They kind of say, "fuck y'all" about everything.

I've got loads. And I'm here all week.

I'm actually loving the return to old-timey, traditional, even medieval names here. Just waiting for a resurgence in my (very French) 17th-18th century name so these damn Frenchies stop mispelling it.

It's real. And it's everywhere (here).

My circle seems to just be trolling with the old names at this point. At a recent playdate, I had to contend with a Hugue, a Hugo, a Maxence, an Adélaïde, an Agnès, and a Marie-Neige (Mary of the Snow. I kid you not.) I'm trolling them back with my petites Parisiennes, Uma and Mia.

Neither's Steve, which is my Parisien born-and-bred husband's name. Like, not even Stephan. His birth certificate just reads "Steve". WTF, in-laws?

Yup. It's popular because Johnny Halliday, France's answer to Elvis, has a young daughter (with hisyoung wife) by that name. Caught on like wildfire.

Huh. Well, I'm not a person of colour, but when I witness racism, I'm not blind (or ambivilant) to what I'm seeing. why would do you think it would take being a victim of bullying herself for her to recognise that bullying of overweight people goes on and that it's not ok?

So, let me get this straight.

You know, I hadn't even thought of that, and I live here. The French word for "affair" is "aventure", or adventure, which certainly lacks any negative connotation. Actually sounds pretty light and fun, like a scavenger hunt or something. The French word for "cheating", on the other hand, is "tromper", which translates…

I get that what you're saying is that she needs to prove her merit before we celebrate her as a politician, but that's not what this article (or the current celebration) is about. It's about the fact that in a country in which women didn't have the right to vote until 1944, didn't have the right to seek employment…

Or anywhere, for that matter.

Or if he had the surgery as part of a fertility treatment plan so that his wife would not be facing the lion's share of invasive procedures alone, which is actually what happened.

Double posted. Kinja made me do it.

I've lived in France for over ten years and I am appalled on an almost daily basis by the insidious racism here. And by "insidious" I mean "slap-in-the-face overt". I give you the Racing Club de France, founders of Ralph Lauren wannabe brand Eden Park, fêting their black team mate's birthday...with blackface. They've…

I guess it's just the word "plug" that threw me. It means to promote a product. Intentionally. That Jez benefits from Dunham's mention of them in a scene from her show is indisputable ("any publicity is good publicity" and all that), but I don't think that was Dunham's ultimate intent. No reciprocal backscratching…

I think it could be a question of culture rather than ready/not ready — And I'm not sure the fact that he and Paradis never married makes his decision to marry Heard "worse". It may very well have been a case of neither Paradis nor Depp considering marriage all that necessary. Here in France marriage is seen as…

I think it could be a question of culture rather than ready/not ready — And I'm not sure the fact that he and Paradis never married makes his decision to marry Heard "worse". It may very well have been a case of neither Paradis nor Depp considering marriage all that necessary. Here in France marriage is seen as…

Yes, there has indeed been some speculation lately about that. He also has another adopted daughter with Soon-Yi, about the same age as this one (don't know their names, sorry.)

Plugged Jez in the last Girls episode? I think you missed the satirical quality of that scene.