Paging the frenchies

White flags.

 

the work-shy bastards take the day off work. They're off today too.

 

<G> It does have it's advantages.

BTW, Spain and Italy have hols today too. Dunno about the others.

 

Poppies no, day off, yes (as Darsy pointed out

 

Traditionally, surly French farmers blockade the channel ports in a sombre
manner during the annual Festival of Surrender.

Soy.

 

Soylent Green wrote

I didn't know they surrendered 15 times a year.

Or is that 15 times in different years? It's hard to yell innit really?

 

it wasn't the most convenient of days for our Paris-located Sybase
server to crash, mind you.

 

Just out of interest, do the French do anything similar to the B-L poppies
for remembrance day?

 

Just raise your voice a bit. It'll be fine.

 

What's the occasion ?

 

Cab

Parts of Germany too.

 

Champ

All Souls or All Saints, I can never quite remember, but think probably
the latter.

 

*ding*

All Saints day, aka "Toussaints" over 'ere.

 

Lemme guess. Down south towards Bavaria?

 

Hardware or software problem?

 

configuration problem - ran out of space for the log files - useless
froggy DBA bastards.

 

You were not amused, I take it.

 

Cab

Pretty sure Bavaria will have it, but I know North Rhine Westfalia has
a holiday and Berlin/Brandenburg doesn't.

 

Belgium also, but unfortunately not here in Holland

 

given that I requested the available space to be upped to 100mb two
months ago, and it's just hit a 25mb limit, "not particularly".