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You probably know what a sous chef is. It’s the person who’s second in command in a professional kitchen under the chef. In French, sous also means ‘drunk’.

But even though he’s Le Président, he could also be called le sous Président…

(Edited: Two weeks in America and I’ve already forgotten my French! See the comments for correct spelling of sous. Still, he does look sous, or ‘under’ to me…non?)

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    • Hilda

    yeay! I’m so happy you posted this. I was looking for it on YouTube because they talked about it on Les Guignols today and of course no one here has seen it on TV or in the press. Thanks for that!

    • sam

    When Fred sent me this a few days ago I was laughing so hard. I love the French for the fact they do what they want, they don’t care what other people think and they have no shame. I have a stupid goody goody rule keeping personality so I admire people who can break the rules and protocols like this without a second thought. Oh I wish I was French – not only could I be wild and badly behaved, perhaps I could be thin too.

    • Solange

    Excellent! So fitting for the tanning salon loving Sarko. Word here has it that he never drinks, but I think this is proof indeed that he, like quite a few world leaders, loves that “saoul” feeling. Personally, I’m a fan of the French term “beurré” for buttering up to the “alcool.” Cheers!

    • Gideon

    This is so funny I can’t stop watching it. Of course he was drunk and he should come clean and admit it. Some of my French freinds also insist that Sarko eats live babies for breakfast but I don’t think there is a video of that anywhere on YouTube yet.

    • krysalia

    même si c’est “saoul” et non “sous”, j’agrée à la blague qui reste juste en plus d’être drôle.

    c’est bien un sous-président que nous avons là :( . un des pires que la france ait connu pour l’instant et je compte Giscard…
    qu’il ne tienne pas l’alcool et qu’il faille boire avec poutine, d’accord, mais pourquoi faire encore plus honte à la france en apparaissant rond comme une queue de pelle ? ça, mystère :( .

    • David

    Krysalia: C’est vrai? Oh la vache! Je tue le langue française toujours. Desolé…

    Solange: Yes, I walked by him a few weeks ago and was surprised to see how ‘bronzé’ (or is that bronzée?) M. Sarkozy was. He was kinda scary-orange.

    • krysalia

    david> oh pas de souci, ” sous-président ” ( bad, bad président ) ça lui va très bien aussi :)
    (so accurate :D )

    • Amiadera

    Well, I may be a bit naive but at first I thought he was really tired for having had a strenuous talk with Poutine (who isn’t really easy currently) and having rushed… My bad!

    >Sam, I don’t think the French are so free to break convention. I grew up in a French environment and i can tell you the social pressure is pretty strong. That’s partly why Sarko is so scrutinized and criticized right now. Appearances do matter and people can be really fast at judging you… Be proud of your origins you can always do want you want no matter where you are!

    • krysalia

    Amiadera> Sarko is scrutinized and criticized because he’s corrupted (accepting 300 000€ gifts from the headmaster of a huge industrial group, which HAS contracts with French state), because he wants to terminate some fundamental rights as press independence, and because he’s going to crush down the weakest people to lay down in front of his economically powerful friends. He adopted all the ideas of the extremes, and autrichian political extremes even said that his political projects were “smelling “.
    He’s “the moral guy” that has chosen a government full of guys that went to jail for being corrupted, or for taking state money and so on… (but it’s not a paradox of course ! duhh…)

    He’s a guy who can say -being serious- that this is useless to think about HOW Nazism showed up in Germany, that people can be born with pedophilia addictions, or that a 3 year old child can be suspected to become a criminal few years ago and being discarded from the normal school system for this.

    ok, I assume for you these are only pesky details about a president, some of us are so mean with him to notice and talk about that ! bad, bad us.

    after all, France, the country of the rights does not exist anymore, so those pesky little details such as human rights and no discrimination does not matter either.

    • Cat

    Krysalia: agreed!

    Slightly confused about Sam’s opinion of france – not a country I recognise at all. (my husband is french and lives in paris).

    • sam

    I live with a Frenchman who doesn’t give an codswallup about convention. And I guess some of his friends are the same – all much naughtier than me – but of course I was kind of exaggerating and making a joke at the same time. Us English have a stupid sense of humour.

    • Amiadera

    >Krysalia

    I think you misunderstand my saying: I’m not defending him or ignoring all the foggy aspects of his political program, I’m just talking about the importance of appearances in France (that’s why I said it was “partly” why he was criticized).

    Besides all the things you enumerated, I actually hate his way of viewing things and most of all his arrogant and rude way of talking to people.

    And don’t “assume” I am disturbed when reading about other people views of a matter (which by the way was not the case here) because I’m not like that.
    I genuinely said what my first impression was after seeing the video.

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