Sorry, it was 3 am, and it appears I fell asleep...

I am French. We watch the American with a mix of envy and contempt, I think. Well, most of my countrymen. I study Americans, so I'm less easily impressionable :P

My grandfather was in the army. He was a colonel. He killed people and participated in what was determined to be a war crime decades later. Because the government never actually *got around* to address this issue and merely gave the victims an apology, it has been swept under the carpet, and very few people were taken…

Oh yes indeed. The government of my country is responsible for some of the most atrocious war crimes of the last century, I have no illusions about that. They also try to meddle here and there, but on the whole, they are much less fucked up than the US of A, I have to say.

Wouldn't you like to know? :D

Louis XIV wants his motto back.

Lol. And teach us about freedom by ramming missiles down our throats? You wish...

Unfortunately, I don't live in the US, dear. I live far away from there, in a peaceful country, in which there are no rabid lunatics demanding the spilling of foreign blood.

Good lord. I'm scared.

Yeah, yeah. yeah.

When you're American, it's noble. When you're not, it's terrorism.

I know. But she also said "Aspirin doesn't cut it", which supposes she's tried it.

You should NEVER take aspirin during your period. It's a blood thinner and can make you haemorrhage.

Track athletes are fed a diet that contains mostly protein and that is in no way "normal" nor "average". Hunter-gatherers did not eat as much meat/protein, far from there.

I actually threw up.

Precisely. Words have a crucial importance. The sooner the *industry* calls a spade a spade, the better for everyone. I will not get into a linguistics lecture, but as words are used, people start to associate them with the thing to which they refer (if you start calling a "plus-size model" a "model", then it will…

She is a normal, healthy human being. Why are women with a healthy weight/height ratio called "plus size"?

Apparently...

I don't think I am. French police is crap because it's the police, not because it's French.

So let's just say it: France is a nation of rapists, a lawless land in which even the police will rape you if they get the chance.