My friend thinks she's French

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I have this friend, i've known her on and off for years, one of those let's do lunch once a year types.

Anyway, we decided that we'd do lunch yesterday as both our calendars aligned. She turned up and i shit you not, speaking with some mental half French half English accent. I just sort of went with it as it was so bizarre I had no idea what the hell to say to it. She even made reference to drinking wine with lunch ''like they do at home, you know in Paris'' ... it was the oddest thing.

Anyway, after the most bizarre lunch of my life, I called a mutual friend and apparently this has gone on for the past 8 months - she pretends to be French. She has even at one point shaved her eyebrows off and drawn them back in like Edith Piaf, she wears bateau neckline striped tops and cycles around town with baguettes in her basket.

At least she's got over her ''I'm Claire from Steps phase though'' - would you go NC? this is mental.

<shrugs>

I smell shite....there's no way that anyone wouldn't have said 'what the fuck are you doing'. If it's true, which I doubt, she's clearly mentally ill.

I’d want to know if she has had a head injury.

I just couldn’t sit there and let it go.

Anyone else envisaging 'Allo, Allo ' type French accent?

If I start self identifying as French then will I lose 15 kgs?

When I started reading I thought perhaps it was one of those odd things that happen to accents after a stroke. But then read the wine like they do at home and baguettes in the basket!

Definitely not NC, see her again in a year to find out if she's moved onto a different nationality!

Op I've needed this laugh today. I honestly thought this type of shit only happened to me .

Troys 🤣

Just checking as have been reading the other thread - does this count as cultural appropriation?

Ummmmm….Hilaria Baldwin has done this. Fake Spanish.

Here name's not Tara is it? I was at uni with an absolutely bonkers Tara who used to think she was living in 1923.

Either she's

1. Mad/lost the plot/had a nervous breakdown, etc. In that case, it's not really funny. She could be in so much pain that she can't endure reality any more. That then creates a psychotic break (I think that's what they call it), and the individual disappears into a fantasy world. We all do this to an extent, but some people go all the way.

2. Self-aware and self-mocking, i.e having fun. If that's true, I like her already and want you to introduce us.

3. A pretentious . Some people are so desperate to be different or special, to stand out in some way, etc, that they'll do anything.

I'd like to hear more

LOL
slow half term OP?

Tragédie!

@Basilbrushgotfat I wasn't a close friend, but we moved in peripheral circles related to the clubs we were in. She just always dressed in 20s vintage (right down to the hats, gloves, shoes) and spoke exactly like a flapper straight from the 1920s - with all the slang and everything. Like she'd just stepped out of a time machine. Her commitment was impressive.

She's actually done really well for herself and is still living a vintage/retro life. Seems to have fallen in with a crew who live/behave similarly. She's branched out a bit from the 20s though, I saw her in a crinoline on SM earlier this year.

MN is full of threads about how to be more French!

Like Alec Baldwins wife who made out she was Spanish.

You clearly identify as a comedian while you're not.

Of course don’t go NC.

meet up with her periodically when you’re bored to see what she’s self ID’ing as next.

How long was she Clair from Steps for?

Sounds less crazy than having lunch with a bloke who pretends to be a woman. Either we go along with anyone who identifies as another gender/race/nationality/species/age etc etc or we don't - we can't say some self-identification is okay but other self-identification is not.

I went to school with someone who seemed to identify as French, she wore a lot of NafNaf, would only drink Evian, wrote on squared paper, chewed Hollywood gum, spoke in a terrible french accent and generally looked down on anyone who didn’t act in a similar way

She didn’t have any apparent MH issues, she was just quite tedious and a bit of a twat 🤣🤣

You are a better person than I am....I would probably have said where the fuck has that accent come from and you were born in Brum and living in Worcester, so whats with the fabrications?????

Did you ask her how she felt to still be an EU citizen?

Have you asked her why she has started to speak with a French accent? Or asked what family she has living ‘back home in Paris’? I wouldn’t be able to treat her like normal

Bravo 👏