Posts by giovanni tiso
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I need to plan days carefully to make sure that I'm never more than about two hours away from food, just in case
Who are you, Shackleton? I'm pretty sure I would never want to find myself more than two hours away from food regardless of my hypoglycaemia.
PAS: better pants stories.
Outstanding.
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I looked up a couple of Italian sites and there's no mention of auto-transfusions being dangerous. EPO is supposed to be quite dangerous for the reasons you highlighted.
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I stand corrected - I thought the suspect in those deaths was EPO and not the athletes' own blood.
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(it's pronounced poo-holes)
Nope. Try poo-hols, although I see how it would spoil the slur.
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Urophilia ain't the same thing as peeing. Don't tell me it's illegal to show peeing.
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The technical reason why autohaemotrasnfusion is considered doping is that it's a medical procedure whose only objective is to improve performance. Even though it doesn't carry significant health risks, it puts all competitors in a position of having to do it in order not to be at a disadvantage. Good enough for me.
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Hah!
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(Although, in the interest of moderating the snark a little, I don't have proper access to The Press in print form but it does seem from the bits I see on Stuff to be much better than the local Fairfax offering. Its recent articles on GDP versus social wellbeing have been heartening.)
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and actually makes a virtue of its letters page.
You mean like any newspaper worthy of the name would? That's so rad!
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I know everyone says 'I could do that better!' but dude, I so could
So would the people who are actual doing it. Whilst I am not particularly fond of his politics, I have absolutely no doubt that Ralston for instance could be an excellent commentator; it's just that so little is expected of him.