"Ey, better luck next time zon, go back to your ocean."
I spent yesterday commuting back to California from glorious France where each sunset is a bouquet, each croissant as if handmade Nina Métayer herself, each bite of foie gras, street accordion note of La Vie en Rose, every “bonjour” from neighborhood gendarmerie passing three by three with a doff of beret an event worth enshrining forever in the Louvre.
Alas it is over, the 2024 Olympics now finished alongside the Paris Opera Ballet’s famed Ecole de Danse summer intensive program and the commute home was rough, landing in a wildly overcrowded LAX, ugly aging functional architecture assaulting the eyes but much better than Olympic surfing silver medalist Jack Robinson as he returned to his Australian home and was assaulted, verbally, by a French expat working in the Brisbane airport.
Robinson took to TikTok where he shared the encounter with his 67 million followers, revealing, “Yeah ze French guy in the Australian customs. So on my way back from Tahiti I arrive from ze flight and I get ze dec-er-al-ation, I come to ze customs, the guy looks at me and says ‘Ey, better luck next time zon, go back to your ocean.'”
@jackrobinsonsurf What are the odds of being welcomed like this #TeamAustralia #olympics ♬ original sound – Jack Robinson
Unclear why Western Australian native was using the typical German “ze” to re-mock the employee, which was eminiscent of the wonderful scene in Snatch where Jason Statham fun made Stephen Graham for carrying a gun.
In any case, most of Robinson’s fans found the encounter funny, responding in typical Australian “ha ha ha classic, mate” fashion though some dug deep to their inner Brazilian and became incensed. One penned, “Forget the customs officer…This kind of person that hates and provokes everyone, including the French…French really love Australians” and “He can go back to his ‘La Seine.'” Another, “Bro the French are cocky asf, you did good man” and “Why the French so smug? That’s a Tahitian gold, not a ‘French’ one.”
I guess with the lack of death threats and poop emojis not, in fact, Brazilian but, like Turkish, Tommy and ze Germans, fun nonetheless.
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I recon JRob would take gold for dumbest surfer at the Olympics
I saw Jack trying to do an occy impersonation, everyone in the room was laughing, hahaha
The French impersonation too. Hahaha
Somebody run Johanne D. a hot bath, and interview her tubside to get her take!
If you want to be depressed after a fun trip, landing in LAX will do the trick
red lights flashing? “look, there’s a dude in dat ze vindow…”
A bit of mild shit talking and no online death threats in response? Where’s the fun in that?
I official issue a death threat to anyone not making a death threat.
Not gonna check cause I don’t care but no way he has 67 million followers.
1.7M likes. I quit. But do intend to start training for flag rugby in LA in ’28.
And 7 kids
I think even more! 69.6 mil!
that’s TikTok for you, much easier to get followers
He must play cricket in India for a side hustle to have that many.
French gonna French