Richelieu was already on the rocks with me. After a television ad where a young man celebrates his birthday with about five beautiful women, who show up in turn on his doorstep with various gifts that all seemed to have been bought at the French Stereotype Store. Berets, boules etcetera. None of the girls knows about the other, until, it is revealed, when they turn the tables on said young man by crashing his party with an accordion that opens up (quelle surprise!) with a bottle of Richelieu inside it.
None of the women is shocked, hurt or angry about the fact that this guy (in fact, we can call him Guy) has been seeing them all. Maybe it's a French thing.
What's decidedly un-French, then, is their latest radio ad. Never mind the content. It is the ghastly faux-French accent of the woman speaking that makes me want to go and buy French fries, scoff them down and then throw them back up. I hate how saying 'zee' instead of 'the' seems to make you sound French. It really doesn't.
So the French are striking because the government wants to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. Or maybe they heard the ad online and wanted to stick within the stereotype of 'zee temperamental French'.
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I can't stand that ad. Worst accent ever. I hate how she pronounces Richelieu. So fake.
ReplyDeleteRemember how John Culverwell told us that this one guy waited two years until he found the perfect French accent for his Solo (lentheric) radio ad? He used the receptionist at the alliance francaise in the end. But even if Richelieu waited another 10 years, the ad would still be crap. Tirade. Hahahaha!
What a bunch of BS and he really isn't that hot so what's the ghap? (not sure how to spell that). And lame ass music as well.
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