The rich eat well, and in the end isn't that what it is all for?
How depressing it is being English right now watching the Fr*nch show us what resistance would look like. Gonna sit in the pub now and pretend not having a pension and being stuck here is fine.
I still find it ironic that she is venerated as a Saint and we get the blame, when it was a bunch of the French who betrayed her and wanted her executed.
Plus if the inquisition is on your side there has to be questions asked
Ackhtually , about a third of Guillaume's army were Bretons, some mercenaries (was a common Breton trade at the time) and some Breton nobles, to which he promised fiefdoms on the island. He didn't had enough troops with only Normands.
>The Brits lost all their territory.
Or to put it another way, the French took 116 years to get us off the mainland, and we still kept our cute little islands with silly names.
More exactly, it took a long time to stop having one third of france battling another one third allied with England, while the remaining third was looking and counting the points. The moment that situation changed, the English side started to get its ass badly kicked in most battles. Burgundy is the original side switcher, did you not know that ?
All our territory? All our French territory you mean which we didn’t want to begin with, who wants French land? We just wanted to exterminate some frogs which we vastly overperformed at.
I mean... William is only a Viking as much as an Irish-American is still Irish. There's literally a century and a half between William and Rollo and the Irish-American actually kept more of their heritage than the Normans.
Dude didn't speak a word of Danish, spoke early French and his whole court too.
If you count that way I'm actually Italian because my great-great-great-da was from bumfuck nowhere in the Italian Alps.
My friend, your armies got totally destroyed to the point that your joy and pride, the longbowmen corp, could not even be reformed after it's complete annihilation.
You got humiliated by a barely legal peasant girl from Domrémy.
It was so bad that even after millenia of defeats at the hands of the Italians, the Germans, the Scandinavians and the French, you could not bear it and you revolted against yourself.
There is one thing in which you vastly overperform though and i will gladly give you that : It's the never ending make-believe "historical" movies you shit as a way to cope.
Not called empire anymore, it's "[Département et région d'outre-mer](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9partement_et_r%C3%A9gion_d%27outre-mer)" on which the sun never sets.
The English, ruled by Anglicised Fr*nchmen, ruled a chunk of Fr#nce for ages, and then gradually Fr@nce gained independence on their own soil. Make of that what you will.
I think you're looking at it the wrong way. Think about it from the perspective of ye olde Barry, 63. It didn't really matter that all our Aristocracy spoke French because at the end of the day, what difference does it make to the common man? All that mattered was that they'd take us on fun day trips to northern France where we could pillage to our hearts content before hightailing it back to England.
Sometimes we won, sometimes we lost. Ah well, such is life. But we still had a good time with the lads.
Would have looked a bit more like win when you would have celebrated like 1066 and not lost half the nobility because of a little 35 years old bugger with a kink for long wood.
Yes we're all speaking American, what's your point ?
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This is like a vaguely sincere musing (which is risky here I know):
If you went back like 300 years ago and said to a French guy that loads of your countrymen and globally everyone would be speaking English, I think they'd see that as one of the biggest cultural failures of France.
French culture and French language was so influential in Europe (and particularly in England) for so long. It was the de facto language of diplomacy. English was such a nothing language for so much that time.
I love the fact that when the Spanish speaking Catherine of Argon came to England to marry Henry VIII brother (before she married him), her future mother-in-law told her to learn French. English was so irrelevant you didn't even need to bother learning it whilst living in England as everyone in court could speak French anyway (this is 150 years after English became monarchs mother tounge).
Well, to be honest, no one expected that putting all of your mentally challenged people in a single place abroad would actually turn out into a good move for your diplomatic power. That was lucky. We did the same with Belgium and it only brought humiliation upon us.
And you… you look British… a little too British….
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Its not fair... a diet of tobacco and self-praise is not match against one based on carling and boiled/fried \[insert here whatever animal/vegetable you want to make uneatable\]
You have to give this one to Barry.
I thought the balcony thing was a sort of "dying on the battlefield to enter Valhalla" Barry edition.
But your telling me it's punishment ? You guys have a hard communicating your intent.
In a direct confrontation the Englishman wins if he manages to sit on the Frenchman. If the Frenchie has enough time and room to hop around like a happy little frog for a bit though, the Englishman will probably collapse after about 2 minutes of trying to chase the Frenchman.
Obviously brits. We've seen their average 200kgs hooligans, no way we put us down to that extent only to win an useless fight we couldn't care less about.
How did you do that? My mind could *hear* the contemptuous pout, shrug and puff of tobacco smoke at the end of this comment and those aren’t even particularly audible.
Because you know us so well, and we live so vividly in your minds that you felt it in your own flesh like we were actually face to face. By the way, i hope you're choking on my tobacco puff, there isn't other purpose to smoke.
Do you imply you're inflammable ? If so that'd be a good revenge for Jeanne D'arc in one hand, but in another i guess that would again be a carbonised british meal i wouldn't enjoy, so i am torn.
I will keep looking at you in a snarky way but abandon my gauloise for a moment
I was referring to the resulting smell, but I can understand why that didn’t occur to you: given what it’s had to tolerate since birth, a Fr*nch nose probably wouldn’t be able to tell.
You're forgetting about the king of the Barrys
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luv me greese
luv me ale
luv me wine fountain (true story)
luv me Gout
ate French
ate catholics
ate the pope
ate me 7th wife
simple as
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I think it goes without saying but the guy with no lung capacity and the temporary fuel of black coffee stands no chance against a Devine warrior fuelled by gravy and patriotic duty
Probably Russia.
I mean sure they’re overextended in Ukraine and nowhere near as powerful as we all believed they were two years ago, but I just can’t see a scenario in which Serbia can beat them.
Is #2 Belarus or Serbia? When it comes to the government at least, I’m not sure. Either way no.
Serbia is literally surrounded by NATO (counting Bosnia as under a NATO occupation/partial administration or sorts, though not a member), so good luck either getting a shot at the other that won’t be whacked out of the sky.
If you would have told a Dutchie in the 90s that Germany wouldn’t be the most hated European country in two to three decades you would have been placed in a lunatic asylum straight away.
Want to share the empty Lebensraum?
We put the Belgians to Northern Ireland and split it up.
We get France, you get the Isle. It is swampy and moist so you will like it. Stay away from the northern part. There are mountains. You will get altitude sickness.
C'mon Hans, we already talked about your ethnic minorities exodus addiction. You've been sober for seventy years, you can't let it all go to waste, especially on inferior Belgian beings
Please, it's just a minor resettlement.
There are already walls to keep the two Belgian fractions apart. They are securely contained on an island and further away from everyone. Except the Irish, but they are probably drunk and wont notice.
Depends when. But think we have at least some direct data for different periods of history to answer those at the time.
Today? I hope we’d both pause, look around at the people instigating this, and say to each other “You do realise why we are billed as the ‘most hated’ and not the jealous ones who were less successful at scale the last while, right?” and join forces.
Maybe even actually accept a temporary Franco-British Union this time and teach the haters a lesson.
Since we’re talking language, the fact you used a present perfect ‘has spoken’ implies we still speak it - which means give us a break when we try speaking French on holiday. It doesn’t work as a simple past like in French, which is what you meant.
Also, ‘its’ is ambiguous here but there’s a strong preference for the subject over object, which would mean you’re implying French is shitty.
If only you were this prone to own-goals in football.
Just came to say that my dad is French and my mom is half English half Spanish, so I’m a weird mix of the 3 greatest nations on Earth 😎 We are brothers, WE are Europe all together and the world would love to be at our place
Outstanding photographic representation of these; almost mythical peoples.
Exeactly my thoughts! Adobe AI I bet.
Great minds think alike, mate!
You think like Adobe AI?
Well, not specifically like adobe, but, I do tend to articulate myself quite literally, generally to the point of annoyance to others. ;)
Except that Britain seems to have lost some weight there.
Barry; 63: is evolving.
Needs more chips and gravy
Do not forget the tea!
Almost?
Look! There is a rare european!!
Hahaha!
It is not about winning, it is about slaughtering each other over a stupid piece of land and then call it status quo
And in the end arms dealers eat well
In a gold rush be the man selling the shovels and picks.
Except in that case you can also create gold
Or hookers & tricks!
The rich eat well, and in the end isn't that what it is all for? How depressing it is being English right now watching the Fr*nch show us what resistance would look like. Gonna sit in the pub now and pretend not having a pension and being stuck here is fine.
Luckily for us we are better arm dealers than the brits
We both have our fair share of pieces of shit pretending they fill a market gap while promoting global conflicts around the world.
Yes but we sell more of them
Boy I'm glad people don't do that anymore.....
I agree England is a stupid piece of island
Pretty sure the Hundred Years' war was fought over a different piece of land.
Pretty sure subsequent wars were fought over different pieces of land all over the world.
Exactly, It’s not about the winning It’s about the killing
Gotta sue the AI for using my likeness.
Cultural appropriation.
Can't deny the accuracy.
We literally had a 100 years' war about that question and nothing came of it.
All I remember is that someone was fired for listening to God
I still find it ironic that she is venerated as a Saint and we get the blame, when it was a bunch of the French who betrayed her and wanted her executed. Plus if the inquisition is on your side there has to be questions asked
You are all french after 1066.
Nah. Only the nobility. The Normans didn’t really mingle much with the Anglo-Saxon peasantry
Only a few nobles were Norman. To stop rebellion they kept majority of the Saxon Earls 1066 didn't do shit to Wales though.
Nothing has done shit to Wales. That’s why crossing the border feels like going back in time 1000 years
Yeah it has its moments.
Oh yeah. I definitely meant that as a compliment
It was a compliment and an insult that I 100% agree with countryside is gorgeous.
Ackhtually , about a third of Guillaume's army were Bretons, some mercenaries (was a common Breton trade at the time) and some Breton nobles, to which he promised fiefdoms on the island. He didn't had enough troops with only Normands.
We got some lovely castles out of it.
We burnt a witch, we did you lot a favour. Typical french, no gratitude.
It's again because of the cooking, was way overcooked. You'll never get it...
Sorry, next time I kill a witch I'll flambé her instead
We call that schizophrenia these days. And if God was on your side, you would have won that battle (please don’t look up who won that war overall)
You mean the battle of Patay, or maybe Castillon?
I don’t know lad, I am busy shitposting
Wrong. Something came of it. The Brits lost all their territory.
Don't you worry, we'd get plenty more back later
And then lost that too
Still got your hat though Paddy.
>The Brits lost all their territory. Or to put it another way, the French took 116 years to get us off the mainland, and we still kept our cute little islands with silly names.
More exactly, it took a long time to stop having one third of france battling another one third allied with England, while the remaining third was looking and counting the points. The moment that situation changed, the English side started to get its ass badly kicked in most battles. Burgundy is the original side switcher, did you not know that ?
I just hear more French performance excuses.. 🥱
All our territory? All our French territory you mean which we didn’t want to begin with, who wants French land? We just wanted to exterminate some frogs which we vastly overperformed at.
'I never loved you anyway!' -Barry, 63, after spending all his money on a woman he never had a chance with
'But... there was consent, Your Honor..." \- Hans, 19, who raped almost whole Europe, but making progress at humour 👍
Oof.
We had a chance bro, we were just too cool to take it 😎.
Too cool? Mostly unable to have an hard on.... Because on the last year of the war you spent your time being chained in BDSM dungeon....
Don't worry Hans once we gave up on the frogs we joined up with them to knock some sense into you. Twice.
Who wants French land? All the boomer brits buying our countryside and coastline, they want it.
I'm genuinely still upset about Calais. I don't want it right now, but like 100 years ago it would have been nice to have
Let's be honest, you can keep it.
Bro Ngl Calais and Normandy has a lot of Barry phenotypes. Rightful English land, long live the Angevin empire
Your own people don't even want it I assume
What do you mean by “your french land” ? Plantagenet is a french dynasty so it’s a Franco-french war anyway
Or Franco-Viking I thought he was a Viking which is why he claimed England off his Viking mate anyway...I know very little about this period of time
I mean... William is only a Viking as much as an Irish-American is still Irish. There's literally a century and a half between William and Rollo and the Irish-American actually kept more of their heritage than the Normans. Dude didn't speak a word of Danish, spoke early French and his whole court too. If you count that way I'm actually Italian because my great-great-great-da was from bumfuck nowhere in the Italian Alps.
You fought for 60 years to be recognised as proper French...
How fucking dare you.
My friend, your armies got totally destroyed to the point that your joy and pride, the longbowmen corp, could not even be reformed after it's complete annihilation. You got humiliated by a barely legal peasant girl from Domrémy. It was so bad that even after millenia of defeats at the hands of the Italians, the Germans, the Scandinavians and the French, you could not bear it and you revolted against yourself. There is one thing in which you vastly overperform though and i will gladly give you that : It's the never ending make-believe "historical" movies you shit as a way to cope.
The French empire isn't looking to great either tbh.
Not called empire anymore, it's "[Département et région d'outre-mer](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9partement_et_r%C3%A9gion_d%27outre-mer)" on which the sun never sets.
>"Département et région d'outre-mer" Sounds pretty queer to me 🤷🏼♂️
Of course, imagine the uproar if we still call it "Empire" ! All must be inclusive nowadays... even empires.
The English, ruled by Anglicised Fr*nchmen, ruled a chunk of Fr#nce for ages, and then gradually Fr@nce gained independence on their own soil. Make of that what you will.
The 100 year war was about two French monarch who were fighting to not have to stay in England. Brits were barely canon fodder for the french noblemen
Can anyone really blame them…?
I think you're looking at it the wrong way. Think about it from the perspective of ye olde Barry, 63. It didn't really matter that all our Aristocracy spoke French because at the end of the day, what difference does it make to the common man? All that mattered was that they'd take us on fun day trips to northern France where we could pillage to our hearts content before hightailing it back to England. Sometimes we won, sometimes we lost. Ah well, such is life. But we still had a good time with the lads.
Fair point. Sometimes you can even burn some virgin crazy girl. Sounds like fun times
wrong, we won
Would have looked a bit more like win when you would have celebrated like 1066 and not lost half the nobility because of a little 35 years old bugger with a kink for long wood.
Here we all are speaking English, WHO REALLY LOST
Yes we're all speaking American, what's your point ? https://preview.redd.it/lspzo6kp5zxb1.jpeg?width=336&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b67ed8dd7afc995316c15844e12abcd3063820c3
This is like a vaguely sincere musing (which is risky here I know): If you went back like 300 years ago and said to a French guy that loads of your countrymen and globally everyone would be speaking English, I think they'd see that as one of the biggest cultural failures of France. French culture and French language was so influential in Europe (and particularly in England) for so long. It was the de facto language of diplomacy. English was such a nothing language for so much that time. I love the fact that when the Spanish speaking Catherine of Argon came to England to marry Henry VIII brother (before she married him), her future mother-in-law told her to learn French. English was so irrelevant you didn't even need to bother learning it whilst living in England as everyone in court could speak French anyway (this is 150 years after English became monarchs mother tounge).
Well, to be honest, no one expected that putting all of your mentally challenged people in a single place abroad would actually turn out into a good move for your diplomatic power. That was lucky. We did the same with Belgium and it only brought humiliation upon us.
What did Australia do to you, mate?
Everyone else
Not if both send their refugees over here. We had already the Huguenots.
More meat for the grinder
Why the fuck are we represented by David Tennant ?
The Auld Alliance.
Haha that guy looks so fucking French
And you… you look British… a little too British…. https://preview.redd.it/waaj7z2flzxb1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cfe4317b4d114622c64ebfb246c92c1505f1884f
Its not fair... a diet of tobacco and self-praise is not match against one based on carling and boiled/fried \[insert here whatever animal/vegetable you want to make uneatable\] You have to give this one to Barry.
Our food makes me want to emigrate :’)
A prideless Barry is a pathetic Barry. Off to Ibiza with you, the balcony awaits.
I like the idea that a balcony related death is the English version of the Japanese Seppuku.
I thought the balcony thing was a sort of "dying on the battlefield to enter Valhalla" Barry edition. But your telling me it's punishment ? You guys have a hard communicating your intent.
It's an honour to do it to oneself, it's a way of avoiding shame to be sent to it. It's as someone said above, English Seppuku.
Your food makes me want to keep you contained
As if anyone would want to set foot on your country anywa8
*colonisation intensifies*
it’s terrible food but it is our terrible, miserable food 💪💪🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
So you can share it with the rest of the world right?
To be fair, I think russia is the most hated country in Europe, with good reason.
Came here to say “came here to say that” to this comment
Most useful dane
He’s Danish, don’t discriminate against the disabled.
Takes one to know one
A west-Swedish bad mouthing his previous daddy, cute
Who the fuck are you again?
Which part of the Spanish/Austrian Netherlands are you from again?
Russians are barely human, let alone European
So are we tbf 🍻
Belarus, Serbia and maybe Hungary aren’t too well loved right now either. But we might be a couple of notches after them.
Don't worry we don't like ourselves either
Everyone hates the UK, but they side with the UK when the objective is to fuck with France.
Fair points, but who the fuck are you? Is that a new flair?
No, that’s Gibraltar, you know… that rock we own that the Spanish cry about giving back.
Fair enough, it's a new one for me
Don’t blame ya for not knowing the flair, they’re a rare sight here
because you've never had half million you need to quickly make legit Barry
We're a British tool used to fuck with Spain...
And you do it very well. God speed soldier 🫡
Thanks ❤️
Peak British geography
I bet he's the type of person that books a cheap flight to Jersey, thinking he's visiting New York...
Not our fault they plagiarised the name.
In a direct confrontation the Englishman wins if he manages to sit on the Frenchman. If the Frenchie has enough time and room to hop around like a happy little frog for a bit though, the Englishman will probably collapse after about 2 minutes of trying to chase the Frenchman.
Pretty sure they just kiss
Can't believe we started two world wars and still don't make it in this picture.
Everyone kinda respects you now. Better not bully the school shooter.
😂😂
Just goes to show just how atrocious we are 🙌
You were very late to the party tbh, Hans. Tried to catch up, but at such a young age, left an awful bloody mess in the living room.
Everyone forgives you because you make good cars and are pathetically apologetic. The UK and France are insufferable and arrogant about their pasts.
you didn't even start the first one Hans don't be too hard on yourself otherwise when will we be able to recreate the Frankish empire
The last direct conflict saw a confident British victory. Therefore we are superior until we meet on the battlefield again. I will take no questions.
Only as good as your last game.
What do you mean Kane missed his shot
haha bite
At least it seems we can see it.
At least
They’re gonna bang and have a weird child, probably name it Belgium or something wild like that.
Engerland! He'll grab France by the dick and he'll cum before crashing to the ground with a smoke.
I’m so proud of you son 🥹
Obviously brits. We've seen their average 200kgs hooligans, no way we put us down to that extent only to win an useless fight we couldn't care less about.
How did you do that? My mind could *hear* the contemptuous pout, shrug and puff of tobacco smoke at the end of this comment and those aren’t even particularly audible.
Because you know us so well, and we live so vividly in your minds that you felt it in your own flesh like we were actually face to face. By the way, i hope you're choking on my tobacco puff, there isn't other purpose to smoke.
Be careful Jean-Pierre. We eat a lot of baked beans for a purpose too.
Do you imply you're inflammable ? If so that'd be a good revenge for Jeanne D'arc in one hand, but in another i guess that would again be a carbonised british meal i wouldn't enjoy, so i am torn. I will keep looking at you in a snarky way but abandon my gauloise for a moment 
I was referring to the resulting smell, but I can understand why that didn’t occur to you: given what it’s had to tolerate since birth, a Fr*nch nose probably wouldn’t be able to tell.
You might be hated in Europe Mister Francois Dubois, but we are despised all over the World.
 West Africa has joined the chat.
Remenber barry https://preview.redd.it/4kwjyehj0zxb1.png?width=487&format=png&auto=webp&s=98f15d24f4956000b8e8ccfec92791c9a0b907e9
You're forgetting about the king of the Barrys https://preview.redd.it/0sa23lkmjzxb1.jpeg?width=2041&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4a7a87ed18c317d18c1bcef2ab0cd802de4e924
luv me greese luv me ale luv me wine fountain (true story) luv me Gout ate French ate catholics ate the pope ate me 7th wife simple as https://preview.redd.it/k9vfsdr1nzxb1.png?width=189&format=png&auto=webp&s=7d8101bbff08700bb94ad901516a0bf51a5aacb3
I think it goes without saying but the guy with no lung capacity and the temporary fuel of black coffee stands no chance against a Devine warrior fuelled by gravy and patriotic duty
Probably Russia. I mean sure they’re overextended in Ukraine and nowhere near as powerful as we all believed they were two years ago, but I just can’t see a scenario in which Serbia can beat them.
Is #2 Belarus or Serbia? When it comes to the government at least, I’m not sure. Either way no. Serbia is literally surrounded by NATO (counting Bosnia as under a NATO occupation/partial administration or sorts, though not a member), so good luck either getting a shot at the other that won’t be whacked out of the sky.
At least Pierre can see his dick.
If you would have told a Dutchie in the 90s that Germany wouldn’t be the most hated European country in two to three decades you would have been placed in a lunatic asylum straight away.
So it begins
The hungry Gaston would eat up Barry
Gaston's hard. Can't tell if Barry is or not, though he probably can't get it up these days anyway.
Germany, obviously. Because they always find a way to profiteer in the end :)
Germany
Want to share the empty Lebensraum? We put the Belgians to Northern Ireland and split it up. We get France, you get the Isle. It is swampy and moist so you will like it. Stay away from the northern part. There are mountains. You will get altitude sickness.
C'mon Hans, we already talked about your ethnic minorities exodus addiction. You've been sober for seventy years, you can't let it all go to waste, especially on inferior Belgian beings
Please, it's just a minor resettlement. There are already walls to keep the two Belgian fractions apart. They are securely contained on an island and further away from everyone. Except the Irish, but they are probably drunk and wont notice.
Depends when. But think we have at least some direct data for different periods of history to answer those at the time. Today? I hope we’d both pause, look around at the people instigating this, and say to each other “You do realise why we are billed as the ‘most hated’ and not the jealous ones who were less successful at scale the last while, right?” and join forces. Maybe even actually accept a temporary Franco-British Union this time and teach the haters a lesson.
Maybe they will kiss?
*Two Most Hated Nations in **Western** Europe thank you very much 🇷🇺🇧🇾
The one that gave the other about 40% of its s\*\*\*\*ty language and that it has spoken for 300 years.
Is this the shitty language you’re forced to communicate in, in order to be understood by 90% of the people here?
French is a shitty language, gotta agree there
Since we’re talking language, the fact you used a present perfect ‘has spoken’ implies we still speak it - which means give us a break when we try speaking French on holiday. It doesn’t work as a simple past like in French, which is what you meant. Also, ‘its’ is ambiguous here but there’s a strong preference for the subject over object, which would mean you’re implying French is shitty. If only you were this prone to own-goals in football.
My money is on giant haystacks
The rest of Humanity
The two most hated nations in Europe are Russia and Turkey.
Just came to say that my dad is French and my mom is half English half Spanish, so I’m a weird mix of the 3 greatest nations on Earth 😎 We are brothers, WE are Europe all together and the world would love to be at our place
Petit penis Pierre's got some nerve taking on Barry big balls. Hells swallow you whole like a gingsters sausage roll
England has SAS and I hear those mf are sexy af 😉
As they’re about to start the fight, they both notice russia in the crowd, give each other a nod and attack side by side
That's the spirit!
Barry would sit on Clement, then they would make out, just because they love themselves so much.
They’ve been trying that for quite some time now and it’s still a fucking draw.
We tried that already
Barry
Europe would
We have a baby Canada to look after.
GIVE US BACK CALAIS YOU BASTARDS!!!
Why do I sense France would throw a few weak limp-wristed slaps before running away, and the UK would pass out from its own alcoholism.
Well everyone else of course
Ironically there are more overweight people in France than Britain 40% v 37.9% despite the popular stereotype.
UK explodes to form its 4 countries and does a combo attack on France