Famous?

each.

^ arf!

That's what I was after, someone to tell me what the interest is.

I don't and never have understood fame. I am interested in people that I know and not people I'll never meet.

Knowledge interests me. Personal achievement doesn't.

That said. Now tell me why she is discussed on aesthetic appeal rather than cycling ability?

ok but there's a world of difference between personal achievement (winning big bruvver) and personal achievement of VP:

If you're saying that even VP's achievements aren't of interest to you, then fair enough. What interests *me *(in no particular order):

• how you get so damn successful
  
• what it's like being a female sports woman (how do you survive in the "she has to be pretty too, or I'm not interested" world)
  
• what the impact of her and the rest of the team raising the profile of track cycling is (on people in the UK as a whole as well as cyclists)
  
  

I think you've got an interesting point tho. My counter to you is that fame and achievement are a consequence of knowledge.

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well done, now there are 5 threads, how about a nice cup of...

for the record, I would like to be friends with Pendleton. Maybe we could invite her to drinks. She seems lovely.

"I think Object has put on a bit of weight."
"I'd like him to ride my bike if you know what I mean!"
"I can't stand that Object.. so full of himself"
"All the attention must make Object a bit mental"
"Did you see Object was yesterday's page 3 in the Sun?"

Moo.

I don't give a toss about famous people's fame, it sounds trite but it's what they're like as people that counts and fame turns many of them into bell-ends they would otherwise not have been.

Though someone famous said something along the lines of "beware fame, it will bring the real you out - whatever you spend your life hiding will be hidden no more". Something like that.

My favourite line about fame is from A Bout De Souffle, where there's an interview going on with a pretentious film director (played nice and tongue-in-cheek by Jean Pierre Melville, a great film director).

What is your ambition?
To become immortal, then die.

Great film that, especially the scene where she is trying to work out front tooth, rear tooth equivalence on her Peugeot.

someone photo shop a front cover of closer with Pendleton's face and a shocker headline please. I would but I have no skill or whit.

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Great film that, especially the scene where she is trying to work out front tooth, rear tooth equivalence on her Peugeot.

"This is how many orgasms you owe me, Frenchie."

Fred,

• how you get so damn successful
  Do you actually care about someone else's success? They are not you so their achievement means nothing. What did you achieve this year?
  
• what it's like being a female sports woman (how do you survive in the "she has to be pretty too, or I'm not interested" world)
  As opposed to the white middle class dominated rest of the western world. How do you cope with discrimination in your life? Surely that is far more interesting to you? Are you able to walk away from any situation which may arise, holding your head high and stating, "I handled that well"?
  
• what the impact of her and the rest of the team raising the profile of track cycling is (on people in the UK as a whole as well as cyclists)
  Why do we care if our chosen sport is high profile? Do you wish to earn a career from it? Will you stop riding and move to the next fad when fgixed wheel becomes oh-so-last-year-dahling? People knowing about our sport does nothing but bring money and sponsors, two things that I'd be suprised if you said you were driven by.
  
  

Superprecise, At least this one isn't a suck up, I'd fuck her if I had the chance thread.

Hippy, Keep your fantasies to yourself

Pajamas, Well said.

Fred,

• how you get so damn successful
  Do you actually care about someone else's success? They are not you so their achievement means nothing. What did you achieve this year?
  
• what it's like being a female sports woman (how do you survive in the "she has to be pretty too, or I'm not interested" world)
  As opposed to the white middle class dominated rest of the western world. How do you cope with discrimination in your life? Surely that is far more interesting to you? Are you able to walk away from any situation which may arise, holding your head high and stating, "I handled that well"?
  
• what the impact of her and the rest of the team raising the profile of track cycling is (on people in the UK as a whole as well as cyclists)
  Why do we care if our chosen sport is high profile? Do you wish to earn a career from it? Will you stop riding and move to the next fad when fgixed wheel becomes oh-so-last-year-dahling? People knowing about our sport does nothing but bring money and sponsors, two things that I'd be suprised if you said you were driven by.
  
  
  
  

ok. you got me. I just think she's cute :-)

to be fair, this makes her mildly interesting, no more no less. It's not like I have a wall at home devoted to pictures of her from my 800mm zoom lens or something.

Dead to me.

If you want freak show fame you should check out Raptile. There's a man who needs a big screen.

to be fair, this makes her mildly interesting........

Indeed, I think the power aspect of it is attractive. Meaning she is obviously extremely good at what she does and is in control of herself and her life. I lot of women are boring because they are so shallow and only self interested.

I figured as much. It's where my forum name comes from. We treat people as commodity and it is inherent.

Doesn't mean that I have to like it.

I was starting to think your forum name was the verb rather than the noun. This thread only reinforces that notion :p

Meow

for some people, she's a role model, someone who inspired them into doing something.

a successful track cyclist inspiring people to follow the same path in sport? or a successful rapper inspiring people to follow the same path in gangs, knife and all that?

a successful track cyclist inspiring people to follow the same path in sport? or a successful rapper inspiring people to follow the same path in gangs, knife and all that?

Come. On.

+1

I was starting to think your forum name was the verb rather than the noun. This thread only reinforces that notion :p
I view it both ways. It's just a word which sums me up well.

It's interesting how you have started this thread, because you're pretty famous on FGSS.

But you're people I know and a community I'm part of.
I'd wager that none of the people discussing VP have ever met her.

The irony is that you yourself are famous within this community, and share the same number of threads as both Sheldon and VP

http://www.londonfgss.com/search.php?searchid=678013

I dont disagree with you, but i find it more amusing that people get upset about it, unless it directly impacts on your life, whats the point in letting it piss you off?

However i love this forum because of threads like this, no right or wrong to speak off, but plenty of valid opinions.

jesus, i sound like a moany old grandad, someone of Buffalo Bill's generation perhaps.

Ahem. Better to be a has-been, than a never-was, as I always say.