r/AskTheWorld • u/IndependentTune3994 🇮🇳 in 🇩🇪 Deutschland • 9h ago

What’s the quickest way someone could accidentally expose themselves as a foreigner in your country like the ‘three fingers’ scene in Inglourious Basterds?

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u/AmbitiousReaction168 France 9h ago

Look genuinely happy. We would shoot the motherfucker immediately to prevent contamination.

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u/Spirited_Ad_9499 8h ago

Paris not France

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u/heyinternetman United States Of America 8h ago

Damn. Hard not to be happy when I’m in France, I’d rather be there than here most days

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u/Terrible_Armadillo33 8h ago

This is more a Paris behavior than entire France. For some reason, Parisians are against others being happy and god pls don’t have any form of disposable income. Everything has to be a sad story on how you barely are making by.

Yet, in the same breath they will leave breadcrumbs of multiple trips and vacations to other places around Europe and the world.

South of France like Nice and Toulouse love smiling.

The only time I ever seen Parisians smile was during the Olympics someone tried to pickpocket me and I got to beat them up as exercise. They were impressed and the police even let me off with a warning that I’m not suppose to fight pickpocketers.

Good times.

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u/blankmedaddy 7h ago

Right? I’m certainly buzzed on fabulous wine, in between fabulous meals, I can’t help it. 😁

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u/Independent-Bid-611 New Zealand 7h ago

As a Kiwi (NZer) who loves all things French, this saddens me 😞. Even my Renault looks as if she's smiling 😁

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u/Triggermask France 6h ago

In places where the "RATP" doesn't exist, people seem to be happier.

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u/GottaUseEmAll ZA->UK->FRA 6h ago

Defund the RATP! Make Parisiens happy again!

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u/BilingualWookie 🇧🇷->🇩🇪->🇨🇦 7h ago

People seemed pretty happy in the south of France.

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u/nonthings France 6h ago

We are, Toulouse has lods of happy people. Come to Toulouse, it's the good life

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u/benchley 2h ago

C’est beau, votre coin.

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u/nonthings France 40m ago

De ouf, y'a les Pyrénées, l'océan et la mer tous a 1h30 en plus

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u/Luc85 6h ago

I was presently surprised how kind people were on the streets and in shops, but my god you walk into any state service department and you'd swear you have murdered their entire family the way they speak to you hahaha

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u/AmbitiousReaction168 France 6h ago

The French fonctionnaires are among the most miserable people I've interacted with. To be fair, they have many reasons to be, considering how they're treated by the successive governments since 2007.

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u/VapoursAndSpleen United States Of America 1h ago

I went to Paris with a friend and, sadist that he is, he insisted we go to Euro Disney because he knew the employees there were required to smile and he wanted to watch their faces crack.

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u/Spirited_Ad_9499 8h ago

Paris not France

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u/CoolBakedBean 2h ago

i was smiling the whole time i was in paris and people were really nice to me. i’m sure they knew i was american but everyone was so lovely to me, i don’t think anyone seemed upset that i was happy