I"ve been away from the computer all day, but let me see if I have this right - the stage winner has been kicked out two days in a row?
Yeah, except today's stage winner was also the leader of the race.
They're doing it backwards; walking up the down slide.
River ,'Ariel'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Jul 25, 2007 2:49:31 pm PDT #204 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
beth b - Jul 25, 2007 2:50:26 pm PDT #205 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Put me in with crowd that doesn't think blood doping i s drugs. Sounds to me like it is using your body resources. of course, using someone elses blood is odd.
Ailleann - Jul 25, 2007 2:50:30 pm PDT #206 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
A semi-worker was totally all over all of it! Jon Stewart told her she could "do better" than her partner!
It's hilarious that you know them! I just watched it a few minutes ago, and thought, "Man, somewhere those ladies are jumping up and down because not only were they on the debate, they were on TDS too!"
meara - Jul 25, 2007 2:51:17 pm PDT #207 of 10001
What you really need is an identical twin who is willing to give you transfusions...
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2007 2:53:58 pm PDT #208 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think it's been stated that doping is drugs. Just that it's against the rules.
I don't know where, for instance, they draw a line between supplements and drugs--I can't see it being a bright line sort of a thing.
But you can have drugs like steroids whose aftereffects persist a fuck of a long time after you stop doping (I know at least two former steroids users who've been clean the years I've known them, but just fucking massive nonetheless) so you're not on drugs when you're competing and lines blur, but I think we can all agree on welcoming our Hello Kitty robot overlords.
Stephanie - Jul 25, 2007 2:54:40 pm PDT #209 of 10001
Trust my rage
That's the next step - cloning yourself for blood transfusions.
Well, at least Vino doesn't have to worry about being the #1 story in cycling any more. I'd be afraid to win tomorrow.
Trudy Booth - Jul 25, 2007 2:58:01 pm PDT #210 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
My poor Mom has a neurological condition that causes generally lousy health in addition to periodic paralysis, organ shut downs, migraines, etc. She's constantly on and off of steroids, anti-biotics, pain meds, anti-inflamatories, muscle relaxers, etc.
I always tell her I want to take her to a doctor who dopes athletes -- they're masters of balancing the steroids and the blood products and the HGH and all the other goodies so they won't get detected... surely they'd be equiped to keep her at maximum functionality and they wouldn't even have to bother to hide their work.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2007 3:01:22 pm PDT #211 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not all steroids are created equally, Trudy. Is your mother on synthetic testosterone?
Jesse - Jul 25, 2007 3:03:07 pm PDT #212 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Huh? I'm confused.
Jon Stewart showed a clip from the debate -- of my semi-coworker and her partner asking the question about gay marriage -- and then made some comment about how it "personalized the issues," and THEN said, "Jen, you could do so much better!"
It's hilarious that you know them! I just watched it a few minutes ago, and thought, "Man, somewhere those ladies are jumping up and down because not only were they on the debate, they were on TDS too!"
It is totally hilarious.
Trudy Booth - Jul 25, 2007 3:05:56 pm PDT #213 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Not all steroids are created equally, Trudy. Is your mother on synthetic testosterone?
Mom has been on a variety of steroids at various strenghts and for various lengths of time.
It's an elaborate dance. What will allow her to function but not damage her kidneys or something else.
Her current doctor seems better at it than the last, he is very on top of her symptoms, ramps her on then ramps her off, and doesn't just hand her a new perscription and send her home.
For my Sister's wedding, for example, he timed her medication cycle so the best three days in it would be before, of, and after.