Official BBO Hijacked Thread Thread

[Codo]

Thanks God Its Spring!!! No more snow & several of my favourite sport events begins soon, I love this (mostly) rainy race with hyper-modern-machines on the french 19th century Paves

This is the real racing, not that boring F1!

This is real racing?

You mean who is first at Dr. Fuentes?

Or the race to next EPO-shop?

 

I loved this sport several years ago. But as everybody- including several amateurs uses doping I started to hate it.

[Fluffy]

yeah, if you knew the % of ciclist in a proffesional event who have been diagnosed Asthma you would become scared of seeing them diying any race.

[gwnn]

Very hardcore cycling fans will tell you that every sport has the same % of dopers but that it is only in cycling that they take serious measures. I have never believed them but I believe they do have a point (the difference is not so big as it would appear).

[hotShot]

Would you agree that the measures taken e.g. at soccer are a joke compared to cycling?

 

Especially if you think of the money involved .

[Fluffy]

not sure of the meassures taken in soccer, but generally I agree with you hotshot.

 

However there is another difference, in soccer physical condition is just 50-60% of the game and technique plays a much bigger role than in cycling.

 

I beleive the meassures in athletism are similar to cycling ones, because those sports are all physical. But we will keep seeing 35-40 year old cyclist and atlhetes dying B)

[Codo]

Would you agree that the measures taken e.g. at soccer are a joke compared to cycling?

 

Especially if you think of the money involved .

No I do not agree...

 

The controls in cycling had been as easy as they are now in soccer.

 

But after they found more and more dopers, they started to look deeper. This did not happen in soccer.

[hotShot]

Perhaps you underestimate the physical aspect of soccer.

In the premier leagues the player run 10-12 km each game, sometimes twice a week. Just google for doping and Turin or Marseille. There organized doping could be proved.

I think it's absurd that FIFA/UEFA stopped the doping tests during the summer and winter break.

[Aberlour10]

I loved this sport several years ago. But as everybody- including several amateurs uses doping I started to hate it.

Similar here ....with one difference, I still have a small hope, they will get the cycling relatively "clean" one day. Is it naive thinking? Maybe, but I still like this sport too much to give it already up. Damn Catch-22 situation :angry:

[PassedOut]

Only went to one Paralympics, but really enjoyed it. It's awesome what people can do. Here are some great images from the Winter Paralympics going on now (worth waiting to load if your connection is slow).

[Aberlour10]

I follow the coverage in ice-hockey. It is amazing to watch, how imaginative, fast und tricky they play.

[Aberlour10]

ups..I already got posting #777 . I think I should put some euro coins in the slot machine tonight <_<

[jjbrr]

Only went to one Paralympics, but really enjoyed it. It's awesome what people can do. Here are some great images from the Winter Paralympics going on now (worth waiting to load if your connection is slow).

A lot of those are appropriate for the Pictures that Say 1000 Words thread.

 

Visually impaired cross country skiing is a head-scratcher to me.

[gwnn]

anyone else watching Chuck?? I just started and I am undecided.

[gwnn]

green beer is disgusting..

[jjbrr]

anyone else watching Chuck?? I just started and I am undecided.

I've never heard of it.

 

In an attempt to sort of align myself with mainstream TV culture, I try to watch House when I can. I don't see how this show ever got popular. Every episode is EXACTLY THE SAME.

 

if you havent seen it, save yourself the trouble. The doctors find a patient for whom they can't diagnose the problem, they try 3 or 4 different treatments that dont work, House figures out the solution, everyone lives happily ever after. The doctors have relationship problems.

 

How is this supposed to be interesting to people?

 

Edit: Not a TV person ldo. Justin tells me I have to get into Buffy. Anyone?

[blackshoe]

How is this supposed to be interesting to people?

 

Edit: Not a TV person ldo. Justin tells me I have to get into Buffy. Anyone?

How is anything on TV these days supposed to be interesting to people? Yet they watch it.

 

As for Buffy, that was an awesome show. So was the spinoff, Angel. In particular, the final episodes of both shows were outstanding.

 

Chuck has its moments.

 

Note: Buffy, the TV show, was a lot less campy than Buffy, the movie. I liked the movie, too, but for different reasons. There's quite a contrast between the two.

[jjbrr]

How is this supposed to be interesting to people?

 

Edit: Not a TV person ldo. Justin tells me I have to get into Buffy. Anyone?

How is anything on TV these days supposed to be interesting to people? Yet they watch it.

 

As for Buffy, that was an awesome show. So was the spinoff, Angel. In particular, the final episodes of both shows were outstanding.

 

Chuck has its moments.

 

Note: Buffy, the TV show, was a lot less campy than Buffy, the movie. I liked the movie, too, but for different reasons. There's quite a contrast between the two.

I have a lot of respect for the fact that both you and jlall offer the same opinions.

 

I'm convinced. I'll give it a shot. Trip report to follow.

[y66]

"Have to" is a stretch but yeah I'm a Buffy fan. Good stuff.

[Winstonm]

If you like comedy, c-span is always good for a laugh.

[PassedOut]

In an attempt to sort of align myself with mainstream TV culture, I try to watch House when I can. I don't see how this show ever got popular. Every episode is EXACTLY THE SAME.

For me as well, life is way too short to waste time watching such stuff, but different strokes and all that. Maybe lots of folks find it somehow reassuring not to face unexpected twists of plot.

[gwnn]

The point of house was not the suspense, it was the intelligent and snappy conversations between House and various people. The way he used to analyze Wilson and vice versa. Now that dimension has largely vanished and most dialogues are very dull and barely reach the intelligence of a 10 year old. Also, he is no longer addicted to Vicodin, somehow that was a very funny plot element, the way he just ate them up like candies. :lol:

[jjbrr]

I guess intelligent conversations are so infrequent for fox watchers that the novelty of such a thing in television programs is attractive to them.

[Fluffy]

Watch a series of rich intelligent people makes you feel like if you are smart and rich for a while, that's the main point I think.

 

 

In the last chapter I saw there was a guy who sawed off his finger, and putting it back costed 80000$, I wonder how can such a thing be so expensive really, but it is not the first time I see those numbers for cut off members in america. To me it looks like all it takes is to hire surgeon and a nurse for a couple of hours but what do I know.

[Winstonm]

Watch a series of rich intelligent people makes you feel like if you are smart and rich for a while, that's the main point I think.

 

 

In the last chapter I saw there was a guy who sawed off his finger, and putting it back costed 80000$, I wonder how can such a thing be so expensive really, but it is not the first time I see those numbers for cut off members in america. To me it looks like all it takes is to hire surgeon and a nurse for a couple of hours but what do I know.

It's all the fault of the unions - if it weren't for the SAG those finger replacements would cost only a fraction of the current digital $80K (of course, they would be done in Vietman by the child-slave/surgeon industry whose product use would be denied completely by WalMart and Anita Bryant.)

[Aberlour10]

Haute Cousine d'Allemagne this evening >>>>Weißwurst mit Sauerkraut und Weizenbier :)