I think I'm becoming a Francophile. Not sure if there is some sort of pill or something to cure that, but I keep hanging out with French people and I've started studying French daily.

I probably still sort of hate the language because of how ridiculous it is but the utility of knowing it can no longer be ignored-- they're everywhere in Colombia and I encounter them so much more often than I encounter naive English speakers.

And since I don't speak French I'm reduced to having to speak either English or Spanish with them. They aren't all good at Spanish but it's so much easier for them to pick it up. It's rare for me to find a native English speaker whose Spanish is better than mine but it's not at all rare to find French people with excellent Spanish-- which I find annoying. But I've made it my goal to speak French well enough that when I come across them in the future, instead of speaking English or Spanish we'll be speaking French because **** them.

I like their fries. And their kissing.

And their ticklers.

The best frog legs also

as far as expats go, the french are far and away the most absurdly laid back and chill group of expats

if you see a large dinner gathering where more people are smoking than eating and everyone is fully engrossed in conversation and laughing constantly you found a group of french people

and if you're in luck, you'll meet a french couple and go find a secret island with them and then after truly befriending them you'll steal the guy's girlfriend before it all falls apart when the shark attacks happen and the drug lords boot you off

They definitely enjoy their smoking and I agree about the rest. I come across a fair amount of Germans too and they're the best hikers and outdoorsy types but the French party harder and still like the outdoors themselves.

About to go hiking with a couple of them-- including one girl from New Caledonia who might be the most attractive person I've ever seen

Another guy here from Reunion. France probably did it by just making their overseas territories part of France. No need to overthrow your colonial overlords when you are them.

For me, having to be around people smoking would overpower all the benefits. Too bad.

Snowflake.

*cough cough* 🤧🤢

Besides smokers, I also don't like being around pig farmers that don't clean up after rolling around in pigshit.

Guys only half the French smoke

JFC, yanks are so funny about smoking. Don't come to Europe, boys, you'll choke.

They used to.be the same about swearing on TV, when the word “toilet” wasn’t allowed. Maybe that’s why people talk about going to the bathroom nowadays. Can’t stand that phrase myself.

From schoolage there's the group who smoke or hang about with those who do. And then there's the rest. Everyone wins.

Is it still bad in the UK as well? Is smoking generally allowed in public indoor areas like restaurants, casinos, and music venues?

No, smoking indoors has been illegal for about 20 years here. Isn't it also illegal indoors in most states?

Yes, but I assume it is still legal in most of Europe, based on your comment and on what I have heard elsewhere.

I would like to travel to Europe myself, but might want to avoid countries where there is likely to be smoke everywhere.

I can only speak for the UK I'm afraid. It certainly would not surprise me if it's still mostly legal elsewhere.

A bit of googling will show you that indoor smoking is prohibited in almost all of the EU.

I accept the ban as I shouldn't have lost my temper. But my insults to Jalfrezi were responses to proactive insults from both him and microbet.
Micro said this:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...ostcount=21201

Then Jal chimed in with:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...ostcount=21209

Internet forums, sigh.
To which I then retorted with:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...ostcount=21213
I did proactively insult victor so again fair enough on the ban, but if you're gonna ban me for retorting to the other two, then they should be temp banned as well for proactively insulting me and using the same terminology that was deemed unacceptable by the mods when I retorted.

And to clarify I don't want them banned, but you're not being fair by only banning me. I think a warning for all three of us would have sufficed but again you're not being fair here rococo.

Anyway I only created this account to point this out. and because due to the ban I can't pm you to appeal it. I'll now bow out for the next two days until my corpus account ban is up. But based on the context of this exchange, I respectfully ask that you reconsider my ban as again they proactively insulted me and banning me for my reaction isn't fair, even if banning me for insulting victor is.

If you've been temporarily banned:

1) Chances are you should just suck it up and wait out the ban. You probably did something stupid and deserve it. And it's just a few days, so go out and get some sun or something.

2) Absolutely do not create a new account to go back to posting whatever it was that got you in trouble in the first place, because posting on a temporary account during a temporary ban will lead to an extension of your original account's ban (even to permanency), and the removal of the secondary account.

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Check. Check. And check.

His temp ban seems unfair but then you should ban him for immediately creating the second account to fight the temp ban. Lol

I think temp banned accounts should still be allowed to PM mods tbh

lol making a new account to whine about a TWO DAY temp ban is hilarious