Because France

[Rick]

It belongs to France.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-ruling-la-trinite-shipwreck-treasures-florida-coast/

[Murph]

You know, I am getting much more fond of the French.  I wish people would do this to US politicians.  How brilliant!

 

[Ssnake]

Media silent?

Because the French call it "Tuesday". And since you wish for more of it in the US: The French are doing this since about 1950, and look where it got them.

[lucklucky]

French Football Championship is sponsored by Uber Eats, next year season 24/25 will be named  "Ligue 1 McDonald's"

[urbanoid]

Riots are not just a French continental thing. 

 

[NickM]

Whut 'bout the North African drug honcho that his minions busted out if a French prison van?

[Ivanhoe]

[Peasant]

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

[urbanoid]

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The trial involving Dominique Pélicot (pictured) has just begun in France. This guy drugged his wife for 10 years, invited strange men to his house, including Pakis and Sub-Saharan blacks, and recorded them raping her. Why did ro do it? Because he believed that his wife was prejudiced against people of color and that sexual contact with them would cure her of racism.

My wife was a racist, I wasn't, so I invited a black guy, an Arab... Seeing her with them turned me on even more.

Most sane progressive in France, probably.

 

[sunday]

Guys like that make difficult to reason against the restoration of impalement as a means of execution.

[NickM]

59 minutes ago, sunday said:

Guys like that make difficult to reason against the restoration of impalement as a means of execution.

But impalement is culturally sensitive 

[rmgill]

I thought the french method of execution was Oubliettes? 

[sunday]

24 minutes ago, rmgill said:

I thought the french method of execution was Oubliettes? 

Yes, and that guy's acts makes difficult to use the reasoning based on tradition.

[rmgill]

One could argue that inflicting such long suffering is punished with long suffering.

[NickM]

On 9/6/2024 at 7:46 AM, rmgill said:

I thought the french method of execution was Oubliettes? 

No. Shaka used impalement as a form of execution--as such it's not tainted by racism (tm,)

[urbanoid]

Cold War France was really something

Edited December 13, 2024 by urbanoid

[rmgill]

Huh, I remember those photos from Bill Gunston's Rockets and Missiles. Never paid attention to the range on that system....

Amusing. I guess armies are always preparing for the last war the were in. 

[Tim the Tank Nut]

well, they actually assumed that the Russians would make it through Germany so the system made sense in a way.

[Stuart Galbraith]

The Soviet warplans we can see from the Polish exercise did not envisage stopping till they reached the Channel. Heck, they even had a plan for taking Italy, so no reason to assume they were going to stop when they reached Dunkirk.

[Tim the Tank Nut]

with the French nuclear deterrent they weren't going to get to Dunkirk