Lance vs. Simon Whitfield

From the article:
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Lance Armstrong is a brash Texan with a big ol’ ego, a gunfighter’s
swagger and a finger that is never too far from pulling the trigger.

Call the seven-time Tour de France winner a drug cheat and he will
call you a liar. Call him a fraud and he might call his lawyer. Lance
Armstrong isn’t afraid of a good punch-up. Not with his critics. Not
with prying French journalists. Not with U.S. federal grand jury
investigators.

And not even with Simon Whitfield.

Yes: that Simon Whitfield, Canada’s own puppy-dog friendly triathlete,
who won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics, added a silver medal in
2008 and will be chasing more Olympic hardware in London this summer.

Not that that matters to Lance Armstrong. What matters is what the
legend thinks. Opinions he readily expresses in the Twitter-sphere for
his 3,412,444 followers to see and where he took a potshot at a
Canadian Olympic darling earlier this week by dismissing the Olympic-
distance triathlon — Simon Whitfield’s triathlon — as “a shampoo, blow
dry and 10 k foot race.”
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Read it at http://sports.nationalpost.com/2012/...ver-triathlon/
or http://tinyurl.com/6vu5hol



J. Spaceman

On 27/04/2012 16:28, Jason Spaceman wrote:
From the article:
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Lance Armstrong is a brash Texan with a big ol’ ego, a gunfighter’s
swagger and a finger that is never too far from pulling the trigger.

Call the seven-time Tour de France winner a drug cheat and he will
call you a liar. Call him a fraud and he might call his lawyer. Lance
Armstrong isn’t afraid of a good punch-up. Not with his critics. Not
with prying French journalists. Not with U.S. federal grand jury
investigators.

And not even with Simon Whitfield.

Yes: that Simon Whitfield, Canada’s own puppy-dog friendly triathlete,
who won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics, added a silver medal in
2008 and will be chasing more Olympic hardware in London this summer.

Not that that matters to Lance Armstrong. What matters is what the
legend thinks. Opinions he readily expresses in the Twitter-sphere for
his 3,412,444 followers to see and where he took a potshot at a
Canadian Olympic darling earlier this week by dismissing the Olympic-
distance triathlon — Simon Whitfield’s triathlon — as “a shampoo, blow
dry and 10 k foot race.”
------------------------------------------------------

Read it at http://sports.nationalpost.com/2012/...ver-triathlon/
or http://tinyurl.com/6vu5hol


Gotta say I agree with the uniballer on the drafting issue, not that
that makes him less of a ****...or that he gives a ****.

On 4/27/2012 10:28 AM, Jason Spaceman wrote:
From the article:
--------------------------------------------------------
Lance Armstrong is a brash Texan with a big ol’ ego, a gunfighter’s
swagger and a finger that is never too far from pulling the trigger.

Call the seven-time Tour de France winner a drug cheat and he will
call you a liar. Call him a fraud and he might call his lawyer. Lance
Armstrong isn’t afraid of a good punch-up. Not with his critics. Not
with prying French journalists. Not with U.S. federal grand jury
investigators.

And not even with Simon Whitfield.

Yes: that Simon Whitfield, Canada’s own puppy-dog friendly triathlete,
who won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics, added a silver medal in
2008 and will be chasing more Olympic hardware in London this summer.

Not that that matters to Lance Armstrong. What matters is what the
legend thinks. Opinions he readily expresses in the Twitter-sphere for
his 3,412,444 followers to see and where he took a potshot at a
Canadian Olympic darling earlier this week by dismissing the Olympic-
distance triathlon — Simon Whitfield’s triathlon — as “a shampoo, blow
dry and 10 k foot race.”
------------------------------------------------------

Read it at http://sports.nationalpost.com/2012/...ver-triathlon/
or http://tinyurl.com/6vu5hol



J. Spaceman

The world would be a better place if twitter was banned.

F

On 27/04/2012 16:56, Fred Flintstein wrote:
On 4/27/2012 10:28 AM, Jason Spaceman wrote:
From the article:
--------------------------------------------------------
Lance Armstrong is a brash Texan with a big ol’ ego, a gunfighter’s
swagger and a finger that is never too far from pulling the trigger.

Call the seven-time Tour de France winner a drug cheat and he will
call you a liar. Call him a fraud and he might call his lawyer. Lance
Armstrong isn’t afraid of a good punch-up. Not with his critics. Not
with prying French journalists. Not with U.S. federal grand jury
investigators.

And not even with Simon Whitfield.

Yes: that Simon Whitfield, Canada’s own puppy-dog friendly triathlete,
who won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics, added a silver medal in
2008 and will be chasing more Olympic hardware in London this summer.

Not that that matters to Lance Armstrong. What matters is what the
legend thinks. Opinions he readily expresses in the Twitter-sphere for
his 3,412,444 followers to see and where he took a potshot at a
Canadian Olympic darling earlier this week by dismissing the Olympic-
distance triathlon — Simon Whitfield’s triathlon — as “a shampoo, blow
dry and 10 k foot race.”
------------------------------------------------------

Read it at
http://sports.nationalpost.com/2012/...ver-triathlon/

or http://tinyurl.com/6vu5hol



J. Spaceman

The world would be a better place if twitter was banned.

Amen.

Fred Flintstein wrote:
The world would be a better place if twitter was banned.

It should be called ****ter.com after its users. Actually the world
would be better off without any form of "social networking'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/17/facebook-dark-side-study-aggressive-narcissism?CMP=twt_gu.


Not that I would ever suggest LANCE is a narcissist.

On 4/27/2012 11:02 AM, Simply Fred wrote:
Fred Flintstein wrote:
The world would be a better place if twitter was banned.

It should be called ****ter.com after its users. Actually the world
would be better off without any form of "social networking'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/17/facebook-dark-side-study-aggressive-narcissism?CMP=twt_gu.


So is usenet a form of social networking?

On Friday, April 27, 2012 8:56:43 AM UTC-7, Fred Flintstein wrote:
On 4/27/2012 10:28 AM, Jason Spaceman wrote:
From the article:
--------------------------------------------------------
Lance Armstrong is a brash Texan with a big ol’ ego, a gunfighter’s
swagger and a finger that is never too far from pulling the trigger.

Call the seven-time Tour de France winner a drug cheat and he will
call you a liar. Call him a fraud and he might call his lawyer. Lance
Armstrong isn’t afraid of a good punch-up. Not with his critics. Not
with prying French journalists. Not with U.S. federal grand jury
investigators.

And not even with Simon Whitfield.

Yes: that Simon Whitfield, Canada’s own puppy-dog friendly triathlete,
who won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics, added a silver medal in
2008 and will be chasing more Olympic hardware in London this summer.

Not that that matters to Lance Armstrong. What matters is what the
legend thinks. Opinions he readily expresses in the Twitter-sphere for
his 3,412,444 followers to see and where he took a potshot at a
Canadian Olympic darling earlier this week by dismissing the Olympic-
distance triathlon — Simon Whitfield’s triathlon — as “a shampoo, blow
dry and 10 k foot race.”
------------------------------------------------------

Read it at http://sports.nationalpost.com/2012/...ver-triathlon/
or http://tinyurl.com/6vu5hol



J. Spaceman

The world would be a better place if twitter was banned.

F

Dumbass,

Twitter is just the symptom. Triathlon is the disease.

If I read this pillowfight correctly:

- LANCE ****ted that Olympdistance drafting triathlons
are stoopit. (Humorously, this puts LANCE in the role of
traditionalist triathlon retrogrouch. He's also right -
drafting triathlons are stoopit.)

- The Canadian Olympic gold medalist drafting triathlon
winner medalist took exception to this and a Twitterfight
ensued. By the way, did we mention that the gold medalist
is Canadian? From Canada? (OK, gold medalist in 2000.
But he's definitely Canadian.)

- The National Post reported this as a brash Texan gunfighter
calling out the adorable ("puppy-dog friendly" ?!) Canadian
triathlon gold medalist, and noted that LANCE is a suspected
drug cheat who doesn't shake hands or make eye contact with
his own daughter, and probably eats puppies. Canadian
puppies.

Q: Why didn't Canada ever claim the region around the North Pole?
A: It would be redundant, because the world already revolves
around Canada.

Thanks,
Fredmaster Ben

dave a wrote:
So is usenet a form of social networking?

Perhaps in a sense it is, but its not owned or controlled by anyone and
in particular not by a US corporation happy to spy on its users for
government who forgot what freedom of speech is.
And its intolerably smug and pretentiously virtuous with a simplistic
undergraduate model of social interaction.

Anyway how long would rbr have lasted if Kunich was the moderator and
included something like this in rbr "terms of use" (Of course usenet has
no "terms of use" or any other **** from American lawyers):
"be banned if they post 'any content that we deem to be harmful,
threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory,
harassing, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity
rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable'",

Who knows, perhaps usenet might end up being the last stand for Internet
freedom of speech as governments start trying to find ways to control
anything that is said on the Internet.

On 4/27/2012 10:35 PM, Fredmaster of Brainerd wrote:
- LANCE ****ted that Olympdistance drafting triathlons
are stoopit. (Humorously, this puts LANCE in the role of
traditionalist triathlon retrogrouch. He's also right -
drafting triathlons are stoopit.)

Dumbass,

Your analysis is spot on except you're misattributed the
source of LANCE's irritation. Drafting triathlons are not
stoopit. They open up possibilities for under the table
agreements to buy assistance. As a roadie, LANCE approves
of this.

The odd twist in this story is that triathletes are such
morons that it took a Canadian to figure this out. And
because he's Canadian he was too cheap to buy help from
the best cyclists in the race, he relied on a teammate
instead.

If LANCE was in that race he'd have paid the top 5 or 6
cyclists that were as good or better swimmers as him to
all come out of the water at the same time. He'd have spent
the bike leg sitting in on a smokin' paceline, enabling him
to rip the legs off of that silly cheap ass Canadian in the
run. Especially since one of the guys he'd have paid off
would have been the cheap ass Canadian's teammate.

It was lucky for the Canadian that LANCE was otherwise
engaged.

F

On Apr 27, 8:35*pm, Fredmaster of Brainerd wrote:
On Friday, April 27, 2012 8:56:43 AM UTC-7, Fred Flintstein wrote:
On 4/27/2012 10:28 AM, Jason Spaceman wrote:
*From the article:
--------------------------------------------------------
Lance Armstrong is a brash Texan with a big ol’ ego, a gunfighter’s
swagger and a finger that is never too far from pulling the trigger.

Call the seven-time Tour de France winner a drug cheat and he will
call you a liar. Call him a fraud and he might call his lawyer. Lance
Armstrong isn’t afraid of a good punch-up. Not with his critics. Not
with prying French journalists. Not with U.S. federal grand jury
investigators.

And not even with Simon Whitfield.

Yes: that Simon Whitfield, Canada’s own puppy-dog friendly triathlete,
who won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics, added a silver medal in
2008 and will be chasing more Olympic hardware in London this summer.

Not that that matters to Lance Armstrong. What matters is what the
legend thinks. Opinions he readily expresses in the Twitter-sphere for
his 3,412,444 followers to see and where he took a potshot at a
Canadian Olympic darling earlier this week by dismissing the Olympic-
distance triathlon — Simon Whitfield’s triathlon — as “a shampoo, blow
dry and 10 k foot race.”
------------------------------------------------------

Read it athttp://sports.nationalpost.com/2012/04/26/canadian-olympic-champion-i...
orhttp://tinyurl.com/6vu5hol

J. Spaceman

The world would be a better place if twitter was banned.

F

Dumbass,

Twitter is just the symptom. *Triathlon is the disease.

If I read this pillowfight correctly:

- LANCE ****ted that Olympdistance drafting triathlons
are stoopit. *(Humorously, this puts LANCE in the role of
traditionalist triathlon retrogrouch. *He's also right -
drafting triathlons are stoopit.)

Triathlons are stupid. This argument is snooker players bitching that
9-ball isn't a real sport. Leninists complaining that Stalinists
ruined everything. Baseball players making fun of cricket.

- The Canadian Olympic gold medalist drafting triathlon
winner medalist took exception to this and a Twitterfight
ensued. *By the way, did we mention that the gold medalist
is Canadian? *From Canada? *(OK, gold medalist in 2000.
But he's definitely Canadian.)

He was the first guy to effectively exploit team tactics in draft-tri,
which means every other triathlete in the world was outsmarted by a
Canadian.

BTW, the ITU headquarters are in North Vancouver. There's a bronze
statue out front that shows a swimmer getting kicked in the head, a
cyclist falling over exiting T1, and a runner crawling to the finish
line.