Another Drive4show 'Anything goes' thread

[MontysMerkin]

First topic message reminder :

That's why these pursuits should be undertaken in videogames and not in real life. Real life has a nasty habit of finding you out to be the hopeless loser you don't think you are.

[McLaren]

You have missed the point navy, I said it looks like you need more skill to do snowboarding than squash.  If all I ever do is view the two sports then surely all that matters is my viewing pleasure?  Which I propose is greater watching snowboarding than it is watching squash.

[pedro]

So I assume you support acting now - and in a big way -  to tackle the climate problem of the coming century?  i.e reduce emissions at almost all costs.

mac, nobody knows how big the human influence on climate change is. Surely, it's there, but nobody knows to which extend.

If Northern Europe is becoming warmer it's clearly an advantage. If Southern Europe is becoming drier it's probably not an advantage. If bangladesh is flooded more frequently, build the dikes they should have anyway.

Under all circumstances it would be insane to use billions and billions to reduce CO2 emissions and green transition when no-one knows the effect of the gazillions spent. In stead (some of) the money should be spent on developing new technologies to generate clean cheap energy (i.e. not wind or solar energy) plus to guard us towards the climate change (i.e. build dikes etc.). That's would be far cheaper - but of course not politically correct.

I'm sorry to say it but this whole climate debate is held hostage by people who want to change the society due to ideologic beliefs, not scientific. 1968 failed, let's try the back door. How come the climate lobby isn't talking about nuclear energy, research in fusion energy or thorium reactors? Clearly beacuse it represents the industrialised society and not some romantic village ideology. Fossile energy as we use it today claim many more lives than nuclear energy ever will and wind/solar energy doesn't have what it takes - yet we still seem so focused and biased on particular solutions.

By spending money the way we are doing now, taxing the industry and citizens and subsidising wind/solar energy, the result in 50 years time will be that the poor will be even poorer, and that the rich bar stewards will remain the rich bar stewards.

[kouchi]

US billionaire Donald Trump has bought Doonbeg golf course in the west of Ireland.

[Davie]

McLaren clearly in full lentil-knitting mode this week it seems. Must be very bored to be trolling so hard

[hend085]

its a great spot Doobeg, prices likely to double now.

[incontinentia]

Just witnessed a pet peeve of mine- people using the lift to go up (or down) ONE floor. It's super lazy and it takes longer and most of the offenders could use the exercise.

[MontysMerkin]

If God had wanted us to use lifts he would, er, exist....

[super_realist]

Was it Shane Lowry?

I despise when people do that and usually tut.

[MontysMerkin]

I hope you do it loudly soops, or how would they know?
I like to throw disapproving glares when peoples backs are turned. Especially if they are fat.

[incontinentia]

Shane takes the cargo elevator.

I look these people up and down with a look of thorough disdain and then "huh" dismissively.

[super_realist]

I usually tell them, if they don't have an obvious disability that they are lazy.

[MontysMerkin]

I too like to make snide comments to people I don't know about their lifestyle choices, makes me feel superior about their sad, pathetic, and downright wrong lives.

[super_realist]

Lifts shouldn't stop at those floors

[incontinentia]

You fellows are much braver than I. I prefer to register my disgust in a passive-aggressive fashion, and have achieved an almost nine chins level of skill in this regard.

[super_realist]

I make a joke out of it rather than spit out my disgust.

"Saving your knees?"

[Shotrock]

Interesting purchase for Trump. Clearly, he's enamored with the game ... and I recall an interview where he claimed high-end Golf Courses were just about bullet-proof during recessionary times. Wonder if he'll use Hawtree for any rework. But, please, no waterfalls!

[incontinentia]

I too like to make snide comments to people I don't know about their lifestyle choices, makes me feel superior about their sad, pathetic, and downright wrong lives.

The Meek are a good target for these sort of comments.

[SmithersJones]

I too like to make snide comments to people I don't know about their lifestyle choices, makes me feel superior about their sad, pathetic, and downright wrong lives.

The Meek are a good target for these sort of comments.

Oh the meek, blessed are the meek! That's nice, 'cos they have a hell of a time of it.

[incontinentia]

Yes Smithers, but what you blatantly fail to appreciate is that it's the meek that are the cause of the problem.

[SmithersJones]

Shut it, big nose.

[MontysMerkin]

Your nose is going to be three foot wide across your face when I've finished with you.

[Roller_Coaster]

I'm Brian

[Roller_Coaster]

and so's my wife

[incontinentia]

Biggus and I are still together all these years later!

[MontysMerkin]

fwow him to the fwoor centuwian.

[incontinentia]

Schumacher seems to have contracted pneumonia, according to the news.

I found this article very interesting. Written by a former F1 doctor, and mostly conjecture (as he says himself) based on the minimal information being released on Michael's condition. But interesting nonetheless.

[Bob_the_Job]

Schumacher seems to have contracted pneumonia, according to the news.

I found this article very interesting. Written by a former F1 doctor, and mostly conjecture (as he says himself) based on the minimal information being released on Michael's condition. But interesting nonetheless.

Either you forgot the link.. or I can't see it.

Given it was a skiing accident, it's odd they have the former F1 doctor writing the article...

My brother suffered a very similar injury less than a year ago in a horse riding accident and was in a coma for 3 weeks. Every thing that is reported to be happening to Schumacher is eerily familiar.

[super_realist]

Someone should shut the window, it's cold in Grenoble this time of year.

[McLaren]

http://formerf1doc.wordpress.com/

Here you go bob.

[incontinentia]

D'oh! sorry here it is, probably the same as Mclaren's

http://jalopnik.com/where-does-michael-schumachers-treatment-go-from-here-1520711047

[Bob_the_Job]

http://formerf1doc.wordpress.com/

Here you go bob.

Cheers. Even more eerily familiar although thankfully, my brother's injuries were/are right and front.. not "centre".

[dynamark]

hi Peeps I am now working for a 'housing asassination' sorry no association just wishful thinking.
Benefits system in overdrive I can barely go with it but have to make a living.
Anyone got a golf course open?

[kwinigolfer]

dyna,
Good to hear from you - have a butcher's at my thread and let us have your comments about puligny's post re Tiger and The Rock.

[puligny]

Dyna - several open in Hampshire on chalk Downland, and links at Hayling.

[Roller_Coaster]

Ours is open. No, closed. No, open. Partially closed. Open. Closed.

We seem to get a couple of days (usually Thursday and Friday) of nice ish weather with a drying breeze raising hopes for the weekend, before Friday night's inevitable deluge and stormy winds manage to shut the thing just in time for the weekend.

[navyblueshorts]

We've been open all Winter. Odd temp green but only once or twice   .

[McLaren]

To my valentine.  The one and only super.

Spoiler:

[super_realist]

Why is that perpetual failure Chemmy Alcott getting any sort of coverage?
She is hopeless

[beninho]

She's Britains bedtime female skier by a long way she has come top 20 I think, in her events at the Olympics so she is in among the best female skiers in the world and has been at 4 Olympics. So why can't she get coverage from the national broadcaster and she clearly isn't hopeless. If she is hopeless you probably shouldn't be allowed on the slopes...

[McLaren]

No doubt super is a far superior skier to Alcott.  If only there was someone on the same level as him, and able to offer him a challenge, super would have bothered turning up in Sochi.

[westisbest]

[super_realist]

She's Britains bedtime female skier by a long way she has come top 20 I think, in her events at the Olympics so she is in among the best female skiers in the world and has been at 4 Olympics. So why can't she get coverage from the national broadcaster and she clearly isn't hopeless. If she is hopeless you probably shouldn't be allowed on the slopes...

Would you be celebrating a team or person who came 20th in a football event, golf event, tennis event, running event, horse race, F1 race etc?

Simply because she's the best we have, doesn't mean she should get any recognition for it and fortunately she doesn't get funded. Coming 20th is barely even journeyman standard.

[MontysMerkin]

Ahh to be a bitter nobody...

[super_realist]

I just don't agree we should celebrate failures.

[MontysMerkin]

Being 20th in the games isn't really a failure though is it? You have to train hard just to qualify, and she has overcome some pretty big injuries. And coming from a non skiing nation, not too bad at all I reckon.

[beninho]

I think she has been congratulated but not overly celebrated. I believe she has had many injuries and broke her neck when a kid, the fact she has appeared in 4 Olympics is an achievement. She comes from Twickenham which isn't really a breeding ground for winter sport so to become a journey man decent Olympic skier is an achievement. And anyway she is not a failure.

Anyone that is of a high enough standard in any sport to compete at the highest level is worth celebrating. Did you see the guy from Peru who came last in the cross country and finished in double the winners time, the winner waited and greeted him at the line. It was a good moment and the fact he competed is worth celebrating.

[super_realist]

Being 20th in the games isn't really a failure though is it? You have to train hard just to qualify, and she has overcome some pretty big injuries. And coming from a non skiing nation, not too bad at all I reckon.  

Thing is, she's obviously a decent athlete with good strength, skills and determination, I wonder if she could have actually had success in another sport.

Perhaps one of the more hefty track and field events.

[MontysMerkin]

Maybe so. But getting paid to ski can't have been too bad a life, I often wonder what becomes of these people once they retire. Hopefully not become a Graham Bell(end).

[super_realist]

Clearly she barely makes enough to ski though considering she only just made the Olympics by sponsorship and donations from various sources she virtually had to beg from.

Graham Bell is not as much as a bell end as Ed Leigh. There's a real tool

[MontysMerkin]

At least Ed does the decent thing and tries to snowboard. Bell end can't even be arsed with that.

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