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Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

Parisians hate their fellow countrymen almost as much as they hate Americans.

[-] xor 21 points 7 months ago

This has to be the most American take of the week

Car-brain plus assuming the french think about them, that's some top tier copium

[-] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Nah, I've spent some time in Paris.

[-] xor 9 points 7 months ago

That doesn't improve your take lol

[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Bruh, when you get a SUV/truck to drive around, you're declaring war on everyone else. It's literally an arms race.

[-] K4sum1@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago

Are you sure about that? I know someone that drives a 2003 CR-V not because he wants to, but because he got it for free and can't afford to get a new or used car.

[-] rambaroo@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Parisians don't give a shit about Americans one way or the other. I was just there and everyone was nice to me like they are to everyone else.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

It's so weird how there's this stereotype about French people hating Americans when people seem to have forgotten that Republicans once hated the French so much (for daring to not join America in a war) that they changed 'French fries' to 'freedom fries' for a while. And then there's the bullshit "France always surrenders" meme that so many Americans believe. The French military is fucking fierce.

In my experience, it's Americans who hate the French a lot more than French people hating Americans.

[-] Miaou@jlai.lu 3 points 7 months ago

In my experience, the French who hate the Americans are the ones who travel. I'll let you draw your own conclusions from there

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

And we wear

Canadian flags

When we travel

On our bags

'Cause we are Americans (ah yeah!)

-- Corky and the Juice Pigs, Americans

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

You're not wrong, I'd say your average French that didn't travel much and works for French companies basically doesn't care about Americans at all. It's when you actually go there or work for American companies that you start radicalising...

[-] TotalFat@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Maybe it's because the MINI Countryman SUV is a UK brand manufactured by a German car company...

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 3 points 7 months ago

Wrong thread?

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