We should learn from the French

[Bernard]

Link to video

[DougG]

this guy lost credibility with me when he used the phrase,” hard-working French people”.

[Bernard]

Ha! The French know their priorities. They have a good life/work balance.

[DougG]

my whole family lives in French these days except for me. Fortunately, they seem to be OK making these same sorts of jokes about themselves. Bunch of cheese-eating surrender monkeys…

[Daniel.]

Yes, we should but we won't.

[Bernard]

Ryan has a follow up! (I've followed him on Youtube for years, and knowing his personality lends an air to these videos that you might not get if you didn't know him. 99.9% of his content is not political, but about a house (which he bought for 10,000 Euros) that he is renovating.)

Link to video

[CHAS]

We should learn.

Yea, that is going to happen.

[Bernard]

There we go!

"Francois Bayou loses confidence vote, will step down"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/sep/08/europe-live-macron-france-prime-minister-francois-bayrou-confidence-vote-latest-news

That's how it's done.

[dolmansaxlil]

Apple News drives me a little bonkers in their headlines for this news story. Any time this happens the headline is “French government collapses”. I live in a place where this exact same thing can and has happened and it is a FEATURE of our how government works. It’s actually a good thing that means folks have to cross the aisle to get things done. It’s not a “collapse” of government. Obviously the government in France is currently unstable - but the system is working as it was designed to work.

/rant