Technically I was brought up to like the French, as they were also long-running enemies of the English. But I'm not all that keen.
Never produced any decent music. Their big dish is raw egg yolk mushed about in raw ground beef. What have they given us? De Sade, Houllebecq, Space? Serge Gainsbourg is just the French Jimmy Savile.
A mate from Yorkshire who was far more handsome than me dated a French chick. One night in Soho, we were discussing it and he said "Be honest, what do you think of when you think of French girls? I mean, I'm doing it, you're not, so what do you think they're like?" I said "Hairy?" and he went all quiet and then said "Yeah, very".