When an Exchange Student comes to France 

This is the second time he's been and he's had an even better-I mean worse... time... hehe

I think you underestimate Oisin's mother! There might be a reason she is so fond of French culture...

@@teolinek maybe she was the romantic date XD

Who knows who's over at her house *while Oisín is (again) away abroad?

Agreed. But knowing that, I can't imagine he would mind too much having to wait on that airline strike before coming home again. LOL

They're usually willing to. It's just that their english is so bad it's better to try to understand their french than decrypt their english x)

@@bdletoast09 Well they don't have to know English or the language of the student they are hosting. He/she is supposed to learn theirs. So their bad English is more than enough. I did not expect my Irish family to speak Italian.

They might be willing to, but they won't like it so much that you will be able to feel it in the atmosphere. So, yeah, if you're for a long time you better learn.

@@gabsie7224 I was actually referring to the tendency I witnessed within francophone people in general to dislike the idea of speaking anything else than their native tongue. I am fluent in 3 European languages and have a basic understanding of 2 further languages and still I have yet to meet a native French speaker that is willing to speak anything else than French with me, not even people in the French part of Switzerland, even though I speak two of their national languages, as well as English.

@@gabsie7224 That's a fair point. On the other hand, when I was doing language study in Spain and was staying with a host family, they were hosting another student at the same time from France. My host mom was visibly annoyed because the majority of the time the only way my roommate would communicate with us would be to speak French into her phone and have it give us the Google translation. Of course, that by no means is a representation of all French people everywhere; it was just my personal experience. While in France as a tourist, not a student, there were several people that were willing to speak to me in English after first hearing me try my best to struggle along in badly broken French. The end result seemed to matter less to them than the amount of effort I proved I was willing to put in.

What did he say? ^^

Please do elaborate on that eloquent speech, I am truely shocked I did not quite catch a single word of it despite knowing bit of french. It is a slangish french?

@@twentyroses I think he said "are you having fun up until now in France?" then utter gibberrish ^-^ then "tell me! I asked a question, you could reply! You told me this boy spoke French!! [...] more gibberrish" the he tells him that he's Irish "oh! Irish!! It's wonderful!"

The moment he tell he's Irish and not American or British, the grandpa immediately chill down and try to speak English for him. Classic.

@@xshayahyawzi3666 yes, it's slangish. We have some thing called "Verlan". It will literally eat you inside out just by looking at it

In France we have this implicit rule called the "Quart d'heure de politesse" ( fifteen minutes of politeness ) : When you are invited to someone apartment you have to be at least 15 min late ( that's often 30 minutes ) in order to be polite. This leave the time for the host to be prepared if he or she has to face an unexpected delay. If you arrive on time you will certainly find the host still showering. When you get used to it just tell your guest to come 30 minutes before the time you actually want them to come in France

@@adrienmh3094 that's some useful info, I'll keep that in mind

@@adrienmh3094 interesting. in germany we have this in university. lectures usually start a quarter of an hour later then written on the paper, and it's just called "akademische viertelstunde". it is so normal that professors usually write s.t. (sine tempora - "without time") if they actually want to start on the full hour.

​@@rudelwolf1591 I reckon when we're invited to someone's home for dinner, we also have that Quart d'heure de politesse. Meeting outside is different, however.

Alright this is funny to me... In the north of Belgium you've got those 15 minutes to be on time. Any later and you better let them know... It's very impolite! 😅😂

Not as many as Oisinn if he keeps living like this

Causing her Heart attacks would also be a effective way to escape her.

@@heldengrab8312 Coming next week: When You Accidentally Murder Your Parents

@@foilarmsandhog everything is fine. He had wine to survive.. :)

Oisin needs to come to New Zealand.

Haha!

They are fond of us over there it would appear

​@@foilarmsandhog Indeed we are! 😊😊😊

It's because we hate the english and you are still in "war" with them. Oh and you are carholics.

@@foilarmsandhog As an English person, I can't think why...

@@SMTRodent I think you can, I do

The only things I miss from France are the baguettes and cheese. Definitely not the 6 hours meals with the entire family... "roooh le trou de la sécu, non mais quand même" "et Charles Pasqua alors!" "Vous avez vu le diner de cons? C'est génial!" "Bon d'accord mais juste une goutte!" "garde un peu de place, il y a une tarte à la rhubarbe après" as a kid, you're just bored to death ^-^ As an adult, I eat in approximatively 6 minutes... I think that counts as PTSD =D

​@@SLRModShop ptsd after rhubarb tart. That's serious.

How are French people skinny then?

@@jasonhaven7170 We're slightly skinnier ON AVERAGE than the UK population. This very video is a good example of how warped people's vision of France is. Believe it or not, we have showers and we use them. Someone with a beret is either 80 years old or seen as an eccentric. Nudity is as much of a taboo as everywhere else. Kids do not drink wine, we taste it like twice a year but we get so little that it wouldn't get a hamster dizzy (picture that one in your head, that's cute). All that to say, we have our fair share of fat people. Some of the clichés are 100% true, but many things are exaggerated artefacts of a bygone era. French people not bathing is literally a 300 years old trope at this point. I guess it goes back to pre-revolution era when people were using perfumes, thinking that not smelling something meant problem solved =) French being revolutionaries couldn't be further from the truth. It was true 300 years ago but now, the (very funny) joke of the white flag being the French flag is WAY more on point. Look at the yellow vest movement, they paralized their own country for a year and a half and got... nothing out of it... All that to say, don't believe everything you hear about France except when it comes to bread and cheese, they are the best.

@J H Massive amounts of cycling/walking I'd say, though there are still some fat people. You gotta get your energy for rioting, striking and general civil unrest somehow haha

ohh that could be fun, I'll play the french guy

@@foilarmsandhog so you're thinking of making Foil suffer by having to do... an Irish accent? (Can we at least hope if you're playing the French lad, that Oisín's dad - to whom he must bear a striking resemblance - comes from Cork, or perhaps Belfast?) Or is this your way of outing yourself that you're actually Foil in an Arms disguise this morning?

​@@foilarmsandhogBut we have to see jealous Barry.

Brilliant idea!!!

@@RhondaofTheVale or confused Barry, can't understand why Oisín's doing an accent and wearing a beret.

Delightfully misled more likely 😂

He might look even more forward to the trip!

@@newshefan he's an artist, so...😜

@@miriam2526 he's leaving for France immediately 🏃 😂

@@newshefan 🤣🤣🤣

Our absolute pleasure!

Sometimes not just welcome, but needed 😅 Lovely comment 😊

Depends where you are. Here in Texas it's 2AM.

I look forward to these videos every Thursday after work, Japan time. Always a treat.

Seriously, the best part of Thursdays, and the only reason I wake up. I LIVE for these!

The only one I really don't agree with is the breakfast one. We certainly have lighter breakfast than irish people, but not so light.

The strike one is the most accurate of them all.

if the sexual scenes are true than france needs more islam to make it more civilized place

En anglais y'a besoin d'un -man, -woman, ou même 'person', sinon ça se lit 'comme un (truc) français'.

Missing some confiture

Thanks!

We Chileans greet with one kiss on the right cheek. Spaniards greet with two kisses, righ cheek first and then left cheek. Italians and French give two kisses, first left and then right. I've been in situations with people form all these places and greeting is the most confusing thing.

​@@a2falcone it actually depends on the part of france you're in. Most places (in the north and center of france) kiss 2 times, but in the south they tend to kiss 4 times, or sometime even 3 times (which is confusing af cause everyone else is used to kisses in pair). I've even heard of the mythical 5 kisses greeting, but I've never witnessed it myself.

True, plus even with the 2 kisses, you don't begin the same side depending on where you are in France 😆 Always confusing with my cousins who live on north-west when I was born in the south-east!

​@@a2falcone Why is it first left? Coming from India, I learnt the cheek kiss here in Austria. But it feels normal to kiss the right cheek when you approach with a right hand shake. Or do you guys greet with the left hand first?

Well done Rebecca, have a great break

Wahey!!! How do you think you did? Ah who cares, you're FREEEEE

Summer break !! have a great one

@@SamFAHntha exactly, not even thinking about results right now 😂😂

See you there Stacy, which show!?

@@foilarmsandhog you means shows haha coming to see you all at Liverpool, Birmingham, Oxford and Salford ☺️😁😁😁🥳🎉 haven't seen you guys live since the Fringe last year ..super excited!! I'll see you there!

@@stacy9538 EEEEEEEKKKK!!!! 🥳🥳🥳

STACY! We are meeting in Oxford?! No way! (If I can manage to be able to calm down until then, atm anxiety is a bit over the top and I'm a nervous wreck but that's life, haha) I don't think I'll be there for a specific reason to chat with anyone (as I'm not on twitter or anywhere really that much anymore) but if anyone will approach me, I will chat with them (I just don't like being ambushed and feel really weird when people are like "Everyone knows you Anja!" and I'm like 'Why? I'm no one' xD) But otherwise, Exeter last year made me fall for UK a bit (my true love is still Germany) so I'm excited to have a chance to visit another 'UK name with the letter X in it' ha

@@icecranberry2148 haha that's cool .yeah I'm taking my friend Steve ..he lives in Oxford and he has never seen the lads live before so it's super exciting. Hope the anxiety calms ..I know that feeling too well ..don't worry I won't ambush you! Lol

and they all have his name and number on them

I suspect the same "policy" applies to Foil's shorts 🙂

I hope they do that sketch! @foilarmsandhog

@@karendaley3184 ❤

There are two funny ways that she might react! Will she put it on the wall in the good room and make her son die of embarrassment, or will she be scandalized and insist "it's going to Oxfam"?

School was not wasted, well done Emma

@@foilarmsandhog best tell my mum!

Was it a super strong local accent or a dialect? Lots of memories of Italy!

Don't worry, I'm french, my grand parents did have strong local accent and I couldn't understand papi either ! 😅

@@Emma_W_ I'm French and what Papi said in "French" was mostly unintelligible gibberish lmao

She will think you're trying to proposition to her

As a Frenchman I can confirm it is quite accurate😂

@@adityarao9793 I couldn’t be that lucky :(

That you Macron?

@@mikejacobs14 Macron is mid

Don't worry J

Since COVID a lot of people stopped doing "la bise" and I find it better.

I was slightly afraid they were going to start... French kissing.

Me too, and I´m not autistic ☺ It´s also a cultural thing, personal space means a lot in my country.

I guess that's as close as I'll ever get to my fah ot3..😂

​@@martavdz4972out of curiosity, what country?

I was very certain my Country (India) is the undisputed land of strikes ,till I heard about France 😂😂❤

Would be great if that would be a thing, the FAH library! 😛

He'll be dead by 20 living like that

Absolutely, but as long as he gets an 'A' it will all be fine

Along with the painting of the The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies

Yep. I nearly missed the ferry from Dunkirk to Dover! Stopped at the local French McDonald's for a quick bite after driving from Milan. I was fourth in line. The first people in line - a group of course, spent almost 30 minutes discussing the menu. Well plenty of time for the next in line to make their choices... er, NO! Another twenty minutes... But faut de mieux - an ENGLISH, KINDLY ENGLISH executive from the Norfolk line was just behind me and seeing my distress at the prospect of missing the ferry, arranged my tickets, executive room with shower, etc., etc., before I shocked the other customers by ordering immediately and "fleeing" avec mon 'ambeur geur... (burger) Love the Norfolk Line.

OMG, BARRY! 😂😂😂 Yes, what's HE getting up to? I wonder what he would be like as a foreign exchange student! Unlikely probably - too far from Anne's fridge! 😂 But I think he's full of surprises. He's a dark horse, that one!

No, he's looking for Ann...

Or, since Oisin is away, through her underwear drawer!🤫

@@philomena_def-not-malcolm you read my mind

@@andrea8764 mind read, again

Thanks Anna, a very silly sketch this week, really good fun doing it and sharing our stories from the exchange days

@@foilarmsandhog which one of you went to France then?

Imagine how difficult it was when people couldn't do it due to C*vid! I was relieved but now I kind of miss it with my family

@@naowenn6794 i remember some people still kissing on the cheek in greeting here in France even with covid.

@@rhianheulwen I saw that too, even with elderly parents 😬

@@naowenn6794 yeah it was really bad!

Shit good point hha

Highschool exchanges inside of Europe are not that expensive😂 Put your child on a €9 flight with Ryanair, and just send them some pocket money. It will be less expensive than having them at home

I was just thinking the same 😂

Especially when it's been France twice now haha

The EU has integration schemes to encourage cross cultural understanding. So it’s not necessary that expensive

I got a bit worried when the mother said "Oisin, you can't leave!"

There's also a sketch called "Calling Your Parents From Abroad" which they made before the pandemic. Oisin is on exchange to France there as well! (Was it the same trip, or did he go twice? We can probably imagine it whichever way we want.)

Hahaha oh god, I'm never going anywhere

Fantastic Lauren, have a great time

Thanks! I am! While walking through the Old Town, I passed this theater called the Divaldo and I got this funny feeling inside thinking, that’s not where they’re playing, is it? I checked my phone. Yup. It totally was. 😂 (Correction: It wasn’t the same theater. See conversation below. 😂)

That is so cool!! Hi Prague!

@@laurenconrad1799 It´s "Divadlo" and it literally means "Theatre", you´ll meet a lot of theatres called "Divadlo" 😂😂 (from "dívat se" - to watch and "-adlo" basically means a place where you do something)

@@laurenconrad1799 It´s so hilarious, you sounded like "You know, I was in New York and I saw this huge thing called something like "Statute" and I think it was a statue 🤣🤣

Haha good point.

What's the point of even kissing each other in the first place?

@@AndreiBerezin don't know, & it was really confusing! 😅

@@AndreiBerezin It's a form of greeting. It's like asking what's the point in a handshake. There is no point, that's just what we do.

@@bdletoast09 that's the point, why dont you shake hands or hug?))

​@@AndreiBerezin Because that's not what their culture does. That's like asking, "Why don't you just spin around twice or hop on one leg?" Because it's a completely arbitrary gesture and different cultures have different features for different things.

Hogwash! one of the last performances of it i imagine

Maybe she forget about him, because she has a little fun for herself 🤫 and doesn't want him to know. Or she wants him to call her. And it's a trap. 😮

Tell that you're a Canadian, we French people love Canadians 😊

yes I'm sorry but to us you're just basically american with a better healtcare (unless you're a Quebecker then french people will just make fun of your accent in an obnoxious way)

@@valdir7426 "quebecois!" Sacre bleu!

Just get an XXL "Universite de Laval, Quebec" t shirt and wear it over everything.

Yeah absolutely! FAH taking over the globe! What's next, Antarctica? 😏

Loved that bit!

You don't have dessert for breakfast in France. He was lucky not to get just a bowl of coffee.

Now we just need them all to SUBSCRIBE 😍

The sketches last September were superb, no wonder that's the record!

@@IntensivePorpoise not last September, a year before!

@@fahntasticstatistics... at what point this year am I finally going to realise that 2022 has in fact happened, this is 2023 and last year wasn't 2021? Which were the September 21 sketches which went down so well? I know Vegetables Throw a Party was late September 2021.

@Intensive Porpoise yes the vegetable sketch plus the Government's eating Pizza sketch. But sometimes the algorithm helps and people are watching loads of older sketches.

Me too. Thankfully, I've watched all the videos and am a Patreon subscriber. Love the venue tours!

​@Kathleen Jacobs Yes, I'm also a Patreon subscriber and the extra stuff they put up there is pure gold 👌 Haven't seen all their videos yet though so I keep discovering new little gems all the time! I saw them live for the first time only a couple of weeks ago in Dublin and I absolutely loved it 😍 Now I've got a taste for more!

haha, well done!

All to our benefit 😂😂😂

NOT in France

grumpa.

I'd say what a poor boy, like how confusing. But he seems to be coping just fine 😂

@@SamFAHntha he's developing some bad coping habits! 😄

@@Emma_W_ I can't (and won't) argue with that! He'll be on a first name basis with the hospitals!

Anne has to work now twice as hard to get this new livingstyle out of his head. She's probably gonna regrett it, that she sent him for a second time. 😅

@@Ensign_Roque She sent Oisín away to invite Barry to dinner ...probably because she wants to clean the deep freeze...

Hard lads and John and Tim pleeeaaasssseeee!

Yes, please!

Enjoy the rest of it!! Thank the heavens they didn't get ready for the French beaches in this one 😂

@@SamFAHntha Do you have any Getting Past Immigration suggestions for FAH ?

@@adityarao9793 Hahahaha maaaybe I do... And maaaybe I've spent the last couple years begging for it relentlessly. And maybe it just so happens to be the New Zealand one... Could be hearsay. Who knows!

I mean what's the point of visiting France if not to have a bisexual awakening?

@@EmmaLiza correct 👌

Will do Luke, I know their amongst your favourites

@@foilarmsandhog they are indeed along with Osin and Mum

@@lukeconnolly5709 McCormacks & Oisin and mom crossover. Imagine the commotion when Anne meets Darren's older brother.

OHH what a marketing idea!

@@foilarmsandhog I expect to see this all over your marketing for your Paris show!

Athos: Foil Porthos: Hog Aramis: Arms

@@JeleFili_savage_Filipomena 🤣 I mean it’s not wrong…

A butternut squash

​@@foilarmsandhogI'm just roasting one to go with my evening meal (6.15pm here in Sydney)