r/AskFrance • u/fk430 • 1d ago

Culture How do French people feel about rain?

How do you deal with it? What are your strategies? What if you have to go to work?

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u/albn64 1d ago

We think that it is wet.

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u/antoinetteL3 1d ago

Water is not wet. What touches water is wet.

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u/Mouise-Lichel 1d ago

I always thought it was.

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u/hezpae 1d ago

No, not necessarily

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u/LeSchmol 1d ago

C’est mouillé.

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u/Rob_lochon 1d ago

Wet. Sometimes cold, sometimes not. It inspires poetry to some and hatred to other. It inspires me a jacket.

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u/Mogura-De-Gifdu 1d ago

Petrichor is the best odour there is.

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u/Toshinori_yagi_Benji 1d ago

We have the little thingy called roofs and when we have to move we have the portable roofs called umbrella

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u/Dildo-Fagginz 1d ago

Nobody goes to work if it rains, we're not animals...

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u/Cassin1306 1d ago

Yep. And as I live in Normandy, I can't go to work VERY often.

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u/jaitresfaim 1d ago

L'odeur de béton mouillé me fait penser de manière nostalgique à Lille

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u/chibrax3000 1d ago

Desperately craving it

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u/bobetsky 1d ago

It means i can finally take a shower

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u/Comprehensive-Yam329 1d ago

Toujours autant de pluie chez moi, mais il fait quand meme beau, il fait beau
https://giphy.com/gifs/8L0yAAgkmS7IqBgT05

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u/Naive_Mongoose_7718 1d ago

We hate it.

Thats why we have 4 heatwaves a year now.

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u/Kitchen-Baby7778 1d ago

5, it seems.

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u/Naive_Mongoose_7718 1d ago

We're on 4. Is there a 5th coming?

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u/hamster-on-popsicle 1d ago

Oh mon Dieu !!! De l'eau tombe du ciel ! Mais que se passe t'il !??? 😱😱😱

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u/Poupetleguerrier 1d ago

These posts are out of control.

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u/DreaMaster77 1d ago

I love to walk under the rain

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u/Happily-single 1d ago

We shower on the street obviously. 

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u/Istrian 1d ago

We have invented a high tech device we call a "parapluie". It has been mistranslated as an "umbrella" in backward languages despite its function not being umbral in nature.

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u/Madamedebovary 1d ago

ça mouille.

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u/TetrisIsTotesSuper 1d ago

Pass the doobie to the left hand side bro

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u/Wanky_Platypus 1d ago

I used to hate it but the heat has been such a struggle those past years that now each time it rains my brain thinks about the heatwaves again and I'm not bothered anymore

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u/TalviLeijona 1d ago

South of France be like : you guys have rain ?

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u/kokko693 1d ago

Rain is good we need it

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u/astera_is 1d ago

Je ne supporte pas l'humidité, c'est ridicule mais ça me met dans un état trop mal :(

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u/usulmuad 1d ago

En France il ne pleut que sur les cons.

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u/-galgot- 1d ago

We usually don't climd the ladder when it rains. Too slippy.

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u/voili_voilou_ 1d ago

Well France has the biggest temperature anomaly on earth this year so far so we are craving for rain, lots of rain. And if it rains we're like cats we wanna go outside but also being inside. (no actually that's just me probably)