[an0n]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3739715.stm

[kasperl]

Mmm, how odd. It must be a conspiracy by the US against their arch enemy's, the oh so evil, gay-loving, terrorist-supporting, communist French.

All joking aside, I pity the people under the ruble, it isn't a very nice way to go.

[Thorn]

Thats what you get when you contract out to the lowest bidder....

[Whitelight]

Shoddy workmanship.

(edit) Sorry to hear that people died in this accident..    

[Taristin]

Funny how this'll make the news, but almost monthly you hear about the facade falling off a NYC apartment building, killing or maiming someone.  Priorities, I guess.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
Funny how this'll make the news, but almost monthly you hear about the facade falling off a NYC apartment building, killing or maiming someone.  Priorities, I guess.

I guess if it happens monthly it's no longer news.

Anyway the thing with this is that it was a brand new building. It only opened last year and cracks and falling plaster had been observed before. That sort of moves it away from accident and towards negligent homicide.

[Reez]

Well, to be fair, it was a French airport. Everyone was probably distracted by stale croissants and abnormally hairy women.

[Knight Templar]

I love your title an0n.

[Rampage]

Oh the most foul, most foreign - French...

My prayers go out to the victim's families.

[Rictor]

admit it, if all the Right wing talking heads hadn't made it their mission to demonize the French about a year ago, you would have no opinions regarding France one way or the other. They would just be another nation that wasn't America.

[Corsair]

Freedom Fries!

[Taristin]

I have no bad feelings towards France. They only act as they believe right.  Can say the same for most Americans.

[vyper]

I have nothing against the french except it's partly their fault we've got to deal with US policy today... if they hadn't helped the rebels...

Anyway, this is a terrible tragedy and I hope as many as possible are found alive.

[Ace]

I can see it on FOX news now:

"Homicide Builders!"

[Reez]

and they'll make one of the builder's name's Hussein Abin Al-Zwahir, and say he did it on purpose

[Nico]

Originally posted by Reez
Well, to be fair, it was a French airport. Everyone was probably distracted by stale croissants and abnormally hairy women.

Since many french women are probably among the most beautiful in the world, I'll just give laugh back at your pathetic bashing, dimwit

As for the thing, well, that sucks, but we have a thing for publicly making asses out of ourselves, unfortunately. And the thing was only a year old too.
Ah well, at least it looked cool.

Vyper: you can also build up by saying that if Napoleon the third didn't sell Lousiana ( which was way larger back then ), well half the USA would be french nowadays. Stupid Louis-Napoleon, nothing like his predecessor

[Reez]

it was sold for a reason.  If the French could still have supported it, they would've kept it. Considering the country was stagnating (like it had been since Louis XV... or was it the XVII... the one who was married to Marie Antoinette), they needed money from somewhere.

edit: yay, i guess two and it's the one exactly in the middle... it was the 16th louis.

[Reez]

Originally posted by Nico


Since many french women are probably among the most beautiful in the world, I'll just give laugh back at your pathetic bashing, dimwit
 

I'm guessing this statement includes all other species in the primate family then. Dude, I've been to France, and I've visited Quebec. Other than Sophie Marceau and some nameless woman at a Nude Beach in Nice (who could have just as easily been a tourist), i've seen linen sheets more attractive. Jesus Christ, I'd rather shag a rug. Though with a French woman, I guess that's what your getting in the package.





















JUST JOKING! Lighten up. Jeez, this isn't 1945. Calm down. Smoke a cigarette, wank off, do some yoga, whatever you need to do. This is a forum of happy people (those emotional motivation classes are starting to pay off).

[Ulala]

Play nice, boys.

[Reez]

I'm a Canadian. I'm always nice