Lance Armstrong and the foreign politics of the US

valve bouncer · Jul 5, 2004

Yeah I gotta agree, pretty crass way to show your disapproval.

freightGOD · Jul 5, 2004

I simply consider the source...ugly Americans indeed. Who appears to be uglier in the above scenario?

Nuff said....

Trond · Jul 5, 2004

That's a pretty lame way to get your political message across.

fluff · Jul 5, 2004

Yup, stupid way of showing something that has nothing to do with Lance and cycling.

Perhaps you should wedgie the guy booing, to show your disapproval of his methods of disapproval.

LordOpie · Jul 5, 2004

preppie said:
Do you care what non-Americans think of you and the US?

no.

I could care less. Foreigners are irrelevant. Cliches are punny. I'm in agreeance with those above and blow me.

N8 v2.0 · Jul 5, 2004

They are hatin' cuz they are typical "wanna USA be's"...

That and they know Lance has whooped ass the last 5 TdF's and he didn't come to France this year to come in #2.

MMike · Jul 6, 2004

LordOpie said:
no.

I could care less. Foreigners are irrelevant. Cliches are punny. I'm in agreeance with those above and blow me.

No. you could NOT care less. To say that you "could care less" means that you are able to care less than already do... which means that you actually CARE about what others think of you....which I'm pretty sure is the exact opposite of what you were attempting to convey.

And agreeance isn't a word.

This post is just a disaster in both structure AND content.

You get a great big "F".

DRB · Jul 6, 2004

fluff said:
Perhaps you should wedgie the guy booing, to show your disapproval of his methods of disapproval.

I think that the wedgie is an underutilized tool for showing disapproval.

I Are Baboon · Jul 6, 2004

I'm all in favor of those Anti-Americans booing Lance. If they knew anything, they'd know that the booing and negative comments only motivate him to ride harder and harder. Keep him pissed, I say! He'll be harder to beat.

llkoolkeg · Jul 6, 2004

preppie said:
I asked the guy next to me (from Spain) : why the hell are you booing at Lance ?
He said "this is my message to the Americans, let them know that we don't like their foreign politics".

How ironic that a Spaniard would say such a thing on the heels of them being duped into voting the way some gaggle of terrorist nuts chooses. Talk about tucking your national package between your legs and sitting on it in the corner w/dunce cap installed! :mumble:

valve bouncer · Jul 6, 2004

llkoolkeg said:
How ironic that a Spaniard would say such a thing on the heels of them being duped into voting the way some gaggle of terrorist nuts chooses. Talk about tucking your national package between your legs and sitting on it in the corner w/dunce cap installed! :mumble:

Not to burst ya bubble here but the idea that Spain voted in their new government because of the terrorist attacks was pretty much disproven on this forum recently. Try and keep up old fella

llkoolkeg · Jul 6, 2004

valve bouncer said:
Not to burst ya bubble here but the idea that Spain voted in their new government because of the terrorist attacks was pretty much disproven on this forum recently. Try and keep up old fella

Somebody should send the link to Reuters and AP. I bet we've solved a lot of what ails the world here on the monkey.

LordOpie · Jul 6, 2004

valve bouncer said:
Not to burst ya bubble here but the idea that Spain voted in their new government because of the terrorist attacks was pretty much disproven on this forum recently. Try and keep up old fella

I was wrong (apparently)

I really and honestly remember reading various sources *before* the election that said the new admin was in the lead and that the terrorist attack made no sense.

But after someone (DRB?) posted that wasn't the case, I went a googling and simply couldn't find a single source that I honestly thought I read some months back.

Everything I read said the old admin was in the lead and that the terrorist attacks did indeed sway the election :confused:

Which is of serious concern to me personally cuz I'm now wondering if I'm really losing my mind and generally cuz it's a shame that entire country gave in to the terrorists... which only fuels 'em.

And I'm gonna disagree a little with IAB... I'm not sure I want Lance to crush the field, which is what the booing would do. I think him needing to perform on the last day would be more interesting instead of him just coasting to victory

golgiaparatus · Jul 6, 2004

What sucks about the anti American attitudes is that I think that Americans get a bad rap when they go to other countries... Its not like there is a godamn thing we can do about Bush's policies.

Personally I am going to do the one thing that I have the power to do and that is vote against him... the thing is, last time I voted (along with the majority of the US) against him, but he still won :angry:

valve bouncer · Jul 6, 2004

golgiaparatus said:
What sucks about the anti American attitudes is that I think that Americans get a bad rap when they go to other countries... Its not like there is a godamn thing we can do about Bush's policies.

I think people forget their manners a lot of the time, but I suspect a lot them didn't have any to start with. I'm no fan of Bush or American policy but I wouldn't dream of giving any Americans I meet a hard time because of it...it's just plain rude.

genpowell71 · Jul 7, 2004

Here's something to think about...

The rest of the world, when they need something, the first place they come to is the US to ask us for help. Yeah, go ahead and hate us now, but later you'll need us. Go ahead and boo Lance Armstrong. Your only going to make him even tougher to beat than he already is.

valve bouncer · Jul 7, 2004

genpowell71 said:
Here's something to think about...

The rest of the world, when they need something, the first place they come to is the US to ask us for help. .

....watch it mate, hubris can be a bitch.

Westy · Jul 7, 2004

My guess would be that Lance is like the Yankees, he is very successful and overexposed and certain people will hate him for it. The politics thing just sounded like an excuse, did the people booing Lance also boo Tyler, Levi, Hincappi and Julich?

Jesus · Jul 7, 2004

Didn't the French boo the Williams sisters last year, also saying they looked like monkeys?

Euro-trash, all of them I tell ya (even though we are talkning about a Spanish dude here)!

First we take over cycling, and next...SOCCER!!!!!

nicklin · Jul 7, 2004

that goes to show that we aren't the most ignorant people in the world. at least we like our Russian Tennis players very much :thumb:

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