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

[Oldman]

freud or jung?

oedipus was sigmund, so i would send her to a freudian analyst.

That's why I nicknamed him Oedipus Tex so long ago.
When I foretold of the Oprah broadcast also some time ago I never had a clue we'd keep mining comedy gold from this dude.
So much for the new charity...

 

[Pazuzu]

well, if Lance can afford Kobe's lawyer I guess he can't be dead broke yet!

I can't imagine he'd even need an attorney for this. My guess is he'll get a small fine and, at worst, community service. The real damage is to his public image. All the articles I've seen begin with "Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong." And of course, this incident serves as a strong reminder of his untrustworthiness and general shady character. Fighting this in court, rather than accepting responsibility for his actions, will further harm his image.

 

[blackcat]

That's why I nicknamed him Oedipus Tex so long ago.
When I foretold of the Oprah broadcast also some time ago I never had a clue we'd keep mining comedy gold from this dude.
So much for the new charity...

that was a great nickname Oldman, chapeau to you for that christening to the aethist.

I think i will have to do a search on the bibliography<strikethru> glossary thread. There was a quadrant on gettyimages or some photo agency that had this 4 partner picture. But his mom not Anna Hansen. It was from about 7 years back. I could never find the one original which had his mom. I gotta say, the original was the best, with his mom.

and congrats again for coining the nickname. I think I remember it over on cyclingforums being used. There were a few great threads of snark there, and one of the other handles Race Radio previously used.

<thumbsup>

 

[blackcat]

I can't imagine he'd even need an attorney for this. My guess is he'll get a small fine and, at worst, community service. The real damage is to his public image. All the articles I've seen begin with "Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong." And of course, this incident serves as a strong reminder of Armstrong untrustworthiness and general shady character.

his first crashed car and the hit and run was back around 1990 in another TX city I think with his first major mentor, the guy who used to have cyclists live with him and sponsor them and the US national jnr team. I first thought he was in tri, but the most recent info was he was a sponsor for the national jnr team. ex businessman. not an owner of a little bike shop or triathlond shop. He died of cancer or a heart attack in about 92 or 93.

Anyway, Armstrong had a big night and was borrowing one of the second cars for the friends, like a mitsubishi sport, and Armstrong was DUI, and crashed it. And left it somewhere for someone else to handle the $hit. think it was a different city like Dallas or Houston. coulda been Corpus Christi or San Antonio

If anyone knows Australian Rules Football, sounds alot like Benny Cousins midnight dip in the Swan River.

So Armstrong... par for the course. 25 yrs later.

 

[Robert21]

One thing that amuses me about the way so many now say that they 'always knew' Armstrong as a doper and a *** is that so few seem to reflect on just why he was so popular in the first place. OK, so the 'patron saint of cancer' act helped to 'broaden and deepen the brand' as Bill Stapleton put it, but above and beyond this Armstrong was the perfect poster boy for the 'myth of meritocracy' which underpins the so-called 'American dream'. That is, you can achieve anything, and be whatever you want to be, so long as you are willing to work hard enough for it. (Truly,'work will set you free'...) In turn, those who are powerful and wealthy deserve respect because they must have worked really hard to have so much, and those who don't 'succeed' deserve nothing but contempt as they must surely be lazy and feckless. All BS of course: as George Carlin put it 'It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it'.

On top of this Armstrong and his coterie were not adverse to exploiting and feeding anti-French xenophobia, something that many of his followers lapped up.

I can't help feeling that at least some of the vitriol directed at Armstrong arises from the uncomfortable realisation that his exposure shows just how much the values and prejudices of his followers are actually built on sand.

 

[Pazuzu]

I can't help feeling that at least some of the vitriol directed at Armstrong arises from the uncomfortable realisation that his exposure shows just how much the values and prejudices of his followers are actually built on sand.

You might be onto something there. The reader comments on Yahoo for this story were almost universally scathing, with many people pointing out that they used to be big supporters of his.

 

[mewmewmew13]

That's why I nicknamed him Oedipus Tex so long ago.
When I foretold of the Oprah broadcast also some time ago I never had a clue we'd keep mining comedy gold from this dude.
So much for the new charity...

You couldn't make any of this up

and wow..he has a thing for that type of chin

 

[D-Queued]

I can't imagine he'd even need an attorney for this. My guess is he'll get a small fine and, at worst, community service. The real damage is to his public image. All the articles I've seen begin with "Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong." And of course, this incident serves as a strong reminder of his untrustworthiness and general shady character. Fighting this in court, rather than accepting responsibility for his actions, will further harm his image.

Logic hasn't stopped him yet.

Fight, Lance, fight!!

Dave.

 

[thehog]

**** Fuld has done a way better job.

Just stay out of the limelight & continues to make a lot of money.

 

[mewmewmew13]

also am really appreciating blackcat's new sig
`I'm Anna, we're the Armstrongs, my husband's Lance, he was just driving maybe too fast around the corner or something,'

 

[blackcat]

I can't help feeling that at least some of the vitriol directed at Armstrong arises from the uncomfortable realisation that his exposure shows just how much the values and prejudices of his followers are actually built on sand.

good post Robert.

And truth be told, this para, if folks loo in the mirror most share an element of this, or an entirety.

but remember, you are dealing with a self-selective-sample. The Clinic 12, and everyone who visits here did know from almost the beginning, some from before the beginning, some knew of the triathlon hijinks and doping then.

Its just getting some of our own back. Folks can remember the insufferable fanbois and livestrong interns as sockpuppets and astroturfing boards, much like the empire crew for Froome and Wiggins. And we have short memories, we remember those on Dailypeloton like Chris H, House, Steve in Atlanta, and who could forget Hombre, and his other iterations, Hombre de Subaru, and Bobke. He was truly truly insufferable. His son was an intern at Livestrong.

Oncearunner, aka Glen, is quite close mates with him. well, not really, he found out who he was tho.

We are merely just getting our own back, revelling in the schadenfreude. and entertaining ourself, much like April Macy.

 

[D-Queued]

freud or jung?

oedipus was sigmund, so i would send her to a freudian analyst.

I like this picture that went with the Guardian story.

'cuz he looks so... so... stoned?

Dave.

 

[blackcat]

also am really appreciating blackcat's new sig
`I'm Anna, we're the Armstrongs, my husband's Lance, he was just driving maybe too fast around the corner or something,'

or something.

tell ur farkin story walkin, I dont give a sh!t if you are The Jetsons

 

[blackcat]

I like this picture that went with the Guardian story.

'cuz he looks so... so... stoned?

Dave.

McConaughey was the king of 1990s stoner comedies.

I can raise you on "donut grease" D-Q.

Wooderson(McConaughey): That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

 

[Bosco10]

I can't imagine he'd even need an attorney for this. My guess is he'll get a small fine and, at worst, community service. The real damage is to his public image. All the articles I've seen begin with "Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong." And of course, this incident serves as a strong reminder of his untrustworthiness and general shady character. Fighting this in court, rather than accepting responsibility for his actions, will further harm his image.

True, and this one incident will get tons more attention than than all of his self-serving "I'm the scapegoat" interviews.

 

[blackcat]

i so wish sigmund was alive and he could psychoanalyze Lance and his shiksas

 

[blackcat]

D-Q you will like this pap from McConaughey. They deserve each other
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...confession-matthew-mcconaughey_n_2527452.html

 

[D-Queued]

D-Q you will like this pap from McConaughey. They deserve each other
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...confession-matthew-mcconaughey_n_2527452.html

To be honest, I cannot figure out McConaughey.

It was easy to dismissively comment when he was just a two-dimensional pretty boy.

But, then threw away at least some of his beefcake pretty boy image by losing a bunch of weight to become a multi-time Oscar contender.

Was that part of his Lance purge? If so, he actually owes the guy.

Dave.

 

[mewmewmew13]

D-Q you will like this pap from McConaughey. They deserve each other
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...confession-matthew-mcconaughey_n_2527452.html

eww!
they do deserve each other.

barf

 

[blackcat]

To be honest, I cannot figure out McConaughey.

It was easy to dismissively comment when he was just a two-dimensional pretty boy.

But, then threw away at least some of his beefcake pretty boy image by losing a bunch of weight to become a multi-time Oscar contender.

Was that part of his Lance purge? If so, he actually owes the guy.

Dave.

they call it "seeking credibility" in Hollywood.

And its a common trope, that the Academy indulges. Make urself ugly, get an oscar. Probably 10000 actors who are more deserving for their acting chops, but Hollywood is a business. McConaughey funded, or had help in funding the production, of this Oscar bait. With the awards, begets new opportunities and new roles. But that MTV interview on yahoo or huffington post, he used Lipotropin or some peptides to lost the Dallas HIV weight. So even in creating the Stanislavsky method, he was doing it on the fraud down-low.

 

[mewmewmew13]

they call it "seeking credibility" in Hollywood.

And its a common trope, that the Academy indulges. Make urself ugly, get an oscar. Probably 10000 actors who are more deserving for their acting chops, but Hollywood is a business. McConaughey funded, or had help in funding the production, of this Oscar bait. With the awards, begets new opportunities and new roles. But that MTV interview on yahoo or huffington post, he used Lipotropin or some peptides to lost the Dallas HIV weight. So even in creating the Stanislavsky method, he was doing it on the fraud down-low.

not AICAR?

 

[thehog]

not AICAR?

Yes he was driving a car.... *boom tish*

 

[thehog]

Photos released of Lance's SUV... Cool number plate

http://www.9news.com/story/news/local/2015/02/05/photos-of-armstrongs-damaged-suv-released/22948501/

 

[thehog]

Photos released of Lance's SUV... Cool number plate

http://www.9news.com/story/news/local/2015/02/05/photos-of-armstrongs-damaged-suv-released/22948501/

Humor is often the best medicine.

 

[Tonton]

I like this picture that went with the Guardian story.

'cuz he looks so... so... stoned?

Dave.

Well, the way things are going,here's the perfect girfriend for LA.

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/...aF8gbUan4sJOPJsLZXS6bEuh0i4G7INjKFVEkW9-HlHjg