by Jenos Ridan on Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:19 am
heavycola wrote:Jenos Ridan wrote:heavycola wrote:France.
Food. Wine. A mediterranean coast. The best alps. Fresh bread every morning. A spoken language that doesn't sound like a rottweiler clearing its throat. Brittany. Godard. Le Tour. Foie gras (whether you like it or not, it says plenty about their attutude to food). Cantona. Armagnac. Serge Gainsbourg. Bardot.
And now for the most pointless point-by-point rebuttal I have ever posted:
The French Alps are overrated (even though I'll admit to have never been there); the Austrian, Swiss and Bavarian Alps (heck, even the Italian ones) are better.
Better how? Are they more fragrant? More use in a crisis? Pointier? I live in London, and the French alps are closer. That makes them the best. And you have never been.
From pictures that relatives of might took, more majestic.
About the closness part: I'd gladly do to Mountain Ski Resort on Rainer if I had the money, but Timberline on Hood is both closer and cheaper.
heavycola wrote:Jenos Ridan wrote:German is a more robust language, lacking all those annoying nausal sounds.
I would go for nasal over bronchial anytime. Especially if I was a-chattin' to a lady.
heavycola wrote:Jenos Ridan wrote:Besides, older war films only show Bavarian, a (last I was told by a good friend of mine, who would know given that is one of the things his is in college for) rustic dialect of German.
I didn't mention war films. I speak from experience of talking to actual germans and picking phlegm out of my mustache for days afterwards.
Funny, my friend speaks it fine and no phlegm to clean out of my goatee or hair.
heavycola wrote:Jenos Ridan wrote:Beck's beer, bratwurst and indeed many other German inventions are now samples of American culture (we are the melting pot, are we not?).
Pickled cabbage? Sausages? Come ON! german 'cuisine' makes england look like a culinary wonderland.
Even crappy American beers like Coors or Miller taste better than Champaign

. If I were to be drinking wine (which I do sometimes), I stick to reds. Besides, Gremans have the Rhine and the vineyards thereof. And Bavarian is supposed to be world-renouned for it's high-quality beer (American-Brewed Samual Adams brand Light Beer won an annual competion which had no light beer catagory).
Somehow, I don't see Kidney Pies as the kind of thing that Americans bring to a Barbarque, hence the Brauts and Becks (don't get me wrong, Kidney pie and Sheppard's Pie aren't). Besides, I happen to like sauerkraut (especially on a Polish Sausage, ummm

tasty). In fact, I need to pay the Rhinelander Restaurant in Portland another visit....next time I have some money to call in a reservation.
heavycola wrote:Jenos Ridan wrote:If I were traveling to Europe, Lufthannsa all the way!
Here, I concur. I hate Air France, with its supercilious air hostesses and their effortless sexual confidence. I flew long-haul in a Lufthansa plane once and it was brilliant. They didn't even feed us sauerkraut. These days however I am limited to easyjet, and then only with my maximum allowed carry-on guilt allowance.
France FTW! (I realise literally that is laughable, but still)
Mostly, I've been able, the few times I have flown anywhere, to fly with United Airlines and not on SouthWorst.
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Jenos Ridan on Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:23 am, edited 1 time in total.
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