jeff costello

it's all pretty well dire. nobody gets what they wanted. and you can't even really vote again, because this undermines fundamental democratic principles. and that people are unhappy that even the most rightwing of politicians aren't far enough for them. i didn't know the EEA thing was part of their plan anyway. sorry, i didn't follow the brexit-campain, because i figured it was the ususal right-wing mumbojumbo and i didn't think there was any chance it would actually win. i'm busy enough trying to avoid hearing about the local rightwing nonsense. what i find very much concerning EU-wise is that the calls for a more nation state based europe are starting. the rightwinger guy who got close to 50% in austria of course already asks for an austrian exit referendum.

just read a funny thing. in a facebook post austrian green party member of euro-parlament said, since uk has to exit now, but doesn't really want to, there is a possibility that the uk might enter the EEA (european economic area). the EEA comprises norway, liechtenstein and iceland and grants access to the european inland market.... BUT the catch is that all EEA-members have to implement all EU-regulations without having a say in their making (he called it "being governed by fax") or getting any extras. he thinks there's a good chance it might acutually happen.

nonono, I'M not german, but close. Süddeutsche is of course german (from munich to be precise. "süddeutsche" meaning "from southern germany").

loved the brakeless one!

the what?-show? (greatest comedy achievement). spelling please.

not german, but close enough. süddeutsche falls into the awesome spectrum! liberal and left-oriented. guardian-ish possibly?

not that there aren't other differences, isn't the rift between the mainland and britain (a real political union vs. a more free market only approach) one of major crisis points? with that conflict eased, the brexit could actually leave the EU in a more stable position than before.

the problem is that things are pretty damn good, regardless whether people perceive it this way or not. the only way how things could get 10x better is with magic or some kind of fascistic regime with a lot of slave labour going on.

no way. clinton for sure.

time for a cheap tarty-order! i'm going to speculate the shit out of this....

same here. rightwingers rallying to abolish mandatory fees people have pay to the public broadcasting company. while crawling up didi matteschitz's ass (the redbull guy) because he runs a private tv channel. massive campains (daily facebook shitstorm) against the main news anchor for alleged leftwing biases.

maybe it is similar. Hans Dichand was the guy who owned the Kronenzeitung (who was read by like 3.5 million people out of 8 million - i think it dropped a lot since the internet though). he wasn't so much a media-mogul-type guy as murdoch, but he totally owned the newpaper market. also very right wing, anti-eu,anti-foreigners. he died a few years ago and the number of people who read newspapers is diminishing, so things are in change. isn't the bbc making up for the murdoch news? the austrian public broadcasting station is more on the left and get massive shit from the right wingers recently. (btw. i have to mention, that i absolutely love bbc radio. i constantly listen to "free thinking" on bbc3 and one or two science / culture programs. i wish our state broadcasting company had this kind of standard)

did you wear a bowler hat?

yes (if i understood that correctly) - the rightwingers have some kind of power to dictate the topics that are discussed to the media and the people: that we are feeling unsafe, that security politics are intermingled with immigration politics, that we spend too much on "lazy" people... etc. this then influences the major parties - our socialdemocratic party (center-left) just voted for the building of a (orba-style) border fence. austria is a bit of a strange case, always very rightwing. (i think) we usually do have a right wing majority (center-right + far right) . right now the far-right are leading in the polls (~ 35%), but they are always way higher in the polls than in real election results thankfully. we also have kind of a unique media-landscape: like a fifth of the population used to read one newspaper, which is very populist and rightwing. the recent election i mentioned is another special case. it's for the state president's office, who has no real power, mostly symbolic ( i imagine like your queen). it was far-right against green party. thankgod the green guy won, but it was by a hairbreadth.

totally. i think frustration with the major (governing) parties and the perceived lack of action and ideas is the reason. this seems to be a global thing right now (at least in the western world). we just had just below 50% of the population vote for a total rightwinger, just because he is anti-establishment-politics and has a harmless smile. i can understand where some of the frustration comes from, even if i don't really share it. i think it is at the core a most basic feeling, like a lack of direction for the whole western world, death of utopias / grand narratives (not to go all out postmodern mumbojumbo here) and not something a (national) party could ever really solve. what i definitely not believe in, is to put the most disgusting human beings in charge to come up with a solution / amelioration.

no worries, i wasn't thinking that at all. we have just about the same situation here right now.

fuuck, that's pretty evil. possibly worse than the stuff we get from the right-wingers here in austria. the rhetorics are usually pretty harsh too, but the posters are usually more feelgoody with some kind of borderline-retarded slogan that sounds good.

will the rest of europe be asked whether we still want you?

somebody ever got weird hip / lower back pain from trials? my ass / lower back / coccyx -area started hurting about a month ago. at first i thought it was usual back pain and will go away, but it stayed and went more towards my right hip area (ass / upper thigh inguinal region). pain was medium-ish and i kept riding for about three weeks and then stopped because i wanted to take a break until the pain went away. it didn't go away and today i finally went to the doctor who did the whole ado with ultrasound and xray. and the result was (luckily) zilch. so i must have pulled some strange muscle in there (no crashes and/or other memorable events happened prior)

next time you're cheating, tell the photographer to crop out the ramp!

yes. i think you should at least run a brake booster if the cables are on the outside. i used to run them like this and i ripped them out all the time. very annoying and possibly dangerous. i added a booster then and it stopped. now i run a booster and cables on the inside. like this:

hahaha, it's that guy! when that other video started out with him driving his porsche suv to the riding spot, i turned it off immediately. 26 looks ridiculous on anybody less than 9 foot tall.

rings are great! exercises on rings are (often) quite a bit harder than on bars.

what happened to using a piece of stick and a post-it?

is the soundtrack some kind of finnish tango? if so, i'm willing to call him a genius based on that alone! (i know, it's not 3/4 rhythm, but still..)