It's been a quiet day, relatively speaking. Buemi is dominating the test sessions, no matter what car he's in, so there's not very much to say on that front. There are other motorsport topics in the minds of those in the know, though, including:
- Subaru have pulled out of the WRC. I don't really know much about any of that sentence, but it seems to have sparked some debate in the comments over whether manufacturers are necessary for motorsports. Debate can only be a good thing.
- Hockenheim have held out their begging caps, with organisers bowing to local government in the hopes they can persuade Bernie to lower his fees. Good luck with that, chaps. Bernie will simply argue he has thousands of circuits lining the streets to join the calendar. But are there?
- Pedalo led the way at the Algarve, which is still pretty, by the way. Apparently he was working on McLaren's KERS package for the entire day, and was faster than both Ferrari test drivers. Not sure that tells us anything, which is quite annoying.
- For some reason, we're trying to convince "me" to dress up in a giant panda suit. He keeps saying no.
Please let me know what you're thinking and talking about. Don't feel limited by what I have listed above. The conversation is what keeps us going in these cold off-season days. I'll see you in the comments.
no
Aw.... bless....
Soon you'll learn 'why?' and then Christine really will be sorry.... :-P
It's starting to sound like he's not up for it...
:D
:D
haha XD :D
But if manufacturers don't get to show off their technology and develop new stuff, why would they even bother to participate?
Eh? :-/
I take it you've never had a toddler Journeyer?
Actually, scratch that...
Why is a rather important thing to ask for anything really.
Prehaps if enough people asked Max 'Why?' and carried on past the 'because I want to' stage, he might actually have to think about things a little more carefully.....
Ahhh... I'm kind of getting you now. :)
Mind you, it's not like he'd have answered anything BUT that.
Even the most recalcitrant toddler can be made to break when you turn the question on them
Its even more efficient on elected public officials and local authority bods.
But isn't that what he has PR officers for, to hide from our questions?
I'm very impressed that you used the word 'recalcitrant' in a sentence :)
I think it tells us that the new front wing designs are pretty competitive?
Hi All,
I was catching up on the f1 news and took a look at F1.com. It is an interview that Bernie has about the medal point system - and there is a poll question at the bottom - is it a good idea?. I wonder if it's f1's way of getting to know what real fans want.
Last thursday i had record snow falls in Italy. and now after a stupidly long series of journeys i am in sunny australia where it is about 27 degrees Celsius. I hope you're not jealous if you're suffering in Europe :)
Scott,
Just did a similar Journey from Denmark to NZ. It is a long way and it's really weird going from Winter to Summer and back again :-(
Strangely enough (and I think because the journey is so long and tiring - it takes two days to get there), I didn't get much jet lag at all - even with a 12 hour time difference!
Hope you enjoy your time down there and that you are having a good holiday though :-D
Say no.
Apparently Lewis is going to be immortalised in wax.
http://tinyurl.com/lhwax
Isn't that nice.
"He has undoubtedly won a place in the nation's hearts..."
yup, second place apparently ;)
Anywhere near Wollongong, Sydney or Gosford in NSW Scott? We could send our own xmas message to Sidepodcast towers!
ouch :-(
what would the 'people' know... bah humbug!
that would awesome :)
nothing worth knowing.
Never been to Madame Tussauds waxworks museum - no real intention too either.
I went once. Stood next to Hitler. Freaked me out. Never going again.
Always gonna be a conversation stopper, that one ;)
They have Hitler there?
Now it's just reminding me of the Waxworld Red Dwarf episode. :D
Aaaaanyway - time to go pickup the new TV *YAY!* and then go to the hostipal for a scan on my throat to see if it's all good again. *BOO!*
Can only assume subaru have pulled out following the fia's super decision to convert the WRC to S2000, not long after they introduced their new impreza. Silly fia. Who'll be next to quit the WRC?
Jeremy, yep I am based around Gosford at the moment. my homeland :) Will be around Sydney a bit in January but not before. So if you're around Gosford, we could shoot an xmas message!
Gavin, yeah I am enjoying my holiday, but still dealing with jet lag. Nothing like raiding my parent's fridge at 3am when I get bored...
Awesome! Mum is in Umina Beach. I'm aiming to visit on Sat 27-12-08.
Email me: thedigitaldevil @ mac dot com
Just because Top Gear Australia is crap, it doesnt mean that 'Friends of Sidepodcast in Australia' is doomed before it begins :-)
Am I the only person who enjoyed it?
I'm not even from the colonies....
Don't tell Jon but Ron is talking DNA:
http://tinyurl.com/dennisdna
"We can be pragmatic, but we will not cut into the fabric or DNA of F1," he told USA Today, "We don't want to take measures that impact the size of the audience."
Christine, that quote is Five Pints of Awesome!!! :-D
Looks like F1 Racing Magazine are thinking of putting together their own F1 fantasy league for 2009. I received the following email from them today:
The link to 'Sporting Insights' is a brief questionnaire they are conducting and asks what you would like to see from it. Seeing as Autosport's very own F1 fantasy league charges £10 per year (and isn't worth that at all), don't be surprised if this one follows suit.
surely that means f1racing are actually thinking of doing something with their website? that's v.interesting.
have been reading a lot during the past couple of weeks about how newspapers are ditching print on mass and moving to online content, because that's what the advertisers are asking for.
i've no idea how f1r can distinguish itself from autosport.com, but at least it sounds like they might be giving it a go. presumably itv's fantasy competition will have ceased now, so they should be able to hoover up a fair number of users... assuming the bbc don't weigh in there instead.
You can vote no once with every browser you have on your computer and with every computer you have access to. Naturally I don't want to encourage that sort of behaviour but Max and Bernie control a lot of computers.
All those people out looking for him and he is in a tourist attraction. As Captain Mainwaring would have said "That is a typical sneaky Nazi trick."
bernie also controls the website and the database that collates the results.
not to put a dampener on proceedings but the final result will be exactly what bernie wants it to be.
what's needed is a neutral third party to conduct the poll, sadly that was never on the cards was it?
If the BBC have any sense, they'll start steering clear of competitions!!
hehe. maybe they should run the medals poll?
it could be a phone -in and everything :D
And of course he didn't bother advertising the poll apart from on that thread. That is precisely why he needs to be shown that there is opposition to his stupid idea. He may in the end ignore the result but if he gets no opposition now it is a certainty that he will ignore our opinions
true enough. the poll should be hosted here:
http://www.cvc.com/
then they may realise what a twonk the man they have running the show really is.
http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=36754
Pitpass's take on David Richards buying Honda. Forget the F1 aspect of the story though. The second last paragraph says Dubai is struggling for money. Is that remotely possible?
"Dubai is not bust, but government debt of $US80 billion ($123 billion) casts as big a shadow over the economy"
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,24712459-30538,00.html
It is funny that all of these competitions proclaim to be the best in the world. Even before they've written it in this case it would seem.
Other Fantasy Competitions are also available ;)
http://www.fantasyracers.com/
don't know what you mean?
http://www.fantasyracers.com/
in vaguely related news. apple are planning to ditch trade shows:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7786895.stm
anyone fancy speculating on whether tradeshows in general are a dying breed, and if so, what that might mean for autosport international?
Autosport has been going downhill for a while, well the last 3 I went to were progressively worse (I think 03,04,05) each one with less stands, less accessibility. Similar to trade stands at the races, fewer and fewer, with less and less to show off. Tis poor form I think
we joked a couple of weeks back, that if it was more affordable we'd have a taken a stand. i guess though the cost of venue has to be covered somehow.
my biggest gripe about the event is the awful orange lighting the nec has installed which makes it so difficult to take photographs.
last year it seemed like a pretty busy event, there were enough stands to ensure we got utterly lost, but at £60.00 for two of us, per day, it's a bit pricey.
I have been involved in a few trade shows and any company doing them knows that they are unlikely to do any business at them. If the shows are aimed at the public then business can be done but companies who only sell in specific industries tend to take the view that they have to be at the shows or rumours about them struggling will be started. In general unless they have something new to show or they want to get publicity for a big deal that can be signed at the show (although in many cases th deal in question has been completed months previously) there really isn't a business case for doing them.
Companies tend to know all the other companies in thei own industry and their routine sales activity means that they are in contact with all significant potential customers. The only way to do business at a show is if you are moving into a new geographical area or a new area of business in which case you can make initial contact with potential customers.
I think although Autosport International is branded as a trade show it is really for the public so is probably safe. No-one in the trade is going to do any real business at ASI. No racing driver is going to choose a team based on what they see at the show. No-one is going to choose an engine or suspension etc based on what they see at the show.
ahh, good point.
Trade shows are, um, generally places to show that you aren't about to go bust... to feed customers and prospective customers food and drink (and a lot of vodka with decent music, if its the London Edge show, lol)... to get your brochures etc out to people for a fraction of the cost of doing it by post (for both customer and company), and, um, making sure that the venues don't close down through lack of use
rofl
Basically trade shows used to be very good for samples (and if I liked a product it was much easier to want to stock it - who takes on something blind or without being able to do some reasearch with it first, when a minimum order is £500 plus?), but in the last year there have been very few 'freebies' and generally those have been less useful ones as well :-(
There are notable exceptions - but they do tend to be those where 'the public' get let in towards the end of the day, or on payment of a hefty fee. If you are in the trade and can't get a free or low-cost (less than a fiver) entry to a show, then it isn't a trade show.
ASI is *not* a trade show, btw, its being run by the commercial/public team at that agency :-)
As for Apple - well they have their 'own' things to do. But DP is going to see what he can gather at work today :-)
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72516
BAN IT NOW
So what we need is for Kub to say he doesn't like the 2009 wings and we're all in agreement.
Moderatly in agreement
Woo! All clear from the hostipal!
Hasn't he already said the cars are ugly, or was that Klien?
Klien was very outspoken about it. I think Kub's the one who said the view is better from inside the cockpit. Clearly not enough to convince R.G ;)
Looks like Mr. Richards is pushing through, after all:
From the Sun:
From the Beeb:
So will he, or won't he?
Of course he will, maybe the FIA changed the WRC rules to force his hand, knowing subaru would pull out and free up dave?
wow. now there's a theory :)
i dont think the fia are so crazy as to destroy a major championship just to save another?
Max Mosely is in charge.
But he also runs the WRC. So he still can't do that. Seriously.
He's gagging for it since Frank Williams mothballed his 2008 F1 entry, so yeah, I reckon he'd jump at the chance of buying a complete factory as a constructor and then just stick a Cossie in the back for the first season just to get going :-D
Woth Brawns connections - could well be a Ferrari powerplant. The Cosworth is now 2 years old and I suspect hasn't been updated.
How good would it be to see them branded as Aston Martin Prodrive though. :D
Vodafone have pulled the sponsorship of the England cricket team and apparently are planning to do the same to the Champions league...
McLaren next?
Wouldn't surprise me.
If Vodafone go, Santander have already gone to Ferrari for 2010 i believe....
so Mclaren would go too...
Not neccisarily, there should be some intrested companies wanting to sponsor them. Especially with Hamilton driving.
But it begs the question, if McLaren do fold, where would Hamilton go?
McLaren wouldn't fold. They'd get bought by Mercedes Benz
I thought Subaru were only dropping out for a year. Of all the motor manufacturers involved in motor sport at any level Subaru has had by far the best return on its investment. When they started rallying no-one had ever heard of them and all they real sold were utilitarian estate cars to farmers. Now they are a sought after premium brand who can demand ridiculous prices for their product.
The ARE crazy enough though to destroy major championship after major championship. Personally I don't think they are competent enough to have dreamt up such a complex strategy. Rallying had been going downhill for 5 or 6 years at least. Manufacturers quitting rallying is as predictable as them quitting F1 as soon as the markets dip.
I am sure someone would be interested. McLaren will not fold though. There is not the slightest chance that will happen.
Apparently Lenovo are gonna sponsor McLaren next year.
Isn't that Williams sponsor?
Was. :D
:D
good lord who keeps putting these videos in drop.io? there's only so many hours in the day!
:)
Not guilty!
It's only another two hours worth of video. You don't have to watch them today they will be there for a while. Is it possible with dropio to create a video library for these things? It would be a shame if no-one ever watched them after they left the front page. It would be good if people who are new to the site could access them easily in the future.
I am sure another job is just what you need. :)
you've been listening to alex :)
yes. is the short answer. just not yet.
It has happened before. The FIA fiddled with the Group C Sportscar rules for Le Mans in the late 80's to make the cars effectively F1 cars with roofs - the main rule change was that the engines went from a fuel efficiency Formula to a forced capacity of 3.5L (the same as F1 cars of the time - hmmm... :-) ) and the races were reduced from 1000km to 300km (also the same as F1!)
This led to an escalation of costs for manufacturers to build a new car and try and catch Peugeot with their mighty 905's. The Manufacturers couldn't stand for it and they all pulled out - effectively ending the championship and making LMP's disappear for the next few years.
Max and Bernie came up smelling of roses though - Mercedes and Peugeot both were able to enter F1 with their powerplants (as the FIA must have planned) and the main rival to F1 was killed off.
The FIA did it again with the 'old' DTM in 1996 - messing with a well-proven formula, they tried to make it into a World Touring Car format and called it the 'ITC'. But Alfa Romeo and Opel pulled out after they realised the costs were so high and they were racing in countries where they didn't even sell their cars! The DTM then disappeared for 5 years... :-(
Then the FIA bought the BPR GT series, and changed the original rules with a big loophole that said that 'to race a car model, you only have to make one road going version'. This was intended to help the small manufacturers but what it did was to ensure that Porsche, Mclaren, Mercedes etc. could make Prototype road-going race cars and race them as GT1's - eg the 911 GT1, the CLK GTR, Toyota GT1, Nissan R390. These cars proved too fast and ended up flipping over at Le Mans, so they were eventually banned.
So yeah, the FIA have done it before and will do it again, just to satisfy their own ends. Sometimes it's because they don't know what they are doing, sometimes (like with Group C) they do it to eradicate competition to F1 so the manufacturers in that series end up in F1...
http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/testresults.php?testID=1059
If anyone needed any proof that Ferrari are sandbagging (after being a second slower than mclaren yesterday) then it is above...
good grief penfold!
unless infact, that is actually their real pace....
if i was them and that is their real pace i'd be realllllllllly annoyed right now
just how heavy is kers exactly?
45kg springs to mind but dont quote me :P
too late.
ahh, never gets old :)
Doing a 'Honda'?
nah, ferrari are sandbagging, honda are (were) just rubbish!!
Unless Honda sandbagged for 2 seasons so they had a decent reason to leave F1.
Surely not
Amazing that PdlR set the same time in a Force India AND a McLaren.
Maybe that is our biggest hope. If Ferrari cannot win with the new muppetish wings and KERS, they will surely be outlawed by midseason.
yer that is quite wrong lol, i think its just mclaren and ferrari there today
gpupdate always have very creative ideas about drivers' teams and nationality
i'm liking the bbc's take on this one:
"Cheap car firm to sponsor Ferrari"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7788830.stm
not taking the whole "historic event" rubbish too literally :)
The odds on when the first engineer takes off the last 'A'
:D
The link to ‘Sporting Insights’ is a brief questionnaire they are conducting and asks what you would like to see from it. Seeing as Autosport’s very own F1 fantasy league charges £10 per year (and isn’t worth that at all), don’t be surprised if this one follows suit. {}
I have a bit of a problem. The second question (after I said that I am in a fantasy league) is "Which one?"
This is fine except that I am involved in several leagues in various capacities (note that they are all free):
Yahoo! Fantasy Grand Prix Game
FSports Fantasy F1
Home of Sports F1 Prediction Game
Formula 1 Home Prediction Game
Force Fans Online Prediction Game
Guess The Length Of Sidepodcast's Podcasts Game
With the possible exception of the last one, all of these could be construed as valid answers to the question. Please could someone advise me what I should write in the box?
:D
that's hysterical. i'd personally go with the last one. hehe.
anyone fancy speculating on whether tradeshows in general are a dying breed, and if so, what that might mean for autosport international? {me - some time ago}
Round where I live, computer tradeshows are amalgamating, so there are fewer to go to every year. So there'd be fewer for Apple to do (assuming it ever bothered to turn up at the ones that happen near me). They're also tending to get samier. It's largely a question of economies of scale, but Apple got to where they were by being different, not by following the herd.
Autosport should be fine, as it's already one of a kind. Especially in a recession, being unique is one of the keys to making a decent profit.
Amazing that PdlR set the same time in a Force India AND a McLaren. {Kathi - 10 comments ago}
Doubly amazing since Force India have the grand total of zero engine units rated to do December test mileage in their possession at this point in time...
I've solved the "Which one" problem by squeezing all of them onto the line, separated by commas. If Stuart C sees an entry with an absurdly long answer to Q2, it'll be mine...
i'm amazed you didn't blow up the database :)
I didn't know Pedro could push that fast
i’m amazed you didn’t blow up the database {me - 2 comments ago}
Luckily for them, Sporting Insights limits the size of the box to type the answer in to 200 characters.
And I've just realised I forgot to mention the GP Wizard Predictions Game in the list. Oops.
Did I mention I like fantasy F1 games?
i didn't know that before but i do now :)
I didn’t know Pedro could push that fast {Kathi - 2 comments ago}
Me neither.
They must have some KERS system if it cn go that fast without an engine. Maybe they charged it up in the pits and let him go.
Thats not a real car. It's one of those Little Tykes plastic cars! ;) :D
Oh please let the Ferrari guys have to use them at race weekends ;)
Amazing things I learned today #217: My mate who regularly sells minichamps models on eBay recently sold one to a chap in Hemel Hempstead. The buyer responded with "Thanks, Anthony will love it"
Looking at the buyer's details, it would appear to have been non-other than Anthony Davidson's old-man. Small world eh?
Small world indeed. Maybe shoulda done a swap with for one of Davidson' stuff, that woulda been cool
how cool is that??
Speaking of which #173: How's the megamix coming along or have you thrown the recording equipment out of the window.
If so, where do you live so I can nick it.
This cool: lots.
Just being a bit nosey, seems he's bought a few AD/Super Aguri related items recently. Aww, bless!
I'll give him some privacy by not linking to his eBay account though. Maybe.
downloaded all. thank you everybody for you contributions.
there's over an hour of content to sift through so it'll take a while. due for release before the new year :)
...of 2010
in terms of "f1 driver's dads", he seems like the nicest :)
shhhh.
in terms of "f1 driver's", Anthony seems the nicest. Just a pity he is a poor driver.
hey, he's better than sato ;)
In terms of points per race, I doubt. Plus Sato was miles better than him in 07.
Blame the groundhog!
Groundhog, schmoundhog. Did the ever-lovable and thrilling Sato crash into a poor, innocent groundhog?
was he? out of the two, who did honda try so hard to keep as a test driver, and who did they have to draft in as a replacement?
to my mind sato is as good as useless, and in with a shot of a drive purely because of his nationality. davidson by the same comparison was screwed because there was already an englishman in a honda seat.
he wasn't thrilling, he was a bloody liability.
Probably. He crashed into everything else... :P
You are using Nick Fry as the ultimate arbiter of driving talent?? Button may be a decent driver but Nick Fry just agreed to pay him $24 to drive for his team for the next 3 years.
there’s over an hour of content to sift through so it’ll take a while. {me - 11 comments ago}
I am now starting to feel guilty as a somewhat disproportionate amount of that is mine...
If he's accepting that amount of money, then he's setting a pretty good example to everyone else. :P
you've lost me?
my point: with the loss of davidson, honda had to draft in wurz. probably the best test driver of this generation (ferrari drivers being something of an unknown).
davidson left a hole when he headed for aguri.
hehe. it's perfect, and i'm enjoying listening. it's just going to take a little longer than originally expected.
People on here really tend to disagree with me on a lot of things, the new wings, Sato, the brilliance of the Nurburgring.
I knew that was coming
In a same car, Sato scored 4 points, Davidson 0. In Canada, regardless of groundhogs, Sato passed the then current two time world champion in a superior McLaren. Davidson did not. Sato also gained the team 10th in Austrialan GP qualy and 8th in Canada. Davidson did not. Surely, the fact that he's been in F1 for 93 races can't all be because of the nationality.
Wurz was only a tester in 08, 07 was Christian Klien
Don't worry, I sent in a 20 minute one as well. 10 minutes of waffling, erms and silence, but 20 minutes, it'll be fun to listen to though surely, the more surely means the more quality.
Davidson did not need to, he was already ahead of both Sato and Fernando.
if i hear that argument one more time...
:)
here's the thing, was the honda faster when davidson was a test driver, or slower?
and was the uguri faster when davidson was a driver, or slower?
but 20 minutes, it’ll be fun to listen to though surely, the more surely means the more quality. {R.G. - previous post}
That is a very good point. I hope our contributions add weight to the theory.
Oh, and a warning to me, if it's not too late - there is a little surprise at the end of my podcast...
intriguing.
2003 : Middlish
2004 : Quick
2005 : A bit Slower
2006 ; A bit quicker
Seems very rollercoaster to me.
At SA you have to take into account SA had Sato, Ide the Idiot, Montagny and Yamamoto all in one season. Therefore disruptions within the team. Therefore unfair to compare the 2006 season with 2007, however, surely if Davidson had helped with the car, he would have scored points in races Sato was quick, ie Spain?
ah, i dont dispute hes a bad driver, but are you talking race driver or test driver? because they're is a big difference. wurz is undisputably the best current test driver, but he wasnt great racing
Well it made sense to me when I was reading through the last couple of hours comments so ther. :)
I thought we were on about who was better, Davidson or Sato.
Andrea deCesaris did 208 GPs because his father was the biggest tobacco distributor in Italy. Marlboro paid for his drive or their products suffered a severe drop in sales. A lot of drivers have had long careers for reasons that are nothing to do with ability.
As it happens I agree that Sato is and always has been better than Davidson. They were team mates in the best team in F3 and Sato won the championship. Davidson is incredibly overrated.
if i was a team boss, this year i'd consider him ahead of:
- sato (useless and dangerous)
- buemi (unknown and unexperienced)
- sutil (outclassed by fissi)
- kazuki (on par with sato)
- piquet (on par with me)
- kovi (he's just slow)
so, yes i rate him as a driver who can develop a car and drive it fast.
As a test driver, I would agree with you, as a race driver. I'd have Sato, Buemi, Kazuki and Kovi.
and a very big repair bill.
This sounds like the Damon Hill argument. He is the only test driver in the history of the sport who was given total credit by the UK media for developing cars. Mansell, Prost and Senna were all in the team while Hill was there. They all stood around saying that Damon is here so we will let him do all the development.
If you are going to use the test driver argument then luca Badoer and Marc Gene are the best around because the team won a load of championships with them in place.
problem is, they haven't left. hence me saying they're unknown. i suspect both are better than wurz in truth.
after davidson left, the honda got slower... conversely the suguri got quicker.
i just listened.
wow, i had no idea, thank you :)
You're welcome :)
can we get a live rendition on sunday?
pretty please?
Depends on whether Skype will finally acknowledge the existence of the internet.
If it does, then yes ;)
i'll take that as a yes ;)
But I have to get Skype to acknowledge the internet first, which I haven't managed to do yet...
definitely hearing a yes over here.
You would :D
That was a little too close for comfort. I decided to do a December challenge requiring one post per day. I got my 17 December post in... ...with about 20 seconds to spare.
Maybe next time I should try procrastinating less?
live commenting does that to you.
i used to be so productive.
Was just looking at some of the comments from earlier.....
oh.....dear....
EVEN.JAMES.ALLEN.HAS.GOT.TO.RON.I.THINK.IM.GOING.TO.FAINT.AGAIN (after twice yesterday)
Damn, I thought I'd got away with it.
oh no...
You know you don't do enough work when....
....your still up at 00.13 commenting....
AND
.....you just added a link to the realtime discussion onto your browsers toolbar....
live commenting does that to you.
i used to be so productive. {me - 4 comments ago}
But you are productive. It is simply that your creative energies are largely visible (and sometimes audible) on Sidepodcast :)
dangerous, very dangerous. soon you can be as unproductive as me :D
its right next to the folder containing my f1 links, the folder with all the blogs in, and *drum roll please* facebook (the procrastination devil)
Not a chance, try working for an ex-nationalised airline
(Quote repeated for effect)
I just noticed on the front page one year ago today was the Sidepoddie Awards so I had to listen. I think you should have added a category on to the end of it for Christine's best impression.
Christine's French accent.
Christine's Lord March impression.
Christine's Nick Heidfeld impression.
Ja, das ist gut.
yay. that was worth installing then :)
she did an impression of lord march?
So am presuming that not only do the broadcasts start in SidePodCast time but the turn of the calendar day is no where near GMT as we know it :D
Jolly hockey sticks and all that.
oh. you have a good memory.
:D
Excuse me, am ever so slightly inebrieated and am suffering much disappointment from a London O2 show of The Mighty Boosh tonight
Was it not good? They're meant to be brilliant live?
ah thats annoying
Tell me about it. That's better
You just need to make sure the cursors outside the quote box before you type
Yeah, as long as it let's you click where you want
The whole of tonight is just odd, too many Emos
And prob Safari playing up but that would be going easy on the Emos
AWWWW, it's not giving up on me !! :)
you okay there?
i belive he's having "issues"
i see. as he been reading cosmo again?
I'm recovering now but yes, I think I was :)
Refer to earlier Emo comments, I didn't realise it rubbed off
And don't let me turn a HULK on yo bad self
Damn, must... find... camomile
Or another Guinness
For the majority of the evening (when I've not been hammering nails into the beam in our ceiling to hang up decorations) i've been casually watching the comments fly by on the doohickey thing, i'd forgotten how much fun that can be :)
:D
did you hit anything?
Thumbs?
I remember those days, thinking "was this why they invented drawing pins?"
Then watching said pins fall out after 3 days
Big A*s nails it is
lol i only hit my thumb twice :D , which is good given my record with hammers (when i was about 5 i was 'helping' my grandfather and well cutting a long and rather painful story short- it didn't end well).. hammering nails into the ceiling is harder than it looks btw, specially when you are trying not to chuck the hammer at the TV (that woman from the Mclaren garage was singing with her band again ;) )
:D
Always look at the nail rather than the hammer. All a bit 'wax on, wax off'
THAT woman!
Am guessing that may have been lost. Lou, there is NO need to watch The Karate Kid unless you must see Mr Miyage
And ignore the imminent remake at all costs
Glad to say I know of none of those folk
Are they in modern, popular beat combos?
I've come to the conclusion that the doohickey doesn't like it when i quote things :P i always seem to do that... no idea how though.
Bill Gates doesn't like it
Micheal McIntyre and Rod Gilbert are awesome comedians, in fact they are my favourite comedians i'd say... well them and comedians such as Russell Howard and Lee Evans :)
Do you use the normal Sidepodcast link or the (beta) live commenting {bit geeky} page [which is better]?
http://www.sidepodcast.com/ria/ajax/
For me it's Bill Hicks (R.I.P.) & Mark Thomas
i use the doohickey real time thing for everyday stuff cause it means you can have convos in different threads (even though it gets a little disorientating sometimes :P ) - http://www.sidepodcast.com/realtime/
Royal Variety Performance loses mucho credibility points IMHO
Bill Hicks taught me well (google/youtube for info if nec)
Ooh, and Eddie Izz about 6 or 7 yearsago
i've never had a comment go into moderation while using the real time thing, it kinda too me by surprise :)
Starbucks stole my spacebar
(and my ability to spell went to Primark!)
i done find it.
Welcome to Club Frustration, drinks are coming... soon.
Another ref lost in the ether - wham fan by any cance [who? says she]
At this point, am SOOO glad I had the foresight to book a half day when on earlies tomorrow
Being in charge of aircraft maintenance at 06:00 is not congruent with Mr Arthur Guinness' product consumption
pretty sure the passengers would be equally glad to know that too.
I missed Michael McIntyre but Rob Gilbert was brilliant. I have now seen him twice and he has been fabulous each time.
I think I should refrain from further comment and refer you to Max's lawyers (or Flav's)
Hence the half day booked in advance.
Am really regretting not seeing Michael McIntyre in October now :( At the beginning i thought Rhod was going to do the same act as he did at the Apollo, am pleased he didn't :D
I have been a Mark Thomas fan for years. Some of his political stunts are unbelievable. When Ian Lang was the Potmaster General and threatening to get rid of the universal postal rate he gave out Ian Lang's address and told people any time they saw a free offer to order it for him. So he was getting sacks of mail every day. He got on to the post office and told them to sort out his legitmate mail form the junk and the PO told him it was against the law for them to do it and kept delivering the junk.
Mark Thomas acted on his evil impulses, Bill just b*tched about them to (much) comic effect
"Hey buddy, we're Christians. We don't like what you said"
"Then forgive me" :D
Bill Hicks - comedy genius - one of my all time favourite comedians.
Not seen much of Mark Thomas though. Will have to rummage you youtube.
I do have an awful lot of time for George Carlin as well. His "7 words you can't say on TV or Radio" taught me an awful lot when I was young. ;)
When I was mch younger I got to see Punt and Dennis and then Newman and Baddiel live - Punt and Dennis were much better. Since then I've seen Rob Newman on his own - what a difference. Amazingly funny. He's a seriously clever chap - his material didn't go down well in a drunken audience as it was very high-brow comedy and they just wanted knob jokes. :(
A lot of modern comedians just don't seem that funny to me. Micahel McIntyre *as mentioned above* is one of the few who does make me laugh. Russell Howard not so much, but has his moments.