It never stops to annoy me.

[Joey Shabadoo]

To be technically accurate Calais was not part of France until the 1580's
It was English for 250 years before that and Flemish or Boulougne before that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France#/media/File:French_borders_from_985_to_1947.gif

I can see the 'liberation' of Calais being a something the the more right wing Kippers will be proposing as a good thing to reunite the country

Nobody who's been to Calais would ever want it.

 

[Levo-Lon]

A little word about those nasty Frenchies



View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M9DCAFUerzs

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Apparently les rosbifs are now known as les jambons

 

[Markymark]

Apparently les rosbifs are now known as les jambons

As I clearly look much healthier and fitter than you no matter where in France I go after a short while I always get called salad as a sign of respect. Or as they pronounce it ....salaud

 

[gavroche]

I thought French was actually only spoken around Paris, with the rest of the country speaking different languages. French was imposed on the rest of the country.

That is correct, the French language was only spoken in the Bassin Parisian , which covers a 70 mile radius round Paris. That is why, where I come from, Orleans, we speak the purest French , with no accent. Other parts of France used to speak their own dialect until Napoleon imposed the French language to be spoken throughout the country. This explain the various accents in many parts of France. Also, just for your information, the inhabitants of Orleans are known as " the dogs of Orleans" . This is in no way derogative. We were called like this by the king of France in the middle ages because people of Orleans were the most faithful to the king.

 

[snorri]

Seeing as we nipped across it twice to save Europe from tyranny, it's quite an apt name.

We? I'm not old enough.

It's not often I get the chance to say that nowadays.

 

[mustang1]

Rename it Mustang Channel.

 

[mustang1]

The apocryphal newspaper headline "fog in the English Channel, Europe cut off"

And the European equivalent:
Fog in the channel, but who wants to go to that miserable place anyway

 

[Threevok]

Channel Number 5 ?

 

[PaulSecteur]

Concorde used to annoy me. Every time I saw it I would hop the fence and cross that “e” off.

Airport security was slack back then.

 

[Dayvo]

It never stops to annoy me.

I'd always stop to annoy you if I could!

Mind you, it'd be over a beer or tea and cake.

 

[Brains]

Channel Number 5 ?

I think the French might object, whilst the UK may have several Chanel's on our borders, the French only have one.