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Rikki Gins Lounge => ShayP Sports Shack => Topic started by: TigerLily on July 20, 2019, 02:40:39 PM
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Today was the 13th stage of this year's Tour de France. So far this has been a Tour full of surprises. This was the first day in the big mountains. Today in the Pyrénées climbing the formidable Col de Tourmalet. The winner was a Frenchman who nobody anticipated would be a contender but now has been in the yellow jersey for 10 stages
Once I spent a birthday cruising around the Pyrénées from Pau to the Tourmalet and Pic du Midi To Lourdes then back to Pau. The Tourlamet was so steep I couldn't understand how the car tires stayed on the road. What a beautiful memorable day
Vive Le Tour! 😺
Stage 14 Pau to Col de Tourmalet
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Today was the 13th stage of this year's Tour de France. So far this has been a Tour full of surprises. This was the first day in the big mountains. Today in the Pyrénées climbing the formidable Col de Tourmalet. The winner was a Frenchman who nobody anticipated would be a contender but now has been in the yellow jersey for 10 stages
Once I spent a birthday cruising around the Pyrénées from Pau to the Tourmalet and Pic du Midi To Lourdes then back to Pau. The Tourlamet was so steep I couldn't understand how the car tires stayed on the road. What a beautiful memorable day
Vive Le Tour! 😺
Stage 14 Pau to Col de Tourmalet
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I take my hat off to you! Most 80-year-olds would celebrate with a mug of cocoa and a binge of General Hospital, but you get out there with a carful of cats and enjoy the scenery of a foreign country.
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I take my hat off to you! Most 80-year-olds would celebrate with a mug of cocoa and a binge of General Hospital, but you get out there with a carful of cats and enjoy the scenery of a foreign country.
Nope. Just one cool cat. Who is very hot. He drove. I would never dare to drive those roads. With or without a carful of cats. You must be thinking of my grandmother. I bet you dated her. She never did show much discrimination
P.S. Best keep your hat on. The summer sun is tough on bald skinheads
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Are you enjoying fine French cuisine over there? And I guess I should ask whether or not you're sampling the local wines.. So I guess I'm asking you that too. Are you?
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Are you enjoying fine French cuisine over there? And I guess I should ask whether or not you're sampling the local wines.. So I guess I'm asking you that too. Are you?
This trip was actually a couple of years ago but mais oui. It took a few dinners to get into the rhythm of eating and drinking like the French but then oh la la. C'est si bon! Dinner was always at least two hours of a regional specialty with a bottle of local wine and a romantic stroll afterwards. So many delicious meals and wonderful evenings. We were there for a month. Spent just the first 4 and last 2 nights in Paris. The rest of the time we had our own little Tour. The French do it right. This has been a nice trip down memory lane. @KSM Have you been to France? If so, what did you think? If not, you and Chloé should definitely go. Bien sûr!
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These people are doing it wrong.
It's much more fun on a motorcycle.
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These people are doing it wrong.
It's much more fun on a motorcycle.
I bet they are too chicken to try it on a Big Wheel.
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This trip was actually a couple of years ago but mais oui. It took a few dinners to get into the rhythm of eating and drinking like the French but then oh la la. C'est si bon! Dinner was always at least two hours of a regional specialty with a bottle of local wine and a romantic stroll afterwards. So many delicious meals and wonderful evenings. We were there for a month. Spent just the first 4 and last 2 nights in Paris. The rest of the time we had our own little Tour. The French do it right. This has been a nice trip down memory lane. @KSM Have you been to France? If so, what did you think? If not, you and Chloé should definitely go. Bien sûr!
I appreciate your honesty; +1 you could have said you were over there right now just whooping it up ;D I have not been to France, my wife (Christina) is somewhat well traveled and has seen many lands and peoples. My travels are Canada and the USA. That's enough for me.
..Chloe was a dancer (cough) stripper.. she's been dead for some time now. :'( :-\ :-X
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I appreciate your honesty; +1 you could have said you were over there right now just whooping it up ;D I have not been to France, my wife (Christina) is somewhat well traveled and has seen many lands and peoples. My travels are Canada and the USA. That's enough for me.
..Chloe was a dancer (cough) stripper.. she's been dead for some time now. :'( :-\ :-X
Sorry for my mistake @KSM . I know you mentioned Chloé once and your wife at times. My 2 + 2 did not come up to 4. So take your wife. Or your current favorite stripper. No judgment in France
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These people are doing it wrong.
It's much more fun on a motorcycle.
Unless the cows are protesting with the farmers about a pig factory. Allons y mes vaches. Dans la rue!
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Beef, it was for dinner.
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What the fawk is a Cleveland Zackhouse? Worst cunt name ever.
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What the fawk is a Cleveland Zackhouse? Worst cunt name ever.
Grouchy guy from Cleveland.
Name is Zack.
Posting from a house.
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Beef, it was for dinner.
Yeah in the shape of a cock. Cowcock.
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Awesome day in the Tour. Stage 19. After 3 days of 100° plus weather today's stage was cut short due to snow, hailstorm and mudslides. All hail the Tour!
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Awesome day in the Tour. Stage 19. After 3 days of 100° plus weather today's stage was cut short due to snow, hailstorm and mudslides. All hail the Tour!
You should wrote that hail cut the day short and now you want more hail?
DO YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, WOMAN?
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You should wrote that hail cut the day short and now you want more hail?
DO YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, WOMAN?
HAIL BART ELL!
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HAIL BART ELL!
Hurtful.
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Hurtful.
Thin skinned?
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Thin skinned?
I didn't mention being hurt.
I made the observation your words would be hurtful to someone with human feelings.
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Awesome day in the Tour...
Actually, it was an absolute disgrace. Due to weather and road conditions, they had to stop the race. Fair enough. But then to take the leader's jersey off the shoulders of one rider and arbitrarily give it to another is disgusting. Pathetic. Three weeks of racing for nothing.
The proper decision would be to void the stage. Instead they decided to treat one point mid-way thru the race as the end, and base the overall standings on the times the riders had when they got there. Problem is, the strategy of the teams would have been completely different had they known that would be the announced finish ahead of time.
Now the appointed/illegitimate ''leader'' is almost sure to ''win'' as there isn't enough time left in the race for anyone else to catch up. Every one else ought to just quit now in protest of this horrible decision. The winner will be a sham.
The Tour de France is a private organization, with no apparent oversight. They never seem to miss a chance to reach a lousy decision - for example in recent years allowing cheaters like Mark Cavendish and his asshole lead-out team to routinely head-butt, shove, cut-off, and slam into other sprinters down the home stretch, yet evict Peter Sagan a couple of years ago for doing far less in not allowing them to do that to him.
Fuck Tour de France CEO Christian Prudhomme and - until he resigns - the Tour itself. Most (actually, all) the other major sports have done everything in their power to take every ounce of fun out of their games, apparently TdF has decided to follow their lead.
The only silver lining is it was a French rider who got screwed, the French must be livid.
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I didn't mention being hurt.
I made the observation your words would be hurtful to someone with human feelings.
I bet you bruise easily too
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I bet you bruise easily too
90% of my sexy body is black and blue 90% of the time.
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90% of my sexy body is black and blue 90% of the time.
Citrus, biotin, Mr Man
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So this year's extraordinary Tour de France is complete. The kid from Colombia, Egan Bernal 22, takes home the final maillot jaune. The youngest rider in the Tour rode in to Paris resplendent in yellow slamming down champagne. My kind of guy. Julian Alaphilippe a very cute French guy, won the hearts of France with his bravura defense of the yellow jersey for most of the Tour until two days before the end. He came in fifth. Sprinter Peter Sagan, another seriously cute guy, made history with his win of the green jersey in seven Tours. C'est tout
Now. How is Team Ineos with three Tour de France winners and one Giro d'Italia winner going to sort that out for next year?
Fin
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Oops. Take two
So this year's extraordinary Tour de France is complete. The kid from Colombia, Egan Bernal 22, takes home the final maillot jaune. The youngest rider in the Tour rode in to Paris resplendent in yellow slamming down champagne. My kind of guy. Julian Alaphilippe a very cute French guy, won the hearts of France with his bravura defense of the yellow jersey for most of the Tour until two days before the end. He came in fifth. Sprinter Peter Sagan, another seriously cute guy, made history with his win of the green jersey in seven Tours. C'est tout
Now. How is Team Ineos with three Tour de France winners and one Giro d'Italia winner going to sort that out for next year?
Fin
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After watching Lance Armstrong cheat his way to 7 wins...I simply can`t bring myself to watch it. And I LOVED the Tour. It`s just a scandal ridden sport.
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I quit watching sports years ago - other than a very rare game here or there that seems compelling. They've given me no reason to miss any of it, and it grows more obnoxious by the day. I missed (so to speak) the Giant's World Series championships, the Warrior's NBA championships, and most of the 49er breakout season last year - and couldn't care less about it.
The lone exception is cycling, specifically multi-stage races, and specifically the Tour de France. That, I watch.
It's normally run 3 weeks in June and July - this year they just stopped all races mid-season, and are just now racing again. The Tour is now near the end of it's second week, and it's been just great - as always.
And not one ''knee'' taken, no ''unity'' hugs, and not a word about any of it from the announcers or rider interviews. Just sport for the competition and entertainment.