Ecologie / Ecology

L'écologie vue par les Bidochon.

Un moment hilarant sur les lampes basses consommation.

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L'écologie Vue par les Bidochon

Merci MLD!

Here as well we are told to lower our energy bills and think ecologically. Enter the compact fluorescent lamps. Across the ocean our French friends find themselves in the same predicament. A cartoonist has decided to put ink on paper to tell us the story of the Bidochon family going green.

The link to the entire cartoon is below. It is in French but some may find it interesting...

Les Bidochon

La Langue de Bois...

La Langue de Bois... or the Art of Saying Nothing.

I recently received an email from my sister in law containing a form that is now probably going viral in France. The form looks official and is about one of the necessary courses in the curriculum of the E.N.A, l'Ecole Nationale d'Administration- France's National School of Administration.

For those interested to learn more about the school I have included a link below, but to make a long story short it is one of the most prestigious French graduate schools for aspiring civil servants.

Ecole Nationale d'Administration

The intention of this course is to teach future civil servants to communicate with their compatriots in France and around the world. The exercise consists of choosing a block from column 1, then adding any block from column 2, followed by any block from column 3 and so on. One must not forget to show "strength of conviction" and "intonation" when speaking!

For those who speak French it is soon obvious that these sentences sound great and mean absolutely nothing.  We have all heard them before, they have zero substance but they sure sound great.

So, what am I talking about you may ask? Well, France has had its presidential campaign and on the other side of the Atlantic we are also hearing many civil servants speak with conviction and great intonation. The question is: are they getting to the point? It seems like regardless of our country of origin we all have heard those  brilliant speeches that mean very little.

" Parler pour ne rien dire " the French say.

In short...

"Talking to say nothing."

"La Langue de Bois" indeed!

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Cours de Langue de Bois

Caption of a French political cartoon:

"Let's not call it a "recession", let's call it "negative growth."

Christine Lagarde the Nobel prize winner for the "Langue de Bois".

Gardons le Sens de l'Humour / A Sense of Humor

After the less than stellar performance of the French soccer team, known as " Les Bleus" during the recent Euro 2012, France is collectively getting over the deception and definitely concentrating on what matters most in life....

Translation:

" Here at least  "Les Bleus" are excellent!"

Below follows a list of blue cheese...

On garde quand même le sens de l'humour....

French Humor

In France, being elected president is the easy part..

Published in April in L'Express, one of the leading socialist leaning magazine. This well known French humorist was already having a field day...

The Ghost Ship

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" They wanted us to believe Hollande was a paddle boat captain! 

Not at all: he is a Caravel captain!

This reminds me of an old joke:

Who is the biggest socialist in history?

Answer: Christopher Columbus.

When he sailed, he had no idea where he was going.

When he landed he had no clue where he was.

And he did it all with other people's money! " 

Who said it was easy to govern France??

So Funny I Had to Share!

I received this post from France this morning and I had to share.

 The silent movie, "The Artist", won 10 Oscar nominations. 

Needless to say it's a first for a French film!

Obviously, everybody likes the French when they keep their mouth shut!

Merci Lauren !