this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I'll have you know "nineteen" in french is "dix-neuf" or "ten-nine"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

This would take too much effort to explain to my father-in-law so he’d get the joke, but I find it extra funny because he worked as an engineer on the designs for the Breguet Atlantique and SEPECAT Jaguar.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Letters should not have things on them.

Everybody disliked that.

Also the OTAN stuff is camouflage. The French think of non-French people as basically monkeys, so OTAN is actually short for orangutan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

in English we've just memorized the things on letters - much worse system

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The mirage 2000 has to be one of the most beautiful places ever made though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

parfait... yum...