Posts by Russell Brown
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Otoh, I grabbed this photo from Facebook. It’s the kind of thing that’s been circulating as proof, but it’s very obviously bogus. Her bib in the “before” pic is dated 2011. She did not look like that last year. She looked like this at the Daegu tournament.
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According to the Association Against Steroid Abuse (whose website sure does give a lot of information about how to use steroids): “The largest concern for most women and anabolic steroid use is virilization; however, with responsible use this is non-existent in almost all females.”
The same site also says this, though:
The largest concern for most women and anabolic steroid use is virilization; however, with responsible use this is non-existent in almost all females. While it can occur, if symptoms start to show, simply discontinuing will see them fade away. This makes Primobolan very beneficial to females as they are able to enjoy a moderate anabolic affect without the nasty side-effects. It is however very important to note, if virilization effects set in there is often no turning back; don’t push the envelope.
I think Phil Gifford's column today is fairly sound. There were certainly indications that she was doping, and those included her physical appearance. Not her "manliness" or whatever, but her skin tone.
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Ye Shiwen is far from a household name.
But she has been pulling out incredible finishing laps for a while now, which makes it look less like drug cheating.
Otoh, the record of Chinese swimmers using performance-enhancing drugs is ghastly. Something like 40 women were banned in the 1990s.
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Sacha,
You’d be hard-pressed to hold anyone else responsible for that, surely.
Both his alcoholic parents and a supposed head injury as a teenager have been raised as factors in his offending, but that's kind of irrelevant. What's being imposed on him now isn't a punishment, it's an effort to protect others.
It's worth noting that he has been specifically banned from attending drug and alcohol rehab groups, because he has targeted vulnerable people in that environment.
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I’m only posing the question of how we (society) deal with the likes of him, (he’s not the only despicable person around).And I question what we do, because I wonder if jail or a “Masons type Clinic is better for a sick/ mental/deranged person like him.
He apparently spent time at Cherry Farm hospital near Dunedin when he was young. But he he was considered fit to plead when he was brought to trial for his crimes.
It's pretty hard to commit someone to a psychiatric facility if they don't want to go, and Wilson clearly doesn't.
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WOAH.
Nadzeya Ostapchuk has failed a drug test and been stripped of her medal.
Valerie Adams is now the gold medalist.
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
That’s not what I mean at all. Sacha. I am asking if keeping some one locked up for life is any different to society using capital punishment.
Yeah, it's a pretty big difference. Restricting someone's freedom because they pose an unacceptable danger to people around them is not the same as killing them.
It’s a statement that “what you have done is not acceptable” It would teach a very quick message that “you are not allowed to do that”.
Wilson has been in jail for 18 years. In that time he has never acknowledged his offending, and thus never even started on therapy. If he is, as it appears, a psychopath, he's by that definition indifferent to the suffering of others. His reports to the parole board have been terrible.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Spring light
That's fab.
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Field Theory: In closing, in reply to hot_grits,
No idea if it’s possible to display an image on this hurrr message board
Yes, it's very easy. Just click the "choose file" button and select your image from your computer. It will slot in above your text.
I popped in and did this one for you :-)
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Field Theory: In closing, in reply to Sacha,
Jodi Ihaka reckons we’re just codgers, and cites interesting ‘proof’.
Ahem. My generation had 'Stars on 45'.
All right then: why were the medleys such shite? Seriously. They weren't even good medleys.
Otoh, this, the Team GB medallists miming to Queen's 'Don't Stop me Now', this is good.
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