River Seine unfit for swimming one month from Paris Olympics, tests show
River Seine unfit for swimming one month from Paris Olympics, tests show
Paris (AFP) – The river Seine is still failing water quality tests one month before the Paris Olympics when it is scheduled to host the open-water swimming competition and the swimming leg of the triathlon, results showed Friday.
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I guess you'd have to be insane to swim in it.
58 0 ReplyFantastic pun
13 1 ReplyWould be better if it was actually pronounced that way. But it sounds more like Sin.
4 16 ReplyNo it doesn't.
15 1 ReplyIt does in French
2 5 ReplyIt's pronounced [sϵn] The ϵ sound exists in English, like the "ea" in " death" or the first "e" in "letter".
10 0 ReplySo just send without the d?
6 0 ReplyYes !
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sin, sen, close enough. my point was that it does not sound like "sane" which is what the joke implied and is wrong.
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No it doesn't.
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Almost makes you wonder if that's what the elections are for.
1 0 ReplyThey have elections to decide who's going to shit in the Seine?
2 1 ReplyNo that's all of Paris, that part is fixed.
The president promised to swim in it though, and a bad election result might just give him an excuse to 'step back'.
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