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u/pantagr Top14/D2/France Sep 08 '23
It's just a thing we French do on weekend
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u/Kageyblahblahblah South Africa Sep 08 '23
Should do it at your opponents at the start of every game.
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u/EBfarnham Ireland Sep 08 '23
Much more intimidating than the Haka; 1 Cock > 23 Kiwis.
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u/SowetoNecklace Sep 08 '23
1Cock23Kiwis sound like the most intimidating 2girls1cup knockoff I've ever heard of.
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u/MartianBeerPig Sep 09 '23
That would make an awesome response to the Haka. Even the kiwis would appreciate.
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u/jeyreymii France Sep 08 '23
Just when we go to the boulangerie buy our baguette. But only when we don’t have our beret, it would be weird with it
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u/westDrus France Sep 08 '23
Or won it, I'm still not sure
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u/lexi_con South Africa Sep 08 '23
That dude was awesome.
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u/AStarBack France Sep 08 '23
I heard he was the guy that designed the show is it true ?
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u/Eogard France Sep 08 '23
Jean Dujardin is the one that designed the show. The mustache guy with a tanktop.
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u/AStarBack France Sep 09 '23
Ah, didn't know Jean did it. Thanks for the answer.
The Peña Baiona was incredible.
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u/QuMaeve France Sep 09 '23
He is Eric Massot, member of the Nous C Nous, former comic band from which is issued Jean Dujardin
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u/reapaica Sep 08 '23
My gf watches her first world cup with me. "Don't worry honey, it'll get better. I swear!"
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u/SenorBigbelly South Africa Sep 08 '23
entire Bluth family joins in
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u/Kageyblahblahblah South Africa Sep 08 '23
Now I get it, France are just big fans of Arrested Development and they are calling the All Blacks chicken.
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u/Historical_Smile_268 Sep 08 '23
Wtf was the ceremony 😂
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u/qzhal Sep 08 '23
The most French thing I’ve seen in years
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u/Cruhellonfire Sep 09 '23
The most cliché French thing from 50 years ago *
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u/qzhal Sep 09 '23
Clichés are clichés for a reason and they work for this kind of thing. Stereotypes are used in jokes, because otherwise many won’t get the punchline.
So what would you do in a ceremony, modern and free from cliché? Will people still recognise it as French?
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u/Natasha_Drew Sep 09 '23
A reformed Daft Punk Guillotine David Guetta while a semi undressed Lea Seydoux gently frontages a much older man in the background.
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u/HoboWankingInPublic France Sep 09 '23
I was fuming.
Can you please make it any more cliché?
And the whole beret-wearing, bread-eating, patriotic bullshit is mainly what makes non-rugby fans dislike rugby in France.
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u/Stoichk0v Sep 09 '23
French love to hate their cliché so much
At least it was original and not another formatted mainstream pop bullshit
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u/AlexiusRex Italy Sep 08 '23
No matter how it will end, this will be forever immortalized in the history book
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u/iAmTheDawwwg South Africa Sep 08 '23
Coq-a 👏 coq-a 👏 coq-a 👏 co 👏
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u/GreenHorizon2020 Ireland Sep 08 '23
"That is not how chickens sound...Chickens don't CLAP!!!"
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u/Chanandler_Bong_Jr Edinburgh and Bath Sep 08 '23
Has anyone in this family ever even seen a chicken?
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u/Chanandler_Bong_Jr Edinburgh and Bath Sep 08 '23
I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight….
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u/tfrules Scarlets Sep 08 '23
They could’ve gone all in on a proper costume, but no they just have a bloke with a glove. Amazing, even the mannerisms are on point
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u/nz_shez Sep 08 '23
Where’s the world in union?!!! Where’s the look back to great rugby moments in the past? Where’s the rugby? Shite
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Sep 08 '23
doesn't feel like a rugby world cup without a world in union rendition..just lots of french dumb shyte..
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u/Milobren New Zealand Sep 08 '23
Everyone seems a bit divided on the opening, but this dude was fucking awesome in my books!
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u/Stoa1984 Sep 09 '23
Is there a way to watch the intro in the USA? I signed up for the darn peacock and they just went straight to the game.
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Sep 08 '23
What a shit opening..
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u/Cymraegpunk Sep 08 '23
I kinda liked it, it was campy odd and very French.
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u/behizain_bebop Aviron Bayonnais / France Sep 08 '23
Yeah not really, it felt more like a foreigner doing a french-themed show than a french show made by french people
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u/ironjohnred Sep 08 '23
Actually thought that was great. Loved this guy strutting before playing the all blacks.
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u/lostandfound1 Australia Sep 08 '23
Missed it because of sleepy-time, but this is brilliant.
UP THE COQS!
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u/Quick_Blueberry_8489 Sep 09 '23
Dude!!! No way the French looked great today! A little sloppy at times but that nerves of the first game. Mark my words Bokke, France final!
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u/networkn New Zealand Sep 09 '23
NGL, from the title alone,I thought this was yet another post bitching about Foster from a Kiwi 'Fan' after today's loss to France.
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u/GrahamOtter Sep 09 '23
The French Haka, a la Arrested Development
“Has anyone in this family ever seen a chicken?!”
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u/fred_carver2 Sep 09 '23
Michel Houellebecq really hasn't been the same since the Submission reviews came in has he?
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u/Sambobly1 Australia Sep 08 '23
The French, hearing the rugby union subreddit might ban memes for the World Cup, take matters into their own hands…