Recent content by TheTibetanHat

Re: Please don't be like this ***. Cyclists get bad enough press without morons road riding on fixed gears without brakes.

Typically self-interested reponse from Paula Radcliffe, apparently wiping the records damages her reputation and dignity, she takes it so personally. If only she realised that complaining it damages her reputation and dignity is what makes her look so bad, particularly when it is one of the few...

Re: Since we're dealing in rhetoric, rather than evidence... It might be that under such a regime other techniques for improving elite performance are not pursued, or it could be the doping system prevents those with outstanding natural ability from being selected and supported properly. The...

Re: Re: Thing is, anytime the topic of the UCI doing more to support professional women's cycling comes up, the crapstorm of apoplectic comments from male users here is pretty overwhelming. If they'd rather let it rot and look at bikini-clad women stood next to bikes, I think we can probably...

One of my favourites at this time of the year, turn down the central heating while you read this one. The Garden of Proserpine BY ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Here, where the world is quiet; Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds' and spent waves' riot In doubtful dreams...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0EAwSpTcM4 At least he's not Hitler, Stalin or Leopold II of Belgium.

Re: Anything that drags it out, this way May might have an excuse to let the mad March deadline for Article 50 go by. It remains utterly astonishing that so many people, including many hardline Tory MPs, suppose we could disentangle and then create our own legal and economic systems so...

Considering Sagan himself won without realising it, I think we can forgive Kirby for a momentary mistake that wasn't really his fault and he very quickly corrected. It's ITV4 I'm struggling to listen to. Thank goodness for the change, but Ned Boulting really, really needs a voice coach.