A western european country. Also called "The Hexagone" by geometry-deficient journalists. 1000
km x 1000 km in its wider dimensions, but still a kick-ass country. Judge by yourself:
-35 hrs working hours a week, 5 weeks paid holidays a year, and still the 4th economy on the planet.
-main audience (hence funding source) for W.
Hallen and D.
Lynch movies, among others, thus supporting
non-mainstream US movie industry
-full of people who still beleive that democracy mean that the government should be an emanation of People's will (unlike what happens in nowadays in most "democratic" countries,including the US.). But still managed to
elect one of the craziest dictator-wanabees ever as president (N.
Sarkozy). Crazy
French people ;).
-Full of people who drink
alcool and/or smoke like crazy, eat fat and tasty dishes, but still have a lower incidence of stroke, obesity, or even cancer, than in most of "civilized" countries.
-A country where oral sex is indeed considered as sex, but where sex is still not considered as a bad thing (this point may explain the upper one ;) )
-A country full of people who have an annoying accent when they speak english. A country full of people who have the sexiest accent ever when they speak english. (depending on the relative genders of the speaker and audience).
-The main reason why the US are now an
autonomous country. And they did that only to annoy England. ;)
-The country which likes the most annoying the US (and other "superpower" countries, not to
cite Russia), just for fun (and Principles, whatever this means to non-French people)
-The native country of
Rousseau,
Voltaire et al., who initiated the "siè
cle des
lumiè
res" and came up with the aforementioned Principles, now very useful when it comes to annoying other countries. Subsequently, a refuge for numerous free-thinkers (who said "just to annoy other countries"?). Famous examples are Leon Sedov (son of
Leon Trotsky), just to annoy the USSR who was seeking to kill him, or
Salman Rushdie, just to annoy the Ayatollas. The former was assassinated in Paris by a
KGB agent whereas the second is still alive, which would tend to prove that the efficiency of French security services improved, or that
the KGB was more efficient than
islamist activists ;).
-The country the notion of "Human Rights" comes from (origin in the aforementioned "siècle des lumières"), but which is now one of the countries in Europe where they are the less observed in prisoners' treatment (just after Turkey). That's what "living on your reputation" means, folks! Still giving lessons around about human rights, just to annoy other countries (exactly the same as the US do about democracy).
-The country where the first
touristic destination in the world is located (aka Paris). Note that people from Paris are considered as weird and unpleasant by most of the other people in France. You're not the only one ;). But some people say that they're that way just to annoy people from other countries!
-and so on... you can imagine the other sarcastic-but-friendly comments by yourself if you've been there! (And if you haven't, go and see before writing bullshit!)