Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys

i have no French ancestry, no French friends, never toured France, so have no special love of the country or its people. but the phrase "Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys" has always seemed to me to be in particularly bad taste.

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[Orygyn]

Surely them standing up against our collective stupidity in 2002 takes balls and also renders that phrase moronic.

[gothatfunk]

@Orygyn agreed.

[Benobo1t]

Yeah, well they may have had alternatives to surrender. Perhaps hurling cattle, insults, and farting in thei general direction.

[Anekantavad]

@BillKiernan " they just made some serious tactical errors that led to the mass surrendering"

which led to a surrender to a numerically and materially inferior enemy.

Just like what the British did in Malaya and the Americans did in the Philippines a year and a half later.

:-)

[Anekantavad]

This one is going to get a video response :-)

[CMO999]

I wouldn't even try to reason with people that would say something idiotic like that.

[crazybasement]

Freedom Fries. Oh how we laughed :)

[Liftorangejuice]

Great Britain was more difficult to invade...

[TheTempleofNature]

Nationalism, xenophobia, yuck. I remember when I was a child, British culture infusing me with a strong hate of both the French and Americans. Now I laugh at how childish I was, but I am sad that some adults still uphold such childish views.

[ChameleonLost88]

I agree with you. Also, that whole "Freedom Fries" thing showed just how childish the Bush administration really was. On the other hand though I'm personally tired of people calling all Americans things like "Shallow Warmongers".

[Q3ToPBuZz]

As ever, thoughtful,thought provoking and eloquent .

The quantity may have lessened but the quality has not.

[army103]

I've loved that phrase ever since Groundskeeper Willie said it while teaching a French class.

[BillKiernan]

i have no problem with the french. the only time i get testy with them is when they criticize us for things they as a nation have done in the past, and still do. the french do shady, imperialist shit TO THIS DAY, but are often quick to criticize the U.S for such things. as far as WWII, they just made some serious tactical errors that led to the mass surrendering.