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Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 03 Jan 2010, 21:19

ADx_Wales wrote:Is the topic supposed to drift from F1 in this block of pages? because i think we've just stranded ourselves on a desert island.

It was never a F1 topic. But we could talk about football for a long while.

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 03 Jan 2010, 21:25

I was a football nut until the summer when I realised that it really is just a bunch of overpaid idiots using kicking a ball as an excuse to escape jail for beating up/raping/knocking people down.

Then the whole country used football as an outlet for how pathetic we are with the whole wanting a replay with France thing, and I really felt embarrassed. Especially considering we have one of the best rugby teams in the world at the moment, not to mention a three time golf major winner and one of the best young golfers.

Bear in mind that most football fans in Ireland are cognitively lacking.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 03 Jan 2010, 21:28

Phoenix wrote:
thehemogoblin wrote:Oh, and is your team RCD Mallorca?

Yes, it's also. Like you' I'm no glory seeker for that matter.

I am good.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 03 Jan 2010, 21:33

shinji wrote:I was a football nut until the summer when I realised that it really is just a bunch of overpaid idiots using kicking a ball as an excuse to escape jail for beating up/raping/knocking people down.

You may or may not realise that Lee Hughes a former West Brom striker was arrested and jailed for killing a man while behind the wheel.
Marlon King, one of the many overpaid "premier league" players, someone who tends to scrape a living from the teams who dont stay in the top division for long, and jump ship when the team get relegated, has also been put in jail for raping and beating up a woman he was trying to pull, however these two players pale in comparison to Joey Barton who has been dealt with by the law in his many assault and battery charges.

Barton is now at Newcastle (hmph).

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 03 Jan 2010, 21:34

ADx_Wales wrote:
shinji wrote:I was a football nut until the summer when I realised that it really is just a bunch of overpaid idiots using kicking a ball as an excuse to escape jail for beating up/raping/knocking people down.

You may realise that Lee Hughes a West Brom striker was arrested and jailed for killing a man while behind the wheel.
Marlon King has also been put in jail for raping and beating up a woman he was trying to pull, however these two players pale in comparison to Joey Barton who has been dealt with by the law in his many assault and battery charges.

Barton is now at Newcastle (hmph).

Yeah those three were sort of the spark. Mainly Barton. Didn't know he was still at Newcastle.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 03 Jan 2010, 21:35

Io Sono Interista.

Jose Mourinho is the as close to HWNSNBM as humans can get.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 03 Jan 2010, 21:38

Didn't know he was still at Newcastle

You'd be amazed at who is still at Newcastle. Whoever said Mallorca will discover that Jonas Guttierez is still at Newcastle.

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 03 Jan 2010, 21:55

Rantbox: a black hole to suck in all football-related crap.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 03 Jan 2010, 21:56

CarlosFerreira wrote:Rantbox: a black hole to suck in all football-related crap.

You started it.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 03 Jan 2010, 22:00

I think i can save this convo then

Superleague Formula, Great engines, great looking chassis.....erm.......Naming the teams after football teams isnt going to draw an interest from football fans who dont know about motor racing.

Spain for example, a country which is probably crazier about football than the British Isles, so you'd think the Jarama track would be packed to see such a race format, but no.

However it kept Sebastien Bourdais in work.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 03 Jan 2010, 22:02

ADx_Wales wrote:Superleague--However it kept Sebastien Bourdais in work.

It should be rendered defunct, post-haste.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 03 Jan 2010, 22:07

The chassis-engine combination is good, its the old Panoz champcar encasing a V12 engine, all that lets it down is the "footballisation" of it, which makes it die on its arse.

There was an article in a recent edition of autosport called "SuperGrid" where all the defunt single-seaters were simulated against eachother, Champcar, A1 (Both species), Old GP2, Old Renault V6, and the GP Masters machine. Would be nice to see something along those lines.

RejectSteve · Post by **RejectSteve** » 04 Jan 2010, 05:37

ADx_Wales wrote:The chassis-engine combination is good, its the old Panoz champcar encasing a V12 engine, all that lets it down is the "footballisation" of it, which makes it die on its arse.

There was an article in a recent edition of autosport called "SuperGrid" where all the defunt single-seaters were simulated against eachother, Champcar, A1 (Both species), Old GP2, Old Renault V6, and the GP Masters machine. Would be nice to see something along those lines.

The actual racing in SF is quite good also. I'm keen on the series - though it hasn't made me watch any football - because it feels like a successor to Champ Car, the cars are fantastic, the drivers are adequate, and there is at least 90 minutes of racing each weekend. The unique qualifying system fits the football theme but would be more exciting if the knockout rounds actually managed to be close with a few hundredths of each other. In their first season, they had an opinion form to fill out and SF took the fans' advice and implemented it for the very next broadcast.

Sure, it took some getting used to the football club thing, but I can live with it if it gives me a good championship to follow. In the US, all you get on TV is F1, GP2, ALMS, and MotoGP so any series willing to webcast a good show live is worth it... does anybody know if the UIM F1 Powerboat Championship webcasts?

As far as the old GP2 and Renault V6 chassis, aren't those used as the current Asia series cars? Not that anybody is signing drivers from F-Renault Asia...

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 08 Jan 2010, 18:26

Just now I've read a very...interesting article from the motorsport section of a Spanish diary. The article suggested that the late reject Ricardo Londono-Bridge actually paid his seat at Ensign with money from the Escobar drug cartel. Anyone knows more about this?

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 08 Jan 2010, 19:29

Phoenix wrote:Just now I've read a very...interesting article from the motorsport section of a Spanish diary. The article suggested that the late reject Ricardo Londono-Bridge actually paid his seat at Ensign with money from the Escobar drug cartel. Anyone knows more about this?

Typical drug dealer come racer behaviour.
Some drug baron once turn up at the Macau GP with tons of cash to buy a seat. Of course they weren't allowed to race because they didn't have a license...but they just ignored the race officials and sneaked onto the track anyway.
Even a Triad leader tried to race it once...albeit not the full-blown Macau GP Race, just one for local drivers. His car was deemed illegal after the race race, and was disqualified from 2nd place. He was shot dead a few hours later...
Not to mention the works BMW British Touring Car team essentially being funded by a cocaine smuggling ring.

I can easily believe that's how he got his Ensign seat.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 08 Jan 2010, 20:35

kostas22 wrote:
Phoenix wrote:Just now I've read a very...interesting article from the motorsport section of a Spanish diary. The article suggested that the late reject Ricardo Londono-Bridge actually paid his seat at Ensign with money from the Escobar drug cartel. Anyone knows more about this?

Typical drug dealer come racer behaviour.
Some drug baron once turn up at the Macau GP with tons of cash to buy a seat. Of course they weren't allowed to race because they didn't have a license...but they just ignored the race officials and sneaked onto the track anyway.
Even a Triad leader tried to race it once...albeit not the full-blown Macau GP Race, just one for local drivers. His car was deemed illegal after the race race, and was disqualified from 2nd place. He was shot dead a few hours later...
Not to mention the works BMW British Touring Car team essentially being funded by a cocaine smuggling ring.

I can easily believe that's how he got his Ensign seat.

I never imagined there would be more cases akin to that.

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 08 Jan 2010, 20:46

kostas22 wrote:Not to mention the works BMW British Touring Car team essentially being funded by a cocaine smuggling ring.

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Wha... not to question what you're saying, but this has really caught my eye. Can you develop the story further, or maybe provide some references?

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 08 Jan 2010, 21:13

CarlosFerreira wrote:
kostas22 wrote:Not to mention the works BMW British Touring Car team essentially being funded by a cocaine smuggling ring.

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Wha... not to question what you're saying, but this has really caught my eye. Can you develop the story further, or maybe provide some references?

Check here.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 08 Jan 2010, 21:32

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:
CarlosFerreira wrote:
kostas22 wrote:Not to mention the works BMW British Touring Car team essentially being funded by a cocaine smuggling ring.

'
Wha... not to question what you're saying, but this has really caught my eye. Can you develop the story further, or maybe provide some references?

Check here.

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 08 Jan 2010, 21:56

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:
CarlosFerreira wrote:
kostas22 wrote:Not to mention the works BMW British Touring Car team essentially being funded by a cocaine smuggling ring.

'
Wha... not to question what you're saying, but this has really caught my eye. Can you develop the story further, or maybe provide some references?

Check here.

Had no idea. Deeply uncool.

RejectSteve · Post by **RejectSteve** » 09 Jan 2010, 01:35

Don Whittington, Bill Whittington, Randy Lanier, John Paul Sr. and John Paul Jr. were all send to prison on charges involving drug smuggling - used to fund their IMSA sportscar racing careers. A third Whittington brother, Dale, was invovled but did not serve hard time.

lostpin · Post by **lostpin** » 15 Jan 2010, 01:07

F1 Rejects forums are getting really out of hand. Take this thread for example, this was supposed to be ranting one-liners, not elaborate discussions. Also, too much off-topic chit-chat is done on topics that should be straight on the subject. For example I shouldn't be complaining that my site is experiencing a downtime here... :roll:

Ross Prawn · Post by **Ross Prawn** » 15 Jan 2010, 01:10

As far as I can tell no-one has used my flan recipe yet.

tristan1117 · Post by **tristan1117** » 15 Jan 2010, 01:13

lostpin wrote:F1 Rejects forums are getting really out of hand. Take this thread for example, this was supposed to be ranting one-liners, not elaborate discussions. Also, too much off-topic chit-chat is done on topics that should be straight on the subject. For example I shouldn't be complaining that my site is experiencing a downtime here...

Its called the off-season. We all should just hibernate until March.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 15 Jan 2010, 09:39

Hey, pointless activity > no activity. I really don't feel like we have much to talk about until testing gets into full swing, so I have no problems being absurd for the next few months.

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 15 Jan 2010, 11:51

2000 posts in less that a year. I think that counter is broken or something.

Warren Hughes · Post by **Warren Hughes** » 15 Jan 2010, 12:01

Carlos, you're just an absolute machine

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 15 Jan 2010, 14:33

2005 posts? Carlos, I promised you a bathplug (an actual bathplug I mean, of course) if you got 2000 posts...Tell me, in what color do you want it? :lol:

lostpin wrote:F1 Rejects forums are getting really out of hand. Take this thread for example, this was supposed to be ranting one-liners, not elaborate discussions. Also, too much off-topic chit-chat is done on topics that should be straight on the subject. For example I shouldn't be complaining that my site is experiencing a downtime here...

Don't worry, in March it'll be more controlled (I can't assure you off-topic/randomness will disappear completely).

Ross Prawn wrote:As far as I can tell no-one has used my flan recipe yet.

I did

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 15 Jan 2010, 14:37

Phoenix wrote:2005 posts? Carlos, I promised you a bathplug (an actual bathplug I mean, of course) if you got 2000 posts...Tell me, in what color do you want it?

The colour is irrelevant. Remember I want it in a chain so I can wear it around my neck on the day of the first F1Rejects gathering.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 15 Jan 2010, 14:39

CarlosFerreira wrote:
Phoenix wrote:2005 posts? Carlos, I promised you a bathplug (an actual bathplug I mean, of course) if you got 2000 posts...Tell me, in what color do you want it?

The colour is irrelevant. Remember I want it in a chain so I can wear it around my neck on the day of the first F1Rejects gathering.

A gold chain? A silver chain? Or you're a humble person and prefer a brassy chain?
BTW are there plans to finally make a F1 Rejects gathering?

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 15 Jan 2010, 14:55

Phoenix wrote:
CarlosFerreira wrote:
Phoenix wrote:2005 posts? Carlos, I promised you a bathplug (an actual bathplug I mean, of course) if you got 2000 posts...Tell me, in what color do you want it?

The colour is irrelevant. Remember I want it in a chain so I can wear it around my neck on the day of the first F1Rejects gathering.

A gold chain? A silver chain? Or you're a humble person and prefer a brassy chain?
BTW are there plans to finally make a F1 Rejects gathering?

Big, brassy and sparkling. Bling all the way, mate.

No such thing as plans that I know of, just a statement of intention.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 15 Jan 2010, 14:58

CarlosFerreira wrote:
Big, brassy and sparkling. Bling all the way, mate.

No such thing as plans that I know of, just a statement of intention.

Yeah, man, sure. And now, excuse me, I gotta go to the bathroom to pick up something...

Debaser · Post by **Debaser** » 26 Jan 2010, 17:46

Happy Australia Day!!!!

PS If I'm honest I only knew it was Australia day because the Andy Murray match today was interrupted by fireworks. But nonetheless, enjoy the day.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 26 Jan 2010, 18:57

Debaser wrote:Happy Australia Day!!!!

PS If I'm honest I only knew it was Australia day because the Andy Murray match today was interrupted by fireworks. But nonetheless, enjoy the day.

ESPN was cramming the fact that it was Australia Day down my throat last night. I really should have done a shot every time someone said "Australia's Fourth of July."

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 26 Jan 2010, 23:32

thehemogoblin wrote:
Debaser wrote:Happy Australia Day!!!!

PS If I'm honest I only knew it was Australia day because the Andy Murray match today was interrupted by fireworks. But nonetheless, enjoy the day.

ESPN was cramming the fact that it was Australia Day down my throat last night. I really should have done a shot every time someone said "Australia's Fourth of July."

Hmm... I could try that for everytime someone says "AUSTRALIA'S Mark Webber" on the Australian Grand Prix broadcast this year but I'm underage.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 27 Jan 2010, 07:09

Wizzie wrote:
thehemogoblin wrote:
Debaser wrote:Happy Australia Day!!!!

PS If I'm honest I only knew it was Australia day because the Andy Murray match today was interrupted by fireworks. But nonetheless, enjoy the day.

ESPN was cramming the fact that it was Australia Day down my throat last night. I really should have done a shot every time someone said "Australia's Fourth of July."

Hmm... I could try that for everytime someone says "AUSTRALIA'S Mark Webber" on the Australian Grand Prix broadcast this year but I'm underage.

I'm underage too. It hasn't stopped me recently.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 27 Jan 2010, 14:32

thehemogoblin wrote:
Wizzie wrote:
thehemogoblin wrote:ESPN was cramming the fact that it was Australia Day down my throat last night. I really should have done a shot every time someone said "Australia's Fourth of July."

Hmm... I could try that for everytime someone says "AUSTRALIA'S Mark Webber" on the Australian Grand Prix broadcast this year but I'm underage.

I'm underage too. It hasn't stopped me recently.

Here in Spain is a common practice to drink (and in most cases get drunk) from 14 onwards :lol:

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 27 Jan 2010, 19:01

Phoenix wrote:Here in Spain is a common practice to drink (and in most cases get drunk) from 14 onwards

As it seems to be in Britain too, unfortunately... :cry:

FullMetalJack · Post by **FullMetalJack** » 27 Jan 2010, 19:04

dr-baker wrote:
Phoenix wrote:Here in Spain is a common practice to drink (and in most cases get drunk) from 14 onwards

As it seems to be in Britain too, unfortunately...

Yup it most certainly is :mrgreen:

lostpin · Post by **lostpin** » 28 Jan 2010, 00:36

What? You're underage and drinking? I'm telling on you... :mrgreen: