The Broomwagon (off topic chat)

There he goes again, picking on the guys who were unlucky enough to be caught. Or rather the one's given villain status.


He doesn't mind some other dopers though, the nice dopers:
"My memory of [today's] stage is being congratulated by most of my peers: Vinokourov, Basso, Garzelli. Them showing you respect like that is nice."

petethedrummer wrote: »

There he goes again, picking on the guys who were unlucky enough to be caught. Or rather the one's given villain status

Are you suggesting that pro cyclists should be twittering about the people they suspect to be doping but haven't been caught yet? Wouldn't that be some sort of defamation?

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petethedrummer wrote: »

Not quite. But he shouldn't just pick on the Chicken and the Cobra. It would be a bit braver if he had a go at Vinokourov.

OK.

"People ask me all the time, 'How do you race with these guys? Why do you not spit at them?' but you can't do that," Wiggins said to Cyclingnews.

"It's only bike racing, and it's actually the system that fails us as athletes. It's not really their fault (that they come back), it's the system's fault that allows them to do it. As long as they're allowed to race, what are we supposed to do? You have to race with them and treat them like anyone else, as rivals on the road. They're human beings, they're allowed to race. You can't blame them for wanting to come back, wanting to race and make money."

"Until they test positive, you have to accept the results they achieve. Otherwise it just makes everything a mess. Steve Cummings was 25th at Liège - Bastogne - Liège but all people were taking about was Vino and all the past winners of that race that have had troubles. But what about the riders who were up there? All that talk demoralizes them."

"If someone beats me in the Tour but I finish up there, I don't want it rubbed in that they might be doped. As far as I'm concerned, they're clean and getting on with their job. That's the way you have to deal with it."

petethedrummer wrote: »

Grand, so while they're on suspension they're pieces of sh!t, when they're back (and possibly in his vacinity) they're peers and he welcomes their congratulations.

A twitterring tough guy.

Dude, like, I'm not arguing with you, I'm just pasting stuff on to the Internet.

I want to fight Bradley Wiggins.

If we are to be armed, then that shall be my weapon of choice.

Captain Havoc wrote: »

Ahem: C'est la vie pour les nouvelles technologies et l'étiquette avec ca. "That's life for new technologies and the tag with that", what are you on about man?

Capitaine 'avoc: Nazi de la grammaire

I am referring to the etiquette of internet forums

to elaborate - it's clearly still finding it's feet !!

Appears to me there are established protocols formed from when forums began on the web and then there are more general procedures that have always been in "mainstream" media - TV/newspapers etc. Then with online forums, you have relative newcomers like myself who would not be totally au fait with acceptable behaviour as it is a relatively new form of communication (eg I am still not clear on what trolling is - it never existed in such context as a term before web forums I gather. What's trolling to one person may be a totally valid point to another. And we have moderators to determine such).

The anonimity factor is also interesting in this context - don't you think?

Sorry if mods again think this is "trolling" for want of a better word but we are in tedious bickering and I am attempting to gain understanding of what exactly boards is all about! I have no intention to reduce my further participation on boards to levels where I am wasting mods time or going to their boundaries of discomfort. I am just now making a commentary on matters as I now see them.

The boards cycling forum is clearly the liveliest cycling forum in Ireland afaik. Other sports like GAA have their own "niche" sites eg Fearr Dearg etc afaik.

Sorry if I wasted anyone's time in reading this, or have caused any undue consideration by mods. All said in good spirit and with the intention of being enlightened / enlightening.

Slideshowbob wrote: »

I am referring to the etiquette of internet forums

to elaborate - it's clearly still finding it's feet !!

Appears to me there are established protocols formed from when forums began on the web and then there are more general procedures that have always been in "mainstream" media - TV/newspapers etc. Then with online forums, you have relative newcomers like myself who would not be totally au fait with acceptable behaviour as it is a relatively new form of communication (eg I am still not clear on what trolling is - it never existed in such context as a term before web forums I gather. What's trolling to one person may be a totally valid point to another. And we have moderators to determine such).

The anonimity factor is also interesting in this context - don't you think?

Sorry if mods again think this is "trolling" for want of a better word but we are in tedious bickering and I am attempting to gain understanding of what exactly boards is all about! I have no intention to reduce my further participation on boards to levels where I am wasting mods time or going to their boundaries of discomfort. I am just now making a commentary on matters as I now see them.

The boards cycling forum is clearly the liveliest cycling forum in Ireland afaik. Other sports like GAA have their own "niche" sites eg Fearr Dearg etc afaik.

Sorry if I wasted anyone's time in reading this, or have caused any undue consideration by mods. All said in good spirit and with the intention of being enlightened / enlightening.

It's quite simple... on an internet forum, it's entirely up to those who own it to decide what is and what is not acceptable, and to pass that responsibility on to mods, or cmods or admins or whatever. There's no over-arching "internet forum rules" that apply. Usually, it's accepted that people spend a bit of time lurking on a forum in order to find out what the tone is, and what is and isn't acceptable, or to start off by not being controversial etc until you've 'found your feet'.

It's not rocket science

bcmf wrote: »

....and here is me thinking the internet is all about cheap Ryanair flights, bike Porn,watching free Euro Racing and talking about riding. Such simple ideals I have

see phillip deignan has a nice new trek
and ronan mclaughlin was out
oh yes and my legs hurt after that club run

oh yes and

Bunnyhopper wrote: »

"Cyclist Friend Explains Necessity Of $35 Socks"

http://www.theonion.com/articles/cyclist-friend-explains-necessity-of-35-socks,18259/

(Gets a bit odd at the end, but I think they get the cyclist-justifying-latest-purchase aspect pretty much spot-on.)

The Onion wrote:

Coseglia added that on Sunday he traveled 25 miles to go to a special bicycle equipment store to purchase several more pairs of socks, a statement leading his friend to silently calculate that in the past week Coseglia has spent more than $100 on socks.

Amateur