French Rag

The tricolouré, flag of France. This is the name given to it by those with an objection to French peoples. See racist or french victories.

"Tear down that French flag and put some proper colours up"


--Sharpe

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9T9

1999 phoenetically. Used by graffiti artists who think they're clever.

I woz ere 9T9 4eva!!!!111

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brass ones

Brass balls, one would assume.

Eidolon's Nepenthe: Brass ones!

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glitterati

(n.) Social elites. Famed, fashionable, adorable and learnéd. The beautiful people.

Glitterati consists fashion laber owners, celebrity socialites, actors and actresses and otheruseless leaches to society

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doomsday book

After William the conquerer's invasion of England in 1066, after defeating an army fresh out of another invasion (The last time England was successfully invaded in the last 1000 years), he set about discovering the value of his assests. Every person, serf, baron, knight or clergy was recorded in what could be called a form of early census. Land, building, livestock and other materiality were counted, so as to give a total value for a village. The average price of a village was then £8 ($14), today, it would be about ten million that amount at the very least.

The name came from the surveyors, who claimed finding out the information was like doomsday.

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hundred years war

A war for control of France between the French Nobility and the English between 1336 and concluding with the English loss of Calais in 1556. Two main nutcrackers were performed here. Namely, the english had secured the favour of the peasantry in southern France, and had over-run that area. France also allied with Scotland to attack England rather unseccessfully in the north. This second nutcracker lasted until the two countries merged under James IV of Scotlands ascension to the throne of England and Wales in 1705.


The French armies were four times that of Englands, but England ditched the fuedal warfare system and instead created the more modern tactis to crush France for the best part of the war. When Joan of Arc united the kings of the individual regions to attack using these new methods, England began to be driven back. Under the rule of Mary, the English were pushed back into the channel islands in 1556, resulting in a long and predicted defeat, and the loss of both Englands' medievel empire, and staus as the most powerful nation in the world, until the United Kingdoms' collosal rise less than two hundred years later, which this tiem lasted until the twentieth century. In this period, France was prosperous, although defeated by Britain a number of times.

Modern warfare owes more to the 220 year long slugfest than any other conflict pre-20th century. The only more important conflicts saw the two sides unite with Russia and smaller nations (and later the USA) to take on German-Austro-Hungarian-Italian forces.

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paddy

Midly offensive term for an irish person, taken from st. patrick, who wasn't actually Irish.

Who's that lying on the ground? Stop skiving Denis, you useless paddy.

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