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"Not the sort of free-market solution I'm normally in favour of..."

No wonder this guy keeps deleting my comments!

 

Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.

by FPS Doug on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 01:51:27 PM EST
sounds fishy to me....

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 02:05:19 PM EST
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Colman wants to "regulate" fishing in a way that bankrupts every independent fisherman in the EU.
Sell licenses to the highest bidder, in the name of "efficiency!"

I see a future of giant robot ships chasing the last fish into the yacht basin at St. Tropez, where Brigitte Bardot blows the whole fleet out of the water with Harpoon missiles.

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Brigitte!

Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.

by FPS Doug on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 04:46:14 PM EST
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yeow!  That belt hurts! Will you hurry up with the shot so I can breath....

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 04:59:47 PM EST
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Looks like Sanary s/mer. Probably St Trop, though.

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by redstar on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 05:03:06 PM EST
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I think you're probably right.

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This is Sanary-sur-Mer, around 1942, I guess, when it was full of German writers... Sanary-les-Allemands... even before the picture of Brigitte, which probably dates from around 1960.


Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.

by FPS Doug on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 05:37:57 PM EST
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Yeah, on one level a lot of coast towns look sort of the same so who knows, but it sorta looked like Notre Dame de la Pitie behind her. Got married real near there.

I know most people were probably looking at her but I never thought much of her, not my type, especially given her politics; go more for the Balasko type myself, call me a prole if you want.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 06:17:15 PM EST
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Nothing says "prole" like a wedding on the Riviera...

Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.
by FPS Doug on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 08:12:19 PM EST
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Heh. The Riviera ends at Mourillon. Sanary, while nice, is in the industrial "armpit" part. And La Seyne, where I lived, is definitely prole, complete with a good Communist for mayor, the late Maurice Paul.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
by redstar on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 09:15:09 PM EST
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I have had some very good times in those "armpits."

Five years ago I was changing trains in Toulon, and the auvergnat waiter in the station bar noticed my guitar case. What do you play?

One thing led to another, and all of a sudden les auvergnats started coming out of the woodwork! Exiles in Provence, with an informal daily get-together at the station? or maybe it was just a coincidence.

Anyway, somebody taught me the chords for...

"Loin des bruits de la ville,
j'irai jusqu'en Auvergne
Sur les collines couvertes de bruyère..."

I never had as much fun in St. Tropez, much less Nice!
 

Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.

by FPS Doug on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 10:11:08 PM EST
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It's more of a "used to" be the industrial armpit :



Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sat Jan 19th, 2008 at 09:13:21 AM EST
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Heh.

I'll give it maybe another decade. Waterfront property isn't getting created on the littroal of the medtierranean every day you know, so it is saying something that prime waterfront property will have taken so long to do anything with, and the town suffered for it.

La Seyne is finally redeveloping the shipyards - that took twenty years. The amount of right-wing corruption, Arreckx, Trucy, Scaglia, Valenti, Fargette, most of whom ended up in jail, boggles the mind.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Sun Jan 20th, 2008 at 10:53:55 AM EST
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