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No Ta Doctor

New Member
What would happen if you were to swear in French? C'est un bordel de merde. Translation for English language readers - it is a suboptimal situation.

Well I did use putain de merde in a post (the fictional dialogue of Baptiste Veistroffer as he's asked to go in the break on yet another flat sprint day). They didn't pull me up on it.
 

Mr Celine

Senior Member
Well I did use putain de merde in a post (the fictional dialogue of Baptiste Veistroffer as he's asked to go in the break on yet another flat sprint day). They didn't pull me up on it.

They claim they only moderate posts that are reported to them. If true, we can conclude that whoever grassed on you doesn't parlez français.
 

matticus

Legendary Member
They also seem to think they are Hilarious. They are not, it's just boring.

OIP.jpg
 

No Ta Doctor

New Member
Anyway, if you put your lantern rouge ramblings here, Pross or I can faithfully copy them across.

No, I refuse to participate in their farce, until they let me back in - but feel free to post on the thread - or to the mods themselves - that the mods have killed it. It's only a tradition brought over from BR Forum that's at least 18 years old and possibly more, that was important enough to our small community that I spent hours and hours getting the wayback machine to archive it when BR deleted everything.
 

Pross

Veteran
They must really struggle with the 'no French' in the pro racing section. Do we have to start using 'platoon' and 'servant'? Call the race The Lap Of France? Or is this a case where the unwritten rules allow the use of foreign?
 

Ian H

Shaman
https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/reform-and-the-death-of-the-tory-party.734/post-186138

@No Ta Doctor - to be fair, they've got you bang to rights there. It is a clear enough rule. The swear filter still applies here for lots of words, but you can use the usual workarounds so you can avoid daffodils, and no-one will censor your post or tell you off (unless you call Ann Widdecombe names).

"Ann Widdecombe" will become an insulting name for generations to come
 

briantrumpet

Timewaster
They must really struggle with the 'no French' in the pro racing section. Do we have to start using 'platoon' and 'servant'? Call the race The Lap Of France? Or is this a case where the unwritten rules allow the use of foreign?

It really is a long list they ought to allow (but wouldn't)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_French_words_and_expressions_in_English

I don't know how many of these will survive into the current youth generation (in a parallel with old-fashioned English idioms), but there'll still be quite a lot embedded with no equivalent in English.

The list of English words in French used to be much shorter, thanks to the Académie Française, but they are doing their best to catch up with things like le sandwich, le camping, le food truck, le week-end etc.
 

Mad Doug Biker

Not a 'Responsible Adult'
Whatever that is meant to mean.

No I don't think I'm particularly funny, but having being brain damaged as a kid and having been trampled on for so many years, I'll take any chance to perhaps make someone laugh. Yes, that's people pleasing, I know, but it's what I know and you now trigger my Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria, so well done. :ninja: 🤦‍♂️

As for emojis, it's just the way I post. If you dislike it, then that's ultimately your problem. Ok? :okay:

No, the problem here was that he posted *exactly* the same bloody nonsense answer every... Single... Time!! No attempt even at a bit of variation or anything. Even I wouldn't do that! 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️


Besides, it's not as if I usually post a great deal on here anyway.
 
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