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22 September 2013, 03:18 PM
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I just got back from Paris.
What an amazing place?!
Not only a beautiful and historic city but everyone looks like they are runway models
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I get back on the plane to the UK and we Brits look like obese slobs in contrast.
What an amazing place?!
Not only a beautiful and historic city but everyone looks like they are runway models
.I get back on the plane to the UK and we Brits look like obese slobs in contrast.
22 September 2013, 06:40 PM
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Fit or fat? I can imagine if they're fit, many British men might call them posers, gheyers etc. or, are the men there generally just unfit mingers with their beer podge hanging out? 
22 September 2013, 06:45 PM
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22 September 2013, 06:48 PM
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Basically it's where the beautiful people live.
*The only British men who also wear scarfs well are Michael Fassbender and Ewan McGregor.
22 September 2013, 06:50 PM
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22 September 2013, 07:19 PM
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I was fortunate to grow up in Kensington, packed full of beautiful, healthy, slim, happy people
Spent a year in hackney in my 20,s packed full of ugly, sick, fat, miserable people
Sit in a cafe on the Old Brompton Road - everyone is shaggable
Spent a year in hackney in my 20,s packed full of ugly, sick, fat, miserable people
Sit in a cafe on the Old Brompton Road - everyone is shaggable
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22 September 2013, 09:32 PM
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Generally seen supping un cafe outside a bistro dressed stylishily and wearing a scarf well*, or looking effortlessly cool on a scooter.
Basically it's where the beautiful people live.
*The only British men who also wear scarfs well are Michael Fassbender and Ewan McGregor.
Basically it's where the beautiful people live.
*The only British men who also wear scarfs well are Michael Fassbender and Ewan McGregor.
Quite beautiful as well as stylish men in Paris, then. That's good.
23 September 2013, 11:08 AM
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A word of warning- they may be attractive looking, but they are Parisians who are amongst the biggest pains in the **** that I've ever come across. A previous other half of mine was from a well to do family in the south of France and the Parisians wouldn't even talk to her in the restaurants because they considered her déclassé ( sort of a country bumpkin/ down on her luck) having heard her Midi accent.
IF they can be arsed to talk to you, and it's a big if if they've decided that you're not only not from Paris, but not from one of the fashionable arrondissements, then every bloody pronouncement starts with "Moi, je pense que...". (Me, I think that..) and then goes on to some ludicrous navel gazing comment about how Johhny Halliday is the one true voice of slavery or some such bollx (instead of just a very bad Elvis impersonator with a mullet).
Philosophy is the most popular higher level exam taken by Parisians and it makes them all think that their view is the most interesting thing that has ever been pronounced. I blame that **** Satre...
and breathe....
IF they can be arsed to talk to you, and it's a big if if they've decided that you're not only not from Paris, but not from one of the fashionable arrondissements, then every bloody pronouncement starts with "Moi, je pense que...". (Me, I think that..) and then goes on to some ludicrous navel gazing comment about how Johhny Halliday is the one true voice of slavery or some such bollx (instead of just a very bad Elvis impersonator with a mullet).
Philosophy is the most popular higher level exam taken by Parisians and it makes them all think that their view is the most interesting thing that has ever been pronounced. I blame that **** Satre...
and breathe....
23 September 2013, 11:31 AM
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Philosophy is the most popular higher level exam taken by Parisians and it makes them all think that their view is the most interesting thing that has ever been pronounced. I blame that **** Satre...
This is probably why TDW felt so at home there.
Philosophy is the most popular higher level exam taken by Parisians and it makes them all think that their view is the most interesting thing that has ever been pronounced. I blame that **** Satre...
This is probably why TDW felt so at home there.
23 September 2013, 12:43 PM
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I have a really good mate who hails from Lille.
Now Lille and Paris don't see eye to eye. He refers to Parisians as "Parisian, tete de chien", (Parisian doghead), and won't have anything to do with them.
However, whenever I've visited Paris, I've been amazed at how nice the ordinary people are.
Now Lille and Paris don't see eye to eye. He refers to Parisians as "Parisian, tete de chien", (Parisian doghead), and won't have anything to do with them.
However, whenever I've visited Paris, I've been amazed at how nice the ordinary people are.
23 September 2013, 02:31 PM
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23 September 2013, 04:36 PM
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A word of warning- they may be attractive looking, but they are Parisians who are amongst the biggest pains in the **** that I've ever come across. A previous other half of mine was from a well to do family in the south of France and the Parisians wouldn't even talk to her in the restaurants because they considered her déclassé ( sort of a country bumpkin/ down on her luck) having heard her Midi accent.
IF they can be arsed to talk to you, and it's a big if if they've decided that you're not only not from Paris, but not from one of the fashionable arrondissements, then every bloody pronouncement starts with "Moi, je pense que...". (Me, I think that..) and then goes on to some ludicrous navel gazing comment about how Johhny Halliday is the one true voice of slavery or some such bollx (instead of just a very bad Elvis impersonator with a mullet).
Philosophy is the most popular higher level exam taken by Parisians and it makes them all think that their view is the most interesting thing that has ever been pronounced. I blame that **** Satre...
and breathe....
IF they can be arsed to talk to you, and it's a big if if they've decided that you're not only not from Paris, but not from one of the fashionable arrondissements, then every bloody pronouncement starts with "Moi, je pense que...". (Me, I think that..) and then goes on to some ludicrous navel gazing comment about how Johhny Halliday is the one true voice of slavery or some such bollx (instead of just a very bad Elvis impersonator with a mullet).
Philosophy is the most popular higher level exam taken by Parisians and it makes them all think that their view is the most interesting thing that has ever been pronounced. I blame that **** Satre...
and breathe....
My French is **** poor and I did get some bemused looks trying to talk basic french lol, some passive-aggressive waiters. However I did find French women dead easy to talk to. French women like to be talked to and admired I learned. I don't been perved all over, just 'noticed', 'recognised'.
Paris is so different from the UK in many ways. It is like a big collection of villages with so many people living there, and I don't mean like the UK where 20-something recruitment consultants have adopted urban living the last decade in our newly build city 'apartments'. I mean people of all ages really living in the City. Perhaps a bit like parts of New York. I suppose London is the closest we have to Paris, except too many Oligarchs.
23 September 2013, 04:38 PM
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26 September 2013, 10:46 AM
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Generally seen supping un cafe outside a bistro dressed stylishily and wearing a scarf well*, or looking effortlessly cool on a scooter.
Basically it's where the beautiful people live.
*The only British men who also wear scarfs well are Michael Fassbender and Ewan McGregor.
Basically it's where the beautiful people live.
*The only British men who also wear scarfs well are Michael Fassbender and Ewan McGregor.
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