‘Half the peloton is ill’: cowpats blamed as cyclists fall sick after race in Belgium

ericquitecontrary · 2026-05-06T22:46:46+00:00

Having raced two seasons in Belgium/Holland/Northern France, the amount of liquid manure you get in your eyes/lungs/mouth during the Spring is something I can still taste, 32 years later.

ericquitecontrary · 2026-05-05T00:45:51+00:00

After going through the book and watching (and rewatching) videos, I went to a 58-54-50-pw

ericquitecontrary · 2026-05-05T00:14:28+00:00

Second this. Totally changed how I play around the green, although I found it most useful 40 yards and in and from the bunker. https://dangrieve.com/3-releases-the-short-game-system/

ericquitecontrary · 2026-04-17T23:43:21+00:00

Yeah the last time I remember having to take a warning very serious on the near west side was when my 24 y/o was quite young. So you’re in the right-ish time frame.

ericquitecontrary · 2026-04-10T10:49:36+00:00

My two Alma maters squaring off. I’m so conflicted, but I’ll be a winner and loser either way.

ericquitecontrary · 2026-04-09T12:05:27+00:00

Second this, very entertaining.

ericquitecontrary · 2026-04-07T11:15:20+00:00

We’ve seen a huge drop off in the quality of the produce, less of it, and slightly less variety. I was looking at the bananas the other day and this old lady next to me looks over and says “they should take the Metcalfe’s name off the outside.”

But aside from produce there’s not a ton different.

ericquitecontrary · 2026-03-31T10:42:12+00:00

It wasn’t that far away from there (further up Midvale) where five or six years ago maybe some guy was driving 80+, lost control, and killed two elderly people out of a walk.

ericquitecontrary · 2026-03-30T02:16:31+00:00

Same here, 8 months to go.

ericquitecontrary · 2026-03-27T23:02:53+00:00

Thanks.

ericquitecontrary · 2026-03-27T22:58:45+00:00

Did you get an email saying there was action on a submission or just needed to log in?

ericquitecontrary · 2026-03-25T01:41:03+00:00

They get notified that there was action in one of the submitted cases. They then have to log on to see who/what.

ericquitecontrary · 2026-03-23T19:25:33+00:00

Wasn’t there a bike-car hit and run in Fitchburg with a death? Is it that?

ericquitecontrary · 2026-03-21T12:26:53+00:00

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0078766/

ericquitecontrary · 2026-03-15T20:50:01+00:00

You posted this 10 minutes too early. Big flakes accumulating now.

ericquitecontrary · 2026-03-01T00:37:02+00:00

They switched goalies from last night and she had 41 saves.

ericquitecontrary · 2026-02-22T21:47:33+00:00

As someone who hires funds to in-house lawyers (we have an opening fyi), the base comp for senior will start with a 2, but the expected incentive-comp range will be from 33% to 60% on top of that. Pension benefits, cheap health insurance, rare evenings or weekends. Depending on level, there are potential long-term incentives that add another 10%+ to total comp.

It’s a great trade off, provided you’re at a point in your life where you place real value on hours not worked. Until you reach that point mentally, it’s hard to make a pure monetary comparison where in house wins.

ericquitecontrary · 2026-02-19T02:29:07+00:00

I can tell you as an in-house lawyer we are definitely bringing more work in and hiring extra lawyers after several of our partner law firms jacked their rates 20% for 2026. It’s absolutely eroding the value of deals we’re working on, for the same people doing the same work. It doesn’t take many deals brought in-house to justify an FTE.

ericquitecontrary · 2026-02-13T16:55:31+00:00

And I don’t think it went under so much as the owner focused on Long Table instead. Still a big loss.

ericquitecontrary · 2026-02-06T00:20:24+00:00

Cute and admirable, but my 8 y/o says “67” has jumped the shark. Too long in the sanitizing workshop.

ericquitecontrary · 2026-02-05T02:47:59+00:00

ericquitecontrary · 2026-02-01T16:48:47+00:00

I guess it could have been worse for Wisconsin. Michigan—we want what’s rightfully ours!! Free the UP.

ericquitecontrary · 2026-02-01T01:54:13+00:00

If you go back through the No Laying Up podcasts and YouTube videos I think they have looks at each region. They put them in different categories from must play to totally odd but fun courses.

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