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Just to play Devil's advocate...No, maybe fresh ideas are not necessary; maybe F1 should fall apart. Maybe we are already past the point of no return. Keep the DRS, the silly rules, no testing, add Bernie's lawn sprinklers and medals and whatever else he comes up with and just let him go off and pla...

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What? No Marlon Brando option?
Stuff mouth with cotton wool and "Make him an offer he can't refuse"

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I think the answer is a function of Ferrari's global branding; the stronger and more lodged in the publics' consciousness this is the more F1 requires their presence. I think too that this relationship is less marked the other way; Ferrari's participation in F1 has some influence on its brand but no...

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Don't know about a shady past but controversial? Durex were certainly controversial at the time; today they may be seen as socially responsible! Any tobacco company you care to name could probably be implicated in covering up the danger their products posed. The Tasman series guys were very resistan...

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moby wrote:, which the Italian PM is on about. After much research and consultation with said PM's aids, it turned out it was the Aegean sea he was talking about
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 2:23 pm

And he thought he could fly there on Genitalia - the other Italian airline!

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Bush the younger sends in the coalition troops. After a few days an aide approaches him. "Mr President sir, we just lost three Brazillian soldiers" Bush's hands go to his head which sinks to the desk "Oh my God, How many millions in a brazillion?"

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Yeah, I was taught a million million is a billion (see joke thread for a Brazillian) This may be one reason I no longer live in the UK and the counting system in the Arctic goes; One, two, many... which, strangely is the number of curses I am heaping on the *&%$ phone which has menus and sub menus a...

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Just to chuck a spanner in the works... Do we need also to look at failures? Example. Lotus turbine car "dominated" at Indy until a cheap widget let go. So why don't Mercedes score nineteen one-two's?
(Puts on tin hat and hides in hole)

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I think you have to look at percentage of races entered in which one-two's are scored (my quick and dirty mental arithmetic says McLaren managed about 62% ) I don't think you can include margin of victory and I can't think of a way of eliminating the driver from the equation. Not sure if (with a lot...

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Phoning government workers at 4:15 on a Friday afternoon (or should this go in annoyances?)

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the appendix??

(unless you make a living cutting them out!)

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Mickey Thompson (and wife) How? - Shot. Why? - Unclear.

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mac_d wrote:Apparently picked up a stomach bug or something.

mac_d wrote:Not putting your dinner in the oven

Is there a connection here??
Wishing you a speedy recovery

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Jump in the shower and...HOLY TACKLE-SHRIVELLER!!.. that's not the usual nice warm few minutes. Why? Because the furnace quit. Why did the furnace quit? Because..... the insurance people decided an oil tank only lasts ten years then; Leak, pollute, disaster, spill, big claim, yada, yada, yada. So I ...

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Has to be show. One doesn't want to watch a high-wire act two inches off the ground, nor does one want to see the artist go splat from a hundred feet up. One wants the suspense that he might, the thrill that he's going to lose it and the rush when he doesn't. People enjoy being scared; if not why so...

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DrG wrote:Depending on your age you might do the following:

If I was really paranoid I'd think you'd been monitoring my life - nice to know I'll make my nineties though!

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Sounds like "Brainwave de Bernie" with a side order of mixed nuts.

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Can't remember the year (began with a 2 I think!) It wasn't race or quali but a practice session delayed in Spa for poor flying conditions while we all enjoyed a nice, long cold shower.

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We usually have good old cardboard egg boxes, what are these plastic ones like? Easy to hate, hard to describe. They are, I think, only used for half-dozens not the twelve or eighteen boxes which are still the pressed paper pulp things. Imagine a flimsy plastic egg tray with two "wings" which fold ...

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AngusWolfe wrote:As long as we agree blister packaging is the worst.

It may be tied for first place with those godawful plastic egg containers (don't know if you have those in UK) The things that are cunningly folded in such a way that defectives like me can't figure out how to get into the #@*% thing

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AngusWolfe wrote:Corned beef has me appreciative of all cylindrical cans. Stupid bloody shape.

gotta disagree with that one!!
that tapered shape makes it easy to get the corned beef out of the can in one lump (and if you really, really, want to stack 'em neatly just alternate each can right side up/inverted)

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The phrase 'moving forward'. Completely meaningless, bulls**t, management buzzword.Moving forward we need to look at ways to increase our profits.It will be interesting to see what impact this has on the team, moving forward.etc.Adds nothing to the conversationI have to put up with this sort of rub...

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F1 is a business just as much as it is a sport these days. To compete you have to....compete. Morality and ethics have no place where money is involved. I'd like to echo that. Sport is full of passion and emotion and "true sportsmen" are often blind to the business and financial needs of their call...

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It's been a #$%@* awful day - we need a joke. A businessman is asked to give an after dinner speech and, although nervous about public speaking, he accepts. He jots down a some notes in the back of his chauffeured limo on the way to the function. His nervousness increases as he eats his way through ...

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And still on the supermarket topic; the line of shopping carts that are apparently welded together so you can't get the damned thing. (ask me how my morning went today!)

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How long is a rookie a rookie?

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I can understand most of what you are going through (I have no kids so that part escapes me) Over the years my wife and I have adopted (or been adopted by) several dogs. One dog which "followed me home" (according to my wife) we had for a long time but suffered a stroke while my wife was out of town...

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Ronnie Knows Racing
with chassis numbers SNO T1, T2 etc

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I seem to remember a boycott of Moscow Olympics and the Soviets just turned around and marched right back out of Afghanistan didn't they?
I don't think the loss of a GP (however important it may seem to those here) is going to sway Vlad the invader one iota.

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Has nobody signed up Mini-Kimi yet?

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[quote="moby"]
Consider combining a holiday with some bulk purchases?[/quote

Just before Canadian Grand Prix that is exactly what I do! A year's supply of spaghetti, toilet paper, mineral water,flour, coffee. etc. etc. etc. I just uncrated 12 cubic metres of stuff - but no shoes!

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Makes you appreciate just how shallow the oceans are in relation to the size of the Earth. I remember seeing (and feeling) a supposed correctly carved relief model of the earth (can't remember which museum) and it's remarkably smooth. the little lumpy bits we live on are not easily distinguished fr...

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I live in the Arctic - this is not annoying I need to buy shoes - this is only very slightly annoying I have wide feet (like a duck) and need correspondingly wide shoes - again only slightly annoying I go online in search of wide fitting shoes and find a site Go through choices, colour, style etc et...

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Laura23 wrote:or he decides to go into high level Italian politics

Bunga-bunga?

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moby wrote: LOL. It was 208 with the "tranny" (it meant something else then) peached on the edge of the bath at 6:00 after work

not wishing to turn this into a Pirate radio nostalgia thread but then came Radio Caroline, Radio London, Kenny Everret et al. All until Aug 14th 1967 - anniversary soon!

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Erm...None of the above.
I do watch the news but I can't say I follow the stories intently. Equally I don't think I sit there like a drooling moron letting the programme wash over me.

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I am supposed to be working but hey, I'm self-employed and I read most of this thread but I wanted to go back to the question posed at the start. Are we brain-washed? I think those who are being asked the question are a self-selecting sample - the name of the website is a bit of a clue. Me, I'm on t...

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Honda Quick wrote:Donahue drove and see if any of those cars are in the Porsche Museum.

I am not sure how frequently or how much exhibits are turned over at Porsche museum. A couple of years ago I did see about half a dozen 917's including the "Pink Pig" and the Can-Am car which I believe was driven by Donahue.

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Would love to check off Mercedes next. Then I'll be content for auto musuems. Noooo!! If you're going to do Mercedes (and you should) then you'll be close to Porsche and you have to do that one. And go back to Italy for the Alfa Romeo museum (It's in Milan area how could you have missed it?) That's...

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