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How about a dopers all sports event. A bit of cycling, tennis, baseball, wrestling, weightlifting, shooting, horse racing, running etc. Best doper wins. Different doping regimes would be really tested as differeent sports need different types of cheating.

What the fuck is funny about that? Have you ever had cancer? Have you ever seen the effects it has on individuals? Have you ever had a friend, colleague or loved one die because of cancer?

Did you even think before posting in this thread?

Excuse my language but you are a fucking dickhead.

Dude - you take your comedy close to the mark on occasion yourself do you not. Dependswhatoffends.

I dunno.

You're a cunt, and I wish you died of bollock cancer......

Nope, not feeling the lolz.

I'm not going to lie, I like close to the knuckle comedy HOWEVER you're joking about his life here.

Armstrong is a bad man for what he did, you make choices in life, but nobody chooses cancer.

To sit there and snigger about wishing he'd been killed by it in some flippant remark is ridiculous. Don't forget, he's someone's son, ex-husband, boyfirend and friend all rolled into one, the same as countless others before him who have succomed to cancer.

It's like the Grandma who's just been handed the death penalty for drug smuggling. Is she a stupid woman who knew the consequences of said action? Yes. Would I crack a joke about how she'll be shot and her family will be devastated? Absolutely not.

It has been suggested that Armstrong's cancer wouldn't have spread so far before diagnosis had he not been using masking agent to hide doping.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bloke.

though having an avatar that is a joke about paedophilia is acceptable...

so is anything fine as a subject for humour, except death?

to be honest, we can joke about n̶e̶a̶r̶l̶y̶ anything. the problem is that each of us has our own particularly areas of sensitivity.

i was present when my mother died of cancer, i held another friend's hand as he died of it, but i find it acceptable to laugh and joke about it. laughter can be a human mechanism to cope with abhorrent things

Speaking as someone who has, I was not offended. I didn't find it that funny, but that's not because they DARE to make a joke about CANCER. It just wasn't that amusing.

Cancer is one of those things that I think you must joke about. A lot.

^^this. Almost exactly this. I actually didn't find what Nhatt posted funny but you can't draw the line at fatal illness while having a giggle about sexual child abuse. It just doesn't ring true.

FTR. I wasnt offended by anything other than the crapness of the joke. If you're going to be cruel to get a laugh. For fuck sakes be funny.

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/8...-history-lying

"I guess I should let it go, but I keep thinking how hard he used me. Made me look like a sap. Made me carry his dirty water and I didn't even know it."
"... now the chase pack has reeled in Lance Armstrong, and he is busted...."

Regarding that post, I feel RKP got it right

http://redkiteprayer.com/2013/01/the...to-redemption/

Yeah, but Armstrong isn't exactly ironyman.

One of my favourite jokes is about cancer, but I don't tell it anymore.

Sick, un-pc jokes... often better to avoid but can be acceptable when very funny IMHO.

But to joke about armstrong and cancer if rather different. He is target for jokes at his expense because of his behaviour. He is a target for sick, cancer-related jokes because he has traded on his cancer and even used it to help cover up deeply disgusting behaviour which would probably have lead to many of us wishing death on him if he'd done those things to our loved ones.

I'm trying to think of a decent comparison. Joking that people who have been on the dole for 10 years are all lazy scroungers is IMHO completely unacceptable. But to make the same joke about an individual who boasts about the the size of their TV whilst saying that the government are a soft touch and showing off that he hasn't worked for 10 years (because working is for mugs) is entirely different.

Two from the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...ah-pr-disaster

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013...ance-armstrong

I agree. His stance all along has been to hide behind his cancer, even using it to explain his sudden transformation from explosive one day rider into stage race rider, and even hinting that any EPO positives might have been due to chemo on occasion.

Mostly behind the Times paywall... but you get the idea. Now that is an interview I'd like to see.

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/...cle1197546.ece

Losing a leg in a car accident is not funny nor should it be the subject of jokes. That said, I heard some well established comedian telling this joke on the radio a while ago:

If we can laugh at that, then perhaps we can laugh at Armstrong who is even more odious than the erstwhile Mrs McCartney and Paul put together.

Read it in the paper on Sunday. A very good piece but Walsh's book is better.

Not funny, but still a joke.

I read it in the paper too, a good piece but then I looked at the rest of the paper and felt dirty.

Typical Cycling Weakly reader

They just want to test it.

I actually bought it. As for the comic, I was one of those saddoes who used to buy it on Wednesday to get first bite of the good stuff in the classifieds.

Anyone got any gags about chlamydia? My mate just had the swizzle stick and and all kinds of alarm bells are ringing. Looking forward to getting a bit of mileage out of this.

Whats do you call a Chinese lady with one leg shorter than the other?

Tell that to my brother's mate who lost his leg in a car accident. And for that matter all the other amputees who insist on doing practical jokes with their prostheses. It's not subjects which are immune to humour, but attitudes.

My uncle had one leg shorter than the other. He moved in strange circles.

Ah, you actually try and work for a few days and look what happens?

I'm quite chuffed to have offended Chugit, and I did say I had a chuckle at the article, but could see where others with a less macabre sense or humor wouldn't find it funny.


I would also like to add that it has always been funny to talk about the death of public figures. I have not seen a single person complain about this site:http://www.isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/

Though it echos similar sentiments.

I've seen a few mutterings about isthatcherdeadyet, but mostly from conservative politicians.

Back to Lance, this article is interesting - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...ah-pr-disaster It pretty much says that confessing has really not helped, and he should have just carried on lying. People who didn't trust him before still don't, and those that did now don't.

^ Deja vu!

That's the new posh way of saying re!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fixed.

MrsO is called Irene.

UCI press officer for last 15 years has resigned after Hein went on the record saying they warned riders about adverse results. lolol

I thought this was funny - Leaked-outtakes-from-the-oprah-armstrong-interview

That's brilliant

I didn't realise she was Chinese, Midda O.

it must be true, bloke said down the pub...

it was testosterone patches on the cheating cunts balls that gave him cancer in the first place

what a cunt

WTH?!

http://road.cc/content/news/74348-ph...vated-jealousy

Drowning in koolaid!

Perhaps Phil should do fewer miles ...

All sorts of shenanighans going on at the first public meeting of the UCI's independent commission today with the UCI moving to postpone it due to issues with the WADA code and a Truth and Concilliation process.

The Commission have basically accused the UCI of using this as a way of stopping their work.

What a fucking mess.

Link^
Anyone know if the UCI has dropped their case against Kimmage?

Colours to the mast. Long time hater of Armstrong. I've read enough about his bullying ways over the years to realise he's a right cunt.

I've (just) watched both of the Oprah interviews. I have to admit to being captivated by them. Totally fascinated by him, a socio-path with the walls - finally crashing down around him. I have to say though, that I didn't find it insincere. I think thats as close to candid as you'll get from him.

To adopt an LA idiosyncrasy; Do I think he will regain the the trust of those he sought to persecute for daring to call him a cheat? No, probably not. I mean, LeMond, Kimmage, Walsh, Andrieus, etc.

Im genuinely glad he came clean in the end. What a sordid tale though. He did his best to ruin professional lives s and careers. Forgiveness is a reward for the wronged party, it gives closure to the bitterness and hatred harboured for those who we feel have crossed us.

LA will live with his misdemeanour's forever.

Almost inevitably, UCI has disbanded the Independent Commission entirely

http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/...%28VeloNews%29

So their inquiry into corruption within the UCI has to stop because...?