Refuse to Carry Frenchmen and Dogs …

• ak
  April 28th, 2008 at 5:51 pm

  Woof…

• NeuroGirl
  April 28th, 2008 at 6:05 pm

  The French tip about ten percent for cabs. Dogs, however, do not tip and will get hair all over your back seat. I hate getting in a cab after a dog’s been in it and ending up looking like a crazy cat lady who lives with her mother.

• Geekazoid
  April 28th, 2008 at 6:16 pm

  The poor French, never get any love always the butt of Jay Leno jokes.

• seekshelter
  April 28th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

  i read someone from one of the spokespeople that organized the protests…they said that they weren’t protesting the store… its just that they got more attention for holding the protest in front of them

• CheeseDuck
  April 28th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

  Oui! La vie est injuste.

• Ali S.
  April 28th, 2008 at 8:09 pm

  Ah, the poor French. The only people besides the Germans who always gets picked out.

• drr
  April 28th, 2008 at 8:20 pm

  Nationalism is such sick insanity.

• Chad Cloman
  April 28th, 2008 at 8:29 pm

  I’m wondering why they didn’t write it in French instead of English.

• stacyj
  April 28th, 2008 at 9:02 pm

  @Chad - You wonder why they didn’t write it in French instead of English? Come on! Then how would the dogs know they couldn’t hire that cab - who ever heard of a dog who could read French?

  That’s just silly =P

• darkwingduck
  April 28th, 2008 at 9:05 pm

  the sign is a reference to the phrase “no chinese or dogs allowed” a sign that was often posted in european controlled zones of chinese port cities such as shanghai, during the late 19th and early 20th century.

  so… not because the french doesn’t tip well (in fact, tipping is not a common practice in china at all)

• MoNeek
  April 28th, 2008 at 9:29 pm

  What’s wrong with Dogs?

• Sheldon
  April 28th, 2008 at 10:05 pm

  I refuse to carry Frenchmen and dogs as well.

• clinton robert labombard
  April 28th, 2008 at 10:09 pm

  Yeah, Frenchmen /and/ dogs? Too heavy. One or the other, but not both.

• zacky
  April 28th, 2008 at 11:49 pm

  Chinese never to need any tip form Frenchmen.

• pfelelep
  April 29th, 2008 at 12:40 am

  sometimes, when I see my “compatriotes”’s behavior in Asia, I can really understand those signs.

  sigh.

• Raaaage Monkey
  April 29th, 2008 at 1:33 am

  Rooting for your own country when it is obviously breaking international conventions is stupid!

  Another country where this is common comes to mind… Stop waving those flags, regardless of the background color for the stars.

• Scribe
  April 29th, 2008 at 2:57 am

  I don’t know why France focuses the Chinese attention while other countries in Europe and in the World criticise the Chinese position. Maybe because our former president, Jacques Chirac, had really good relations with China (he didn’t care much about the human rights issues by the way…). They may feel betrayed or something like that.

  But anyway, it’s really sad to see such message, no matter who is pointed.

• fsmarch
  April 29th, 2008 at 8:21 am

  Heck, not even the french like the french…

• Henry V.
  April 29th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

  Now when was the last time you saw someone demonstrating for less freedom? Poor chinese…

• Christophe
  April 29th, 2008 at 2:09 pm

  French people don’t tip because it’s against the socialistic ideology we’ve been enduring since the end of WW2.
  @Neurogirl, French people don;t tip 10% of their cab fare, or they have a freaking heavy set of suitcases…
  What the French cabs protected market need is more of the “invisible hand”!

  The Chinese are moking the Frecnh because we did not succeed in our marxist revolution.

• ted
  April 29th, 2008 at 9:07 pm

  Do we need a reason to mock the French?

• fsmarch
  April 30th, 2008 at 1:19 pm

  @ ted:

  Nope!

• Felix!
  May 4th, 2008 at 6:32 am

  @ted : France has always been the country of human rights and we will continue to defend them even if they boycot … To have visited more than fifty countries I can say that nothing is like Paris, the most beautiful city in the world !
  I find this picture ridiculous, and it makes me sad, how can he supports the Chinese government that kills thousands of people … ?

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