The France should have known better then to make the plane out of white flags.

People died, LOL!!

You know, in a few days I'll be taking my first plane by myself. And it will be a three leg intercontinental journey, with a propeller plane segment.

So what I'm saying is, can we ease up on the plane crash stories? And hopefully the plane crashes themselves?

I guess this headline will sell a lot of t-shirts.

Death is soooooooo funny.

LOL! remember that time France lost 1.4 million soldiers in WWI.

Do the French have a history of surrendering or something? I don't get the joke.

Way to drag this cliche out of its grave and beat it with a stick, recyclemitter.

Wombatzu: LOL! remember that time France lost 1.4 million soldiers in WWI.

I don't know what they're biatching about. It was less than 5% of their population.

Wombatzu: LOL! remember that time France lost 1.4 million soldiers in WWI.

That's what they get for putting on red pantaloons and insisting the sabre charge was still the be-all end-all of warfare, while lining up against german machine gun embankments, and then blaming all of their losses on the generals not having enough 'espirit', and ordering even more aggressive sabre charges.

And yet it was the Polish who ended up with the reputation for stupidity.

GimpyNip: It always weird to me when you read people on FARK taking the moral high ground yet those same people would laugh at nomerous other macabre and off humor. Sure, "It's too soon" but it is still a funny joke.

/the thing that isn't funny is that we'd be paying taxes to England if it weren't for the French.

And France would be paying taxes to the Kaiser without us, so we're even.

Were there any Farkers on it?

Mon dieu! ça suffit, non?

That said, I will always remember the first time my french girlfriend surrendered.

fark is so farking boring

Is gravity a booming voice from above saying, "Get down?"

lets turn this into a pretty french girl thread

CommandantVonThrash: Wombatzu: LOL! remember that time France lost 1.4 million soldiers in WWI.

That's what they get for putting on red pantaloons and insisting the sabre charge was still the be-all end-all of warfare, while lining up against german machine gun embankments, and then blaming all of their losses on the generals not having enough 'espirit', and ordering even more aggressive sabre charges.

And yet it was the Polish who ended up with the reputation for stupidity.

Yeah because the Polish weren't even smart enough to figure out how a sabre charge worked. They tried it a few times in the Ukraine and half their soldiers held the sabre backwards and ended up with grotesque injuries. Also during WW2 they tried stopping Wehrmacht tanks by lying down in front of them. In Poland the principle weapon of choice is the potato.

Yes I laughed. I deserve my seat on the plane to hell, which will also probably just for irony sake surrender to gravity in France.

Lanny Budd: Do the French have a history of surrendering or something? I don't get the joke.



In the French military, kneepads are built into the uniforms.

For sale: French Plane. Dropped from sky and fired once. Never used in combat. As is sale: some smoke damage.

coco ebert: Can we surrender this meme?

Non!

Lanny Budd: Do the French have a history of surrendering or something? I don't get the joke.

0/10...lame troll attempt.

I don't understand why someone doesn't invent a plane that gives the passengers a shot at surviving. For example, you could have passengers that sit in booths where if there's any trouble, they could be ejected like pilots in an military jet.

I know it would be expensive, but surely there would be some multi-billionaires that would pay for it. As well, there would be some people (such as myself) that would pay a high premium knowing they had a chance to survive.

A small jet could easily have that built in. I just hate flying mainly due to the fact that it is binary, you either live or you die, there's no chance to survive a plane crash.

The French are surrender-monkeys. Hyuk hyuk hyuk.



That meme was dreamed up by the same people who had US Americans wetting their pants with fear at the mere sight of a "muslim-like" person.

/even if it's just a mexican at a toga-party
//the repugs surrendered to Al Qaeda

cats4rent: lets turn this into a pretty french girl thread

I'd surrender to her.

What is with the plane crash trifecta? Sheesh!

Glad I'm not planning to fly anywhere...

tstoneman: I don't understand why someone doesn't invent a plane that gives the passengers a shot at surviving. For example, you could have passengers that sit in booths where if there's any trouble, they could be ejected like pilots in an military jet.

You couldn't afford it.
Nor would you sit in the seat 100% of the time, strapped in a 5 point harness.
Nor would you endure the two hours it took to strap 150 people into those seats.
Nor would you accept the inevitable accident, when someone gets ejected accidentally. Ejection seats have a lot of explosives/rocket motors. 200 seats per plane x 10,000(wag) planes = there WILL be an accident.

I just hate flying mainly due to the fact that it is binary, you either live or you die, there's no chance to survive a plane crash.


Gee, I dunno. I was in a plane crash (May 1984) and survived.

Herunar: People died, LOL!!

And France was right, too!

But, we still pick on dead people and the propensity of France to avoid unnecessary conflict. Welcome to Fark.

I just got off a plane, so I'm getting a kick...

FormlessOne: Herunar: People died, LOL!!

And France was right, too!

But, we still pick on dead people and the propensity of France to avoid unnecessary any sort of conflict. Welcome to Fark.

FTFY

prince of peas: cats4rent: lets turn this into a pretty french girl thread

I'd surrender to her.

You are my newest, bestest friend...

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tstoneman: I don't understand why someone doesn't invent a plane that gives the passengers a shot at surviving. For example, you could have passengers that sit in booths where if there's any trouble, they could be ejected like pilots in an military jet.

I know it would be expensive, but surely there would be some multi-billionaires that would pay for it. As well, there would be some people (such as myself) that would pay a high premium knowing they had a chance to survive.

A small jet could easily have that built in. I just hate flying mainly due to the fact that it is binary, you either live or you die, there's no chance to survive a plane crash.

More people die in car crashes. While your odds of surviving a car crash are greater, you chances of death are much higher. I don't see anyone doing very much to try to reduce traffic fatalities either.

/I would not pay 10x the price for a "safe" airline ride
//and neither would you, I bet

FormlessOne: Herunar: People died, LOL!!

And France was right, too!

But, we still pick on dead people and the propensity of France to avoid unnecessary conflict. Welcome to Fark.

France: Bordered by the UK and Germany. Both historical "Great Powers". I can understand why the French would try to avoid conflict...

The United States: Bordered by Canada and Mexico. Neither of which ever was a threat to American sovereignty. Philosophies such as American exceptionalism and "manifest destiny" still influence US policy today.

/ It's time to stop being the World Cop, we can't afford it anymore.

So I guess this is in bad taste...

I just bought a WWII French Rifle.

Never been shot and only dropped once!

/Don't blame me, just fight harder next time...

cats4rent: lets turn this into a pretty french girl thread

Ha ha ha! They pulled a collective Cliff Wilson! LOSERS!