Good advice here:
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
(BTW, what is the song that they\’re spoofing? I know it but can\’t place it…..thanks in comments. So, in order to show how much all we Europeans have in common they\’ve decided to sing an American song in English?)
It’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Deep Blue Something
Paraphrasing from the wikipedia entry of the song:
“Desperate to find common ground, the singer can only think of a vague memory that they both like [freedom], and argues that this tenuous link between the[m] should serve as enough motivation for them to work out their problems and stay together…”
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