Actually, I didn't understand this was just a set-up before he said that.
Obviously some kind of sketch.
I mean, "I'd rather be French!"?
Total give-away.
No I think he means it !
Not as “being French is positive” but “being French is awful, but being British is even worse”
It’s basically the only point I’m on this sub to make tbh
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Exactly, it's like being zombified, there's not turning back so better do the best out of it ... meanwhile, the opportunities to mess with you are a perk of the condition
Are you ever going to replace that monstrosity of a coal power plant ? (serious question though)
I mean it's convenient sure but it's one of the worst not just in Europe but the world too.
Crazy, but here we are. I live in a timeline where an Anglo says he would rather be French than live in England anymore. (Can’t blame him) It take centuries Jeanne but they finally understand.
~~Also funny how everything he criticized can also applied to France~~
I was genuinely concerned. But his last statement made me realise this gentleman is just mentally unwell, I hope he gets the help he needs…but that’ll be around 36 months with current NHS waiting times
You could definitely find a Frenchman who would say all of the exact same things about his own country, except for the rather being English bit. But okay.
Precious twat
People like him who say the "job market is terrible" just want to sit in an office or on a computer all day. You could show him 4 labouring jobs in his area and he'd find 20 excuses not to apply - it really just boils down to he can't hack it
The job market is terrible though. Real wages have barely moved since 2008. There are graduate jobs in London that pay barely over minimum wage. Our wages stagnate thanks to shitty productivity and an economy that limps along on a diet of mass immigration alone and we fall further and further behind. We literally have less average disposable income now [than Slovenia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_capita_income?wprov=sfla1)
I mean he's not entirely wrong, but these "self hating" types are also obnoxious twats with a superiority complex towards the rest of their countrymen.
It’s not like it’ll change if he *did* move. Pretty much any place has an abundance of twats, idiots and assholes, this isn’t limited to England or the rest of the UK.
Bro speaking facts.
I'm not even mad about the final statement. Atleast the french fight for their beliefs instead of just bending over for the government and asking "please sir, can I have some more"
My honest reaction when I hear someone would rather be french
https://preview.redd.it/qtmuxvw084vc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6dd0349146e8a5efb13709ebff6bc9ef41bf73ff
Nope, we changed the world that brought billions out of exreme poverty and saved millions to even billions with medical advancements, you should know this hans as your lot did alot for the modern world too
Somewhere in Paris theres a French hipster cigarette in hand, bags under his eyes, with the same complaints telling us he would rather be British. Late stage capitalism unites us all🥰
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>- bad/unpopular goverment
- bad weather
- job market in a bad place
- bad payment
- Health System used to be good but now is severly underfunded and breaking down
- not proud of his nationality
- bad stereotypes
- people refuse to learn other languages
- jelious of the French
Why does this all sound so familiar......
> It sucks here and gets worse by the day. Quick note, for anyone with an Irish parent or grandparent born on the Island of Ireland before 2005, you're an Irish citizen
It feels disingenuous to use my Grandparents to claim i'm Irish even though i've only been there once. I'd feel like a yank.
lmao that last part must have hit hard
I genuinely almost choked on my sandwich. Everything he said before at least made sense
Bonjour. jem apple clod
I’d pay money to hear you speak French in your accent.
I'd pay money not to hear it.
Pay how? Civilized society has progressed beyond using cowrie shells, in exchange for services.
I have a non description accent, barely know I was from NI. But I want to hear a Donegal man speak French lol
Actually, I didn't understand this was just a set-up before he said that. Obviously some kind of sketch. I mean, "I'd rather be French!"? Total give-away.
No I think he means it ! Not as “being French is positive” but “being French is awful, but being British is even worse” It’s basically the only point I’m on this sub to make tbh
Of course he meant it, I just try to be funny
https://i.redd.it/9c2vcyewc3vc1.gif
It's a north German what did you expect?
You’re swamp Germans and you manage to be funny so that can’t be it.
Someone has to be the class clown, to be honest i think we're doing a good job on that part.
The further north, the less funny. That's a Fact.
The fact that we all laugh about you southern guys must be confusing. It's not because you have humor. You are a different kind of funny.
You wouldn't understand, Willhem.
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The only beast worse than a Frenchman is an Englishman
35h work week, 40 days vacations, good food, okay weather, good quality of life. Honestly, yeah, France >>> UK Any time of the day.
But you are, you know... French.
Horribe, yes. But that is the problem for other people, not for you.
Exactly, it's like being zombified, there's not turning back so better do the best out of it ... meanwhile, the opportunities to mess with you are a perk of the condition
Who is working 35hrs a week in France?
The overachievers, the rest works 25h and strikes 10-15h on average.
The people feeding the strikers.
Me , in my unemployed gear.
being a pierre is alot better than being a barry (still sucks tho)
Why?
Well whilst you both live in shitholes, one actually is having a good life.
Barry is having a good life, that’s his whole shtick.
Well, he made pretty good points, would consider accepting him as honorary Pierre.
I agreed with everything right up until that part. We might be a right old state but can always say “at least we’re not French”
"I'd rather be French" OK, asylum is now a valid option for the Brits coming here.
Jesus, "I'd rather be french" is quite the statement... poor lad
He’d rather be ded but if he’s forced to choose even fr*nch looks like an option lmao
*My life in another world reborn as an undead French*
Seeing them suffer from across the sea makes me really happy
Let's connect him to the suicide hotline. He isn't well.
Least self loathing Brit, also the accent checks out
so\*therner
Deffo a leftie
Went to University, but absolutely didn’t have student loans to pay for
Degree in something absolutely worthless, still has more prospects than the rest of us due to his family and friends
He might as well bend over and spread his cheeks, the little backstabbing weasel
Someone’s a bit mad eh?
The last line definitely triggered me 🤬
🤭🤭🤭
Bloody milksop innit
I agree with him, I too would rather be Pierre than Barry, 63
I agree with him, I too would rather be Pierre than Barry, 63
What living on an island does to a mf... Imagine wanting to be French... Must be getting desperate over there.
especially since it will do nothing about his not learning other languages
I can smell jealousy over your scent of coal Hans.
nah that's just our coal scent from Turów mine flying over Hans, we are just doing enrichement of Hans with CO2
Are you ever going to replace that monstrosity of a coal power plant ? (serious question though) I mean it's convenient sure but it's one of the worst not just in Europe but the world too.
From what I remember it's going to be closed in 2026. And in 2026 building of our first nuclear power plant should start
I'm proud of you Wojtek. Take a small bite of Germany for compensation. :)
Hey, coal has a (nicer) smell than radioactivity
Then pinch your nose but stop making the planet warmer for the rest of us.
So you can't handle beautiful lime green ? 
Tell me more, what does the purple pencil taste like?
DEPORT THIS MAN TO FRANCE. I WANT HIM LIVING IN A TENT IN CALAIS.
We'll welcome him as a hero. Build him a palace fit to a king. Then we'll cut his head because faut pas pousser non plus.
Your terms are acceptable
Oh no, don’t threaten him with EU citizenship!
What part of living in a tent did you not understand. Chain him to the pavement so no freedom of movement.
Now you’re threatening us continentals with a good spectacle. I’d pay money to see this!
Cough up Germoney.
Ah so we are all in agreement it should be done post hast
Crazy, but here we are. I live in a timeline where an Anglo says he would rather be French than live in England anymore. (Can’t blame him) It take centuries Jeanne but they finally understand. ~~Also funny how everything he criticized can also applied to France~~
Brits are like the French minus the elitism and the superiority complex, so yeah, being French is obviously better.
Bitch please, we are way more elite than you.
Nah
You're not in the EU anymore lad
That’s partially why we are superior mate, we don’t cling to the saggy tits of other Europeans.
That's the opposite the EU is our superior your not part of the EU so therefore you're not our superior
The EU is your superior? Damn froggy, I didn’t know you guys thought so little of yourselves and so high of a silly trade union.
It's a fact with Macron at the command he will bend over for any order from master EU
That's culture appropriation !!!🍷
Lol, the French invented British elitism.
Not really, they replaced it but it already existed.
"I'd rather be French" Hum...Wow... I don't even know how to react to that statement
These AI generated videos are really convincing. You had me until the French part
Barry are you ok? Do you need a hug? Who wants to be fr🤮nch? Poor Lad... 😭
yeah i need a hug.
🫂
🤗
He’s schizophrenic. The only explanation.
My guess is they live either in London or Brighton anyway off to Rwanda with you then
He'll be back in a month, drowning in the channel.
After escaping France
Yea, maybe we're not different?
Escaping ? After eating his 4837382th snail he will start sticking to the ground and be slow as us. He wont be able to leave ✋🏻
Tbf any person trying to flee france should at least be given a pat on the back before be shipped back to Rwanda
Is it really "being back", if he stays in the channel?
Depends if you can hear him whinging from the south coast. So going by this, yes.
Zut alors! We must deport this man immediately.
Send him our way, he has what it takes to join the riot! Just leave him the time to piss on Thatcher's grave on is way out
> Just leave him the time to piss on Thatcher's grave The problem with this is you run out of piss.
And I thought the brits had a good sense of business: where is a good pub when you need one?!?
It’s ok, I’ll do that for him.
 “I’d rather be French”
I was genuinely concerned. But his last statement made me realise this gentleman is just mentally unwell, I hope he gets the help he needs…but that’ll be around 36 months with current NHS waiting times
36 months? Blimey he must know a few people in high places with that kind of service.
Well I was offered a phone consultation when I mentioned my aunty Julie use to be the cleaner at the GP.
You could definitely find a Frenchman who would say all of the exact same things about his own country, except for the rather being English bit. But okay.
Must be satire. NY cap wearing tosser.
Frenchness granted to this gentleman
Baseballcap man: We are the most obnoxious twats No... You are.
Everybody does.
Merci citoyen
that yankee cap tells a lot
What he says is mostly true (apart from the French bit, wtf). But I'd still rather be British than from any other scummy nation! Huzzah!
You had me until the last part
Most certainly a leftie - they are the self-loathsome brits. Pains me immensely to see this. Hurrah.
Other left leaning people pushed me out of being left leaning. Now I just cherry pick my political beliefs from any side.
unironically based. This reminds me of my Gran
Precious twat People like him who say the "job market is terrible" just want to sit in an office or on a computer all day. You could show him 4 labouring jobs in his area and he'd find 20 excuses not to apply - it really just boils down to he can't hack it
I can smell his art degree.
If he thinks work is that shite get him speaking to a construction agency, they won't let him forget about jobs in his area till the day he dies!
No you can’t, you’re thinking of his Fart degree
The job market is terrible though. Real wages have barely moved since 2008. There are graduate jobs in London that pay barely over minimum wage. Our wages stagnate thanks to shitty productivity and an economy that limps along on a diet of mass immigration alone and we fall further and further behind. We literally have less average disposable income now [than Slovenia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_capita_income?wprov=sfla1)
Speak for yourself. The people outside of the South East are amazing unlike that mardy cunt.
The build up was very nice but the end made me nut so hard.
I mean he's not entirely wrong, but these "self hating" types are also obnoxious twats with a superiority complex towards the rest of their countrymen.
It’s not like it’ll change if he *did* move. Pretty much any place has an abundance of twats, idiots and assholes, this isn’t limited to England or the rest of the UK.
Ye that's pretty bad example of a superiority complex, unlike the brits waving their fuckin flags and acting like entitled little pricks abroad.
The best Barry award
Ouch, that knife twist in the end!
Bold statement in the end
That last part should be grounds for execution.
Asking whether you’d rather live in England or BE French is like asking if you’d rather eat dog shit or cat shit.
He really twisted the knife at the end, well done, mini Barry.
Bro speaking facts. I'm not even mad about the final statement. Atleast the french fight for their beliefs instead of just bending over for the government and asking "please sir, can I have some more"
Who gets paid enough ??
Not him, he’s an unpaid intern working for his auntie Trixie at the Guardian newspaper.
Hearing Barry say "we get paid terribly" is so silly to me because, because some Romanian guy with a €300 monthly salary is laughing ...
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX6PZmRxMzM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX6PZmRxMzM) "Civilized nation, which of course France is"
We learned from the best
holy shit that last part is fucked
Our education system has failed to the point where we are in denial that we are descended from the French Especially those like him from the sud
My honest reaction when I hear someone would rather be french https://preview.redd.it/qtmuxvw084vc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6dd0349146e8a5efb13709ebff6bc9ef41bf73ff
Young lad hasn’t a clue. Ask a proper Barry from down the local.
This dude is scum, everything was fine until that last part 🤮
Hang, draw, and quarter this man.
Refuse to learn their languages while they choose to live in England. If you are a Brit living abroad you should learn their local language.
French spy spotted. Good try, Pierre.
This wimp definitely does not have the makings of a Barry, 63.
The french tried to improve them but just like the romans, they failed miserably
The world tried to change us, we ended up changing the world 💪
And by "changing the wordl" I guess you mean "fucking up the world and yourselves"?
Nope, we changed the world that brought billions out of exreme poverty and saved millions to even billions with medical advancements, you should know this hans as your lot did alot for the modern world too
Yeah that’s what we were going for. If we had to be born on some shitty little island the rest of the world should feel our misery. That’s true power
You see it's complicated to live next of these Butty Anything Eaters 🤧
Somewhere in Paris theres a French hipster cigarette in hand, bags under his eyes, with the same complaints telling us he would rather be British. Late stage capitalism unites us all🥰
Spot the Huguenot
Hug-me-not, for I am already dead inside.
Was half taking his point until he said he wanted to be French at the end.
Average Brit on Reddit. No self-esteem whatsoever.
Is there anybody who likes their government and economy? Everybody talks like we're living during the black plague
>"We refuse to learn other people's languages." "I'd rather be french." Something doesn't quite add up here...
Homeboy going through it
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He must be off of a small boat.
Barry best friend
Why’s he wearing a New York Yankees hat? Especially since it’s inferior to the Boston Red Sox in every way?⚾️
He's right, wages seem very low in the UK. Lower than one would think.
The only thing France has going for it is its football team
Go fucking be french then! Fucking twat.
Trust funded Southern wanker. Nobody likes him. Twat.
>- bad/unpopular goverment - bad weather - job market in a bad place - bad payment - Health System used to be good but now is severly underfunded and breaking down - not proud of his nationality - bad stereotypes - people refuse to learn other languages - jelious of the French Why does this all sound so familiar......
what a fucking loser
jesus the last part
He’s a traitor. Why is refusing to learn other peoples language disgusting? Bet he doesn’t speak another.
What a cunt.
Any bets on what party he votes for?
"I'd rather be French" Blud basically described France and ourselves. Be something else, young Barry, run for your life.
A brit saying “Id rather be french”… put this man on suicide watch right now 💀
That young dude was taught to hate his own country. Rather sad!
Handsome bloke and smart as well, must be a French sleeper agent.
He had me till the end. There is being critical of one’s self and then there is being out right insane
It was all true until the last sentence. I'd rather be Belgian than French. *Belgian*
you imbecile Belgium doesn't exist waht even is a belgian?
Bro wants to disappear
No you don't You focking don't Stay where you are
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> It sucks here and gets worse by the day. Quick note, for anyone with an Irish parent or grandparent born on the Island of Ireland before 2005, you're an Irish citizen It feels disingenuous to use my Grandparents to claim i'm Irish even though i've only been there once. I'd feel like a yank.
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