TdF 2016 Stage 14 *Contains spoilers*

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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Above The Cows wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Ok. The sprint gave me a glance at what I was looking for.

    Dimension Data are sponsored by Nederburg - it's on their sleeves and shorts. Nederburg make wine, but alcohol advertising is strictly banned in France. How is this possible?

    Is it? I never knew that! Kronenbourg 1664 used to sponsor the Tour didn't they? Or was that only the Channel 4 coverage?

    Perhaps they don't consider South African wine as wine in France so that's how they're getting away with it.

    I must admit to finding it quite funny that they have 'neder' and 'berg' written on their bottoms.


    Roughly translates as "mountains below"?
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    FocusZing wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    FocusZing wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Cricket?
    It's Cricket isn't it?

    That's an excellent guess, but I cannot get the cricket where I am, so it is not correct. It is definitely cycling-related.

    Camper Van.


    Effing nailed it! Your go.

    Sh1t. I feel like I've just beat Cav in a sprint and by a large margin too.

    I spy with my little eye something beginning with T.

    Is it TGV train?
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    FocusZing wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    FocusZing wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Cricket?
    It's Cricket isn't it?

    That's an excellent guess, but I cannot get the cricket where I am, so it is not correct. It is definitely cycling-related.

    Camper Van.


    Effing nailed it! Your go.

    Sh1t. I feel like I've just beat Cav in a sprint and by a large margin too.

    I spy with my little eye something beginning with T.

    Train! TGV!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,536
    Wikipedia tells me the Heineken Cup is called the H Cup in France. Learn something new every day.
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Millar is an expert on French chateaux
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Why on earth do they ban alcohol advertising in France? It isn't Saudi Arabia. It's France. Home of wine.

    That was a lovely mountain.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    pottssteve wrote:
    FocusZing wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    FocusZing wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Cricket?
    It's Cricket isn't it?

    That's an excellent guess, but I cannot get the cricket where I am, so it is not correct. It is definitely cycling-related.

    Camper Van.


    Effing nailed it! Your go.

    Sh1t. I feel like I've just beat Cav in a sprint and by a large margin too.

    I spy with my little eye something beginning with T.

    Is it TGV train?

    Sh1t!!!!! Must think. THINK!!!

    Yes, correct.
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Millar's telling us about chateaux again :)
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,536
    51km 1m30s
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    FocusZing wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    FocusZing wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    FocusZing wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Cricket?
    It's Cricket isn't it?

    That's an excellent guess, but I cannot get the cricket where I am, so it is not correct. It is definitely cycling-related.

    Camper Van.


    Effing nailed it! Your go.

    Sh1t. I feel like I've just beat Cav in a sprint and by a large margin too.

    I spy with my little eye something beginning with T.

    Is it TGV train?

    Sh1t!!!!! Must think. THINK!!!

    Yes, correct.

    Cool, and I beat Above the Cows. Hard to type with hooves...

    I spy, etc, something beginning with C (nothing that was guessed previously)
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    David Mitchell is talking to a glass of orange juice. People will do anything for money...
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  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    edited July 2016
    RichN95 wrote:
    Ok. The sprint gave me a glance at what I was looking for.

    Dimension Data are sponsored by Nederburg - it's on their sleeves and shorts. Nederburg make wine, but alcohol advertising is strictly banned in France. How is this possible?


    The law was relaxed in part a while back after the french wine industry lobbied. An argument could be made that the way Nederburg is depicted (i.e. no slogan, bottles of wine or images of drinking) that the logo is only "information" and not "advertising" per se.... I know it sounds weak, but from what I gather that is how the law was changed.
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    emadden wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Ok. The sprint gave me a glance at what I was looking for.

    Dimension Data are sponsored by Nederburg - it's on their sleeves and shorts. Nederburg make wine, but alcohol advertising is strictly banned in France. How is this possible?


    The law was relaxed in part a few years back after the french wine industry lobbied. An argument could be made that the way Nederburg is depicted (i.e. no slogan, bottles of wine or images of drinking) that the logo is only "information" and not "advertising" per se.... I know it sounds weak, but from what I gather that is how the law was changed.

    I may have imagined it but I possibly heard that wine was OK but certainly spirits were banned?
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Wikipedia tells me the Heineken Cup is called the H Cup in France. Learn something new every day.
    A few years ago the Wales rugby team were sponsored by Brains SA - a beer. When they played in France they changed the logo to "Try Essai" - which is genius.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    Yup that may be the case... they definitely relaxed the total ban for wine - just not sure how it works
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    There's the money shot for the French sunflower industry
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Wouldn't mind a small place with a swimming pool in that village
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Something beginning with C
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Robbie McEwen on ITV4: "If there's a second to be lost here or there, Nairo Quintana has managed to do it this Tour" 8)
    RichN95 wrote:
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Wikipedia tells me the Heineken Cup is called the H Cup in France. Learn something new every day.
    A few years ago the Wales rugby team were sponsored by Brains SA - a beer. When they played in France they changed the logo to "Try Essai" - which is genius.

    There is a strong possibility that little gem will be lost, here.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Cofidis rider p!ssed on a couple of spectators
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,536
    Tea at the cricket and it looks like the peloton is preparing for a tea stop as well.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    pottssteve wrote:
    Something beginning with C

    Combine Harvester?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    http://pcwt.tumblr.com/post/14743219358 ... -do-it-all
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Above The Cows wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    Something beginning with C

    Combine Harvester?

    Nice, but no
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    pottssteve wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    Something beginning with C

    Combine Harvester?

    Nice, but no

    Haimar Zubeldia?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Above The Cows wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    Something beginning with C

    Combine Harvester?

    Nice, but no

    Haimar Zubeldia?

    Where?
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    pottssteve wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    Something beginning with C

    Combine Harvester?

    Nice, but no

    Haimar Zubeldia?

    Where?

    If you listen really closely you can hear him in the wind.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    I think I heard him - does he sound like a klaxon?
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    pottssteve wrote:
    I think I heard him - does he sound like a klaxon?

    He sounds like whatever you want him to sound like. That is the beauty of Zubeldia.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,536
    25km to go. Break nearly caught.

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