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France Opens Secret UFO Files
Radon360 notes that France has become the first country to open its files on UFOs. A new website lists over 1600 sightings dating back to the 1950s.
"The online archives, which will be updated as new cases are reported, catalogues in minute detail cases ranging from the easily dismissed to a handful that continue to perplex even hard-nosed scientists.
Known as OVNIs in French, UFOs have always generated intense interest along with countless conspiracy theories about secretive government cover-ups of findings deemed too sensitive or alarming for public consumption."
You mean instead of declaring victory despite actually losing, going home and rewriting the history books?
Come on, I am french myself and find the parent funny :)
Don't you know it is now both immoral and criminal to think beyond the next quarterly report?
Don't you know it is now both immoral and criminal to think beyond the next quarterly report?
we didn't get our asses kicked in vietnam, we simply didn't bring enough bullets for the numbers we where facing.
that and someone didn't understand the age old bit of knowledge. never get into a land war in Asia.
Vietnam was a draw. no one won, and in the end the vietcong did what they wanted to do ten years earlier anyways.
When will the "it's funny because I'm ignorant!" French surrender joke finally give way to something truthful?
Naah, they'll prop up the Maginot line and the aliens will just walk over Belgium instead.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
When the French stand up to a country without the impulse towards appeasement, the French surrender jokes will cease.
Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
I really hate that cliché. All it takes is for an American to hear something about a foreign country and they say "How do you say [insert something vaguely appropriate] in [insert language of the country]?". The assumption is that nobody will actually know the answer to the question, which therefore becomes rhetorical.
Not to mention that the post that was supposed to need modding up contained nothing but another cliché, crappily translated into French. But wait, I "must be new here", right?
Naw, surrender is too active. They'd just sit passively by while the aliens took over their country. The French don't surrender...they just don't fight.
No, the Americans won. The objective was to crush successful independent development in South-East Asia. They were indeed driven out, but only after achieving the objective.
Not in all countries. Horizontally cut thin potato slices are crisps in British English.
Fries don't exist in BE unless you work at McD's - they are called chips.
This is all just my personal opinion.