some nerd: “the french are the height of couture & graceful elegance”
me, a true sophisticate: “false. the french are a nation of peasants who revolted against their king. his corpse was dragged into gutters of piss & they wallowed in his blood. the French revel in filth & this is why i love them.”
At the TIFF premiere of Amelie, the director apologized for making it seem like Paris was so pretty and not mentioning that it always smells like piss.
Paris is literally built overtop of 2,000 year old roman salt mines that they converted into a sewer system because they figured it was already full of holes so you might as well just throw human shit down there.
Paris is always going to reek of piss. the contrast of artistry & filth is the point!
i love the Parisian response to their mayor announcing the day her and Macron were going to swim in The Seine to prove it was clean for the olympics.
The French united to all poop in The Seine the day of & called it a
"defecation flash mob". they turned the river brown. Macron rescheduled Imfao
Tangentially, watching through a glass wall as a polar bear pinched a loaf while swimming was wild. Especially for all the kids that happened to be right there in a class group.
