I have been to Paris with my GBF and can confirm that BonsoirAnna is right about EVERYTHING

[morningpaper]

The women - gasp - they are all so chic and beautiful.

They just wear gray dresses with tiny belts and high heels and are all thin and smoking. Their hair is ALL PERFECT.

And the MEN!!!!

dearie me

GBF practically had to be physically restrained, particularly after an unexpected burst of rain when suddenly we appeared to be surrounded by a city of Colin Firths just emerging from the lake.

Honestly, Parisiens look like they are about to have sex ANY MINUTE and this talking-in-cafes is just really an interuption in their constant lives which are full of serious shagging.

Occasionally we would see an ugly person but they would be british tourists.

The only consolation was that there wasn't much laughing. British people ARE funny.

So my conclusion is that BonsoirAnna is probably right about everything.

I felt like a Cornish pasty with earrings.

All of which raises the question -

• what do Parisien tourists come to London in search of?

Perhaps they save up their pennies to come and eat donuts and pasties with wild, sweaty, guilt-tinged abandon, before catching the Eurostar home to do coffee and cigarette-accompanied penance?

MmeLindt: The station is full of overweight Germans and the English, who all looked like gray pebbles with faces drawn on

Pag: Oh DEAR about the party and oh YUM about the men

Frag: Yes I noticed that I was very NOISY and people kept jumping and looking annoyed every time I squawked spoke. I was an Irrititing Tourist, although every time I fell over/shrieked, my chum would mutter: "Think chic, darling, you aren't thinking chic"

DP says he came here for a laugh. Quite literally.

Animula...

Chic parisian friend has no idea why she came to London. Friendship began when I said 'why on earth are you here??' and she said 'I don't know, it is rubbish, the tube is expensive, the men are not sexy, my rent is more than I earn, everyone is ugly and it rains'
'nuff said

Well they may all be chic dressers in central Paris but anywhere outside that they are frumpier, if anything, than here. I was most disappointed the first time I went on holiday to France. You can't really judge a nation from what is worn in the upmarket parts of its main city

fat parisians are exiled to the countryside to run campsites, or at least that's how it appears.

god yes the french outside paris are worse than us ime

I like this thread . It's fum...about time too.

Where IS anna- is she hiding from all this attention?!

Are they dog rough outside of Paris?
Phew, that is good, we're off to one of those campsites in Southern Brittanny this year.
Can have a pie for lunch now.

I kept stepping in dog shit as I was busy staring at the men

at "Cornish pasty with earrings". It just has to be quote of the week!

DW adores Paris because of the luxury fashion and cafes and dropping in at Fauchon and staying at the Crillon - on company expenses obvioulsy.

I hate the place. Everyone is so damn grumpy and rude. The wide boulevards are windy and were designed so that crowds could not barricade them but give clear views to army/police so they could mow people down with canon fire or machine guns if they dared to revolt.

Agree that London has gone down hill badly in the last decade but Rome is wonderful and yes I do like swanning about in pastel pullovers.

Has London gone downhill? Really? I think London is fab!

I was a bit perturbed that there was a poster called 'AnnaFrench' the other day - thought it might be a pisstake of BonsoirAnna but if it was it wasn't a very good one.

If all those chic women were smoking, at least two thirds of them will die prematurely of some nicotine related disease. I would sooner be a bit dumpy tbh.

I think, as with anywhere, trends vary. If you go to the countryside people are not going to be dressed in Dior! They do also tend to be more generously proportioned and less snooty.

There are mini-Parises outside Paris though. Think the cote d'azur in the summer or (slightly less chic) the Arcachon basin. The centre of Nimes is surprisingly filled with Parisianalikes too.

they are still better looking

What's GBF?

Is it like GBH?

Flirting? Fishing? Fiddling?

Gay best friend

Ahhhhh... it all falls into place. Thanks

dh likes Paris. He says everyone is so polite and helpful. Well compared to Berlin I suppose .. Actually I found people in Paris very chatty with a disconcerting way of looking at you as if they expect you to say something very amusing. For the life of me I couldn't think of anything though.

Honestly I didn't pick up on the wow factor with the men. I need a man with a bit of brawn really, broad shoulders,etc, don't do the weedy ones however charming and tousled their hair.

Must go have another look...

GO TO SOUTH KENSINGTON. IT'S THE SAME BUT NEARER.

South Ken? Really?