No it’s not a drink but an old expression for Anglo French relations, set to suffer (according to some) as a result of this - a new Mister Man called Mr Rude who’s flatulent, malodorous and speaks with a French accent. Mon dieu. Will this faux pas from Channel 5 and Roger Hargreaves’ lad Adam, who has taken over penning the stories, dent the special relationship between Blair and Sarko? According to the Today programme this morning other EU leaders noteably Angela Merkel are less keen on Blair’s bid for the EU Presidency than Monsieur Le President of France. TB needs him on side and can’t afford the Mister Men to become a diplomatic incident and scupper it.
In the meantime what new Mister Man/Little Miss would you like to see and who should such characters be modelled on?
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February 20, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Paul Burgin
It’s not just Mr.Rude, it’s postmodern British culture down the ages from Monty Python and the Holy Grail to the Le Petit Angalaise blog
February 21, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Sheep Sh@gger
I’m not sure what to make of this. It seems a bit unfair to tar the French with the brush of rudeness – it is not as if there is another French ‘Mr Man’ [Monsieur Homme?] who is all sweetness and light. But then there are often grains of truth in many stereotypes. And some of it is just silly banter which should not result in people getting too uptight.
I mean, do I lose any sleep when people insinuate that Welshmen get over friendly with sheep ? To me the most offensive thing about sheep-shagging jokes is their spectacular lack of originality. The accusation that the Welsh are a nation of whingers has a bit more spice, as there is at least a grain [or a peppercorn?] of truth in it.
But maybe being rude isn’t the worst sin, although I agree it is not really behaviour which is to be encouraged. Maybe to even up the cultural bias, there should be a French Mr Man who has had to start work at that import McDonald’s. And therefore he has to stop being rude and start talking a load of fake, insincere ‘Have a nice day’ bo!!ocks.. They would be begging to have the rude Mr Man back in a trice.
p.s. I am very worried about your plagiarism policy Ms Huq – most of my opinions are just crap recycled [composted?] from other blogs anyway – but I couldn’t even remember the sources to cite, even if I wanted to.
p.p.s Good to also see that this blog is now in its ’snowballing’ phase in terms of the numbers of readers, judging by the number of posts. Kisses..