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.

dam, am at work and can't watch!

That's just brilliant!

I am loving foux du fafa beaucouply.

I am taking mum to Paris in June, we are staying in GBF's spare apartement and will be touring various lesser known parts of Paris with him. He is tres chic.

We are already planning outfits rather than places to visit and wondering about botox due to flying with Air France (but maybe the runways will be packed with burning sheep or angry lorry drivers and we won't be able to get there anyway?).

Bonjour morningpaper! So glad your experience of Paris turned out to be just as it should .

I was at a party on Saturday night and chatting to a man who I have only met once before. We were small-talking about this and that (schools mostly) and a waiter came round and offered us something calorific to nibble on with our glass of champagne. He declined, I took something and the man I was chatting to looked me up and down (in my evening dress) and said "Tu peux te le permettre." (basically, you are slim enough to get away with it). This is totally normal and acceptable behaviour here... not in the UK, right?

that is hilarious anna!

MDR at the foux du fafa - what/who is that?

i read that 'why french women don't get fat' hoping to glean some fabulous secret but it was basically what anna said, other french people don't let you get fat.

er....no..... perhaps only by a close friend

How sad, you were having a normal conversation about schools and he then saw fit to comment on your figure.

perhaps he fancied you ?

lol Anna

oooh the french are BAD

but they are SEXY

Aha! Weight loss by public humiliation! I guess it works

mp - did you come back with a leetle scarf tied chicly round your neck?

but really they ARE so attractive

You could really have just stuck a pin into central Paris and would hit someone that you would give your eye teeth to shag

The men walk as though the efforts of heaving their massive cocks around was rather tiresome

and the women were all plucked to within an inch of their lives

you have to hand it to them

I came back thinking that I'm not going to Paris again without 10 gray dresses

rofl. where you ovulating by any chance?

My DP was sitting about 50 cm away on the other side, too. Ho hum. As Bariatric says, other French people don't let you get fat. The main course at this party was some sort of steamed fish and quinoa , no sauce, with a glass of white wine and sparkling water. It's just much easier to stay slim here, I think.

rofl. were you ovulating by any chance?

dam my attempt to hide my bad use of where was foiled

I was NOT even ovulating

Had I been ovulating I would be on some sort of sex offenders register by now

or just weeping in a ditch about my fat pasty shame

It's better than Brussels where everything is BEIGE.

That is truly ghastly.

am wondering what the man would have said to Anna if he'd thought she wasn't slim enough to eat a lardy snack

have visions of him shouting "OI, LARDARSE, NON!" as he wrestled her to the ground to relieve her of the offending calories

but am guessing it might be a little more subtle

My only cheerful thought was that some Paris men might like big arses

Also GBF claimed that all the men were staring at my tits, which I had basically arranged on a shelf in front of me

this was a small consolation

I think it's best that I stay in Somerset where standards are much lower

ROFL at Catissleepy

Ah Paris...

I had the most INTENSELY sensual (fully-clothed) experience of my life on the Metro.

I also got engaged in Paris.

The two events are not in any way related.

TBH I've never had 'slimming by humiliation'. DPs family are constantly telling me to eat more and comparing me to string...

I am not stringm I have boobs! And a waist!

Anna! Please settle this disagreement. Are you blonde, brunette or red headed? And do you look like Audrey Hepburn?