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  1. jackwolf

    Official Lance Armstrong Thread: Part 3 (Post-Confession)

    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...
  2. jackwolf

    Official Lance Armstrong Thread: Part 3 (Post-Confession)

    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.
  3. jackwolf

    Official Lance Armstrong Thread: Part 3 (Post-Confession)

    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.
  4. jackwolf

    Official Lance Armstrong Thread: Part 3 (Post-Confession)

    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.
  5. jackwolf

    Official Lance Armstrong Thread: Part 3 (Post-Confession)

    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.
  6. jackwolf

    Official Lance Armstrong Thread: Part 3 (Post-Confession)

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

    Official Lance Armstrong Thread: Part 3 (Post-Confession)

    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...
  8. jackwolf

    Official Lance Armstrong Thread: Part 3 (Post-Confession)

    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...
  9. jackwolf

    Official Lance Armstrong Thread: Part 3 (Post-Confession)

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

    "another interesting piece I found on the UCI and president Pat McQuaid " Thread

    How does one actively do nothing? :)
  11. jackwolf

    Armstrong Under Criminal Investigation

    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.
  12. jackwolf

    The fun begins - SCA now asking for money back...

    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?
  13. jackwolf

    Official Lance Armstrong Thread: Part 3 (Post-Confession)

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

    UCI Independent Commission on 'Lance-Gate'

    Blank video. There's definitely a conspiracy here.
  15. jackwolf

    Official Lance Armstrong Thread: Part 3 (Post-Confession)

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