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re: Can anyone explain Alabama fans’ infatuation with using French heritage as an insult?
Posted on 3/9/24 at 10:52 am to Cold Drank
Posted on 3/9/24 at 10:52 am to Cold Drank
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1986 when the US retaliated against Libya for a terrorist attack. Guess which bunch of frickING COWARDS refused to let us fly over their country?
Air Force shoulda just sat that one out.... see Prarie Fire and El Dorado Canyon. Coral Sea and CAG 13.
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Posted on 3/9/24 at 10:53 am to Bodie
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Can anyone explain Alabama fans’ infatuation with using French heritage as an insult?
Doubtful someone can give you that type of history lesson in one thread. Especially since you don't appear to be open to learning.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 11:04 am to bigDgator
Are we talking about the French farmers spraying animal shite all over the place, because that shite (pun intended) is awesome. French farmers >> limp wristed Persian stereotypes.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 11:05 am to Bodie
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Posted on 3/9/24 at 11:27 am to SidewalkTiger
After the LA purchase half the US was a french territory.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 11:47 am to Volatile
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Without French and Spanish support and assistance in the American Revolution things might have turned out very differently.
Very true. The Spanish controlling Florida and the Gulf Coast was huge for the Revolutionists. Allowing the Spanish and French financing to bring in supplies up thru that area, and also prevented the British from coming in from a different angle. Both nations were critical for "non boots on the ground" support/success.
Heck it's even said Washington got the phrase "United States of America" from a Spanish Louisiana Governor who wrote him a letter referencing the Colonies as "Estados Unidos"
Posted on 3/9/24 at 11:49 am to bigDgator
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Especially since you don't appear to be open to learning.
Yeah bc a bunch of trailer dwellers screaming PUSSIES are historians
Didn’t come here for a lesson - was almost a joke thread laughing at Bama fans bizarre obsession with using French heritage as an insults. The dozens of solely Bama fans doing just that made the thread worth it
Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:00 pm to captdalton
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During the Revolution, America begged France for help. John Adams and Benjamin Franklin sailed there and requested assistance for over a year. The French aristocracy just made fun of the American hicks. However, when it looked like America might actually defeat the British, and the British were France’s mortal enemy, France sent some of their navy to America. They told America they had three months and then they were heading home because of winter weather. The French provided a naval blockade during this time. They participated in one battle, providing naval cannon fire during one battle, an American victory.
Holy shite, not only do you not know European history, you don't even know American history.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:04 pm to Bodie
Hasn't France lost every war it has fought except for one? And that one was a tie.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:16 pm to MrMojoRisin
quote:During Desert Storm, the French "Armored" Brigade never took their tanks off of the low boys.
And France’s current losing streak: Franco Prussian war, WW1, WW2, Dien Bien Phu, Algerian War.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:17 pm to Bodie
quote:You trolled yourself.
Didn’t come here for a lesson - was almost a joke thread laughing at Bama fans bizarre obsession with using French heritage as an insults. The dozens of solely Bama fans doing just that made the thread worth it
Good job I guess.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:29 pm to HighTide_ATL
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I don’t know if you’re just being dense or you’re truly ignorant to this, but given that France has easily given up or has been whipped often throughout history, this has led to the stigma that the French are pussies
France has won more military battles than any other country in the world.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:35 pm to WarCamEagle88
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I enjoyed the French people and culture when I went to Paris last year.
Our goal is to retire in France… preferably in the South. Love the food, culture, art, architecture, etc.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:38 pm to Murph4HOF
Q: Did you hear about the new French tank?
A: Eight gears, all of them reverse.
A: Eight gears, all of them reverse.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:39 pm to Murph4HOF
Oh and let's see about the French in Afghanistan.
When they had FOB Wharehouse in Kabul, they wouldn't let Americans eat at their chow hall for a while.
They were supposed to turn a camp in Surobi District over to a battalion from the 82d, and literally just locked it up and left. No handover what so ever.
They had a SOF team rotating at Camp Morehead in 2011 that just quit with no backfill. Even the Canadians kept a SOF team there after the Canadians pulled all conventional troops out. We ended up putting the POW/MIA flag up on the flag pole that had the tricolor surrender flag previously.
When they had FOB Wharehouse in Kabul, they wouldn't let Americans eat at their chow hall for a while.
They were supposed to turn a camp in Surobi District over to a battalion from the 82d, and literally just locked it up and left. No handover what so ever.
They had a SOF team rotating at Camp Morehead in 2011 that just quit with no backfill. Even the Canadians kept a SOF team there after the Canadians pulled all conventional troops out. We ended up putting the POW/MIA flag up on the flag pole that had the tricolor surrender flag previously.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:40 pm to Lucado
Even in this thread, the French are having others do their fighting for them.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:40 pm to Hback
Q: Why are the streets of Paris lined with trees?
A: So the Germans can march in the shade.
A: So the Germans can march in the shade.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:45 pm to HighTide_ATL
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I don’t know if you’re just being dense or you’re truly ignorant to this, but given that France has easily given up or has been whipped often throughout history, this has led to the stigma that the French are pussies
Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:52 pm to BFIV
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Hasn't France lost every war it has fought except for one?
It’s amazing. When I look up these things Alabama fans say, this is the kind of information I find.
Am I led to believe the Alabama fans of SECrant.com have a better grasp of history than the rest of the literal internet?
Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:55 pm to Cold Drank
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I am English (been here since 1624) Dutch (since 1696), and a small touch of Stone Ager (Siberian immigrant AKA "native")
I can yell at you in German and you will throw me your rifle. I can scream Praise Be To Allah and you will hand me your wife.
So let me get this straight. You make fun of France for the influx of Muslims, but then turn around and boast your heritage goes back to England?
As if London isn’t nearly the Aloha Snackbar capital of the west.
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