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contador has won and done well in many prestigious TTs. Porte is decent but not exactly cancellara ir martin level.

sky are hilarious

it's probably down to book readers vs tv watchers. they way they had was probably the optimum WTF for unspoiled viewers as it seemed a fairly average episode up until then. if you already know it's coming then you would want as much build up as possible as it's a huge incident in the story. having more northmen would have put made robb seem more king like, think back to his wolf biting the lord's fingers off in season one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys8nZxcMqTk the north rolled deep back in the day

i would have liked it to have been the whole episode (but also with arya and the hound trying to get there). it would have been good to get more of roose especially but also other stark bannermen and some freaky freys.

i'm sure roose said he didn't booze when he was dining with jamie and brienne which caused jamie to say something like "you can imagine how strange that seems to normal people". i was hoping that the wedding would be the full episode and you would get more time with roose, the blackfish and the freys but it was still good. i suppose that treating it like a normal episode made it more of a shock when it kicked off. can't say i'll miss robb. there is no way his dad or robert baratheon or joffrey or stannis would take the shite he took off walder before the wedding and surely if you claim to be king you roll deep like the baratheons coming to winterfell in the first episode. robb and his maw were too stupid to survive, hopefully the remaining starks up their game a bit!

i think it's hilarious. People obviously follow him on twitter because they enjoy him being a dick and making nasty comments but when he does something wide to them they starts act butthurt. The irony in people who have actually signed up to read him say shocking things get pissef off because it effects them rather than jordans wean or someone in a talent show is delicious.

mocking disabled children - ok spoiling a tv show - disgraceful frankie boyle is a genius!

from her point of view at kings landing there is only one king and it's joffrey. really bran is the king of the north (although everyone who wants a king in the north is near enough dead). i thought the scene with jon and the wolves was amazing. props to john for the ultimate bros before ho's moment when ygritte tried to give him back up and he knocked her down. i'm gutted for arya and for grey wind. not so much for robb and catelyn, they were terrible at war. robb should smacked frey about for talking about his wife. if you want to call yourself king then act like one. two direwolves down but there are still four alive and kicking. i'm going to be pissed off if at least jon, arya and rickon plus the 4 dugs don't reunite.

italians just love cheating above and beyond the call of duty. ricco, di luca and santambrogio are bunga bunga cyclists.

as night follows day. crazy tallies.

i don't understand what is happening when walt acts hard. he doesn't have much back up and even people who are hard as f**k don't handle getting shot very well so all the super villain stuff seems a bit ridiculous.

from the alan sepinwall review and the tom and lorenzo site points out that megan dressed like this while police sirens scream in the background is a reference to sharon tate dressed like this( NSFW) http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6ggaddZ801qigaa4o1_500.jpg fingers crossed they don't kill off megan but you do get the impression that things are building to a violent end. that episode was august 1968 so the democratic convention is probably coming up soon. the final season should be epic. the moon landing, the manson family murders and woodstock all happen within a month of each other.

what happened with this? i've been rereading recently. blasted through the great gatsby and on the road last week sitting in the sun. i first read them both when i was 18 and it's definitely a different experience reading them with a more mature outlook on life. i'm going to continue my austerity drive by reading the books on my shelves which i have never got round to reading. jazz by toni morrison next then alias grace by margaret attwood.

just watched the final climb from yesterday, absolutely brutal. you have to love the lunatics on the side of the road. looking forward to the tour now. it's going to be epic in the mountains with all out war between the fine upstanding representatives of hrm elizabeth II in team sky and the dirty cheating spics lead by contador, purito, valverde and quintana. i quite fancy putting a wee each way bet on valverde, he was very strong in the giro last year and movistar are in superb form.

He also said that cycling was clean on Tuesday. A former winner doped to the eyeballs couldn't even get a stage win.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/05/20/mad_men_season_6_episode_8_the_crash_is_scdp_fighting_its_vietnam.html a pretty mind blowing piece on slate about the most recent episode and the vietnam war. this is why i feel that people watching mad men in blocks rather than weekly lose out. each episode needs to be given attention and thought.

no surprise there, he has been on the attack everyday like he used to be every other time has he has rode the giro doped to the gills. Thats his third positive so cheerio killer! Vini farense have been ridiculous. Santambroglio is surely going to trip the wire as well

The giro has been spectacular compared to last year. What I'm taking from this race and the vuelta is that the other big teams have tooled up to match sky. The tour is going to be wild.

Really can't be bothered with the opening round format these days.

When don was running about with the rich crowd in California we saw what was happening in the office. We also saw some office stuff when he was in Baltimore with sal plus we saw Peggy working at a totally different company. I think chaogh and cutler could be used as a device to allow don to leave for a while whilst still keeping the office going. I agree that he has worked his way past Sylvia but I doubt he has changed, he'll fall back into the same patterns as always.

i think they enjoyed doing roger's acid trip last season so this time they went with a group experience with amphetamines. it was inspired by this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Jacobson i said at the start of the season that don was in a very dark place and i think that the chevy deal and the merger will prove to be too much for him. the chevy guys are maniacs and chaogh and cutler are more than he can handle at the moment. my theory is that don will be leaving the agency soon. also megan was looking immense, i suspect betty might be right about her whereabouts.

the start was ken in detroit with te chevy execs who are a bunch of bams. The rest was due to that doctor injecting them full of speed. The only bit that confused me was the old black granny knowing bobby's name.

best episode of the season (and i'd say since ned got the chop) and not just because of dany and mel. it's so much better when they take the time to really focus on a few storylines rather than jumping around.

great stage today. i think i saw more attacks in the last 30km today than in the full of the tour last year. the attacks on the final descent were crazy, wiggins will be glad he is at home. i was hoping sam sanchez would get the win but it wasn't to be, hopefully he'll be in better form later in the year.

walsh has lost the plot.