That is the most french news headline I have read in a while
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Wine only? But no mention of Baguette and cigarettes? I don't believe it.
It must not have been a Frenchman. A Quebecois maybe. They would fall of a cliff and only have wine.
He has to be the most French person ever.
Everything about this story is totally believable, the fact that a French person would have wine in a shopping bag and that they would choose to transport it via bicycle along a dusty road by a cliff. The French just do not seem to believe in putting up barriers near the edges of large cliffs, you just have to path and then 1 mm of grass and then a drop to the bottom of the world.
This is the most French title I'll read today. Did he have a baguette too? And, a striped shirt, and beret?
Seriously, glad he's okay.
The baguette cushioned his fall and the striped shirt scared away any predators. The beret was just a beret, though. Even if you've fallen down a 130ft ravine that's no excuse to look dowdy.
(None of this is true...probably)
The power of the beret protected his head
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I think it's supposed to be black and white stripes 😅
Was Waldo French?
It would be peak French if this happened while on the way to a protest.
With a pit stop at a cafe on the way for a coffee and a cigarette (breakfast).
You should read the article. It’s also incredibly French, lol.
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I appreciate the man's priorities: he fell 130 feet and managed to not break the wine bottles.
It sounds more like he thrived for three days.
I think most people would wine and complain after falling into a ravine like that.
Ahhhh... put a cork in it.
Sip happens 🤷
Slip happens!
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130 foot is almost 40 meters.
Or about 3 school buses
Or 332 cans of cheese
No you have to use something that doesn't really help anyone understand size because nobody really really knows how big it is. I saw a news article that described a boulder that had fallen from the side of a cliff onto the road as, "a large boulder, the size of three small boulders".
That's almost the size of 95 corgis.
Or you introduce unnecessary macabre
It's the size of two and three quarter elephants
Oh! So it's the size of a bee swarm in a hurricane. jots notes got it
In 2023, a woman who went missing for five days in the Australian bushland was found alive after surviving for five days on lollipops and wine.
Yet another reminder to keep a stockpile of food and water in your abodes and cars just-in-case. I haven't been stranded out and about yet, but there was a blizzard a few years ago that I was unprepared for and I nearly ran out of food.
Got stranded in the desert with my mother in law a couple years ago. She didn‘t make it.
I was pretty lucky though as I had quite a bit of meat in the car and survived the ordeal unharmed and in good spirits.
Always keep snacks in the cycle bag
I feel like three days isn't enough time to die from the absence of wine, but then again I'm not French.
It's just funny the way the headline is written. I'm assuming they meant more along the lines of "survives 3 days while drinking wine" not "survives 3 days by drinking wine" lol because unless you are starting out extremely dehydrated already, then a 3-day dry fast is absolutely not going to kill you.
Three to four days is the longest you can survive without water before you die. So he probably would have been dead or close to death without the wine.
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??? 3 days without water can definitely be lethal
Well yeah, 10 minutes without water can definitely be lethal under the right circumstances too if you are already only 10 minutes away from dying from dehydration. I'm just saying that lying mostly still in a sunless ravine in autumn in France for 72 hours, while it's raining, is not peak conditions for quick death from dehydration. And in any case, all I'm really saying is that claiming the guy survived by drinking the wine, meaning he would have otherwise died from dehydration, is not a supoortable conclusion and is just there to make the headline more fun.
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That's the indomitable human spirit.
At 77, that’s amazing!
If you gotta be stuck somewhere, you might as well make the best of it.
“77-year old alcoholic falls off bike after visiting his dealer.” But seriously, ALWAYS add a bottle of wine when shopping for anything, people. #safetyfirst
Me after I'm found at the bottom of a cliff 3 days after I got shitfaced on my grocery store wine and rode off it.
My ass would've just pounded the bottle and said "this is how I go out" within the first hour.
If it would have been somewhere else:
Day one:
Day three:
How did the wine not dehydrate them?
Common misconception. Diuretics simply cause you to urinate more often. It does not necessarily mean you will urinate more than the water you are taking in. Coffee also falls into this category. The most known "don't drink this or you'll dehydrate" salt water will cause you to urinate more than the water you take in. Salt water is about 3.5% salt. Your kidneys can only function up to like 2%. This makes your body pull water from elsewhere to flush the excess salt out of your system.
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It's still a net hydrator.
“I BeT tHe cYcliSt rAn tHe ReD LiGHt!”
Perhaps a shorter pump is the answer.
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