Three weeks of Freds, Newbies, Wannabies, and Idiots in RBR has reached epidemic levels. I'm hanging around stagnent ponds praying to get bite by a mosquito infected with West Nile and put me out of my misery. I've picked up every dead crow and magpie I can find and eating them raw to increase my exposure. Hopefully RBR will return to "normal" (Kunich exception) after the tour. I've never read so much [censored] from expert coaches second guessing Lance, Jan, and the entire peleton. These guys need to get together and form their own version of CTS ! I'm sure with their 20/20 hindsight coaching they will put Carmichael out of work real soon. To the idiots that slam OLN: DON'T WATCH ! We would of killed years ago to get 1 hour of coverage on a weekend. I would agree we could do without "Sam Poser" and that alcoholic [censored] that is drinking her way through France on a daily basis, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else to watch the tour. What's been the worst thread in the last 3 weeks here on RBR ? Any nominations ? This one doesn't count, it will easily be # 1 !
"OMC"
"If the West Nile doesn't kill me..........the Colorado heat wave will "
I have been perusing this group for the last few weeks. I am not a regular. I am reminded why I am not a regular on newsgroups anymore (I used to use them a lot). There are so many lame, petty, mean, obnoxious, stupid imbeciles on these groups, it makes the groups unpleasant. There could be some fun, interesting discussions/arguments, but because of the reactionary idiots and no-life losers, any possibility of that is ruined. Right now about 1/2 the posts are of this category. Is it usually this bad?
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Three weeks of Freds, Newbies, Wannabies, and Idiots in RBR has reached epidemic levels. I'm hanging around stagnent ponds praying to get bite by a mosquito infected with West Nile and put me out of my misery. I've picked up every dead crow and magpie I can find and eating them raw to increase my exposure. Hopefully RBR will return to "normal" (Kunich exception) after the tour. I've never read so much [censored] from expert coaches second guessing Lance, Jan, and the entire peleton. These guys need to get together and form their own version of CTS ! I'm sure with their 20/20 hindsight coaching they will put Carmichael out of work real soon. To the idiots that slam OLN: DON'T WATCH ! We would of killed years ago to get 1 hour of coverage on a weekend. I would agree we could do without "Sam Poser" and that alcoholic [censored] that is drinking her way through France on a daily basis, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else to watch the tour. What's been the worst thread in the last 3 weeks here on RBR ? Any nominations ? This one doesn't count, it will easily be # 1 !
"OMC"
"If the West Nile doesn't kill me..........the Colorado heat wave will "
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I have been perusing this group for the last few weeks. I am not a regular. I am reminded why I am not a regular on newsgroups anymore (I used to use them a lot). There are so many lame, petty, mean, obnoxious, stupid imbeciles on these groups, it makes the groups unpleasant. There could be some fun, interesting discussions/arguments, but because of the reactionary idiots and no-life losers, any possibility of that is ruined. Right now about 1/2 the posts are of this category. Is it usually this bad?
Nope; just like group rides all over the U.S., RBR's at it's worst only during three weeks in July. Normally it only sucks a little... ;-)
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Three weeks of Freds, Newbies, Wannabies, and Idiots in RBR has reached epidemic levels. I'm hanging around stagnent ponds praying to get bite by a mosquito infected with West Nile and put me out of my misery. I've picked up every dead crow and magpie I can find and eating them raw to increase my exposure. Hopefully RBR will return to
OMC -- I think you have the O'Grady/Colorado virus. Or, Hunter S. Thompson disease.
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"normal" (Kunich exception) after the tour. I've never read so much [censored] from expert coaches second guessing Lance, Jan, and the entire peleton. These guys need to get together and form their own version of
PelOton!
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CTS ! I'm sure with their 20/20 hindsight coaching they will put Carmichael out of work real soon. To the idiots that slam OLN: DON'T WATCH ! We would of killed years ago to get 1 hour of coverage on a weekend. I would agree we could do without "Sam Poser" and that alcoholic [censored] that is drinking her way through France on a daily basis, but I
Ouch!
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wouldn't trade it for anything else to watch the tour. What's been the worst thread in the last 3 weeks here on RBR ? Any nominations ? This one doesn't count, it will easily be # 1 !
Gregory Kinney <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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I have been perusing this group for the last few weeks. I am not a regular. I am reminded why I am not a regular on newsgroups anymore (I used to use them a lot). There are so many lame, petty, mean, obnoxious, stupid imbeciles on these groups, it makes the groups unpleasant. There could be some fun, interesting discussions/arguments, but because of the reactionary idiots and no-life losers, any possibility of that is ruined. Right now about 1/2 the posts are of this category. Is it usually this bad?
I have been reading it for the same time and probably for the same reasons. Howver rec.bicycles.racing is the most civilized newsgroup I have found so far. Based on the groups dedicated to opera, classical music recordings and boxing, rbr is an oasis of civility, good writing and informative posts. There are enough trolls and idiots so that one does not forget it is usenet but they don't seem to overrun the place, as they have in (for example) rec.music.opera or are beginning to in rec.sport.boxing.
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does not forget it is usenet but they don't seem to overrun the place, as they have in (for example) rec.music.opera or are beginning to in rec.sport.boxing.
So here is my question: What kind of person reads rec.music.opera and rec.sport.boxing? And further, am I the only one who fancies combining the two into rec.sport.operatic-boxing?
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does not forget it is usenet but they don't seem to overrun the place, as they have in (for example) rec.music.opera or are beginning to in rec.sport.boxing.
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So here is my question: What kind of person reads rec.music.opera and rec.sport.boxing? And further, am I the only one who fancies combining the two into rec.sport.operatic-boxing?
Were Gene Tunney still alive you might meet such a fella. That heavyweight champion was a Metropolitan Opera regular. But he'd probably have been appalled by some of the behavior on newsgroups that come closer to professional rastling than boxing...
