mysty
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Post by mysty on Dec 14, 2023 0:35:04 GMT 1
One of my major dislikes is Napoleon. He died ages ago but they still use some of his laws especially property wise.
If you buy a house for a euro and sell it for 10 euros within 2 years the previous owner can ask for the original sale to be annulled or ask you for more money. Yet a supermarket can work on 100% profit on food. If you fit a new wooden shutter and sell your house within ten years the new owner can sue you if it implodes within ten years of it being fitted now that one is not down to Napoleon but he was probably thinking about it. How come you do not get a 10 year guarantee on a car?
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Post by jeliecrack on Dec 14, 2023 1:26:05 GMT 1
Priorité a droite and baguettes that can be used as hammers a couple of hours after buying them.
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Post by norfolk on Dec 14, 2023 6:27:25 GMT 1
The inability of drivers in the Tarn to use ‘clignotants’.
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Post by annabellespapa on Dec 14, 2023 8:54:22 GMT 1
The inability of drivers in the Tarn to use ‘clignotants’. The same in Brittany, I am sure it is part of "learning" to drive, to save the use of using the bulbs in lights as a priority and it also taught that you must drive as close as you can to the car in front that if stopped by a Gendarme that you can recall the contents of the car in front.
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Nifty
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Post by Nifty on Dec 14, 2023 9:04:52 GMT 1
The French are not alone in applying double standards to maintain control of a system. I have found that there are are arebutnot’s (s) all over the world but the greatest concentration of them in in the British Houses of Parliament and the associates of their master.
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Post by norfolk on Dec 14, 2023 9:14:57 GMT 1
The inability of drivers in the Tarn to use ‘clignotants’. The same in Brittany, I am sure it is part of "learning" to drive, to save the use of using the bulbs in lights as a priority and it also taught that you must drive as close as you can to the car in front that if stopped by a Gendarme that you can recall the contents of the car in front. Around here apparently, clingnotants are regarded as an optional extra when sold by the garages. The general level of driving around here is appalling.
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Post by jeliecrack on Dec 14, 2023 9:36:49 GMT 1
I hadn't thought of this before,but does not using indicaters goes hand in hand with priorité a droite.
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Post by monsieur3seas on Dec 14, 2023 9:48:45 GMT 1
worse than not using indicators is signalling left and turning right....
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Aardvark
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Post by Aardvark on Dec 14, 2023 12:06:06 GMT 1
I find it disturbing when I am going somewhere new and looking for an address or a turning I am going a bit slower than the speed limit there is always someone right on my tail trying to intimidate me into speeding up. Either that or they are thinking seriously of giving me a push to help me along. I eventually decide to indicate and pull over to allow them to pass. They often don't. They just sit on my tail until their dormant neurons transmit the idea that they can overtake and be on their way.
Apart from their antics behind the wheel I find the French "differences" are not too difficult to live with and don't take the shine off living here. The 12 to 2pm "black hole" is a major inconvenience but not a deal breaker.
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Post by norfolk on Dec 14, 2023 12:14:35 GMT 1
I hadn't thought of this before,but does not using indicaters goes hand in hand with priorité a droite. Priorité à droite is a handy concept if everybody respects the rules.
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Post by jeliecrack on Dec 14, 2023 12:54:23 GMT 1
worse than not using indicators is signalling left and turning right.... The roundabout syndrome ?
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Post by sw31girl on Dec 14, 2023 13:10:33 GMT 1
A good Chinese takeaway/restaurant. The local Asian ones here are not the same as the Chinese ones in the U.K.
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Post by annabellespapa on Dec 14, 2023 13:29:43 GMT 1
A good Chinese takeaway/restaurant. The local Asian ones here are not the same as the Chinese ones in the U.K. That has always baffled me, we used to travel 45 minutes to an Asian Supermarket in Rennes where you could buy all the same ingredients that a UK Chinese restaurant or takeaway had access to and supposedly as could the French Chinese. We could make a good stab at most noodle dishes but have never quite mastered egg fried rice which I can eat just on its own.
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Post by cernunnos on Dec 14, 2023 13:30:55 GMT 1
We don't have any major dislike of France, probably the best place to live. If just the driving and no good Chinese resturants are major dislikes , then what are the minor ones ?
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Post by annabellespapa on Dec 14, 2023 13:40:08 GMT 1
Apart from their antics behind the wheel I find the French "differences" are not too difficult to live with and don't take the shine off living here. The 12 to 2pm "black hole" is a major inconvenience but not a deal breaker. That basically sums it up for me also Aardvark, that's why I love returning over and over again and look forward to the differences France has to offer, in a lovely pub in my village last night I was with a group of guys who were bemoaning almost everything about the UK, I said nothing and my mind drifted to my next planned trip to Brittany in a cold invariably damp January on my own with a list of jobs to do but also for a break, I love it ! If being organised to factor in the two hour lunch break is under control then it is great !
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