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Re:112 Gripes About the French by heffer on Saturday July 17, 2021 @11:30AM (#27866463)
> nothing seems inappropriate

  "The French can't drive a car. They can't keep it up. They ruin vehicles."

  The French, on the whole, certainly do not drive as well, keep a car up as well, or protect their vehicles as well as we do. Neither do women, compared to men.

  We have had more mechanical training, more technical experience. And at the present time we have incomparably better maintenance facilities.
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Re:112 Gripes About the French by baby on Saturday July 17, 2021 @02:47PM (#27867874)
The first line is one of the questions right? So it doesn't count.

The rest doesn't seem inappropriate to me, I can believe it to be right.

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Re:112 Gripes About the French by themeiguoren on Saturday July 17, 2021 @01:22PM (#27867292)
It’s an anachronism that doesn’t fly today, but to be fair this seems descriptive rather than prescriptive.
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