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GoneOffShore

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11. We get the occasional hardcore MAGAT's here in France. The reason they get the 'cold shoulder'?

Tue Jun 1, 2021, 12:22 PM

Jun 2021

Nothing to do with their politics or the way the dress, but the fact that they never, ever, have figured out the basic social codes of France. That can be summed up by a sign that used to be in Paris café: Un Café - 2.50€, Bonjour, un café - 2.00€, Bonjour, un café, s'il vous plait - 1.50€

There are a lot more subtleties, and of course, sounds of 'Why don't you take dollars?' always brings derisive laughter, but that's the basic.

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