We Brits don't hate the "French"... We just have literately thousands of years of history... a lot of it historic fighting... but at the same time a lot of it invading or living in each others countries. Neither has ever not respected the other... however in the last 2 centuries the Brits and French fought alongside each other rather than against each other... and even more respect was achieved. The French literately allow us Brits to patrol the boarder INSIDE their country with full law and support... let that sink in. Murray mainly takes the mick out of Britain... but he will take turns with every other "stereotype" now and then... but he does it by portraying the "ignorant English" stereotype.
PS: Al Murray, in addition to German, speaks enough French to have done a bilingual comedy show in France, and has some Italian. He is an Oxford graduate in Modern History, in addition to a doctorate and an additional honorary degree from other universities.
Al is British, he speaks German and some French from education. His father was a colonel in the parachute regiment, one of his grandfathers was killed at Dunkirk defending the perimeter and the other was in the secret services. The fargrare isn't cooked in a bad way it's the treatment of the animal before its death that raises eyebrows and yes the frogs eat horse.
In the UK we learn French at school it was compulsory when I went (I think it still is) , some go on to German and/or Spanish classes. Spanish had only just started becoming an option when I left.
He was listing a load of questions that English people who don’t know much French will probably remember a lot of from French class at school or know from popular culture. But he obviously speaks quite a bit of French himself!
Do I count? Brit moved to France over 20 years ago. I would say the French like the Brits more than the other way round (well, at least up until Brexit but this isn't a political channel...). I love the French and France. Paris is a very beautiful city, so long as you avoid the summer when it empties of French and fills with tourists. Lyon, where I live, is almost entirely a World Heritage Site - stunning. Oh, yes, Al was speaking real French!
Yes he was speaking French. I drove to Paris from Sheffield England to take my girlfriend on a road trip for valentines day. Type in UA-cam cars parking in Paris, it was wild to see with my own eyes. They push other cars with their cars to make a bigger space, people leave their parking break off. Also all of the vans parked up are covered in spray paint like a mobile graffiti wall.
There are actually about 20 cities and communities in the US named Paris. The one in Texas is just the largest, but still under 25,000 people. There's also one in Ontario. There's also a Texas in Australia. Maybe we should say Texas USA, but that won't help as there are 15 of them. 😂
If you haven't got it, he takes the pi## out of the UK in every episode as his alter ego is a caricature of some British people and their attitudes which in real life he may not share, and in his extensive interaction with the audience. He is a masterclass in subversive humour/humor. I'm sure the French, quite rightly, ridicule us Brits. It's all part of life's rich tapestry.
I love France, I go snowboarding there every year, can’t beat saying “Bonjour… deux cafe au lait, un croissant en un pain au chocolat ce vous plais” first thing each morning.❤
@@Elstree so ask yourself what is the British library , is it like the bank of England allowing for the presumption that it's a bank of the country known as England or maybe just corporation double speak ??. Does that same British library say there is not enough evidence to prove Christ was , and is .
I suppose I am odd. I admit it. I am a Francophile. An Englishman that loves France. Been all over. Always found the French to be hospitable and polite. Whether it is duck in orange sauce or chicken in red wine. Great cuisine. Wines eccellent. Cr@p beer though ! Good trains when not on strike. Nice architecture.
Same. I need to hurry up and get back there while there's still a France to visit though. People think England has it bad for immigration. Holy moly, France is in a bad way!
What a lot of non British people don’t realise is the joke is always on us - the British have a very attractive and healthy well rounded ability to laugh at ourselves - you watch any of the al Murray sketches and you’ll see that the main butt of the joke is Al himself because of his childish delusions - the same goes for Catherine Tate in the Interpreter sketch - many people thought that was racist but it isn’t because the joke is on her and how cuckoo her character is. And that’s why British humour is the best there is without a doubt - yes we take the puss out of you but that’s okay because we take the piss out of ourselves even more 👌 And you guys - boomer and boomerette - is so adorable seeing you happy and cute with each other as parenthood and sleepless nights loom 🤣 This video is going to be SO beautiful for you to watch back in 30 years from now. You made me laugh and I thought - I’m in trouble because I actually love these complete strangers as if they were family 😱🙄🤪🤣😘
The town of Condom, France is located in the northern part of the department of Gers, halfway between Mont-de-Marsan (to the west) and Montauban (to the east), and north of Auch. Jean Condom (born 15 August 1960 in Saint-André-de-Seignanx) is a retired French international rugby union player. He played as a lock. Brest.
There’s a strong France legacy especially after the 11th century Norman conquest in the u.k, much of the leadership were French and the royal family were French for centuries afterwards, the language is loaded with French and Spanish.✌️❤️🇬🇧 1000 years of shared history with France
Marseille is ok, it does have some very rough areas, Paris is ok too (the typical tourist trap thing applies), Nice is good in the summer, but I like Lyon the best.
Me too - Lyon is lovely, I’d love to return there one day. The last time I was there was about twenty years ago and it was about 36 degrees, so the square with water jets was fantastic to cool off with. Miles better than Paris.
@@soulgalorememories9921 Yeah, I was fortunate to see Notre Dam before the fire (which was a couple of weeks before that happened), but Lyon was brilliant. The old town across the river (with a cool cinema museum), little market next to that river, lots of small shops everywhere from designer to quirky stuff, nice restaurants, small squares darted about (and the big square). Think there was a major terrorist attack a few months prior, I remembered in every French city I went to there was a group of four to six soldiers walking around with full auto machine guns (only sour thing about my mini tour of France a few years back).
@@evelynroadmedia9415 - those quirky little shops are so nice as are those little eating places tucked away…like in a time warp. Our hotel was one big walk up about a hundred steps…I was much fitter then so it was no problem 😂 The nice thing was we flew directly to Lyon…made the trip much more pleasurable.
So the view from the Eiffel Tower is Paris, well here in the North West of England we have the Blackpool Tower and you can see as far as the Spine of England , the Pennines.
Horse meat is common on the continent. It sounds odd or even unpleasant to some people, but you will find it on the supermarket shelves across Europe, mainly as cold cuts.
@@KingBoomer Al Murray did a kind of sit com in the early 2000s set in a pub called 'Time gentlemen please'. I am currently watching a Canadian couple react to that, which they both like, and previously a New Yorker react to it, and it woud be great if you got hold of it to watch.
There is actually a 16 minute video you might very much enjoy of Al on stage in France. he's on a tiny stage in the basment of a bar in Paris. The video is entitled Al Muarry - Here to help in Paris April 2013.
Eating goose and duck isn't that weird in continental Europe and horsemeat is also readily available in Germany, and if you can kill a cow and eat it, why not a horse? But to me, it's the way foie gras is made that freaks me out, and it turns out, it's not just geese and ducks they treat this way, they also used to do it (until 2007) to ortolans (a small native songbird). I have copied the wikipedia description: "The birds are caught with nets set during their autumn migratory flight to Africa. They are then kept in covered cages or boxes. The birds react to the dark by gorging themselves on grain, usually millet seed, until they double their bulk. The birds are then thrown into a container of Armagnac, which both drowns and marinates the birds. The bird is roasted for eight minutes and then plucked. The consumer then places the bird feet first into their mouth while holding onto the bird's head. The ortolan is then eaten whole, with or without the head, and the consumer spits out the larger bones. The traditional way French gourmands eat ortolans is to cover their heads and face with a large napkin or towel while consuming the bird." I'm not British, but I can see why they find the French a bit strange 😅
They still boil pigs alive in Belgium. I didn't believe it until someone gave me a link, which was too upsetting to watch. I'm sure we've all eaten horsemeat without even knowing.
@@DS-uy6jw It just sounded like KB and QB found it weird ~"Is it goose they eat there?" And I have heard a few Americans say they never had mutton or duck (Danes eat duck for Christmas), so I honestly don't know what to believe anymore xD
@@barrymitchell6444 I did not know that... Just looked it up: seems like it happens in the Netherlands but mostly by accident, as the pigs are supposed to be dead by then. The boiling water is used to scald the bristles off.
I went to a restaurant in Paris and asked the waiter if he had frogs legs, he said yes, so I asked him to hop over the counter and make me a bacon sandwich.
The closest I've ever got to France is the island of Sark (a British Feudal State) I've always flown over France (when their ATC isn't on strike!) and into Spain 🇪🇸 Much better weather and much nicer people.
I lived and worked on Sark... It's a fantastic place. Never call a Sarkese a French person. They'll get very VERY upset! Lol. Sarkese and French are the same base language, Sarkese is a bit more Norman French than modern French. Except it has some more specific words and it's own separate dialect. It's also a dieing language. When were you there?
Al actually isn't fluent in German but his sister is and he gets her to translate things for him. He says so himself in 2016 when speaking with Henning Wehn, now, granted he may have become fluent since then but he otherwise is not.
You don't have to be 'half German ' to speak fluent Germany. We eat geese 'goose' here in the UK. Goose is on the Chinese restaurant menus in the States. Lived in the States for 31years.
I remember a French woman telling me that the French find the Parisians are rude, but as you said, I’ve always found the provincial French very friendly…
speaking of towers and things that are tall, I remember when I was collecting a Christmas tree for my dad, somebody asked me if I was going to put it up myself to which I replied "no, the living room!"
As an Irishman (N I based), I always remember when on a family holiday to France as a kid, the locals' demeanor changed entirely when, in a village café in the north of France, the owner found out we were Irish. Silent atmosphere immediately changed, and she grinned and it felt like tension left the room. She even brought us free nibbles. Ireland and France don't really have beef, outside a certain tiny football incident recently
French is similar difficulty to Spanish but I'd say it starts out harder because of spelling and grammatical gender (Spanish has the -o/-a rule which helps for lots of words) but ends up easier because English uses a ton of loan words from French. It's super easy to talk about anything even slightly technical in French because all our words for that stuff are IN French 😂 German is a bit harder than either of them even though English is a Germanic language; the grammar is less similar to English or French and there are fewer recognisable words on average 😄
I always found German to be easier than French. I've no empirical data for it but it always seemed to me that a lot of the words in German seemed very similar to the English words.
The basic words are really similar! Most of the Germanic words shared between English and German are the super high-frequency ones but there are way more French and Latin words overall. Germanic words include stuff like: haus, feuer (fire), tier (like 'deer' but it means 'animal' in general in German) but think of all the words ending in '-ation' - nation, compensation, irrigation... all from, or based on, French. There are so many others, like almost all our law terminology is based on French words. Cinema and theatre too. All sorts. However, stuff like "meine name ist" is very close to English as compared with "Je m'appelle" or a more literal "mon nom est" - you do get some great free vocabulary with German 😂@@JamesLMason
@@JamesLMason It always depends on which word-list you use and it's hard to estimate but that seems to be the usual conclusion from the stuff I've read. I'm not an expert on German - I did it for 5 years in highschool but never since. I can have a basic conversation and talk about family, holidays... the usual stuff (but with bad grammar 😂) I've been learning French from highschool on, so 21 years, on and off and I can vaguely get by in Spanish (I understand a lot of it from French and I watched lots of Spanish UA-cam for a few months to crash-course it)
@@easterdeer I think that the things that stuck are things like "ich" "meine" "haben" "das" "ist" "alles" "Apfel" "besser" "Bruder" "Garten" "Vater" "Freund" "Milch". They all sound very like the English.
Most European people have studied a foreign language in school in addition to English. In Sweden we always learn English and also most commonly French/German/Spanish but other languages too, different schools teach different languages. French, German and Spanish classes are required at all schools unless the courses gets fewer than 5 registrations.
A foreign language is standard, you can choose which French German, Spanish ect . As well as English, In Ireland, its more English, Irish ( gaelic ) French, German or Spanish. I did French, but learned some Spanish and Italian. I can understand but not really speak .
Since they lost the "Lingua Franca " issue ( wo'nt mention Waterloo or Trafalgar, like ) when english was to be used as THEE language of protocol etc.. in the U.N. the french have despised speaking english. Many can ( for obv reasons ) but refuse to speak it.
I am English but speak some French after four years of learning at my London school and Al was speaking perfect French. I understand he did a complete stand up in France in French. I believe he speaks some Italian and perfect German. I think I read some where he has a Austrian grandparent.
He is actually speaking French and they are all questions. E.g. "Comment t'appelle tu?" is "What is your name" or more literally "How do you call yourself?" I'm not French btw, but I do speak french :)
I actually did German language at school. I had to choose between french or German. I did two years of German and a year of french, before deciding to stick with German. Don't remember any of it.
For eating horses - a few years ago UK health inspectors discovered some meats that had been sold here contained horse meat - nothing mentioned on the label and I suspect not allowed. The Brits were not happy (or so the news said) - also note UK laws state the ingredients must be on the packaging - I think it was 'beef'burgers where it was discovered.
If by a few years ago, you mean a decade, then yes, there was a big scandal in 2013 about Horse Meat being in beefburgers and other products, it wasn't so much that people were eating horse meat, as that companies were mislabelling items, and either not declaring the horse meat content, or improperly declaring it.
You know who Britain's friends are, we make fun of them relentlessly. We have been doing this to the French, Australians and America in particular for centuries.
Yes the frogs eat Steak à Cheval which is horse steak.I was served this while on an exchange trip to Amien.oh,and Paris STINKS,the Seine back in the 1980s was literally an open sewer
I'm from England , the French don't particularly like me , I don't take it personally , it's ingrained in them down the generations , it goes both ways ... V
I was in Ghana during its problematic period during the 1980's. Apart from the diplomatic missions the number of expatriates, usually at senior managerial levels was probably less that 100. British, Americans, Swiss, Dutch, German (East and West) an Australian and a lone Swede all socialised and formed a very happy and close knit group. Who were missing? The French of course, insular and arrogant. As always.
Germany has some really funny and also dirty town names, just down the road from my Barracks there was a town called Wankum you would see british soldiers taking photos standing next to the sign there is another called Titz thats also a giggle
LOL...here in the UK we also have some weird/rude names.......Try "Pratts Bottom". Located near Orpington Kent (Borough of Bromley),,,,and a Polecat Alley.
He was speaking French . France is a great country if you can speak French well enough to have a basic conversation, if you just expect them to speak English then they are not interested.
just go to Vegas, there's the Eifel tower the Coliseum, the canals of Venice and of course the hustlers,hookers and junkies 😇 ps according to Bill Bailey France has 3 towns called Bi*ch it's all in the pronunciation folks
French fact # 3876. Joan of Arc (Jehanne d'Arc) never came from 'Arc' In fact, there wasn't a town or place called 'Arc' anywhere in France at the time. Joan was born and grew up in a place called Domrémy. It is now thought that the 'd'Arc' thing is a confusion of the family name, which was either 'Darc' or 'Tarc'.
I used to live and work just outside Paris a place called Epinay sur Orge, so on weekends would get the SNCF train into the city, to be honest it's not the romantic place everyone seems to think it is, this is a myth lol, speak British English there and they don't want to know , daft sods still haven't forgiven us for Agincourt! for a romantic city you cannot beat Rome, now that city is magical :)
Hi King & Queen Boomer, If you want to see how the French are made fun of you have to watch The Australian Show Club Buggery with Roy & HG, you will love it.
We Brits don't hate the "French"... We just have literately thousands of years of history... a lot of it historic fighting... but at the same time a lot of it invading or living in each others countries. Neither has ever not respected the other... however in the last 2 centuries the Brits and French fought alongside each other rather than against each other... and even more respect was achieved.
The French literately allow us Brits to patrol the boarder INSIDE their country with full law and support... let that sink in.
Murray mainly takes the mick out of Britain... but he will take turns with every other "stereotype" now and then... but he does it by portraying the "ignorant English" stereotype.
PS: Al Murray, in addition to German, speaks enough French to have done a bilingual comedy show in France, and has some Italian. He is an Oxford graduate in Modern History, in addition to a doctorate and an additional honorary degree from other universities.
People can make fun of us French people as much as they want, we are far too arrogant to take them seriously.😂😂😂
Brilliiant!
Of course the French eat horses.
It's not like they use them to charge into battle, is it?
That is so cold. 🤣🤣
LOL!
Classic
pfftt! Very funny.
"He speaks German"
"Why?"
lol how very American!
bout sums up USA really
Making fun of yourself is a British trait. Al Murray does it so cleverly.
Al is British, he speaks German and some French from education. His father was a colonel in the parachute regiment, one of his grandfathers was killed at Dunkirk defending the perimeter and the other was in the secret services. The fargrare isn't cooked in a bad way it's the treatment of the animal before its death that raises eyebrows and yes the frogs eat horse.
Foie gras.
@@AS-by8ee thank you lol
They do indeed , but I had to giggle when reading your comment .horse is a big mouthful for a frog !😆
You can get non goose foie gras now (no animals are harmed) where it's made in a container and although it isn't the same it's still really nice
I've eaten horse when we lived in Germany and it's very lean and tasty 😁
In the UK we learn French at school it was compulsory when I went (I think it still is) , some go on to German and/or Spanish classes. Spanish had only just started becoming an option when I left.
Same pal I did French my kids only do Spanish
He was listing a load of questions that English people who don’t know much French will probably remember a lot of from French class at school or know from popular culture. But he obviously speaks quite a bit of French himself!
Do I count? Brit moved to France over 20 years ago. I would say the French like the Brits more than the other way round (well, at least up until Brexit but this isn't a political channel...). I love the French and France. Paris is a very beautiful city, so long as you avoid the summer when it empties of French and fills with tourists. Lyon, where I live, is almost entirely a World Heritage Site - stunning.
Oh, yes, Al was speaking real French!
Yes he was speaking French. I drove to Paris from Sheffield England to take my girlfriend on a road trip for valentines day. Type in UA-cam cars parking in Paris, it was wild to see with my own eyes. They push other cars with their cars to make a bigger space, people leave their parking break off. Also all of the vans parked up are covered in spray paint like a mobile graffiti wall.
It's never just 'Paris' , it's always 'Paris, France' just in case you go to Texas by mistake.
And it's always "London England" just in case you wanted to visit the Tower of London in Ontario!!
There are actually about 20 cities and communities in the US named Paris. The one in Texas is just the largest, but still under 25,000 people. There's also one in Ontario. There's also a Texas in Australia. Maybe we should say Texas USA, but that won't help as there are 15 of them. 😂
@@t.a.k.palfrey3882 But there's only one Paris in the USA, which has a Wim Wenders cult classic movie and a band named after it.
@@davepb5798 and a really great movie I have to say! I'd forgotten that! Great score by Ry Cooder.
Its cool that France named a town after Paris, Texas.
If you haven't got it, he takes the pi## out of the UK in every episode as his alter ego is a caricature of some British people and their attitudes which in real life he may not share, and in his extensive interaction with the audience. He is a masterclass in subversive humour/humor. I'm sure the French, quite rightly, ridicule us Brits. It's all part of life's rich tapestry.
You mean Murray is against a great thing like Brexit? I shall be boycotting him from now on.
@@adambattersby8934 I don't know what his political views in real life are, but he's well-spoken, well-educated & very middle class.
@@adambattersby8934 A trifle presumptious to call it "great"; How the hell do you know, charlie ?
Because getting out of the EU is a great thing, Charlie.
I love Al Murray he is very knowledgeable about the world wars and has a passion for tanks ..Great content
He's often at the tank museum. What's not to like.
I love France, I go snowboarding there every year, can’t beat saying “Bonjour… deux cafe au lait, un croissant en un pain au chocolat ce vous plais” first thing each morning.❤
If you want to upset a French man , show him the 2 fingers , it's an English insult to them .
Love the show from the Czech republic !!
Thought it was the one finger salute, to let them know our Archers still had their arrow firing finger 😂😂
@@DianaMcFerranThat myth originated on US radio.
The british library has said that there isn't enough evidence to find a link between Agincourt and the offensive gesture.
@@Elstree so ask yourself what is the British library , is it like the bank of England allowing for the presumption that it's a bank of the country known as England or maybe just corporation double speak ??. Does that same British library say there is not enough evidence to prove Christ was , and is .
I suppose I am odd. I admit it. I am a Francophile. An Englishman that loves France. Been all over. Always found the French to be hospitable and polite. Whether it is duck in orange sauce or chicken in red wine. Great cuisine. Wines eccellent. Cr@p beer though ! Good trains when not on strike. Nice architecture.
Same.
I need to hurry up and get back there while there's still a France to visit though. People think England has it bad for immigration. Holy moly, France is in a bad way!
Same here
@@vaudevillian7 Racist AF comment. Consider yourselves reported
@@davidholgate123 I'll take 'checky scarfs' for $1,000 please, David.
Most of us love the French, it's just a joke between us that we dislike each other 😂
What a lot of non British people don’t realise is the joke is always on us - the British have a very attractive and healthy well rounded ability to laugh at ourselves - you watch any of the al Murray sketches and you’ll see that the main butt of the joke is Al himself because of his childish delusions - the same goes for Catherine Tate in the Interpreter sketch - many people thought that was racist but it isn’t because the joke is on her and how cuckoo her character is. And that’s why British humour is the best there is without a doubt - yes we take the puss out of you but that’s okay because we take the piss out of ourselves even more 👌
And you guys - boomer and boomerette - is so adorable seeing you happy and cute with each other as parenthood and sleepless nights loom 🤣
This video is going to be SO beautiful for you to watch back in 30 years from now.
You made me laugh and I thought - I’m in trouble because I actually love these complete strangers as if they were family 😱🙄🤪🤣😘
Most English people do French at school, I said do because very few actually learn it.😂😂
same with English.
I didn't.
The most overly romanticised city is Venice. It looks amazing in pictures, stunning architecture, but it reaks to high heaven.
Oh yes its bad, like Paris
Yes indeed, Venice stinks - a lot.
MOST OF US WERE TAUGHT FRENCH AT SCHOOL IN THE UK , AND YES , THERE ARE HORSE BUTCHER SHOPS
Didn't they eat horse in England too not so long ago? . I think it was sold in butchers as 'kicker'.
The town of Condom, France is located in the northern part of the department of Gers, halfway between Mont-de-Marsan (to the west) and Montauban (to the east), and north of Auch. Jean Condom (born 15 August 1960 in Saint-André-de-Seignanx) is a retired French international rugby union player. He played as a lock. Brest.
There’s a strong France legacy especially after the 11th century Norman conquest in the u.k, much of the leadership were French and the royal family were French for centuries afterwards, the language is loaded with French and Spanish.✌️❤️🇬🇧 1000 years of shared history with France
Marseille is ok, it does have some very rough areas, Paris is ok too (the typical tourist trap thing applies), Nice is good in the summer, but I like Lyon the best.
Cassis isn't too far from Marseille, and it's also beautiful.
Me too - Lyon is lovely, I’d love to return there one day. The last time I was there was about twenty years ago and it was about 36 degrees, so the square with water jets was fantastic to cool off with. Miles better than Paris.
@@soulgalorememories9921 Yeah, I was fortunate to see Notre Dam before the fire (which was a couple of weeks before that happened), but Lyon was brilliant. The old town across the river (with a cool cinema museum), little market next to that river, lots of small shops everywhere from designer to quirky stuff, nice restaurants, small squares darted about (and the big square). Think there was a major terrorist attack a few months prior, I remembered in every French city I went to there was a group of four to six soldiers walking around with full auto machine guns (only sour thing about my mini tour of France a few years back).
@@evelynroadmedia9415 - those quirky little shops are so nice as are those little eating places tucked away…like in a time warp. Our hotel was one big walk up about a hundred steps…I was much fitter then so it was no problem 😂
The nice thing was we flew directly to Lyon…made the trip much more pleasurable.
When I was in France in the 80s they were watching Neighbours, an Aussie tv soap the Brits love.
He is a great historian especially the 2nd world war, he speaks French and german.
No sir and lady, as a kiwi exiled to the Netherlands, I'm pleasantly surprised to see 2 yanks who understand his the world works ..... keep it up!!!!
So the view from the Eiffel Tower is Paris, well here in the North West of England we have the Blackpool Tower and you can see as far as the Spine of England , the Pennines.
All murray is a very well educated man . And yes he
speaks french.
Horse meat is common on the continent. It sounds odd or even unpleasant to some people, but you will find it on the supermarket shelves across Europe, mainly as cold cuts.
I left you a translation of the French part of the Plebs episode on the Patreon!! I'm half-English half-French, live in Paris.
I saw that! Much appreciated thank you!
@@KingBoomer Al Murray did a kind of sit com in the early 2000s set in a pub called 'Time gentlemen please'. I am currently watching a Canadian couple react to that, which they both like, and previously a New Yorker react to it, and it woud be great if you got hold of it to watch.
There is actually a 16 minute video you might very much enjoy of Al on stage in France. he's on a tiny stage in the basment of a bar in Paris. The video is entitled Al Muarry - Here to help in Paris April 2013.
Eating goose and duck isn't that weird in continental Europe and horsemeat is also readily available in Germany, and if you can kill a cow and eat it, why not a horse? But to me, it's the way foie gras is made that freaks me out, and it turns out, it's not just geese and ducks they treat this way, they also used to do it (until 2007) to ortolans (a small native songbird). I have copied the wikipedia description:
"The birds are caught with nets set during their autumn migratory flight to Africa. They are then kept in covered cages or boxes. The birds react to the dark by gorging themselves on grain, usually millet seed, until they double their bulk. The birds are then thrown into a container of Armagnac, which both drowns and marinates the birds.
The bird is roasted for eight minutes and then plucked. The consumer then places the bird feet first into their mouth while holding onto the bird's head. The ortolan is then eaten whole, with or without the head, and the consumer spits out the larger bones. The traditional way French gourmands eat ortolans is to cover their heads and face with a large napkin or towel while consuming the bird."
I'm not British, but I can see why they find the French a bit strange 😅
Eating goose isn't weird in the UK or US...
They still boil pigs alive in Belgium. I didn't believe it until someone gave me a link, which was too upsetting to watch. I'm sure we've all eaten horsemeat without even knowing.
That ortolans thing is disgusting. Typical French perversion.
@@DS-uy6jw It just sounded like KB and QB found it weird ~"Is it goose they eat there?" And I have heard a few Americans say they never had mutton or duck (Danes eat duck for Christmas), so I honestly don't know what to believe anymore xD
@@barrymitchell6444 I did not know that... Just looked it up: seems like it happens in the Netherlands but mostly by accident, as the pigs are supposed to be dead by then. The boiling water is used to scald the bristles off.
Sod France, go to Italy instead, stunning country.
They wave the same white flag too.
I went to a restaurant in Paris and asked the waiter if he had frogs legs, he said yes, so I asked him to hop over the counter and make me a bacon sandwich.
hur hur hur
The closest I've ever got to France is the island of Sark (a British Feudal State)
I've always flown over France (when their ATC isn't on strike!) and into Spain 🇪🇸
Much better weather and much nicer people.
I lived and worked on Sark... It's a fantastic place.
Never call a Sarkese a French person. They'll get very VERY upset! Lol.
Sarkese and French are the same base language, Sarkese is a bit more Norman French than modern French. Except it has some more specific words and it's own separate dialect. It's also a dieing language.
When were you there?
Sadique Khan would have a disaster there. No motors to tax. Little traitor.
@@johnperkins4611 he'd probably introduce a "Traxtor Fee"... A tractor tax lol.
Did you ever ride the toast rack up from the harbour?
Nice run for the Lancaster, 😅
Al actually isn't fluent in German but his sister is and he gets her to translate things for him. He says so himself in 2016 when speaking with Henning Wehn, now, granted he may have become fluent since then but he otherwise is not.
You don't have to be 'half German ' to speak fluent Germany. We eat geese 'goose' here in the UK. Goose is on the Chinese restaurant menus in the States. Lived in the States for 31years.
Geese is plural for goose, so do the Chinese only eat one?
@@minion3806 What's plural for twat ? Twattery, perhaps.
Well I'm sure they're enlightened with that sound advice. Speaking Germany lmao
Sometimes in life you are the Statue, and sometimes you are the pigeon.
I love France and especially Paris. Always found the French friendly but then again, I like Al Murray. Saw him live three weeks ago.
I live in the south of France and I have been watching you since the begining of this year
The romantic illusion comes from the American film: An American In Paris.
Can’t get away from the fact the French can be quite rude and get very annoyed quite quick. My husband nearly came to blows one holiday with a waiter.
I found Parisians to be very rude, but elsewhere in France they are absolutely lovely.
I remember a French woman telling me that the French find the Parisians are rude, but as you said, I’ve always found the provincial French very friendly…
@@SirHilaryManfat To be fair it was in Paris.
@@geoffbuck6890 I have French relatives, and even they despise the French.
France is two countries France North and France South.
speaking of towers and things that are tall, I remember when I was collecting a Christmas tree for my dad, somebody asked me if I was going to put it up myself to which I replied "no, the living room!"
Should check out 'Allo 'Allo! For our take on the French and Germans during WWII
"I was píssìng by the door, when I heard two shìṭs."
Good moaning.
Foie gras is extremely cruelly produced 😢 I agree Callie
As an Irishman (N I based), I always remember when on a family holiday to France as a kid, the locals' demeanor changed entirely when, in a village café in the north of France, the owner found out we were Irish. Silent atmosphere immediately changed, and she grinned and it felt like tension left the room. She even brought us free nibbles. Ireland and France don't really have beef, outside a certain tiny football incident recently
I’ve never had a problem there and I’m English but maybe just lucky. Most people when I’m abroad say I don’t look English so that’s probably why 😂
Well the Irish have just about been as troublesome as the French.
lol that ending... "OW!"
Al Murray is a multilingual history academic and really smart! So yes he speaks french.
French is similar difficulty to Spanish but I'd say it starts out harder because of spelling and grammatical gender (Spanish has the -o/-a rule which helps for lots of words) but ends up easier because English uses a ton of loan words from French. It's super easy to talk about anything even slightly technical in French because all our words for that stuff are IN French 😂 German is a bit harder than either of them even though English is a Germanic language; the grammar is less similar to English or French and there are fewer recognisable words on average 😄
I always found German to be easier than French. I've no empirical data for it but it always seemed to me that a lot of the words in German seemed very similar to the English words.
The basic words are really similar! Most of the Germanic words shared between English and German are the super high-frequency ones but there are way more French and Latin words overall. Germanic words include stuff like: haus, feuer (fire), tier (like 'deer' but it means 'animal' in general in German) but think of all the words ending in '-ation' - nation, compensation, irrigation... all from, or based on, French. There are so many others, like almost all our law terminology is based on French words. Cinema and theatre too. All sorts. However, stuff like "meine name ist" is very close to English as compared with "Je m'appelle" or a more literal "mon nom est" - you do get some great free vocabulary with German 😂@@JamesLMason
@@easterdeer I don't disagree that you're probably correct. My German was only very surface level so I probably latched onto those few similar words
@@JamesLMason It always depends on which word-list you use and it's hard to estimate but that seems to be the usual conclusion from the stuff I've read. I'm not an expert on German - I did it for 5 years in highschool but never since. I can have a basic conversation and talk about family, holidays... the usual stuff (but with bad grammar 😂) I've been learning French from highschool on, so 21 years, on and off and I can vaguely get by in Spanish (I understand a lot of it from French and I watched lots of Spanish UA-cam for a few months to crash-course it)
@@easterdeer I think that the things that stuck are things like "ich" "meine" "haben" "das" "ist" "alles" "Apfel" "besser" "Bruder" "Garten" "Vater" "Freund" "Milch". They all sound very like the English.
I have a sneaking admiration for the froggies. While we keep calm and carry on, they get angry and set fire to stuff.
Most European people have studied a foreign language in school in addition to English.
In Sweden we always learn English and also most commonly French/German/Spanish but other languages too, different schools teach different languages. French, German and Spanish classes are required at all schools unless the courses gets fewer than 5 registrations.
I love it when Queen Boomer loses it! So sweet.
Yep . Im from France , Toulouse 😊
A foreign language is standard, you can choose which French German, Spanish ect . As well as English,
In Ireland, its more English, Irish ( gaelic ) French, German or Spanish. I did French, but learned some Spanish and Italian. I can understand but not really speak .
You really do rock that civil war general look though. Difference is I'm down with it.
I’ve been to Marseilles, the only difference between it and Paris is the muggers are in shirt sleeves and t-shirts as it’s much warmer …👀
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Since they lost the "Lingua Franca " issue ( wo'nt mention Waterloo or Trafalgar, like ) when english was to be used as THEE language of protocol etc.. in the U.N. the french have despised speaking english. Many can ( for obv reasons ) but refuse to speak it.
I am English but speak some French after four years of learning at my London school and Al was speaking perfect French. I understand he did a complete stand up in France in French. I believe he speaks some Italian and perfect German. I think I read some where he has a Austrian grandparent.
We love them really
He is actually speaking French and they are all questions. E.g. "Comment t'appelle tu?" is "What is your name" or more literally "How do you call yourself?"
I'm not French btw, but I do speak french :)
If the French reach out it will be just to say....... Non!
Yea he WAS speaking genuine French , I do too but at a basic level from school - it’s MUCH easier than German or Spanish imho
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They still openly piss in the streets of Paris. First saw it with my own eyes when visiting in the mid 1960's.
I'm English and I never knew Al spoke German. Good info! 👌😉
I actually did German language at school. I had to choose between french or German. I did two years of German and a year of french, before deciding to stick with German. Don't remember any of it.
Remember Waterloo? ...The French do! 😅😅. Classic British joke.
South of France - yes please, Paris? nah, been there, done that
For eating horses - a few years ago UK health inspectors discovered some meats that had been sold here contained horse meat - nothing mentioned on the label and I suspect not allowed. The Brits were not happy (or so the news said) - also note UK laws state the ingredients must be on the packaging - I think it was 'beef'burgers where it was discovered.
If by a few years ago, you mean a decade, then yes, there was a big scandal in 2013 about Horse Meat being in beefburgers and other products, it wasn't so much that people were eating horse meat, as that companies were mislabelling items, and either not declaring the horse meat content, or improperly declaring it.
You know who Britain's friends are, we make fun of them relentlessly. We have been doing this to the French, Australians and America in particular for centuries.
I booked my ticket to go see al in 2024. Dead excited.
You two are so funny with no sleep
We eat horse meat too in Malta, as does our closest neighbour Sicily. Its lovely tho its not good in quantities coz it will raise your blood pressure.
Yes the frogs eat Steak à Cheval which is horse steak.I was served this while on an exchange trip to Amien.oh,and Paris STINKS,the Seine back in the 1980s was literally an open sewer
I'm from England , the French don't particularly like me , I don't take it personally , it's ingrained in them down the generations , it goes both ways ... V
I was in Ghana during its problematic period during the 1980's. Apart from the diplomatic missions the number of expatriates, usually at senior managerial levels was probably less that 100. British, Americans, Swiss, Dutch, German (East and West) an Australian and a lone Swede all socialised and formed a very happy and close knit group. Who were missing? The French of course, insular and arrogant. As always.
Germany has some really funny and also dirty town names, just down the road from my Barracks there was a town called Wankum you would see british soldiers taking photos standing next to the sign there is another called Titz thats also a giggle
LOL...here in the UK we also have some weird/rude names.......Try "Pratts Bottom". Located near Orpington Kent (Borough of Bromley),,,,and a Polecat Alley.
French graduate here...yes hes definitely speaking french 😅
He was speaking French . France is a great country if you can speak French well enough to have a basic conversation, if you just expect them to speak English then they are not interested.
Cheval / chevaux = horse. They do have it on menus
Tastes like beef only richer.
just go to Vegas, there's the Eifel tower the Coliseum, the canals of Venice and of course the hustlers,hookers and junkies 😇 ps according to Bill Bailey France has 3 towns called Bi*ch it's all in the pronunciation folks
Queen Boomer' s french accent sounds like Joey's one on Friends 😅
You have to find the All in Paris, its hillsrious
You always look stoned king boomer !!! 🇬🇧
French fact # 3876. Joan of Arc (Jehanne d'Arc) never came from 'Arc' In fact, there wasn't a town or place called 'Arc' anywhere in France at the time. Joan was born and grew up in a place called Domrémy. It is now thought that the 'd'Arc' thing is a confusion of the family name, which was either 'Darc' or 'Tarc'.
Toulouse and Perpignan I'd love to go visit in France take in Rugby League too 😂
In Spanish & Italian it's almost the same....piscina.....ooh la la!
I used to live and work just outside Paris a place called Epinay sur Orge, so on weekends would get the SNCF train into the city, to be honest it's not the romantic place everyone seems to think it is, this is a myth lol, speak British English there and they don't want to know , daft sods still haven't forgiven us for Agincourt! for a romantic city you cannot beat Rome, now that city is magical :)
My family was from France { historically } ,,,but we found a cure and got better .
Yes he is speaking french
That thumbnail is a win
Dont bother going to Paris its now largely an African city. Very very different to when I was young. Its heart breaking to see it.
Sorry but they are more friendly than the stuck up twats. Plus, it's a shithole!!!
paris syndrome is very real especially if your japanese
Never forget, as Al told everybody, England IS the centre of the Earth and the Universe. 😄😄
Affectionate humour.
Queen Boomer took this one🤷♂️👏👏😂😂
Had me yawning a couple of times tho....😑🤷♂️😂💜
2:07 Al-Jazeera... 😅
Its Haw He Haw. Like a Donkey :).
The French will eat anything. I saw an interview with Gerard Depardieu where he was describing how he cooks a hedgehog
Hi King & Queen Boomer, If you want to see how the French are made fun of you have to watch The Australian Show Club Buggery with Roy & HG, you will love it.