What are we talking about this week in France? Petrol, stuffed mushrooms and 'little dick' jewellery 👇
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What are we talking about this week in France? Petrol, stuffed mushrooms and 'little dick' jewellery 👇
If you're looking for something to cheer you up about the state of the world and the state of journalism, this film . . . is not it! But it is great, really enjoyed it
Film poster for Raoul Peck's Orwell 2 + 2 = 5
This is a great watch, really hard-hitting
This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.
They’ll play this in museums in future.
(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
On the ground reporting 🕵️♀️
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
OPINION: Local elections will show if France still has the will to resist the far-right
Talking France is back, in a crucial week
🇫🇷 Local elections - why they matter and which cities are on a knife edge
🇫🇷 Macron walks the tightrope in the Middle East, and fears the effects of rising fuel prices in France
🇫🇷 Why so many Americans are moving to Montpellier
If you want to get involved, here is the French government's menu planner
www.mangerbouger.fr
text reads Friday Lunch - Gaspacho soup. Rabbit tagine with dried fruit and couscous. Baked apples. Dinner - Green salad with Emmental, bacon and croutons. Ham and cheese omelette. Fresh grapefruit. Two glasses of wine. Saturday Lunch - split pea soup. Cod fillet with mushrooms and brown rice. Cheese course. Dinner - Pasta salad with peas. Sausages (pork or poultry) with carrots and onions. Mango and coconut Sabayon (baked custard). Two glasses of wine.
Looking forward to my first weekend as a government-approved French person (do like a bit of 🐰)
test reads - Monday Lunch - Salad of bulgar wheat, goat's cheese and beetroot (beet). Onion quiche with a side salad. Cheese course. Dinner - Potato salad with leeks. One-pot wholewheat pasta with spinach and mushrooms. Yoghurt or rice pudding. Tuesday Lunch - Mushrooms stuffed with sardines. Turkey à la Provençale (cooked in tomato sauce with vegetables). Cheesecake with fromage blanc and speculoos biscuits. Glass of wine.
Beginning my new life as a government-approved French person . . .
Turns out the French health ministry has a tool that will create for you a weekly menu plan and, well, I think I might need to renegotiate my working hours in order to create the recommended entrée-plat-dessert lunch and dinner every day 🐟🥦🧀🍷
Can't believe that's 20 years old now! One of my favourite songs
As some figures on the French centre-right and far-right prepare to do deals around the local elections, Paris' Green leader has a very 🇫🇷 metaphor - trying to separate these alliances afterwards is like trying to take the sugar out of your coffee
The 🇫🇷 govt spokesman says: "We will not hesitate to point the finger at those who profit from the situation, because that is absolutely intolerable."
However motorists in France are reporting prices of petrol and diesel up by 20 cents a litre in the space of a few days
Banners in the air and beautiful blue sky at the Paris march for International Women's Day
Woman holds up a sign saying, in French, stupid hysterical bitch
Banner reads, in French, For the defence of rights and freedoms for all
Sign reads, in French, fuck your demographic rearmement
Beautiful day for a feminist revolution 💪
At least 7 putains here!
For those unaware, une bite (yes, it's feminine) is the French slang term for penis. Another option is zizi which is, I assume, why the British-Italian chain restaurant never made it here
Haha, a classic! Who wouldn't want some 'small dick' jewellery?
Meanwhile in my own commune we have 5 lists; United left, Diverse left, Greens, far left, more far left and the Bagnolet Revolutionaries (far left)!
One temptation, given France's tempestuous politics right now, is to try and use these elections to extrapolate how 2027 might go, but local and national elections are often very different in France
A look ahead to France's crucial local elections - some knife-edge races, especially in Paris, a possible shock for a 2027 presidential hopeful, changes to voting systems and how those vital alliances work
How to have the butter, the money for the butter, and the dairymaid's smile
www.thelocal.fr/20211129/fre...
The French version of 'to have your cake and eat it' - avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre - can be expanded out into longer versions. But I think Libé definitely takes the cake for this beautiful expansion in its review of Pillion . . .
Find the Talking France back catalogue here
www.thelocal.fr/podcasts/tal...
Don't normally do this, but today I have a gastro and feel like death and this really cheered me up. So re-posting some praise for the Talking France podcast . . .
Welcome! Really pleased to hear that you are enjoying it. Feel free to get in touch if there are any specific topics you would like us to cover
A platter of oysters, hand at top of shot squeezing lemon
Two pigs lying together in the straw
An absolute unit of a sheep with a curly fringe
A hippy horse from the Camargue with a long white mane and forelock
No cows, but still a great day out at the Paris Salon de l'Agriculture - oysters, cheese, sausage, wine from every region of France, beautiful pigs and an absolute unit of a sheep! 5 stars
Poster reads, in French, And if the wolf didn't have fruit and vegetables to eat? With a call to support farmers
From Christmas adverts to political activism - the Intermarché wolf is busy!
