I know he’s made some pretty offensive/dubious statements over the years, but think you’ve got to take them with a pinch of salt. Boxing is essentially getting paid to take punches to the face; the end goal being to get in, make as much money as possible, try and create a legacy, and then get out before you suffer any long term effects. As such, a lot of boxers adopt a persona similar to WWE characters, as ultimately they need to maximise PPV sales. Malignaggi’s done a few interviews on the subject. Tyson doesn’t genuinely believe 90% of the comments he makes – it’s all publicity. Not excusing it, but you can understand why he makes such comments – it’s to set him apart from the rest of the heavyweights by playing the Pantomime villain.

Re: his current status – he’s clearly suffering from a few mental health issues, and just needs to be given time and space to recover, like any other human.

I’d sycamore prompt carpenter..

Meant to add that if you do buy a zefal, buy the Large as it can convert into the medium sized version if you don’t need that much space..

I like those Zefal tool bottles – pretty light but hold quite a lot..

This release won’t really prove anything amongst cycling fans IMO..

The optimistic fans will believe this (leaked) transparency proves that Wiggins, Froome etc are clean, as they’re officially declaring their drug usage and have never failed tests.

The cynics will believe it to be the tip of the iceberg – after all you wouldn’t be able to apply for a TUE for many performance enhancing drugs, as there aren’t enough valid medical uses for them – so not much would be appearing on the records anyway.

Couple from my past (cut and pasted as posted on here 5 years ago)

In a local a few months back, Billie Jean came on and immediately some guy started doing an elaborate choreographed dance routine that he’d obviously been working on all week in front of his bedroom mirror.

A mate of mine (straight after telling every woman on the dancefloor over the age of 40 that I fancied them, but was just too shy to approach them!) wandered over to him, interrupting the guy in full flow, and chatted to him a bit. And kept on pointing at me.

Five minutes later they both came over to where I was standing, at which point my mate said as way of an introduction “Oh, I’ve just been telling XXX about your work as choreographer for Usher. You two should chat”. And promptly walked off.

I cannot dance for sh*t. No rhythm, nothing. But that didn’t stop me talking sh*t for the rest of the night about my background in ballet, and how I wasn’t insured to dance in public.

Everytime I see this guy, he always comes over with his friends and asks about how work is going, and what Usher’s been up to. Seems to look up at me, as though I’m some kind of superstar. Haven’t the heart to tell him it’s a load of sh*t. Sorry chap.

Edit: have since told him I’d been sacked by Usher, cos I got fed up with the lying.. he hasn’t mentioned it since.

and numero 2.

When I was 15 I played pool for a pub team in a local pool 4th division league. I wasn’t bad, but the rest of the team were sh*t, and the 35 year old captain would never pick me despite me being one of the best players, always coming up with an excuse week after week after promising to pick me the week before.

One week in particular we didn’t have a league game scheduled, and instead held a couple of pub tournaments, both of which I won, walking home with about 50 quids worth of pound coins, a couple of months pocket money for a night’s work. He then refused to pick me for the next week’s team.

By this point I’d had enough – after not getting selected yet again, I went home (this was in about 1997, had just got the internet) and downloaded a copy of the British Pool Association’s logo. I then wrote a letter stating that by not picking me he was in breach of rule XYZ and was facing expulsion from the league. I posted this letter to my uncle in London, who then posted it back down to Cornwall so that it had a London postage mark.

The captain then spent a weekend writing a 4 page ranting letter to the British Pool Association saying how I was tactically naive, and therefore didn’t think I was mature enough to play for the first team etc etc. He also sent a copy to me, the local pool league, and the pub landlord.

I then wrote another letter from the Association saying that the team had been disqualified from the league due to the captain repeatedly lying in his letter, as I had supplied them with tape recordings of our conversations which contradicted his letter.

The next Monday Pool night he got me in front of the whole pool team and gave a long speech saying that because of me contacting the British Pool Association the whole team had been kicked out the league, and tried to shame me.

I then revealed it was all a hoax. He did look like a bit of a **** at this point, having been fooled by a 15 yr old boy in front of all of his mates.

I never did play for that team.

The only things worse than those slogan gym tshirts are the vaping equivalents

Yeah but if he loses to GGG, then he’ll still get the Khan fight, whereas if he lost to Khan, he wouldn’t get GGG..

A girl I know used to work as a webcam girl, told me when we were drunk.. out of “curiosity” I used to try and catch one of her shows but she was never online when I looked.. so occasionally I’d watch another random British girl on there (strictly for research purposes of course)

A few months later I got wasted at a mate’s leaving do, was chatting to one of his girlfriend’s mates for a few hours, she had a good sense of humour, got on pretty well.. she then told me what she did for a living.. at which point I suddenly realised she was the girl I’d seen online.. hadn’t realised up til that point.. (“Hang on.. I’ve f*cking w*nked over you!” was my exact choice of phrase).. she thought it was funny, didn’t mind in the slightest, just didn’t want her boyfriend to know that I’d seen her.. she ended up writing a blog about me, kinda flattering!

Couple of years later I googled her name, have since discovered she once made custom videos for someone which involved pooing on her phone. Nice.

Thanks FunkyDunc, much appreciated :)

FunkyDunc: So what’s the difference between the two (chest infection and cold)? I always assumed that cos you spend a good week coughing up stuff from your lungs that it was a chest infection, whereas a cold was just sinus stuff and headaches?

Thanks for the replies guys :)

I don’t tend to bother drinking much water when I’m riding as it’s normally about 1 hour riding time – I don’t feel too dehydrated, plus drink when I get home.

Re: chest infection – normally starts with a really sore throat, turns into blocked sinuses and headache a day or so later, and then spend the next few days with an elevated heart beat, coughing up stuff, then better about 10 days or so after the initial sore throat. I only really get this when I’ve been riding a lot – the rest of the time I’m fine.

I live in the country, right by the sea so the air is pretty clean – don’t ride near traffic, it’s all pretty quiet.

Will try taking on more veg – I do tend to eat pretty healthy but will try and up the veg & fruit intake

Edit: Nope, no allegies that I’m aware of, and don’t smoke. I drink once a week, but often go without. Drink a fair bit of coffee, that’s it!

I don’t feel particularly tired, maybe slightly aching legs if I’ve gone hard the previous day, but apart from that riding makes me feel really good, full of energy and happy.

Thanks guys.. I work from home, so that’s the main reason for wanting to ride every day as it gets me out the house.. I used to race (admittedly 10 years ago) and used to ride every day then (am 33 now & about a stone heavier).. so what would you recommend.. ride 3 days, 1 day off?

These are the best every day socks I’ve ever used – last for years..

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mens-Luxury-Jeep-Terrain-Walking-Work-Hiking-Socks-Black-Size-6-11-Uk-39-45-Eur-/262439845256

How do you tell who’s flagging a KOM? I’m 2nd on a climb, with a bit of a gap til 3rd, and someone keeps flagging the KOM leader as having cheated (he didn’t, he’s way faster than me) so it probably looks like it me doing it?

To be fair the “hypocrite” bit is fully justified.. David Millar is a long term celebrity anti-hat campaigner, who’s worked tirelessly against the use of casual headwear, then pulls a stunt like this on national tv..

I feel that once you’ve been banned for using drugs you should not be allowed back into the sport.

So how do you propose this will work? Would an athlete who mistakenly took a minute amount of banned substance via an over the counter medicine face a lifetime ban under your system?

I’d read that the studio had been deleting all of the negative yet constructive reviews of the trailer, leaving the negative sexist comments instead, thus trying to make all the criticism appear to be solely because of sexist views of the mainly female cast rather than the film actually being rubbish..

Anyone else manage to grab much on the free £10 offer? Got some camping gear and gadget stuff I prob don’t really need, but hey, it’s free..

“Apparently” if you set up multiple accounts (using different cards) then you can get more than one £10 voucher.. just cancel the Audible and Prime memberships after they’ve shipped, free stuff!

Shame that first climb is so close to the start, would have certainly caused some action if it was nearer the finish..

Free £10 at Amazon if you sign up for a 3 month trial at Audible, which you can then cancel. So basically, sign up to free trials of Prime and Audible, spend the tenner and then cancel both once it’s dispatched, and you get free stuff.

I couldn’t see much in their Prime cycling section.. apparently you can get an extra 20% off Warehouse deals (Stuff with the box opened but unused) today..

There’s a few cycling items in odd sizes here or you can buy a £30 gift card and get a £5 back.. but yeah seems to be mainly hype, no real bargains as of yet..

agreed.. Omar wouldn’t stand for dem white walkers..

Yeah not sure how class comes into it.. Rugby players seem to be doing ok, and not many of them come from working class backgrounds.. traditionally you don’t get many middle class boxers, but the odd one (like Eubank Jr) seems to come through..

IMO it’s due to a variety of factors.. to the players having money thrown at them & smoke blown up their ass since they were about 12, not as good coaching at a young age, the general public overestimating their ability due to the strength of the domestic league, possibly the lack of a mid season break, players not caring as much as previous generations, poor tactics with no back up plans etc..

To be fair it’s a nice change for a celebrity/sportsman to admit their lack of knowledge on a subject.. one of my pet hates is actors/pop stars assuming that their level of fame somehow elevates their political knowledge/opinion to having more significance that the rest of us.. think Mick Hucknell on This Morning telling us that we should all be voting to go to war in Iraq.. Harry’s there to put the ball in the back of the net, not for his political insights, which have no doubt been repressed by years of media training anyway..

Edit: I’m going for:

Switzerland
Wales
Croatia
France
Germany
Belgium
Spain
England

Alli has been awesome all season – however Poch has a habit of making good players look excellent – not many of his old Southampton players (Lovren,Shaw,Lallana,Chambers,Lambert,Schneiderlin,Clyne etc) looked as good once they moved on to Liverpool/Arsenal/Man Utd etc

That’s a fair point Coyote!

Gonzy: I think the point of Dier is to be anonymous – with a decent defensive midfielder, it’s like a decent referee’s performance – you don’t notice them. In particular Dier’s reading of the game (Portuguese coaching) means he doesn’t have to make many of those last gasp tackles that us England fans apparently love, as he’s rarely out of position. He’s just there to protect and do the simple things, which he’s doing pretty well so far.

Yeah, same as when we tried to shoehorn Gerrard and Lampard into the same midfield for years – should have dropped one, and put the other where he could do the most damage..

Spurs and Leicester have both chosen their most effective team as opposed to their picking their best 11 players – in some cases converting players (like Dier) from RB/CB to CM – the respective teams knew their system and everyone knew their individual role. To some extent this might have flattered players – perhaps Vardy/Ali etc wouldn’t look so good in other formations – but it has worked.

With England it just seems to be Roy playing his best 11 players in systems they’re not used to, which don’t particularly play to their strengths. He’s taken elements of Spurs’ tactics (Rose/Walker going forward, Dier dropping back to compensate) but not the fundamental part, which is the pressing game. Kane hasn’t looked good, but in fairness he has hardly had a clear cut chance – Vardy didn’t do much yesterday, but again the system doesn’t suit him.

Essentially he’s played some of the season’s best performers, but in systems they’re not really used to (or suitable for), and then wondered why we’re not looking as incisive as the players have at club level. He’s then panicked and gambled on unfit players (Henderson/Wilshere) and then wondered why that didn’t work out either.

To me it’s simple: Pick the best performing players of the last year, and play them in a formation that they’re used to. Plug the gaps (Dembele/Mahrez/Eriksen etc) with the best available solid players we’ve got (Milner/Rooney/Lallana etc). If we’ve got 7/8 outfield in-form players in their best positions in a system that suits them, and 2/3 solid players filling the gaps, then this should be enough to beat most teams.

Trouble is, if the attempt to merge Vardy/Sturridge/Sterling and Rooney goes wrong, you’ll just end up with someone who can’t cross, gets injured in half a second, with a taste for red bull and grandmothers.

It’s worth the risk – the current lot aren’t working out, so a hybrid may be the only solution.

Nah, 18 players is the way forward, just no-one’s tried it yet. Well they did in Billy the Fish once, via a trap door in the middle of the pitch – pretty sure it worked out ok?

Or urgency, or pace. Just pass it sideways on the halfway line until the Slovakia defence reorganises. The number of passes which killed the attack by being played at or behind a player rather into the space in front of him was staggering.

I think the problem was there wasn’t any space to play it forwards, just a sea of white shirts sat back marking our attackers – if we pressed more as a team and force the opponents into mistakes then we’ll have far more opportunities than if we just pass it slowly across their half and hope they fall asleep. Putting them under pressure and getting an early goal is key, as it’ll encourage the other team to attack so we can then pick them off with pace.

So what team would everyone pick next then? I’d go for something like:

Hart
Walker – Smalling – Cahill – Rose
Dier – Rooney/Henderson/Milner
Lallana – Alli – Vardy/Sturridge/Sterling/Rooney
Kane/Vardy/Sturridge

To me it seemed odd to make 6 changes.. it was an experiment that backfired, and there’s no reason to be experimenting at an actual tournament (unless you’re 5 up at half time) – that’s what friendlies are for. I can understand making 3 changes, as you can always rectify them with substitutions if it’s not working out – 6 is too many.

We’re toothless up front, and the CBs will be destroyed the moment they come across a decent pacy striker.

IMO (as a Spurs fan) we should be using similar tactics to what Spurs did this season – pressing with numbers high up the pitch and forcing the opp into mistakes – last night one or two players tried it, and then got frustrated because none of their teammates were helping out. A lot of the squad either currently play under Poch, or are ex-Southampton boys, or currently play a similar system for Liverpool, so it wouldn’t be hard to adapt.

We’re clearly not good enough to break down sides that park the bus, so need to alter our tactics to create opportunities.

Hmm.. you’ve got his facebook profile.. I’d save a copy of his friends list, then pay him a visit.. unless he pays you back in full, then you’ll contact every single one of his friends and family asking about his whereabouts as he’s taken 12.5k of your money and is refusing to pay it back – he’s not going to want his friends and family knowing about how he treats people..

I had to do the same to a client who ripped me off.. they ran a local business networking group as a side line, and it was only once I mentioned I would start contacting their fellow local business owners that they paid up immediately.

Kelly Jones – SheBANG for me… in all probability, probably the best pop album of the last decade..

Sorry man but that was pretty bland.. your description is way off the mark.. off the top of my head, here’s a few female fronted pop(ish) acts that urinate all over that example..

 
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I don’t know if it’s been pointed out yet, but an anagram of “wanmankylung” is the slightly euphemistic “Manly Wank Gun“..

That the US didn’t kill Osama during the raid.. it makes no sense to kill him outright, it would be a far better idea to take him alive and interrogate him.. they might have injured him, but no way are they going to kill him before seeing what info he has.. he may well be dead now, but not when they initially stated he was, complete with a convenient sea burial..

Reading between the lines/comments the used syringe excuse is rubbish.. he’s pretending to have been stupid rather than admitting to have been cheating..