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le franco (quokk.au)

Context: The French sure a contentious people.

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[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 30 points 2 weeks ago

15 more panels from Africa possible.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago

“Damn French! They ruined France!”

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

tu viens de te faire un ennemi à vie !

[-] mrmisses@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago
[-] UniversalBasicJustice@quokk.au 7 points 2 weeks ago

I want to learn French so I can refuse to speak it rather than not know how.

[-] tomenzgg@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

If you want, "Such is life" is Sa se lavi, in Haitian Creole; won't stand out as much except for discerning listeners, when spoken, but you can sub. that any moment you'd normally use C'est la vie.

[-] UniversalBasicJustice@quokk.au 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is actually incredibly relevant to me. I'm anti-"It is what it is" and instead say "Such is life," "So it goes," "C'est la vie" and an additional alternative is great. Won't eliminate C'est la vie entirely because it's a Protest the Hero song, but thanks for another 'tired acknowledgment of the absurdity of reality' phrase!

[-] counterfactual@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago

Australians are racist fucks who keep fucking up their privacy laws (if any) and their citizens' rights, turning their country into a surveillance nanny state.

So stay the fuck where you are and don't even come close to the rest of the civilized world, cretin.

[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That flag is the flag of Aotearoa New Zealand, you addlepated twit. Furthermore, you absolute buffoon, the REASON they are depicted this way is because the French, with knowledge and consent all the way to the chief executive of the country, committed an act of war (espionage, murder, arson and terrorism) against them because the French didn't like some hippies trying to stop them from nuking south pacific islanders.

Talk about fucking "counterfactual"

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 2 weeks ago

Nah I think they mean because I am Australian. But yeah, every single one of those flags has a reason to have a grudge against France.

[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, they made that clear when they said that they were discriminating against you based on the TLD of your instance. It's given me quite the chuckle.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oh it gets better, they reported it saying I deserve to be shot to dead. I've never seen such a strong reaction to a pretty average meme.

[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fucking Christ. It also seems entirely unclear to them that the JOKE is that even the FRENCH don't like their government. The only thing that could make it clearer would be for you to give the French pooh a guillotine.

[-] Geobloke@aussie.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

Wow, New Zealand dodged a bullet there

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 points 2 weeks ago

Let me guess you’re French and lashing out at others instead of acknowledging your own issues?

[-] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

All of our governments are trying to cancel freedom right now not just Australia, it's not necessarily the fault of people that live there that their government has been captured by the oligarchy.

France is doing the same with age verification and trying to get chat control and the like, trojan horses to surrender their citizens to big tech companies and run everything they say and do through ai threat detection after connection names and likenesses and id to video and biometrices and ip address.

We should cooperate together to defeat these assaults not simply condemn those whose governments passed such laws over the heads of their citizens.

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like I should've seen this guy before, new Lemmy cooker found??

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago

The French are fine, it's the Parisians that are rude

this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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