So they got kicked in the butt for their nasty joke?? That's good, doesnt happen very often though, but at least this time it did.

Yea. Some of us Frenchies still observe decorum and taste!

You should be on the French Taste board! restore our Pride!

well, our beloved new pope did say, "it was time to get rid of the filth in the catholic church." what do you suppose he meant by that comment?? he never specified who or what he was talking. and, i'm not sure it was his way of saying that st. peters was in need of its annual spring cleaning. so, i'm just curious because i am under the impression that god loves everyone...sinners and all. even jesus hung out with the "undesirables." so, where was he going with that?

Dumb

Gauls, Franks, Prussians, and Germans are all Disctinct RACES

all the evidence needed for denying accreditation/academic credit to those schools of taxonomy and genetics which recruit students with those 'can you draw this amoeba' ads on matchbook covers. disregard for a second the obvious error (all gauls are celts but not all celts are gauls), and consider where this line of thinking leads: each of the 12 tribes of israel is a distinct race...the lahkota are not only a race apart from other plains nations but one made up of several distinct races including the hunkpapa, oglala, miniconjou, itazipacola, oohenonpa, sihasapa and sichangu...and the middle east is the most racially diverse geographic area on the planet. or would that be africa?

you're taking that silly couplet bout the french being a funny race far too seriously.

well, our beloved new pope did say, "it was time to get rid of the filth in the catholic church." what do you suppose he meant by that comment?? he never specified who or what he was talking. and, i'm not sure it was his way of saying that st. peters was in need of its annual spring cleaning. so, i'm just curious because i am under the impression that god loves everyone...sinners and all. even jesus hung out with the "undesirables." so, where was he going with that?

I think he was referring to the pedophelia scandal that has wracked the church for the past 10+ years.  I hope that is what he meant.

I think he was referring to the pedophelia scandal that has wracked the church for the past 10+ years. I hope that is what he meant.

That was my understanding as well.

"The latest?  Their idea of humor is to call Pope Benedict XVI "Adolph II" and that he is going to change the sign of the cross to "The Father, son and Third Reich"."

It is perhaps of note that companies advertise features their products do not have. When you are not sure of something, make it known that you are.

Windows is secure, Mac OS has lots of applications, and the French are above German fascism.

The French have a sorry legacy when it comes to World War II and Nazism. They collaborated. The "joke" is not poor taste (it would be poor taste when the English made it), it's a form of advertisement. "Look at us, we are better than the Germans, we are no Nazis." they seem to want to say, so that perhaps the world will forget their part in the Nazis' little adventure.

This is an insult to Germans, to Catholics and Catholicism. And the French know it. The majority of the French probably want no part of it. But the minority who believe that Germany or the Germans of today are somehow more fascist than France and can be subject of such "jokes", should learn more about current events and less about their perceived history.

When I think "anti-semitism" these days, I do not think "Germany", I think "France".

The English had a tasteless frontpage headline (I think is was the SUN) referring to the Hitler-youth time of the Pope. So it's not only the French!

But before you make statements you should have known that:

in the beginning of WWII the US governement turned away a boat full of Jewish People, they knew they were procecuted in Nazi-Germany.
many of the Nazi-Scientists based their sick ideas on American "Sceintists".
the US did not exterminate mental patients and people they deemned not fit for parenting but secretly sterilized them and without their conscent.

I'm not condoning the remarks of some French but refrein from blaming whole nations.
The whole idea that blacks and whites are of different races is tribute to KKK and White Power ideology. Beware!

Gauls, germans and so on are all TRIBES. The HUMAN RACE is all of us be we black, white, yellow or red (b.t.w. red was the skin-paint of some american natives).
The romans called several tribes from northern Europe and the Kaukasus Germans to distinction and classificaton easier.

This is an insult to Germans, to Catholics and Catholicism. And the French know it. The majority of the French probably want no part of it. But the minority who believe that Germany or the Germans of today are somehow more fascist than France and can be subject of such "jokes", should learn more about current events and less about their perceived history. When I think "anti-semitism" these days, I do not think "Germany", I think "France".

This is very true.  I lived there in the 70s and the Germans are ashamed and for the most part, try to atone for the past (there are exceptions). As a people, the Germans are one of the most hospitable, while the French are the most abusive.  Perhaps it is the perception by the Germans that they paid for their mistake, and in the case of the French, they were given a free ride.

IN any event, that is very insightful.

The English had a tasteless frontpage headline (I think is was the SUN) referring to the Hitler-youth time of the Pope. So it's not only the French!

I remember it.  It was to the effect 'from Nazi to papa Ratzi", and it was very tasteless.  If my heritage had been english, I would have been equally as offended, but the French one was as bad as the jerk in my home town that was playing snips of Hitler and saying it was a speech by Cardinal Ratzinger.

in the beginning of WWII the US governement turned away a boat full of Jewish People, they knew they were procecuted in Nazi-Germany. many of the Nazi-Scientists based their sick ideas on American "Sceintists". the US did not exterminate mental patients and people they deemned not fit for parenting but secretly sterilized them and without their conscent. I'm not condoning the remarks of some French but refrein from blaming whole nations. The whole idea that blacks and whites are of different races is tribute to KKK and White Power ideology. Beware! Gauls, germans and so on are all TRIBES. The HUMAN RACE is all of us be we black, white, yellow or red (b.t.w. red was the skin-paint of some american natives). The romans called several tribes from northern Europe and the Kaukasus Germans to distinction and classificaton easier.

Ok, we have sins as well.  That is a given.  Our treatment of indians bordered on genocide, and is a balck spot on our soul.  The past is not really the issue here, and I agree and have appologized for the rant and the condemnation of all French (after all, some here are French, present company included).

But I quoted your whole response (after the first part already replied to) because you are right.  We are tribes, and the race is mankind.  I am french, and darker than my mexican wife.  Skin color is as much a matter of heritage as it is just gene selection.  We are one race, one people.  And we do have bastards like the clowns in France, the KKK and the skinheads.

If you are defending your own heritage, please read all the responses as I have said, and will again, that not all French are arseholes and jackarses.  This was just a case of some people being that.  The French have a lot to atone for, and they have yet to do so.  But that is not to be used as a brush to paint the whole tribe.