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L'utilisation du bidet est ancienne, quand l'eau/les douches n'étaient pas aussi courantes qu'aujourd'hui car trop chères.
On les retrouve encore dans les vieilles demeures car ils ont été installé à l'époque. Mais on ne les utilise plus maintenant.
Les yaourts sucrés sont plus chèrs que ceux pas sucrés voilà pourquoi on fait ça. Et ça permet d'avoir la dose de sucre qu'on veut.
Je rajouterais que personellement quand je mangeais al cantine petit c'etait souvent des yaourts nature avec un sachet de sucre a coté, du coup j'ai gardé cette habitude, pareil pour mes amis.
Ça permet aussi de mettre ce que l'on veut dans le yaourt ! On peut mettre du sucre roux, de la confiture, du miel, de la crème de marron, du cacao en poudre, des morceaux de fruits etc.
Réponse parfaite ! :-)
jordan da silva crème de marron ! J'avais besoin d'en commander sur le oueb quand je vivais à l'étranger. Probablement le dessert qui manque vraiment dans les placards anglo-saxons
Quand je vais cher ma grand mère j'utilise le bidet pour me laver les pieds
As an Italian, I only feel at ease when my bathroom has a bidet. Showers are all very well, of course, but bidets are ideally suited to clean your nether regions with the care required.
Toilet paper scratches the delicate skin and it will leave you kind of itchy after every... let's say evacuation. And you don't necessarily evacuate in the morning just before your shower and if you don't, what are you supposed to do, take a second shower? Bidets are just so useful.
Furthermore they are close to life-saving for women during their time of the month and whenever you suffer from any kind of pathology in the area.
Japanese have this device that is installed on the toilet seat which is of course useful, but it will never be as comfortable a full fledged bidet is. That the French are giving them up as "old-fashioned" is a real shame.
100% agree with everything you say. I will not built a house without one, old-fashioned or not!
Actually it is logical to eat more during lunch than diner because you need much more energy to finish your day than to sleep XD
the heavy lunch will make you feel drowsy
in the begining of the afternoon, because of your digestion. It isn't good for work productivity.
@@cmolodiets hence the often one hour half to two hour lunch breaks. But most Americans and Anglos eat early because they do a lot of stuff afterwards. In France when you've finished dinner you normally don't leave the house you just read or watch one series episode and go to bed
Even "BD" like Astérix are as much for adults as for children. It is very very rich because you can read them again, once you're an adult, and then you realize that you couldn't understand half of the jokes and puns when you were a child, and I just LOVE that!
There is the problem of translation, I mean I don't know how well "francophone" comics are translated in different languages but there a probability that a lot of jokes/pun might be lost in the process, especially thing like asterix where there is a lot of pun so it's quite hard to translate.
That's for sure, and that's also why I love learning other languages (especially translation) XD It increases a lot the content you have access to!
True: as for movies... I'm french and when I'm abroad, in Spain for instance, and see how french movies are translated I can't imagine why spanish people like the movie... the translation is so poor, most of the jokes are lost.
I'm French too and I have to admit that I've never seen a French movie translated in any other language but it could be very interesting! But you can also notice when the translation is bad while watching a movie in *insert a language that you know very well* with French subtitles, when you actually listen (more than you read) ;)
La traductrice d’Asterix en anglais est une femme brillante. www.lemonde.fr/m-moyen-format/article/2015/10/22/anthea-bell-la-traductrix-d-asterix_4794304_4497271.html
1) Comics books : that’s a weird conception of comic books usage you have, for me ahah. Comic books are art pieces, why would they be only for kids ? Plus you clearly see the difference of style between the ones for kids and the ones for teenagers and adults. Funny how the misunderstanding between cultures can be reversed here !
2) Bidets are not a thing anymore.
3) I don’t know about that, never felt like it... it just seems rude not to reply I don’t understand your HR colleague... was it just in one company or did you experience it elsewhere too ? :o
4) you know even in family diners sometimes we think about where we should sit 😂 that’s crazy when I think about it... I’d be down for not thinking too much about where to sit !
5) we are talkative people ahah. I remember in school of course we were disciplined for chatting when we weren’t supposed to... but who cares ? We just went back to it a little later 😂 is it part of our history of rebellion ? Maybe ?... I think as French we maybe tend to not focus too much on the background noise because of this. I also think that’s a bit rude but... even I can’t control myself sometimes !
I also think when it comes to whispering in class at school or during formation it's often for one of those three reasons :
1) We're used to it sometimes and we have developped the habit of splitting or attention between the person in charge of the formation and our conversation. In that case we do it without thinking.
2) We have to talk about what is being said during the formation and debate about it while it is being explained.
3) We're not really interested in what is being said and we're bored so we talk instead. That's really bad and unrespectful but...
Mel' yes, thank you my thoughts exactly !!
Agree about comic books as art! I'm not French but there is recognition in English speaking countries of certain comics as being for adults and being an art form. However, must acknowledge that it's not that mainstream, but still significant. Some French comics are actually translated into English. I also love the French passion for debating things and taking an opposing view for the purpose of stimulating interesting conversation. Coming from a culture still very rooted in it's British heritage, "polite" superficial talk about boring innocuous topics is the norm, but very dull. Used to love when my (now ex) French partner would just throw a verbal hand grenade into a "nice" conversation because he couldn't stand it. Makes life way more interesting. It's something I've taken with me from him and employ pretty regularly, it's much more exciting.
About point 3, the "not-answering-to-your-emails-even-though-it's-part-of-her-job" part, I experience that too. Perhaps it's to show that they're higher than you hierarchically ? Just a theory, because I don't get it either. Some people are just lazy or idiots, too, and I'm really not sure this is a french-only thing. With some of them, even sending their seniors a copy of your email doesn't work either. I'm always ":O WTF I'm just asking you to please do your job" when that happens. That the higher-ups allow such a behavior is beyond me. Maybe their job description wasn't "Manage logins and passwords for app x", but "Manage logins and passwords for app x, only for people who have an email address you like", huh.
I don't think its cultureal... as a kid I remember reading some Batmans that were really young, and very adult. Maybe she isn't a huge comic book reader? But I think she was specifically talking abot all the sex scenes int he comics? That is more personal preference than culture. I don't mind. But Je Suis Americanne
The bidet is actually a little bit old-fashioned now in France and usually doesn't exist in modern bathrooms. However, it is still very common in Italy (where it is called 'bidet' as well) and I would say that all the Italians I know who live in France are missing it a lot (even as much as their delicious food). You should have a look on Airbnb apartments in Italy, they usually have a bidet in the bathroom. I was like you, a bit sceptic (like "What the hell do you do with bidet that you cannot do with a shower"), but I actually tried to use it when I was in Italy and it is really convenient. You don't need to undress completely to wash and refresh, and it is especially convenient for girls when we are on our periods to feel a bit more 'fresh'.
Laurianne 😱 r three Italians living in France 🇫🇷?!!!!
I would say a bidet is a very intelligent idea and makes more sense than wiping your arse with dry paper and thinking that it would be making it clean no matter how much you keep wiping it.....
Fun fact
-"ça va?"
- "ça va ça va, ça va ?"
-"ça va ça va"
This is actually a common conversation between two french
Btw Great video !
What does it mean??
Hi Rosie,
Andre here ( French leaving in London for a very long time )
Topic 1 : Bande Dessinee are closer to Graphic novel in the English speaking language than Comic Books. It is considered as an Art. And I have to say, I do miss it here in London.
Topic 2 : You are not suppose to have pressure water there, You have it like it's a little bath for your private parts. You have less and less bidet nowadays because there is shower everywhere. I am guessing it was use a lot when shower was not common ( you were washing up with a wet cloth ). but you can keep you private part even more clean.
Topci 3 : We have plain yogurt because it's healthier (for you gut flora ) we know there is nothing else added. Then you can add, the kind of sugar you want, jam, honey what suit your bought at the time. So you are not constraint to one flavour. Plus those are small pots not like in english speaking country.
I hope it helps
Nice
Le bidet est un "meuble de propreté", pour la toilette des parties intimes, particulièrement des femmes. Notamment lorsqu'elles ont leurs règles. Il s'est démocratisé au XXe siècle, ce qui fut un progrès pour l'hygiène de la population, mais aujourd'hui tout le monde prend des douches et utilise du papier, et il y a rarement de bidet dans les salles de bains des maisons neuves. Dommage pour l'écologie. Il paraît qu'en Italie et en Russie il y en a encore. Et au Japon les toilettes aussi peuvent envoyer de l'eau.
En effet, et d'ailleurs le bidet reprend la forme des premiers meubles de toilette, avant qu'il y ait des salle de bains. Au XVIIIe siècle, on faisait sa toilette rapide pour le visage grâce à une vasque remplie d'eau et pour les parties intimes, grâce à un meuble qui est l'équivalent du bidet. Par la suite, ça permettait donc de se laver de manière plus rapide et économique qu'en prenant une douche, les gens faisaient une "toilette de chat" dans le lavabo et pour les bas, une rapide toilette grâce au bidet.
Effectivement ça existe encore en Italie et j’en ai aussi vu en Espagne.
Ils ont également d’autres « techniques » de nettoyage de type douchettes ou encore le bidet intégré aux toilettes en Asie !
C’est clairement plus hygiénique et écologique
Signerons-nous le retour du bidet ?
Vous ne trouverez presque jamais une salle de bains italiennes sans bidet. On n'y pense pas, c'est normal et nécessaire.
ColonelHarry je confirme. Le bidet pour les femmes c'est bien utile 4 jours par mois. L'italie me manque.
En Italie y'en a dans chaque maison et appartement! J'étais choqué lol
Haha yes! The sugar in yoghurt thing 🤣
Not Even French mmm crunchy 😅
I've never put sugar in my yoghurt but I suppose because that way you have control over how sweet you want your yoghurt to be? Also if you buy yoghurt for several people, some (like me) might want to eat them unsweetened and some might prefer them with sugar and since contrary to many other countries yoghurts are usually sold in packs of 4, 6, 8, 12... and rarely individually, that way everyone is happy.
I love it 😂
Plain yoghurt also allows you to be more creative. Some people might want to add honey, jam, berries, cereals, syrup, sliced fruit...
Because the amount of sugar hasn't to be a standard, everyone can choose according to one's taste.
Here in Italy is normal to have a bidet in the bathroom and we use it very often. So I'm a bit disappointed when I go to a foreign country and I don't find it.
In India, we do exactly the same thing with yogurt and we eat in the lunch time.
I suppose in India you eat it WiTH the dish, not as dessert.
@@katja6228 no actually it depends on you if you eat it with the dish or after it, a lot of people do this sugar in yogurt thing and eat it after they have eaten main dish and if they eat with dish then they don't put sugar
We chat during meetings because we are bored with them. Sooooo tired. And complaining about the boredom and making fun of the speaker makes time pass faster. Anyway, first things first, we must organise next lunch and that's really important work !
I'm from Spain and of the things that shocked me the most was that everytime I came with my boyfriend to restaurant, house etc with more people, everyone would make sure we would sit together 😂 In Spain it doesn't really matter where you sit, that way you talk with everyone. It was funny to see how they even offer their sit so you din't strugle to be appart! So dramatic 😂😅 (but cute)
Like that a yogurt is CRUNCHY! That's the whole point :D And yeah, I realized that we ate more yogurt than any other country when I moved abroad! Maybe it's because of the big dairy lobby in France lol 'Les produits laitiers sont nos amis pour la vie' (yeah right XD)
En France nous adorons les yaourt c'est vrai. Dans un supermarché au moins 2 rayons en propose. Sucré, Vanillé ou Classique c'est à dire nature. On peut ajouter du sucre manuellement, mais aussi du sirop, du miel ou le mangé avec des fruits sucrés :) C'est bizarre que vous n'en mangiez pas autant aha :D
Jérémy J'adore mettre du sucre brun dans mon yogourt ❤
For the bidet - have you ever been to asia? Hoses to clean yourself are standard there - it's SO much cleaner and more hygenic (no chance of getting poopoo on your hands!)
Pour la consommation de yaourts c’est parce que la France est un Pays de Vache laitière et grand consommateur de laitage, la consommation a explosé après la guerre de 39-45. Une grande campagne a été lancer en France qui incitait à boire du lait pour des raisons économiques et sanitaires.
Les français ont gardé leurs petites habitudes, et les slogans « le laitage ça fait grandir », « 3 produits laitier par jours » sont resté depuis.
Mais grosomerdo notre consommation de lait, yaourts et fromages c’est essentiellement économique, ont a des vaches et on doit vendre leurs laits.
As an expat myself I enjoy immensely your observations, i realize that after 60 years away from France I still carry the French culture. It is refreshing. I was happy to be able to install a bidet in my Canadian home by the way. Yaourt in the diet but we do not drink milk as they do in N A
The bidet is actually an invention which makes a lot of sense if you think about it - which principle is used in many other non-European countries btw - as it way cleaner/healthier than the usual toilet paper! Closer to France, ask the Italians, you'll find it in each and every home/appartment you'll go all over Italy, and they will freak out as soon as they do not have one (they call it bidet as well). La bise ;)
You should do a day in your life video! Love your channel!
Yesss, we actually would! I love TH-camrs who have day jobs, it would be cool to get a little peek into yours!
The bidet is actually an old device! We used to have one in our house but since we didn't use it, we removed (destroyed with a hammer 😂) it! I remember using it to like wash my feet after a day at the beach! Great vidéo btw 😘
When I was a kid I used to call them "Lavabo pour les pieds" just because I saw my mother using one to wash her feet.
In Italy we use bidet after. .. long seating.
If you can get a shower (that we do daily ) that can be avoided .
But... having period or "number two" in the dead of night requires a bidet.
It's compulsory for italians hotels 😊
Hi Rosie! Interesting topic! Where I come from (Argentina) every single bathroom has a bidet. (And we don’t separate the shower in one room and the toilet in another) Even doctors tell the population that if you don’t use it after using the toilet, you can have sanity problems, so it’s installed in our minds to always use them. And of course bidets are specially useful for women.
My cultural shock in France would be about the « bio » products that are everywhere and which are supposedly better, for example cosmetics, hair care, cleaning products, and not only food. I don’t know if it’s a trend or french people have always been concerned about the origin of what they consume. Maybe in NZ is important too 🤷♀️
Hello Rosie,
Concerning the bidet, my argentine wife found juste unbelievable that we don't use this item any more. When we bought our house, she demanded to have one!
Interesting, the bidet seems to be becoming less common in Europe, but it's very much a thing in East Asia! If you look up Korean or Japanese bidets, they're super high-tech gadgets that heat the seats (which is weird at first but then you learn to appreciate them when you have to go pee in the middle of the night!), spray the water as per regular bidets, but also have a function that blows air to dry your tushy too! 😂
Mandarinen Zeit (귤TV) In South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa toilet/bidet hoses are really common. It’s nice as you remain in the same toilet seat you don’t have to get up and move like you do with a bidet.
Not Even French, maybe you could call that a hair dryer.
Omg hillerious 😆
AFAIK bidets are basically mandatory in Italy - you build a new bathroom, it has to have a bidet. As a result, 97 % of Italians have one. 42 % in France, and 3 % in the UK.
Well, the bidet was a device installed in every old houses. It's no more the case today, but there is a simple explanation. We just have to remember that in the past (40's, 50's), taking a shower every day was just not possible, because at that time, water/ hot water was very expensive. So the bidet was there to do a short and efficient "toilette" (toilette meaning washing yourself, not the WC :D). With the time, it becomes a device simply use on the evening "toilette", the shower was for the morning (excepting for outdoor workers).
I am french and, maybe due to the fact that I am végétarien, I don t see the point in eating this juge amount yogurts, like my parents do. There is no protein and It's really fat. Skyr has the same taste and is healthier.
J'ai toujours trouvé bizarre le fait que les metropolitains abandonnent le bidet ?? c'est quoi votre problème avec ? c'est quand même plus rafraîchissant et ecologique que d'utiliser la moitié d'un rouleau de PQ et 4 lingettes. Vous devriez vous mettre aux douchette de toilette. c'est chiant de passer à la douche juste pour se rafraîchir ou après la grosse commission. non !!??🤔🤔
I'm from the US and I grew up in home with a bidet I admit my parents are Italian and Spaniard so that might have something to do with it. Yes when I bought my home I had a bidet put in.
Il me semble que certains comics Batman sont assez adulte également. Sinon super vidéo comme d'habitude, continues comme ça.
P.S : à quand une vidéo sur Grenoble ? ;)
Du coup Tintin et Astérix sont aussi adressés aux adultes, l’humour et les références (politiques, cinématographique...etc) sont incompréhensibles pour un enfants.
C’est les dessins animés et les films qui ont donner l’image populaire que ces BD sont « pour enfant »
@El David : également le fait que du temps de leurs premières publications, _Asterix_ comme tant d'autres n'étaient éditées que dans des journaux pour enfants. Cela étant, beaucoup de bandes dessinées classiques de ces premiers journaux portaient des thèmes sérieux voir dramatiques dans leur scénario. "Pilote", "Le journal de Spirou", etc. Voir la très longue liste historique des publications jeunesse en France, ici : fanzines.fr/historiqueperiodiques.html . On y trouve de tout ! :)
PS : et je rajoute ces liens :
bbf.enssib.fr/consulter/bbf-1956-02-0102-003
neuviemeart.citebd.org/spip.php?article79
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_de_p%C3%A9riodiques_de_bande_dessin%C3%A9e
1) what a bidet is: as you said, you found it at your bf's father's home. You need to know that after ww2, french homes (as well as UK homes) didn't all have private bathrooms inside the home or apartment. So bidets were used by women for hygienic reasons, when they didn't have access to a tub or a shower. In modern days, no apt or house are built with bidets. No one wants one, it's just in countryside or older homes that you see them. I actually thought for a long time that they were used to wash your feet after a walk or the beach because my grandmother did it.
2) yogurt: i found out i was eating a lot of them when i moved to the USA where they are twice as big in quantities (150g or more) and they have more protein aka way more calories. Hence the breakfast habit for yogurts. I miss my small and light yogurt as dessert. Per the sugar, sweetened stuff are usually sweetened with bad stuff like high fructose corn syrup in the US so I tend not to touch anything pre sweetened. And I admit that i love the crunchiness of brown sugar in a plain Danone yogurt...
Enjoy !
Hey Rosie! D'abord j'adore ce que tu fais (je suis française) et c'est vraiment intéressant pour moi de voir ce que pense les expats de la France et des français. Pour te répondre par rapport aux bidets sache que nous n'utilisons jamais ça! On en trouve vraiment dans le vieilles vieilles maisons mais c'est vraiment que c'est totalement inutile... Continue de faire ce que tu fais c'est génial!
Moi, je ne suis pas d'accord que le bidet soit totalement inutile. Quand nous avons refait notre sdb en 2005, j'ai acheté le bidet le plus grand sur le marché, et il sert à plusieurs choses (voir ma réponse en anglais ci-dessus).
Comment tu peux dire que tu comprends pas qu'on ait des bande dessinées pour adultes alors que la bd pour adultes la plus connu est anglophone ? (The Walking Dead)
BaconStrips Rien ne dit qu'elle connait non plus cette BD
Je lis The Walking Dead, mais pour moi ça reste un trip assez juvénile, plutôt pour ados et jeunes adultes. En tout cas ce n'est pas le type de bd que Rosie évoque je pense. Elle a dû lire plutôt des histoires contemporaines, avec des gens qui se rencontrent, se parlent, couchent et s'engueulent. Et surtout sans zombies. La nouvelle bédé adulte française en somme, telle qu'elle s'est développée depuis la fin des années 90. Les anglo-saxons ont bien sûr l'équivalent chez eux et font parfois cette distinction avec un terme tel que Graphic Novel par opposition à Comic Book. Ou bien ils parleront d'Indie Comics.
Thinking about who will sit where sounds great actually! I have been to *too many* awkward outings in anglophone countries. Especially since people are often so cliquey that it just ends up making certain people feel isolated if you don't think about the dynamic-who is chatty? who isn't? who would get on well with whom? Otherwise, it could make for a really terrible evening for some people. Just an all around terrible time and I generally tend to avoid those kinds of outings now because it never results in meeting new people and making new friends.. I like that the French people give a shit about looking after people attending a meal together :') haha
Also...bandes dessinées are awesome. I love that French people truly appreciate that medium and create so many fantastic, compelling stories and understand that it's not just kids stories.
Yoghurt thing is like coffee, you would rather have the control of the sugar & sometimes you might use that to cook, bake etc...Very handy to have it plain rather than chemical sweetener. I think but could be wrong.
Comics: the choc for me is NOT considering comics as a media for adults. It’s a bit like considering cinema only for kids and W. Disney as the only representative film maker.
Bidet: it is disappearing from French bathroom, incl. mine. I think it comes from the time when daily toilette was reduced to a strict minimum. Today, the majority of us has a daily shower and cleans the entire body.
Chatting during training session: I am surprised it happens in your company. In mine, this was not acceptable. Even, acc. to French politeness, chatting during someone’s speech is rude.
Personalized working relationship: again I am surprised the corporate culture of you company accepts someone does not answer your e-mail because he/she does not know you. Not professional for me. It would not have been accepted in our firm.
True in France/Europe you have to congratulate people when they do simply their job. On the same topic, I had a Brazilian boss who was surprised to get from his 360 degrees review negative feedbacks for not doing so. He considered you deserve congratulations only when you go above and beyond.
Thanks for your videos. You have a real poise for observing and understanding differences. Well done, keep the good job. 😉👏🏻😘
C'est rare maintenant de voir des bidets mais la douchette se démocratise (c'est le même usage, c'est juste moins encombrant). Ça vient d'une époque où personne ne se douchait quotidiennement (héritage de l'époque où on avait pas l'eau courante) et quand on ne se douche pas tous les jours, on doit quand même se faire une "toilette de chat", c'est à dire se laver les 3 zones "à fort potentiel odorant"^^ (aisselles, parties intimes et pieds) et c'est tout simplement plus facile et efficace de se laver les parties intimes avec un bidet (ou une douchette) qu'avec un gant de toilette. D'autre part, il y a beaucoup de pays où on se lave systématiquement à l'eau au moins quand on a fait la grosse commission et honnêtement, je pense que c'est nous les crados avec notre papier toilette qui essuie au lieu de nettoyer^^
C'est pas le même goût un yaourt sucré industriellement et un yaourt qu'on sucre soit même!^^ En plus, généralement, les yaourts sucrés industriellement ont d'autres composants chimique en plus et ils sont plus cher^^
Bidet is used after you go to the toilet for a number 2. In Europe (especially in the Mediterranean countries), we don't think that just brushing a bit of toilet paper "there" can actually really cleanse you. As for the comic books... I am sincerely amazed: I thought that "graphic novels" (as they are called) were read all around the world! Some of them have even inspired movies (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, etc.). One of the most famous "graphic novels" is called "Maus" and it's a metaphor for the horrors of the Holocaust! So, definitely not children material. It's the same thing with Japanese animes: you wouldn't watch a Satoshi Kon anime, like Perfect Blue or Paranoia Agent, as if they were for children, since those stories are EXTREMELY complex and dark!
Agreed! I'm from the USA and my family had a bidet installed and I will never go without one again. I agree, just wiping is not enough to clean oneself. Of course, when friends come over and see it, they are like "What is that?!"
As far as graphic novels go, they are definitely popular in my part of the world.
In Germany we have bedes too. I and my sisters used it manly when we were jung as a normal sink. Well that might be not the proper way to use this but it went realy well and for us as jung litle children it made a lot of sense to have an own sink just as litle as we were
The Yogurt thing is hilarious, I thought that was just my boyfriend and his family. I had no idea it was a French thing. hahaa love it. Glad I found your channel, makes me feel "normal". Love France but sometimes I feel like an alien.
En France, le bidet est tombé en désuétude, mais il est toujours très utilisé dans le sud de l'Europe (Grèce, Italie, Portugal et Espagne), en Amérique latine et en Asie. Personnellement, je trouve ça pratique et hygiénique, mais chacun son truc... x)
Glad you talk about comics. Well this is just a part of the french culture. But I suppose you know it is similar in Japan? Adults read a lot of manga there evne more than french.
Did you hear about the term Graphic novels? You can consider adult comic as graphic novels. It is just a story as a novel.
Even american comic artists draw graphics novels (outside of superhoeres comics). I think about the graphic novel "Blanket" by Craig Thompson.
The interesting thing is you are not comfortable when you see characters having sex in a comic. Is it a problem when you watch a movie? And there is as well a big culture of animation in France. A lot of people consider animation only for kids but well with the japanese animation spreading all over the wolrd it is not the case anymore.
I hope you have watched Graves of Fireflies by Isao Takahata (from studio Ghibli): anime about the world war 2. After watching this you'll never say anymore: animation is only for kids. You will basically cry :D
th-cam.com/video/4vPeTSRd580/w-d-xo.html
Bidet should be a norm everywhere!
lelde liepina YES! Or a toilet hose/showerhead or bidet hose/showerhead like this th-cam.com/video/8V32m3FZbjg/w-d-xo.html (I use tissue as well unlike that video) you can get them globally we have one in the uk.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet
"Bidets are common bathroom fixtures in many southern European countries, especially Italy, where they are found in 97% of households (the installation of a bidet in a bathroom has been mandatory since 1975),[4] Spain, and Portugal (installation is mandatory also since 1975).[5] Additionally, they are rather widespread, although not standard, in France, and within Europe are often found in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Malta, and Greece. Outside of Europe, they are very popular in some South American countries, notably in Argentina and Uruguay. Electronic bidet-integrated toilets, along with functions like toilet seat warmers, are commonly found in Japan."
Haha I laughed when I saw the bidet in the middle of my screen. Yes it's historically to wash your bum after going to the toilets or even more historically wash your intimate parts when you couldn't take showers that often. But in the last couple of decades its use has been decreasing and it's switched to washing your feet, I only learnt the real use when I was 20 (and I'm French). Actually in most of Italy bidets are everywhere and people actually use them after going to the toilets. I had an Italian roommate back in Autralia who had the habit of taking showers after going n°2 because he didn't have his precious bidet. The concept of toilet paper not being hygienic enough is widely spread in Middle Eastern and Asia when you can find small shower heads next to the toilets ! Or the famous Japanese toilets that squirt water directly into your butt...
Sex in comic book is one of the greatest way to show sex in my opinion
Bidet is used by italian people. I have one but never uses it
Yoghurts are awesome, I never use sugar. If people do that, it's because a lot of doctors recommend not to buy sweatened or fruit yoghurt but add sugar or jam themselves because it's supposed to be heathier (you avoid colorants, additives, whatever), and I beleive it is.
6:30 yeah that's hard for me too
7:00 yeah, haha we are always tired, french people don't work that much but we don't sleep that much either.
9:57 people can't help themselves ... even as adults
We live in France and have a bidet and we love it. Much better than toilet paper! (We also had one installed in our house in the UK). I'm more surprised at the smelly butt's that don't like bidets!!
the bidget (? i think thats how u spell it) isn't just a french thing, it's european. especially in older buildings you can find them everywhere. they are great because here, people usually dont shower in the morning (at least they didn't back when bidget were in trend) and they obviously wanted a way to clean themselves quickly downstairs. AND they are great in summer for washing your feet.
Thanks for this video, we do enjoy this series.
3:13 "Bidets" are no longer a common thing in France. You'll find bidets in old houses most of the time. But it's not just a "French" thing, you should take a look at how Japanese toilets work, and how/why most people wash themselves right after going to the toilets in Maghreb.
9:55 I can relate to that. I teach at Uni in France and get that often. It certainly is ok not to stand at attention and actually sometimes whisper to the person sitting next to you while someone is delivering a speech or whatever. I do it too. The problem is that most people don't know how to actually whisper and spend the whole meeting/lecture talking as if you weren't there. If that happens to you, feel free to assert dominance and ask them if they have a question (do it! I assure you it works: it shows that you're in control and that they should just listen to you). Public speaking in France is quite hard and if you don't earn the respect of the audience, they just won't listen to you. This may be related to the question of where to sit at a table during a meeting or with friends: in order to avoid clashes and/or boredom, friends stick together and you should put a smiley face in front of that expert/visiting professor if you want to avoid the kind of situation you are describing at round 10:00.
I remember being annoyed in Mexico by how noisy students were, especially at the college level. They were like big middle-schoolers.
I've always been taught that the bidet was for washing your feet...
Have I been wrong all this time? 😨
gaston jaillet don't worry, my parents do told me that too...when i was young. And when they explained the real use of it, I was like "ergh...cross! I'll better use it for foot washing" XD
About the placement thing, I think it's related to how french people enjoy their meals.
As you already said, meals are quite long (an hour sitting at the table easily), so it's pretty important to sit around people you get along with / want to chat with / whatever, as you'll be sitting and chatting with them for a long time. And you want everyone to spend a nice time. Since the social aspect is almost as important as the meal itself, of course table placement is important.
At least, it's how I see it as a french person.
I don't add sugar into my yogurt, i hate that (my grandmother too) but the rest of my family mix it up xD
So i don't get it too and i'm french ;) (a yogurt with that kind of grainy texture... brrr... not for me xD)
I personnaly put nothing in yoghurt, i like them so much I don't need it. If I want to upgrade a yoghurt, I mix it with jam, it' better than sugar because it adds fruit flavor and more taste with less sugar so it's also healthier (I love apricot and strawberry jam, those are the best).
Already sweetened yogurt is terrible. You want that sugar to add a little bit of crunch! At least, I do.
Don’t worry, bidets don’t exist anymore, only in old houses. I have never used one, and know no one ever used that.... 😅😅
I just found your channel and I really like your videos, you just won yourself a new sub ;) also, Tintin is Belgian, not french ^^ I know, 50% of Belgium speak french, but you might get in trouble with some Belgians if you say that in front of them because Tintin is kind of a big thing for them ^^'
But to bring back the discussion about the comics, yes, it's kinda in our culture to see that in a form of art, after all we got the Festival of Angoulême wich is dedicated to that... It's also may be why we're the the second country where mangas sell the most after Japan, because we kinda have the same culture on that point and a lot of other.
Comic books ? Come to Belgium, country of comic books, chocolate ?wafffles and beer (and so many other things...)
In France we eat 3 times per day, the morning for the breakfast (like everyone) and for the lunch we eat as big as the diner time because we like to eat. Nothing is better than a good meal for a good afternoon of hard work.
Hey, Frenchie here!
I prefer to put the sugar in my yoghurt myself because I can control the amount I'm putting in. The ones you buy directly sugared are too sweet for my taste. I also put jam in them instead of buying a fruit flavoured yoghurt because then I know there are real fruits in there, not fake flavours. It's even better when the jam is home made!
In Japan, bidets are kinda integrated into their toilets, it's very surprising the first time! And the seat heats when you sit down, it gives you the strange feeling that someone has been there just before you. XD
why so many yoghurt ? answer in two words: milk lobby (just look at how many advertising we have for milk-based products at the TV...)
I strongly suggest you to avoid any training with spanish....boy you gonna suffer if you get hard time with the frenchies :D
It seems that France is full of clock watchers. The average Canadian work week: Filling out a time sheet (in hours) for a Monday-Friday week, I once wrote 8, 10, 10, 8, 6, and for the weekly total, I wrote "Pretend it adds to 40." I was hired on a 40-hour work week at the time. In addition, in Canada, 7:30 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. with a 20 minute lunch is a normal 8-hour work day.
Taking a(n extended) lunch with co-workers is often only a once-per-month occurrence, and sometimes even less frequent than that.
Everybody prob explained reasons to you a million times here, sorry.
Comic books : we treat love and sex just like any other subject. It's part of life and I often see USA citizens act prude but having no problem when they see a child handling a gun... cultural.
Bidet : only in very old houses. Very rare nowadays (except in pompous "maison de maître" shit like that.
Yoghurt : we fucking love milk... and we can't make ONLY cheese with it, we get creative when it's about food.
Emails : we got internet later than other countries, because we had the minitel, 100% french and far better than internet at the times we weren't sure it would develop so much.
Complaining : always, everywhere, anytime, we complain. Never stop us from doing shit, but we like to co-miserate.
Table sitting : you only hang out with stuck up dimwits, unless it's work related. If it's between friends, and acquaintance, we only care to let couple sit face to face, or next to each other.
Trainings: looks specific. From my childhood, in every classroom, people at the back are the chatty fuckers that annoy the rest.
Bidets are great okay. They, indeed, were originally made for private parts hygiene, be it for pre/post intimacy cleaning, women on their periods, or just regular washing up at a time showers weren't a thing in most homes. They mostly disappeared in French homes but they're apparently coming back in fashion which I don't mind because beside their intended use, you also can do other stuff with them like have foot baths, fill up buckets, let delicate laundry soak for while, but above all, have children use them as size appropriate sinks for teeth brushing and hand washing because I swear every time I see kids on their little unstable stepping stools to reach a regular sink I fear they'll fall and break their skulls.
Plain yogurt is just a simple and multi purpose food, no milk? dunk your cereal in yogurt. No cream for your sauce? yogurt saves the day. Have to bake a cake but are to lazy or don't have enough time for something fancy? LE GÂTEAU AU YAOURT. And for a quick/light breakfast or dessert, you can have your yogurt plain, with sugar, honey, jam, dried fruits... really the possibilities are endless and the already made version of your fancy honey and hazelnuts yogurt is probably as expensive as your plain yogurt AND your jar of honey while not necessarily being of better quality and likely having to much or not enough of something in it.
Oh and we do love our bavardages I guess >__>
Just for the last one about the talking in classroom. It's sort of about discipline: In France in school it used to be very strict in the 1950-70, with slaps or hits on fingers with wooden sticks, even for the smallest mistake of talking in class (I suggest you look at the excellent movie: "la guerre des boutons" (the 1962 version)). That has changed with the 1968 revolution, where communication became more important than discipline (not the only change of this periode ^^).
Aaaand that's when I'm watching this kind of video that I realise I REALLY have two different cultures (my father is half Australian). Adult comic books with sex scenes in them are perfectly normal to me and I just don't know what I would eat if yoghurts didn't exist (and OF COURSE we pour the sugar manually in it, I find it so much tastier!), but I don't understand all the fuss with table placements either. I'm like, "dude, does it really matter?" Oh, and bidets aren't a thing anymore ;)
Bandes dessinées/comic books/manga/manwha are considered a form of art here, and not just "something for kids" (and we're even the second largest market for manga, after Japan). They are used to address a lot of topics, at various levels. It even helps explaining serious topics to kids (like the forever awesome "Guide du Zizi Sexuel" with Titeuf, a great way to provide sex ed to kids), or even adult (I've recently bought a comics about Aspergers and how it feels on a daily basis, it'd be nicer and more relatable to my family). I mean, one of the victims at the attack of the Bataclan made a bande dessinée about it. Not really a thing for kids! But that's a great way to convey feelings through both text and image. And reading Astérix as a kid, then as an adult is one of the funniest things ever, because you can understand more jokes and references as an adult 😂 (Never forget La Maison qui rend Fou lol - they even made a reference to it in The Witcher 3, like, please love CD Projekt Red)
About the yogurt... When I went to Canada for a long internship, I was shocked to see the amount of sugar already present in the yogurts. Like, you can't even control it a bit. It was awkward, especially since I like my yogurt "classic" (plain) with a bit of honey or some fruits in it. And putting sugar it in is precisely for the fun of the crunch :D
The placement at the table is an etiquette thing. Since our meals can be long, it's important to have a proper placement. Of course, in more informal settings (like a chill dinner with some friends) it won't matter much... But it's true that we don't like to separate couples, no matter the context. :D
The bidet is, sadly, not that much used in France anymore. Both my grandmas got rid of their bidet, I found it sad. Like a lot of people already explained, it is used to clean the private parts - and it's especially nice when it's periods time for us ladies. It's still common in Italy, and the hightech toilets in Japan have a bidet function too, which is cool. Tbh, if I ever have the occasion to get one, no matter how obsolete it's considered in France, I'll get it. It's just useful like that.
Concerning the permanent chatter... I just hate it, personally. With Aspergers, I have trouble separating the noises to focus, and I have a heightened sensitivity to noise - it takes a lot of energy for me to keepp my attention to the task at hand in a noisy room. One of my nightmares in highschool was the German class, because half the class was extremely rowdy and I had a lot of trouble working during that class. It being right on Monday didn't help, because I had barely recharged my batteries during the weekend... And a part of it was already gone, even the week had just started. Thankfully, this class would be followed by 3 hours of Italian, where the atmosphere was considerably calmer for some reasons. But still.
For your information, in Sologne, my birth region, the common thing is to eat yoghurt with chive and salt. Myself I eat yoghurt that way sometimes. The "I-don't-know-this-person-so-I-won't-reply-to-the-email" is pretty true even in the french speaking part of Switzerland, where I'm leaving and working now. I don't have any rational explanation. The weirder thing is sometimes, when I have an important thing to ask to a colleague, I go see him/her, in order to talk about my idea or the project I'm working on, to explain little details. After what, I send a proper email with the regular demand. It works very well, because my colleagues knows everything they need/want to know, they are part of the process. Some people would say it's a pure lost of time, I don't think so...
About Comics : France have a long time history about comics. Try "Metal Hurlant", "l'écho des savanes", "fluide glacial" and you wil notice it is an art used for both children and adults.
It is an old time (60s) thinking that : "ne lis pas ces illustrés, ça corrompt la jeunesse" or "ce ne sont que des billevesées" ... in real, comics are like books (and are treated like this) .
1) adult comics, yuck 2) bidet, yuck 3) french complain, a lot, meh ok, 4) emails! yes send work emails 5) table placements, i don’t understand 6) french chat at classes or training? glad I’m not teacher... btw I’m America
Yeah I sure had a culture shock when I went back to France to visit some family members ( I'm in the US), first the airport was full of Africans...then Paris overrun by Immigrants, tents, dirt, etc etc...Damn that's not the France I used to know, I won't miss it... here is some food for thought: th-cam.com/video/LPjzfGChGlE/w-d-xo.html
in France because of the RSA and the APL we don't really need to work, so we are tired very often.
It's interesting.. Everything you describe exists and I kind of never wonder about it 😂😂
For the yogurt I think it's one of the consequences of the milk producers lobby strategies to make us think it's healthy.
About the comic books, BD, mangas, some are clearly for children and some are for adults or even "tout public" (for any age) and it's therefore not something that is only for kids in my mind.
I think the bidet is really useful when the weather is hot or when you live on the coast, to wash your feet or your other parts when necessary without using a shower. When you think of it, it's only ecological 😂😂
Thank you for your videos, it's really funny to compare
You really didn't know about "adult comic books" ?? That's far from being a French thing. It's the same with mangas. Actually, even in USA there are adult comics, not just Marvel and DC^^
About the yoghurt: dairy products are widespread in the world but each country has its own habits and expectations. Even geographically close countries like France - Spain - the NL would not have exactly the same products. In France the yogurt consumption is so deeply rooted in the culture that people like to stuck to their habits - for example, adding sugar or jam in plain yogurt instead of buying sweetened or ending your meal with a yogurt. A lot of people still eat their yogurt plain (if you get the right one that is not too acidic it doesn't need any sugar !). Also adding your own sugar is part of the food experience, you can choose the quantity, what kind of sugar etc. People enjoy that :) Personally I love that you get the sugar texture, you got these crunchy sugar bits with the creamy yogurt... yummy! I'm glad you took the end-of-the-meal yogurt habit... so French !
1:21 That's less a NZ vs FR difference, and more of a cultural shift. In the 80's and 90's, superhero comics were super popular (and before too, but I feel like there was a definite upsurge in popularity) and those kids are now adults, so adult comics are popular, and graphic novels are seen as acceptable for adults. As comic users grew up, comic books adapted to follow adult interests. Superman was always for ages 9-15 or whatever, but now there are tons of erotic comics and indecent graphic novels.
OMG, so funny you say about the yogurt! When I was in Paris visiting my boyfriend and staying with his parents, I would always be offered fruit puree or yogurt after a meal. I thought it was because they didn't prepare dessert and it was all they had in the fridge! Turns out that's just what they do. (They also laughed at me when I said " Oh, puree!" because that's just for potatoes, apparently! LOL)
You are right! Do not struggle with your fine, empathic feelings against Sex and Pornographic in Comics and other Medias. This modern dirty and ugly behaviour against modesty ist not good for your Psychic and your Soul!
and those people chatting.... pfff i'm french but i am really disappointed by them. Our "députés" do it everytime in the Assemblée Nationale. i think it's rude and they're not giving the good example but they won't stop. i don't get why. usually they talk when someone from an opposite party talk, a way to say "i don't care about what you're talking about". Rude
@notevenfrench
And everyone else :
There are a few things to understand when talking about comic books.
Firstly, comic books should be renamed, narrative still images.
It's been around since the prehistorical era, up to stained glass in churches, to Bayeux Tapestry
to Colonne Vendôme, to Andy Warhole.
It's a concept , narration with stil images.
and the form it takes can be murals, tapestry, stained glass, a colonne, or a book or any format and material and tools.
It just so happens that since Gutenberg, people started to put drawn images in newspaper, often caricature,
meant to be funny, then stripes of 2,3,4 images meant to be funny, and it was the beginning of modern day "comic book"
which took its roots in the false idea that its meant to be funny and stupid, or for kids and dumb people and couldn't be seen as a work of art, as its been done for millenials prior to that.
Worse it had to stick to one format now.. a book.
And even though it regain mature content.
Contemporary artists that uses still narratives images, won't say that it's basically a comic books
and the contemporary scene of comic books won't even try to free themselves from the book format.
But we're getting there.
I'm saying all that, as a contemporary artist and a comic book artist, having studied art history
and comic book history.
Hope it helped
We used to have a bidet in the first house my parents owned. There was no point to it, even for my brother and I as kids. I may have used it for a couple years at best, when I was so short I couldn't easily reach the toilet seat. About yoghurts though, I guess it depends on people but I don't eat yoghurt that often (it's not easy to digest anyway). I like them with fruits usually, so when it's just plain yoghurt I tend to add some jam rather than sugar. About the workplace, it's not a French thing... It happened to me A LOT in Canada as well, until you know people a bit better they will usually take their time answering, if answering at all. We have a tendency to tell things as they are indeed, and in my opinion it's much better to be honest than trying to be polite and fake. In the end people can tell when you're being honest or not, so you might as well be honest from the beginning and not take them for a fool. You should read a book about "les bonnes manières", you'd be surprised how many silly rules apply around a table. Of course we're not all maniacs about it, but when you know there are entire books dedicated to the matter, you know things are serious! And about the last point, YES, French people lack discipline. In fact I'm struggling with my neighbors because of that, and I'm a bit tired of feeling like I'm nursing a kindergarten. It is probably a cultural thing like you said, but at some point they should seriously consider it's dragging them down more than anything. It's almost toxic at some point. (just a quick note though, comic books are for all ages... just like cocktails are not only for female! these social misconceptions are getting a bit ridiculous over time)
Graphic Novels are not comics although i hear a lot of people using the term interchangeable. Joe Sacco has written some amazing work on the Serbian war. He also did an amazing look at Palestine. These aren't for kids, it's another way or absorbing information...he's an artist as well as a journalist. Canada has one of the best Publishers of Graphic Novels in the world called, Drawn and Quarterly....if you or any of your followers want to check it out...they may even have french ones.
The Bidet isn't used that much anymore and the fact that it "squirts" makes me say it musn't be a french one, the french ones just let water out on the sides, kinda like a flush except it doen't flush it just flows
For the yogurt I always liked adding texture myself ^^
That Aicha person seems very unprofessional and I'm pretty shocked if this is the basic attitude you get in the workplace...it's soooo not like that all over thank gods
Oh wow I didn't know that about the classroom chatter...hey...I do it myslef ^^' no idea why!
Haha. Nice one about the bidet! Not many houses have it anymore and I guess even young French people would ask what it is. Cleaning by water, without paper!
Same technique exist in India (for example) but they usually have a bucket and special water tap by the toilet seat for it. You need to master the technique a bit, but it cleaner and less wasteful than toilet paper.
Cheers,
Romain
You've been so judgmental about us lately that kinda pisses me off... I you don't understand that each country is different then you're one of a kind of an expat !!! Nobody forces you to live in France if you complain about it so much leave
There's nothing "weird" about what we do... that's France, that's what we do so... let us do our thing for god sake
About your HR "problem". You have to understand that France is influenced by the latin culture, which puts interpersonal relations to a higher level than in the anglo-saxon culture. You will find the same pattern in Italy, Spain, Greece Latin America, and partly in France too. You need to create a personal connection with people. I worked in the Consulting area for 20 years in France before I moved abroad. Meaning that I was hopping from one company to another, one type of organization to another, and interacting with new people all the time. What I learned from this, is that when I was getting into a new company, I had to get the org chart, understand the interactions of people within the organization (The "real"orgchart), identify who I will need to interact with, and then get introduced to each and single of these people. I mean, going to their desk, introduce myself, or take the opportunity of a meeting to engage a quick chit chat right after the meeting... Anything to establish this personal link. We are humans, and we tend to give a higher priority to people we know (and appreciate) than to people we don't know.
Do you realize that you are telling internet you found some adult comics ? :)
Alright so first of all, nobody uses bidets anymore in France. Have you seen any modern appt or house with it? nope. However, other European countries like Italy for exeample are still very fond of it and honestly I don't really blame them. Bidets were used to wash your parts after you went number 1 or number 2. Just like Japanese toilets in a way and it is way cleaner then to swipe yourself with paper, in my opinion. Anyways, nobody uses it anymore in France. Biz
Concerning the comics, most of it are not only for children but you have differents ways to read it depending on your age. For example Asterix is full of jokes about french language and historical references that you just can't understand when you're a child. You can even have sex references in comics not made only for adults, but as a child you just can't understand it.
And there is a national Comic fest in France in Angoulême, like Cinema has its Festival de Cannes. Comic is truly a part of French culture and is probably as diversified as novel or cinema there ;)
Haha some French guys could find that because you don't speak French is a culture offense. Hopefully I understand what you say. Lol ( subtitles not always available)
Hello! Concerning the table arrangement, maybe it's due to the family dinner. I just speaking of my experience, but in those events there are untold designated seats, especially for the hosts and the children (generally each at opposite sides of the table). And the couple are most of the time next to or in front of each others. We may apply it to other events (personally my friends and me never did that though 🤔).
As for the bidet, it was just a piece of furniture dedicated to private hygiene. It's pretty ancient, from a time when shower were not necessarily in every bathroom. And in a way, it's still more practical to use a bidet after ... let's say a visit to the toilets than to jump into the shower. It's pretty out of trend today in France, but in Italy (I live there, and it was pretty surprising) it's still widly used, and almost mandatory in a bathroom.
Anyway, it's interesting to see external view on our ways, good video :)
About table placement : May have to do with the lenght of meals ! One hour facing someone you find out you're not liking at all can be very, very long !
Honestly, I've been living in France for 13 years and I've actually only seen bathrooms with bidets once or twice and their owners actually used them to wash their feet. Also, I personally don't eat that much yogurt but I will admit that I do like adding sugar to plain yogurts because I also like the texture.
Distracting via chatting: It is not just French culture in this case. I think you are on to something in your analysis about why some people chat (rudely) in the back of a workshop. Many years ago in the U.S., I attended a two week long live-in course for teachers of mathematics. This infernal, distracting chatting was a plague on our learning and enjoyment. It was not on-topic chatter, despite the engaging, challenging information being presented. After a while it became clear that the culprits were only the high school teachers. Why? Were they emulating their unruly students? Did they not carry a clear sense of courtesy toward the presenters or their peers? Were they worried that the might be embarrassed if they were to engage fully and perhaps reveal their professional weaknesses? Was it a form of narcissism that they needed to refocus attention on themselves rather than on the speakers? Were they used to being the center of attention in their high school classes? It didn't have anything to do with their level of mathematics skill since the topics were about reassessing pedagogy, and after all, they had signed up voluntarily for the course! In the end, my recommendation would be to call them out on it. There are several kind ways, publicly or privately, to help them reassess what they are doing and why.
A bidet isn't normally meant to apply pressured water directly on/in anything but the hand that does the washing. The design of some may allow to get water running upwards, but that never was the first function of the bidet (and it's certainly a bit odd to want that specifically...).
It was only made to wash your parts while crouching (so they're more accessible) and have water delivered close to them (so you don't splash it all over the place).
In france we have a comic book "trolls de troy"
it's not an adult comic book, it's for all ages.
it feature:
- violence , blood
- children being brutally killed ( like a little kid getting impalled by a big arrow )
- sex
- prostitution
- torture
- canibalism
- slavery (and big hard slavery )
- genocide, racism
- for the hard christian : Witchcraft
And it sell very very well :D
There was a bidet in my grandparents' bathroom as well (in Austria btw. so it's not just a french thing). I didn't really know what is was for, but it worked very well for washing my feet when coming back from playing outside, because it was right next to the toilet which you could use as a seat. ;)
But we can say the same about english, when you come to USA you should learn in first : "Hi", "bye", "burger" and "fuck fucking shit suckers oh my god what the hell" and then you are ok to live with them :D
Hi Rosie. Your auntie is partly right partly wrong. She's right about the mistresses thing. She wrong about the time. In France we say « 5 à 7 » pm of course.
Yoo... the comic book thing really is a thing! I've had 5-6 French roommates in the last couple years and every single one of them was obsessed with comic books, no matter how cool they were as people. I always thought reading these kind of made you look like a nerd :)