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Eddie Merckx
Won the big 3 tours plus all of the Classics all while off his face on drugs. Amazing bloke. If I was as high as the riders were in those days I'd be lucky to make it to the end of my street without falling off.
He was almost certainly the greatest ever rider. He'd have thrashed everyone riding clean too.0 -
Won the big 3 tours plus all of the Classics all while off his face on drugs. Amazing bloke. If I was as high as the riders were in those days I'd be lucky to make it to the end of my street without falling off.
He was almost certainly the greatest ever rider. He'd have thrashed everyone riding clean too.
I watched this:The Armstrong Lie
when it was on tv fairly recently. I guess you may have already seen it Gen? It was really interesting (well, I found it interesting) as he was being filmed for a documentary as all the revelations came out.0 -
We discussed some of these a while ago. There was a graph of deaths in young men whose two spikes coincided with the two dips in banana consumption in young men. Turns out they also coincided with world wars.:cool:Those are from Tyler Vigen's website, called Spurious Correlations. http://www.tylervigen.com/.
He set up a programme to compare random pairs of small sets of data, and after comparing many, many pairs the two graphs you showed are some of the 'best'.
Curiously, I thought that website was flagged up in this forum previously? Possibly by you, Gen? Or did I see it somewhere else?
There have been threads in the Arms about such series. Tripids and Marianne Dreams were very scary. The Singing Ringing Tree was a kids fairy tale from East Germany that was pretty frightening. There's loads of stuff that was wiped though on the Bulk Eraser. The Out of the Unknown episode "Something in the Cellar" was utterly terrifying.ukmaggie45 wrote: »I found this on FaceBook, and have spent most of today reading the comments and watching scary stuff on YouTube... Have enough viewing to keep me going for months!
:rotfl:There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »Thirded. Lots of potential to get messy.
Agree completely.
In my 'yoof' I had several relationships start that way.
They all ended the same way too......
People that search for the next while still with the last may flatter the ego in the short term, but one day you'll be the last and they'll be with the next.... Most definitely not worth the hassle.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
I love the fact that a 20-something year old has driven his P reg Toyota onto the beach and got it firmly stuck in the mud, where it has been submerged repeatedly by the tide. That's not particularly funny. What's funny is that the local council have said rather rather optimistically that they are in discussions with the owner for him to retrieve it. Yes, sure, that's going to work.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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I love the fact that a 20-something year old has driven his P reg Toyota onto the beach and got it firmly stuck in the mud, where it has been submerged repeatedly by the tide. That's not particularly funny. What's funny is that the local council have said rather rather optimistically that they are in discussions with the owner to retrieve it. Yes, sure, that's going to work.
In my day we'd have bribed a farmer with a bottle of single malt to get it out. I can assure you from experience that tractors are the best things ever for retrieving cars stuck in mud/sand/water.
Failing that, we'd have drunk the bottle of single malt and set the car on fire as the tide came in as a nod to Viking funeral ceremonies, then called it in as stolen.
Being in discussion with the council wouldn't even have registered on the scale of possible outcomes.....:rotfl:“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
I say go have a nice drink. It's for her to judge her current relationship. Then I do throw myself at life headfirst.
Reading mas's post its not just her relationship but extended social network relationship. If this did have legs others would know that neither of them could be trusted.
I don't think its a thing to do with throwing self at life head first, or with having fun or anything of the sort.0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Agree completely.
In my 'yoof' I had several relationships start that way.
They all ended the same way too......
People that search for the next while still with the last may flatter the ego in the short term, but one day you'll be the last and they'll be with the next.... Most definitely not worth the hassle. I was still slightly entangled with the last when I started going out with OH.:o I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
On my way home tonight I overtook two cyclists pedalling away quite happily in the dark with no lights on their bikes. The worst of the two was dressed in black, with a black rucksack, on a dark coloured bicycle and cycling down an unlit country lane.
I thought this was a strange thing to do. Maybe they were caught out by the clocks changing. It doesn't seem very sensible.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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