Yellow vests - fuel protest day of action in France
Discussion
Frank7 said:
Connards pathétique,
le club, pas les français.
Take Parisiens for example (please)le club, pas les français.
Of an evening the 'men' are tutu-wearing mincers and the 'women smelly, hairy, ferret-faced hags.
When I lived on the Biscay coast the locals would take great delight in taking the piss out of 'Les Nords' and 'Les Parisiens' in particular.
A bit like we Northerners do with shandy-drinking bedwetters.
Footage that seems to show Police versus Fire fighters
https://twitter.com/1Fubar/status/1184714581995712...
https://twitter.com/1Fubar/status/1184714581995712...
52 weeks. 2500 injured, 80 seriously. 12 dead.
https://mobile.twitter.com/NeilJamesWeekes/status/...
Welcome to globalism.
https://mobile.twitter.com/NeilJamesWeekes/status/...
Welcome to globalism.
Earthdweller said:
A year later ...
Paris is burning again today
I’ve recently seen posts from a few French friends suggesting that hundreds of protesters are still locked up following arrests earlier in the year. Not sure how much truth there is to it, they’re quite ‘far left’ so could be fake news. Paris is burning again today
Briefly caught a piece on the Yellow Vests on the World Service yesterday, it featured a French protester talking with a BBC voice-over translating his words... it was very bizarre though, the translator was putting on a very strong and obviously fake/comedy accent that could only be described as ''thick as 2 short planks northerner''
Obviously someones idea of a joke, don't know how it managed to get past the programme editors/producers though.
Obviously someones idea of a joke, don't know how it managed to get past the programme editors/producers though.
JPJPJP said:
Footage that seems to show Police versus Fire fighters
https://twitter.com/1Fubar/status/1184714581995712...
This would be good in the UK . Some real men fighting a load of school leavers :-)https://twitter.com/1Fubar/status/1184714581995712...
shinjuku said:
No. There was a Merc A Class, right across the street, just crying to be put out of everyone's misery and, instead, they wreck and torch a Boxster. Morons.59th weekend in a row now for these protests
how many times will they keep doing the same thing for the same result before they change tactics?
https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1210998245729...
how many times will they keep doing the same thing for the same result before they change tactics?
https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1210998245729...
mike74 said:
Briefly caught a piece on the Yellow Vests on the World Service yesterday, it featured a French protester talking with a BBC voice-over translating his words... it was very bizarre though, the translator was putting on a very strong and obviously fake/comedy accent that could only be described as ''thick as 2 short planks northerner''
Obviously someones idea of a joke, don't know how it managed to get past the programme editors/producers though.
I love it when that happens. Here’s another one- do they deliberately make the woman sound like a moron in this translation?Obviously someones idea of a joke, don't know how it managed to get past the programme editors/producers though.
Spanish fresco restoration botched by amateur https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19349921
JPJPJP said:
59th weekend in a row now for these protests
how many times will they keep doing the same thing for the same result before they change tactics?
https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1210998245729...
"not one single mainstream media camera in sight"how many times will they keep doing the same thing for the same result before they change tactics?
https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1210998245729...
If so, what a shock, no BBC?
JPJPJP said:
59th weekend in a row now for these protests
how many times will they keep doing the same thing for the same result before they change tactics?
https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1210998245729...
that woman is lovely , her views on assad say it all for mehow many times will they keep doing the same thing for the same result before they change tactics?
https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1210998245729...
Do we actually know if these protests actually happened when she said they have? Are they actually part of the GJ movement or part of the recent general strike or just one of many protests that happen in Paris?
Her twitter feed comes across a bit, well, you know...
Was over in Paris a few weekends ago and the farmers were out protesting on the Champs Elysees and some were wearing yellow vests as marshals (something about subsidies, I think). It happens all the time over there as the French do like a protest march.
Not sure why a peaceful march in a foreign country would make the news over here.
Her twitter feed comes across a bit, well, you know...
Was over in Paris a few weekends ago and the farmers were out protesting on the Champs Elysees and some were wearing yellow vests as marshals (something about subsidies, I think). It happens all the time over there as the French do like a protest march.
Not sure why a peaceful march in a foreign country would make the news over here.
valiant said:
Do we actually know if these protests actually happened when she said they have? Are they actually part of the GJ movement or part of the recent general strike or just one of many protests that happen in Paris?
Her twitter feed comes across a bit, well, you know...
Was over in Paris a few weekends ago and the farmers were out protesting on the Champs Elysees and some were wearing yellow vests as marshals (something about subsidies, I think). It happens all the time over there as the French do like a protest march.
Not sure why a peaceful march in a foreign country would make the news over here.
Reading the banners it is the rail unions by the look of it, who are mobilising right now.Her twitter feed comes across a bit, well, you know...
Was over in Paris a few weekends ago and the farmers were out protesting on the Champs Elysees and some were wearing yellow vests as marshals (something about subsidies, I think). It happens all the time over there as the French do like a protest march.
Not sure why a peaceful march in a foreign country would make the news over here.
Macron is facing a bit of a perfect storm: unions coming out, while the rural areas are carrying on.
It will be interesting to see which way this all falls: he’s said if he doesn’t get his reforms through he’ll resign. I somehow doubt it, but the combination of union and popular protest has seen Hollande, Sarkozy, Chirac all reverse gear. If he does the same France is f
ked. For their sakes I hope he hangs on. A shafted France isn’t great news.Ridgemont said:
Reading the banners it is the rail unions by the look of it, who are mobilising right now.
A French fiend told me the other day that the rail unions are not merely complaining about rising the pension age from 57 (as reported by the BBC) but also about changes to the way the accrual of pensions is calculated.
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