The Thread about Nothing....

matagi said:

Nooo ..... it wasn't me wot decimated the bathroom, it was Beebers.

I'm envisaging some horrible scenes thanks to you and Classic1. Scenes like you might find wandering into a recently used disabled toilet transformed into a wonderland of faecal matter splatter.

You all good down in Geelong Steve?

Apparently a massive storm just smashed through there guys. Batten down the hatches pauly, western burbs are next

Cadel's Race is now a 1500m swim.

classic1 said:

We're they blood doping in the 70s? No doubt. Was it prevalent? I doubt it. The back up support wasn't there. Ricco nearly killed himself doing it himself only a few years ago. Would have even been more basic and difficult in the 70s

I know of an Aussie pro who tried it in the 70s, reckoned it was like a rocket up his [censored], but only did it once. Lasse Viren definitely did in athletics. So did Zoetemelk. Moser too for the hour. Probably did for Milan Sanremo and maybe one bag in the giro as well. The rumors of Gaston Nencini blood doping are apparently [censored]. The rumors around anquetil likely true.

Fignon in 83? I don't think so, just a gut feeling. He was a bit special when he was on form and healthy and he was pretty candid about his other doping. Why lie?

Basing blood doping and medical practices in the 70's against Ricco a few years ago is a bit of a stretch. The Yanks did it very successfully in a hotel room in 84. If Guimard wanted to do it in 83 I'm sure he could. Merckx knew about transfusions prior to his hour record.

Millar's account of warming up for the last TT with a bunch of guys and Fignon passing them all and despite doing through and off, Fignon just rode off into the distance at will speaks volumes. Fignon apparently shifted down into the 13 on the hills because he thought he ought to...

If we're still doing Deadpool nominations:

Sean Penn.

cheetahmk7 said:

At the RCH?

Nah.

gplama said:

Hope all is/will be well.

Ta.

swampy1970 said:

Basing blood doping and medical practices in the 70's against Ricco a few years ago is a bit of a stretch. The Yanks did it very successfully in a hotel room in 84. If Guimard wanted to do it in 83 I'm sure he could. Merckx knew about transfusions prior to his hour record.

Millar's account of warming up for the last TT with a bunch of guys and Fignon passing them all and despite doing through and off, Fignon just rode off into the distance at will speaks volumes. Fignon apparently shifted down into the 13 on the hills because he thought he ought to...

Stating fignon blood doped because he rode fast is drawing a long bow. He wasn't even in the top 20 favourites for the 83 tour. He would have had to have withdrawn a fortnight before the tour. It never happened, you are talking [censored]. If he was on anything it would have been something like Synacthen immediate because it worked and they couldn't test for it.

Btw, did you know a few of those seppos got sick from blood doping in that hotel room?

classic1 said:

You all good down in Geelong Steve?
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he's in Orbost

The other Steve.

classic1 said:

You all good down in Geelong Steve?

Apparently a massive storm just smashed through there guys. Batten down the hatches pauly, western burbs are next

Office at work got flooded, roads in town were like rivers apparently. At home there wasn't any sign there had been a storm, it must have completely missed us.

classic1 said:

The other Steve.

Oops. I thought you might've pictured BP and his tent being washed into the bay. 🙂

Gerro should be hard to beat on sunday.

So ...... Barbie gets "real". I'm looking forward to the trend continuing and seeing Action Man with a pot belly and fluoro vest.

[censored], I've caught the gardening bug crazy-time. What's happening to me?!!

During yesterday's storm I was out in the pissing rain moving pots that weren't meant to get too wet, and I even brought some inside, leaving puddles. 😄

I've also been going to Kmart (Burwood) at about 2am to buy cheap succulents ($5 for the tiny ones) and cheap pots in which I plant stuff at 3am, with a miner's lamp on me head. Now that I'm closer to 50 than 45, is this normal? :p

I even have a propagation tray with succulent leaves that are growing babies.

lols

Yes completely normal. (isn't it?)

Got an urgent request for a Cadbury Twirl 'Mint'. These moments are not a discussion.

Shortly thereafter I find myself in a car on a solo mission to safewaystopartwithyourmonays. I masterfully navigate the most efficient path to the lolly eisle, for nothing sharpens the mind like an unfinished episode of Making a Murderer on the netflicka.

It all starts to turn nasty from here. No Twirl 'Mint'. Yes a shelf label. No real thing. Do I still have the tent in the back of the car? Surely I cant go home. Failure wasnt and option and the 'heres a substitute product and a big smile' caper is sheer lunacy.

Two fat chicks in safeway snot green shirts then come down the eisle. Shelf packers! I approach. Yada yada - 'if they aint on the shelf we aint got them yada yada.

As I disappear into the distance in a shroud of disappointment I overhear them:

Fattest Chick to Fat Chick 2: 'Have you tried one of them yet? Those new Mint Twirls?'
Fat [censored] to Fattest Beast: 'Nah.'
Supreme Rotunda to Wildebeest 2: 'Ohhhhh Sooooo Good. Soooo Good.'

[censored] unreallllllll. [censored].

**********

Dear Safeway CEO,

Please excuse my handwriting as I write to you from the modest confines of my tent.

I have discovered why your business is underperforming relative to Aldi.

You are hiring too many fat chicks who are eating the food faster than they can stock the shelves.

Stop hiring these chocolate hogging porked up wildebeests.

Yours Faithfully,

GV.

LOL Too funny Vadar!

Lolz at vadar

Nev, this is normal. Today I had a 3 hour ride, demolished a pile of pikelets and a pot of coffee, picked tomatoes and beans, pulled weeds and dead headed roses. Congrats you're an old cnut

62vette said:

Nev, this is normal. Today I had a 3 hour ride, demolished a pile of pikelets and a pot of coffee, picked tomatoes and beans, pulled weeds and dead headed roses. Congrats you're an old cnut

That's good to know, although I kinda like thinking I'm weird.. I also grab pots of hard rubbish piles in the middle of the night, 😄