If you can't compete honestly, just cheat

Platapus · 08-02-08, 07:58 AM

U.S. relay team stripped of 2000 Olympic gold medals
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/02/ioc....ap/index.html

The International Olympic Committee has stripped gold medals from the U.S. men's 1,600-meter relay team that competed at the 2000 Games in the aftermath of Antonio Pettigrew's admission that he was doping at the time....

The IOC executive board disqualified the entire team, the fourth gold and sixth overall medal stripped from that U.S. track contingent in the past eight months for doping....

Three of the four runners from the relay final have been tainted by drugs....

Saturday's move came four months after the IOC stripped the gold from the U.S. women's 1,600m relay team and bronze from the women's 400m relay squad because of doping by Jones. She admitted last year that she used drugs at the time and returned her five medals, including gold in the 100m and 200m and bronze in the long jump.

I remember a time when I was proud of my country's participation in the Olympics.
I remember back when it was the "bad" countries that cheated in the Olympics.

Are we truly that insecure of our abilities that we need to cheat like this just to win?

Starting next week, every time I hear of an American winning a medal, I will have to think: honest or dishonest?

This not the way I should be thinking about my country's athletes.....but I guess we have to.

Well, at least I have my memories.

"Alvin Harrison accepted a four-year ban in 2004 after admitting he used performance-enhancers..."

A four year ban?? Why not a permanent ban for life for being a cheater?

Dowly · 08-02-08, 08:02 AM

This' the reason why I dont watch Olympics.

Another one is football (Soccer for you who think that carrying a ball around the field IN YOUR HANDS should be called football), the acting is just ridiculous! Touch someone and the fecka is crying in the ground for mommy! ******* sissies!

STEED · 08-02-08, 08:02 AM

Too bloody right! Poor old jimbuna ran his heart out for the Gold and only got Silver. Your rightly Gold Medal is on its way jim.

Jimbuna · 08-02-08, 08:13 AM

Now that you mention it, your wife told me the other day that you were her gold medallist and I was her silver medallist.

When I enquired as to what she meant, she said "It's nice to know someone that comes second for a change" :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Platapus · 08-02-08, 08:19 AM

ohhhh thats mean.

Funny

but mean

STEED · 08-02-08, 08:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Platapus

ohhhh thats mean.

Funny

but mean

Just jims wicked sense of humor, I hear jim & Max Mosley visit the same saucy spanking parlor.

Stealth Hunter · 08-02-08, 08:28 AM

I really don't know what to make of Jim...

Still thinking everything over about him...:hmm: :hmm: :hmm:

Jimbuna · 08-02-08, 08:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter

I really don't know what to make of Jim...

Still thinking everything over about him...:hmm: :hmm: :hmm:

You take care of yourself young man....we wouldn't want you giving yourself an injury

I think it's safe to say that STEED and and I both subscribe to a similar humour level.

In Britain (and many other countries I should imagine) the common understanding is 'only give it if your prepared to take it'....apart from 'spanking' of course

STEED · 08-02-08, 08:43 AM

We Brits are the Kings when it comes to humour just a shame the rest of the world dose not understand us.

:rotfl:

Jimbuna · 08-02-08, 09:05 AM

First thing this morning, there was a tap on my door.

Funny sense of humour my plumber has.

StdDev · 08-02-08, 09:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter

I really don't know what to make of Jim...

Still thinking everything over about him...:hmm: :hmm: :hmm:

Whats there to think about!!??
Join the rest of us... we worship the very people he walks on! :p

UnderseaLcpl · 08-02-08, 10:32 AM

You would think U.S. athletes would know better than any that they wouldn't have to resort to cheating if they would just get off their asses and have a montage.

Sailor Steve · 08-02-08, 10:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by STEED

We Brits are the Kings when it comes to humour just a shame the rest of the world dose not understand us.

:rotfl:

Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp! In faith you are too angry!
Katherina: If I be waspish, best beware my sting!
Petruchio: My remedy then is to pluck it out!
Katherina: Hah! If the fool could find where it lies!
Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp doth wear his sting? In his tail!
Katherina: In his tongue!
Petruchio: Whose tongue?
Katherina: Yours! -if you talk of tales, and so farewell!
Petruchio: What? With my tongue in your tail?

What's not to understand? From Shakespeare to Monty Python to Red Dwarf to Blackadder, it may be unusual but it's definitely funny.

Dowly · 08-02-08, 11:42 AM

I love British humour. Simple, yet so effective.

Platapus · 08-02-08, 12:13 PM

Do you know how to make an English man laugh on Wednesday?

Tell him a joke on Monday.

<rimshot>

An Englishman is visiting an American friend on his farm and is marveling at how much vegetables the American farmer is growing.

The Englishman asks the American farmer "what do you do with the vegetables you don't eat?

The American, being somewhat of a rum wit, replies "we eat what we can, and what we can't we can."

The Englishman thought this was a wonderful pun and can't wait until he tells this to his friends back in London.

Back home, the Englishman is telling the story to his friends. "I asked my friend what he did with the vegetables he did not eat? You will never guess what he said. This is so funny. My friend told me that 'we eat what we can, what we can't we put up in tins."
:rotfl:

08-02-08, 07:58 AM	#1
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,360 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	If you can't compete honestly, just cheat U.S. relay team stripped of 2000 Olympic gold medals http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/02/ioc....ap/index.html The International Olympic Committee has stripped gold medals from the U.S. men's 1,600-meter relay team that competed at the 2000 Games in the aftermath of Antonio Pettigrew's admission that he was doping at the time.... The IOC executive board disqualified the entire team, the fourth gold and sixth overall medal stripped from that U.S. track contingent in the past eight months for doping.... Three of the four runners from the relay final have been tainted by drugs.... Saturday's move came four months after the IOC stripped the gold from the U.S. women's 1,600m relay team and bronze from the women's 400m relay squad because of doping by Jones. She admitted last year that she used drugs at the time and returned her five medals, including gold in the 100m and 200m and bronze in the long jump. I remember a time when I was proud of my country's participation in the Olympics. I remember back when it was the "bad" countries that cheated in the Olympics. Are we truly that insecure of our abilities that we need to cheat like this just to win? Starting next week, every time I hear of an American winning a medal, I will have to think: honest or dishonest? This not the way I should be thinking about my country's athletes.....but I guess we have to. Well, at least I have my memories. "Alvin Harrison accepted a four-year ban in 2004 after admitting he used performance-enhancers..." A four year ban?? Why not a permanent ban for life for being a cheater? __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

08-02-08, 08:02 AM	#3
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	Too bloody right! Poor old jimbuna ran his heart out for the Gold and only got Silver. Your rightly Gold Medal is on its way jim. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

08-02-08, 08:13 AM	#4
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,461 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Now that you mention it, your wife told me the other day that you were her gold medallist and I was her silver medallist. When I enquired as to what she meant, she said "It's nice to know someone that comes second for a change" :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

08-02-08, 08:19 AM	#5
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,360 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	ohhhh thats mean. Funny but mean __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

08-02-08, 08:43 AM	#9
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	We Brits are the Kings when it comes to humour just a shame the rest of the world dose not understand us. :rotfl: :rotfl: __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

08-02-08, 08:02 AM	#2
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,052 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	This' the reason why I dont watch Olympics. Another one is football (Soccer for you who think that carrying a ball around the field IN YOUR HANDS should be called football), the acting is just ridiculous! Touch someone and the fecka is crying in the ground for mommy! ******* sissies!

08-02-08, 08:28 AM	#7
Stealth Hunter Silent Hunter Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Y'ha-Nthlei Posts: 4,262 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	I really don't know what to make of Jim... Still thinking everything over about him...:hmm: :hmm: :hmm:

08-02-08, 09:05 AM	#10
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,461 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	First thing this morning, there was a tap on my door. Funny sense of humour my plumber has. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

08-02-08, 10:32 AM	#12
UnderseaLcpl Silent Hunter Join Date: May 2008 Location: Storming the beaches! Posts: 4,254 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	You would think U.S. athletes would know better than any that they wouldn't have to resort to cheating if they would just get off their asses and have a montage. __________________ I stole this sig from Task Force

08-02-08, 11:42 AM	#14
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,052 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	I love British humour. Simple, yet so effective.

08-02-08, 12:13 PM	#15
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,360 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Do you know how to make an English man laugh on Wednesday? Tell him a joke on Monday. <rimshot> An Englishman is visiting an American friend on his farm and is marveling at how much vegetables the American farmer is growing. The Englishman asks the American farmer "what do you do with the vegetables you don't eat? The American, being somewhat of a rum wit, replies "we eat what we can, and what we can't we can." The Englishman thought this was a wonderful pun and can't wait until he tells this to his friends back in London. Back home, the Englishman is telling the story to his friends. "I asked my friend what he did with the vegetables he did not eat? You will never guess what he said. This is so funny. My friend told me that 'we eat what we can, what we can't we put up in tins." :rotfl: __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.