Really Boring Stuff Only III: Resurrection

[Alex2507]

As a long-time fan of Track & Field, I was happy to hear about the recent ban of the Russian team from Track & Field competition at in the Olympics.

Of course, the Russians claim they don't deserve this. They are too modest. I look at it as a "Lifetime Achievement Award" – they were overdue for it .

I've never been able to understand people that don't cheat.
It's like we're not even the same sub species.

 

[haraldo]

As a long-time fan of Track & Field, I was happy to hear about the recent ban of the Russian team from Track & Field competition at in the Olympics.

Of course, the Russians claim they don't deserve this. They are too modest. I look at it as a "Lifetime Achievement Award" – they were overdue for it .

They deserve it ok !!!!!!

 

[haraldo]

As a long-time fan of Track & Field, I was happy to hear about the recent ban of the Russian team from Track & Field competition at in the Olympics.

Of course, the Russians claim they don't deserve this. They are too modest. I look at it as a "Lifetime Achievement Award" – they were overdue for it .

russian government are f¤#"¤# ba¤¤#¤%¤... russia is still illegally occupying part of another country in Europe and the world is just sitting watching..... which means it's accepted.....

 

[herbu]

As a long-time fan of Track & Field, I was happy to hear about the recent ban of the Russian team from Track & Field competition at in the Olympics.

May be just as well. They wouldn't know which bathroom to use anyway.

 

[Steve81]

Made a visit out here today. Among the museum's treasures are the space shuttle Discovery and the Enola Gay. Between that and neat stuff like a SR-71 Blackbird, Concorde jet, X-35B, and much much more, I had a pretty cool Fathers Day.

 

[Swerd]

I've never been able to understand people that don't cheat.
It's like we're not even the same sub species.

I sometimes think it would be good to have 2 different divisions of Olympics. The No-Drugs-No-Cheating competition, and the Open competition where anything goes.

OK, make that 3 divisions. We already have the Para-Olympics.

 

[Swerd]

May be just as well. They wouldn't know which bathroom to use anyway.

You're thinking of the Press sisters (or was it brothers?), Tamara and Irina Press.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Press

I think they predated the PED era. They apparently had enough X and Y chromosomes to go into any bathroom . Their testosterone levels may have been been unusually high for females, but what they had was not drug-induced, it was all natural .

 

[Swerd]

Made a visit out here today. Among the museum's treasures are the space shuttle Discovery and the Enola Gay. Between that and neat stuff like a SR-71 Blackbird, Concorde jet, X-35B, and much much more, I had a pretty cool Fathers Day.

That is a fun place. I haven't been there in years. A nice Fathers Day indeed.

 

[lsiberian]

So my Dad's entire team got laid off today. He was working their before I was born. Crazy times.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

So my Dad's entire team got laid off today. He was working their before I was born. Crazy times.

Where is that?

 

[lsiberian]

Where is that?

NXP. It was part of Motorola, got spun off several years ago and then bought by NXP last year. Pretty much a side effect of the merger. He's a programmer so he should be fine, but it's still pretty crazy.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

NXP. It was part of Motorola, got spun off several years ago and then bought by NXP last year. Pretty much a side effect of the merger. He's a programmer so he should be fine, but it's still pretty crazy.

Good lord...

I have been in that situation 3 times the past 10 years. Heck, the last company I was at closed shop and I didn't even miss a beat, I started the next day at a competitor at a much higher rate. Who says us old guys are not wanted anymore?

 

[Swerd]

So my Dad's entire team got laid off today. He was working their before I was born. Crazy times.

Sorry to hear that. It's always a shot to the shorts to get news like that.

If it came after a spin-off and buyout he might have been aware for sometime that trouble was brewing. I've been there myself in the past.

Ask him if he isn't relieved that he doesn't have to go back to that mad house anymore.

 

[GO-NAD!]

My nephew just got laid off...he's a newspaper reporter. Big shock, eh?

 

[j_garcia]

I just got 11 vouchers for two tickets and 13 discounts from the Ticketmaster class action settlement. CONCERT TIME

 

[lsiberian]

Good lord...

I have been in that situation 3 times the past 10 years. Heck, the last company I was at closed shop and I didn't even miss a beat, I started the next day at a competitor at a much higher rate. Who says us old guys are not wanted anymore?

Yeah I'm pretty certain he was probably underpaid and with the severance plus whatever new job I expect him to land. It will be a nice bump for him I'm sure.

 

[TheWarrior]

My nephew just got laid off...he's a newspaper reporter. Big shock, eh?

Who wants an Honest reporter anyway...

 

[GO-NAD!]

Who wants an Honest reporter anyway...

He's actually a great writer, but print is going the way of the dodo. So, his paper is trying to cut costs. More like circling the drain...

 

[ParadigmDawg]

....and at first I thought the basket was stupid.....

Today I go back in to see if I can lose the boot, I am very sick of it and I will likely burn it when it's off.

Wish me luck, he said that the options will be to keep the boot on, a small brace or straight to a shoe. I hope a "shoe" mean a shoe and not some kind of smaller boot.

I really want him to say a brace and start some PT as my calf is so stiff and has no range of motion right now not to mention the fact that it is exactly 2" smaller than before the boot went on.

 

[Alex2507]

You'll be fine in no time. I saw a couple of those bike things at the knee place I went to. Did yours have the special race bearings?