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Re: Ukraine
I believe a lot of current/former Kremlin inhabitants have property in the Black Sea area. I don't know if any are in Crimea but It wouldn't surprise me. Given the anti Russian sentiment in a large part of Ukraine it's possible that they feel they are protecting their own interests as well as suppor...
- Sat Mar 01, 2014 6:56 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Car Number Countdown to Australia
- Replies: 1023
- Views: 176440
Re: Car Number Countdown to Australia
Picture from knfilters.com. I love US sprint car racing and other forms of short oval.
- Sun Feb 23, 2014 2:10 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Lotus apologise for 'two men kissing' tweet
- Replies: 68
- Views: 21842
Re: Lotus apologise for 'two men kissing' tweet
Inappropriate post removed. Do you really want to go down the 'unnatural' debate. I can find a a load of scientific studies about homosexuality in other species. I get why Lotus apologised. They have sponsors to think of etc but I think they are deliberately aiming for the best of both worlds by ma...
- Sun Feb 23, 2014 10:45 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: The Official Gaming Thread
- Replies: 1941
- Views: 882583
Re: The Official Gaming Thread
Alien, you actually found all the feathers in AC2? Why do developers think BS collectables like that 500 feathers would be fun? It depends on the game for me. If I really enjoy a game I do tend to do the collectibles as well even though they are such BS sometimes. I got 100% in GTA San Andreas and ...
- Sun Feb 23, 2014 10:39 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: The Movie Review Thread
- Replies: 1589
- Views: 807543
Re: The Movie Review Thread
World War Z I read the book and enjoyed it immensly so I watched the film the other day because I was sat on the sofa felling ill with a touch of manflu. Visually it's pretty impressive but the story line is 'Just Another Zombie Film'. Worth watching to get some light entertainment but nothing spec...
- Sun Feb 23, 2014 10:28 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: New computer time
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10991
Re: New computer time
I have a computer on my desk running Windows 8 and Openoffice. It's really not that restrictive. I had a customer trying to run Microsoft Money 2005 a few days ago that I couldn't get to run for them but the biggest problems software wise are printer installers ,go to the manufacturers website and d...
- Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:43 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Testing should be at circuits not on the calendar - discuss
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3099
Re: Testing should be at circuits not on the calendar - disc
If it's just a case of keeping it fair then I don't see the problem. All teams are invited to all tests therefore you have one race where everyone knows what set up they're going to use. I also suspect cost is involved. If it's because you want to see the cars at a specific race track then as long a...
- Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:24 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: New computer time
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10991
Re: New computer time
As someone who supports customers of a large retail chain with their new windows 8 machines I can honestly say that the complaints about windows 8 mostly come in two categories. The first is "It's different and I dont want to have to learn a few new things" and the other is related to some bit of so...
- Fri Feb 21, 2014 4:02 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Done anything stupid recently?
- Replies: 279
- Views: 135575
Re: Done anything stupid recently?
My truck is a grey import. The speedo has been recalibrated along with the Odo abnd now it's in neither mph or km/h
It's somewhere in the middle. Android speedometer app if I need to know actual speed.
It's somewhere in the middle. Android speedometer app if I need to know actual speed.
- Tue Feb 18, 2014 3:30 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Done anything stupid recently?
- Replies: 279
- Views: 135575
Re: Done anything stupid recently?
Right up there with pushing my glasses up on to my head (which I almost always never do) and then ten minutes later wonder where the hell my glasses are and going looking for them. Being slightly drunk at the time I looked for them in all the usual places Desk bedside table bathroom shelf etc etc. N...
- Fri Feb 14, 2014 1:29 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Planet-F1 Photo Competition February 2014
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6981
Re: Planet-F1 Photo Competition February 2014
Here's my entry for this month. I had been meaning to go and photograph this building for a while now. It's a folly built on the Powderham estate now fallen in major disrepair. I had enough of a break in the lashing rain to drive out there yesterday and take a few pictures. The whole album is Here f...
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 11:46 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Did Vettel and Webber have an identical Clutch Package
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3661
Re: Did Vettel and Webber have an identical Clutch Package
The idea that a team would deliberately sabotage a drivers setup is among the most ridiculous there is in racing. Race teams get paid by Bernie based on how many points they score. And it's not just petty cash amounts either. It's millions of dollars up for grabs. To deliberately slow down a driver ...
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:30 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Planet-F1 Photo Competition February 2014
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6981
Re: Planet-F1 Photo Competition February 2014
The company I work for recently moved premises to an aircraft hangar from a former RAF base that is being converted in to a business park. As they are the first business on the base the rest of it is pretty much derelict having been in disuse since the 1970s. As the weather was nice at my lunch bre...
- Tue Feb 11, 2014 3:46 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Double points for last race
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5481
Re: Double points for last race
My only hope is that whoever wins the WDC and WCC do so inspite of double points not because of.
For preference I'll take Rosberg going in to the last race with a 51 point lead.
For preference I'll take Rosberg going in to the last race with a 51 point lead.
- Tue Feb 11, 2014 3:41 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Where is Martin Whitmarsh?
- Replies: 99
- Views: 25684
Re: Where is Martin Whitmarsh?
It's very common for people with this much seniority in a race team to have a clause that says as soon as you leave the company you must pretend like you never did anything more important than make the coffee there. When Adrian Newey talked about leaving McLaren he was initially put on 'Gardening Le...
- Wed Feb 05, 2014 9:23 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Big drop in television audience watching F1
- Replies: 83
- Views: 12820
Re: Big drop in television audience watching F1
The lack of proper coverage is the reason numbers have dropped in the UK, if you haven't got a Sky subscription then you're stuck with leftovers. I've been watching the Sky coverage, it's decent but I thought the BBC coverage was better before Sky came in. Not only that but the BBC coverage was adv...
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 5:24 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Big drop in television audience watching F1
- Replies: 83
- Views: 12820
Re: Big drop in television audience watching F1
Virginmedia want me to pay about £23 per month to watch Sky F1. I can't justify that So I go to a local pub that shows F1 for the races That sky have. It costs me about £5 a race to have a beer and some snacks while I watch it. I still watch but it wont show up on their viewing figures. /Edit: I ju...
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:36 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Official Top Gear thread [MERGED]
- Replies: 312
- Views: 148033
Re: Top Gear Series 20
Next week they have the McLaren P1. That's going to border on pornography.
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 10:33 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Big drop in television audience watching F1
- Replies: 83
- Views: 12820
Re: Big drop in television audience watching F1
Virginmedia want me to pay about £23 per month to watch Sky F1. I can't justify that So I go to a local pub that shows F1 for the races That sky have. It costs me about £5 a race to have a beer and some snacks while I watch it. I still watch but it wont show up on their viewing figures. /Edit: I jus...
- Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:37 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died of apparent drug overdose.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2842
Re: Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died of apparent drug overd
Loved some of his work . It's always a shame when someone dies so young but doubly so for the fans when they have the talent as well.
- Thu Jan 16, 2014 4:52 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Planet-F1 Photo Competition January 2014
- Replies: 35
- Views: 15918
Re: Planet-F1 Photo Competition January 2014
Here's the local climbing wall near my home at night.
- Thu Jan 16, 2014 9:00 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: What do you drive?
- Replies: 81
- Views: 36508
Re: What do you drive?
I was driving to Thetford last year when I passed a car transporter on the M1 with a half dozen white Ranger Rover Sport and Evoques on it. All heading to their natural habitat of the driveways of Essex.
- Mon Jan 06, 2014 12:50 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: What do you drive?
- Replies: 81
- Views: 36508
Re: What do you drive?
Behold the muddy Mitsubishi Delica that also happens to be my regular transport.
- Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:27 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Leader of BNP party bankcrupt, you won't believe.....
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7643
Re: Leader of BNP party bankcrupt, you won't believe.....
They are such ****heads in the BNP. Frankly the more statements like this from them the better. It will just demonstrate what irrelevants idiots they are and they will slide in to obscurity.
- Wed Jan 01, 2014 11:53 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Do you think F1 drivers are more prone to be risk takers?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6694
Re: Do you think F1 drivers are more prone to be risk takers
Damon Hill said in an interview that he was a risk taker at heart. The example he used was that he wouldn't enjoy a game of poker for a couple of hundred pounds stake but if you put his life savings on the line that would be fun. I don't think comparisons of choice of road car count. Colin McRae dro...
- Mon Dec 30, 2013 2:49 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: F1 Names for Dogs
- Replies: 40
- Views: 13960
Re: F1 Names for Dogs
Coanda
- Mon Dec 30, 2013 10:48 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Planet-F1 Photo Competition December 2013
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14230
Re: Planet-F1 Photo Competition December 2013
Nice pic Blake. I hope I'm still going to exotic places and having parrots photographed with me when I'm old.
Actually come to think of it I would very much like to do the Hawaii and parrots thing before I leave my 40's
Actually come to think of it I would very much like to do the Hawaii and parrots thing before I leave my 40's
- Sun Dec 29, 2013 9:55 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Michael Schumacher Accident - Messages of Support
- Replies: 500
- Views: 101405
Re: Michael Schumacher In Skiing Accident - Serious Head Inj
Rather upsettingly the BBC now seems to think Michael is very ill.
- Sun Dec 29, 2013 12:53 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Michael Schumacher Accident - Messages of Support
- Replies: 500
- Views: 101405
Re: Michael Schumacher In Skiing Accident - Serious Head Inj
I hope that information is correct.Vyse wrote:Apparently, he is awake and well.
- Tue Dec 24, 2013 9:24 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Planet-F1 Photo Competition December 2013
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14230
Re: Planet-F1 Photo Competition December 2013
There was an element of towing each other out of the mud going on.P-F1 Mod wrote:As was bogging down by the look of it!
- Mon Dec 23, 2013 3:37 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Planet-F1 Photo Competition December 2013
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14230
Re: Planet-F1 Photo Competition December 2013
Back for another post after missing a few.
Greenlaning on Salisbury Plain last weekend was pretty exciting.
Greenlaning on Salisbury Plain last weekend was pretty exciting.
- Sun Nov 24, 2013 1:03 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Top 10 Racing Driver Names
- Replies: 93
- Views: 14813
Re: Top 10 Racing Driver Names
For those of us who grew up in the 80's
Roland Ratzenberger
Yeeah! Ratfans
Roland Ratzenberger
Yeeah! Ratfans
- Thu Nov 21, 2013 3:21 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Best sounding F1 engine of all time?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7782
- Sat Nov 16, 2013 7:03 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Private parking tickets
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6135
Re: Private parking tickets
So I appealed them all through the Parking On Private Land Appeals service and all three tickets were cancelled.
That's me £300 better off and very glad I did my research about them.
That's me £300 better off and very glad I did my research about them.
- Sun Nov 10, 2013 12:38 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Life after Death Question for all the Doctors
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3609
Re: Life after Death Question for all the Doctors
It strikes me that if this were possible to bring someone out of a coma with medication then they would do so. Obviously cases where someone has bee put in to a medically induced coma notwithstanding)
I think this is a case of not letting the truth get in the way of a good story.
I think this is a case of not letting the truth get in the way of a good story.
- Sat Nov 09, 2013 12:19 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: How northern are you?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 11488
Re: How northern are you?
64% Northern somewhere around Doncaster Which kind of figures. My dad is from Birmingham and my mum is a Geordie.
- Sat Nov 09, 2013 10:01 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Dead Heat in a race
- Replies: 42
- Views: 9153
Re: Dead Heat in a race
If it were up to me I would go for grid order whoever started behind the other would take it i.e. Vettel starts on pole Raikkonen starts on third. They cross the line in a way that even the photo finish cant sort out. Raikkonen takes it because he has covered a greater distance in the race time.
- Tue Nov 05, 2013 4:04 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: F1 and the environment
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6888
Re: F1 and the environment
The issue you raise with Hinkley point is purely economic not safety. In a similar situation I would hope a coal or gas fired plant or a wind farm would have the same questions raised. Fukushima is a pretty much a worst case scenario in modern times. The coast of Japan moved 8 feet and the entire pl...
- Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:39 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: F1 and the environment
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6888
Re: F1 and the environment
Agreed. The Fukushima incident was an earthquake and Tsunami that killed approximately 19,000 people. So far the tally from the Nuclear power plant meltdown is 17 people with radiation related injuries. They're about to build a new power plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset. I would have no problem wi...
- Mon Nov 04, 2013 11:33 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: F1 and the environment
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6888
Re: F1 and the environment
Yes, but that money spent on reduction is being used to stop major spending when global warming does have a big impact, when cities will be flooded, more areas being a victim of desertification, leading to more droughts and famines and so on. My point is that it simply isn't working. http://en.wiki...