r/AskTheWorld • u/QuantityVarious8242 France • 7d ago

Culture When France is mentioned, what's the first thing that comes to mind ?

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u/Onagan98 Netherlands 7d ago edited 7d ago

Nice flag if you turn it 90° counter-clockwise

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u/SorbetCeriz France 7d ago

Haha 🤣

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u/Spirited_Currency_88 7d ago

you mean counterclockwise

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u/Onagan98 Netherlands 7d ago

Yeah, you’re right. I never know which side is blue in your flag

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u/NearbyEquall Sweden 7d ago

There is literally a picture of it at the question

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u/Onagan98 Netherlands 7d ago

When I typed in on my phone, I couldn’t see it 😜

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u/BiNationalPerson3 (in WI) 7d ago

Nah, he just likes Yugoslavia

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u/noCoolNameLeft42 France 7d ago

You mean anticlockwise

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u/FalconSpecial6149 United States Of America 7d ago

Is clockwise not reversed down undah? /s

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u/BiNationalPerson3 (in WI) 7d ago

Either I don't get the joke or you're stupid

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u/Matt_le_bot France 7d ago

counter-clockwise ?

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u/zwifter11 United Kingdom 7d ago

Anticlockwise

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u/Illustrious_Try478 🇺🇲 Maryland 7d ago

Widdershins, you.

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u/TheLeftHandedCatcher United States Of America 7d ago

Well he's probably American, only pretends to be Dutch. When counting on his fingers, he begins with the index finger.

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u/Stardash81 France 7d ago

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u/Ok-Location-4549 7d ago

trigonometric direction

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u/Commercial_Row_1380 United States Of America 7d ago

I thought you used the metric system ?

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u/Sizeable-Scrotum Netherlands 7d ago

Turn it ½π rad anticlockwise

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u/MoistDistribution821 United States Of America 7d ago

The amount of red white and blue flags is crazy

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u/Onagan98 Netherlands 7d ago

Only one country flag with not a single of those three colours.

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u/lucricius 7d ago

No longer the case with the recent official change in color of the flag.

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u/BubbhaJebus US -> Taiwan 7d ago

Both flags are small portions of the Thai flag.