Doping

appropriacy of response to perceived sarcasm

I thought the appropriateness of my response was OK, if you didn't that's a matter of opinion.

Has this thread been misappropriated?

Interestingly (or not), expressive verbal skills are impaired by dope (you know, dope, not cycling dope). Only as long as you're doing it, thankfully.

^^I'll still take 'appropriacy' as it was within a specific socio-linguistic context (the forum/this thread/blah) i.e. your tone was off; subjectively speaking.

Jeezus, give the guy a brake!

...a decent brake!

R920 > R979, only a couple of grams heavier but less than half the price.

As we seem to be fly fucking anyway, a couple of grams is a couple of grams... AICMFP!

Ridiculously expensive by the way!

^^I'll still take 'appropriacy' as it was within a specific socio-linguistic context (the forum/this thread/blah) i.e. your tone was off; subjectively speaking.

I love making up silly nouns. My all-time favourite is still 'shallowality', which the Melody Maker had in its satire on the Manic Street Preachers Fan back in the 90s.

#oldstorybro

I love making up compound nouns.

True to stereotype, then

http://www.cyclismas.com/2013/03/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-house/

This is a rather depressing read

Last page :)

ha

I blame myself

Name a modern browser which doesn't.

Safari doesn't do that for me.

Leinders is an amateur compared to some of the guys operating without an official Paul Kimmage fatwa over their heads. Business never personal Paul.

I'm liking this

"I blame myself."

"Name a modern browser which doesn't."

"Safari doesn't."

I blame Apple...

^ Wrong soigneur.

^^ Very good.

Movistar current doctor?
Didn't have the balls to ask Alex Dowsett about Leinders, or about what Vlaverde is like, whether he'd told him anything...
I doubt anybody wasted time doping Dowsett though

http://www.cyclismas.com/2013/03/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-house/

This is a rather depressing read

It is a good job Sky have enough money to hire a swimming coach and riders who would be team leaders on other squads like David Lopez so they can overcome the fact other teams have doping doctors. #marginalgains #olympictracksuccess

http://www.cyclismas.com/2013/03/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-house/

This is a rather depressing read

Depressing but at the same time heartening - I didn't spot any British GPs so it's all down to the forrins! You would catch a quality Brit like Harold Shipman getting caught up in all that nonsense.

Here you go, UK Conti pro Jack Pullar tweeted this.
See its rife.

This is from the BBC Sport website, quoting Alex Ferguson responding to the news that 34 year old Rio Ferdinand has been recalled to in the England World Cup

Sir Alex Ferguson says he was "as surprised as anyone" about Rio Ferdinand's recall into the England squad for the World Cup qualifiers.
But he stressed the 34-year-old will only be released after consultation with the Manchester United club doctor. "I was as surprised as anyone when I heard," Ferguson said.

"I need to speak to the [United] doctor because we prepare Ferdinand in a certain way and there are treatments he has to go through."

Change the sport and the context slightly of the last sentence:

This is a quote from David Brailsford, responding to the news that 32 year old Bradley Wiggins has been selected to ride for Team GB in the World Championships. [following his injury 4 weeks ago]

"I need to speak to the [Team Sky] doctor because we prepare Bradley in a certain way and there are treatments he has to go through."

So, what's the difference? The first seems to have aroused no suspicion of doping whatsover. Currently, there are 480 comments at the foot of the article.

The second if was true, would be seen as a blatant admission of doping within Team Sky, generating a scandal almost equal to that of Dopestrong and would have Paul Kimmage calling for a public execution at the Tower.

Why is one acceptable and the other, not?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21803149

Pure speculation and unsubstantiated assumptions... I hear what you're saying, but personally I find it rather pointless to engage in a "what if" debate about doping.