you mean velo vol? I second that. He is the biggest pain in the ass on BF.

i printed his photo and put it on a dart board.

Oh that's perfect. A drunken limey BFer throwing darts at a Gomer BFer. Post pics of that please.

this 3 day weekend was going to be a cycling extravaganza but the rain and torrential storms have ruined it all. I hate the weather here.

Gomers as good a person to blame as any. Gomer you better go repent !

I have a unicorn ranch.

That wasn't a real deal--at worst it would have created a burning car. And yes, the ingredients that compromise fertilizer can be used to make an explosive, but you don't just wire a bag of fertilizer to some fireworks and expect it blow it up.

Saying this could have killed lots of people is like saying a 300 pound guy (who hasn't ridden in 10 years) can show up on a mountain bike and win the Nyack Ride.

I get that it's a story--I'm just saying it's being way overhyped because of where it happened. If some yahoo parked the exact same vehicle at the farmer's market in Macon, GA it won't get a fraction of the coverage.

Last night on CNN they were going on and on about the "heroes" who helped prevent the attack. Huh? Some people saw smoke coming out of a car and told the nearby police officer about it. I don't quite get how that makes them "heroes". I guess CNN expects everyone to turn and run in terror at the first sign of smoke.

it was hardly even news here. I got an email from someone visiting NY saying he's alright and not to worry. I read it and was totally confused. Why would I be worried?

Don't worry about me drowning in the floods; I'm OK. But we have broken a 117-year old record for most rain on May 3.

What's weird is that here in Bristol it only started raining last night for about 3 hours and now it has stopped. We are near drought conditions.

VV you do realize that it's the thought that the car could have been packed with something worse, and nobody would have noticed. This bomb wasn't exactly huge, but the next one will be - terrorists run small scale trials of their plans before they follow through with the real thing.

I was mistaken Gomer.

It sounds like you're the one with the unicorn ranch. I'd put you in a straightjacket, but I think you'd have to lose 20lbs first for it to even fit.

Oh, by the way, when a dirty bomb goes off in midtown, 40,000 people are dead, the Dow drops 30% in a day, the US goes to Defcon 12 and the world is in a massive crisis, will you approve of CNN's coverage then?

One more reason I don't live in NYC or Washington, DC.

It's easier to invest your money in carbon fiber and titanium. That way the 30% depreciation hits you immediately.

There is a line in Vegas Vacation that the blackjack dealer tells Clark.

"How about you give me half the money you were going to bet and then we'll go out back and I'll kick you in the nuts and we'll call it a day."

I think that the bomb was a dud and they are working up to a much bigger one.

Just like any media today, everything is a story and they will beat it to death until another one comes along.

Perhaps some simplification for you iApple users:

--Actual bomb attempt = actual news story

--Half a$$ bomb attempt = half a$$ news story

Once upon a time the media expressed concern about glorifying dumb acts for fear of inspiring copycats. I guess that no longer stands.

The other problem with the breathless coverage is that it inevitably leads to the airing of idiot theories on the cause.

What Gomer misses is the real point: that even an attempted terrorist act of such magnitude in a major American city is a far more urgent news story to most of the world than a flattened trailer park the rural SE. That may not be fair, but that's the reality. Because it raises the legitimate fear that such an eventuality is closer to reality, and the ramifications of such an event are far more global and considerably more dire than any local calamity. A terrorist bomb in NY or London is a local disaster with global implications. A tornado in Memphis is horrible, but it's strictly local.

Hey, if it's your grandmother that gets killed in either case, that's the real news to you personally. I understand and empathize with the flood victims and their relatives in TN, but accusing the news media for over blowing this incident in NY is silly.

But who's sillier than Gomer?

God help us you're such a Gomer.

Gooollllly.

this.

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

Go back to your trailer park, gomer!

Wow. I thought razor would have taken the cake, but you win :thumb:

That is by far the most idiotic post I have ever read on bf.

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.

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.

Whenever I fart I half expect to see a news crew arrive to cover the story.

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. :rolleyes: