Confidential to E/O
 

There are live updates every few minutes during the stage on the TdF website, which is usually over by 11 am east coast time. Then the rerun is on OLN at 9 pm east coast time. B/c the stage winner was an American, who also had the classic sports-hero element of overcoming incredible pain and injury to triumph, it was front-and-center on even the lamest news web site by noon yesterday.

Since you're not a TdF freak like some of us you wouldn't realize of course, so your point is otherwise well taken, but there is no way in hell that when E/O posted it was a spoiler for anyone.

That said, Tyler has the most incredible capacity for pain of anyone in his field--so, any athlete on the planet. Truly, the next time some whiny golfer or tennis freak whines about their wrist or elbow or hamstring, they ought to be freely slapped.

Edited to say, after yesterday's stage, Petacchi is reluctantly off my crush list--I agree with Baden Cooke, he's a wuss. :(

Confidential to E/O
 

OK, point taken. But why did she post an article on it from the NYT if it was relatively old news that was splashed everywhere? Thats why I thought it might be spoiler bc I didnt see the sense of posting this if it were not. If that makes any sense.

Confidential to E/O
 

I think E/O's problem is that she didn't opine that Tyler was on her crush list, or that he was bangable. That would have made it suitable FB material.:rolleyes:

It was a remarkable effort. And I'm sure Lance was holding up the peleton just the right amount.

Cybersex
 

Okay, so there was this PhD chick on O'Reilly last night who said that cybersex is cheating. Now, I have never understood how one gets off by typing things like "I have my mouth on your cock" to one another but to each his/her own I suppose and I can't see where it is cheating any more than having a crush on CZ-J or something. Oddly enough, the PhD chick seemed to be implying that even having a thought about sex not involving your mate was tantamount to cheating. This stuff goes beyond the "is a blow-job sex" debate and into a really weird place. I wonder if she would still consider it cheating if it turned out that a dude's cybersex partner was really a 50 year old fat bald guy rather than the "Marilyn Monroe look-alike" he thought he as chatting with. Does anyone here agree with the PhD chick?

Confidential to E/O
 

You just love that eyeroll emoticon don't you?

I think I may have to agree with Lester (!) that there are many posts of middling interest to various people (and I know I am guilty of this as well). I wonder if there is a way to ingore posts with a certain keyword in the header since sports dont stay on the sports board (and I usually only post tennis results for the people on my laminated list who are bangable and therefore it is FB apppropriate).

desperately seeking dating advice
 

I agree on this one 100%. You must issue definite invitations, or they don't count (or, they are the equivalent of "let's have lunch": unspecific invitations can be presumed to show friendliness but no actual desire to ever see the invitee again). That means specifying a day, starting time and activity. It gives her something concrete to reject.

If she doesn't accept 3 times (unless she offers a definite counter-invitation, e.g.: "I can't do it saturday, could we try dinner Sunday instead?"), stop asking, it's called harassment. If she (and you) have screwed up the process of asking others on dates so badly that neither of you is sure whether you have been rejected or not, if she wants to go out with you she needs to do the asking.

I'd suggest "Saturday dinner at 7," and if she doesn't accept that one, say "well, you seem to be awfully busy. Why don't you let me know when you have some time if you would like to get together" and don't ask her again until she does. If she's rules-ey, she won't (though she could drop a broad "hmm, a whole weekend with nothing to do" hint and still let you ask her), but if she is you don't want to date her anyway.

BR(Friends?)C

Confidential to E/O
 

B/c it went into more edifying detail and analysis than our immediate responses, which run along the rather simple lines of, "Holy crap! I can't believe he did that with a double-fractured collarbone!" (It takes a few minutes for the more sophisticated arguments over strategy, import for Tyler's potential podium shot, reaction of Euskaltel team, etc. to set in).

Oh, and I heart Phil Liggett (a TdF commentator, Paigs)--I await his daily stage analysis on the TdF site with baited breath.

Confidential to E/O
 

I find the scroll wheel and/or down arrow are particularly effective in moving past the uninteresting posts.


:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :
damn. can't get enough of that emoticon.:D

desperately seeking dating advice
 

A Rules girl would never admit she has a weekend of nothign to do. The Rules are about playing hard to get, remember? It is a wonder you ever got married (hey burger, can I borrow your eyeroll emoticon?)

Yes, Friends. THe one where Jennifer Aniston's real life boyfriend Tate Donovan playeder her personal shopper customer and she offered him two tix to the Knix and he took the tix and his nephew. I am going to write a book called "everything I know I learned from Chandler Bing". It will include every beaten to death passe joke from the nineties (with the exception of "Not!")

Thanks for playing.

Cybersex
 

Is reading bodice-ripping romance novels cheating, too? Penthouse?

Cybersex seems, to me, to be a matter of getting off on imagining what an amateurishly drawn fictional character is gonna do to you if she gets her hands on you, or getting off on imagining that while looking at pictures, at most. If that sort of sinning in one's own mind is cheating, then humans are not monogamous animals after all, and we are all a bunch of ho-bags.

BR(waiting for Lester's rebuttal of that last, but whatever)C

desperately seeking dating advice
 

I should read the Rules at some point, I guess, for a lark. Anyhow, anyone playing hard to get such that she screws up basic social rules (i.e.: rejecting 3 invitations is the way civilized people say "I'm dropping you socially") deserves what she gets.

Confidential to E/O
 

So basically if you are interested, then it is FB appropriate.

I posted after the re-air for people who are mildly interested in the performance of an American warrior riding alone with a broken collarbone but who don't actually watch or cannot get OLN (60% of cable hhs).

Samuel Abt is writing some of the best stuff available on the tour (and I would know since I read almost everything available in English), so the link to his article in particular is helpful for those who want a little more but don't want to check the Guardian, Velonews, OLNTV, cyclingnews, the age, and the rest.

Don't like it? Keep scrolling. You could always put me on ignore.

Even(interrupting my vacation)Odds

Flash Mobs
 

I saw this article this morning in a media email and I wondered what an FB flash mob would do.

"how hundreds of people simultaneously get a message to gather someplace, like the rug department of Macy's._They get there, create a scene, and then leave. They call it "flash mobbing."

One is reportedly set for Minneapolis on July 30._Here is what seems to be a flash mob in the making for Boston.

One of the latest Manhattan flash mobs brought together more than 250 strangers at the Hyatt Hotel. They fanned out along the block-long balcony overlooking the hotel lobby and, at a precise moment, burst into 15 seconds of loud, unexplained applause, then drifted off into the night."

Here is a link to the Manhattan flash mob.

protein bars
 

ALL of this shit is a scam. Protein bars, Cliff bars, Powerbars, GU (for distance athletes). All bullshit. You can get what these things give you NATURALLY, i.e., in fruits, vegetables, tuna, soy, eggs, milk, etc., and your body will digest them better. How much protein does everyone think we need? Eat some eggs. The fat WILL NOT KILL YOU. Has no one else noticed the correlation b/w the fatness of the U.S. and the availability of low-fat foods? We need fat. I used to eat Cliff bars and take GU for marathon training. And then I woke up, realized it tastes like shit, and did some research to see what the elite athletes do. Well they sure as shit don't ingest GU at mile 19.

Yes, we eat way to many BAD carbs, but supplementing all of the carbs we eat with protein is unhealthy for other reasons. A banana won't give you the protein, but it'll give you GOOD carbs (sugar) for energy. Eat a banana.

Eat a peach.

Here I am.

Rock me like a hurricane.

desperately seeking dating advice
 

The good thing about The Rules is you can easily read the whole book in 15 minutes at Barnes & Noble or the chain store of your choice.

Cybersex
 

I'm not sure I agree entirely, but I've seen a couple of marriages break up because of on-line interactions, and I have seen five babies and probably another dozen marriages spring up because of on-line interactions. I don't want to even begin to speculate on how many hookups I know about that arose out of on-line flirting.

The longer I've been on the net, the more I'm convinced that anonymity is pretty much a sham.

Newsflash
 

I say good riddance. You're better off without someone stupid enough to let a fantasy world infect his reality.

I recently heard someone say they were upset because a relative of theirs was marrying a non-Jew. I found the statement utterly fucking pathetic. There's no worse measure of a man than the heritage he happened to be born into and no lesser a person than one who values idiot traditions above peoples' feelings for one another.

I hope my kids marry way the fuck outside the Catholic Chursh - we'll all be a whole lot better off the more we dilute these imbecillic tribal/ethnic/religious notions that hold us back.

S(pardon the soapbox - this issue really irks me)D

Newsflash
 

You're breeding? Are you sure that is a good idea?

protein bars
 

That's fascinating, but I am specifically looking for whey protein, because a recent German study showed promise that whey protein boosts antioxidant production in people with autoimmune disorders. The test subjects were AIDS patients. I don't have AIDS, but I have an autoimmune disorder called Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic purpura. I'm in the very early stages and have been for years and could stay that way my whole life, but I'm always looking for ways to get better. Of course, there's no way you could have known any of this, and I agree, food is often the best source.

Cybersex
 

This is O'Reilly we're talking about. Your time would be better served organizing your cat's shits by color than thinking about anything spoken on his program.

S(yellow to the left, than darker up to deep brown on the right... there... done)D

Newsflash
 

To be fair, a lot of the reason for that feeling among some Jews (particularly secular ones, in my experience) is just trying to make up some numbers to fend off extinction after so many of us were slaughtered in the Holocaust. So it's not the typical stupid purely faith-related bigotry.

Of course, I generally agree. Way better off without some nutbag who takes religiosity (and identical religiosity, at that) as a measure of virtue.

protein bars
 

I understand. My rant was not necessarily directed at you. More of a rant to the masses, which you have subsequently distinguished yourself due to your disorder. Have you tried whey protein shakes?

Edited to add that I did throw in an Allman Bros reference followed by a Scorpions reference to lighten the weight of my rant. Some juxtaposition.

Nip/Tuck
 

Has anyone seen this? I have it Tivoed, but i haven't watched yet for fear of gore. Is the gore level managable? I'm intrigued, but go in with a little trepidition.

Rub/Tug
 

Has anyone had this?

Nip/Tuck
 

The gore was managable, though there was a ... mishap in the OR towards the end which was gross (and funny, in a gross sort of way). A step above network gore, not on the Sopranos level.

All in all it seemed a pretty decent pilot. Very glossy while taking the piss out of glossiness.

Cybersex
 

I find him amusing. I can't say that I always agree with him, but his books were enlightening and some of his guests are funny (but I don't think they mean to be).

Bill replays at 11pm eastern. When the game is over I like to have something on the TV while I finish my nightly beers and FoxNews Channel hooked me during the shock and awe phase of that little squirmish in Iraq. Just cuz I live in its shadow doesn't mean that I have to partake of the bullshit that streams from CNN.


Yellow shit? What are you feeding your pussies?

queer eye
 

I saw two episodes last night (thank you Tivo!) and SO and I are hooked. I expected to hate Carson (the over the top one) but he had some of the best lines! Also the one who only seems to give shavign tips is my unattainable (only bc he is gay of course) crush (tho SO wonders whether his "shave AFTER the shower" mantra is correct).

That meta annoying jerk from the American What Not to Wear should tune into this show to see how it is done. These dudes rock! Much like the cool, trendy gay boys I am used to here in Dallas.

The wife of the overweight LI dad was very cute and she didn't seem to get dissed at all by the boys (vs. blond skin-tight clothes GF in the other one).

Cybersex
 

So you are saying that you sometimes agree with him? Very enlightening. Do you agree that he should be allowed to go to a gay bathhouse?

queer eye
 

If you shave after a shower, your hair should be softer and easier to cut.
Being wet and soft reduces the chance that you'll suffer from razor bumps or ingrown hairs.

I don't know why I know this.

Edited to say -- Fuck, I was trying for the first post on my page 1000.

First Post
 

You should try to pray before you post.

protein bars
 

I eat zone bars and drink shakes because they are balanced nutrition and I cannot always eat real food when I am on a business trip (or crushed up against an important deadline). I use them as meal replacement, not as supplement.

Elite athletes may not ingest GU at mile 19, but cyclists, elite or recreational, sure as hell ingest clif shots at miles 50, 75, etc. Watch any stage of the tour and you will see them sucking down clif shots and eating powerbars. You cannot ride on consecutive days if you don't keep your nutrition level high.

Survivor
 

Now Paigow has a reason to breed. She can give her kids the Survivor experience. :D


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,92817,00.html

A pair of teachers -- who are rabid Survivor fans -- have started a camp in Tennessee for kids based on the reality show experience, and yes, they give you a chance to eat bugs.

Survivor
 

double-fuck. I don't want the damn first post on page 1000 anyway. :sobbing:

the restaurant
 

Although the premiere of NBC's The Restaurant only came in third place Sunday night with 7.5 million viewers, "business in the restaurant has been through the roof," kitchen manager John Charlesworth tells FOX News. There were also "200 messages seeking reservations on the restaurant's answering machine."


Anyone watch this last week?

the restaurant
 

And now I will collect my sonnet from EO. Thank you.

Survivor
 

You protest too much.

I'm just a set up man.

(Editted to say, or not: Congrats heat miser)

queer eye
 

But wouldn't being wet and soft mean that your skin has absorbed the water and is thus somewhat puffed up and you won't get as close a shave? So ten minutes after shaving you have to shave again or just live with 5 o'clock shadow at 10 am?

Hell, what do I know - I pull all my hairs out by the roots. I cannot be trusted with sharp objects.

Cybersex
 

Is there something illegal about disagreeing with Mr. O'Reilley? Or is everybody required to tow the same line whereever they may be?

QE / Freaky Tuesday Poll
 

I finally watched this (the latest episode with Jesus of Nazareth on a surfboard, and the previous episode with the heavily bearded computer programmer). I don't give a shit if the Post panned this series as stereotypical, I love it.

Yes, it's over the top, but it strikes me that the League of Fabulous Gentlemen are hamming it up a bit, with an acknowledgement that the joke is both on the subject but also on them. They're having enough fun that (I think) you come away not really bothered about it.

I, like Mr. Hand, am impressed at the lengths to which Bravo is going to embrace the gay audience. I tell ya, one Supes decision on sodomy and it's all downhill from there.

au contraire
 

Actually FRIENDS call him Snow Miser. Cold Miser is what I call the asshole.