Cav meets a fan?

[Tim Hall]

He's an oompa loompa. He's manly when facing down some pre pubescent fan who weighs eight stone wringing wet, but I bet he wouldn't be so quick to get face to face with someone of more extensive dimensions.

What does "oompa loompa" mean in this context? I've only come across it in Roald Dahl's book.

Come to that, what does "manly" mean?

 

[Drago]

What does "oompa loompa" mean in this context? I've only come across it in Roald Dahl's book.

Come to that, what does "manly" mean?

Oompa loompa, a person of unremarkable stature and physical presence.

Manly, someone more liable to rip of Cav's head and insert it between his buttocks.

He is quick to pick in the former, but hasn't yet started on the latter, for reasons I can't possibly fathom.

 

[AndyRM]

Hulk has been juicing since the 70s...

It's not like Cav was picking a fight with the kid, the video really is pretty tame so I'm not sure what the fuss is about?

Kid yells something stupid, Cav pulls over and tells him not to be a nob. It's not exactly fusticuffs.

 

[Spinney]

Manly - thinks with his two small brains instead of the larger one?

Cav may not be particularly tall, but he's not a weedy specimen either! If you are going to make insinuations that he is a bully (as that is very much what it sounds like) - do you have anything other than supposition to back this up?

Or are these posts just Drago doing his "manly" posing on the internet? Which may or may not be what "Drago" is like in real life.

And thinking about it - it is pretty cowardly to yell insults (if that is what happened) to a bunch of riders just doing their job, on the (incorrect) assumption that they cannot stop and have a word with you because they are racing.

 

[Dayvo]

Yeah, the only thing I noticed was how easily he got going again on a 15% slope.

It's easy: it's called gravity.

 

[ianrauk]

Never bought it.

no I guess not

 

[S-Express]

Ah, Cav just said on the TV that the young lad was shouting abuse at the riders. So he stopped and had a word - something along the lines of 'get on your bike and try it'.

Good old Cav!!!

I think more specifically, the abuse was actually aimed at Cav, which is why he stopped and had a word.

 

[Lonestar]

Poor bloke. Being bollocked by Cav must be like being bollocked by the headmaster.

Or god.

 

[Drago]

Hulk has been juicing since the 70s...

Without a doubt. Nevertheless, Cav still hasn't picked an argument with any 6'8" juicers, only spotty adolescents.

Were I a spectator I wouldn't have got in his way or done anything to command his ire, but if he had stopped to pop at me I'd have given him a cheery "Eff off, little man", called his bluff.

 

[S-Express]

Were I a spectator I wouldn't have got in his way or done anything to command his ire, but if he had stopped to pop at me I'd have given him a cheery "Eff off, little man", called his bluff.

Leaving your personal fantasies aside for a moment, Cav famously had several run-ins with Greipel, who is a big burly bloke around 6ft. There have been lots of others, too - not that it matters. I don't think anyone knows what was said, other than the guy was giving him verbals...

 

[screenman]

I think he said something along the lines of, if you keep shouting abuse I am going to set my mate Drago on you.

 

[AndyRM]

Without a doubt. Nevertheless, Cav still hasn't picked an argument with any 6'8" juicers, only spotty adolescents.

Were I a spectator I wouldn't have got in his way or done anything to command his ire, but if he had stopped to pop at me I'd have given him a cheery "Eff off, little man", called his bluff.

I'm not sure that Cav is a particularly good example of a weedy cyclist. Quintana, sure, but I reckon Cav would be pretty useful in a fight, quick, strong, good awareness and vision.

Really, there is only one way to settle this: Drago v Cav on the Champs Elysee next year!

 

[roadrash]

 

[Bollo]

To help decide who Cav could 'have', here's a random list of people ordered by perceived hardness. Pick a number!

10 Groot
9 Drago (Forum badass)
8 Drago (Rocky 3)
7 Bernard Hinault
6 Ed Balls
5 Claire Balding
4 Professor Brian Cox
3 Gobby Tour of Britain Spectator
2 The Dalai Lama
1 Walter the Softy from the Beano

I'm going with a 6. Cav could take Balls, but he'd struggle against Le Blaireau.

 

[roadrash]

i reckon cav could take ronnie pickering