Nope..could not find a thing about f1https://bushcraftuk.com/community/i...populated-nowadays.150247/page-5#post-1869258
Anybody reading the above thread just needs to read through portions of this one to see a good portion of the answers to the question posed; bloody childish bickering and pointless sniping.
There's far too much of it, in my view, and I'm not in the least surprised that folk are voting with their feet or else just not posting. It's as though some members relish it, eh?
F1, I would rather watch paint dry!!
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My bad. I thought that Direwulf was having some fun with something discussed on another thread. After a trying week at work, clearly even my humour has too much bite in it.
I think sport itself is to blame for the dislike of many of its stars, if we look back at some of the greats of yesteryear, Moss, Mansell and their ilk, you never heard anything about their personal life, once the season was over it was if they disappeared, nowadays the media think we have to know everything about the drivers, obviously it is because they sign sponsorship agreements and have to be always in the limelight, a lot of our sports personalities are funded by the taxpayer, whether through grants or by the lottery, even though they seem to have lavish lifestyles, some don,t even live in this country yet are still subsidised by us.
And of course we can,t forget the drugs scandals, the fighting, and the general lawlessness of some of our sports personalities, who seem to think they can get away with anything, once sports personalities were looked on as mentors for our youth to aspire to, but i am not sure that is the case nowadays.
And of course we can,t forget the drugs scandals, the fighting, and the general lawlessness of some of our sports personalities, who seem to think they can get away with anything, once sports personalities were looked on as mentors for our youth to aspire to, but i am not sure that is the case nowadays.
Or it was seen as acceptable or even admirable. Many, many sport stars were big drinkers and womanizers. In those days those hobbies came automatically with fame and money. The ones that pop out in my mind were F1, Tennis, golf stars.( Movie stars too, but they are outside the soul of this thread)
Yer I don't get it, the way he is, is in part what put him where he is, cocky, hansom and skilled whats not to like?
I know you are being sarcastic, but that is how these people become what they are. Incredibly skillful and the rest.
Good looking - I am the wrong sex to judge that.
Good looking - I am the wrong sex to judge that.
Not at all Janne this is my take on him, as for thinking he's hansom well because he is! nothing to do with attraction its a judgement that can be made about many things, man, woman, beast or machines.I know you are being sarcastic, but that is how these people become what they are. Incredibly skillful and the rest.
Good looking - I am the wrong sex to judge that.
I just disliked how he turned on ron dennis and his old man.
The two people who gave him everything to get where he id
I'd rather watch a 1970's Ford Escort and Vauxhall slide around the Crystal Palace Race Track:
Strikes me as everything F1 is not. Namely compulsive viewing and something of a landmark in recorded UK motor sport.
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Agree! not his best moment, I guess he had to grow up on TV never a good thing, and becoming your own self dose at times mean gaining distance from your fathers, but he could of done it in a better manner! I think even now he still has more maturity to gain.
Yes I have just been subjected to "F1 Monza", it was so exciting that the resident F1 fanatic snored through 18 laps of it.
Before anyone else says that they can see how someone who doesn't understand how complex F1 is and how technical it is and the engineering involved would find it boring I would like to point out, I have designed and built laser grid arrays and have also built DWDM stations, I am a qualified computer and network engineer. I do appreciate engineering design and am more than familiar with tactics. I still find F1 boring.
Many other sports I find boring unless I am either there or am taking part.
As to finding specific sports personalities annoying, boring or disliking them, that's human nature and If that is the case they will have done something for me to think of them in a darkened manner.
Before anyone else says that they can see how someone who doesn't understand how complex F1 is and how technical it is and the engineering involved would find it boring I would like to point out, I have designed and built laser grid arrays and have also built DWDM stations, I am a qualified computer and network engineer. I do appreciate engineering design and am more than familiar with tactics. I still find F1 boring.
Many other sports I find boring unless I am either there or am taking part.
As to finding specific sports personalities annoying, boring or disliking them, that's human nature and If that is the case they will have done something for me to think of them in a darkened manner.
The benefit of watching TV is that we can turn it off.
Not so easy if you are at the venue, watching, and find it boring.....
Not so easy if you are at the venue, watching, and find it boring.....
When I have to use the same room as an F1 fanatic it is not so easy to just switch it off and that is possibly one of the reasons that I dislike F1, because I am subjected to it whether I want to watch it or not (which I don't because it is boring).
Having no interest in watching the race means that I no real interest in the drivers, their lives and careers.
I certainly have no interest in qualifying.
Looking at this thread it would appear that I am one of many.
When this rubbish was on the BBC and that many people just don't care or have no interest how could they justify spending that much money (from the misappropriated funds) they call a license fee.
I agree fully...
but it seems to be a hugely popular sport. No doubt BBC is monitoring the number of people and taking decisions from that.
Me, I would be happy if they ( BBC, SVT, NRK and the other TV channels I watch) ditched sports and were concentrating on producing quality nature/bushcraft programmes, and series like the excellent Peaky Blinders, Durells and War and Peace...
but it seems to be a hugely popular sport. No doubt BBC is monitoring the number of people and taking decisions from that.
Me, I would be happy if they ( BBC, SVT, NRK and the other TV channels I watch) ditched sports and were concentrating on producing quality nature/bushcraft programmes, and series like the excellent Peaky Blinders, Durells and War and Peace...
It is not politically acceptable to exclude minorities these days
Seriously though, more people watched F1 on the BBC than a lot of the dross they show. Personally, unlike Janne, I cannot stand the endless cooking programmes - and I am an enthusiastic cook!! Like I said before, I'd rather be doing than spectating.
I do sympathise with you if you 'have' to watch it though.
Not all cooking programmes are good. We are lucky that we have access to UK, Sweden and Norway, so we can choose.
There are some truly bad ones out there.
We saw a series with an English art historian and an Italian Michelin starred chef. That one was good, they visited Italy outside the tourist tracks. A year or maybe two years ago?
There are some truly bad ones out there.
We saw a series with an English art historian and an Italian Michelin starred chef. That one was good, they visited Italy outside the tourist tracks. A year or maybe two years ago?
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You are showing your age....
Yes, Keith Floyd was very entertaining. And cooked interesting food!
Ricks latest I did not enjoy as much as I did his earlier shows.
I loved his drinking through the show. (edit: Keith's drinking)
Yes, Keith Floyd was very entertaining. And cooked interesting food!
Ricks latest I did not enjoy as much as I did his earlier shows.
I loved his drinking through the show. (edit: Keith's drinking)
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