Formula 1 - a Great Waste of Time
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Topic: Formula 1 - a Great Waste of Time
Posted By: ulrich von hutten
Subject: Formula 1 - a Great Waste of Time
Date Posted: 17-Mar-2007 at 04:30
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Mindless car (sickness), stupidity in a circle, wasting fossil fuel. Millions of € spend for a gruesome spectacle, that will start again this weekend in Melbourne (Australia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_racing_drivers_who_died_in_racing_crashes - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_racing_drivers_who_died_in_racing_crashes
The only possitive aspect is this, that i always fall asleep if i watch this crap at TV. ------------- 
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Posted By: Constantine XI
Date Posted: 17-Mar-2007 at 05:13
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I have been hearing the revving and racing past my window all day as I was studying today. It may not benefit you, and I couldn't care less about a bunch of cars going round in circles, but the event is making our city money. ------------- |
Posted By: Gargoyle
Date Posted: 17-Mar-2007 at 05:43
 Oh PoinDexter...
Don't be so Jealous... maybe one day Iceland will get a F1 Race too. Gargoyle quite enjoys watching as you put it... "Mindless car (sickness), stupidity in a circle, wasting fossil fuel. Millions of € spend for a gruesome spectacle, that will start again this weekend in Melbourne (Australia)". Would you preffer to watch World Championship Knitting???... PoinDexter???... or... Perhaps you would rather pay to watch 2 Teams of Sweaty Young Men in shorts, running around on a Grass Field, Trying very hard (often in Vain) to pointlessly Kick a Ball into a Net... Then, by some miracle, if one team finally manages to Kick the Ball into the Net, they Jump around like Idiots (sickness) Hugging & Touching each other in an often Homo-Erotic Fashion! And to top it all off these men get paid alot of $$$$$ to do so! (sickness) 
Gargoyle enjoys watching a wide variety of Sports... One of my favourites is Womens Beach Volleyball! 
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Posted By: ulrich von hutten
Date Posted: 17-Mar-2007 at 05:58
i must apologize, formula 1 is as much interessting like sailing and numismatics.   -------------
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Posted By: Northman
Date Posted: 17-Mar-2007 at 05:58
Who is taking the bait Gargoyle 
Oh - and you totally forgot to mention the artistic impression when those sweaty young men is diving and performing an act of "close to death" expressions, only paralleled by the finest Shakespearian actors.
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Posted By: ulrich von hutten
Date Posted: 17-Mar-2007 at 06:02
Football Phillistines -------------
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Posted By: Gargoyle
Date Posted: 17-Mar-2007 at 06:09
Oh Well... PoinDexter is apparently a "Fisherman's Friend" afterall!
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 17-Mar-2007 at 09:29
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I am a big fan of Formula one Racing.
For me is important a fellow Brazilian, South American, or Spanish driver win everyone else in the most important car competion worldwide.
It shows clearly we are number one in many fields
Pinguin
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Posted By: Balaam
Date Posted: 17-Mar-2007 at 09:37
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Your right it is pointless...the V8 Supercars a hell much better! ------------- |
Posted By: Brainstorm
Date Posted: 18-Mar-2007 at 05:34
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I guess i would be thrilled driving one of F1 cars... but i m bored to death watching F1 on tv.! ------------- http://protostrator.blogspot.com |
Posted By: Omar al Hashim
Date Posted: 18-Mar-2007 at 06:39
Most phillistines I know call rugby football, not soccer. And they are most definitely into cars. ------------- |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 18-Mar-2007 at 08:53
For me, the emotion of these last years was watching if Schummaher was going to lost the race
. I remember how I expected he blow up a tire or the team make a mistake at the boxs so he couldn't continue the race... I was a big fan of Ayrton Senna, the Brazilian car racer, and I always suspected Schummaher has something to do with that. I wanted that guy lost. Unfortunatelly most of the time he won
 .The emotion was quite high in seeing up to he smallest detail of each race.
Pinguin
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Posted By: pikeshot1600
Date Posted: 18-Mar-2007 at 18:27
Formula 1 is far more interesting than NASCAR
.BTW, what is the fave sport in Iceland? Snow soccer or ice wrestling?
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 18-Mar-2007 at 19:08
Well, Ulrich, I have to agree. I am sorry but I have to say it: mFormula 1 is a lot more exciting that the dog's races of the Inuit in Greenland!
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Posted By: ulrich von hutten
Date Posted: 19-Mar-2007 at 02:15
just for clarificaton:
i think i saw more Formula 1 races than you both watched snow soccer, ice wrestling (that truly excists) and dog races in Greenland or others places. -------------
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Posted By: Omar al Hashim
Date Posted: 19-Mar-2007 at 02:26
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One of the most exciting games to watch on TV has to be Lawn Bowls.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 19-Mar-2007 at 02:31
what colour does the ball have? white? ------------- |
Posted By: Knights
Date Posted: 19-Mar-2007 at 02:42
Interesting you should say that Omar, it actually isn't that bad to watch! As for F1, used to like it, but I am over it now. Wouldn't mind -as someone earlier said- to be in one though!  ------------- |
Posted By: Gargoyle
Date Posted: 19-Mar-2007 at 02:56
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Gargoyle must Congratulate Kimi Raikkonen and Ferrari, for Winning the Australian F1 Grand Prix on Sunday. 
Another of Gargoyles favourite Sports to watch (apart from Womens Beach Volleyball) is... SUMO! 
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Posted By: ulrich von hutten
Date Posted: 19-Mar-2007 at 02:58
hey, dunce, red of course...
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Posted By: Lotus
Date Posted: 19-Mar-2007 at 06:52
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I’m a big formula 1 fan, I remember watching Senna qualify in the wet at Donnington for the European gp, he gave it absolutely everything, but couldn’t match the two Williams of Prost & Hill and eventually crashed his McLarren trying. He gave us all a wave as he sat on the back of the recovery vehicle on the way back to the pits. The Melbourne GP wasn’t the most exciting I’ve ever watched but it was a fantastic result for Lewis Hamilton finishing third in his first GP. My local team Williams did pretty well in 7th, hopefully they will have a better year than last. |
Posted By: Aelfgifu
Date Posted: 20-Mar-2007 at 06:58
I personally am a great fan of the World Championships Snooker. Very peaceful. Right up there in the list of soothing programmes with Attenboroughs Life of Mammals and Animal Cops.
Now the only sports that can hold my interest for more that a minute is Speed Skating.
   For obvious reasons....  ------------- 
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Posted By: ulrich von hutten
Date Posted: 20-Mar-2007 at 08:24
Have to admit you, to watch speed-skatingis very satisfying, for several resons...
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 21-Mar-2007 at 01:22
| I love formula 1 have been watching it for years, not so much here in USA since time difference etc, but in Germany I used to watch it every Sunday. It's not only in circles, the races are usually very intricate, very detiailed, and it is skill and brains that wins a race not horsepower. It's much better than NASCAR, that hick crap is is a pointless circle race where they take left turns all day long no techniques at all. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 21-Mar-2007 at 01:39
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I agree!!
Formula one is about the best DRIVER.
Nascar is just about running fast.
No comparison is possible.
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Posted By: Gargoyle
Date Posted: 21-Mar-2007 at 05:16
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Pinguin, Sure... the Driver is important... but... Formula 1 is not only about the Driver... Don't forget that it is a Team Sport! ------------- |
Posted By: Omar al Hashim
Date Posted: 21-Mar-2007 at 05:52
Car races are actually a competition between Engineers.
Snookers peaceful, until someone leaves some coins of the table, the ball hits them, lifts of the table, and smashes into the drink machine at high speed. Since you measured Speed Skating, I have to mention Steven Bradbury*. The associated verb, to do a Bradbury, which is where you have Buckleys chances** at doing something and then actually doing it, (kinda like Buckley actually), and then the philosophical statement Even Bradbury had to make the final * http://www.elitesports.com.au/new/athlete_profiles/011.html - http://www.elitesports.com.au/new/athlete_profiles/011.html ** http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/51/messages/978.html - http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/51/messages/978.html ------------- |
Posted By: Aelfgifu
Date Posted: 21-Mar-2007 at 06:19
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Ah yes. I remember him. He was that short-tracker who won because all his opponents fell over... That was great entertainment. I specifically remember the scene in the background: Bradbury was crossing the line, looking surprised at having won, and in the back you could see two others, still fighting for second place, crawling over each other, trying to get up, falling down again, and trying to cross the line on their stomacks. Great fun.
But I watch the long track more: the 400 metres track. I prefer the long distances: 5000 m. and 10.000 m. The sprint (500m) is so fast, when you blink your eyes it is over....
I also like the long distance skaters more. They are taller. I am a great fan of the human anatomy. Especially skaters anatomy. Nice muscled behinds. -------------
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 21-Mar-2007 at 21:13
Yes, you are right!
And just compare the way the Formula one teams work at the stops, a precision ballet! Compare that with the amateur way team attend cars in the oval racing in the U.S.
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Posted By: ulrich von hutten
Date Posted: 22-Aug-2007 at 13:09
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no- i'm not a fan -------------
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Posted By: Dolphin
Date Posted: 23-Aug-2007 at 04:26
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Formula one is brilliant...only gaelic football, hurling and soccer are better sports in my opinion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_football - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_football
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurling - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurling
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Posted By: Parnell
Date Posted: 23-Aug-2007 at 04:47
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Gah and hurling aren't that great, not as good as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle_Friday - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle_Friday ------------- |