Screw everything! French swingers campsite up for sale, owners 'tired' The "world's first 100 per cent swingers camping ground" has been put up for sale because "we are tired", its pensioner owners have said. The French one-time nudist resort, which later went the whole hog, is owned by one Francoise Vetter, who told excellent European news website The Local that in the year after switching it …
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@Victor Ludorum
I read that as climax averages...
Nudists->Lady Godiva->Coventry>Coventry Climax
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=coventry+climax&tbm=isch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8BQCNQtVx0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L1tHavnd9w
https://motor-car.net/climax-engines/item/13701-coventry-climax-fwm-engine
> Climate averages for Lyon
Vichy is not Lyon. There is some high terrain in between them which has some impact on the weather. Generally, Vichy is greener / wetter and a bit colder too, both in summer and winter. It wouldn't be my first choice for a campsite. It has on the other hand managed to maintain a bit of its spa town atmosphere and is in general terms less of a shithole compared to Lyon.
Lyon a shithole ?
I don't know what part of Lyon you spend your time in, but it is obviously not the right part. Or it's been a while since you went there.
I visited Lyon last year and I much prefer it to Paris. Great architecture, nice people, proper living standards, free bus transport, and generally much cleaner.
I felt at ease in Lyon, which is much more than I can say for Paris.
And I'm French.
> I visited Lyon last year and I much prefer it to Paris.
Bon j'allais dire justement : oui ça fait moins shithole que Paris, mais ce n'est pas le moindre mérite.
L'architecture moderne que tu vois (que) dans certains quartiers est en effet un reflet de la bande de prétentieux qu'y gouvernent (peu importe ses couleurs politiques). D'ailleurs, à presque deux Euros le billet simple les transports en commun n'ont rien de gratuit, tu est sûr qu'on parle du même Lyon ?
> And I'm French.
Désolé pour toi.
J'ai visité Lyon il y a quelques années, aussi Paris et Nice avant ceux. Je dois dire que, bien que Lyon était agréable, encore j'ai préféré Paris (cependant peut-être je pense que les parisiens adore-déteste toutes personnes qui sont anglophone ;) ). Les gens de Nice étaient "nice" aussi.
> My deepest sympathies at your military vehicles only having a reverse gear and a mandatory white flag in the kit.
To be fair, the French are good soldiers. It is the officers that could use a bit of spine.
If you want to talk about beyond disgraceful, remember who were supposed to protect Srebrenica.
> To be fair, the French are good soldiers. It is the officers that could use a bit of spine.
I wrote that originally. In light of the events occurred two days ago near Carcassonne and the actions taken by a Lt. Col. of the Gendarmerie, I must withdraw the second part of my comment. It was originally meant to refer to the very upper echelons and political leaders, but nevertheless. I do apologise, it was a completely undeserved mischaracterisation.
> But according to Jonathan Coulton they can't open until the first of May each year.
Funny that, for most businesses working on the first of May in France is illegal. Always used to be a pain scheduling work, we always had to avoid that week whereas we could ignore most public holidays.
The Romans are to blame for the name Palestine; they so renamed what was called Iudea after crushing Yet Another Jewish Revolt (TM). By that time the original Philistines were long gone. A classical example of digging up an old name from the history books to make a political statement.
The Arabs just took the name from the Romans when they conquered the area.
Essentially Palestine/Philistine comes from two different traditions of transliterating the same name into Greek. Palestine (with a π) is a secular Greek tradition whereas Philistine (with a φ) is the rendition by Greek-speaking Jews, which made it into the Septuagint (Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible); the Septuagint was in turn highly influential in other Bible translation including the King James. Hence "philistines" in English.
Note that what the Romans called Palestine was much larger than the original area of the Philistines, which was essentially just the Gaza strip.
A Shot In The Dark (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uAIbLLSniw
Paris: Elke Sommer
What could possibly go wrong?
Years ago we got a cheap set of those (plastic balls), it probably would have been in France.. And to be blunt you could have used the things in a cannon as effective and weighty ammunition. You could probably have driven over them with a tank and they'd not have taken a scratch.
I hate to imagine what would happen if a couple were getting friendly and someone got one in the love spuds. La Vasectomy Francais..
Still better than the couple banging away in the long grass who had a bad experience with a Caterpillar crawler.. Driven by the husband.
"honest your honour, I had no idea they were there.."
Sigh. We were tourists, driving either the cream of English, a Vauxhall Cavalier, or the cheese, various Ford Cortinas. You really have never understood the concept of suicidal if you haven't tooled around north Wales in a Ford Cortina with no other tapes than Cliff bloody Richard!
Still must have rubbed off, after 87 we had 4 Renaults in a row - two 25 and two Safrane.
My parents have still got those old balls - as smooth now as 30 years ago, and they've still only been used about twice..
That's a thought actually - if we subverted all the US radio stations to play Cliff Richard on a constant loop - probably have the same effect as VX gas, and be soooo much cheaper.
Has to be said I've never seen the point of swinging, usually more flakes than Cadbury.
usually more flakes than Cadbury.
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