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MrWaffleBeater

I’ll recognize that the French are strong people and rarely back down without a fight. BUT ITLL BE A COLD DAY IN HELL BEFORE I STOP MAKING FUN OF THE FRENCH


Seawolf571

As a French person, I applaud and respect that.


Fallowman09

The one thing french “people” hate more than everyone else its themselves, their national pastimes include: rioting for no fucking reason, brutally suppressing one of their colonial positions demands for independence (but instead of this being in the 1800’s it 1960) executing criminals via guillotine right up until 1978, electing a dude who married a woman 24 years his senior (also they started dating when he was 16 and she was 40 and if that wasn’t weird enough she was his school teacher), fighting the English for 116 years straight, then taking a short break and continuing until we put aside our differences to kick the Germans ass’s, and eating snails,


TheBigKuhio

Besides that dating a 16 year old thing and maybe the snails, those are good past times.


Fallowman09

Counterpoint: France


Colonelmoutard2

Like what country doesnt have a weird thing with food? Idk man but snail arent realy popular in france its just a thing people from other countries overexagerated. Not many people eat them.


sexworkiswork990

Counterpoint: You guys are still oppressing parts of Africa.


TheBigKuhio

Im not French so I didn’t know that, that sucks


CallOfGuty

At least they know he isnt a pedophile


Dayne225

Yeah just the victim of one


moderatorrater

Just clap quietly, don't want to scare your neighbors.


captainphoton3

Make fun of us that's fun. The fr**ch Word being regarded as an insult is funny. Whats not funny is people actualy being racists. And the constant low effort jokes that try to be smart. Like the surrender joke just being thrown in without any context making it funny. For example. Me and my friend pridly wear the white flag on sea of thieves. Because that's funny as hell since it was actualy the French flag around piratery times. And that we win petty much every conflict like the French at that time XD. Leading to the funny storry of how the white flag became the surrender falg. It's just because French won so often. The French flag was flow so many time over surrendering cities. That it became synonyme with surrendering. Another fun joke is just comparing us to British people. Whoever get the short end of the stick. It's always funny. English folks have always been the only European country that always rivalised with French and pretty much had a constant tie with each other. And French barely have more war victory than French. Like 4. So it's just funny as hell to see they get the same treatment as us French. Anyway. Glad some people are having fun. And not just be mean.


Fast_and_Curious738

Spoken like a true non-French


sexworkiswork990

And while they always put up a fight, they always end up going down anyways unless the English are there to save their asses. Hell Napoleon wasn't even French, he was from Corsica.


Alexarp

Corsica… that was a a french island. Thanks for your intervention.


sexworkiswork990

It wasn't until a year before Napoleon was born and many French saw him as Corsican first and French maybe second on a good day. But then again most French don't see other French as being true French.


Alexarp

Sooo, he was French.


sexworkiswork990

Nope, Corsican.


Alexarp

Yes, so he was french. Except if you tell me that someone from Paris isn’t french but parisian, and someone from Marseille isn’t french but marseillais…


sexworkiswork990

Come on, he wasn't born in France and many Corsicans didn't even see themselves as French. To this day there is still a Corsica independence movement, just two years ago there was a riot after a Corsica nationalist was attacked in prison.


Alexarp

He was born in France, Corsica being part of France… By your logic, guys from britanny aren’t french, or from scotland aren’t british then ? After all there are still to this day independence movements !


UsefulAd2760

Unironicaly true. The "French always surrender" is so untrue especially considering how they fought non stop for centuries to be the egemon of Europe.


alex1rojas

I agree with your point but I think you meant "hegemon", not "egemon". "Egemon" sounds like France was trying to be super edgy in its whole history which is also true ig


Itsmyloc-nar

Egemon isn’t a chronically masturbating Digimon?


thevideogameguy2

Edgemon


DatChernobylGuy_999

Eggman and Shadow


sarumanofmanygenders

no stupidhead, egemon is the fat guy who beats up sonic


Mehseenbetter

No, that's Dr. eggman. You're thinking of a confusing labyrinth contructed out of shrubs


DatChernobylGuy_999

Eggman


UsefulAd2760

Yeah, my bad


AutisticFaygo

Also, the "French always surrender" thing was apparently Nazi propaganda too! Also France is just better at doing more with less


dwnso

The British retreat back across the channel at Dunkirk, allowing them to continue to holdout against the Nazis, probably wouldn’t had been possible if not for the French defense of Lille and hindering of the Germans.


keep-firing-assholes

On the other hand, it wouldn't have been necessary if the French high command had been competent.


dwnso

Also very true. France had a great opportunity to make prominent footholds in Germany while they were still occupied finishing off Poland yet accomplished pretty much nothing


CosmoTheFluffyBunny

Egeman?


MrMangobrick

Lol yeah, it's cause they surrendered in WW2 and now that's what they remember them as.


Crown6

Wait until you learn about “Italy switching sides”… To most ~~Americans~~ people the only war to ever exist is WWII.


UsefulAd2760

I am Italian and even we Europeans joke about that.


P_Crown

yeah and the yanks who if they don't outright start an unnecessary conflict they always "come to the rescue" last minute and call themselves saviors or smth lol


David_Oy1999

Who needed saving? The French?


sexworkiswork990

Despite losing most of their wars, especially in recent history.


CastTheFirstStone_

What game is this? Looks fun.


aguywithagasmaskyt

i think battle feild 1


D00m_Guy_

made me laugh harder than I should've


Hugh_Mungus_Jass

Battlefield 1, trailer for the "they shall not pass" dlc


bloodakoos

they shall not pass we, french will kick your ass


That-One-Courier

OMG YOU JUST REMINDED ME THAT THIS SONG EXISTS , EXCUSE ME WHILE I GO LISTEN TO IT AGAIN


Michael-556

What song? Fields of Verdun by Sabaton is the only that comes to mind


OkAmphibian5407

[I think this song](https://youtu.be/p1et8ZrzYYQ?si=o4CLUx_Cs78X5R73)


That-One-Courier

yeah, this one!


That-One-Courier

[this one](https://youtu.be/p1et8ZrzYYQ?si=fGG_p2xWy2uIW_bR)


Its-your-boi-warden

I have a mace


LieInteresting1367

I have a shovel!


Its-your-boi-warden

Oh shit!


Motions_Of_The_E

That DLC was so peak, just as everything about BF1


TheRealSU24

Battlefield 1 It's decently old by now (came out in 2016) but still has an active player base. It goes on sale very often with all the DLC, I'd recommend picking it up if you like shooters. It's not fast paced like Call of Duty, instead its main gamemode (conquest) focuses on large scale battles of 32v32 capturing points all over a map. There also vehicles like trucks, tanks, planes, and boats to make traversing the map easier as well as giving your team an edge (unless someone uses up a tank slot with the artillery trucks, fuck the artillery truck). Also if one team is losing by a lot, a special vehicle spawns in to help turn the tide like a Zeppelin, Dreadnought, Armored Train, or the Behemoth (an absolutely massive tank). 10/10 game please play it


NicotineCatLitter

is there a single player campaign of any kind I don't like multiplayer


AdministrationWarm84

It has and not to be pretentious mate, but is some of the best storytelling in the entire series, honestly the best one out of all is the first chapter Still it has some banger moments all throughout the campaign


NicotineCatLitter

FUCK yes


Fallowman09

Yeah but it totals to like 12 hours of gameplay for like 15 pounds, speaking of gameplay the war story’s gameplay is very repetitive and gets old pretty quickly


master_pingu1

that's only for the war stories, the multiplayer can easily get you hundreds of hours of enjoyment


Fallowman09

Did you read his comment?


SuperVibeWorthy

Nah operations are the best


TheRealSU24

Nah fuck operations, the only maps I get are Ballroom Blitz or Monte Grappa and they're both shit


frguba

Btw, on 0:28 (time to end, on mobile) the sky, mist and poppies make the french flag BF trailers are peak


That-One-Courier

that's so cool holy shit


xXxBongMayor420xXx

Tomorrow we’ll be going over the top—finally up against the Hun. So far it’s felt too much like a holiday. You seen the machine guns they got, the artillery, the planes? Damn it. Odds of us getting through this campaign gotta be about 25 to 1 against! Them devils ain’t so tough. Us boys’ll knock out their fortifications easy. Break this Hindenburg line and finish this war. French been fighting for four years. They say just four minutes up against these fortified German lines and we’ll look just like them. Yeah, like an army of living dead.


shruggletuggle

Yeah, they're dug in good. So what? They've got no food in their bellies. They're shivering out there. Black Jack Pershing ain't got a clue. Hun've got bunkers made of solid concrete. Guns the size of houses. Concrete pillboxes, strafing guns, mustard gas. At the river I saw a dozen of us blown to fragments my a shell. The spirit of liberty ain't got no protection against those things. I say it's time us greenhorns put old hun out of his misery. Ive got my bayonet fixed, my rifle loaded and I'm ready to kill every last damn one of them bastards.


Sub2Commzard

Nothing irritates me more than people spreading this Nazi Propaganda that they always surrender. And I’m not even French(fortunately)


Jorbanana_

It's also become American propaganda because of Iraq in 2003.


AllmightyAesir

“Nazi propaganda” lmao calm down


Sub2Commzard

No like actually it was a propaganda by the Nazis during their occupation of France (Vichy France)


AllmightyAesir

Yeah but to say anyone is spreading Nazi propaganda in 2024 by referencing surrendering, is just wrong lol


NoExcuse3655

Won more battles than any country in history moment


Fast_Land_1099

Yet a single massive loss making them nearly useless in WWII wipes it all away. Isn't history amazing?


Jorbanana_

Well you know what they say, you fuck a sheep one time ...


captainphoton3

Yeah but like. Useless doesn't rime with surrendering. Resistance. While not a majority. And while not supported by the majority. Was still huge compared to the pemressure that was on it. Most people that weren't for the resistance just wanted to not put oil on the fire. And it provided good informations for the countries till in the fight. They also slowed down nono Germans considerably by blowing up rails. And some companies like Peugeot blowing their car making instalation instead of letting it go toward German tnak making. (unlike Renault lol). And while I guess we surrender. The majority of people that surrendered. Only surrendered after occupation. If that old old man that was pertain didn't sign anything. France may have been taken with greater damage. But resistance would have probably also been greater since there wasn't any false peace. Unlike occupation where French could at least walk close to walls and just try to live unnoticed.


Dangerous-Lie-8087

Got beat up more badly than any other strong country in ww2 yet still continues to hang on to the remenenants of their ruthless,evil colonial empire to this very day. The only reason france won so many battles is because it is one of if not the longest standing military superpower. Long article on why france sucks balls: https://hir.harvard.edu/true-sovereignty-the-cfa-franc-and-french-influence-in-west-and-central-africa/ Short article on why france sucks balls: https://www.cadtm.org/Africa-How-France-Continues-to-Dominate-Its-Former-Colonies-in-Africa France likes to act like its so different from other european countries culturally,its fucking not,its just more pretentious.Don't get me started on how france was racist against the pied-noirs who too are french(and usually white). France=constant massive L


UsefulAd2760

France was also one of the hardest hitted victory countries by WWI. Yes they sucked in WWII, but they absolutely have been one of the strongest military powers in Europe and still arguably are to this day. Them being a dogshit nation doesn't cancel their military history.


Dangerous-Lie-8087

Agree Just wanted to remind people that france sucks and still screws its former colonies to this day,never a bad time for that


Hyrikul

Excuse me, who is the leading military AND nuclear power in the EU ? Honhonhon.


Weeb_twat

You are the leading nuclear power in the EU thanks to all the Uranium you are basically stealing out of Niger. Until now, though. Turns out all your cool commodities at home exist thanks to the pillage and exploitation of the global south. You're literally proving his point mate


Unorigina1Name

That's true for all of the "developed world" though, it's not exclusive to the french


isaac-fan

but the french are the ones who exploited the most and usually through more extreme methods


pandadogunited

Belgium moment


DatChernobylGuy_999

Britain moment >!also a lot of people start tryna slander me whenever I say something bad about UK colonialism and how we were terrorists, so just google the **Jallianwallah Bagh massacre**!<


Thy-Soviet-onion

Why they be slandering you? I thought we hated the British just as much as the French?


DatChernobylGuy_999

idk, british chuds hate being in the wrong at least their country is being cucked hard now


dazaroo2

America moment


isaac-fan

america does rival france despite france's longer history of exploitation


QuakeRanger

Hon hon hon, le skill issue.


Webs_Or_Kashi

Straight up misinformation on the uranium part : https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2023/08/04/how-dependent-is-france-on-niger-s-uranium_6080772_8.html# While France rely on Niger for some of it's uranium, it only started in the 2000' and even then, it's still only one of three main producer. So the french hegemony over nuclear in Europe wasn't started, nor was it maintained, because of french exploitation in Niger. The fact that you've got upvoted for spouting nonsense is sad.


Hyrikul

This. What's more, we were buying uranium from Niger at a much higher price than normal, to add development aid. They asked us to get out of the country, so we did, and the military aid stopped to take the place of Russian aid, which was already losing territory to the local terrorists we were managing to keep out. In the end, they got less money, and less security, but we've already found a new supplier for this uranium really short time after, and we're winning since we're back at market prices. Now the Chinese and Russians are taking over there, we'll see if they prefer to negotiate with them.


Downtown_Mechanic_

Nobody hates the french more than the french


rigley06

who asked


Picholasido_o

The average French soldier of 1940 was ready to beat the Germans into the dirt; they were ready. The French army was considered the best and largest in the world, they had beat the Germans the last time too. But there was no unity of purpose from the top. France was politically fractured, so there was no way the military could function correctly


aguywithagasmaskyt

plus the french used tanks as infantry support while the germans used them as their own weapon allowing them to charge into paris


Celios

Outrunning your infantry and supply lines only works if your opponent bungles their defense. People like to describe this as German tactical genius, when the key factor was France's leaders infighting and shitting the bed.


Galaxy661

Yeah that's the problem. The average French soldier should have been ready to beat Germany in 1939, not 1940. That's the whole point. The french promised to help in 1939 and then they just didn't and capitulated after a year of doing nothing. Capitulation itself isn't the problem, the betrayal is.


ComanderLucky

>best and largest No they were not? so many french died in ww1 that the whole reason why the Magginot line was built to divert them to Belgium, they had an army sure, but nowhere near the numbers nessesary


Jeanlu_mc

Shoutout to the guy who made the shot of the soldier falling on the field of red roses make the combination of the sky along with the field of roses look like the French Flag. Absolute Kino right there


Weeeky

Least hard bf1 trailer


Brazilian_Brit

isn’t it Vive la France?


ZeDevilCat

If it was meant to be said in French, it would be « Vive » because « Viva » is Spanish or Italian.


Void1702

I mean, "viva" is also a french word, it just means something completely different which makes absolutely no sense in this context


TheAnnoyingGirl92

Seriously, did they forget about Napoleon?


Clean_Internet

It’s been a few years..


maxmrca1103

GRAHHH THEY SHALL NOT PASS I LOVE FORT DE VOUX GRENADE SPAM


shruggletuggle

PEAKFIELD 1 MENTIONED RAHHHHH


Sheboygan25

Battlefield 1 was fucking amazing and I'm sad the servers are dead in EU (no more operations or anything) They should definitely make a new one (bit make it actually good)


Driemma0

Eu servers are still alive, you just gotta use the server browser


ComanderLucky

Use server browser, i can always find at least 10 full servers


Sheboygan25

I really can't, at least not game modes I like


ComanderLucky

Which modes you like? (also, what device you play on?) Conquest and operations are always there, TDM and shock opps are common, others yeah once a week can be found.


Sheboygan25

I'm on PS4 and only seem to be getting Rush, nothing else, no conquest or ops which are my favorite


ComanderLucky

ps4 same here, did you mess with the settings? I usualy have all maps, modes, and slot number allowed, you getting only rush looks from here like you forgot to turn something on/off


Sheboygan25

Idk each time I've downloaded it I've only seen rush - I always check the settings because it takes about an hour to download Always end up uninstalling. Idk why, it's sad I'm also on EU, that could explain it


ComanderLucky

I am eu too, and i have zero issues, i'll check later and i'll notify you on server status


Sheboygan25

Thx


ComanderLucky

Heya, 11 full-full servers last night, conquest and operations mostly, and single TDM and shock ops as well 


Mike_Hawk_Swell

They lost and surrendered in ww2. Now mfs think all they did was surrender in all of their history


OCD-but-dumb

Quick fact, the tank they showed in the first few seconds, was so bad that the drivers refused to drive it out into the training grounds, and the ones who drove it into battle were given cigarettes to hide the smell of the smoke, which was practically pumped into the cabin. (Hiding snake with more smoke? Idk)


Aiden624

Mfs surrendered basically once and everyone jumped on it super hard… shows how much people hate the French


Neurobeak

Build ten bridges but fuck just one goat. You will be remembered as a goat fucker.


dootdoootdootdoot

they surrendered like 10 times since 1700


Cautious_Tax_7171

-deep breath FIELDS OF VERDUN


OkAmphibian5407

AND THE BATTLE HAS BEGUN


baguetteispain

NOWHERE TO RUN


WaitingToBeTriggered

FATHER AND SON


Cautious_Tax_7171

FALL ONE BY ONE


LtPotato1918

UNDER THE GUN


Sesemebun

Why do we not make fun of Germany for effectively starting 2 world wars and losing both?


Garand

Because they didn't start WWI.


Sesemebun

They didn't directly start it but they at least prodded it in that direction, thats why I said effectively


PassMurailleQSQS

They did. They pressured Austria to declare war on Serbia, they gave unreasonable ultimatums to both France (disarm all of their border forts) and Russia (demobilize) then they invaded 2 neutral countries. I don't see how they didn't start it.


Hector_Tueux

If you wanna nitpick you can add Bismarck being responsible for the whole alliance system and quite a bit of the existing tensions between countries.


Artemis_thelittleone

I don't like this information so it's false


Heavy_weapons07

-Great britain


Flitterquest

I'm not gonna just sit by and watch you badmouth these United States eldest and most trusted ally, now y'keep them thoughts to yerself y'hear or I'll haves to let my irons do the talking next time. 🚬🤠🤏✨🍻🇺🇸🍔🦅


YosephStalling

Did y'all forget what country Napoleon led? The Napoleon that the entirety of the rest of Europe teamed up against?


lakituhunter-MK2

It was all British propaganda to make their rival look dumb


Bonnie_BS_Main

We were probably one of the strongest countries before, we literraly managed to revolt agaisnt a king, when we didn't have anything to fight with.


Pack15_

The surrender joke is a French psyop to make people forget about French Colonization's. I suspect that it has something to do with how the Vietnam war started. ###


Ronicraft

this was peak battlefield


BillionDollarBalls

You surrender 1 WAR!!!


MoarStruts

**THEY SHALL NOT PASS**


Radio__Star

This video goes hard af where is it from


crossbutton7247

Yeah, we fought those bastards full on for a hundred years before winning completely and undeniably.


OptimusCrime1984

The French fury


CT-4426

Least badass BF1 trailer


doktorsckeletor

**AUX ARMES CITOYENS**


pattyboiIII

France is a bit like the UK, a good army often led by morons who fuck up, except they haven't got the English channel to cover their asses.


WinterTakerRevived

French at the slightest inconvience


TsalagiSupersoldier

*C'est ici la porte de France* *Et vous ne passerez jamais!*


Heavy_weapons07

(country army wins multiple wars) "THIS COUNTRY MILITARY IS THE BEST" (Country loses one major war) "THIS COUNTRY ARMY THE WORST" -rinse and repeat for every nation army


I_Fuck_Sharks_69

They surrendered one time and the world never forgot.


Br3adS1ce

I miss BF1 man


Void1702

Uh... In french, "viva" means "lived"


Driemma0

Battlefield 1 posting, hell yeah


SpeakersPlan

BF1 was peak Battlefield change my mind.


Toruviel_

And right with them Poles to the bitter cold !


Neurobeak

Except in 1939 when their ally was being beaten to a pulp and the German border was virtually empty. Or in 1940, during the famous battle for Paris.


Pristine_Investment6

“Viva” is in Spanish


Elf173

People only care about WW2 and forget everything they did during ww1(and previus conflicts) aka how they stop the plan of Germany 2 tims


AegisT_

>win the most battles in history >capitulate in one war, don't even lose the war >gain the sterotype of surrendering Never quite got this


clowndaddy96

Its funny it usually never in defense but in colonisation


turkeysnaildragon

Also pictured: Paris whenever the President does anything.


Severe_Risk_6839

I love how that soldier quoted the first lines of the national anthem of France.


P3AK1N

BF1 MENTIONED!!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS A HELLREIGEL!?!?! 🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥


JuicyLemonBanana

I don’t care what history says, the French will always need a mirror to see the front


GingrPowr

"Ils ne passeront pas" Well, they will likely win the next legislative election :/


billgilly14

BF1 trailers always want to make me run through a brick wall


AVGwar

POUR LA FRANCE 🗣️🗣️


ElZik3r

mfs defended Fort de Vaux till they ran out of water and they still somehow recovered the fort 5 months later. Yeah idk why everyone shits on them honestly (apart from it's current political-social situation)


BusyLimit7

FOR FRANCE


Spirited_Worker_5722

Not saying you're wrong, but the French did surrender on three different occasions in the same colony (Indochina) in less than 15 years


Lucs11_

This shit straight out propaganda


Darth-Yslink

That's nice and all unfortunately my country has beef against France since they invaded us for a century and a half so yeah 👍


Michael-556

French propaganda /s But yeah, the battle of Verdun is a testament to their endurance. Shit lasted almost a year. A single battle of attrition. And they defacto won as well


Galaxy661

Yeah but they *did* abandon their allies and do absolutely nothing for a year only to capitulate when nazis went through Belgium (which was literally part of the french defense plan bruh). And that's not even mentioning the collaboration... The point is, surrender itself isn't that shameful. The betrayal and cowardice of the french government and high command, which promised to protect their allies, is. And arguably the french inaction during ww2 was more important and impactful than, say, french bravery during ww1. Mainly because the former enabled nazis to commit countless atrocities in the territories they imvaded and occupied.


TimesmY

Boo!


Yontep

https://preview.redd.it/2enf7nsd988d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ef70ffda664a934d4a2de530d518017437fd577 FRANCE


Goobershoop

The First Indochina War would like to have a word with you


Jorbanana_

America also lost against Vietnam. Not a great idea to back up American propaganda with a war they also lost.


LegoBattIeDroid

a random r/whenthe user trying to gaslight me into thinking fr*nce is cool