Michael Phelps and a bong? Is there any truth to this?

why isn't there a "give me a break" emotocon um....... how does this hurt swimming? um........is there no THC in australia? so.......i suppose loads of puritanical swimmers will hang up their speedos now and head to the bowling alley where they might enjoy a real wholesome family activity and after that maybe attend a witch burning. I think that Chaos and I may be twins separated at birth...

I wish he would have said, "I am an adult. I know my body better than most. The most dangerous thing about smoking a little weed is what the government will do to you if caught. The most annoying thing is the phony indignation by people who shouldn't carry my wet speedo to the spinner. Drug test me, drug test everyone." LOL! You are so RIGHT stillwater! And just wait for the idiots that point to pot as "performance enhancing". LOL

Did Gary Hall and Summer Sanders(allegedly, I heard this back in the day) get three month suspensions for their pot use. Well, I think that USOC is doing this for PR reasons just to please those parents who are in a hissy fit over a bong hit! Plus, It is not like Phelps is in top notch shape(for Phelps) anyway. Well, at least, World Champs will get some ratings due to this drama. The non-swimming community will watch to see if he will prevail or fail. With greatest respect to Sanders and Hall they didn't do what Phelps did....8 olympic gold medals and upsurge in participation.

Bravo! It's not flogging, but it sends a message that Coaches and Parents can relate to their kids. If you do stupid things (and get caught) you miss out on stuff.

Gotcha. I'll put my top 10 times in a brutal age group up against yours any day of the week. If you want to talk swimming smack, you seriously better have multiple top 3 FINA times. I dare you to post your times and rankings. I just put this doofus on ignore.

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It's extremely rude. So finally, I asked them to put up or shut up. And they still haven't done it. And just to be clear: I'm not talking about fortress. Yea, I think even Stud, with his british backing and attraction to football would have figured out you weren't talking about Fort. But, I do have one question, you asked them to "put-up or shut-up" so, why haven't you gonna ahead to put your times up? I think that if you are going to make a challenge to someone, then why not put your's out there first. Be proud of your times. If you are faster...great...if not...great too. Just an opinion.

ABSOLUTELY! Right before a T-30 or VO2 max. Test me, Test me, why don't you arrest me. If you get confused, listen to the music play. Talk, Talk, it's only talk. Babble, bicker, boulderdash, chit-chat, chit-chat, conversation, contradiction, it's only talk. This is a scary place. Let's here it for the other one. Go ahead make my day. i repeat myself when under stress, i repeat myself when under stress, i repeat myself.... (best album ever)

I don't have a lot of experience at other fora -- none, actually -- but I have the impression that this one is fairly reasonable in its tone compared to many others (and useful besides). Neverthelss, I have definitely had my share of "email arguments" -- always with university administrators, I think -- that got a little too heated, and I think that the communication medium was a huge factor in the escalation. So I found the following commentary (from my favorite movie critic) thoughtful, though there was not necessarily anything I hadn't heard before. www.reelviews.net/php_reelthoughts_template.php (My own advice, which I try to keep: nevery type a message when angry.) Sorry for straying off-topic; take it away. This reminds me of a thought experiment wherein a person can save X number of people by killing a person/baby. Test subjects are more likely to kill the necessary individual if they can press a button to do it and don't actually see the result than if they have to physically kill someone. There're no such dire choices or consequences in the critic's article, but the idea that distance from the consequence of the action makes it much less real is the same. A similar line of thinking could go for driving. How many people interact with others in their automobiles in a way that they would not interact with people on a face-to-face basis? I've been guilty there, for sure, but am mellowing with age. As far as writing angry emails, I'm in favor of using that energy to get my thoughts out. I just don't send the email right away. I'll write a response in a text editor and set it aside for an hour. Then I revise and take out anything that gets too personal, any ad hominem stuff. Sometimes, I have to revise several times :).

Brian...you want some of this? ABSOLUTELY! Right before a T-30 or VO2 max. Test me, Test me, why don't you arrest me. If you get confused, listen to the music play. Talk, Talk, it's only talk. Babble, bicker, boulderdash, chit-chat, chit-chat, conversation, contradiction, it's only talk. This is a scary place. Let's here it for the other one. Go ahead make my day.