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  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Show me where the logo had already been used for a cycling team, Dish

    No point in defending Team Torture, my friend. The shakiest of shaky ground
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,642
    I've tried responding more argumentatively twice and each time the server has hung up. So I'm taking that as a sign that I should just bow to RR's superior argument... ;)
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,653
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    Show me where the logo had already been used for a cycling team, Dish

    No point in defending Team Torture, my friend. The shakiest of shaky ground

    As opposed to team hayfever drug abuse & inappropriate language? :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
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  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    Show me where the logo had already been used for a cycling team, Dish

    No point in defending Team Torture, my friend. The shakiest of shaky ground

    As opposed to team hayfever drug abuse & inappropriate language? :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:


    We might both be involved with the financial sector, Chasey, but when you start equating torture with swears, something's fooked
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    dish_dash wrote:
    I've tried responding more argumentatively twice and each time the server has hung up. So I'm taking that as a sign that I should just bow to RR's superior argument... ;)


    You got it

    Also. Get me a coffee.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,653
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    Show me where the logo had already been used for a cycling team, Dish

    No point in defending Team Torture, my friend. The shakiest of shaky ground

    As opposed to team hayfever drug abuse & inappropriate language? :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:


    We might both be involved with the financial sector, Chasey, but when you start equating torture with swears, something's fooked

    I hope you also boycot all teams who have their kit made in China then!
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  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    s'right. I wont even go out for a Chinese
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,653
    I really enjoyed the bikeradar boycott with acompnying dodgy nickname of katyusha cycling during the Ukrainian invasion, as well as during the political clampdown and murder of rivals of the leading governers.

    I also really enjoyed the bikeradar boycott with acompnying dodgy nickname of Dimension data who employed Daniel Teklehaimanot, who's success was used as propaganda for the brutal Isaias Afwerki regime.

    Oh wait, no, that didn't happen.
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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,642
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    dish_dash wrote:
    I've tried responding more argumentatively twice and each time the server has hung up. So I'm taking that as a sign that I should just bow to RR's superior argument... ;)


    You got it

    Also. Get me a coffee.

    Sure. Though you are aware that coffee is tied to a long history of colonialism and slavery, and production of the crop remains a hotbed of exploitation and environmental degradation to this day.

    It'll have to be fair trade...
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,090
    Most cycling teams are a mix of all sorts. I thought that would have a certain natural cosmopolitan and apolitical image.

    Then I came in here.

    Whilst we are at it - we shouldn't drink tea. Though you are aware that tea is tied to a long history of colonialism and slavery, and production of the crop remains a hotbed of exploitation and environmental degradation to this day.

    ...and we shouldn't buy anything from Planet X.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,653
    Well quite. We're all hypocrites.
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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,642
    even hot water is ethically questionable Pinno
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,090
    dish_dash wrote:
    even hot water is ethically questionable Pinno

    and Soya.. and prawns/reconstituted to look like Scampi bred in the far east fed on a diet of Krill fished from the Antarctic by Norwegians (no less) in giant ships.

    Jeezo, this thread is a bit dry this year.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    dish_dash wrote:
    even hot water is ethically questionable Pinno



    Talking of which...where's that coffee?
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    dish_dash wrote:
    even hot water is ethically questionable Pinno



    Talking of which...where's that coffee?

    Ach, choose your poison. Or otherwise.

    But they will be Team Torture for as long as the team exists.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,642
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    dish_dash wrote:
    even hot water is ethically questionable Pinno



    Talking of which...where's that coffee?

    :lol:
    Come to London drinks and I'll happily buy you a coffee but I aint schlepping down to you neck of the woods to deliver one...
  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    I would buy these

    Shimano RP9


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  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    Just by a cheap white pair and decorate the house.
  • spaceman147
    spaceman147 Posts: 77
    kleinstroker wrote:
    I would buy these

    Shimano RP9


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    Look a load of Pollocks to me!
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    Look like my father-in-law's work boots.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,653
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:

    But they will be Team Torture for as long as the team exists.

    What was your nickname for Katyusha again?
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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:

    But they will be Team Torture for as long as the team exists.

    What was your nickname for Katyusha again?

    I don't know if you can compare Katusha and Bahrain-Merida. Bahrain-Merida is funded directly by the Kingdom of Bahrain to promote Bahrain; I think Katusha was funded by Russian businesses (though how people like Gazprom fit into the Russian Oligarchy is probably an 'interesting' issue). And whatever we think of Russia, I think Bahrain is worse on the scale of human rights, i.e. their treatment of women, the subjugation of the majority of their population; and their team appears to be a direct effort to 'sportswash'.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:

    But they will be Team Torture for as long as the team exists.

    What was your nickname for Katyusha again?


    Whatever you say, me luvely
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,642
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:

    But they will be Team Torture for as long as the team exists.

    What was your nickname for Katyusha again?

    I don't know if you can compare Katusha and Bahrain-Merida. Bahrain-Merida is funded directly by the Kingdom of Bahrain to promote Bahrain; I think Katusha was funded by Russian businesses (though how people like Gazprom fit into the Russian Oligarchy is probably an 'interesting' issue). And whatever we think of Russia, I think Bahrain is worse on the scale of human rights, i.e. their treatment of women, the subjugation of the majority of their population; and their team appears to be a direct effort to 'sportswash'.

    Tell Anna Politkovskaya or Pussy Riot that...

    I don't remember a nickname for Astana either...
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    TEAM UBER


    This is all getting a bit Cheeto Mussolini-HRC

    "Trump's gonna strip America down for parts, strip people of their citizenship, oppress non-whites and LGBTs and minorities, kill off Obamacare, kill democracy, and go full psycho kleptocracy"

    Trumpster: "Yeah..but...but...emails!"
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,642
    This is getting dangerously close to Godwin's Law....
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,642
    Team Acqua Blue kit

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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,642
    And the new Katusha-Alpecin kit... new Swiss registration and everything...

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    My man looking good:
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,090
    That Aqua Blue looks quite cool. The Alpecin one reminds me of Liptons Tea too much.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    Is there any Russian backing still connected to the team? If not, any reason to keep the Katusha name?

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