Ungrateful bastards, you can view it online in your Britain, while I have to pay for satellite TV. Those fuckers would charge you 2x every time. Goddamn rip-off. And I don’t even get proper BBC.
BBC coverage this year has been amazing!
Fuck you.
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Oh hay guys just stopped by to say F1 sucks.
Also, the commentators are fags, who get raging erections from a car overtaking.
Real men watch real cars, with real manly drivers drive manly around manly tracks.
Says the guy who’s arguing with him.
:rolleyes:
Don’t forget running over our native wildlife too, you don’t see that in Formula1.
I’m not a huge fan of F1 myself, but IMO Rally WRC > *
Gravel, tarmac, ice and snow in the same special? You don’t see this in every Motorsport. The front bumper is no more? Your back-left tire is flat? This ain’t no problem for them!
I can’t for the life of me remember what rally/year it was, must have beena few years ago, Marcus Gronholm was driving his 206 down a motorway to the next service between stages.
With 3 wheels.
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I remember in June of this year in the “Rallye des Rocheuses” here in Canada, Andrew Comrie-Picard did a whole stage with his prestone cap broken, thus shooting some on the windshield and making it completely opaque. His co-pilot had to take a towel and wipe the windshield while saying her notes. They finished the stage in third place IIRC, because Ken Block and another one crashed.
awesome 
Shame manufacturers are dwindling from WRC now 
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I admit I made a couple of assumptions, but allow me to don my BlackOp cloak of serious sense and explain my rage!.. if I recall, they started out in the “Goldilocks zone” on the other side of the sun from the planet they needed to get to, which is, give or take, 1AU from the sun (assuming the sun’s a similar configuration to ours, which may or may not be true, but still, it’s going to be a sodofalongway).
So, they need to cover approximately 2 AUs, or 185,911,775 miles in the time it took one of the characters to read 100 pages of his book. I don’t know how slowly you read, but 8 hours is plenty for most people to get through that and the character didn’t seem to be a complete dribbling moron.
All this means they need to be making way at an average of 23,238,971 MPH. Given that they’re at a relative standing start, they would need to accellerate to a peak speed (at hour 4, before firing the retros and slowing down to enter orbit) of around 40 Million MPH. My grasp of acceleration calculus may not be in any way well formed, but accellerating at a rate of 11,000 Miles per second per second will sting a little… granted, you’re not talking trans-light speeds, but it’s the sub-light stuff that’ll hurt you anyway. (and think of it this way; in a car crash at 70MPH you experience accelerations of around 70 miles per second per second, and that’s enough to kill you very effectively… 11,000 M/ps/ps will definitely do the job, and no amount of inertial damping’s going to help)
The shuttle’s not a very big vessel, gravity generation (and by extension, inertial damping systems) would require massive amounts of energy, I don’t think it’s quite big enough to hold the necessary duracells…
Again, I know it’s a “sci-fi” show, and a lot can be swept under the carpet with “alien technology” but there are limits to credibility… not least that the crew look out of the window of the shuttle (not even into a scanner… OUT OF THE WINDOW) and spot the Destiny emerging from the sun, even shouting “Look, there it is”… I know the Destiny’s a big ship, but it would have to be bigger than Mercury (the planet, not the award, or the element!) to even be seen by the naked eye over that distance, never MIND actually identifying it as the ship.
I can suspend my disbelief, but only to a point. 
I’m also going to cease and desist with the SGU bashing now… it’s quite retarded enough all by itself, without me beating up on it. 
Yeah, it’s great. The story is amazing.
one thing I noticed today when thinking about cannon fodder, a lot of the enemies in Half-life 2 are cannon fodder while none in the original could be considered such.
I would call zombies cannon fodder, especially once you get the shotgun.
to me, cannon fodder is “disposable unimportant shoot-me characters which have no importance to the force dispatching them, nor much significance to the force killing them”
I don’t classify headcrab zombies as cannon fodder b/c they can toss physics objects at the player.
Why couldn’t you just leave it? Why did you have to do your little “MY [INSERT HERE] IS BETTER THAN YOUR [INSERT HERE]” yet again? I mean really.
small peen IRL = Big E-peen
What if you have a small dick and people online don’t respect you? Does that make that particular person a double-loser?
Haha I’m happy that’s not me! 
People who like F1 like the complexity of it as well. Not just going fast.
What coll posted is “HURRR LOOK AT DA CRASHES, HURRRR DURRRR”.
oh really?
Fgts.
EDIT: Shit ninjaed. Paddy, mah man.
Hardly anyone seems to understand what’s behind F1 and what the pilots actually have to deal with. Pricks.