Weird french diesel

[egbert]

Has anyone ever eaten slugs?
If snails are such a delicacy in France how come slugs never get a mention? I reckon I could make a few bob if there was ever a market for them.

Or is it a bit like rock salmon and you find out it's really dogfish. All those lovely escargot turn out to be Spanish slugs after all.

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I've never eaten them, but I, used to belong to a snail racing club
Every weekend we'd get together - with a few beers-, and race our polished* and pampered favourite snails.
(*there were prizes for the best turned out, see)
Some of the lads took it very seriously...there was quite a lot of gambling involved I recall.
Some sanded the shells, and used nail polish to bring em up a treat.
While there were those who would sand a bit more off the shell thickness, reckoning the weight saving.
(obviously, aerodynamics weren't an issue, although one or two swore blind that cleaning up the ridges and crinkles in the shells made em slip along quicker)

I was never very big on such tricks though.
I found it was easy to sand too much, and break away the whole shell.
......................and this always seem to make em sluggish!

I'll get my coat

 

[Cowmansam]

That’s got to be a West Country activity

 

[Muck Spreader]

Yes but what about the Vichy French. Unch if fudgeing arsehole

What about them? You need to remember that the Conservative government of the day under Lord Halifax's guidance what planning on basically surrendering the UK to Germany in a one sided peace deal. This was before the German's had even set foot on British soil. Thank goodness for Winston Churchill.

 

[willy]

What about them? You need to remember that the Conservative government of the day under Lord Halifax's guidance what planning on basically surrendering the UK to Germany in a one sided peace deal. This was before the German's had even set foot on British soil. Thank goodness for Winston Churchill.

But we didn't, also the vichy French fought in labanon and many other place against the allies, traitors of the highest order.

 

[Bury the Trash]

well they didn't have a Churchill they had a Pétain

mind you if you're looking for perfection in people , those that do the right thing , say the right thing all the time, you wont find it, that's a fact, .....up to now anyway..........

 

[czechmate]

well they didn't have a Churchill they had a Pétain

mind you if you're looking for perfection in people , those that do the right thing , say the right thing all the time, you wont find it, that's a fact, .....up to now anyway..........

Surely, you have just that in your current prime minister?

 

[le bon paysan]

20 minutes from me...

Oradour-sur-Glane massacre - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Thousands and thousands of ''frogs'' in the resistance helped many many britsh airmen to return to uk or to remain safe after crash landing in occupied France. They knew if they got caught they would be killed. Yep, that sounds like giving up to me.

anyway, back to thread. I have been over to France countless times in various vehicles. They have all been Diesel. None have suffered with funny fuel gauges?

Never judge a country on it's politicians, the fact that the French capitulated at the start of WW2 is irelivant relative to the people of the country.

 

[Robt]

Never judge a country on it's politicians, the fact that the French capitulated at the start of WW2 is irelivant relative to the people of the country.

Not my wording

 

[stewart]

20 minutes from me...

Oradour-sur-Glane massacre - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Been there a couple of times, very humbling.

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Not my wording

Wasn't intended to be, I guess the French during the war were no different to the Dutch, hence what I wrote.
Yes we did have family active in the resistance during WW2.

 

[Lazy Sod]

I had snails once, as Benny Hill would have said when doing his Chinese man routine: they were rubbery. It was made worse because I don't like garlic.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Surely, you have just that in your current prime minister?

Least he could do is get a sharp haircut lol.

Never judge a country on it's politicians,

you dont say

there was me thinking all you guys had huge grins and tractors with no cabs

 

[TheTallGuy]

I suspect that many people's view of the French would be somewhat different if they had gone through what they did during the war. Militarily they were outclassed in men, materials & leadership - by the time of the surrender they were a spent force & carrying on would not gave changed the outcome other than more death & destruction. They did what they had to do to survive & whilst I have mixed feelings regarding passive collaboration (obviously active collaboration is a bit of a different subject), it's not for me to pass judgement not having been through such an occupation.

 

[Muck Spreader]

I suspect that many people's view of the French would be somewhat different if they had gone through what they did during the war. Militarily they were outclassed in men, materials & leadership - by the time of the surrender they were a spent force & carrying on would not gave changed the outcome other than more death & destruction. They did what they had to do to survive & whilst I have mixed feelings regarding passive collaboration (obviously active collaboration is a bit of a different subject), it's not for me to pass judgement not having been through such an occupation.

The French simply didn't have enough men left in the population after WW1, hence one of the reasons the Maginot line was built as a way of obviating a manpower shortage. Their mistake was not to take it along the Belgian boarder as well, because at the time they didn't wish to offend the Belgians. Any attack though Belgium was supposedly going to be halted and then driven back by the BEF, French and Belgium armies. But as we know the Germans bundled us all up a chucked us out in a matter of weeks.

 

[bobk]

Anyone one got views on the different types of diesel ????

 

[Cowmansam]

Nah this is a french military history thread what got you thinking it was about fuel

 

[czechmate]

Anyone one got views on the different types of diesel ????

Try it on some essence

 

[caveman]

UK fuel not without its quirks.
A few months ago, me raking grass, a big deere on a trailer running low, grabbed the pump out of the forager and donated from my smaller deeres tank.
Unbelievably, my fuel gauge and fuel percentage reading increased as the fuel pumped out.

 

[czechmate]

UK fuel not without its quirks.
A few months ago, me raking grass, a big deere on a trailer running low, grabbed the pump out of the forager and donated from my smaller deeres tank.
Unbelievably, my fuel gauge and fuel percentage reading increased as the fuel pumped out.

Yep, very strange