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[Mick Dempsey]

2 minutes ago, devon TWiG said:

this will surprise most of you !!!

McDonald's restaurants by country Europe 2023 | Statista

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In 2023, the European country in which McDonald’s operated and franchised the majority of its establishments was France (including Monaco).

 

It’s a strange dichotomy that the French are often superficially

dismissive and snooty about America and Americans yet are suckers for Americana.

Macdonalds, Harley Davidsons etc. They love them!

[peds]

My paternal grandfather was RAF in WW2, and stayed in for decades following. They lived in France for a few years in the 50s, stationed on an American air force base near Paris, and my dad, born in 1946, distinctly remembers the collective national pantswetting when the Yanks brought over their Coca Cola not in the traditional curvy glass bottles, but the fancy new tins. Very exciting times.

[sime42]

43 minutes ago, devon TWiG said:

this will surprise most of you !!!

McDonald's restaurants by country Europe 2023 | Statista

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In 2023, the European country in which McDonald’s operated and franchised the majority of its establishments was France (including Monaco).

 

 

That is a surprise. At least they serve beer in French McDonald's joints.

[devon TWiG]

6 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

It’s a strange dichotomy that the French are often superficially

dismissive and snooty about America and Americans yet are suckers for Americana.

Macdonalds, Harley Davidsons etc. They love them!

 I think most of the Mc Donalds are for British and American tourists !!!😁

[Mick Dempsey]

13 minutes ago, devon TWiG said:

 I think most of the Mc Donalds are for British and American tourists !!!😁

The French genuinely love McDoes as they call it.

Especially the yoof and families.

[Whoppa Choppa]

Police ram cow TWICE with car! These are the Total F@#£ING morons who pass interviews to detect crime and uphold law. How blanking THICK do you have to be to do this?! 😡

[monkeybusiness]

9 hours ago, Whoppa Choppa said:

Police ram cow TWICE with car! These are the Total F@#£ING morons who pass interviews to detect crime and uphold law. How blanking THICK do you have to be to do this?! 😡

The vid is hideous - I hope the copper gets prosecuted, totally uncalled for.

[sime42]

I saw this last night and thought WTF. They had already been chasing it for a number of hours before ramming it; surely enough time to call in a vet or even local livestock farmer for assistance.

 

Watch: Cow hit by police car gets to its feet

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Footage shared with the BBC shows the animal looking stunned in the aftermath of the incident on a Surrey street.

 

 

[daveatdave]

i would say it was a young Sterk not a cow Maby the copper forgot his lasso don't think a vet would have managed to do anything as you cant start firing a dart gun willy nilly in the street  

[Bolt]

8 hours ago, daveatdave said:

i would say it was a young Sterk not a cow Maby the copper forgot his lasso don't think a vet would have managed to do anything as you cant start firing a dart gun willy nilly in the street  

Where I grew up, we used to control errant cows using a farmer, a couple of bits of blue alkathene and a collie.