Recent content by jackwolf

Both doping (in France) and robbing a bank are both illegal, so if the first can be insured against, I don't see why the second couldn't be. (Or is one of them "more illegal" than the other?) This is what makes me think you cannot insure yourself against getting caught doping and somebody is...

So I'm off to my insurer to get myself covered for armed robbery. Just in case I get caught, you know. Doesn't get much sense to me.

If it's in the OED, it's English. Don't try to blame others for your own ignorance. Anyway, this is an Armstrong thread. If you want to discuss linguistics, open your own thread.

Lance will not get a pass in the UK, but not because we have a lower tolerance for dopers or cheats--we don't. He won't get a pass because he's irrelevant and nobody gives a toss any more. He can't compete, and I don't think anybody's interested in whatever he has to say any more.

I'll help you out with your English. Oxford English Dictionary: esprit de l'escalier (ɛspri də lɛscalje), esprit d'escalier [Diderot, Paradoxe sur le Comédien: F. escalier staircase], a retort or remark that occurs to a person after the opportunity to make it has passed.

Esprit de l'escalier: are you trying to say he never tested positive?

It wasn't "he missed a test": it was more like he ran away from a test while he was training with the rest of the team and switched off his mobile phone. Then he came up with some absolutely laughable bull**** excuse. What would you think if Armstrong or Contador just vanished at the very...

Nah, bull****. Remember Rio? He got away with it with a slap on the wrist, went back to play for the national team, and no f***s were given. And how about all the diving and cheating that goes on in football all the time? How's that different from doping? And does anybody care? EDIT: Heck, he...

You've mis-spelled that. It's "the spell cheque."

How does one actively do nothing? :)

The good of the sport, ha ha. I can't remember boxing disappearing when Mike Tyson was sent down. Better go back to the millions-of-innocent-children-that-will-die-of-cancer-if-Amstrong-is-locked-up line. We haven't heard this one for a while.

Nothing to do with his PR staff; some people just want to believe. Remember the Meaning of Life scene in which the main character starts a religion without even trying?

"It's not over. He'd like to think it's over, but it's not."

Blank video. There's definitely a conspiracy here.

Gosh, man, what happened to your sarcasm detector? Get it fixed quick.