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Japanese invade Paris: get sick, have to leave

From Journal Du Dimanche: some Japanese tourists in Paris lose their little, inscrutable minds when confronted with the dirt, filth, rudeness, horror, and disgust--that is to say, the reality of France. The image of Paris in their minds clashes with what they see once actually there and the result is cognitive dissonance run amok. "Fragile travelers can lose their bearings. When the idea they have of the country meets the reality of what they discover it can provoke a crisis," said a psychiatrist familiar with the various freak-outs that have occurred.

This should be no surprise to those of us familiar with la pays du poubelle. PJ O'Rourke perhaps said it best in describing our friends across the sea: "The French: sawed off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. They fight with their feet and perform sex acts with their faces. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language. Good points: invented the blowjob."

posted by Nigel St.John Regina Smegmatica Howle-Raines @ 7:56 AM