Comments on: Tour de Roid Rage!

By: yami

yami — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:17:00 +0000

Yes! Fabulous movie. The Tour de France should definitely involve kidnappings and crossing the Atlantic in a paddleboat - right after the jousting.

By: Rana

Rana — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:29:00 +0000

Ooh! I’d watch that!
(But then any sport that combines violence with fit men in little tight shorts tends to grab my attention — yay, footy!)
Have you seen the Triplets of Belleville?

By: yami

yami — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:39:00 +0000

Yes, but just last night I invented about three ways to make it more outrageous and more grueling, like eliminating these nonsensical “rest days” and allowing competitors to ride across France without dividing the course into stages for purposes of “sleeping” and “eating”. And then having one day where everybody stops to have a bicycle jousting tournament.

By: des

des — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:30:00 +0000

The Tour is great! (I watched bits of it in French, Danish and (most intelligibly) Norwegish at David’s flat, hoorah!)
Much of the entertainment is the Big Picture, rather than anything that is currently happening, because very often nothing in particular is. The Really Big Picture is that it’s the most outrageously gruelling endurance event ever invented, of course.

By: yami

yami — Sun, 25 Jul 2004 18:33:00 +0000

Me too. It’s probably a very complex calculus of aerodynamics vs. pedal leverage vs. sore butts… I do like how they all wear padded underwear though.

By: Graham

Graham — Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:52:00 +0000

This post in G-vision™: “Tour de ‘Rhoid Rage!”
I’m still waiting for the explanation of why they stand up off their seats so much of the time.