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    Default Re: European Banks: What's Going On?

    I'm not sure if I get the joke, other than that it's got sarcasm written all over it?

    While I can see that threatening supermarkets into stocking native products only, commandeering trucks with foreign products at the border and intimidating import companies could be seen as means of competing with others, they're technically illegal even if they usually go unpunished by the French justice system.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    Furthermore, you should all mind your own daisy business and not interfere with French sovereign affairs like our use of the Common Agricultural Policy.
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    I'm not sure if I get the joke, other than that it's got sarcasm written all over it?
    I believe Louis was using the word daisy as a profanity, as in " business ":

    "Furthermore, you should all mind your own damn business and not interfere with French sovereign affairs like our use of the Common Agricultural Policy."

    I hope that this helps, and was what you were asking. Apologies if I have seemed patronising by getting the wrong end of the stick.
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    They slew him with poison afaid to meet him with the steel
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    LMAO!

    Those were great!


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    Quote Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
    LMAO!

    Those were great!

    Quote Originally Posted by Bopa the Magyar View Post
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    I love Bird and Fortune, they've been going for years and always make me laugh.

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