June 06, 2003
LIKE I NEED ANOTHER REASON TO HATE THE FRENCH
You go, Serena. In a perfect world, she'll decide not to play the French Open next year and see if anyone comes out to watch the tournament. There is no women's tennis other than Serena and Venus Williams. Serena is the most amazing woman's tennis player since Navratilova and the French stand up to boo her in defeat.
Beautiful.
Could someone please let me know when the French contribute something valuable to society again, other than their perfection of the art of pissing all over something for the sake of doing so?
Oh. Sorry. I'll be long dead by then.
It's nothing new at Roland Garros. In 1999, they humiliated Martina Hingis after she and her partner Anna Kournikova were defeated in a doubles match. Hingis ran to the locker room amid hoots from the crowd and didn't want to go back out to the court to accept the runner-up trophy because the crowd was booing her so heavily. Her mother eventually coaxed her back out. To her credit, France's Nathalie Tauziat also helped Hingis cope with the loss.
Just for laughs, I ran the words "French" and "boo" through Yahoo. Apparently, booing is some sort of national crisis.
President Chirac of France was so angry at young football fans who jeered at the French national anthem at a France versus Algeria football match recently that he introduced strict new laws to deal with the problem.
Nice to see Jacques crack down on the real problems in this world. Apparently a boo in France counts as a Weapon of Mass Destruction.
In other French booing news:
-- In February, the French parliament made it a criminal offense to insult the French flag or national anthem by booing. Booing the Marseillaise now carries the risk of a fine of 7,500 euros and six months in prison.
-- In March, France coach Roger Lemerre expressed his anger with the French fans for booing substitute defender Christian Karembeu during the team's 5-0 trashing of Scotland. "When a part of the French public boos at a player of the French team I consider it like an insult to the team and even an insult to my own country."
On behalf of the United States, I'd like to sincerely invite the French to take off their short pants and grow up so they can join us at the adult table.
What a miserable excuse for a country.