Weird English Shop Signs Part 22 – Beyond the Périphérique and the Pyrenees
Special Guest City: Seville
If Paris and Seville went head-to-head and toe-to-toe in a hand-to-hand battle to see which city has more and weirder English shop signs, they would be… How shall I put this? Evenly matched. In a dead heat. Something like that. … Read More
Paris Top Sexual City
Sexy City
Few will be surprised to hear it, but according to a study conducted by an adult app store, Lazeeva, Paris is the world’s most sex-positive city, followed by Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles. “Sex-positive” was defined as “having … Read More
Weird English Shop Signs Part 21 – Oh, and the French Election
Is There a Transatlantic Connection?
These signs started cropping up all over Paris on November 9 last year. Probably just a coincidence. (Thanks to reader Linda Quinet for her contribution to this montage.) Before I go on, I should mention that France just had … Read More
Formality in France: Standing Really Hard on a Whole Lot of Ceremony
Ah, the Trappings of Power!
Among people of other nationalities, the French are often perceived as being overly formal, the kind of stuffy prigs who speak in florid prose and keep their pinkies up even under anesthesia. Today I would like to set the record … Read More
French-Bashing and Data-Mashing: Battle of the Weather Bureaus
Is This the New Cold War?
The first thing I do when I get up in the morning, after converting to a new religion so I can pray to a different god not to let France follow the United States and Britain down a political rabbit … Read More
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