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(MSNBC) Ironic Eleven pirates unfamiliar with history surrender to French   (msnbc.msn.com) divider line 101
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IHateHipHop [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 12:49:26 PM  
Greatest French military victory in years!

 
Chinchillazilla [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-05-03 01:16:36 PM  
Damn to the depths whatever man what thought of "parley."

 
MIguy [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 01:17:30 PM  
This is Fark, please stop hating on the French and get back to hating on the USA.

 
Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 01:17:40 PM  
IHateHipHop: Greatest French military victory in years decades!

 
Jakevol2 2009-05-03 01:18:02 PM  
What? Did they forget their lightsabers?

 
dualplains 2009-05-03 01:19:52 PM  
No one else read that as 'Elven pirates'?

 
Guess_Who 2009-05-03 01:21:38 PM  
The French navy don't play around.

 
Epossumondas [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-05-03 01:22:45 PM  
dualplains: No one else read that as 'Elven pirates'?

*raises hand*

Damn nerdy kids sitting behind me, leaking their nerd ways...

 
Sique 2009-05-03 01:22:51 PM  
France wins?

 
awooga [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 01:23:18 PM  
Epic piracy fail.

 
matt2891 2009-05-03 01:23:20 PM  
MIguy: This is Fark, please stop hating on the French and get back to hating on the USA.

This is Fark, there is enough hate to go around for everyone. Brown people too!

 
captainstudd 2009-05-03 01:24:15 PM  
We suddenly live in a bizarro world. Up is down. Down is up. The pirates say "Hello" when they leave, "Good bye" when they arrive.

chud.com

 
Psychotropic 2009-05-03 01:26:12 PM  
Subby is still upset because France didn't support going to war with Iraq.

STFU and eat your Freedom Fries, moron.

 
one70bpm 2009-05-03 01:26:20 PM  
dualplains: No one else read that as 'Elven pirates'?

i was really thrown off by that.

btw, GIS for elven pirate brings this up, which scares me.

1.bp.blogspot.com

 
From_The_Year_2000 2009-05-03 01:26:43 PM  
captainstudd: We suddenly live in a bizarro world. Up is down. Down is up. The pirates say "Hello" when they leave, "Good bye" when they arrive.

Shouldn't he say badbye? Isn't that the opposite of goodbye?

 
captainstudd 2009-05-03 01:27:43 PM  
What a French battleship may look like:

gou-rou.com

 
HMS_Blinkin 2009-05-03 01:28:13 PM  
MIguy: This is Fark, please stop hating on the French and get back to hating on the USA. where nothing is sacred. You'll get over it.

FTFY

 
elix [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 01:28:53 PM  
Talking about history, Subby fails it. The French have had throughout history a comparatively mighty army. Why do you think we don't sound like that Chaucer fag?

/RECENTLY, not so much on the French military victories but before the 20th century...

//get off my lawn

 
GreySpectre [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 01:33:03 PM  
ron.heavengames.com

would like a word with subby about his history

 
LavenderWolf 2009-05-03 01:33:43 PM  
GreySpectre: would like a word with subby about his history

Heavengames would like a word with you about their bandwidth.

 
Its_A_Tarp 2009-05-03 01:37:51 PM  
captainstudd: We suddenly live in a bizarro world. Up is down. Down is up. The pirates say "Hello" when they leave, "Good bye" when they arrive.

Wouldn't they say "Bad bye"?

 
legrandbatard 2009-05-03 01:38:31 PM  
www.cosmosmagazine.com
Would like a word with you about the implied history of the French. (Would also like your horse, because he's eaten his)

 
ToasterRadio 2009-05-03 01:41:46 PM  
captainstudd: We suddenly live in a bizarro world. Up is down. Down is up. The pirates say "Hello" when they leave, "Good bye" when they arrive.

Wouldn't they say "Bad bye"?


and "Heaven-o?"

 
Now I Is! 2009-05-03 01:42:05 PM  
French war scorecard 16-0 before Napoleon 0-8 after.

 
Kumana Wanalaia [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 01:42:32 PM  
dualplains: No one else read that as 'Elven pirates'?

I guess Frodo, Elrond and Galadriel got bored on their way west, and decided to stir up some excitement.

 
legrandbatard 2009-05-03 01:48:22 PM  
Kumana Wanalaia: dualplains: No one else read that as 'Elven pirates'?

I guess Frodo, Elrond and Galadriel got bored on their way west, and decided to stir up some excitement.


They played the game "guess where i've hidden the Precious"?

 
DaMacGuy 2009-05-03 01:52:40 PM  
Really? no one else has posted this yet?

French Military History (new window)

 
DaMacGuy 2009-05-03 01:54:15 PM  
Sigh.

French Military History (new window)

 
Zulgaines 2009-05-03 02:06:54 PM  
You guys hear about that new French tank? Only goes in reverse.


/Read that off a stone tablet

 
Its_A_Tarp 2009-05-03 02:13:32 PM  
Now I Is!: French war scorecard 16-0 before Napoleon 0-8 after.

WWI is a loss?

Or the Crimean War?

 
Flapjack727 2009-05-03 02:16:47 PM  
Assuming French surrender = lulz, nice use of irony tag subby.

+1, set an example.

 
mrbach 2009-05-03 02:19:11 PM  
Maybe we could do a page on how Canada defeated the Americans and set fire to the Whitehouse? Or how the US lost the War of 1812 or how they lost Vietnam?

Maybe instead of picking some obscure links for your history, you actually read a history book and look at the number of soldiers that died in WWi and WWII. Maybe look at the border of France and Germany and tell us how you would have done it? How about having a little respect?

Maybe tell us a story about how the French Resistance was key to winning?

Maybe just keep your ignorant thoughts to your self and stuff yourself with some Freedom Fries. People like the submitter are ignorant, tiny, little people, who are not welcome in Europe, or anywhere in fact. Just as well, such ignorance would prevent them from holding down a job to pay for such an excursion. The reason that Americans are treated so poorly abroad is because of people exactly like you.

 
Pablabo Flanagan 2009-05-03 02:19:30 PM  
Best use of the "Ironic" tag I've ever seen on Fark.
France FTL, except this time.

 
Flapjack727 2009-05-03 02:20:30 PM  
Its_A_Tarp: Now I Is!: French war scorecard 16-0 before Napoleon 0-8 after.

WWI is a loss?

Or the Crimean War?


They were saved by the U.S. Without us they probably would have had alot harder time if they didn't outright lose.

 
Zulgaines 2009-05-03 02:24:39 PM  
mrbach: Maybe we could do a page on how Canada defeated the Americans and set fire to the Whitehouse? Or how the US lost the War of 1812 or how they lost Vietnam?

Maybe instead of picking some obscure links for your history, you actually read a history book and look at the number of soldiers that died in WWi and WWII. Maybe look at the border of France and Germany and tell us how you would have done it? How about having a little respect?

Maybe tell us a story about how the French Resistance was key to winning?

Maybe just keep your ignorant thoughts to your self and stuff yourself with some Freedom Fries. People like the submitter are ignorant, tiny, little people, who are not welcome in Europe, or anywhere in fact. Just as well, such ignorance would prevent them from holding down a job to pay for such an excursion. The reason that Americans are treated so poorly abroad is because of people exactly like you.


BBbaaawww.

Why so serious?

 
RG400 Smart Towel 2009-05-03 02:24:47 PM  
images.starpulse.com

The Faaarrrk!
/hot like somalia

 
CrispFlows 2009-05-03 02:26:30 PM  
mrbach: Maybe we could do a page on how Canada defeated the Americans and set fire to the Whitehouse? Or how the US lost the War of 1812 or how they lost Vietnam?

Maybe instead of picking some obscure links for your history, you actually read a history book and look at the number of soldiers that died in WWi and WWII. Maybe look at the border of France and Germany and tell us how you would have done it? How about having a little respect?

Maybe tell us a story about how the French Resistance was key to winning?

Maybe just keep your ignorant thoughts to your self and stuff yourself with some Freedom Fries. People like the submitter are ignorant, tiny, little people, who are not welcome in Europe, or anywhere in fact. Just as well, such ignorance would prevent them from holding down a job to pay for such an excursion. The reason that Americans are treated so poorly abroad is because of people exactly like you.


www.cbc.ca

 
Oldiron_79 2009-05-03 02:28:45 PM  
there aren't pirates here, just black people.

 
fireclown 2009-05-03 02:29:47 PM  
legrandbatard: Would like a word with you about the implied history of the French. (Would also like your horse, because he's eaten his)

He was Corsican.

 
Nothing Sweeter Than Redneck Tears 2009-05-03 02:35:09 PM  
fireclown: legrandbatard: Would like a word with you about the implied history of the French. (Would also like your horse, because he's eaten his)

He was Corsican.


your maps and such...

www.voyagevirtuel.co.uk

 
NihilisticShrew 2009-05-03 02:35:36 PM  
The French navy has a pretty good history of badassness, just not in the last 150 years or so. This is just the French doing what the French did best, dominating on the high seas (Though not as much fun without the British I'm sure)

That being said,
French Rifle for Sale, Never Fired, Dropped Once

 
texdent [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 02:38:40 PM  
I see I'm not the only one who almost read 'eleven' as 'elven'.

 
meintx2001 2009-05-03 02:41:58 PM  
Shoot them and be done with it.

 
rcain [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 02:43:13 PM  
Surrendered to who??? HA-HA!
topper10.files.wordpress.com

 
johnny_stingray 2009-05-03 02:45:05 PM  
lets be fair - it was french forces commanded by Alphonse Juin who broke open the nazi line, won the battle of Monte Casino in italy 1945, and saved the american forces who were getting pounded.

And lets be grateful too - it was the french king Louis XVI who bankrupted his own country to finance the american revolution, and provided most of our cannon, uniforms and munitions, and the navy that helped corner and defeat Cornwallis at Yorktown.

don't be haterz.

 
Nothing Sweeter Than Redneck Tears 2009-05-03 02:48:37 PM  
johnny_stingray: lets be fair - it was french forces commanded by Alphonse Juin who broke open the nazi line, won the battle of Monte Casino in italy 1945, and saved the american forces who were getting pounded.

And lets be grateful too - it was the french king Louis XVI who bankrupted his own country to finance the american revolution, and provided most of our cannon, uniforms and munitions, and the navy that helped corner and defeat Cornwallis at Yorktown.

don't be haterz.


www.washington.edu

 
Summoner101 [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 02:52:46 PM  
johnny_stingray: lets be fair - it was french forces commanded by Alphonse Juin who broke open the nazi line, won the battle of Monte Casino in italy 1945, and saved the american forces who were getting pounded.

And lets be grateful too - it was the french king Louis XVI who bankrupted his own country to finance the american revolution, and provided most of our cannon, uniforms and munitions, and the navy that helped corner and defeat Cornwallis at Yorktown.

don't be haterz.


But it was France's propensity for losing that got us all that fantastic land for 15 million dollars! Not that we really want much of it anymore, but still, how did we know that was where the crazy people would live?

 
Summoner101 [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 02:53:33 PM  
Nothing Sweeter Than Redneck Tears: johnny_stingray: lets be fair - it was french forces commanded by Alphonse Juin who broke open the nazi line, won the battle of Monte Casino in italy 1945, and saved the american forces who were getting pounded.

And lets be grateful too - it was the french king Louis XVI who bankrupted his own country to finance the american revolution, and provided most of our cannon, uniforms and munitions, and the navy that helped corner and defeat Cornwallis at Yorktown.

don't be haterz.


Son of a...

 
Incognito Mosquito 2009-05-03 02:56:10 PM  
mrbach: Maybe we could do a page on how Canada defeated the Americans and set fire to the Whitehouse? Or how the US lost the War of 1812 or how they lost Vietnam?

Maybe instead of picking some obscure links for your history, you actually read a history book and look at the number of soldiers that died in WWi and WWII. Maybe look at the border of France and Germany and tell us how you would have done it? How about having a little respect?

Maybe tell us a story about how the French Resistance was key to winning?

Maybe just keep your ignorant thoughts to your self and stuff yourself with some Freedom Fries. People like the submitter are ignorant, tiny, little people, who are not welcome in Europe, or anywhere in fact. Just as well, such ignorance would prevent them from holding down a job to pay for such an excursion. The reason that Americans are treated so poorly abroad is because of people exactly like you.


Im sorry, this is Fark... facts serve no purpose here.

 
Tylak 2009-05-03 02:58:16 PM  
They had been traveling with a pirate mothership...

I want a pirate mothership!

 
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