost entirely drown out acrimony and anti-Americanism, allowing for a brief but tender moment of reconciliation?
You'd have been wrong. It seems that in more than a few quarters, just the opposite is happening. NBC may planning two full days of D-Day coverage but this elegiac atmosphere sure hasn't contaminated the pages of Le Monde.
Indeed, an interesting set of parallel arguments occurred yesterday In the pages of the two papers of record. In The New York Times, former ambassador to France Felix Rohatyn wrote that he had "seen France at its most tragic in 1940" and that the French are "grateful." Almost as a rejoinder to Rohatyn, Le Monde published on the same day an essay by documentary filmmaker and screenwriter Alain Moreau who wrote about "the hidden face of some liberators." His essay contends that American GIs deployed in Europe committed some 17,000 rapes (2,500 of them in France) from 1944 to 1945. (Moreau's assertions depend heavily on a book by J. Robert Lilly, professor of sociology and criminology at Northern Kentucky U., who also points out that thousands of Italian women were raped by French soldiers.)
Not only did Americans rape on D-Day, they killed the innocent, too. On June 1, we were treated to a heart-rending portrait of a man who lost his entire family to allied bombs on the very day of the landings in a town that was 90% destroyed.
Continue reading "Springtime for Germany; Winter for the US "...
| He forgot the one shaped like his favorite Paris backroom | Il a oublié la prison sous forme de son backroom préféré dans le Marais |
| The anti-Semite Willem shares one thing with the self-loathing George Soros: drawing a link between 9-11 and Abu Ghraib. Hey Willem, stick it in your glory hole, and break it off!
| L'antisémite Willem partage quelque chose avec George Soros qui lui, pratique la haine de soi: établir un lien entre le 11-9-2001 et Abu Ghraib. Eh dis-donc Willem, enfoncez-le bien profond dans ton 'glory hole', et cassez-le net!
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| After the destruction of Abu Ghraib, what should the new Baghdad prison look like? The White House, the Roissy airport terminal, or the Twin Towers?
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| Answer: No, just you | Réponse: Non, uniquement vous |
| Question frequently asked by French readers: Do you hate all French?
| Question fréquemment posée par mes lecteurs franchouilles: Détestez-vous tous les français?
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| The Big Nine-Three: Where the Wild Things Are | Au régal des vermines dans le 9-cube |
| Hey, he was probably humiliated or something. Isn't that always the case with these people? An inhuman scum in the Paris suburbs reminds us why it wasn't worth the bother to liberate the French. Some suburban kid stabs a Jew while yelling 'Allah Akbar'. The suburban filth that danced on 9-11 will be happy to know that the victim is in serious condition.
| Bof, il était sans doute humilié ou un truc dans ce gènre. C'est toujours comme ça avec ces gens-là. Une vermine animalière dans le 9-cube nous rappelle pourquoi ce n'était vraiment pas la peine de libérer les franchouilles. Une chère tête blonde fwançaise de la banlieue poignarde un juif en criant 'Allah Akbar'. La caillera qui a dansé autour de Paris de façon endiablée au 11-9-2001 sera heureuse de savoir que l'état de la victime est jugé sérieux.
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| MiF 3:16 | Non abruti, c'est plutôt mon pied dans ton cul |
| Allah spreads the word.
| Allah fait courir le bruit.
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| Sacred cows: I pulled my lip stick out, I was in her, Yeah! (as in 'Stick it in and leave it there') | Vaches sacrées: J'ai sorti mon baume pour les lèvres, j'étais en elle, Ouais! (comme 'Enfoncez-la bien, et laissez-la enfoncée') |
| Emmanuelle Béart made some ridiculous anti-American tirade on 'Tout le Monde en Parle' stating that she and Europe were waiting for the return of the true America or some such nonsense. She was her usual delirious dumb blond self. Tania de Montaigne, appearing on the book show 'Field dans Ta Chambre', never fails to trash any American novel that is translated into French, invariably accusing it's writer of being a hack who insults the intelligence of Zeropean readers. She's just written a book, the manuscript of which was probably written with her used Tampax on her make-up mirror before being submitted to her editor, about chicks that try to quit smoking. Here, smoke this pole. In fact, no one cares what these French broads have to say. The real question is: which one has the best cocksucker lips? The lucky winner will get down on a big ten inch.
| Emmanuelle Béart a laché une diatribe anti-ricaine parfaitement riducule sur le plateau de 'Tout le Monde en Parle' déclarant qu'elle et toute l'Europe attendaient le retour de la vraie Amérique. Elle était fidèle à elle-même, c'est à dire qu'elle délirait comme la blondasse qu'elle est. Tania de Montaigne, chroniqueuse à l'émission littéraire 'Field dans Ta Chambre', ne cesse de dénigrer tout roman américain traduit en fwançais, systématiquement accusant son auteur d'être un rigolo qui insulte l'intelligence de ses lecteurs zéropéens. Elle vient de pondre un bouquin, dont le manuscrit était sans doute gribouillé sur le miroir de son poudrier avec ses serviettes hygiéniques usagées avant d'être balancé chez son éditeur, au sujet de gonzesses qui essaient d'arrêter de fumer. Tiens, fume cet havane. En fait, tout le monde se fout pas mal de ce que ces meufs franchouilles ont à dire. La question qui se pose est: laquelle a la meilleure bouche à pipe? L'heureuse gagnante aura droit, en guise de trophée, à la grosse bite à Dudule.
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| Emmanuelle Béart
| Tania de Montaigne
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| In a drought
with the drinks left out And the big shout She's a winner | In a crowd
In a fixed out cloud In her big mouth She's a winner |
| Lyrics: Hoggboy, Urgh!!!, Or 8?
| Paroles: Hoggboy, Urgh!!!, Or 8?
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