http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com embracing liberty, equality and going on strike Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:40:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/anglo-entertainment?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anglo-entertainment http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/anglo-entertainment#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:40:29 +0000 Englishman http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/?p=1215 http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/anglo-entertainment/feed 0 http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/eat-my-crudeness?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eat-my-crudeness http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/eat-my-crudeness#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:39:22 +0000 Englishman http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/?p=1206 http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/eat-my-crudeness/feed 2 http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/oo-er-missus?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=oo-er-missus http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/oo-er-missus#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:03:22 +0000 Englishman http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/?p=1193 http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/oo-er-missus/feed 2 http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/toupie-or-not-toupie-that-is-the-question?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=toupie-or-not-toupie-that-is-the-question http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/toupie-or-not-toupie-that-is-the-question#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:36:17 +0000 Englishman http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/?p=1188 Our Christmas this year was dominated by the toy that has every French school-boy under the age of ten going nuts. They call it Toupie; and they play Toupie at breaktime, Toupie at lunchtime, Toupie after school and Toupie at home. It's like a perpetual conker season without the conkers (buck eyes) [...]]]> http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/toupie-or-not-toupie-that-is-the-question/feed 1 http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/the-eurozone-crisis?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-eurozone-crisis http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/the-eurozone-crisis#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:14:03 +0000 Englishman http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/?p=1152 http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/the-eurozone-crisis/feed 1 http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/the-french-for-brassiere?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-french-for-brassiere http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/the-french-for-brassiere#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:39:50 +0000 Englishman http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/?p=1134 It's a remarkable feat. I've been in France for over six years and never once have I been tempted to look up the direct translation of brassiere (or 'bra' if you prefer). This was because I had assumed that 'brassiere' was itself a French word and therefore must mean the same thing. Not so. In paying attention to the audio track of a TV spot for said undergarment last night (for which I usually focus my visual senses) I heard [...]]]> http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/the-french-for-brassiere/feed 0 http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/ladies-first-how-to-write-your-french-surname?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ladies-first-how-to-write-your-french-surname http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/ladies-first-how-to-write-your-french-surname#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:05:13 +0000 Englishman http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/?p=1093 http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/ladies-first-how-to-write-your-french-surname/feed 1 http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/there-must-be-a-politician-in-town?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=there-must-be-a-politician-in-town http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/there-must-be-a-politician-in-town#comments Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:21:59 +0000 Englishman http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/?p=1090 http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/there-must-be-a-politician-in-town/feed 0 http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/you-call-this-a-nativity?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-call-this-a-nativity http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/you-call-this-a-nativity#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:09:48 +0000 Englishman http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/?p=1043 Stumped as to what to get [insert name of loved one] for Christmas? Well, here's a suggestion: You call this a Nativity? A collection of rude, crude and downright blasphemous plays for Christmas by, er, me! You call this a Nativity? began life [...]]]> http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/you-call-this-a-nativity/feed 0 http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/students-fuck-school?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=students-fuck-school http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/students-fuck-school#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:16:39 +0000 Englishman http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/?p=1032 As an expat you frequently have to put up with the locals butchering your mother tongue in person, ("Air io ingleesh?"), in punctuation (sandwich's) and incomprehensible (mental wear, le fooding). Normally this doesn't bother me. If anything, it reminds me that however bad my French may be it will never be as heinous as some of the locals' English, and let's be honest now - sometimes it can be quite amusing! 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