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wrote in message ... The Bank has some pretty scathing comments to make - including about the current state of cycling as a sport: Dutch bank Rabobank ended its multi-million Dollar backing of professional cycling on Friday, the latest sponsor scared away by a doping scandal that has engulfed seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. The bank is the biggest backer of the high profile Dutch Rabobank team, with total sponsorship worth US$20 million a year in a cycling-mad nation with as many bikes as people. The decision shows the damage being done to cycling after the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said Armstrong had taken part in and organised a sophisticated doping scheme on his way to success. All it actually shows is that a) As in many other fields in the USA is trying to take over and exert its domination over everybody else. Up until fairly recently nobody in the UK or the USA for that matter actually cared very about cycle racing which to most people is a European sport. Even fewer of them could name a race other than the TdF. Sure there have been "scandals" before but hardly anyone outside of the sport actually noticed. Then the Americans moved in. And the effect is the same as happens everywhere else. An American wins the TdF for a number of years riding for a US based team, then a US based lawyer with a flair for publicity decides to make a name for himself by "investigating" his fellow American and in the process undermines European cycle racing. b) If you sling enough mud around some of it will ineviably stick. And reagadless of the actual truthh of the matter some people simply can't affort to get splattered. Having laid waste to the Middle East the Yanks have now set their sights on European cycling as well. And all the fools are marching in step behind them michael adams .... "We are no longer convinced that the international professional world of cycling can make this a clean and fair sport. We are not confident that this will change for the better in the foreseeable future", Bert Bruggink, a Rabobank board member, said. "The international sport of cycling is not only sick, the sickness goes up to the highest levels." http://thestar.com.my/sports/story.a...486&sec=sports |
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On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 12:05:20 +0100, "michael adams"
wrote: snip Having laid waste to the Middle East the Yanks have now set their sights on European cycling as well. I am pretty sure that someone has already described you as a fool. thanks for the confirmation. Those two disparate things are obviously equally important (well, to a ****wit at least) |
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"Judith" wrote in message ... I am pretty sure that someone has already described you as a fool. Quite possibly so. It's just a pity that the only thing that you're not sure about yourself, is that you give every impression of being a very sad and lonely individual, who has nothing better to do with his time than spending his whole life in vainly trying to undermine other people, from under a cloak of total anonymity. For no possible hope of success or reward of any kind. And you're not alone in this of course, far from it. But just so long as UseNet is archived you'll always have the opportunity, at some time in the future, to look back on all the pointless drivel you've posted on Usenet down the years. And then decide for yourself, exactly who is the bigger fool. thanks for the confirmation. If I'm going to acknowledge that I'm even bothering to read somebody else's post, whom I claim to dislike, as you've just done there, then I'm afraid I'd make a rather better job of it than you have. So that, not only do you have years of posting pointless drivel to look back on, in years to come, but most of it is characterised by an ineptitude, it would probably be very difficult to match. michael adams .... |
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On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:16:05 +0100, "michael adams"
wrote: snip michael adams said: "Having laid waste to the Middle East the Yanks have now set their sights on European cycling as well." Judith suggested that these two subjects were so different that michael adams must be a ****wit. He then proceeded to argue the toss. Yep .... difficult one that. |
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"Judith" wrote in message ... snip Judith suggested snip Anyone who refers to himself in the 3rd person, may already be suspected of suffering from a personality disorder of some kind. More especially when he chooses to post under a woman's name, for some unaccountable reason. michael adams .... |
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On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:05:58 +0100, "michael adams"
wrote: snip michael adams -- michael adams showing his knowledge of world affairs: "Having laid waste to the Middle East the Yanks have now set their sights on European cycling as well." |
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"Judith" wrote in message ... On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:05:58 +0100, "michael adams" wrote: snip michael adams -- michael adams showing his knowledge of world affairs: "Having laid waste to the Middle East the Yanks have now set their sights on European cycling as well." If you had a clue, you'd already have used one of your socks to support you. Only you haven't, you're that useless. And it's too late now. Similarly if you had a clue you'd be using NewsReaders other than Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186, assigning one to each of your socks. Only you didn't did you ? You're that clueless. What's the point of even thinking of discussing World Affairs with somebody as useless as you? michael adams .... |
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On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:36:49 +0100, "michael adams"
wrote: "Judith" wrote in message .. . On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:05:58 +0100, "michael adams" wrote: snip michael adams -- michael adams showing his knowledge of world affairs: "Having laid waste to the Middle East the Yanks have now set their sights on European cycling as well." If you had a clue, you'd already have used one of your socks to support you. Only you haven't, you're that useless. And it's too late now. Similarly if you had a clue you'd be using NewsReaders other than Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186, assigning one to each of your socks. If only you knew. I can assure you if I want to cover my tracks, I know how to do it. Perhaps I use the same newsreader when I *want* some ****wit to spot it and think that he is oh so smart. You're not very good at this; but please do continue. -- michael adams showing his knowledge of world affairs: "Having laid waste to the Middle East the Yanks have now set their sights on European cycling as well." |
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On 21 okt, 14:57, Judith wrote:
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 12:05:20 +0100, "michael adams" wrote: snip Having laid waste to the Middle East the Yanks have now set their sights on European cycling as well. I *am pretty sure that someone has already described you as a fool. thanks for the confirmation. Those two disparate things are obviously equally important (well, to a ****wit at least) Sadly one can only assume that you really are as boring, repetitive, uninformative, and unamusing in real life, as you quite evidently are, on UseNet. |
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On 21 okt, 16:39, Judith wrote:
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:16:05 +0100, "michael adams" wrote: snip michael adams said: "Having laid waste to the Middle East the Yanks have now set their sights on European cycling as well." Judith suggested that these two subjects were so different that michael adams must be a ****wit. He then proceeded to argue the toss. Yep .... difficult one that. Sadly one can only assume that you really are as boring, repetitive, uninformative, and unamusing in real life, as you quite evidently are, on UseNet. |
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