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Some French Companies to boycott
« on: Feb 18th, 2003, 5:28pm » |
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Michelen Tires
BF Goodrich tiers
Bic lighters
Motel 6
Loreal shampoo
Red roof Inns
Culligan water
Vivendi Entertainment
US Filter Group(owned by Vivendi)
Hotel Sofitel
Hotel Novitel
Any others?
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #1 on: Feb 18th, 2003, 5:43pm » |
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I don't think boycotting french products will do too much good in this situation. Just my opinion.
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #2 on: Feb 18th, 2003, 5:46pm » |
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Thought you might like to know that the woman that owns L'Oreal also owns Nestle now known as Nestle Purina....well the same family anyhow... 
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #3 on: Feb 18th, 2003, 5:49pm » |
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Rename french fries to
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #4 on: Feb 18th, 2003, 5:51pm » |
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French fries were never french to begin with.....neither was pizza italian!
Just FYI 
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #5 on: Feb 18th, 2003, 5:54pm » |
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on Feb 18th, 2003, 5:49pm, cbolony wrote:
If they are covered with extra sharp chedda cheese im in ;D
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #6 on: Feb 18th, 2003, 6:00pm » |
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ok then:
-French toast
-French kisses
-Calaveras County California (home of the Frog Jumping Contest)
-the Concorde
-the French Quarter--New Orleans
-Mardi Gras
-Roquefort cheese
-the Tour de France
-Paris, Kentucky, Alabama, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and of course, France
..hell, I could go on all day.........
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #7 on: Feb 18th, 2003, 6:44pm » |
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on Feb 18th, 2003, 6:00pm, Not4Hire wrote:ok then:
-French toast
-French kisses
-Calaveras County California (home of the Frog Jumping Contest)
-the Concorde
-the French Quarter--New Orleans
-Mardi Gras
-Roquefort cheese
-the Tour de France
-Paris, Kentucky, Alabama, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and of course, France
..hell, I could go on all day.........
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So be it, just give me those freedom fries!!!!!
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #8 on: Feb 18th, 2003, 7:30pm » |
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sorry man, i just put all season michilin rubber all the way around my f350 1 ton dually and they cost me a mint so i can't give em back but i will encourage the nieghborhood dogs to piss on em...... 
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #9 on: Feb 18th, 2003, 8:00pm » |
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on Feb 18th, 2003, 5:28pm, Silver_Dolphins wrote:
I propose we boycott all those fucking conceited jackasses who think they must plant their belief on the rest of the world, just because they are so superior that any opinion different from theirs must be bottomless bad.
I suggest you start a list of Italien products to boycott, after all, last weekend there were alone in Rome 2 million Italiens protesting against the American warmongering.
Or is this the difference?- Italy is good because their prime minister Berlusconi governs against the majority of his people and
- France is bad because their president Chirac listens to the people?
BTW, it's spelt Michelin, don't boycott the wrong people.
BTW2, what does this thread have to do with CH? Did you err from http://AmercansAreBetterThanTheRestOfTheWorld?
Pissed off at the warmongers,
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #10 on: Feb 18th, 2003, 8:18pm » |
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geez ueli lgihten up...
i guess we both spelled it wrong but i only said i would help the french rubber get pissed on and having taken an up close and personal part in the war we lost thanks to the pacifists and the press and there inability to tell victories from defeats ( tet 6 and having sent a son ( who volunteered because he was proud of his old man ) off to bosnia where he sustained the injury that lead to his medical discharge, i hereby reserve the right to lead an entire army of neighborhood dogs to piss all over anything made by the pompous, holier than thou, sweaty smellin, ungratful chickenshit bastard french faggots any friggin time i want.
btw i have a hard time with spelling in the midst of an attack... tim
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #11 on: Feb 18th, 2003, 8:52pm » |
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Yowza! Zut Alor! LOL
Sorry, My maiden name is Hebert. Until my ancestors moved into the US, it was pronounced A Bear Since then, I guess due to the neighbors inexperience with french pronunciation it has been pronounced He Bert Which, much to my fathers chagrin and idignation and (these days since he is now 80 years old) refusal to acknowledge such, has been pronounced
1- her bert
2- hue bert
3- ho bart
as well as others.
Therefore being a smidge french and loving the language, I must say................
I like my fries with chili and cheese!!! YUM YUM!
Please tell me I don't have to boycott Jack-in-the-box!
LOL
Ueli is right you know, we are arrogant, immature, know-it-alls that have it good.......and have the audacity to want to try to save the world.......whether it needs saving or even should be saved at all. Someone on one of these threads captured the essence of the American....we are teenagers compared to most of the rest of the world. However, I must point out, that although we are young, arrogant and very flawed and backward in some ways, we are also almost the only country that tries to and has helped other countries in times of need. Unfortunately, whether it be due to our insufferability, or the country in questions embarrassment at having to ask for or receive help from us....our help has almost always been ridiculed and denounced...especially by the countries we have helped.
Yes, we can be ugly, we have predudice, hate, violence. We are backward in regards to sex. We tend think probably too much of ourselves and wrongly think that our way (our culture, our morals, our language) is the best way and should be the only way.
BUT!!!!!! We will rush to the rescue in most cases, if we can. We probably give more as individual citizens to funds (at least proposing that they are legit--did I forget to say that we are a bit gullible? LOL) that benefit people in other countries.
We are not perfect or superior, but yes some of us think we are, we have not been around as long, but yes we sometimes act like we were put in charge of the world. But really, are we THAT bad? I think that our intentions are good. And there are a lot of us that aren't predudiced and arrogant and complete a s s h o l e s.
I don't know what I feel about all this...but I don't think we deserve as bad a rap (or rep) as we have been given.
Damn, didn't mean to get into all this, but if we Americans were not here....the world would be a very different place and I am not sure that it would be a better place.
Sorry for the rant.
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a death machine to boycott
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Loud and clear Euli!
We dress our angel of death up in a Jesus Christ disguise and expect everybody to buy that. Bush is a puppet...a grossly black comical distraction from the true evil.
Well meaning people should know better and recognize the darkness for what it is.
You stand till the death for peace and Love or.........you join the other side. Freedom is free. Might don't make right.... no matter how generous and self righteous the killing machine appears.
Not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just stand on this side of the line. Go on without me. I'm in good company.
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #13 on: Feb 18th, 2003, 10:02pm » |
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #14 on: Feb 18th, 2003, 10:15pm » |
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #15 on: Feb 18th, 2003, 10:29pm » |
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Way to go Not4Hire!! Crackin up here! Humour will save the day!
I'd just like to add that there have been Kiwi servicemen slaughtered at every stoush since the Boer War.WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Our SAS were in the gulf war, Bosnia and Afghanistan. Since 'Nam - all volunteers. All fighting for King and Country, 13,000 miles away.
Are we stupid or brave?
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #16 on: Feb 18th, 2003, 11:00pm » |
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Ueli, you're a good man. I agree with you on this whole "War Makes Dubya Cum" thought. But I'm getting a little tired of your (or is that "you're", GailFrank?) subtle/not-so-subtle anti-Americaisms. I know this one doesn't point it out as well as what I've read, or at least interpreted what I read from you lately. But you sure have an anti-American tone to you lately. Not an anti-American-policy-that-Dubya-tries-for tone. That I'd high-five you for. So, some food for thought, since I know you have a good and open mind. The anti-war demonstrations were billed as millions protesting against the war. Where did most of those millons come from? The Goddamned good ol' USofA (Yeah, I used hick terms to spell out USA on purpose). You want to speak out against our policies, please do. I do. You want to speak out against a war that'll kill thousands of innocent civilians before we utilize the peace process to its fullest? Please do. But don't go with that bullshit anti-American attitude that permeates and infects Europe so disgustingly. Because that is just joining the crowd and doing to us just what you witness our gov't and some followers doing to Iraq. And that is not giving a shit about the people. Just lumping them all into what the gov't policy claims.
That all said, NO-FUCKING-WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That said, God Bless The USA.
That said, NO-FUCKING-WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO FUCKING WAR!!!!!!!!!! NO-fUCKING WAR!!!!!!!!! NO-FUCKING-WAR!!!!!!!!!!!
Might as well get it going here because the pro-war folks have been preaching it on this board long enough. You're against it, claim it here and now. If you worry about how you will be viewed by your friends for being against this war and that frightens you, think of how much scarier it is for a child to worry if a bomb is going to fall in his town and wipe him and his family out.
DJ. I'm sorry. I know that it's not cool to do something like this on your site since you're in the service. And I wouldn't if it wasn't so important.
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #17 on: Feb 18th, 2003, 11:30pm » |
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note to self... be careful what you say, think twice to see if you are hurting someone that doesn't deserve to be hurt, don't make blanket accusations on any geo-political topics and never post a less than serious comment while the ice pick is present!!!
note to every one else... after having read back through this thread (and significant needling from my wife) it has dawned on me that i may not have considered the insensitive nature of my previous post. i know for sure that i may have (did) use derogatory words that would hurt people i did not mean to offend.... i apologize!!!
particularly to sherry... that was not my intent !!!
den.. not sure i understand your post, feel free to e-mail me.
mopar, i list you guy's among" the have always been there crowd"... thanks
everyone else... i am not a warmonger, i detest the thought of the necessity!
I stand by my feelings for political entities that SHOULD be our friends.
btw. i'm a democrat
ps: this post has taken me damn near an hour because i keep going back to my WEBSTERS to check my spelling. am i the only one that becomes borderline dyslexic while being hammered?
geez... i just had to look up hammered...sux
heres hoping i havn't pissed off everyone.......... tim
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #18 on: Feb 18th, 2003, 11:36pm » |
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ted, my friggen post took me so long to do that yours slipped in between.
may i just say "HEAR HEAR"
and amen, there has got to be a better way !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
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The apparent glee with which some of us approach this coming bloodbath, is as stupid as it gets. Want to avoid war? Simple: Keep the inspectors in Baghdad. Saddam won’t unleash whatever he has while they’re there, and if we’re lucky, neither will the idiot in the White House whom we almost elected.
This is the most secretive administration in history and it scares the shit out me. They have yet to convince me that the coming mess has anything to do with common sense. Bush & Co. are worst bunch I’ve seen in 56 years, and I’m not just talking about Iraq. Daddy was a cake walk comparatively, and Nixon was more fun.
History shows that we can be a real pain in the ass now and then. Anyone who thinks we haven’t been in the empire business since 1898, knows nothing of history. We’re just one of many. Once, Britain controlled 1/4 of the world. They were good at this stuff. For the self-proclaimed isolationists we put in charge, to embark on something similar, would be beyond stupid, but rightly or wrongly, this is what much of the world thinks we’re up to. So far, I don't think even that idiot Bush plans to stick a Viceroy in Baghdad, no matter how much damage he inflicts.
Most of the time I like us but in the last two years, it’s not been easy. No matter what you hear from cable news, America is not the “freest nation on earth.” We’re having a good run and so far, we’ve been lucky. The world could do worse I suppose, but at the moment, we’re a better tourist trap than a world player.
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
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on Feb 18th, 2003, 8:52pm, oringkid wrote:
Please tell me I don't have to boycott Jack-in-the-box!
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Damn! They still have them by you? Used to be my favorite place back in the 70's before they closed up.
Ok, thats all I have to say on this subject..
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #21 on: Feb 19th, 2003, 3:55pm » |
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Nestle Purina? Hmmmm.....chocolate dog food?
About 30 years ago Jack I The Box was owned by Purina. They had to sell, out of embarressment, when it was discovered that the hamburgers advertised by J-in-the-B wasn't really hamburger.
The "war" with Iraq has nothing to do with terrorism as George W wants everyone to think. If he wants to go after terrorist he should be looking at Saudi Arabia and North Korea.
Georgieboy wants Iraq under American control so he can kick out the European Oil Barons and install Texas Oil Barrons.
To quote a rich guy "It's nothing personal. It's just business".
Good post not4hire.
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #22 on: Feb 19th, 2003, 4:16pm » |
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on Feb 18th, 2003, 11:30pm, tanner wrote:am i the only one that becomes borderline dyslexic while being hammered?
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Nope, me too! No, wait a minute. I become borderline dyslexic while being hummered!
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Re: Some French Companies to boycott
« Reply #23 on: Feb 19th, 2003, 7:46pm » |
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Ted (and all)- I am against war.
I thank the wonderful folks who serve selflessly in the US military every day to protect my family and our country. I also believe they are the first to say NO to war if it can be avoided. Wars are never started by the military, but rather by egomaniacal morons who manage to get themselves into positions of power.
While I am no lover of the French, here's what Chirac had to say recently.
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/2/17/235010
His/Their simple statement is "But we think this goal (eliminating Saddam) can be reached without starting a war."
Why not avoid bloodshed?
Too often old men are willing to send young men to their deaths. I'd rather like to see Bush and Saddam duke it out mano-a-mano.
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on Feb 19th, 2003, 7:46pm, domm wrote:
His/Their simple statement is "But we think this goal (eliminating Saddam) can be reached without starting a war."
Why not avoid bloodshed?
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Of course france and Germany take that position, they dont want us to find out they have been supplying Iraq with wepons because then they become our enemy, and THEY DONT WANT THAT!!!!!
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