Monday, April 21, 2008

Most Weird City 2008: PARIS (FRANCE)








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This are the reasons given by Jaime to choose Paris (France) as the most weird city in the world.

1-All Paris stinks. On the underground several areas are connected to the septic tank of the buildings, and it's not a question of bad barriers, barriers simply don't exist. French people, to bear it best, do not wash, and so don't notice it as much. Everything is complete with the best cheeses in the whole world: they all stink.

2.On Second World War something odd happened, the whole Paris and part of France was occupied by the Germans, but every single French, all of them, heroically stood upon the Resistance. There's not a French who collaborated with the Germans, there isn't. What no one knows is how they managed to invade and occupy them for so long.

3.Paris's liberation was held by the Spanish republicans, but it was, biensur, a French man, Charles de Gaulle, who entered gloriously shaking a handkerchief to be acclaimed as liberator of the Reconquered France.

4.It is the capital or Southern Europe, for as Africa begins at the Pirineos.

5.They are true genius. They hold the privilege of having recently won the World Soccer Championship, with a whole team made out of players born outside France, and who played outside of France; some of them even born in French Guiana, miles and miles away from Paris and only one step to Brazil. But they went along the Arc de Triomphe just the same, and Paris prepaired itself to receive their own heroes with exquisite champagne. (Special mention to of weirdness to Christian Karembeu, whose face reminds Bob Marley just the same his body resembles to King Kong's, married to Adriana Sklenarikova (absolute goddess of Wonderbra), and whose college type football helped both France to win their Championship and Real Madrid to win his so longed Seventh Champions League.

6.Burn out cars. San Juan does not go that far here in Spain, over there they burn out the mercedes on Friday night. And it's not a matter of craze, it's a local tradition held up for ages. I was there at my Erasmus before all that fuss and I had the privilege of enjoying the spectacle of burning booga just at my door at the Residence

7.Every perfume in the world has been made up in Paris. Laboratories can be at Albacete, the botelling can be done in Almendralejo, and the aromatic plants may come from any marsh in Andalucía, but still on the side of the bottle of the perfume you will only see in golden letters “PARIS”.

8-They cook everything with greasy disgusting butter but nevertheless they're known as the best cookers in the world. As a matter of fact the word that designs the highest cooker is chef, that is boss, in french. They rule

9-Children, how not, come all, as well, from Paris. They have the more sophisticated Exportation Service commanded by storks in the whole Solar System.

10-Parisians are stiff people. French people are well known for being the more arrogant among the Europeans, but Parisians are even the most haughty among the French. If over there you speak in english they will look down on you, but if you try with with french, even if you only know how to say croissant, they will be helpful and attentive.

11-This no objection to Paris being the international symbol of love. Any affected movie that considers itself of value ends with a shot of the Eiffel Tower at night or, at least, at sunset.

12-Tour Eiffel. The most simple and ugly amount of iron (go ahead Harry) that was built by the workers on the Universal Exposition of 1889 has become a universal symbol of Romanticism. To make matters worse their lights flash every time the clock strikes a particular hour, and everybody goes ohhhh and all the couples start to kiss.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This article is as idiot than its author.. sad.

Anonymous said...

Someone who has never been to Paris obviously. Sad story as previously said...

Anonymous said...

Someone who has never been to Paris obviously. Sad story as previously said...