Can any of you blokes recommend a good tri forum. This one sucks after Tom Demerly got quiet. I want to read about bikes not sharks and movies. Please PM me with a forum, I don’t want dopey following me, mate. I’d really like to know where TD is hanging out.
No ill will to dopey, mates. I’m a peaceful bloke. Dopey’s smart. Got im the troll o’ the year. E knew TD’s mates would get riled. E knew that others wood like his stoic logic, “I like TD. I learned alot from im. I just think some of TD’s posts should be classified. Don’t pick on me. Aren’t you peaceful?” E knew e was calling TD’s integrity into question. Knew that TD would just get quiet. TD aint gonno defend his integrity. Perfect troll. Dopey’s talking about it somewhere I bet. E played you yanks like a fiddle. Troll o’ the year. Right here twitchers. You still don’t get it.
By March we should be having some serious equipment discussions. Don’t despair. In the meantime, get some air popped popcorn, kick back and watch Tibbsy squirm.
99% of the guys here enjoy TD’s posts. He does have a few vocal critics, but they are in the distinct minority.
If this site doesn’t make you faster, then you must be in my age group.
-Robert, winner of the Kona Slot for the Methusala Division
This forum was great well before I arrived and will be long after I depart. No worries mate, and nice to have your compliments- thank you very much my friend.
Capitaine Renard allait de compagnie
Avec son ami Bouc des plus haut encornés.
Celui-ci ne voyait pas plus loin que son nez ;
L’autre était passé maître en fait de tromperie.
La soif les obligea de descendre en un puits.
Là chacun d’eux se désaltère.
Après qu’abondamment tous deux en eurent pris,
Le Renard dit au Bouc : Que ferons-nous, compère ?
Ce n’est pas tout de boire, il faut sortir d’ici.
Lève tes pieds en haut, et tes cornes aussi :
Mets-les contre le mur. Le long de ton échine
Je grimperai premièrement ;
Puis sur tes cornes m’élevant,
A l’aide de cette machine,
De ce lieu-ci je sortirai,
Après quoi je t’en tirerai.
Par ma barbe, dit l’autre, il est bon ; et je loue
Les gens bien sensés comme toi.
Je n’aurais jamais, quant à moi,
Trouvé ce secret, je l’avoue.
Le Renard sort du puits, laisse son compagnon,
Et vous lui fait un beau sermon
Pour l’exhorter à patience.
Si le ciel t’eût, dit-il, donné par excellence
Autant de jugement que de barbe au menton,
Tu n’aurais pas, à la légère,
Descendu dans ce puits. Or, adieu, j’en suis hors.
Tâche de t’en tirer, et fais tous tes efforts :
Car pour moi, j’ai certaine affaire
Qui ne me permet pas d’arrêter en chemin.
En toute chose il faut considérer la fin.
I found at leat three different versions of the same quote however. Copernic will lead you to them. Perhaps there are regional or historical differences?
But, I would defer to your expertise since French is your native language. (Though I doubt you would have read La Fontaine with any relish.) The space is missing between the name by my typing error. I fixed it and thank you for that. I’m going to leave the quote the way it is for now because I got it from one of my daughter’s French books. She is off in NYC at the moment but I’ll double check it when she comes back. No telling what my feeble brain mis-remembers.
You may be right about the translation. I’m now thinking that I saw it on a handout given to my daughter’s French Club. No telling where they got it. (the teacher is very nice, but …)
By the way, I notice that your English seems to have improved considerably from some of your earlier posts.
This is due to human nature. Human nature wants to read about exciting things, not complicated, gear-headed things—for MOST PEOPLE, not everyone.
As a general rule, the more esoteric the post is here about equipment or training, the more involved, complicated, arcane and steeped in detail it is about bike parts, swim or run training, this includes but is not limited to cranks, goggles, shoes, frames, aero-bars, fins, pedals, nutrition, and so on, the less likely it will get a reply or replies. It will get some replies but nothing like relationship problem threads, booty shot threads, and “critique my position” threads.
It reminds me a lot of insurance legislation I write. To get something passed, I have to show up and have to answer questions about it at the legislature. If the bill is something I wrote called: “Non Forfeiture Benefit Scales For Variable Life Products Act,” nobody asks or comments much. It’s like, “Man, that was complicated, if you say we need that, let’s go with it.”
But if its something like: “Raising Insurance Auto Rates By 75% Act,” you will defintely get questions and comments, about that, probably all day and then the next day.
You are well ahead of most Americans, including me, who have trouble communicating in English.
I really wish it were easier to use multiple language skills in this country. I have wasted 3 years of French and two years of Russian. I think I remember one quote from Pushkin and that’s about all of the Russian. Of course, that was 40 years ago. Hmmmmmm…
My apologies to the OP for hijacking his thread! I’ll stop showing my bad manners now.
