Contador, Armstrong and Schleck to form super-team!

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Friggin' OFF-SEASON! We're going stir-crazy- and here's the proof.

Pliny… I have no words. (I am sure that you can feel the death-stare that I am aiming at you, LOL)

by Lou... on Dec 2, 2009 2:11 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

You know what we need?

Lots of mid-week cross races. That would keep us from resorting to this…

by dansel on Dec 2, 2009 10:51 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Here here!

by Albertina on Dec 2, 2009 11:09 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Or maybe a Wednesday Session...

Early yet out in the Surf Zone, though.

It was just a long race--Edvald Boasson Hagen, on the Giro

by majope on Dec 2, 2009 11:33 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Oh look, it's Wednesday!

That had quite passed me by…

by Albertina on Dec 2, 2009 12:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

very early

And I think I need a bike ride.

by gavia on Dec 2, 2009 12:25 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Procrastination!!!

by Albertina on Dec 2, 2009 1:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Ride ride ride!

Riding stimulates creativity. At least this is the excuse I use when the girlfriend asks, incredulously, if I’m really going out for 3 hours when I have work to do.

by dansel on Dec 2, 2009 4:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

yep

Always have to go out and play before writing. Otherwise, you get crappy writing ;-)

by gavia on Dec 2, 2009 5:49 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Over at your place?

by tedvdw on Dec 2, 2009 5:36 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

That song and video is EPIC!!!!

and for all the wrong reasons.

Look, it's a bird...no, it's a plane....oh never mind it's just fucking balloon boy

by Phil H. on Dec 2, 2009 2:35 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Personally i think Frinking should go on an adventure to the Land of the Angelsacian

so he can write about it… because that vid is scary. So Pliny did your wear your jeans that high? And ‘they’ say cycling is homoerotic. Lol.

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Dec 2, 2009 2:35 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

To do what?

by Frinking on Dec 2, 2009 8:01 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

What/whoever takes your fancy... I'm just in the mood for a good 'yarn'

as we would say in Australia…. and really you have a good history of making something out of nothing :)

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Dec 2, 2009 8:13 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

So you rank me a high as...

Woow.. I’m flattered

by Frinking on Dec 2, 2009 5:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Well you're not Tim Winton, but some day...

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Dec 2, 2009 8:43 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It's almost coincidence..

But favorite song now is a cover of Ben Folds Five – One angry dwarf and 200 solemn faces .. Well then a good Dutch version of the song.. Just dreaming (:

by Frinking on Dec 3, 2009 3:42 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not quite getting the coincidence,

but if it’s about being creative then maybe it fits :)

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Dec 3, 2009 8:15 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Enjoy Ben Folds Five

listening to them brought me to R. Spektor

No horn, watch for finger.

by sminer on Dec 4, 2009 12:19 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

*Angelsachian... damn... don't correct my spelling again :(

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Dec 2, 2009 2:36 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl.

by TheFigurehead on Dec 2, 2009 5:47 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

hehe...

yeah, as Lou says, it’s the off-season, about 5 months ’til spring here…

I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it

by plinytheelder on Dec 2, 2009 6:28 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

You understand that for some of us it's summer? Beach was beautiful today :)

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Dec 2, 2009 6:39 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah but to enjoy it you have to live 5 days from civilization! ps I still wear my jeans that high!

I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it

by plinytheelder on Dec 2, 2009 7:53 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Nah, Sydney's full of beaches too..

I’ve heard those jeans are back in fashion =(

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Dec 2, 2009 7:57 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

exactly - 5 days from any civilization...

I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it

by plinytheelder on Dec 2, 2009 2:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Oops. I forgot the US was the centre of the universe..

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Dec 2, 2009 8:39 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

close…I actually live in the world’s biggest environmental rogue state, one that’s currently coming to terms with possible prisoner abuse in Afghanistan…probably not the country you’re thinking of, though.

I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it

by plinytheelder on Dec 3, 2009 8:28 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Too cryptic for me. Thought you might mean Oz

but you don’t live here and prisoners in Afghanistan haven’t been on the agenda. Anyway, I obviously have no clue … not unusual for me I’m afraid..

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Dec 3, 2009 11:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

A couple of clues from today's paper

Here and here

by Drongo on Dec 4, 2009 2:14 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

While I was there, I found

this as well.

Frinking should redirect his animus.

by Drongo on Dec 4, 2009 2:24 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Does that hurt?

by Frinking on Dec 4, 2009 4:02 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

HAHA!

new comment of year!

I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it

by plinytheelder on Dec 4, 2009 6:09 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

agreed

a great response

by Drongo on Dec 4, 2009 8:57 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Ok. And whilst other names flicked through my head, this wasn't one of them...

Thanks Drongo ….
But ‘biggest environmental rogue state’..Pliny, I think you have plenty of competition.

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Dec 4, 2009 3:11 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Ooh.. I heard something hocking..

Australia is responsible for 1.5% of the CO2, or other thing, emission.. That’s the most CO2 per head of the population.. You even beat the USA! and Japan! and… Woow i was shocked.. and concerned about this… There went my image about Australia…

by Frinking on Dec 4, 2009 4:05 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Ooops. Face it though, your image of Australia was always a bit tainted...

but yes, we need to get our act together. The fact that we have so much space and so many beautiful and low density living makes us complacent and that’s not OK.

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Dec 4, 2009 4:20 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

then again, Holland beats China, and (I’m guessing) 90% of the world…

I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it

by plinytheelder on Dec 4, 2009 6:10 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

How many is a lot/one miljard people?

It’s obvious China can still go a long way.. And if it’s just 90% we are ding pretty ok.. Than we beat most of the civilized/more developed countries

by Frinking on Dec 4, 2009 7:29 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Ok.. Based on this map forget what I said before

http://breathingearth.net/

W, the Dutch,e may not speak than.. We are doing very bad…

by Frinking on Dec 4, 2009 7:42 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

That's an amazing site. Thank you

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Dec 4, 2009 8:01 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

yes Drongo is right

we’re now “to climate change as Japan is to whaling,” bloody embarrassing

I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it

by plinytheelder on Dec 4, 2009 6:11 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Now that's a scary comparison...

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Dec 4, 2009 6:29 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

So wait,

you are not, or no longer, in MPLS? Please update PdC Map!

by tedvdw on Dec 4, 2009 8:52 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

oh yeah! I don’t know how to change it though, can you change it for me? Halifax Nova Scotia Canada. By the way where did you learn the abbreviation (Mpls)? Cool.

I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it

by plinytheelder on Dec 4, 2009 9:25 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Jens made the map

Only he can update it. Or someone could copy it to his own account and update from there. That would be silly.

Uhm, I don’t know where I picked that up, probably either Prince or Smithers.

by tedvdw on Dec 4, 2009 9:39 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Done

by Jens on Dec 5, 2009 1:43 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Okay, let me get this straight

You’re saying Sydney is too far from civilisation and you live in Nova Scotia?

That is a little funny.

by Drongo on Dec 5, 2009 1:07 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I was trying to ignore that.

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Dec 5, 2009 3:58 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

ah I think you're taking me a bit seriously -

I was joking about Australia being a 24 hour flight from everywhere…except its own crassness… ;) (just kidding around Australia)

I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it

by plinytheelder on Dec 5, 2009 12:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

a good response though -

touché! ;)

I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it

by plinytheelder on Dec 5, 2009 12:47 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Can anyone in the English speaking world ever point the finger

at anyone else over ‘crassness’? It’s an art form…

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Dec 5, 2009 2:48 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

hehe true enough

By the way I just read that there’s a move afoot to suspend us from the Commonwealth over our climate policies, as we’re contributing to flooding in other Commonwealth countries (Bangladesh, Maldives, etc.). General crassness, indeed.

I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it

by plinytheelder on Dec 5, 2009 3:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Postcolonialism rocks... unless you're in Zimbabwe

and all the other small places that have been used up and spat out. Still such a move should squeeze money/aid out of other wealthier nations, so it’s no bad thing. Whether we do anything serious about climate change… well that’s another matter.

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Dec 5, 2009 3:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Indeed

Although I’d rather be taken to task for our real embarrassments than, for example, the seal hunt. (But I can’t help cringing that he apparently flew all the way to Canada to write about the tar sands… from Toronto.)

by Krtek on Dec 4, 2009 10:53 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs