pillowy star

I can't believe that this was being held back for so long. Like you said, everyone knew it, and Mr. Franke has been literally screaming during the Tour that Contador was doped and needed to be taken out.

Iban Mayo was tested positive on EPO.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtm...1/sobren131.xml

Glad that someone explained

I know, I know, and all the past years I have been the one to explain all that to people who thought they'd been made fun of, watching that last stage with the riders toasting each other etc But as this year everything is different really, and nobody knows who to honor and who not, my humble opinion is that it also might be a good idea to break with this tradition and create some tension other than "who's gonna be the next to fall off his bike dead due to doping"?

I really hate this "Tour d'Honneur" or however they call that last stage where there is that unwritten law of not attacking the yellow jersey. What happened to the wonderful finishes a la Greg LeMond & Laurent Fignon back in 1989 ?

gosh yes. great race between the top three. i thought we were going to have a top 3 mix up but evans was able to conserve his lead over a charging leipheimer.

 

below is a pretty good perspective of the clean riders within the peloton:

Of the supposedly clean riders would be more appropriate methinks

Cofidis is a French team, btw: "COFIDIS, LE CR

you posted a salmon recipe that had a marinade of soy sauce and maple syrup.

Erm......unless someone hacked my account or I am already suffering from Alzheimer - NO . I don't like salmon that much so I never cook with it.

Fish recipe?! Is the fish from a biologically credible source ???

I see where you are coming from, completely. But as long as doping is banned/illegal, it will have to be done secretely and hidden from the public (you don't honestly think that it will be stopped due to more controls?! See now, another doping case is gonna be disclosed during the next minutes), which means it comes along with a criminal potential on top of the medical dangers.

It's the same to me like heroin. Why adding the criminal investigations to the medical costs it causes? Just let everyone who wants take as many drugs as they want. They're gonna take them anyway, so at least make it legal for them and give everyone equal rights (i.e. people with less money now have to buy shit drugs whilst millionaires like Lindsay Whoeverthatdrunkardsnameis can buy clean stuff).

Is that too liberal ?

and Pillowy Star great idea: get back to me when your kids are using PEDs in high school because they want to compete. Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but drug use always trickles down, and those on a lower level use to claw their way to the next level.

Oh my daughter is already in high school, has tested out drugs (although she claims she hasn't but who'd ever trust a teenager?!), and just recently told me that those who think they need to do stuff like that are losers with no self-esteem.

I guess it is all down to education and how to infiltrate your kids with it so they don't feel the need to "compete".

And no, I wasn't being sarcastic. Until we'll reach a level where nobody could ever get away with a single doping substance for a single meter of cycling, the only fair thing is to give everyone the same chance aka the meds they obviously need and want.

Or Newcastle

I really REALLY hope they come back somewhere not too far from Germany

There's only one way to stop dopers from betraying others really: Allow doping for everyone. Period.

I guess in a few years, when cyclists with 3 legs and 2 hearts and alien faces with bubble skin will have fallen off their bikes dead on Mont Galibier to please the 2 spectators that are left, everyone's gonna realize that this is a farce. And you can only stop a farce by leading it ad absurdum.

Oh wow. Wow . You look totally stunning, Jen, and your new husband is very handsome too. Congratulations again.

*sigh* This makes me wanna go all back to last year September and relive my own wedding

Heading to Cornwall/UK for 10 days tomorrow

I can't believe Wilco sold out to Big Charity.

Hey!! I was gonna post that!!

You people are all psychos.

Happy Birthday Eric, have a great one :

 

i was off my face last night and when the site looked different this morning, i thought i should have stayed in bed

Same here

Looks great, thanks for the brilliant work

Congratulations (but I wouldn't count on him becoming a Wilco fan, kids never do what they're supposed to, my teenage daughter is listening to techno crap at the moment!!)

Yep, many people like it a lot (I don't belong to them).

IMHO, the band did the only right thing in Hamburg, deciding to go for What Light and skip HMD in favor of it

Wow. Wish I could have been there.

Am so shy. Haven't even gone over to meet the new neighbors, who've been there a whole half-day. I'm terrified.

A whole half-day?! You mean 12 hours, and you're still not on sharing-keys-terms yet?! I am shocked, Donna. Are you ok?

I'm a shy one myself (I REALLY AM! )