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[Cobblestoned]

Will Tony get a clinic-thread now that he won ?
People, hurry.

Ok, I don't think so because this reward is reserved for RS/RS riders winning something.
If RS has 25 wins at end of season there will be 25 threads in clinic.
Propaganda-machine is running again, and this is tolerated, or better really welcome by some responsibles.
Otherwise those nonsense threads would have been closed immediately if this was about any other team.

TeamSKYfenn off to clinic again next time RS wins. Never reaching the clinic, but just mentions in racingforum that he is off to clinic.
Normally there is some tarring and feathering - but hey, it's RS.
Really impressive while SKY is now relaxed about zero-tolerance and is as juiced as other teams.

This is really unfair and psychopathic.

Big, big facepalm yesterday when Klöden-thread appeared. Now they are talking about the race there. lol
Bruyneel driedaagse thread still there and started full of nonsense - always welcome.
Looking forward to RS's next win. lol
Nothing against a thread if there is dopingcase, like Fuyu Li. This makes sense. But opening a thread every time RS wins is sooo pathetic and shortbrained.

Mods, please have an eye on that - I mean some of those unbalanced mods who perhaps agree that this has to stop.
And haters like TeamSkyfenns should get a slap for their selective, shortbrained bashing and propaganda in racingforum focused on RS.
Of course RS is the only team doping in whole peloton....because dim got a middlefinger. At least it's his wish.
Great that he finally stopped spreading his virtual anti-RS middlefinger propaganda signature...
Also impressive to see some clinic-guys regularly using RS-racingthreads as Trojan horse to deliver their message, spreading their love and derailing these threads.
Also a practice reserved for RS. Go, figure.

cobblestoned - eyes always open and with perfect analysis again.

 

[The Hitch]

Cheers to the mods for keeping PN thread spoiler free. I have no idea why people would most the world shaking story that JJ haedo won a ta stage in the PN thread but thanks nonetheless.

 

[Anonymous]

Cheers to the mods for keeping PN thread spoiler free. I have no idea why people would most the world shaking story that JJ haedo won a ta stage in the PN thread but thanks nonetheless.

oh for god sake, what tit did that.

 

[pedaling squares]

Lest the rumour outdo reality, I'll just mention that nobody revealed the stage winner. There was a post about someone not performing well, so we knew who did not win. FTP soon took care of it by deleting the post. Unless someone has since revealed the stage winner and I missed it.

 

[thirteen]

Lest the rumour outdo reality, I'll just mention that nobody revealed the stage winner. There was a post about someone not performing well, so we knew who did not win. FTP soon took care of it by deleting the post. Unless someone has since revealed the stage winner and I missed it.

nah, FTP kept it clean though i saw the initial post.

(and, idiot that i am, i opened a team newsletter before the end of watching it -- doh!)

 

[rata de sentina]

I don't understand why this thread was moved to the clinic. Sure there are some doping references early in it but IMO the mod(s) have overreacted and we would have been better served if it had been left where it was with a warning to leave doping out of it. Now it's completely out of place. Anyway it's easy enough to make thinly veiled references to doping without triggering mod apoplexy

 

[Ferminal]

I don't understand why this thread was moved to the clinic. Sure there are some doping references early in it but IMO the mod(s) have overreacted and we would have been better served if it had been left where it was with a warning to leave doping out of it. Now it's completely out of place. Anyway it's easy enough to make thinly veiled references to doping without triggering mod apoplexy

The Evans thread was moved to The Clinic because the OP was a statement on doping - thus the thread could only exist in The Clinic.

 

[auscyclefan94]

The Evans thread was moved to The Clinic because the OP was a statement on doping - thus the thread could only exist in The Clinic.

Even so, the thread has now gone the other way as it doesn't fit the clinic because of off topic posts.

 

[BroDeal]

Even so, the thread has now gone the other way as it doesn't fit the clinic because of off topic posts.

I'll fix that.

 

[pedaling squares]

I'll fix that.

Done with a sense of style, I must say.

 

[Hugh Januss]

Shouldn't having at least a semblance of a sense of humor be a prerequisite for being a mod? Or at least the ability to tell when guys are just ragging on each other a bit, and distinguish between that and real insults.
I am also curious if calling someone a conservative or a liberal when he himself didn't consider himself to be such would also be deemed an insult.
Mainly I am just unhappy because I composed an excellent rebuttal to Glenn's characterization of Obama as a socialist and it disappeared when the thread was closed while I was writing it.

 

[patricknd]

Shouldn't having at least a semblance of a sense of humor be a prerequisite for being a mod? Or at least the ability to tell when guys are just ragging on each other a bit, and distinguish between that and real insults.
I am also curious if calling someone a conservative or a liberal when he himself didn't consider himself to be such would also be deemed an insult.
Mainly I am just unhappy because I composed an excellent rebuttal to Glenn's characterization of Obama as a socialist and it disappeared when the thread was closed while I was writing it.

i agree. i don't think anyone involved felt insulted, in fact that was male bonding at it's finest. the geneal politics thread should be treated a little differently than the others in the moderaion area.

and we missed a good reply, and that bites.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

i agree. i don't think anyone involved felt insulted, in fact that was male bonding at it's finest. the geneal politics thread should be treated a little differently than the others in the moderaion area.

and we missed a good reply, and that bites.

It was my fault. I complained about being either referenced or inferred that I was somehow related to the T-?????? bull crap. I was to the limit. My apologies for messing up you guys fun.

I apologized to Martin318is also but now his PM box is full. So I can not try to PM him again.

 

[patricknd]

It was my fault. I complained about being either referenced or inferred that I was somehow related to the T-?????? bull crap. I was to the limit. My apologies for messing up you guys fun.

I apologized to Martin318is also but now his PM box is full. So I can not try to PM him again.

no sweat, and is popolo buckwheat? i'll probably get warned for asking but what the hell eh?

 

[Semper Fidelis]

no sweat, and is popolo buckwheat? i'll probably get warned for asking but what the hell eh?

??????no comment.

I tried to apologize to Hugh via PM but he must be head first into either some Beer or Dinner........... Lets hope he is not so mad at me that he DE-friends me.

 

[Hugh Januss]

It was my fault. I complained about being either referenced or inferred that I was somehow related to the T-?????? bull crap. I was to the limit. My apologies for messing up you guys fun.

I apologized to Martin318is also but now his PM box is full. So I can not try to PM him again.

All the winding people up that you like to do, and that's all it takes to drive you 'round the bend? Whiner!

 

[Martin318is]

Shouldn't having at least a semblance of a sense of humor be a prerequisite for being a mod? Or at least the ability to tell when guys are just ragging on each other a bit, and distinguish between that and real insults.
I am also curious if calling someone a conservative or a liberal when he himself didn't consider himself to be such would also be deemed an insult.
Mainly I am just unhappy because I composed an excellent rebuttal to Glenn's characterization of Obama as a socialist and it disappeared when the thread was closed while I was writing it.

I have an AWESOME sense of humour! you fail for suggesting that my sense of humour is in any way less than totally perfect.

Anyway, I locked the thread because there was a bit of valid outrage at people being effectively called a T-Bagger. It was locked for a short time (plus the time I was forced to spend in an unplanned meeting in the office) and is no re-opened.

For those of us that actually DO have a sense of humour, the funny part is how people react to such rather - if I do say so myself.... and I do - elegantly simple solutions

 

[Hugh Januss]

I have an AWESOME sense of humour! you fail for suggesting that my sense of humour is in any way less than totally perfect.

Anyway, I locked the thread because there was a bit of valid outrage at people being effectively called a T-Bagger. It was locked for a short time (plus the time I was forced to spend in an unplanned meeting in the office) and is no re-opened.

For those of us that actually DO have a sense of humour, the funny part is how people react to such rather - if I do say so myself.... and I do - elegantly simple solutions

But Glenn is a tea-bagger.
But seriously calling someone a tea-bagger is like calling someone a bleeding heart liberal. Besides as popolo pointed out they chose that name themselves (the tea party, not Glenn, he's not really one of them he's just an ex-marine it's a difference of several degrees).

 

[usedtobefast]

tea baggers chose the name for themselves. here in America,we know these things,sheesh.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

But Glenn is a tea-bagger.
But seriously calling someone a tea-bagger is like calling someone a bleeding heart liberal. Besides as popolo pointed out they chose that name themselves (the tea party, not Glenn, he's not really one of them he's just an ex-marine it's a difference of several degrees).

It was all on me for getting a bit ****ed. I felt like I was being called a T-baggens and that I had to take up for myself. If they wanted to be called that then that adds fuel to the fire that they are a bunch of "Maroons".

I just was tired or fed-up with the name calling. I will stay away from that thread for a bit. Toooooo many FoxNews quotes anyhow.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

All the winding people up that you like to do, and that's all it takes to drive you 'round the bend? Whiner!

Cumulative effect..... I had been driven around the bend earlier today at work. I went into work and guess what..........one of the peers has a Red Dawn..... so needless to say everything that was presented in the meetings was either falling short or inadequate.

 

[Martin318is]

But Glenn is a tea-bagger.
But seriously calling someone a tea-bagger is like calling someone a bleeding heart liberal. Besides as popolo pointed out they chose that name themselves (the tea party, not Glenn, he's not really one of them he's just an ex-marine it's a difference of several degrees).

Neither know, nor care.

Frankly this is all reminicent of the "uniballer" debacle. Someone saw the term and complained and given that I know exactly what Tbag usually means, I reacted accordingly.

If that is the term they have chosen for themselves then thats their problem. Either way, the thread has been open for around an hour now... so feel free to go and post there and I will happily ignore it until someone reports something.

 

[Anonymous]

But Glenn is a tea-bagger.
But seriously calling someone a tea-bagger is like calling someone a bleeding heart liberal. Besides as popolo pointed out they chose that name themselves (the tea party, not Glenn, he's not really one of them he's just an ex-marine it's a difference of several degrees).

No, calling someone a Tbagger is meant to stop the discussion. Period.

If you want posts full of name calling then fine. Let it stand. If you want a robust debate, then let's go.

 

[pedaling squares]

But seriously calling someone a tea-bagger is like calling someone a bleeding heart liberal.

I'll refer you to the urban dictionary, Hugh!

 

[Hugh Januss]

I'll refer you to the urban dictionary, Hugh!

Politically speaking.