What is this French comic character doing with a tire and two sticks?

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Charles M Norton · Answer

Could this be a version from late 19th early 20th century of keeping a large metal hoop moving down a street with a rod or large stick?

Anonymous · Answer

Kids played like this in the old days. My father used to describe such games to me. Here is some photographic evidence of the sport:
http://johnphillipsphotography.com/St%20Shottes/Hoop%20Rolling/index.html

Randy Parker · Answer

apparently a lot of history to this game:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoop_rolling

Le Woodman · Answer

What Charles Morton said. It is a modern variation of the 19th century metal hoop.

Actually it is as exotic to me as it is to you. This comic is set on Reunion Island, a small French island in the middle of the Indian Ocean (roughly halfway between Madagascar and Mauritius Island) and playing with these old tires seems to be a common game among the local kids over there.

Seb Paquet · Answer

Poor man's wheelbarrow?

Anonymous · Answer

I too go for the wheelbarrow, it is a cartoon so i imagine the boy is doing something foolish enough to make the others laugh at him.
I used to play the hoop game as a kid, it only uses one short stick, it is harder with a long stick and impossible with two.

Ellis Foster · Answer

Sigh.

First, let me introduce this guy:

The Huntsman who, with a shot of Zeus's power, is pretty freaking powerful. Note that he is kind of on the slim side (as people tend to be) and note as well that he’s not exactly a chiseled beauty. He looks like an ordinary person.

There’s no rack involved of course but that’s the point. Most comic book characters - male and female - are drawn to conform to an idea as to what is beautiful or, more accurately, ideal.

Someone like the Black Widow is portrayed as somewhere between petite and 5’4”, and built with proportions that are “ideal” in a fantasy but not in the world of gymnastics. She can fight acrobatically in spite of being somewhat top heavy for the same reason a muscle bound guy like Wonder Man can move with lightning speed. That’s how comics work. Pretty, but not practical.

To be fair, some super-people are crazy-brave or just plain crazy out of their class. Their figures don’t figure into the equation:

Moonstone, a crook but not a coward. Note the WTF moment for Hulk.

Here I would say Karla’s body was not a factor in losing the fight:

Sorry, cheap shot. . . . I’ll conclude with the Kirby saddle crotch, a well-known body oddity that was never a factor in a fight:

Okay - where did “it” go?

Anonymous · Answer

“Tirer au flanc” means to avoid all work and effort. In military jargon, it could literally be translated as “aim for the flank” - possibly referring to the side of the army, which is usually less targeted by the opponent.

A “tire-au-flanc” is a lazy person.

Erik Langlo · Answer

It’s someone who doesn’t meet his duties.

Either in the military field, where he would try to hide rather than defend his comrades, or more often, as a subordinate in an administration where he would do his best to make his job done by others.

Stuart Herring · Answer

There are several kinds of figures.
One of them is the sizing information. In the following image from Wikipedia (in the article “Tire code”), the P means that the tire is meant for Passenger cars (or light trucks).
The 205/55 means that the tread width is 205 millimetres, and the aspect ratio — the ratio of the sidewall height to the tread width — is 55%. (55% of 205 mm is 113 mm.)
The R means that the reinforcing fibers within the rubber are laid in the Radial pattern.
The 16 is the diameter of the tire rim, in inches. (Yes, it’s a bit odd to combine inch and millimetre measurements in one object, but the USA is weird that way.)

All of the other common codes are also identified in the image. One that might not be large enough to read is the DOT code that identifies the manufacturer and the time of manufacture. (See second image for better detail).The last four symbols are two pairs of digits, showing the week and year of manufacture. “1016”, here, means “during the 10th week of 2016”.

Mathis Dev · Answer

A tire au flanc is someone who is irresponsible, who dodges work, a kind of lazy person.

Tire Au Flanc is also a French comedy movie

David Hartley · Answer

I don't even know what you asked.

Tire = to become tired. How can that have figures in it?