November 30, 2006: Paris by night panorama

[tulzscha]

Originally Posted by jaybat

Are those lights or burning cars?

Aww, I got beaten to it.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yeah tulzscha, me too.

Welcome to the Cellar jaybat.

[SPUCK]

Are those lights or burning cars?

I was recently told by a guy who visits Paris regularly on business that all those car burnings are really just show. They get permits. They close the streets. They bring in purchased wrecks. Then they torch them. Our favorite media idiots then come trotting in and wah-law; "ohmygawd they're burning cars in Paris!!"

He swore he watched all this occur and that, that is what always happens.

??

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by SPUCK

I was recently told by a guy who visits Paris regularly on business that all those car burnings are really just show. They get permits. They close the streets. They bring in purchased wrecks. Then they torch them. Our favorite media idiots then come trotting in and wah-law; "ohmygawd they're burning cars in Paris!!"

He swore he watched all this occur and that, that is what always happens.

??

Burning something does seem to be a standard French protest, so I can understand that they're pretty organised about it by now.

But the idea that it's for show is missing the point. It's a protest, and it's still a burning car. I very much doubt that when Paris erupted into riots last year it was "for show"

[Undertoad]

So the poor impoverished minorities are buying wrecks to torch them?

They've averaged 110 per night so that's a lot of money for show.

And how about the two people who died recently when a working bus was torched?

The story says a lot about how deep the French capacity for denial is.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Isn't denying the problem, helping make it bigger?

[milkfish]

Let's show those French by doing them one better: we'll go out, buy some wrecks and deep-fry them.

[SPUCK]

LOL

[dar512]

Originally Posted by SPUCK

Our favorite media idiots then come trotting in and wah-law; "ohmygawd they're burning cars in Paris!!"

The word is voila -- and it's French.

There's some serious irony in there somewhere.

[SPUCK]

HAHA!!

No wonder the spell checker refused to help me....

[xoxoxoBruce]

vi·o·la -1 n.

1- A stringed instrument of the violin family, slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower, and having a deeper, more sonorous tone.

2- An organ stop usually of eight-foot or four-foot pitch yielding stringlike tones.


vi·o·la -2 n.

A plant of the genus Viola, which includes the violets and pansies, especially a variety having flowers resembling violets in size and shape and pansies in coloration.


voi·là - interj.

Used to call attention to or express satisfaction with a thing shown or accomplished: Mix the ingredients, chill, and voilà! a light, tasty dessert.

[SPUCK]

I thank you... You are a gentleman and a scholar.

[milkfish]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

vi·o·la -1 n.

1- A stringed instrument of the violin family, slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower, and having a deeper, more sonorous tone.

2- An organ stop usually of eight-foot or four-foot pitch yielding stringlike tones.


vi·o·la -2 n.

A plant of the genus Viola, which includes the violets and pansies, especially a variety having flowers resembling violets in size and shape and pansies in coloration.

And I think he won the 1988 Cy Young award for the AL, too.

[xoxoxoBruce]

But I keep pitching...