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andyoxon

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #950 on: 28 July, 2018, 12:14:30 pm »
 ;D  Dinosaur lost in translation?  German version has urgestein which I think is veteran...
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Samuel D

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #951 on: 28 July, 2018, 12:16:04 pm »
There’s no guarantee it wasn’t ASO’s translation. Their translations are generally amateurish, as is their unbelievably bad letour.fr website and a lot else. Not exactly a showcase of French competitiveness.
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Croft

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #952 on: 28 July, 2018, 01:04:11 pm »
My god, some of those TT bikes are fugly. Nils Pollit's square-sectioned frame is surely deserving of some kind of time penalty on the grounds of aesthetics. Brings to mind the sleek elegance of a 1970s Bikerton spruced up with a hurried application of Dulux red gloss.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #953 on: 28 July, 2018, 01:10:04 pm »
Quote from: andyoxon on 28 July, 2018, 12:14:30 pm
;D  Dinosaur lost in translation?  German version has urgestein which I think is veteran...

...with overtones of founding father.

Quote from: Samuel D on 28 July, 2018, 12:16:04 pm
There’s no guarantee it wasn’t ASO’s translation. Their translations are generally amateurish, as is their unbelievably bad letour.fr website and a lot else. Not exactly a showcase of French competitiveness.

ASO will be incapable of telling good from bad translation but will be very good at telling if one price is lower than another, so the job will go to whichever agency put in the lowest bid. Since agencies usually farm work out to freelance translators, whichever agency gets it will then have to put the screws on its translators to show a profit. The translators will then turn in fast, sloppy work since they want to get on to something that pays a living wage. Typically, the rate they get for a job like this will be very little more than a typist would get for bashing it into Word.

The end client would probably take 3 months to settle the agency's bill, and the agency could well take another 3 to pay its translators.

Mrs T42 was a translator for 30 years.

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T42

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #954 on: 28 July, 2018, 01:24:13 pm »
Offredo's brakes stopped working at some point and he finished the TT without.

Interviewer: wasn't there a spare TT bike on the car?
YO: no comment
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #955 on: 28 July, 2018, 01:51:34 pm »
Quote from: T42 on 28 July, 2018, 01:24:13 pm
Offredo's brakes stopped working at some point and he finished the TT without.

Interviewer: wasn't there a spare TT bike on the car?
YO: no comment

Must have been during the shitverts over here.  But we have had the tale of T Dumoulin's missing skinsuit, Evil C Boardman speculating about the time limit and *** and Super D being non-commital about vultures.
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Croft

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #956 on: 28 July, 2018, 01:54:41 pm »
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 28 July, 2018, 01:51:34 pm
Must have been during the shitverts over here.  But we have had the tale of T Dumoulin's missing skinsuit, Evil C Boardman speculating about the time limit and *** and Super D being non-commital about vultures.

And not to forget "Castroviejo is basically dressed as a toilet"
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #957 on: 28 July, 2018, 02:09:04 pm »
Quote from: TheLurker on 27 July, 2018, 06:52:50 am
It's caffeine flavoured shampoo from Germany. $Deity alone knows what effect caffeine is supposed to have on yer bonce.  For myself, now where did I put my tinfoil hat?, I think it's a cunning plan by the Germans to get even more caffeine* into their riders without the UCI/WADA/whoever sussing what's going on.  The shampoo thing is merely an elaborate distraction op. being run by the Bund Deutscher Radfahrer cos it's not a real product at all.  I mean, how can it be?  Really?  Caffeine flavoured shampoo? S'gotta be a blind.  No one would fall for such obvious guff would they?

I dunno, but if it encourages one tech geek with the maturity of a 14 year old to wash more frequently, it's got to be worth it...
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #958 on: 28 July, 2018, 02:21:51 pm »
Say after me, ***, I must not confuse Victor Hugo and Jules Verne.  Neither of whom being the author of "20,000 Fathoms Under The Sea".
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #959 on: 28 July, 2018, 03:36:28 pm »
And while we are castigating ***.  Boulting, you dimwit. Repeat after me. It is "sliver" not "slither".  "Slither" is the motion of a snake and not a thin slice, fraction or small piece or fragment you ignorant clot .  Gah!
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #960 on: 28 July, 2018, 04:15:21 pm »
\o/ \G/ \o/
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T42

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #961 on: 28 July, 2018, 04:16:28 pm »
Much less barracking for Froome this time, but then this is the Pays Basque.
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Hot Flatus

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #962 on: 28 July, 2018, 04:18:22 pm »
Plenty of boos along the way.

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #963 on: 28 July, 2018, 04:27:29 pm »
Even a few when G went past, the rotters.

CP Sagan may have (temporarily?) given up "crazy" but Dumoulin and Roglič are more than making up for it.  For sure.
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T42

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #964 on: 28 July, 2018, 04:31:26 pm »
Sure there were plenty, but less than on the mountain stages and a lot more applause. Basques don't have the same prejudices.
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andyoxon

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #965 on: 28 July, 2018, 04:41:55 pm »
G!!  Glad Froome made the podium.

Wonder what happened with the timing mismatch.

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #966 on: 28 July, 2018, 04:48:28 pm »
Quote from: Hot Flatus on 28 July, 2018, 04:18:22 pm
Plenty of boos along the way.
Nah, they're cheering Froooooooooooome, I'm sure of it  ;)
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #967 on: 28 July, 2018, 05:03:15 pm »
A Welsh man in yellow ...
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #968 on: 28 July, 2018, 05:10:13 pm »
Now, my understanding is that tomorrow by tradition is a none racing day for the GC contenders and the only people that will be getting excited are the sprinters and whomever it is that wants to target the stage win. But is this the law, or is it just convention. It’s a flat road stage so realistically any break is going to get shut down pretty quickly, but what would happen if Domoulin and team staged a successful break? Would he be told to stop it, or is it just the fact that it is virtually impossible,to stage a successful break on a flat road,stage that no one bothers?
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #969 on: 28 July, 2018, 05:17:20 pm »
Stage 20: Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle > Espelette

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #970 on: 28 July, 2018, 05:23:18 pm »
Quote from: Beardy on 28 July, 2018, 05:10:13 pm
Now, my understanding is that tomorrow by tradition is a none racing day for the GC contenders and the only people that will be getting excited are the sprinters and whomever it is that wants to target the stage win. But is this the law, or is it just convention. It’s a flat road stage so realistically any break is going to get shut down pretty quickly, but what would happen if Domoulin and team staged a successful break? Would he be told to stop it, or is it just the fact that it is virtually impossible,to stage a successful break on a flat road,stage that no one bothers?

In theory it's just a convention but it would be too difficult to hold off an enraged pelican for long enough to build up enough of a lead.  Vinokourov managed a successful break in 2005 to overtake Leipheimer on GC but he only needed two seconds.  That was the last time it's not been a bunch sprint.
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Mrs Pingu

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #971 on: 28 July, 2018, 09:33:33 pm »
Hooray for G Thomas, the big cry baby :)
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Samuel D

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #972 on: 28 July, 2018, 10:11:10 pm »
Alas, he had composed himself by the time he appeared on French TV and maybe overcompensated in the other direction.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #973 on: 28 July, 2018, 10:15:57 pm »
Question: moto cam zoomed in on GT's down tube and it seemed all square and looked like it had a solar panel in it. ???
Any of you clever clogs can enlightenen me?
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spesh

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #974 on: 28 July, 2018, 10:38:27 pm »
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 28 July, 2018, 10:15:57 pm
Question: moto cam zoomed in on GT's down tube and it seemed all square and looked like it had a solar panel in it. ???
Any of you clever clogs can enlightenen me?

It's the access panel for the drive motor's battery.



The above may contain traces of LIE.
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