Lance (well, his GF) expecting #4

[Grog]

I've never been much of a Lance fan, but I'm just not a fan of anyone generally speaking.

This caveat aside, I'm also surprised at how so many people can make so many comments and judgments about someone's life with any confidence at all, even sounding "informed," based on mostly (if not only) media representations of that person. As if the gossip press (or the sports press, or almost any press at all) could be trusted to really represent anyone with any level of trustworthiness.

[Biciclista]

How interesting. Harsh medical treatment; would that be castration and a lifetime of hormone therapy?
I know a guy who had testicular cancer and they left him with one testicle and he's had kids since... so does anyone know how many Lance has?
obviously if he has none, it's not his child.

[Kalidurga]

so does anyone know how many Lance has?
obviously if he has none, it's not his child.

How many of what, kids or testicles? If the latter, he's got one. That's why Robin Williams calls him the "Uni-baller"

This is the first I've read this thread and I gotta say it's been very entertaining. Is this what y'all do when it's too cold to get out and ride yer bike?

[Biciclista]

well, in that case, he can have kids. what a relief!

it's in the 30's out there there are INCHES of slush on the road, it's raining and the wind is blowing. NO, i don't feel like riding.

[Grog]

well, in that case, he can have kids. what a relief!

Well it's not that simple.

My brother had bone cancer as a child and the heavy-duty chemotherapy treatments he was served back then have made him pretty much sterile. It's not all about the balls.

This being said, my brother - who didn't want to have children of his own - eventually got a vasectomy to make sure no "miracles" would happen to him. Before that, his partner was on birth control.

[Biciclista]

Well it's not that simple.

My brother had bone cancer as a child and the heavy-duty chemotherapy treatments he was served back then have made him pretty much sterile. It's not all about the balls.

This being said, my brother - who didn't want to have children of his own - eventually got a vasectomy to make sure no "miracles" would happen to him. Before that, his partner was on birth control.

well, if he had NO balls, it would be one h@ll of a miracle. that was MY point.

[Grog]

well, if he had NO balls, it would be one h@ll of a miracle. that was MY point.

Indeed it would be a tough one.



Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[Irulan]

This is the first I've read this thread and I gotta say it's been very entertaining. Is this what y'all do when it's too cold to get out and ride yer bike?

Yes.

perhaps I should post pics of the 8' pile of snow in my front yard.

ps, this makes kid #4 I think.

[RoadRaven]

>:-)

Is everyone else aware that kids are baby goats???

[Selkie]

Uni-baller! LOL. Thanks for the levity, K. This thread needed it.

[Possegal]

I enjoy reading the pages of the people who ride the livestrong challenge. Some are very personalized and it is very touching and often funny to read them. My favorite from last year was a guy that had a very large team and even had founded a non-profit. He too was a testicular cancer survivor and his page had a picture of him and Lance at the dinner the night before the ride. The title was "It's all fun and games until someone loses a nut". Cracked me up!!

[Miranda]

This is the first I've read this thread and I gotta say it's been very entertaining. Is this what y'all do when it's too cold to get out and ride yer bike?

Yes... and reciting something I once read on TE, posts about "food and emotional issues"...

Not being able to pedal your brains out at will outdoors does seem to affect the above.

[Deborajen]

In this case the press was specifically used to announce a personal matter. Personally, and this is just my opinion, it just didn't look right for a high-profile celebrity such as Lance Armstrong to announce that against all odds, he'd gotten his girlfriend pregnant, this after numerous well-publicized short-term romances since his divorce, all of which were undoubtedly known to his three children who look up to him and are looking for a good example to follow as they grow up. Lance's three children are all medical miracles since Lance is a cancer survivor who is alive against all odds, so the children are well publicized as part of his campaign to beat cancer. It's all a trail which is being used in his publicity for his foundation. The ending part about getting girlfriend # ??? since his divorce pregnant looked bad, my opinion, and to top it all off, the press announced it on Christmas Eve. It was like, "Don't you DARE think anything besides 'what a gift!', or you're a mean, awful Scrooge!

I usually don't get too wrapped up in celebrity gossip. I'll admit, sometimes I indulge a little. But this one really hit a bad note with me.

Deb