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citoyen

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #400 on: 16 July, 2018, 02:05:40 pm »
Quote from: Hot Flatus on 15 July, 2018, 02:10:11 pm
Porte crashed out on a mountain stage last year.

And yesterday he crashed before they had even reached the first cobbled sector.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #401 on: 16 July, 2018, 02:59:36 pm »
The son of a friend raced on the continent for a while. He was involved in crash and went to hospital. They were sceptical when he told them he wasn't 'on' anything. The medics would need to know so as not to compromise the medical treatment.

I've been bearing that in mind in considering how the peloton might feel about the breaches of medical confidentiality in the Fancy Bears leaks. The peloton as a workplace, with many self-employed contractors, gives it a certain dynamic, especially as there's plenty of time to discuss matters.

It's obvious that the organisers want a new winner. One innovation seems to be a pool interview for the Yellow Jersey. I've only heard one voice talking to the GC leader. Interviews used to add to the stress of first place, and that advantaged Froome, who was comfortable and plausible in that role. I'll be interested to see if we see more access to the Yellow Jersey as the Tour progresses.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #402 on: 16 July, 2018, 04:27:46 pm »
Quote from: Torslanda on 12 July, 2018, 08:57:42 pm
The difference being that you only have to ask.

There's nothing a total knob like me likes to do more than let someone in on the secret. This isn't the Freemasons . . .
OK, so why does Mr Chavanel get his name bleeped? I get that it's the Scunthorpe effect, but I bet there's more of a story than that...
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #403 on: 16 July, 2018, 04:46:43 pm »
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It's quite difficult researching this stuff. It took me a while to find out that Bernie Eisel is the UCI rider's rep.

Slow times in the hedging business?  ::-)
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #404 on: 16 July, 2018, 04:51:33 pm »
Quote from: fimm on 16 July, 2018, 04:27:46 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 12 July, 2018, 08:57:42 pm
The difference being that you only have to ask.

There's nothing a total knob like me likes to do more than let someone in on the secret. This isn't the Freemasons . . .
OK, so why does Mr Chavanel get his name bleeped? I get that it's the Scunthorpe effect, but I bet there's more of a story than that...

The first 4 letters are a somewhat derogatory term. Mr L. would need to explain further but it's probably just in the interests of 'being excellent to one another' and it stuck. For the same reason we never mention '***lls', you know, the ones that dwell beneath bridges or p*nct*res for fear of invoking the faeries...
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Quote from: trekker12 on 16 July, 2016, 08:54:33 am
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #405 on: 16 July, 2018, 04:57:09 pm »
Quote from: Charlie Polecat on 16 July, 2018, 04:46:43 pm
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It's quite difficult researching this stuff. It took me a while to find out that Bernie Eisel is the UCI rider's rep.

Slow times in the hedging business?  ::-)

Hedgelaying can only be carried out in Autumn/Winter. I'm currently making a film about the Lands End/ John O'Groats record, and writing an article about the Mile Failte 1200 in Ireland, in-between the usual procrastination.

Grounds maintenance work has come to a halt with the drought, and the organiser of the volunteer wildflower meadow work I do occasionally is on holiday.

I can pretty much please myself what I do, although I should be curing an oil leak on the Land Rover, but it's come on to rain.
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Pingu

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #406 on: 16 July, 2018, 09:02:54 pm »
Quote from: Torslanda on 16 July, 2018, 04:51:33 pm
Quote from: fimm on 16 July, 2018, 04:27:46 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 12 July, 2018, 08:57:42 pm
The difference being that you only have to ask.

There's nothing a total knob like me likes to do more than let someone in on the secret. This isn't the Freemasons . . .
OK, so why does Mr Chavanel get his name bleeped? I get that it's the Scunthorpe effect, but I bet there's more of a story than that...

The first 4 letters are a somewhat derogatory term. Mr L. would need to explain further but it's probably just in the interests of 'being excellent to one another' and it stuck. For the same reason we never mention '***lls', you know, the ones that dwell beneath bridges or p*nct*res for fear of invoking the faeries...

The same for TV's *** Boulting.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #407 on: 16 July, 2018, 09:05:34 pm »
I see that SD Millar hasn't spent the last year improving his rest day monologue delivery then...
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #408 on: 16 July, 2018, 09:31:06 pm »
There's probably an opening for interpreting Adam Yates to the world. He'll only speed up his speech under stress as well.
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Peter

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #409 on: 16 July, 2018, 09:37:28 pm »
For sure
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Samuel D

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #410 on: 16 July, 2018, 10:05:58 pm »
You’d first need to find someone fluent in the Yates brothers’ lingo. French TV sometimes attempts to interpret their interviews for the benefit of the viewers. The French is made up out of whole cloth but I like hearing plausible answers to the questions, for sure.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #411 on: 16 July, 2018, 10:17:11 pm »
Maybe they could voice him with the accent of Mortagne-au-Perche, the French spiritual home of the black pudding.

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Black puddings are found the world over and the international championships are held in Mortagne-au-Perche (Normandy) every year.  Cynics say you get a certificate and medal for turning up from overseas.  That is cynical view because Mortagne is special.  The Chevaliers for the Boudin Noir are proud men who know a good pudding – La Confrerie du Goute-Boudin – I’ve attended the fete. Favoured locally is boudin served with pomme puree (made with meat stock and local butter) and apple puree made from Normandy apples, set off with Pommeau or Calvados.

The 2011 contest is coming up – March 18-19 – so if you’re travelling through Normandy around those days, it might be ‘worth a detour’ as the Guide Michelin used to say.

If any black pudding was to be considered seriously for protected status then it would have to be the Bury Ring, a shining jewel of a ‘boudin’ from Lancashire. Some of London’s poshest butchers sell Bury Rings – try Dring’s on Greenwich’s Royal Hill  for example. They sell 60 of these family made Bury delicacies every week – I’m encouraged.

http://www.garethjonesfood.com/?p=1179
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #412 on: 16 July, 2018, 10:36:50 pm »
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 16 July, 2018, 09:05:34 pm
I see that SD Millar hasn't spent the last year improving his rest day monologue delivery then...

Not as good as his rendition of Ride of the Valkyries for sure.
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #413 on: 17 July, 2018, 01:31:45 am »
O hai! P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nzTM® iz back from channelling another zeitgeist inna different basement and has, for ur viewing plezh*, picked teh bones out ov stages 6-9.  Any misidentification of M Rendall 4 D Friebe & vice-versa is due 2 lack of glasses.

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #414 on: 17 July, 2018, 09:13:15 am »
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O hai! P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nzTM® iz back

Thank goodness for that. I had to actually watch the last few stages and didn't have a clue what was going on! ;)
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Samuel D

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #415 on: 17 July, 2018, 09:15:22 am »
Did the Sky bus really have tyre problems? I saw a team car with a space-saver on the back. The low-profile tyres they use are entirely inappropriate for cobbles so it didn’t surprise me to see that.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #416 on: 17 July, 2018, 09:29:00 am »
If the $ky team bus did have tyre problems I would laarrff, but the "Hullo clouds hullo $ky" business is an homage to basil fotherington-tomas* in the nigel molesworth books by G Willans and R Searle.  The keen-eyed observer may also have noticed C Froome saying "hullo clouds hullo stem" from time to time.

* who is uterly wet and a weed, and sa things like that
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Torslanda

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #417 on: 17 July, 2018, 10:34:07 am »
The balance of TEH MULTIVERSE is restored.

And breathe . . .
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Quote from: trekker12 on 16 July, 2016, 08:54:33 am
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Chris S

Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #418 on: 17 July, 2018, 12:27:49 pm »
Ned Boulting seems to be gradually morphing into Tony Blackburn.
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T42

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #419 on: 17 July, 2018, 12:34:07 pm »
And they're off, into the Yalps. Aniseed -> Le Grand Borné.

Baby, we've been here before...
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #420 on: 17 July, 2018, 12:54:38 pm »
Just imagining these blokes a couple of weeks from now, after the Tour, when they climb into their cars and drive off, crossing from one side of the road to the other at will and going round roundabouts the wrong way...
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #421 on: 17 July, 2018, 01:12:53 pm »
Catching up on the recording.  TV's *** Boulting is clearly made of sterner stuff than TV's S Connolly, as TV's R Gilmore is actually keeping relatively quiet.  And she's only mentioned the Izoard once (so far).
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #422 on: 17 July, 2018, 04:34:46 pm »
For an article stamped Lidl, Alaphilippe seems quite serviceable.
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #423 on: 17 July, 2018, 04:51:16 pm »
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig gave code-talking oddball M Rendall the finest post-race interview in the history of all things evvah.
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Re: Tour de France 2018
« Reply #424 on: 17 July, 2018, 05:58:46 pm »
RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!


Sorrynotsorry...  :D
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