Comments on: Steroid Nation and American Gladiators http://www.edrants.com/steroid-nation-and-american-gladiators/ a blog in ever-shifting standing Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:15:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Patrick Stephenson http://www.edrants.com/steroid-nation-and-american-gladiators/comment-page-1/#comment-240970 Patrick Stephenson Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:09:38 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/steroid-nation-and-american-gladiators/#comment-240970 I am the older gentleman in the second picture in your post, and I'm writing here to protest its appearance. I have not granted you OR this site permission to post a picture of myself. Especially not in this context. My body is genuine, a result of enduring hard work that a keyboard-tapping pip-squeak like you cannot comprehend. Take it down immediately or face legal action. Thank you I am the older gentleman in the second picture in your post, and I’m writing here to protest its appearance. I have not granted you OR this site permission to post a picture of myself. Especially not in this context. My body is genuine, a result of enduring hard work that a keyboard-tapping pip-squeak like you cannot comprehend. Take it down immediately or face legal action.

Thank you

]]> By: A.R.Yngve http://www.edrants.com/steroid-nation-and-american-gladiators/comment-page-1/#comment-240964 A.R.Yngve Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:48:28 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/steroid-nation-and-american-gladiators/#comment-240964 Please tell me that photo is fake... BTW, Terry Gilliam made this hilarious sketch about bodybuilding <i>back in 1969/1970:</i> a href="Monty Python: Charles Atlas">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uXhmgqaf1U</a> (How's that for early trendspotting?) Please tell me that photo is fake…

BTW, Terry Gilliam made this hilarious sketch about bodybuilding back in 1969/1970:
a href=”Monty Python: Charles Atlas”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uXhmgqaf1U
(How’s that for early trendspotting?)

]]> By: Shane http://www.edrants.com/steroid-nation-and-american-gladiators/comment-page-1/#comment-240949 Shane Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:53:51 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/steroid-nation-and-american-gladiators/#comment-240949 Why do you have a picture of the old American Gladiators? I don't think Gemini appreciates being dragged into this steroid fracas. Why do you have a picture of the old American Gladiators? I don’t think Gemini appreciates being dragged into this steroid fracas.

]]> By: Jackson West http://www.edrants.com/steroid-nation-and-american-gladiators/comment-page-1/#comment-240943 Jackson West Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:51:53 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/steroid-nation-and-american-gladiators/#comment-240943 Far more disturbing to me is steroid use among police officers. Especially here in San Francisco, where the police culture fostered by cops who don't live in The City is that the residents -- especially the petty criminals, substance abusers and mentally ill -- are savages, and cops refuse to walk beats even though they are armed to the teeth. The potential for harm on the line of duty would make it easy to justify bulking up to take down perps, and I wonder how much of the (racially tinged) brutality they exhibit is the result of 'roid rage. Far more disturbing to me is steroid use among police officers. Especially here in San Francisco, where the police culture fostered by cops who don’t live in The City is that the residents — especially the petty criminals, substance abusers and mentally ill — are savages, and cops refuse to walk beats even though they are armed to the teeth.

The potential for harm on the line of duty would make it easy to justify bulking up to take down perps, and I wonder how much of the (racially tinged) brutality they exhibit is the result of ‘roid rage.

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