Originally Posted By u k fan I just remembered one of Dave's from earlier - butter in sandwiches. Blech!!!
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA I don't get... The newer wave of gross-out comedies... 'Superbad' and the like...
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Glenn Beck Sean Hannity and some of these radio DJs on the AM dial. Really?
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb Modern Country music, the stuff is top 40 pop with Southern twangs and the occasional steel guitar. Give me some Patsy Cline or George Jones, heck George Straight, over "Nashville Pop" any day.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Just thought of one... Lance Armstrong I don't get his appeal, I don't get all his breathless followers, and the people who read his tweets all the time. Maybe it's celebrity worship in general, but there's an arrogance about Armstrong that I just don't like. Or get.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Bicycles has been my life and profession, so I'm a fan of Lance. But I don't follow his tweets or anything (I don't follow any celebs like that.) He's an amazing athlete...he's won the Tour de France a record seven times in a row, and battled back from cancer to do it. The TDF is one of the toughest endurances races in the world; 2200 miles in three weeks, including some ridiculously tough mountain stages. When you're at that level, I think you kinda have to be a bit arrogant, or many athletes in that position seem to be.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost ^^^Judging from your list my guess is that you don't go out to movies very often.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance trekkerus, now that there is speculation that Lance may have used steroids, I feel like his accomplishments aren't so accomplishing anymore. It's such a waste when people like him who have it all, throw it all away like that.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA ^^^I like the notion too of 'He's talented, so he has to be kind of a jerk.' I just don't subscribe to that way of thinking.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Armstrong has been accused of steroid use since his first win. This accompanies any multi Tour winner. But it has come up again because a former teammate, Floyd Landis. Landis was on the same team for a number of years, and then moved to a different team. In 2006, Landis won the Tour but was stripped of his title after failing a drug test. He vehemently denied doping for years, and spent $$$ of his own money trying to clear his name through the courts. Then suddenly Landis changed his story, saying he did, and so did Armstrong. Huh? I'd say there was some sour grapes going on with Ladis.
Originally Posted By Labuda Another thing about Lance - which I learned while up in Denver earlier this year at a museum: His heart is about three times the size of most people's AND the level of intensity that most of us can sustain for a short period of time (I don't recall exactly, but it's something like 30 seconds or 1 minute) or so climbing a mountain he can sustain for 30 minutes. The man is a freakin' MACHINE. The kind of shape he's in is just INCREDIBLE. Oh, and his whole Livestrong thing, too. Of course, reminder to all - I'm an Austinite and very proud of my town and our citizens.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<I like the notion too of 'He's talented, so he has to be kind of a jerk.' I just don't subscribe to that way of thinking.>> If you don't follow Lance, how do you know he's arrogant or a jerk? I've seen interviews with the man, and he's never come across that way to me. Self confident, yes, arrogant, no.
