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(Reuters) Unlikely Lebanon must pick a new President by Monday, or face the legendary wrath of the French   (reuters.com) divider line 24
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rcain [TotalFark] 2007-12-14 02:20:32 PM  
They shall recieve a very taunting letter?

blogs.chron.com

 
NittLion78 2007-12-14 02:49:55 PM  
rcain: They shall recieve a very taunting letter?

...and if that doesn't work, they will taunt them a second time-a.

 
curmudge 2007-12-14 02:50:07 PM  
If the Submitter had bothered to RTFA he would understand that the French are going to surrender to Syria on Tuesday if Lebanon does not select a new president by COB 20071217.

 
lordargent 2007-12-14 03:59:38 PM  
www.lordargent.com

Before he leaves the camp he stops
He scans the world outside
And where there used to be some shops
Is where the snipers sometimes hide
He left his home the week before
He thought hed be like the police
But now he finds he is at war
Werent we supposed to keep the peace

And who will have won
When the soldiers have gone
From the lebanon
The lebanon
The lebanon
From the lebanon

 
Jubeebee 2007-12-14 04:46:29 PM  
Yes, because if you don't, the French might snub you. They're threatening anyone who interferes with "isolation on the international stage"?

I'm all for diplomacy, but come on. "Do what we say or we won't talk to you any more," is just silly. Threaten sanctions, or trade embargoes, or (the 'Murican tactic) bombing. Something that might make them think twice.

I feel bad for the Lebanese always being Syria's biatches. It'd be nice if France actually put their tactfully shod foot down and told the Syrians to back the fark off.

 
Tabatha Static 2007-12-14 05:02:59 PM  
lordargent: The lebanon

I *almost* posted a pic of the band but I didn't want to expose myself as a total bad New Wave dork.

 
hockeyfarker [TotalFark] 2007-12-14 05:26:36 PM  
Fingers crossed, Lebanon.

 
Dinjiin [recently expired TotalFark] 2007-12-14 05:49:20 PM  
i4.photobucket.com


/and we shall build water slides through Beirut...

 
Hetfield 2007-12-14 05:59:02 PM  
img48.imageshack.us

 
Mart Laar's beard shaver 2007-12-14 06:00:56 PM  
No, subby.

Awesome!!!!!

 
jojostan 2007-12-14 06:12:06 PM  
www.code7r.org

 
nictamer 2007-12-14 06:14:18 PM  
Jubeebee: I feel bad for the Lebanese always being Syria's biatches. It'd be nice if France actually put their tactfully shod foot down and told the Syrians to back the fark off.

Syrians left 2 years go.
Israelis invaded last year.

Who's the bad guy again?

 
ToxicMunkee [TotalFark] 2007-12-14 06:22:11 PM  
Jubeebee: "Do what we say or we won't talk to you any more,"

Millions of Lebanese are heard saying, "Finally!" And there was much rejoicing.

 
Hideously Gigantic Smurf 2007-12-14 06:25:10 PM  
media1.dropshots.com

 
moops 2007-12-14 06:29:08 PM  
Wrath of the French?

static.flickr.com

Sarkozyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

 
thesilence 2007-12-14 06:34:41 PM  
nictamer:
Syrians left 2 years go.
Israelis invaded last year.

Who's the bad guy again?


Oh come now...

You do realize that Syira's attacking Israel through Lebanon was one of the reasons they attacked, right?

Actually, i happen to know a Nigerian prince who needs to get some money out of the country... I don't have the bank account to lend him though. Want me to refer him to you?

But yeah... The French aren't gonna do squat. There is a reason they have a reputation for being pussies....

 
Ex-Republican 2007-12-14 07:00:42 PM  
As bad as they are at fighting wars, France seems to produce a surplus of badasses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Spaggiari

It also seems like whenever a cool video of some guy doing something extremely dangerous new sport is posted, the guy is always French.

 
Hetfield 2007-12-14 07:08:26 PM  
Ex-Republican: It also seems like whenever a cool video of some guy doing something extremely dangerous new sport is posted, the guy is always French.

Indeed.

 
alienchickenpie 2007-12-14 08:01:50 PM  
Ex-Republican: As bad as they are at fighting wars, France seems to produce a surplus of badasses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Spaggiari

It also seems like whenever a cool video of some guy doing something extremely dangerous new sport is posted, the guy is always French.


It's because they surrender to their carelessness.

 
Ninja Wicked 2007-12-14 08:27:26 PM  
I don't think I'd want to fark with the legion

 
m0llusk [TotalFark] 2007-12-14 10:44:54 PM  
They will probably figure everything out and have a long, sustained peace just because that is how it always happens in Lebanon.

 
ilambiquated 2007-12-15 09:45:38 AM  
Haha Regan invaded Lebanon but cut and run after a few Marines got killed. The French stayed on. Now the Americans are calling the French cowards because of their engagement in Lebanon.

This is the barracks:
www.nccrimecontrol.org

Republicans prefer to remember Reagan's glorious triumph over Grenada - which doesn't have an army.

You people would profit from turning off the teevee and reading a book. You're so repetitive. You have this knee jerk reaction to France (and Germany, and Israel and Iran) because you don't know anything about them.

What you call "jokes" are so boring after the twentieth time, but you don't notice because it's so hard for you to imagine thinking anything else about something you're completely ignorant of.

 
ilambiquated 2007-12-15 09:57:24 AM  
What would English speaking militarists even say if it weren't for French military tradition? They would be missing a few words, such as:

army
navy
force
marine
corps
troop
soldier
pistol
artillery
battery
private
sargeant
lieutenent
colonel
general
major
bivouac
campaign
grenade
bayonet
espionage
reconnaissance
attack
defense
infantry


...and a lot more, I'm too lazy to write it all.

 
The Original Demson 2007-12-15 12:43:33 PM  
Shhh, don't spoil it for them. One of these days they're actually going to understand the joke is on them. Then they'll stop providing us with good laughs.

 
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