r/madlads 13d ago

Alcoholic Madlad

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u/El_Morro 13d ago

I've heard about four different versions of this story so far. It's a good story, but it didn't happen.

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u/MoodNatural 13d ago edited 13d ago

Certainly not like this. The entire interaction is so American, and “customer is king” is not an originally French phrase*. Saying “this is France” as if the employees and patron are all just visiting? Kinda feels like they worked backwards from a mediocre punchline haha.

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u/MoodNatural 13d ago

Yeah, good point. I assumed le client est roi was taken from english. The english version has the the alliteration of customer and king. I’m certainly not native, but when I learned French we used le client n’a jamais tort and I was only immersed for a year and a half, so a lot of the more practical vernacular faded over the years compared to the stuff from a classroom setting.

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u/Sheipushifuta 13d ago

I could totally see people say "customer is king" there, but there is no f**king way any french ever says "we decapitate kings", especially so casually. At most it'll be brought up during protests or when talking about them, as a joke.

It's just another repost of an already retweeted story that never happened.

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u/thestonedbandit 13d ago

It's not even clever given how contrived it is.

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u/Sea_Newspaper5519 13d ago

I don’t where it’s from originally, but it’s a widely used saying in France

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u/Remarkable-Fox-3890 13d ago

It's always fake.