Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Hard at work

Aahhh, the French dolce far niente. Just a day at the office, same old, same old.

2 comments:

Mr roT said...

Police actively looked to thwart troublemakers. At Paris' Saint-Lazare station, riot officers with weapons and a police dog pulled over train travelers disembarking from the suburbs, searching their bags and checking identities.

What suburbs?

Tecumseh said...

More from the Beeb:


Florian, a political science student, said that this march was to hammer home the demand that the government withdraw the contracts entirely, because they have become for many the symbol of a liberal Anglo-Saxon style market economy that many in France - especially on the left - continue to vehemently reject.

"We don't want to be like that," he said, "We want an answer to unemployment that is French."

And he continued,

I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!