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[–]American in PragueMarburgDE 358ポイント359ポイント  (161子コメント)

It's about 11:00 am...so I'd say they are doing this

[–]FranceComteBilou 217ポイント218ポイント  (125子コメント)

I'm french and i'm eating camembert with baguette right now

[–]just czechin' outRogue-Knight 158ポイント159ポイント  (101子コメント)

You are doing god's work. Stereotypes must be upheld for the sake of Europe.

edit: brb going for beer

[–]HungryGreatReader 61ポイント62ポイント  (5子コメント)

Hungarian here, brb kicking migrants

[–]GermanyABoutDeSouffle 49ポイント50ポイント  (32子コメント)

Had dark bread and wurst for breakfast. Beer-garden later, and I am gonna wear a Dirndl.

[–]SerbiacollectionOfTruth 22ポイント23ポイント  (7子コメント)

Oh nice, nothing like a strong breakfast to start your day. I'm known as a wurst guy myself, as I had cevapi for breakfast while playing the accordion. Time for rakija, I think.

[–]GermanyABoutDeSouffle 8ポイント9ポイント  (4子コメント)

while playing the accordion

That 10h video loop of the stone-faced Serbian soldiers playing the accordion, trumpet and electronic organ...

I think my head never fully recovered.

[–]Germanywhereworm 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hahaha "I'm known as a wurst guy"

[–]Definitely Not a War Criminal!aLibertine 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Let's start a meaningless war in the meantime.

[–]FinlandArttuH5N1 20ポイント21ポイント  (3子コメント)

I guess I'm just going to be alcoholic and depressed today then.

[–]DenmarkGoddamitMrNoodle 10ポイント11ポイント  (2子コメント)

Better put the puukko away before getting too drunk.

[–]FinlandArttuH5N1 16ポイント17ポイント  (1子コメント)

How am I going to stab people without it? You clearly didn't think this through.

[–]Tundur 7ポイント8ポイント  (11子コメント)

Northerners go on about how much better they are than the south of Germany but... y'know, I think they're jealous. Slainte.

[–]FrieslandFrisianDude 4ポイント5ポイント  (9子コメント)

North always > South.

[–]Federación IbéricaHohenes 10ポイント11ポイント  (8子コメント)

Bitch please, quality of life and life expectancy > a few points more of GDP per capita.

[–]The NetherlandsReinierPersoon 6ポイント7ポイント  (4子コメント)

No! Efficiency is more important. When in doubt, always go for efficiency. Be as German as you can be.

[–]Federación IbéricaHohenes 2ポイント3ポイント  (3子コメント)

More important than living generally better and more years? Nooo!

Actually I don't want to die! ever! :C

[–]Morebeef 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

plottwist: youre a dude

[–]The Kingdom of The NetherlandsDheeradjS 6ポイント7ポイント  (11子コメント)

Good man.

[–]AmsterdamLevyyz 7ポイント8ポイント  (10子コメント)

Wanna grab a heineken with some gouda later?

[–]The NetherlandsRebBrown 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

I'd rather have some Duyvis' nuts.

[–]AmsterdamLevyyz 6ポイント7ポイント  (1子コメント)

Sure, and then we'll go for a ride on our bicycles.

[–]The Netherlandsmikillatja 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'll bring the hookers and blow.

[–]IrelandRoscoStigson 17ポイント18ポイント  (8子コメント)

Lovely cuppa tay here.

[–]PolandMistrzMasarski 21ポイント22ポイント  (6子コメント)

b-but it's too early for vodka!

[–]The Netherlandssavois-faire 18ポイント19ポイント  (3子コメント)

It's never too early for vodka, my friend.

[–]the_ling 10ポイント11ポイント  (2子コメント)

It's never too early late for vodka, my friend.

FTFY

[–]Och aye the noogazwel 6ポイント7ポイント  (1子コメント)

Now I have to deep fry something to join in.

[–]I've got kack in my doo!CrocPB 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Ah cannae join in. There's no Irn Bru here!

[–]Depressiania.Envojus 8ポイント9ポイント  (1子コメント)

After a Friday? Vodka is the best cure for a hangover!

[–]Francebiez 17ポイント18ポイント  (13子コメント)

Oh shit, I'm french and I'm currently drinking tea. I'll rot in hell. Wait. There's no hell. One of the perks of belonging to a miscreant nation.

[–]I've got kack in my doo!CrocPB 12ポイント13ポイント  (7子コメント)

I'm currently drinking tea.

The UK: goood, gooooood.....

[–]British - EnglishSnappera[🍰] 14ポイント15ポイント  (6子コメント)

evil laugh

NOW WE CAN STEAL THEIR WINE!

[–]Francebiez 13ポイント14ポイント  (5子コメント)

Now you won't, you'll wait until retirement age and then you'll come "on vacation" in the south of France to taste the wine and see the country and bathe in the sea, and you'll never go back to England.

I say, the sheer amount of - very nice - old english people I met in the south of France is unsettling. Or settling. Depends on your point of view, I guess.

[–]I've got kack in my doo!CrocPB 6ポイント7ポイント  (3子コメント)

It's not like they're looking for clay in the name of the Queen of anything whistles innocently

[–]British - EnglishSnappera[🍰] 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah... you're right.

[–]paulmccarkey 6ポイント7ポイント  (2子コメント)

As long as it is in an expensive Salon de The and accompanied by no more than a Langue de Chat, you are forgiven. But you have to be a skinny Parisienne to pull this one off, and fend off the Paris Soir-reading Gitanes-smoking boorish writer who is bothering you with the attitude that he is the best thing since Sartre by spraying your Chanel No5 in his eyes, all while making "tss tss tss" noises.

[–]Icelandzanii 5ポイント6ポイント  (21子コメント)

What's the stereotype for Iceland these days?

[–]United KingdomHBucket 20ポイント21ポイント  (3子コメント)

Pillaging with longships and eating dried fish?

[–]Icelandzanii 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Dried fish (harðfiskur e. hard-fish) with butter... Mmmmm. It's something like 97% protein (the dried fish) so there's that.

[–]Vojvodinarandumrandum 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

You eat rotten sharks?

for the uninitiated

[–]outrider567 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

6 month old sharks eaten in Iceland--Anthony Bourdain, famous world traveler, for 15 years has a travel/food show,eats anything--After eating the shark, he said, "that is without a doubt the foulest thing I've ever had in my mouth" lol

[–]British - EnglishSnappera[🍰] 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Killing the Red Viper and dooming Tyrion Lannister to execution.

[–]Polandbartosaq 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

Fermented shark, sauna and vodka.

[–]Icelandzanii 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

The sauna and vodka are the Finnish.

We have hot springs and Brennivín!

[–]brandenburg fushizzsonurnott 6ポイント7ポイント  (3子コメント)

It's already noon and I am yet to drink beer, eat currywurst or complain about my football team. I am an example of failed integration into german society.

[–]American in PragueMarburgDE 6ポイント7ポイント  (13子コメント)

i don't believe it...prove it

[–]FranceComteBilou 29ポイント30ポイント  (12子コメント)

Do you want to smell my breath ?

[–]Portugalradaway 20ポイント21ポイント  (11子コメント)

Still better than your unbathed armpits!

[–]FranceComteBilou 45ポイント46ポイント  (10子コメント)

ahah with that flaire you can't give me shit about my hair.

[–]Best ClayFuzzyNutt 18ポイント19ポイント  (0子コメント)

grabs fistful of chest hair. :P

[–]Federación IbéricaHohenes 9ポイント10ポイント  (8子コメント)

the obvious question here is what's wrong with hairy men? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–]Flagg1982 34ポイント35ポイント  (8子コメント)

This is the result of years of vicious and xenophobic anti french attacks. We don't feel exactly welcome.

[–]brandenburg fushizzsonurnott 9ポイント10ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's ok, we still appreciate your pastries.

[–]American in PragueMarburgDE 23ポイント24ポイント  (3子コメント)

ah come on...we all secretly love the French...we just like to tease

[–]United Kingdomthebeginningistheend 34ポイント35ポイント  (2子コメント)

Well, hold on there, let's not go crazy now.

[–]Frenchy In DisguiseOrangeWithPulp 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

sounds as crazy as saying the british are welcome here!

[–]SlowWing 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

Only the Anglos hate/envy us really, but as everyone follows them/has no spine it's essentially the same.

[–]FranceMilith 48ポイント49ポイント  (9子コメント)

There aren't many threads in here where I can insult the English these days, so I'm spending more time in other European subs such as /r/paradoxplaza and the one with country balls which cannot be named.

[–]Francejib60 122ポイント123ポイント  (3子コメント)

i'm on strike, please come back later

[–]FinlandArttuH5N1 15ポイント16ポイント  (0子コメント)

Still commenting in here. You dirty scab!

[–]Moldaniabutthurt_romanian 40ポイント41ポイント  (8子コメント)

Forget the French, where are the Italians?

Sarmale.

[–]I'm Italian.sverige_svenska 45ポイント46ポイント  (2子コメント)

We cannot into English

[–]European Unionzombiepiratefrspace 7ポイント8ポイント  (2子コメント)

Ha, how about the Russians?

Six months ago, there were many Russian flairs here, but now there are nearly none.

[–]FranceTex-to-speech-device 137ポイント138ポイント  (123子コメント)

The Francophone internet is big enough so we don't have to come here, whereas I imagine that you'd be quickly done with the Latvian Internet.

[–]Finlandasenk- 52ポイント53ポイント  (23子コメント)

That's one part of it and definitely concerns Nordics/Baltics, but also a large part is English proficiency. In any case Nordics specially, but also Baltics are heavily over-represented for their population here. Opinion wise reddit's world-view is skewed towards Anglo-American one due to mainly being an English language website.

Here's some statistics from 2012 eurobarometer report (p.23)

  • 39% of French say they can hold a conversation in English
  • 67% for Latvia
  • 50% Estonia
  • 38% Lithuania

  • 70% Finland

  • 86% Sweden

  • 86% Denmark

Here's an actual measurement by some company, not a survey http://www.ef.co.uk/epi/

[–]FinlandArttuH5N1 16ポイント17ポイント  (11子コメント)

Only 70% for us? That's surprisingly low, but then again, old people.

[–]British / Swiss / South TyrolleanChrisixx 41ポイント42ポイント  (6子コメント)

The rest is too drunk to hold a conversation in any language.

[–]Swedencach-e 15ポイント16ポイント  (3子コメント)

It wasn't the english part the others said no to, it was the "holding a conversation" part.

[–]FinlandArttuH5N1 3ポイント4ポイント  (2子コメント)

I'm still pretty young (in my 20's), so I'm in a sort of "English-speaking bubble". All my friends can hold a conversation English, but when I think of my father and people of that age, the 70% make much more sense.

[–]Swedencach-e 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

I was joking about the Finnish silence, but apparently that joke fell flat. :)

[–]FinlandArttuH5N1 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Ah, sorry, I totally missed that. It's a good comment when it works as a joke and a legit comment.

[–]Francebec_Haydn 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

To be honest, there's a culture of underestimating one's english skills in France (but also, I believe, in other mediterranean countries from what I have seen).

Many people are able to speak business basic english, but they're not very reassured on their own skills.

[–]Basque Countrymetroxed 37ポイント38ポイント  (10子コメント)

The same happens with Spanish users. The Spanish-speaking Internet is big enough (thanks Latin America?), so there's not really much need of going to English websites.

[–]SpainCodenamePingu 7ポイント8ポイント  (4子コメント)

Is there any sort of Spanish reddit?

Aside from forocoches, kek.

[–]Federación IbéricaHohenes 3ポイント4ポイント  (2子コメント)

I don't know, Spanish-speaking Internet is big... but it's also quite useless... most of the stuff you find are simply translations from the English-speaking Internet, but with just more bullshit, more ads, and more inaccurate information. It's like Taringa and Yahoo Respuestas are everywhere.

I just navigate the Web in English, google everything in English and keep Spanish only for the local news and not much else. Sad but that's how it is. Also, 99% of the Spanish youtubers are crap, and just coming 1-2 years later from English-speaking ones, as usual.

[–]PortugalOphiusa 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

This to me is the same for Portuguese, unless I'm looking for local stuff or international stuff with some local bias it's not really worth of if one knows English... I mean, there is a lot of stuff but even when it is international it has a slight parochial character which doesn't really attract me, that on top of Africa And Brazil having obviously different communities so even the local stuff is only local to some.

Around here I can.mostly assume that people will have a broader perspective, otherwise I would have to be on FB or Orkut or Hi5.

[–]GLORIOUS GALACTIC EMPIREIan_Dess 6ポイント7ポイント  (1子コメント)

(thanks Latin America? Spanish conquistadors)

[–]LatviaLito602 10ポイント11ポイント  (2子コメント)

Latvian can only into potato.

But yeah, we have awesome internet speed.

[–]gleibniz 9ポイント10ポイント  (6子コメント)

I'm German and I speak some French. Could you name a few sites where "the Francophone internet" happens? I surely would like to see something like reddit or maybe some tech blogs, or something like gawker.com, io9.com in French. Thanks in advance!

[–]Francerakoo 23ポイント24ポイント  (4子コメント)

Korben is a popular tech blogger, and fortunately for you yesterday's post lists the most popular french tech sites, such as:

I don't see it in the listing but it's worth citing NextINpact (yes, there's a mistake in the name, that's on purpose). It's a news website that focuses on everything tech, but it also goes the extra length in domains such as the law and society problems (such as the recent spying laws).

And if you're into Libre software and the culture around it, checkout Linuxfr.org :)

[–]Schlagv 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

It depends what you are looking for. Many social networks easily segregate people.

When you are on the French Youtube, all the recommanded video will be French ones. French people don't know the famous English speaking vloggers and streamers, they watch French people playing Call of Duty. You have great Youtubers for everything, from science, history, philosophy, games, cartoons, pranks, guetto rap. They play video games on French servers.

So we use the same websites, but we don't leave the French speaking cluster.

Also, you have plenty of small communuties for everything.

Most of the French people on reddit are tech people, because tech is very global by nature. You write code in English. You write documentation in English.

[–]EU-DEyaix 16ポイント17ポイント  (23子コメント)

Do is the German, Chinese, Indian, LatAm internets. Still people come to English speaking forums, because it gives you a broader view on things, with opinions from all over the world.

[–]NRWErdem858 51ポイント52ポイント  (17子コメント)

German Internet is shit, just like German TV

[–]SwitzerlandteoSCK 21ポイント22ポイント  (2子コメント)

I absolutely hate most german youtubers.

[–]The Netherlandsidarterto 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

I liked Deutschland 83 from the German television

[–]CanadaZingo_The_Baffled 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

American tv is infinitely worse. Precisely because it's so good. It'll have you believing the worst lies and transform you into a completely ignorant, pavlovian douche. Be thankful for your shitty tv.

[–]GermanySpackolos 4ポイント5ポイント  (4子コメント)

Are there any German internet hubs?

Expect for online news foren, that is.

I lost connection to it to the point, where I am discussing Bundesliga with Germans in English.

[–]North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyAsyx 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

They all died once the kids got good enough with English to switch to the English equivalent. Like, if you go to buffed.de (biggest German website for games and RPGs / MMORGPs in particular), you see that "hotness" indicator and last time I checked, it was all blue and green because their old posts, which were usually very popular, still push the average up so far that newer posts, which are seen by less people because nobody goes there anymore, just don't get anything but green or blue.

[–]of Free and of Hansetebee 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Nope, because the minute one would become popular it would get abgemahnt into oblivion. Neuland ftw.

[–]furansujin 45ポイント46ポイント  (13子コメント)

France has a pretty solid internet culture so you really don't need to go on reddit or 'murican sites all that often, especially if it's to talk to people who have a lot of misconceptions about France or Europe in general.

[–]SlowWing 30ポイント31ポイント  (11子コメント)

people who have a lot of misconceptions about France or Europe in general.

I feel this is a big one. People assume we're just a variation of UK/Germany/Spain and don't make th effort to truely understand us. Look at what ahppened with Charlie Hebdo. Hours just to explain (especially to the stupid Anglos) that yes, we have our culture and our humour, and no fuck you we're not gonna accomodate your delicate anglo sensibilities.

[–]AUX AAAAAAAAAAAARMES CITOYEEEEEEEEEEEENS!!my_baby_ate_dingos 19ポイント20ポイント  (2子コメント)

Your tone could use some polishing, but holy hell I agree with you. The Charlie shootings were one long trek throughout Reddit for me to explain that no, the cartoonists were not racist, to a bunch of ignorant redditors who looked at the cartoons without anything resembling context.

[–]Orbánistan. Comments might or might not be sarcasticSnobbyEuropean 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

misconceptions about France or Europe in general.

I only noticed this after Orbán became based-God on this sub. Now I feel like I've been cheated all along. How can I believe the Dutch like cheese? How can I believe that Finland is depressed? How can I believe that polan cannot into space?

[–]FranceSpitersR9K 99ポイント100ポイント  (34子コメント)

Hey i am here :)

[–]American in PragueMarburgDE 38ポイント39ポイント  (30子コメント)

an authentic french person? i'm going to need some proof.

[–]FranceSpitersR9K 138ポイント139ポイント  (26子コメント)

I love cheese and i often complain .

[–]American in PragueMarburgDE 66ポイント67ポイント  (0子コメント)

good enough for me...my girlfriend is French and this is 99% of her life also

[–]chicken_tiger 33ポイント34ポイント  (4子コメント)

Could be Dutch though.

[–]FranceSpitersR9K 15ポイント16ポイント  (3子コメント)

Find the Swede .

[–]Hungaryhungarynothungry 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

or the Swiss... although they don't have that much to complain about

[–]FranceSpitersR9K 13ポイント14ポイント  (0子コメント)

They can always complain about us working in their country.

[–]I've got kack in my doo!CrocPB 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hej!

Well....that's a lie. I'm a temporary Bork, am actually haggis.

[–]Bulgariateheroic 17ポイント18ポイント  (0子コメント)

Those are european values we all share.

[–]IrelandRoscoStigson 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oh you'd like it here, we have loads of cows and things to complain about.

[–]wolfiasty 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Sounds like you may be Polish.

[–]FinlandArttuH5N1 3ポイント4ポイント  (2子コメント)

An American, making demands in /r/Europe? Oh wow.

[–]Carnagh 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

Everybody stand down, it's okay, we found the French :)

[–]liliacool 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

oh! Le French guy! salut

[–]FranceFIuffyAlpaca 46ポイント47ポイント  (4子コメント)

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

[–]The NetherlandsRebBrown 25ポイント26ポイント  (2子コメント)

Sorry, but I refuse to read your post until you put some French subtitles under 'em.

Sorry, maar ik weiger het om jouw posts te lezen totdat jij er een Franse ondertiteling onderzet.

[–]FlandersGerrit8500 23ポイント24ポイント  (19子コメント)

There are definitely French people here, often they have flairs of their regions rather than just the French flag.

[–]Brittanymorton_luthor 15ポイント16ポイント  (8子コメント)

word. sometimes I also use foreign flags. Nothing wrong with bleu blanc rouge, but I still associate it too much with official buildings and gendarmeries :)

[–]North Rhine-WestphaliaSensitive_nob 20ポイント21ポイント  (2子コメント)

swarming

They are always the same 3-5 names for every country flair that pops up. The whole subreddit is basicly a discussion between the same ~100 ppl. In every thread, every day.

[–]Francebec_Haydn 157ポイント158ポイント  (43子コメント)

Maybe we're not really interested in what /r/europe has to say recently. Between the usual liberal trend on this forum and the large wave of retarded immigration threads, I visit this srd less often recently.

[–]Francebayonetto 66ポイント67ポイント  (0子コメント)

My thoughts exactly.

[–]Franceberlinparisexpress 39ポイント40ポイント  (3子コメント)

Same, used to visit very often, I have to admit that I feel less and less at ease with some of the discussions here.

[–]France (living in Barcelona)Haaveilla 24ポイント25ポイント  (0子コメント)

I remember back when there were weekly threads like "let's discuss the food/landscape/sports/trains/culture/etc of your country" or "country of the week" or many other threads which incited great discussions. I enjoyed sharing some knowledge about my homeland, and learning about the other countries of Europe.
Now this subreddit is all about politics/immigration/conflicts aka all the shit I read and hear about on the media and that I want to escape on reddit. Even the weekly "what happened in your country this week" are now getting burried very quickly.

[–]The NetherlandsSkipDutch 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

We should flee to another sub.

[–]Franceberlinparisexpress 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm honestly happy that so many people agree. Sometimes I think I'm the crazy one here. I'd be happy to go back to what this sub used to be - discussions about our respective countries, in mutual respect, curiosity, and a positive outlook on our shared values.

[–]United KingdomSutpens_100 20ポイント21ポイント  (5子コメント)

Moi aussi

[–]Finlandkuikuilla 12ポイント13ポイント  (4子コメント)

Did you just say "hi aussie" in finnish?

[–]ɐıןɐɹʇsnɐSuburbanturnip 10ポイント11ポイント  (2子コメント)

totta kai

[–]FinlandArttuH5N1 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Okay, now I'm scared. What is going on? Perkeleen muukalaiset, they're up to something... Stay sharp everyone.

[–]ɐıןɐɹʇsnɐSuburbanturnip 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Tony Abbot on pelottava. turvapaikka kitti.

[–]United KingdomBlussy96 19ポイント20ポイント  (0子コメント)

Same with me

[–]Brittany - Federal EuropePsyX99 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

Same for me.

The funniest thing is that people are saying that it's an European hot topic right now. And it is, absolutly. But if you compare /r/europe to /r/france, there is 10 times less thread about immigration in /r/france (even though it's a very hot topic in France too).

But from time to time I give a look here, and surprise: a topic about us ! :d

[–]GermanyABoutDeSouffle 56ポイント57ポイント  (6子コメント)

If you stumble upon greener pastures, take me with you, please. This place has become terrible.

[–]European UnionSlusny_Cizinec 6ポイント7ポイント  (1子コメント)

My thoughts. But where to go (not being French)? r/czech, r/cesky, r/prague are empty...

[–]Brittany - Federal EuropePsyX99 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

The proof that French like to stay together... /r/france is full !

[–]doegred 17ポイント18ポイント  (15子コメント)

Wait, 'liberal'? Are you referring to the French or to the anglo-saxon meaning?

[–]Catalonia-Majorca-ProvenceAJaume_2 20ポイント21ポイント  (10子コメント)

Liberal in the classical economic sense. The original meaning BTW.

[–]FranceChangaco 10ポイント11ポイント  (5子コメント)

Liberal is not primarily an economic term, and in particular it's not a synonym of "laissez faire".

[–]BelgiumTheApatheist 48ポイント49ポイント  (11子コメント)

Fewer of them know English, the French social internet is also larger than most I suppose.

[–]United KingdomAnonSBF 17ポイント18ポイント  (8子コメント)

This phenomenon isn't only on reddit though, if you look at youtube statistics a lot of English videos are watched by Germans, Dutch and Scandinavian when the French are far down the list.

[–]Francerouille 18ポイント19ポイント  (4子コメント)

Dailymotion is quite popular in france. And i guess french people watch more stuff in french.

[–]LeTransperceneige 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's the most likely answer. There is big forums in France with a lot of users. And the French internet as a whole is larger than in most European countries, so you don't need to rely on the English websites.

[–]just czechin' outRogue-Knight 12ポイント13ポイント  (0子コメント)

Nah, they just pretend they can't understand it. They are watching us, silently, biding their time.

[–]FranceBananaSplit2 17ポイント18ポイント  (1子コメント)

Well, judging by a lot of comments in this post, I'd say I understand why a lot of us don't often come here.

[–]FranceCity_of_Paris 8ポイント9ポイント  (2子コメント)

Well, it's saturday. Like the second week after everyone came back from holidays. And it's pouring rain here.

So most likely in bed.

[–]Francerakoo 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

And it's pouring rain here.

Username checks out

[–]FranceGODZILLAFLAMETHROWER 19ポイント20ポイント  (4子コメント)

Big enough french internet communities combined with poor language skills.

Add to that the racist and liberals undertones in /r/europe, which will rub some french the wrong way. Coincidentally, the ones that were open to other cultures enough to overcome our school system and the general sentiment in the 90s to properly learn English.

And finish up with a constant stream of surrender jokes, the supposition that french are arrogant and will talk down to any and all people, that we actually love this stereotype so much that we don't see anything wrong with it. This is primarily an american website with a strong anglo-saxon culture.

It should change quickly though. Any person under 30 in France now has at least conversational English, or feel extremely insecure about not having it. The general sentiment (at least in my social circles, so I may be wrong) is not at all that it is okay to lag behind here. More people are also extremely critical of the politic of favoring french culture on our networks.

[–]FranceHarfangdesneiges 21ポイント22ポイント  (0子コメント)

reddit isn't really popular in France. The defaults are mostly American-centered and there are very few French-speaking subreddits. French people aren't really confident with their language skills, partly because of how it's taught in school so it's a barrier to participation in discussion.

We also have pretty good French-speaking web forums (with much larger userbases) so reddit isn't really needed.

[–]FranceAbravadabra 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

I guess you mostly see northern europeans and English people here, we have a really different view on the world. More left leaning, especially economically. I often am under the impression of hearing ultra liberal propaganda that you have assimilated as what you call reality and pragmatism.

And also all the French bashing, this is just not funny. Just the same three jokes again and again.

Maybe if a more left leaning r/europe was created there would be more French and some nations would be less present.

And let's not lie to ourselves most of reddit is like that. A group of people all thinking the same thing downvoting everyone who has different views. It does not really promote diversity.

[–]DenmarkLaptopZombie 49ポイント50ポイント  (79子コメント)

You don't remember any posts from our great mod /u/dClauzel?

[–]FranceBananaSplit2 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

Funny how just saying his name always seems to bring the worst of this subreddit.

[–]France - AlsacethePeete 11ポイント12ポイント  (0子コメント)

DTC !

[–]Okay, I shilled, now where's my moneyMainstay17 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

/u/dClauzel is slowly absorbing all the French redditors to build his power.

[–]Franceblazare 6ポイント7ポイント  (2子コメント)

French lurker here. I've been on Reddit since the Great Digg Exodus (multiple accounts).
I rarely comment (expect on /r/eu4 maybe), for fear of being bullied by commenters, but I greatly enjoy reading all the shit everybody is writing.
French are very bad at speaking/writing English, and they don't really care about the English Internet. Moreover, Reddit is completely unknown by most.

[–]The Netherlandssavois-faire 29ポイント30ポイント  (1子コメント)

What about everyone's favourite mod?

Quoi de honhonhon je m'apelle baguette avec paturain?

[–]FinlandArttuH5N1 9ポイント10ポイント  (0子コメント)

As a fan of buttery popcorn, he was my favorite.

Voisulaisen popkornin ystävänä pidin hänestä eniten.

[–]Lithuania - FederalistShirinator 9ポイント10ポイント  (0子コメント)

There are plenty of French people here.

[–]European UnionEHStormcrow 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Frenchman reporting in!

[–]FranceIcarusa 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

My English is just bad enough to read it. Not to write it ;)

[–]FranceEmnight 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

I unsubscribed from /r/europe because of the recent shift to the far-right positions. It's like a slightly sweetened /r/european .

[–]vincibe 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm tired of the racist shit.

[–]charlu 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't read /europe comments any more, it's so right wing, i can't stand it, there's so much to read elsewhere.

Personnellement je ne viens même plus lire les commentaires du forum /europe, je parcours les titres et vais éventuellement lire les articles, mais les commentaires sont tellement réacs, ça m'énerve à chaque fois, et les rares fois où je suis d'accord c'est downvoté à mort, je vous laisse entre vous, j'ai d'autres choses à lire de plus interessant.

[–]SwedenLaboe 10ポイント11ポイント  (4子コメント)

The sub is swarming with Germans, Poles, Scandinavians, Dutch.

This kind of language is unacceptable. These are human beings we are talking about!

[–]FranceThouny 16ポイント17ポイント  (3子コメント)

Okay, okay.

The sub is swarming with Dutch! There are also a lot of German, Pole and Scandinavian people.

[–]FranceNerfav 20ポイント21ポイント  (22子コメント)

French has its own autonomous French-speaking Internet community (many youtubers, LeGorafi = TheOnion, jeuxvideo.com, ...). It's not really needed to go on English-speaking websites to enjoy Internet services.

So the French you see on reddit are French who actively want to know more about foreigners.

In the end, the more time you spend on English-speaking websites, the more you see that France is living in its own cultural bubble. Truely, the first time I heard about a famous foreign writer, it was Poe, in an american serie, not at school.

[–]erythroblast 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

Je me souviens très bien avoir lu une nouvelle de Poe à l'ecole. Faut pas prendre ton experience pour une généralité.

[–]ithinkofdeath 22ポイント23ポイント  (15子コメント)

Truely, the first time I heard about a famous foreign writer, it was Poe, in an american serie, not at school.

Yeah... That's just you being uncultured, mec.

[–]EU-DEyaix 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

So does Germany, LatAm, and probably most larger countries / languages.

[–]Schlagv 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

As lots of people speak French worldwide, there is little incentive to go to US communities. So you find proportionaly less of them than people from Sweden or Germany, who have a language spoken in only one country.

[–]Foulque_Monsieur 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm french and it's raining here.