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By: Armistice Day, Sunday Luncheon, and Other Miscellany « An Alien Parisienne

Armistice Day, Sunday Luncheon, and Other Miscellany « An Alien Parisienne — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:19:33 +0000

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By: nardac

nardac — Thu, 12 May 2005 16:06:16 +0000

Parkin’ Pig – you are so sad. only losers play the PC card.

By: Aimee

Aimee — Thu, 12 May 2005 13:42:07 +0000

I don’t know about the Pramface usage but I am thrilled to hear that you went to Besac even if it was to visit the evils. I lived there for two year as a student and then working and that’s where I met my husband.

And I do remember that it rained there ALL THE FREAKING TIME. There wasn’t much else to do except hop the bus and go to chateaufarine for a little (or a lot of) shopping at Geant. ;)

By: parkin pig

parkin pig — Thu, 12 May 2005 08:55:11 +0000

Point taken. Frog is just a silly boy unaware that using terms like pramface is degrading to women. As a highly intelligent woman without his cultural handicap, you should know better.

By: nardac

nardac — Wed, 11 May 2005 14:54:31 +0000

If we look down on pramfaces (and c’mon, who doesn’t?) it’s because people should know better than to copy so badly the look they see on television. It’s not just something we see in the provinces either, btw.

And what else do you want from Mr. Frog? If he didn’t speak some english with her you’d think he was an arrogant french prick who didn’t bother to learn the language of his lover.

You can’t hate someone just because they grew up in a well-off family, the way you can’t hate someone just because they come from a poor family. That’s just plain prejudiced! Sounds to me like you’ve got a chip on your shoulder when it comes to Parisians. Deal with that before vomiting such bile.

By: petite

petite — Wed, 11 May 2005 14:25:48 +0000

Calm down Parkin pig – we are not really like that AT ALL. It was all supposed to be very tongue in cheek, as I am hardly a paragon of chic (but I hate Kiabi and I’m not ashamed to say so) but obviously you didn’t take it as such.

We are both from working class stock, not a posh business school (or well paid job) in sight, but Mr Frog does have a habit of peppering his conversations with English phrases just to show off his command of slang, even sometimes when it is completely out of context. He wasn’t being mean, he was just trying to make me laugh as I was feeling rather gloomy trapped in rainy Besancon with the Evil In Laws.

Obviously you are free to think precisely what you please, but I feel I may have misrepresented us here and I would like to correct that.

By: kim

kim — Wed, 11 May 2005 13:52:59 +0000

someone forget their medication?

By: parkin pig

parkin pig — Wed, 11 May 2005 13:35:00 +0000

I’m soooo disappointed to read from this post that you and Mr Frog have become typical Parisian snobs, looking down your noses at the people, habits and tastes of places you come from but have left behind.
Mr Snooty scooter-riding Frog has always come across as a bit of a prat but with this pramface stuff he’s just shown what he really is – an insensitive conceited pretentious git from the provinces blithely unaware of his unpramfacelike good fortune to be born into a family able to pay for his presumably Parisian supdeco education allowing him to get a job in ever-so-smart advertising and to entrap a Parisian chicly dressed English woman as his trophy (not quite) wife.
Up to now I thought you were far too good for him but maybe you deserve each other after all.
That’s enough bile for today.

By: Zed0

Zed0 — Tue, 10 May 2005 21:07:26 +0000

Cheers petite froglaise, will do the same next time I have a full english or marmite on bread, hoping it is not actually marmite that drove you away from Britain.

Zed Zero

By: magillicuddy

magillicuddy — Tue, 10 May 2005 20:06:01 +0000

My sister was just in for a week from Florida. She was soooo disappointed by our “cheapo” supermarkets. Nothing compares with the US Target,KMart and Wal Mart. She couldn’t believe that you can’t find any makeup for a Euro. I too miss the US superstores, but content myself with the fancy shmancy Monoprix that they’ve facelifted all over Paris. I still have candy sent to me though… (Reese’s, sweettarts, cinnamon gum)