It's funny how the French are portrayed as cowards in American popular culture, when in reality the French would've gotten the guillotines out already while the Americans... cower.

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1718627440 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> It's funny how the French are portrayed as cowards

Are they? Where does that come from?

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komali2 11 hours ago | parent [-]

It used to be I guess a slur, "surrender monkeys," because France surrendered during WWII and there was a Nazi-collaborator government established filled with French politicians.

It's unfair given the reality and importance of the French resistance, but, that's where it comes from.

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pksebben 10 hours ago | parent [-]

That one was the brits if I'm not mistaken - Jeremy Clarkson specifically (who I have a lot of affection for - Top Gear was a significant part of my childhood, but he does make an art out of being offensively wrong).

	▲	graemep 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It seems to have originated in The Simpsons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese-eating_surrender_monkey...

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pksebben 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

not even a joke, we're skipping the 4th and celebrating bastille day this year. Ten days apart and the food and drink are just better.

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ekianjo 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Certainly not the current French, though.

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wongarsu 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They no longer get the guillotines out, but they still protest like no one else.

Not always about the right issues, but at least they have the spirit

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saubeidl 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You sure? https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/block-everything-protes...

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ekianjo 11 hours ago | parent [-]

I think we were talking about the guillotine earlier on

	▲	saubeidl 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They're metaphoric these days ;)