A little out of the subject for this community, but I thought it might make a few people smile here.
The Tour de France employs “dick erasers” (not the official job title) who quickly cover political messages and obscene drawings on the road so that they don’t get aired on TV when the cyclists arrive. With their paint rollers, they often try to turn the penises into things resembling animals like butterflies, rabbits and owls. I’m guessing they chose owls in particular because their big eyes are convenient in this case. Obviously, the workers have very little time to do their job, so they can’t make very lifelike drawings.
If you want to see how it’s done, here’s the 2 minute video I took the screenshot from (French with Dutch subtitles).
I didn’t know about the race to paint dicks on the road. This sounds more entertaining than watching cyclists being followed by thousands of vans.
I don’t care about the sport at all, but I occasionally watch the Tour for the landscapes, and I’m probably not the only one.
I don’t know how it is in other countries, but on French TV, one of the commentators gives geographical and cultural informations in addition to the boring sport stuff. That should be great, but unfortunately, the guy who’s been in charge of that since several years is a far-right pseudo-historian who regularly gives slanted information… I’m so angry that he was given this job again when there are so many serious journalists who could do a great job.
kinda like the most interesting thing about olympia is the people who try to extinguish the flame
I didn’t know about that, but I’m not surprised at all, ha ha.
Whaaaaat!?
I assume it’s when the torch passing ceremonial run that people would try their hardest to extinguish the torch.