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- Mon Apr 25, 2016 12:35 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Awesomeness
- Replies: 511
- Views: 273070
Re: Awesomeness
I'm about to do something that may possibly change the current direction of my life. It's either going to be amazing or devastating with not much in between. Safe to say that I'm absolutely bricking it and I'm just glad I've not had a heart attack already today the speed my heart has been beating f...
- Wed Apr 06, 2016 6:47 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: To all Americans...
- Replies: 145
- Views: 75226
Re: To all Americans...
Trichologically Restricted Untalented Media Parasite ?jimmyj wrote:I've been trying to think of a witty acronym for Trump. Something like Totally Reprehensible Untalented .... Can't seem to come up with a good one.
- Thu Mar 31, 2016 6:16 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: What would you do if
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8421
Re: What would you do if
Interesting though this question may be it is simply bringing the decision closer to home. All of us do already sacrifice plenty of other lives in order to enjoy our own. Countless servicemen, firefighters, police, construction workers (the list is long) have died and will continue to die for us and...
- Tue Mar 08, 2016 8:21 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Alternative F1 World Championship...using disused circuits
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2821
Re: Alternative F1 World Championship...using disused circui
Yes who could forget good old cranial X ?moby wrote: Las Vagus
Zolder anybody? Can't remember the year nor who won (visit must have a left a deep impression!)
- Mon Mar 07, 2016 1:46 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Done anything stupid recently?
- Replies: 279
- Views: 135525
Re: Done anything stupid recently?
Just had to resurrect this thread. I had an appointment to go to the doctor for a "digital examination" this morning. I think to my self " Ah, digital= electronics and modern technical equipment etc" Nope, it was just the digit x( :blush: Had I thought it through, I may not have gone. I can not bel...
- Tue Dec 15, 2015 1:51 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Ricciardo understands
- Replies: 103
- Views: 15417
Re: Ricciardo understands
Maybe you should ask them to belt up.HS Thompson wrote: You can hear people 5 rows up talking while the cars are blasting by. Unacceptable.
- Wed Oct 21, 2015 12:57 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: back too the future. 2045.
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8316
Re: back too the future. 2045.
Mateschitz turns 101 but has been inhabiting a darkened office for the last thirty years threatening (in letters written in purple ink) to withdraw from F1. Bernie's head was cryogenically preserved. They found a cure for what killed him so thawed him out. No-one reckoned on a cure for insatiable gr...
- Sat Oct 03, 2015 12:08 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Awesomeness
- Replies: 511
- Views: 273070
Re: Awesomeness
Moby, Let me add my congratulations. I too have recently retired; after almost thirty years living and working in the Arctic Mrs. Painless and I are now in beautiful Quebec. When you haven't seen fresh fruit and veg that hasn't been subjected to the tender mercies of the air cargo handlers for a whi...
- Tue Aug 18, 2015 3:14 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Increasing F1 competitiveness
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8085
Re: Increasing F1 competitiveness
Blake,
I agree with much of what you say but just to play devil's advocate here if the other teams don't turn up (read get paid) then there is no "show". Ali didn't get paid millions to shadow box did he?
I agree with much of what you say but just to play devil's advocate here if the other teams don't turn up (read get paid) then there is no "show". Ali didn't get paid millions to shadow box did he?
- Tue Jun 23, 2015 2:44 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Italian TV fans have it worse than the British.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6929
Re: Italian TV fans have it worse than the British.
Cardboard box in t' middle of road you say? You were lucky!
- Mon Jun 01, 2015 1:56 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: One idea to make it easier to fill the grid
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4082
Re: One idea to make it easier to fill the grid
But I think it would be possible to avoid the B team tactics issue you raise This is just a knee-jerk and I have not thought this through but perhaps the reward in terms of points (for points read money) could be (artificially) enhanced for the new boys to make the kow-towing to their suppliers les...
- Mon Jun 01, 2015 12:06 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: One idea to make it easier to fill the grid
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4082
Re: One idea to make it easier to fill the grid
This is a creation vs. evolution argument is it not? The FIA seemingly wishes new teams, sorry! new constructors to emerge, blinking, into the light and compete as equals with the established runners. To strain the analogy a little further I am looking for the meteor not to wipe out the top teams bu...
- Thu May 28, 2015 4:54 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: The Travel Thread
- Replies: 20
- Views: 15071
Re: The Travel Thread
For reasons which I do not yet (for fear of jinxing plans) wish to divulge, Mrs. Painless and I hope to travel a lot more soon. Is this thread intended as an "Avoid this" warning area: If you travel to Moosefart Newfoundland for God's sake don't have the mushroom omlette at Greasy Fred's. Or as a "M...
- Mon May 25, 2015 4:52 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Indy 500 race thread.
- Replies: 51
- Views: 9637
Re: Indy 500 race thread.
I must say I watched all three: Monaco, Indy and Charlotte (actually watched the start of Charlotte, had a bath, dressed for dinner, had dinner, watched the last couple of hundred of miles)
I found Indy by far the most exciting of the three.
I found Indy by far the most exciting of the three.
- Fri May 22, 2015 2:51 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: The Real F1 Demographics
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8579
Re: The Real F1 Demographics
I like to think of myself as "Junior Geriatric" Not quite completely senile but I do get a discount at the local store/Taxis/airlines. Gone native today so not wearing a watch.
- Tue May 19, 2015 5:56 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: The Real F1 Demographics
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8579
Re: The Real F1 Demographics
This should probably be in the joke thread but.... The guy has already been well-defined here. 80's Wall Street Yuppy driving shiny new (insert "Tool" car of choice here) has accident. Broken glass, mangled metal, blood, cops, paperwork etc. Cop approaches the guy. "Sir, we've got to get you to the ...
- Thu May 14, 2015 5:53 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: If you had to choose
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8769
Re: If you had to choose
Do they have to be current? 'cos... Gilles, Ronnie Peterson, Pedro Rodrigues,...and Hamilton
- Mon May 04, 2015 1:29 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Annoyances
- Replies: 1620
- Views: 512888
Re: Annoyances
India Pale Ale ??moby wrote: wiped down with IPA
some of us dinosaurs can be a little slow on the uptake
- Wed Apr 29, 2015 2:54 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Annoyances
- Replies: 1620
- Views: 512888
Re: Annoyances
Still cannot get to my house.
Dog has been indoors (alone) for twenty four hours now - and that ain't gonna be pretty
Stood around in the pharmacy for about forty minutes while they refilled my BP meds
RCMP being v. good at responding to requests for updates but I guess they play a waiting game here.
Dog has been indoors (alone) for twenty four hours now - and that ain't gonna be pretty
Stood around in the pharmacy for about forty minutes while they refilled my BP meds
RCMP being v. good at responding to requests for updates but I guess they play a waiting game here.
- Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:18 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Annoyances
- Replies: 1620
- Views: 512888
Re: Annoyances
Got a phone call from a colleague about ten minutes before leaving work "Be careful going home; there is an armed standoff in your area" Cannot get to my house, cops blocking off the street, so here I am back at work. Looks like it may be a neighbour's son going off his trolley. Could go on for hour...
- Fri Apr 24, 2015 6:04 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: The Joke Thread
- Replies: 1173
- Views: 622755
Re: The Joke Thread
If you hold a mothball in your right hand and another mothball in your left hand and your hands are six inches apart, what do you have?
A very big moth!
Yes, I know but it's a slow Friday afternoon.
A very big moth!
Yes, I know but it's a slow Friday afternoon.
- Thu Apr 16, 2015 6:53 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Anti-hunger strike - I'm eating a meal from each F1 country.
- Replies: 51
- Views: 10362
Re: Anti-hunger strike - I'm eating a meal from each F1 coun
I like the Moule et frites but I think I'd prefer Beef Tartare Americain for Belgium
For Montreal, Poutine or Montreal smoked meat??? decisions decisions
For Montreal, Poutine or Montreal smoked meat??? decisions decisions
- Tue Apr 14, 2015 5:46 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Annoyances
- Replies: 1620
- Views: 512888
Re: Annoyances
It's 24 degrees celsius in my office, and I have to wear a suit and a heavy lab coat all day. I think I might actually be melting. It's about MINUS 20 deg. Celsius outside my office (plus God knows what with windchill) and about a forty foot dash to the front door. By the time I've got dressed up i...
- Sun Apr 12, 2015 4:15 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: What do you eat on raceday?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3901
Re: What do you eat on raceday?
I'm having flashbacks: I think it's the strong cheese and Brabham Lobster Claws.
PS. Can somebody please reassure me that Berni Inns only exist in my memory
PS. Can somebody please reassure me that Berni Inns only exist in my memory
- Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:49 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: 12 Place Grid Drop if your team mate beats you in qualifying
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10989
Re: 12 Place Grid Drop if your team mate beats you in qualif
For pity's sake please don't tell Bernie.
- Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:07 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Attending a GP
- Replies: 721
- Views: 722475
Re: Attending a GP
Dan,
as well as being fat, balding and sweaty I also have a condo in Old Montreal - Life's not fair is it?
as well as being fat, balding and sweaty I also have a condo in Old Montreal - Life's not fair is it?
- Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:53 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Attending a GP
- Replies: 721
- Views: 722475
Re: Attending a GP
Dan, nearest Metro is Jean Drapeau. This is the middle one of only three stops on the yellow line. Unless you are coming from Longueuil you will likely change onto the yellow line at Berri UQAM where the orange and green lines both intersect the yellow. There is a short walk from metro to circuit bu...
- Thu Feb 19, 2015 2:41 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Annoyances
- Replies: 1620
- Views: 512888
Re: Annoyances
Dammit, someone up there doesn't like me. A few days ago one of those little pin thingies that keep your watch strap attached to your watch let go. Last night I take off the spare watch, put it on the dresser. This morning I pick it up and the strap is broken. Where can I get a sundial?
- Wed Feb 18, 2015 11:26 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Attending a GP
- Replies: 721
- Views: 722475
Re: Attending a GP
Contrary to my screen name, I am actually an English guy, living in Canada (West Coast). I have been to Silverstone many times, and now I live in Canada figure it would be great to go to the Grand Prix here. Hi Dan, I too am a Brit in Canada (Baffin Island. Yes, really!) I have been to every Canadi...
- Wed Feb 18, 2015 6:55 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Drivers cannot change helmet designs during a season
- Replies: 159
- Views: 27410
Re: Drivers cannot change helmet designs during a season
Yes but they get a free change if they can show previous underwear was filled because of actions of another driver. Call it...I dunno, the Maldonaldo clause?Covalent wrote:What's next, limit the amount of underwear they are allowed to wear during the season?
- Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:36 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: What defines a "dog" of a car?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 12974
Re: What defines a "dog" of a car?
A cold, wet nose?
- Wed Feb 11, 2015 7:02 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Annoyances
- Replies: 1620
- Views: 512888
Re: Annoyances
I do remember a bunsen burner incident in my first year at secondary school after being told to always leave the air duct thing open when not using it to heat stuff so we can see the flame clearer. It was layer in the same lesson that the teacher leaned over his desk to pick up some worksheets or s...
- Wed Feb 11, 2015 5:42 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Attending a GP
- Replies: 721
- Views: 722475
Re: Attending a GP
We will be staying in Milan so any info regarding traveling to and from the circuit (and pubs in-between) will be gratefully received As per my previous we gave up on the mass transit solutions - we are very eco-unfriendly! from Milan we got hotel to call taxi - this way we are fairly sure the taxi...
- Sat Jan 17, 2015 2:50 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: The most damaged cars to take the finish line
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12244
Re: The most damaged cars to take the finish line
Niki Lauda, South Africa 1997 (I think). Had radiators punctured by debris (from Tom Pryce's accident). Lost oil pressure and coolant but just finished. Little cosmetic damage but still a sick car.
- Thu Jan 15, 2015 3:04 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Attending a GP
- Replies: 721
- Views: 722475
Re: Attending a GP
Marvin, Have been to Monza a few times but always stayed in Milan. Heard about trains from Central station but station staff seemed not to have a clue about this (I think the train may be a state secret) We did eventually track (hah!) it down but the train only takes you to Monza station and there i...
- Wed Dec 24, 2014 5:16 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Annoyances
- Replies: 1620
- Views: 512888
Re: Annoyances
Damn!
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/alerts ... ut/iqaluit
Bang goes the brisk walk with the dog to burn off Xmas excess.
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/alerts ... ut/iqaluit
Bang goes the brisk walk with the dog to burn off Xmas excess.
- Tue Dec 23, 2014 1:18 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: A new Christmas "tradition"?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3434
A new Christmas "tradition"?
This morning I got word that some of our local daycares were closed and that one of my co-workers was going to have problems maintaining secrecy when wrapping presents. Such are my analytical skills I quickly developed an environmentally friendly, economical and socially conscious solution! What is ...
- Fri Nov 21, 2014 9:17 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Are the History books reflective of talent?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9135
Re: Are the History books reflective of talent?
Oh and Chris Amon of whom it was said that he was so unlucky if he'd become an undertaker people would have stopped dying. Never won a Grand Prix but soooooo close.
- Fri Nov 21, 2014 9:13 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Annoyances
- Replies: 1620
- Views: 512888
Re: Annoyances
have the sniffles, which is just a minor annoyance normally except I have a skull pounding headache. Got a lemsip in my normally-only-for-coffee cup but even still my eyes feel kind of life someone has put a vice behind them and tightened it just to the point of a dull, continuous pain. Thankfully ...
- Thu Nov 13, 2014 4:59 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: You know you are a Formula 1 fan when..............
- Replies: 59
- Views: 11335
Re: You know you are a Formula 1 fan when..............
When your Belgian friends have to (re)arrange their wedding date to allow you to go to Spa.