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gerain thomas flipped right off the bike. sore one.

the guy that came 3rd is a 19 year old called danny van poppel. i'd imagine he will make it over the climbs with the bunch if yellow is a possibility.

poor quality podium birds. what is going on?!

kittel is an absolute tank. he will get dropped early tomorrow so it'll be interesting to see who chases any breaks.

it was at about 5km but at that point the finish line was at 3km. then the finish line was moved back to where it should have been which is why there was some doubt. the tour website is saying same time now. the bus driver looked extremely non plussed.

that was an utter farce! same time for everyone surely?

i was pretty surprised that froome hasn't had the big build up from the british media this week. then i saw this and remembered why

extremely unlikely but it's probably the only way weiner could top david chase's sopranos ending for shock value. they are contracted for one more season and with the manson family murders, woodstock, altamont and the moon landing all happening in 1969 it should be a belter.

it looks like he's finished at sc&p although he still presumably owns a good chunk of the company. is he finished with megan? she seemed to be finished with him. "not great bob" might be the highlight of the season.

froome's claim that he aims to win 7 tours was world class trolling. hopefully he is heading for a fall.

wiggins has announced he's giving up doping.

i think pete is doing ok at the moment. He didn't repeat his mistake of sticking don in with bob and is going to use his knowledge to his advantage plus he has the most important client now. His personal life is fucked up but i don't think he cares about that at all (which is madness when had alison bries chebs on tap) don on the other hand appears to be beyond redemption apart from his line to harry about hookers taking travellers cheques which was incredible.

i loved it when i was younger and reread it last month and thoroughly enjoyed it. what didn't you like about it?

jazz by toni morrison. a black man in 1920s harlem murders his young lover and the novel weaves back and forth to reveal the family history that brought the man, his wife and his mistress from the rural south to new york city and what drove them towards the murder. an extremely evocative novel which paints a vivid picture of harlem and the lives of african americans at the time without ever wallowing in pity. alias grace by margaret atwood which based on a real 19th century woman who was convicted of a double murder in canada in the 1940s. a young doctor of psychiatry interviews grace in an attempt to find out if grace marks should be held culpable for the murders. a lot of the book is grace recounting her life from being born in ulster then crossing over to canada and entering domestic service leading up to the events of the murder but you can never be certain whether grace is being truthful or manipulative.

science is one of the few areas where the uk still holds an economic advantage internationally.

there are something like a quarter of a million homes in london which are worth a million dollars. that stat will be extrapolated from that info.

the boy who thought he was being smart by explaining what the un security council is needs his balls toed.

brilliant run chase. sangakarra, jayawardene and dlishan are great guys.

i was actually reading the 2000 booker prize winner when the question was asked but alias grace wasn't one of the pointless answers. still got john banville the sea and dbc pierre vernon god little FTW

there is no chance of froome leaving his marginal gains supplier or brailsford taking a chance that froome will piss back in the tent.

they have been doing their jobs since 1960, it gets old. this is the time for deep psychological breakdown and despair.

don has well and truly checked out. he looked pretty happy with megan as well but we've 16 episodes left so there's no way that it's plain sailing. i said a while ago that he i thought he might leave the company and it looks like that might be on the cards. pete is often a distorted version of don and he seems at the end of his tether as well. guaranteed that pete whitey'd on stans weed and spent the rest of the day lying on the floor of his office. i want to see ginsberg tell bob benson he was born in a concentration camp and for bob benson to soothe his troubled psyche.

because nibali rides with style and is fun to watch. it also helps that he doesn't bang on about zero tolerance and marginal gains.

saying that contador is cheat because he git caught withnagew picograms of clen in his system which were officially rulef to be due to contaminated legal supplements while porte is clean because he has never failed a test is a naive and stupid way of looking at things. They are both clearly dirty.