112 Gripes about the French
THE FRENCH AND US
- 1. We came to Europe twice in twenty-five years to
save the French.
- 2. At first, when we came into Normandy, and then
into Paris, the French gave us everythingwine, cheese, fruit,
everything. They threw their arms around us and kissed us every time we
turned around. They gave us the biggest welcome you ever saw. But
they've forgotten. They're ungrateful.
- 3.The French don't invite us into their homes.
- 4. The French rub me the wrong way.
- 5. I'll never love the French.. I hate the
French!
- 6. We're always pulling the French out of a jam.
Did they ever do anything for us?
- 7. We can't rely on these French.
- 8. We've had more beefing from the French than
from the Germans. We are always quarreling with them. They criticize
everything. They have to put their two cents in. But the Germansthey
just do what you tell them to. They're co-operative; the French
aren't.
- 9. We gave the French uniforms, jeeps, trucks,
supplies, ammunitioneverything.
- 10. We gave the French billions of dollars worth
of stuff. They'll never pay it back.
- 11. The French are using our gas, but they won't
give it to Americans. You can't get gas in the French zones of
occupation if you're driving through.
- 12. One Frenchman told me the French practically
gave us the Statue of Liberty. How do you like that?
- 13. We are not welcome in French Restaurants.
- 14. Every time we go into a night club, we get
soaked by these Frenchmen.
- 15. The French are terrible scroungers. They keep
mooching candy, soap, cigarettes, food from the GI's. They have no
self-respect.
- 16. The French welcomed us at first; now they
want us to get out.
- 17. The French brag a lot about the fighting they
did, but you don't hear any Americans passing out bouquets to them.
- 18. The French let us down when the fighting got
tough. What did they doas fightersto help us out?
- 19. They ride in our jeeps and waste our gas.
- 20. The French aren't friendly.
- 21. Why bother about the French? They won't throw
any weight in the post-war world.
THE FRENCH
THE FRENCH AND THE GERMANS
- 69. The French aren't our kind of people. The
Germans are.
- 70. The French are not as clean as the Germans.
- 71. The Germans are easier to get along with than
the French, because the Germans are law-abiding.
- 72. The French are not as efficient as the Germans
in large scale, mass production.
- 73. The French are trouble-makers; the Germans are
really peaceful at heart.
- 74. We'd be a lot smarter to be allies of the
Germans and fight the French.
- 75. The French aren't industrious, the way the
Germans are.
- 76. The French have no courage. Why can't they
defend themselves against the Germans ?
- 77. The French don't even have enough men to stand
up against the Germans.
- 78. The French didn't put up a real fight against
the Germans. They just let the Heinies walk in.
- 79. The French aren't cleaning up their bombed
cities. Just compare them to the German cities. In Munich and Stuttgart
the Germans got busy and cleaned up their streets.
- 80. The French cleaned out Stuttgart, we saw lots
of stuff going back to Francemachinery, goods, cattle, supplies,
horses,long convoys of stuff looted from the Germans.
- 81. The French troops in Germany had the women
terrorized.
- 82. The French soldiers were supposed to hate the
Germans, but they didn't waste any time shacking up with German girls.
THE PRICES: We're being gypped
THE BLACK MARKET
THOSE FRENCH SOLDIERS
FRENCH COLLABORATION
THEY GOT OFF PRETTY EASY IN THIS WAR
FRENCH POLITICS
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