olivier in france

???? i really don't understand what your answer has to do with my post... I just said i think it's completly stupid to say homosexual parents may be a problem for their children because it may cause those children to face more homophobia than "normal" kids. The problem is homophobia not homosexual parents.

The problem here is not homosexual parents, it's homophobic parents who raise their kids teaching them homophobia is the norm and homophobic words acceptable! your arguments are frightening, in the 60ies with the same kind of arguments you 'd have defend segregation because black kids would have to face racism in integrated schools!

The clitonistas knew how to have fun?!

It seems much better!! The 20th looks even better! 20/12 2012!! And please note i'm free the 21/12 2112!

May 2011 does not look right... i will wait for the next new date of the Apocalypse ...

so Chef have you received and tasted the La Clape?

what's May 2011? the new date for the Apocalypse?!

i'm not sure of the exact meaning of "empowerment". If that means gaining control, knowledge, security it's not what i mean at all. At the contrary, i think happiness is more a (man they gonna kill me for using this "so french" term!) surrender. In that meaningless life, don't lose your time trying to control things, people, let it go, enjoy your time, your "ride", open your eyes, travel, love, read, smell, taste, listen, go for the home run everyday and don't accept at any cost that others even try to control anything in your life.

to be happy is first to be unsatisfied ... to be happy is to be hungry, hungry to eat everything this world has to offer. here's a translation (that i did so sorry if it's not too good) of "le dernier repas" a song by the great Jacques Brel, IMO the greatest french speaking songwriter ever... That is how i see that whole sh.. Le dernier repas, "the last meal" For my last meal I want to see my brothers My dogs and cats and the sea shore For my last meal I want to see my neighbors And some chinese pretending to be my cousins And i want us to drink some church wine And this beautiful wine we drank in Arbois I want us to eat after a few fat friars, A pheasant hen coming from Perigord Then they'll bring me at the top of the hill To see the trees sleep closing their arms And then i'll throw some stones to the sky Shouting "God is dead" one last time. For my last meal I want to see my mule, My hens and my geese, my cows and my women For my last meal i want to see those funny girls For whom i was master and king or who were my masters And once i'll have drink enough to drown the Earth I'll break my glass to have some silence And i will then sing to the coming Death Some slob romances that frighten the nonnes Then they'll bring me at the top of the hill To see the night falling on the plain And there still standing i'll insult the hoosiers With no fear or remorse one last time For my last meal, i want everybody to leave So that they finish their banquet out of my house After my last meal i want them to sit me alone As a king welcoming his vestales In my pipe i'll burn my childhood memories, My unfinished dreams, my remining hopes And i'll keep to dress my soul only the idea of a rose, And the name of a woman Then i'll watch the top of the hill, it dances, it vanishes, And finally sinks in the smell of the flowers, That soon will disappear, and then i'll be afraid, One last time

so it's not "MAY" , it's sure i will not be at peace! damned, life 's too short and this world too big !! Even if you live 100 years all you can do is scratching the surface!!

why peace? i'm violently happy!!

Believe me i'm VERY tolerant. I even tolerate right wing and religious nuts!

that sounds like a fair deal!

Oh so it's OK i'm not!!

i'm perfectly happy and don't believe in God and principles, will i survive doctor?

yeah Tolerance is bad!!

LOL In french we have an other expression "Heureux les simples d'esprit" (translation being something like "happy the simple minds")

What's funny is that the Left here is saying the same about the french media "they're presidential propaganda, the toy of Sarkozy and its friends, this friend of him owns that and that company owns that....". So according to all this people (the french left and the american right) the French media should be partisan to the Right and the US media totally in the hands of the Left... ... well so i don't understand why, as usual, when i'm fed up with those socialists of the french media i check some american mainstream media sites (like the NYT, CBS or NBC) ...

in the Skydome or whatever its new name is.

Bien vu! François etait sur le plateau de L Luyat cette année... moi j'y étais l'année d'avant! a plus

i did not know that one but it's perfect for the one who say it to look stupid and ignorant! what english word has no equivalent in the french language? Gratitude IS a FRENCH WORD!! One of the few thousands the english use like "stupid" or "ignorant" for exemple! you made my day!!!

Thanks Bill , i had not come here since the end of the season and i don't post much anyway on the main board. (i prefer the craziness of the PPP or the funny stuff of the "off the wall" board)... so it's just so funny to see the old jokes coming back from people who have no idea i saw them hundreds of time and have been one of the big big regular posters of the early days of this board!! The magazine is doing OK, in our 5th season now. well no way we can think of making money with it but it's a nice tool of communication inside the small world of french football. The blog is a new thing where i am the main writer and so far we have good results.

pas de 'blem scribo, hésite pas à laisser des commentaires et à t'abonner au mag!! for german speakers sorry ... but i'm sure you should find plenty of good german or austrian sites on the internet!! (kind of funny to see the usual french jokes coming back after a few months not visiting TBD!!, especially coming from kids registrated here for a few months!!)

As some of you know, i write for the only football magazine in France, the monthly "Elitefootmag". For a few months i take care of the blog of the magazine. elitefoot.blogspot.com I know a few french canadians come here and if some of you english speaking fans want to work on their french reading football stuff!...

By the way it's not like all Senate members and all allies of the USA agreed with what the US administration was "selling". It's not like the "evidences" given then by the Bush adminstration did not let room for doubt and questions... Those, and especially the democrats, who supported the war in Iraq, chose to trust the government and to not listen to other opinions and sources. It was their choice and if they say now "they lied to us or we did not know" they're hypocrit liars. To support the military invasion of a foreign country is as serious a decision as i can think about for a member of the Congress, if you do it without listening carefully to all opinions on the issue, you're playing with your country's security, the future of the people you represent. The blindness of the US congress during that period is still something i can not understand. It probably raises more questions about our occidental democraties than what the Bush administration did.