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Old 05-03-10 | 01:21 PM
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A terrorist bomb in NY or London is a local disaster with global implications.
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Old 05-03-10 | 01:56 PM
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God help us you're such a Gomer.

Gooollllly.
Is it time for all of us to throw darts at gomer's pic?

Go back to your trailer park, gomer!
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Old 05-03-10 | 01:59 PM
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Is there anything more self-absorbed than the NY media?

Some Talibubba loser tries a pathetic excuse of a DIY homebrew bomb with fireworks, gasoline, propane tanks, and fertilizer (no, I'm not kidding) and CNN is nearly wetting itself on the air over it. Meanwhile, there's over 10 dead and hundreds displaced here due to flooding, and it barely gets mentioned.
Wow. I thought razor would have taken the cake, but you win

That is by far the most idiotic post I have ever read on bf.
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I got a letter from Lees McRae college today.. It's about their cycling team. I think it's a general letter, I'm not very fast.
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Old 05-03-10 | 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by mike868y
That is by far the most idiotic post I have ever read on bf.
You don't spend much time over in P&R do you? Gomer's idiot post wouldn't crack the Top 100 Dumbest P&R Posts.
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Old 05-03-10 | 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by patentcad
A terrorist bomb in NY or London is a local disaster with global implications.

Whenever I fart I half expect to see a news crew arrive to cover the story.
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Old 05-03-10 | 02:26 PM
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I see the thread angst I have generated by causing some of you to stop and think. It must be painful.

The geographical bias is just one facet of TV news excess. There are plenty of other examples. Black kids get gunned down in Chicago all the time with little fanfare, but if a snowflake white beauty pageant girl gets killed, TV is all over it. Kids go missing in North Carolina and no one cares, but if a balloon with no boy flies a few miles over Colorado, CNN can't get it's live coverage team out there quick enough. And on and on.

But the biggest ratings draw is terrorism. Apparently after all these years people still don't realize that some nut could blow up a car. So CNN has to tell us so, unceasingly. I'm glad they are on the case.

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I bet most of you haven't even been watching the dumb coverage on TV to know what I'm talking about.

In case you didn't click on the link above, there was a NY congressman who actually speculated on air (without any evidence) that the SUV might have been a retaliation for some South Park silliness.

And you are calling my posts here on BikeForums dumb.
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Quietly, with little fanfare, on a Monday afternoon in May, in a back alley in downtown Memphis, construction had begun on Gomer's Ark.
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Old 05-03-10 | 03:35 PM
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That's a very moving bit of footage. If it wasn't for that cat stuck in a tree in Brooklyn, I'm sure it would have made the national news.
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Memphis is 375 miles from here.

Just sayin'.

And we only got three inches of rain.
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Old 05-03-10 | 03:41 PM
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Memphis is 375 miles from here.

Just sayin'.

And we only got three inches of rain.
thats like the entire width of our country
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Old 05-03-10 | 03:41 PM
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Alright let's be nice now...
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Originally Posted by patentcad
Gomer's idiot post wouldn't crack the Top 100 Dumbest P&R Posts.
Check out the AIDS thread. It's a fresh car wreck.
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Originally Posted by coasting
thats like the entire width of our country
Little-known fact: the upper east corner of Tennessee is closer to Canada than it is to Memphis.
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Old 05-03-10 | 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Check out the AIDS thread. It's a fresh car wreck.

thanks for the heads up. I actually read and post in a small number of threads judgin by title, and only those that are interesting or obviously car crash tastic in which case I'll take any position as long as it's provocative.
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He's annoying as sin. I thought it was just his personality, but I'm convinced he's trying to be annoying.
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I only have 2 days a week (sun, mon) that I can actually go ride a lot. That is, without getting up at 6 am. I didn't ride either of them. I am disappoint.
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Old 05-03-10 | 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by mzeffex
I only have 2 days a week (sun, mon) that I can actually go ride a lot. That is, without getting up at 6 am. I didn't ride either of them. I am disappoint.
After tomorrow, I'll basically have 24/7 for the next three months to ride.... I'll be finishing up my senior year stuff and practicing over summer, but besides that....sweet, sweet free time.
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I'm not AS bad as razor.
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