So for something a bit lighter in topic than politics or mobiles I thought I would enlighten you to some things you may not know about Europe and in this case specific to France (though Germany/Austria fits into this as well).
That is the word F**K is not really a swear word here. In fact it's practically meaningless. Doesn't exist in the French language or officially as a French word so is not viewed or thought of as anything. Bearing in mind that they do know it's a swear word in English.
So what does this mean exactly and why am I telling you this?
Well, if you come to France you can turn on some music, watch TV or hear music in a shop, restaurant, cafe, etc (you get the point) and there's no censorship any time of the day.
As you can imagine this can upset some more sensitive people from North America or UK...
The word F**K is thought to derive from German and is not considered much of a swear word there. In Austria there's a town called F**KING which consistently has it's sign stolen. I recommend reading the WIKI on the town it's quite amusing.
So with that in mind I'm posting a picture of a treat display from a French cafe. Don't worry I blurred the words but to give you an idea of where this is located. It's in a large national bagel sandwich shop. To add to this the register had some advertising on it as well saying "F**k Burger Queen". Yes Burger King is here in France...
Usually this has some sort of sweet things in it. You can tell they know what the word means but don't care. :grin:
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