How to annoy the French
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Hi guys!
Let's get something straight. I have no idea why you'd want to annoy a French person. I wouldn't. I love French people.
But perhaps you want to know how to avoid annoying them. In that case, here are a few of the things you shouldn't say if you meet a French person, according to Veronique from the hit blog French Girl in Seattle.
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| 0:00.0 | If I'll Tower listeners, it's another Monday in France, and we all know what that means. |
| 0:04.3 | Rain, apparently. |
| 0:05.7 | It's raining today. |
| 0:06.7 | But no, I'm just kidding. |
| 0:07.6 | What it actually means is another episode of the Yearful Tower podcast, figuring out France, |
| 0:13.2 | one podcast episode of the time. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Oliver G. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm your host. |
| 0:16.8 | And this week, we're talking about how to annoy French people, if that's the kind of thing you want to do. |
| 0:23.6 | I mean, personally, I wouldn't want to do it. |
| 0:25.6 | I'd take this list if I were you and I'd learn from it as a way of how not to irritate French people |
| 0:32.3 | if you happen to meet one in France or especially abroad. |
| 0:35.9 | The guest I've got today is an interesting one. |
| 0:38.0 | Her name is Veronique Savoy. |
| 0:40.2 | And she runs a blog and a website called French Girl in Seattle. |
| 0:44.5 | She's a French girl. |
| 0:45.7 | She lives in Seattle if you hadn't put two and two together from the name. |
| 0:50.2 | And she's a long-time listener to this podcast. |
| 0:53.6 | In fact, she's been there since episode one. |
| 0:56.5 | And yeah, she's not in Seattle today. She was in Paris. Literally, we recorded. I think this is |
| 1:01.2 | the first time in a long time that I've done the episode on the day that it's getting released. |
| 1:05.5 | So we've just been in the studio together. We had this conversation. She came in with this great |
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