We'll always have Paris.
We will always have strength, we will always have Paris, and we will always have the Tour de France racing to the finish on the Champs Élysée in July.
Our thoughts are with the victims and people of Paris.
Vive la France.
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@bill
I'm not sure grown adults should be disagreeing with something by calling it "gay".
@bill
It's empathy, it's fellow feeling, it's taking an interest in your fellow human beings. It's not meant to be about 'doing something' in the "tangible world".
Put it this way, if a loved one died and you seen members of your family upset would you say the same sort of thing? "Crying isn't going to bring them back, come on!".
Or maybe you would...
@bill
Interesting notion that "your thoughts do nothing". Someone should have informed the likes of Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Spinoza, Desiderius Erasmus, Albert Einstein and Martin Luther of that, while they had the chance. On second thought: good thing they didn't. Thoughts can do and mean anything and everything.
Fundamentalism of any sort is precisely a total lack of (critical) thought, if you ask me. But hey... Just a thought.
My heart weeps for France. Yours doesn't have to. Free world.
I've begun to feel sympathy for folks like @bill... The narrow-mindedness of his post is more an homage to the character of the people that created, contribute to, and visit Velominati than he is able to realize, I'm afraid.
You see, people the likes of @bill live lives devoid of any kind of power, intelligence, attention, satisfaction, beauty, or fulfillment. As a result, a rather simple and easy way to "move the needle" on his behalf is to seek out communities like the Velominati that attract an informed, insightful, and clever audience. By posting bush-league statements that take little time or thought to create, he knows he can simply sit back and watch the backlash - and, as a result, get the attention he craves. A pretty sad state of affairs, really...
Vive la Velominati.
@Oli
Hmmm... truedat. But we cannot know for certain whether @bill is a grown adult, of course.
Our world is in trouble. Hopefully some good can come out of G20...
Expressions of grief and strength have very tangible effects.
The best example of the latter was written in the Ardennes: "Nuts."
@Oli
@ErikdR
Don't feed the trolls.
Or rather, its like someone (Twain? Churchill?) said. Don't wrestle with a pig. You'll get covered in shit, and the pig likes it.
If the TdF was starting in two weeks and you had plans on taking holidays to watch a week of it would you now cancel your plans?