'Twitter Taliban'

pb21

Who are they?

bompington

Are they related to the Facebook Fascists?

ddraver

Some examples:-

@UCI_Overlord
@festinagirl
@cycletard
@DiggerForum
whatever the name of Not Mario Cipplini is

A collective of (usually) american "commentators," often related to www.cyclismas.com, who usually spout utter rubbish interspered with a rare nugget of something good (Kimmage defence fund being an example) which they can cling on to to claim they re relevant. Are feeling particularly please with themselves about Armstrong at the moment. Irrational Hatred of Team Sky/Wiggins becasue they are Team Sky/Wiggins. Always annonomous. Pretend they re helping cycling by asking "difficult questions" but usually just end up asking stupid questions.

They re the people Wiggins called W*nkrs and cnuts, and increasingly he's starting to look 100% correct...

timoid.

UCI_Overlord is ok. You can keep the rest.

Richmond Racer

Timoid. wrote:

UCI_Overlord is ok. You can keep the rest.

He is a f^&kwit who needs a tissue time a pro replies to a tweet of his. He is also a proven liar. Not just someone who likes to stir the point, but an out and out liar.

pb21

So they are essentially egotistical nobodies?

shinyhelmut

pb21 wrote:

So they are essentially egotistical nobodies?

On twitter? Surely not?

ddraver

Ha ha - yes basically...

afx237vi

pb21 wrote:

So they are essentially egotistical nobodies?

And yet people go on and on about them anyway, which is equally as tiresome. See also the Cyclingnews forum.

skylla

Richmond Racer wrote:

Timoid. wrote:

UCI_Overlord is ok. You can keep the rest.

He is a f^&kwit who needs a tissue time a pro replies to a tweet of his. He is also a proven liar. Not just someone who likes to stir the point, but an out and out liar.

yup. very strange character.

MrTapir

Also is 'Twitter Taliban' a sort of Godwin's law thing?

Richmond Racer

MrTapir wrote:

Also is 'Twitter Taliban' a sort of Godwin's law thing?

I'm sure they've compared DB and Sky to Hitler and the Nazis, on a number of occasions

tailwindhome

OT

I wish TweeterSagan would come back. He was great value.

Richmond Racer

TailWindHome wrote:

OT

I wish TweeterSagan would come back. He was great value.

+1. Top entertainment during ToS and TdF

above_the_cows

Another +1 for Tweeter Sagan. Pure comedy gold. Please come back Tweeter Sagan if you read this. And I don't really even like the real Sagan (and no I cannot tell you why it is just irrational).

rick_chasey

ShinyHelmut wrote:

pb21 wrote:

So they are essentially egotistical nobodies?

On twitter? Surely not?

Quite.


On a similar note, I've heard that that Rick Chasey tweeter is excellent, when he's not too busy working.

For a change.

LeicesterLad

Rick Chasey wrote:

ShinyHelmut wrote:

pb21 wrote:

So they are essentially egotistical nobodies?

On twitter? Surely not?

Quite.


On a similar note, I've heard that that Rick Chasey tweeter is excellent, when he's not too busy working.

For a change.

Funny you should say that, apparently whoever tweets as @intheGC is usually pretty spot on, about, well, everything.

Walter White

afx237vi wrote:

pb21 wrote:

So they are essentially egotistical nobodies?

And yet people go on and on about them anyway, which is equally as tiresome. See also the Cyclingnews forum.

Daryl Webster , immediatly you know hes a first class knobhead because he has his real name as a handle ..... the sad loss seems to make it his lifes aim to come up with as many conspiracy theories involving Sky as possible , even sadder still you have others hanging off his balls believing every word he says , freaks the lot of them.

MrTapir

Richmond Racer wrote:

MrTapir wrote:

Also is 'Twitter Taliban' a sort of Godwin's law thing?

I'm sure they've compared DB and Sky to Hitler and the Nazis, on a number of occasions

I was sort of referring to the use of 'taliban' to refer to people who shout loudly on the internet...

Richmond Racer

MrTapir wrote:

Richmond Racer wrote:

MrTapir wrote:

Also is 'Twitter Taliban' a sort of Godwin's law thing?

I'm sure they've compared DB and Sky to Hitler and the Nazis, on a number of occasions

I was sort of referring to the use of 'taliban' to refer to people who shout loudly on the internet...

Ah, I thought you were using the Godwin's Law analogy, literally

RichN95.

MrTapir wrote:

I was sort of referring to the use of 'taliban' to refer to people who shout loudly on the internet...

Its original use was in this article: http://www.biscuittinmedia.com/cycling-witch-trials/

MrTapir

Richmond Racer wrote:

MrTapir wrote:

Richmond Racer wrote:

MrTapir wrote:

Also is 'Twitter Taliban' a sort of Godwin's law thing?

I'm sure they've compared DB and Sky to Hitler and the Nazis, on a number of occasions

I was sort of referring to the use of 'taliban' to refer to people who shout loudly on the internet...

Ah, I thought you were using the Godwin's Law analogy, literally

I was sort of paraphrasing it, but you've reminded me of the actual meaning,and yes I take your point.

afx237vi

Walter White wrote:

afx237vi wrote:

pb21 wrote:

So they are essentially egotistical nobodies?

And yet people go on and on about them anyway, which is equally as tiresome. See also the Cyclingnews forum.

Daryl Webster , immediatly you know hes a first class knobhead because he has his real name as a handle ..... the sad loss seems to make it his lifes aim to come up with as many conspiracy theories involving Sky as possible , even sadder still you have others hanging off his balls believing every word he says , freaks the lot of them.

See, I don't care. It's the same as people who pass around links to the Daily Mail and tell everybody how disgusted they are with the latest bout of racist/homophobic garbage they've printed. What are you reading it for, then?

The danger of people on this forum taking so much notice of the crazies on other forums is that so much time will be spent discussing their nutjob ideas that it'll dilute the (largely) reasonable discussion that takes place here.

ddraver

I was thinking about this on the way home and actually came to grudgingly respect what Cyclismas have done. What started as a poor "cycling satire" website has grown into a major outlet of cycling news. First they spout Pro USA garbage about the current US golden boys, then (and this is the clever bit) they style themselves as a news AND satire website. Although some bits are clearly news and some bits clearly satire, there is a very large grey area between those to that they can fill with opinion pieces. If the guesses turn out to be right, then they were news, if they were hopelessly wrong, then they were just a laugh. Hence they manage to appear to be phenomenally up to speed. The best example of this was almost the Wiggins plastergate thing where it was only UCI Overlords hubris that caused the whole article to crumble. Had he replied to Cath Wiggins with a joke and said the piece was rubbish and ironic it would have been ignored.

We now have the situation where bits of info are leaked to both cyclingnews.com and cyclismas. However whereas cyclingnews.com have to check the sources and that the information is reliable, cyclismas can post any old rubbish they get, and it appears increasingly, make up on the spot. Therefore when the real news outlets finally release the news, cyclismas look like they were, once again, ahead of the game.

It sucks, but you can't deny it works. There are very few cycling journos that have not been duped by cyclismas now!

Omar Little

If it was festinadude instead of festinagirl would anyone pay any attention to them? The internet is full of losers and creeps on social media and forums who see the word girl or babe in a username and it attracts them like flies to shite thinking they are in with a shot.

blazing_saddles

RichN95 wrote:

MrTapir wrote:

I was sort of referring to the use of 'taliban' to refer to people who shout loudly on the internet...

Its original use was in this article: http://www.biscuittinmedia.com/cycling-witch-trials/

Although I beat it, here, by two weeks, but with reference to Sky and a certain forum sub-section:
viewtopic.php?f=40002&t=12882249&hilit=taliban

MrTapir

Blazing Saddles wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

MrTapir wrote:

I was sort of referring to the use of 'taliban' to refer to people who shout loudly on the internet...

Its original use was in this article: http://www.biscuittinmedia.com/cycling-witch-trials/

Although I beat it, here, by two weeks, but with reference to Sky and a certain forum sub-section:
viewtopic.php?f=40002&t=12882249&hilit=taliban

"...known disease vector Levi Leipheimer..." thats a good line.

inkyfingers

Omar Little wrote:

If it was festinadude instead of festinagirl would anyone pay any attention to them? The internet is full of losers and creeps on social media and forums who see the word girl or babe in a username and it attracts them like flies to shite thinking they are in with a shot.

The "girl" part in this case being rather disingenuous considering she's a middle aged mother from Sussex.

I'm slowly learning that twitter is like any part of life, you just have to learn to filter out the crap and keep an eye out for the little nuggets of goodness. There are some ball achingly annoying people who once in a while turn out something interesting.

Richmond Racer

Festina Mum would be much more hilarious

rick_chasey

inkyfingers wrote:

There are some ball achingly annoying people.

Well f*ck you too.













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inkyfingers

I'm still following you, what more do you want!