Unless you are French – get a grip! Whats up with “well done” and “bottle”?

🙂

Mon dieu. Tete du merde.

most of it comes from French anyway, innit.

Mange tout, Rodders….

what’s a “Cahpeau”? (sic)

<edit> stealth edit alert as this now doesn’t make sense 🙂

Chapeau for pointing this out. Can somebody pass me a bidon please, I’s got a raging thirst on.

Merci.

Christophe.

Sacré bleu, mon cartable est plein d’anguilles!

(credit to previous french thread for the eels bit)

Cruzheckler = Fin de Cloche.

Où est la poste?

I always thought it was Chateau, and it was some reference to wine,as in “cheers” or “bottoms up”

Le +1

Je ne porte jamais de chapeau

foox da fa fa

Happy to oblige

Aaah faart een your general direction.

Cruzheckler = Fin de Cloche.

Bout de cloche. “Fin” is end as in cessation; “bout” is end as in extremity.

Pardon.

What’s an efficient translation of MTFU then?

Homme le baiser something?

Bout de cloche. “Fin” is end as in cessation; “bout” is end as in extremity.

Franglais = cavalier but acceptable disregard for vocabulary 😉

Good Moaning

“Fin” is end as in cessation; “bout” is end as in extremity.

Can’t be that clear-cut though, or ‘a bout de souffle’ wouldn’t translate as ‘breathless’?

As for the use of ‘chapeau’ and ‘bidon’, it’s a bit pretentious roadie, isn’t it?

Andy

What’s an efficient translation of MTFU then? Homme le baiser something?

Well you’d have to verbify the noun and nounify the verb and then jiggle the preposition, giving you something like “enhommez la baise”, but no-one would really understand it 🙂

OP – do you think saying derailleur is pretentious too?

As for the use of ‘chapeau’ and ‘bidon’, it’s a bit pretentious roadie, isn’t it?

Interestingly, according to Wiktionary, bidon is also slang for ‘crap.’ Worth remembering next time someone starts talking complete bidon at you.

Who says derailleur anyway, it’s a mech.

Don’t use chapeau as it sounds rubbish. Or bidon. It’s a bottle, why would you want to call it anything else? Don’t really care if other people use them though.

“Can’t be that clear-cut though, or ‘a bout de souffle’ wouldn’t translate as ‘breathless’?“

Literally translates as “at the end of breath”; I think you could poetically argue that as a temporal or physical metaphor.

In any case, I’m fairly sure “fin” is only temporal, not physical. Though I’ll stand corrected by a decent argument from any scholars of French…

I use bidón because that’s what I’m used to, so there!

OP – do you think saying derailleur is pretentious too?

According to St Sheldon the correct British English term is ‘mech’, which would make ‘derailleur’ unacceptable on the grounds of pretension and on the grounds of being an Americanism.

Andy

do you think saying derailleur is pretentious too?

pretentious, moi?

Saying “Get a grip” can also sound rubbish.

Language should be rich and varied. People use such words because they have a connection with cycling, not because they are French. “Well done” and “bottle” would also do but don’t have the same connection. So they aren’t quite the same. It’s a shame if you cannot see that.

Yeh imagine using parts of a foreign language, it’s not like my French collegues refer to the bit between Friday and Monday as “Le Weekend”.

Aaah faart een your general direction.

Or “Aaah piss in your aisle” as Gerard Depardieu would say.

How about Mazel Tov, that OK?

I love that phrase……Mazeltofvvvvv. Maaaaaaazeltov.

“According to St Sheldon the correct British English term is ‘mech’, which would make ‘derailleur’ unacceptable on the grounds of pretension and on the grounds of being an Americanism.“

“Derailleur” would be a Frenchism. The Americanism would be “derailer”.

Une pinte de votre bière moussante mieux, robuste cavalier de la barre.

Prétentieux, moi?

Mwah.

Betterer French than bloody American. At least they are (mainly) civilised. 😉

Can we use “Hat!” instead then?

Chapeaux just means ‘hats off’ or well done. Bit of an old school cycling term, dont really know why it makes your p*** fizz, but whatever floats your boat I suppose…

Surely fizzy p*** would float a boat quite adequately.

MDR
😆

(wouldn’t fizzy piss kill all those on board – like in those african lakes ?)

Les STWeurs: tout bouche, aucun pantalons

Actually, if a boat were floating in fizzy piss it would sink due to a loss in buoyancy.

I’ll get my chapeau…