France in history

[joggerjayne]

1. Burning cats for amusement ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat-burning

2. Zidane's World Cup Final head-butt

3. Cheating their way to South Africa.



... is that a reasonable snapshot ?

[ummmm]

I suppose..

[joggerjayne]

Once the cats had been burned alive ... "the people collected the ashes and took them home, believing that they brought good luck"

... although, not so lucky for the cats !

[123everton]

You missed out cowards and traitors.
Type in "great French Military victories" on Google and read the first entry.

[jake-the-peg]

Britain in History

Executed a monkey because they thought it was a French spy

http://www.thisishart...ehartlepoolmonkey.asp

probably about as reasonable a snapshot

[jackthehat]

I enjoyed No. 4, too.............

[Sandy-Wroe]

How can we be sure the good people of Hartlepool weren't right? Perhaps it was a French spy.

[joggerjayne]

Bwaaah Haaaa Haaaaa ... that's fantastic, Everton.

But the French did send a lot of troops to help during the Gulf War.

Oh, no, they didn't. Sorry, I was thinking of the UK.

[jake-the-peg]

If certain people get their way we'll soon be setting dogs onto foxes and hares for fun again.

[joggerjayne]

Jake ...

Not "Britain" ... ... ... just Hartlepool.

Remember that some of us were already French by then, and would have known French when we heard it. Sussex had succed cu m to the Norman Conquest with a less than heroic defence.

[joggerjayne]

Oh, yes, Vibe ... and

(6) Actresses with hairy armpits

[joggerjayne]

Gotta go, guys ...

Be good x

[fredpuli47]

Yes, but remember our French were Normans, descended from Norsemen, Vikings, not like their French !

[daffy654]

We never burned witches in this country,and the good folks of Hartlepool never hanged a monkey....all myths.

[fredpuli47]

No maybe we didn't burn witches,though we put them to death, but we certainly burned priests who didn't conform with the preferred religious belief of the day.