Why are we pretending to be French?

[Nigel-YZ1]

I'm just hoping it doesn't get hijacked and rerouted by foreigners (ie anyone outside Yorkshire).

 

[smutchin]

My son's club organises the Ronde van Calderdale, which tries to take in all the most awful cobbled climbs it can find in West Yorkshire.

Calling it "hard ride up t'cobbles" wouldn't go down as well.

That ride lives up to the name though - some of the cobbled climbs round Halifax are truly vicious!

 

[Lozz360]

[QUOTE 5232357, member: 259"]It's just that French has got a certain genessay kwah.[/QUOTE]
Or
je ne sais quoi as we say in the Cote de Oxford.

 

[Tin Pot]

The Tour de Yorkshire is organised by the same people as the Tour de France. Who are French.

Gah! Did brexit mean nothing? Rant, rant, rant, etc!

 

[ColinJ]

Or
je ne sais quoi as we say in the Cote de Oxford.

Aaargh - look at the hiatus on that - d'Oxford, if you don't mind!

 

[mjr]

Aaargh - look at the hiatus on that - d'Oxford, if you don't mind!

But Oxford doesn't respect French language rules

 

[Brandane]

I always wondered why this site is not called "Bicycle Cat" instead of it's pretentious French title.

 

[gavroche]

I don't pretend to be French, I AM French.

 

[Fonze]

Sod this , I'm off to Le Cafe ..

 

[User33236]

Following the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow there’s a hill now known as Cote de Montrose in the city centre

But the you still have Cote de Buttertubs in Yorkshire which must be among my favourite climb names.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The police rehearsed the road closures yesterday leaving several Facepalm users foaming at the mouth at the 2 minute delays - Demands for more criminal catching and being late for somesuch woes abounded. Just wish I had the day off to see it again.

No doubt complaints about Officers eating too?

 

[Fab Foodie]

I don't pretend to be French, I AM French.

Quelle domage....

 

[NorthernDave]

Comme ci comme ca

I'm just hoping it doesn't get hijacked and rerouted by foreigners (ie anyone outside Yorkshire).

Aye, one day they might have the Grand Départ in Lancashire...

 

[ColinJ]

But the you still have Cote de Buttertubs in Yorkshire which must be among my favourite climb names.

The French have pissoirs, but in Yorkshire we have Buttertubs ...

The thing is, it is pretty hard to kill yourself by peeing into a pissoir, whereas peeing into Buttertubs ....

 

[NorthernDave]

The French have pissoirs, but in Yorkshire we have Buttertubs ...

Actually, there is a pissoir at Glasshougton...