French uproar as Macron vows to 'piss off' unvaccinated

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35. If the reporter doesn't know contemporary French

Then he or she has no business writing about the subject. “Emmerder” is a word used by pretty much everyone in daily conversation. If someone wants to ask, “is that gonna be a hassle?” they are as likely to ask, “est-ce que ça t’emmerde?” as anything else. It is no more vulgar than describing a “pissing contest,” or saying it “kinda pissed him off.” No one in France would even raise an eyebrow unless they were the French equivalent of Trey Gowdy trying to make Benghazi into the same category as Auschwitz.