[quote="Old Reliable":3c037]i'm talking about americans.[/quote:3c037]

ok, sorry, i take what i said back cry:

[quote="Old Reliable":f086c]i'm talking about americans.[/quote:f086c]
are you refering to your country in the 3rd person?

[quote="Old Reliable":c99e9]french cooking is a style employed by the finest restaurants around the world. if you watch the show Iron Chef you know what I am talking about. Wines and cheese...the staple of French cooking. if you have not heard of Louis Pasteur, then I suggest you look on a milk carton as it will most likely say "pasteurized." Descartes is also one of history's greatest philosophers, mostly dealing with mathematics. France is also the second country to have a declaration of independence. During that time, Paris was considered the world's capital for grandeur...great politicians and diplomats met at Paris. to list the contributions of Frenchmen to us throughout history is rather lengthy.

I suggest if you are really interested in it, that you find out for yourself. The problem with trying to explain something like this to people like you is you believe France to only be 200 years old, when in fact France has a history far beyond America's and the past 200 years. I will gladly expand on this if you want. my opinion may be biased, but that is only because I have a deep love for the European continent and its history as a whole.[/quote:c99e9]

For once I agree Old Reliable. French food is unbeatable and most fine chefs come from, or studied in France. Also, for you war-types. French pioneered artillery. French artillery was very effective in the 18th and 19th century. In WW1 they came up with the "crawling barrage" an artillery barrage that would advance with the infantry. I could go on more, but I can't really change your opinions about France.

french gothic architecture (i.e. Notre Dame) simply beautiful

http://www.pitt.edu/~medart/menufrance/mainfran.html

the also invented smokeless gun powder called "poudre B". it made it easier for europeans to kill each other with evil:

Alright, I found a website with French Discoveries and Inventions...Interesting stuff:

French Inventions:

Ambulance
Braille
Canned Food
Photography & Cinema <---- *Ahem* Americans?
Quantative Chemistry
Automobile <--- For Christs SAKE!
Metric System
Palentology


^^If That isn't enough....I'll go look for some more later...

guillotine flamethrower:

oh yeah and whoever blamed the french on dday? 12,000 French civilians and partisans died as well. if it wasn't for much partisan activities, a whole lot more americans would have died. people also forget that french jews were also taken to concentration camps.

Maybe we shoud all sit down and drink a nice big glass of paturized milk and think a little harder.

Louis Pasteur was a frenchman, wasn't he? If it wasn't for him, you wouldn't be slurping choclatey milk from the bottom of you bowl of Count Chocula.


Zone

[quote="Low spark":7feac]Maybe we shoud all sit down and drink a nice big glass of paturized milk and think a little harder.[/quote:7feac]
haha beautiful

Ya beat me to it, Spark...heh heh


Zone

i dunno


maybe the french gave all the porn directors a new scene to host their pornos and give a better plot to the video! biggrin:


French IS the love language, ha

Photogrphery, we perfected, havent seen a good french movie since....well never

Automobile...i could of sworn Henry ford made the first automobile eek:

[quote="Capt. John Miller":bdcd7]
Photogrphery, we perfected, havent seen a good french movie since....well never

Automobile...i could of sworn Henry ford made the first automobile eek:[/quote:bdcd7]

um....I'm pretty sure he made the first internal combustion engine. Maybe someone did some weird experiment in France that was theoretically right, but was never built. Just a hunch.

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All Hail, Motherfuckers! biggrin: biggrin: biggrin: biggrin:

see the french are great people biggrin: c'est bon! j'aime francais!

They have great airports!, Australia recently had to fight tooth and nail to stop the French building an airport
over the gaves of Australians killed defending France in WW1.
What sort of a government has such a lack of respect and such short memories.
Fuck the French!

OMG true dat!

Yeah, but you wouldn't have anything to perfect if it wasn't for the French in the first place.....See my point?

...As for Automobiles: Henry Ford popularized the automobile, by mass-producing it. He also invented the Transmission mechanism.

Nicholaus August otto invented the internal combustion engine, he was German.

Gottlieb Daimler, a French dude, used the design to invent the automobile.

Daimler autos is teh suk, nothing beats a good Nissan or Acura biggrin:

Well that new Mazda 6 is looking kinda secsy

Daimler does suck, but regardless, the guy that the company is named after is French, and did create the first car. biggrin:

Nissan and teh Acura = teh suxcks! angel:

Peugeot & Mercedes OWNZ j00!

uh are you guys stupid? daimler owns mercedes

yea peugeot makes tight looking cars for back in the day

Ja! 405 with zee chromes looks zee bad-Az!

OMG the ignorance of some people here is amazing.

I believe it were the French who kicked the Muslims off Spain so if anyone owes anyone anything WE owe the French. Some people may bleieve that world history only began 200 years ago.

People must be saying "No, no, surely not....NO ONE WAS ALIVE THEN!!!"

The croissant came from a battle when the French wanted to insult the Muslims by making bread in the shape of their symbol...the crescent moon. Hence it caught on and blah blah blah.


French wine, food, women, architecture, champagne, fashion etc etc. The list goes on.


LOL LOL!!! This thread reminds me of that scene in Monty Python: Life of Brian.

"Besides from roads, public health, security, wine, architecture, baths, trade, knowledge...what have the Romans ever done for us?"
"Brought peace"
"Pfft, peace....shuddup!"

[quote="Big Jake":d1a6e]French Fries..which me and friends have started to name "Freedom Fries"

But seriously they were the first ones in the world to have a flying balloons. Even though the guy who invented it flew away from Paris during the 1st war with Germany (I can't think of the name)[/quote:d1a6e]

fries!!! w00t