It is Mark Webber's birthday today, and he was born in 1976 which makes him 33 years young. Webber will be spending his day preparing for the upcoming race in Spa, so will he get cake? We can only hope so. Meanwhile, here's what we're talking about at the moment:
- Glock has admitted he's slightly concerned about the possibility of Toyota pulling out - but only in so much as he's having to extend his search for a potential race drive. It looks like his number one choice is with the Japanese team, though, so he'll have his fingers crossed the budget gets signed off.
- The vast improvements in the McLaren car have left the team feeling a lot more confident about next season, as they know they'll be starting from at least a half-decent base. It doesn't really matter though, the speed in which this team have turned things around means they could start with a kart and still be racing for wins by the end of the year!
- Renault have joined in the KERS resurgance, floating the possibility of running the device in Monza. Supposedly, it would suit the circuit better than it would here at Spa, and if Red Bull are going to bring it back, Renault probably don't want to be missing out.
That'll do it for now. You're free to discuss whatever you want in the comments, you don't have to stick to anything I've mentioned above. You don't even have to stick to F1! I'll see you there!
I dont know if anyone has pointed out that there is some advice for Amy on the last page of this months f1 racing...
Happy birthday, Mark!
first dumb question of the day then. did we know the ferrari has x3 camera mounts around the roll hoop?
and if so... why so many, would one not suffice? also... are they all fom camera's or for ferrari data capture too?
It looks like 2 of them are real, i belive the teams select where they put their 2nd camera and they are permitted a dummy on the other side. it looks like ferrari may have put something of their own in instead of a dummy.
Sky italia have a Ferrari only on-board channel so they probably need more cameras on their cars to mix it up a bit
James allen has called up Bruno Senna for the lowdown on AD.
File this one under interesting
they do? blimey.
No
I have now solved the whole dropio problem. Anyone wishing to upload stuff to the sidepodradio drop can ask Christine, Mr C and I for the password and upload their files. I have created a secret drop that only the three of us know about (once I tell them) and as soon as we know there are files in the sidepodradio drop they will be sent to the new drop and deleted from the sidepodradio drop so no-one can access them even if they have the guest password.
Genius :D
Sorry if I've caused a fuss....
Hello all!
evening, joe. i'm not here this evening (honest).
Mr. C! And a good day to you, Sir!....wherever you are
By the way, I'm working on getting us a 10% discount at McDonalds with proof of Sidepodcast Luca Badoer fan club membership. Keep your fingers crossed.
@Mr C
I have sent you and Christine an e-mail with the guest password for http://drop.io/sidepodradio/ and the address and admin password for the new dropio account
not here ;)
received, ta.
Roger that
Not at all. You found a problem I didn;t know about. The whole point of the sideodradio drop was to stop people listening to content so that it would all be fresh on the day and yet the whole time it has been there anyone passing could access.
Hi Joe
Hey Dude, How's life?
If it wasn't for the lemmings it would be fine
Hahahahahaha!! :D
still??
Okay, still trying to figure out what a lemming is. Just had my first guitar lesson today....I really wanted to be able to Eric Claptons solo from Cocaine, but I guess that'll have to wait....a few years
Just looked up lemmings on Wiki. I guess comparing them to Panda's would be wrong
Dangerous question....
Lemmings are small creatures which you get in the countryside up in scotland and some parts of northern england.
They are annoying but they are the main source of food for Haggis, so they have to be kept around
That's not what's annoying Steven ;)
Do they do normal rodent stuff, like chew through hoses and wires and such?
I'm a dumb American, what is?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(game)
They dont really do anything much other than walk about, but if one drops down the chimney, they make a lot of noise.
It sometimes fun to watch the Haggis chase them around the hillsides though
You have no greater crime to answer for
40 levels takes time when you have no idea what you are doing and keep getting distracted. This site is killing my lemming productivity.
Okay, I think that I get it, it's a game.
At least you have a target to aim at.
how far have you got?
It's an awesome game that swept the country way back in the early 90s. Steven's just discovered it this week. He's being swept by it now.... It's stupidly addictive.
The phrase you cannot be serious is applicable here. I suppose it is an age thing but he was in the Ferrari garage last Sunday and we commented about it at the time
then me and my addictive personality will avoid it.
Obviously not, EC is a god.
Lemmings as in the animal are reputed to commit mass suicide by just walking off cliffs. The point of the game is to save them from themselves using some un-lemming like skills such as building, digging, mining etc. It is a little addictive but I think I am on top of the addiction. Must just go and have a go at the new level again
Level 8 of the second or third difficulty. Can't remember which. Fortunately the game does.
"I think I am on top of the addiction". Famous last words
I had the same plan but decided to play level one just so that I could understand the conversation
London in the 60s and 70s was covered in grafitti saying Clapton is God
More motivation to stay away. I have to learn chords and scales. Have fun though, You're grown up, you can do what you want.
I must have missed that, but I know what's right
Alison,
If you have never heard of Clapton go to youtube or last fm and listen to anything by Eric Clapton, Cream or Derek and the Domino(e)s.
You must have heard of Layla. That is one of the most famous songs ever
what chords do you know so far?
Was he the guy wasting valuable grid walk time?
I'll stick with my addiction to Rays Baseball, F1 and beer.
:D
No that was the Valencia president. Clapton knows what he is talikng about when it comes to racing
None really, just trying to make my fingers do something 44 year old fingers don't want to do.
Hey, I've only had one 30 min lesson so far, cut me a break
understood. we will expect updates of your progress though.
start with an 'A' chord. tis an easy one.
Blimey, if I had one complaint about Martin Brundle, it would be his capacity to start endless conversations with dull celebrities.... GO TALK TO THE F1 DRIVERS
So do a lot of people here though.
I have no idea why the BBC think we need to know what the likes of Halliwell and clapton think
I will look that up. I've watched VH-1, apparently large amounts of alcohol are good for guitar playing...I'm testing that theory.
Morning, everyone. :D
In case no one's brought it up yet,
http://www.formula1.com/video/
Valencia onboard is up, and it's from Lewis Hamilton.
If RBR and Renault do decide to reintroduce KERS, will it work for them? Was it developed enough to be effective for them? Also, does this affect the chances of KERS returning for next season?
Good for them if it makes them faster, but the more cars with KERS, the less effective it will be overall in helping them overtake.
i am shocked that anyone doesnt know who clapton is. I need to go sit down.
Someone doesn't know Eric Clapton? My goodness.
I hope that wasn't directed at me...I swear to gosh, I know him.
I dont know if your F1 racing is the same as the one here, but Heiiki has a whole page of advice for people this month,,,
I have heard of him but i couldnt name a song, or tell you if it was him playing if i heard one
I-tunes, cocaine live...awesome
I Shot The Sheriff, Change The World, Would You Know My Name - just to name a few. :D
I shot the sheriff was by bob marley i have heard it a million times
I am stunned
Apparently he did a cover
Clapton did it better
I am not all that into music. I do like what i like though.
Slash is a great guitarist, i could recognise his style
When I bought my guitar, they guy had a "Slash" guitar strap, $100. Are you nuts? I went with the cotton $15
Slash is awesome, though
I disagree... if i had to describe it, i would say cringeworthy
Did you at least get a hat? :P
No, no hat. I have alot less hair, so it would fall down around my mouth....hard to see the strings blindfolded.
What kind of idiot decided to upload a lap from Saturday morning with all that whitr powder on the track? The place is bad enough without them making it look worse.
the hair comes with the hat (at least slash's does).
I'll look into that, though my job may not look kindly on that.
Some junior FOM employee? :D Was there less white powder in quali? I was thinking this was a quali lap.
If i emailed Bernie and asked him for a job what do you think my chances would be? :D
Okay, headed out to the lanai, a few beers and the Rays game on the radio...it's why I live in Florida. Looking forward to talking to everyone later
Slim to none - but hey, it's not like you have anything to lose. ;)
Whats a Lanel?
See you around!
Does anyone know his adress?
Is it [email protected]?
It's screened in portion of my house so mosquito's stay away from me
Ah cool, have fun
anyone remember the name of the german f1 presenter with a slightly random take on fashion?
One last thing. Lets not forget live commenting for the IRL race Sat night. 2100 EST.
even if you dont know his more guitary stuff i didnt realise it was possible to not know wonderful tonight or tears in heaven. The most overplayed wedding/funeral songs in the world respectively. As for f1 racing nick, my copy wont be out for a week or two but ill keep my eyes peeled for heikki
Kai Ebel
It has to be worth a try
Bye Joe
You would need to apply to FOM I suppose
that's the one! i totally, totally forgot... but we mighta bumped into him:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidepodcast/3860860092/
Did he know who you were?
That looks very like him
i think the shirt's a giveaway.
no. i'm anonymous ;)
well not you, but.it look.... never mind
hehehehehe. no, he didn't. i think he was surprised we knew who he was.
Ah cool
Did you know his name then? :P
erm, no.
Did you go up and ask him if he was the German commentator with the unusual dress sense?
:P
that was a productive not being here. hope y'all didn't miss me too much.
g'night internets.
:D g'night Mr C.
I would have if I'd been here :)
bye Mr C
night, bed 4 me too!
NIght Mr C and Nick
Boy the conversations I miss when I go out, but how appropriate talking about guitar God EC on the day we remember Stevie Ray Vaughan who died in a plane crash on August 27/1990 while he was on tour with Clapton
A huge thunderstorm moving over my house right now. Stand by while I get a drink for it.
thank god for my german neighbor that gave some fricking wine....
Just testing doohickey on a different browser...
ooh it worked!
Doohickey is total magic. Saved my butt last weekend - getting practice updates
I wonder when Mr C will write an iphone app for total SPC goodness.
doohickey already works on iphone though
It does through the browser. I'm sure there is more magic that could happen, but I am happy it works as it does.
Morning all,
The only downside is that it's quite wide and so to fit on one screen the text becomes quite small...
Doesn't flipping it sideways solve the problem? :D
Morning, everyone. Mobile doohickey rules! It's my only way of monitoring the track action when I don't have a PC.
Yeah but then you can only read 1 comment...
McLaren Flexible on short wheelbase option - AUTOSPORT
How can they make the car both short and long wheelbase? That's genius - Ferrari could have done with that last year!
WOW! - iRacing is going to have IRL cars!
This is the GPL/Indycar Racing/NASCAR Racing guy - quite simply the benchmark for simulators and the real drivers are singing it's praises already. Sounds Awesome!
Good point. Well, I do manage with the vertical one fine.
Gotta love F1 engineering. :D Well, Ferrari didn't need it last year, I think - they still ended up as contructors champs, and they could've ended up as driver champs if they avoided the error in Singapore or had a more reliable engine in Hungary.
Looks like that statement is about to become a thing of the past...
I'm sick :(
Aww suck. What's up?
i just introduced myself to someone as "Aiming". Need more sleep.
Get well soon, Alex.
Aiming? Who's she?! :P At least it's going-home time for you.
That sounds like a iphone error. Mine changes words all the time
How are you people sick? It's meant to be summer. You should save sickness for winter
Or they had been gifted more points here and there #sorryjourneyer
Hello all. Hows it going? Got my fasttrack maths results today, and got an A. I'm happy :)
Yay. I had a forgettable day at work, but it got better as the day went on. Not so bad for a Tursday.
Regardless of the circumstances, I miss last year - it was intense and terrific. This year is too much of a 'slow burn' for me.
I have lurgy of some kind... sore head... sniffles... feeling sick basically...
I have prescribed myself a day of back to back episodes of friends and doctor who.
Hope you're OK Alex...
Have to agree. I still think Button had it won after 7 races.
It's almost as if the inevitable is being dragged out.
Do they mix? I'm watching a Torchwood re-run.
Ah yeah... I'll be fine... The worry is that tonight was supposed to be Bassano, Nick and I going out on the town... I don't think that's such a good idea :(
Not if you have to deal with Friday afterwards
They should have just said... "well that was fun". Jenson you're the champion now...
Lets restart the count from here.
How very NASCAR! :D
Well at least someone said "lets see how many different people can win for the rest of the year"
Hehe. The F1 chase!
Yeah perhaps not...
This would be the order now:
Mark Webber 24
Rubens Barrichello 19
Sebastian Vettel 18
Nico Rosberg 18
Lewis Hamilton 18
Kimi Räikkönen 15
Jenson Button 11
Felipe Massa 11
Heikki Kovalainen 10
Fernando Alonso 5
Jarno Trulli 3
Timo Glock 3
Robert Kubica 1
They're getting faster at this:
http://www.formula1.com/video/
Euro GP race edit is up - 8 hours early!
Morning everyone.
Hi Christine. Loved the debrief, as usual
Nice one. My Fantasy Racers Formbook from the last 3 races has WEB-HAM-ROS-BAR-KOV-BUT... which shows how things have changed!
Go'morn!
Hamilton f'ed up his stop, so says Jock Clear - brilliant. :D
Morning, Christine. :)
Don't worry about it... ;)
That's the kind of greeting I like :)
Also a great choice of song - good beat, and appropriate. Underdog by Kasabian. :D
They nicked that one off BBC because they used that in their coverage!
:D Kasabian and Muse have been getting a lot of airtime this year on the BBC and FOM playlists. At least this was much better than Girls Aloud. ;)
I am not here. While I'm not here I'm pretending to be Steven.
#sidepodscience
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8223670.stm
There will be a static test firing of Ares 1 today at 1pm Utah time, 7pm UK time. Ares 1 is the heavy-lift rocket that they plan to launch the new moon missions with, among other things. I've no idea if it'll be covered live online.
Fair enough. Underdog sounds like a song Oasis should have done if they weren't so complacent!
I know Thursday is Baby Panda day, but how about a slideshow of a bear caught in a skate park? :D
Are you sure you're not Steven? :P
Reading that everyone in F1 seems to be driving to Belgium makes me realise I couldn't point to it on a map. Must be closer than I think.
I think you would have to fly from Melbourne
I just consulted a map. I have learned something today.
I have been to Belgium a lot... but I don't think I've ever driven there.
I drove through it on the way to Le Mans. Wasn't spectacular TBH...
thursday thursday...
What Belgium or Spa?
The country is pretty flat so there isn't much to look at... However Bruge for example is great and beautiful. Watch the movie In Bruge for details :)
Belgium. The closest we got to Spa was a sign on the motorway...
Belgium is one of the few places I have been to abroad. My two main memories of it are:
1) Picking up quite a funky carrier bag from the EU Headquarters. Might still have it somewhere.
2) Chocolate.
I have decided on Nandos instead of KFC tomorrow. Change in routine. I might struggle.
Beer?
Oh! That reminds me. I have chocolate in the cupboard. :D
Nope.
Who is Nando?
He drives for Renault doesn't he?
I am going to miss another FP1. Why do people have dinner when F1 is on?
That's what I thought. Didn't know he also ran a take away.
Probably already mentioned previously, but anyone taken part in the Philips Driving Academy thingy at here?
Trying to do the circuit test, made ever more difficult by the fact my gear changes seem to go up in stages of two. Grrr.
good evening
Mine does too. Is it supposed to do that? It's mostly impossible.
How's it going?
Morning all,
Is Thursday a bad day today?
meeting meetings but just looked at how the 2010 F1 calendar may look:
Started bad, worked out OK
that calendar is from Autopsort article on FOTA - http://www.autosport.com/features/article.php/id/2347
Don't think so? It suggests which gear to change to, but I can't ever hit the 'even' gears making it somewhat difficult!
Mine's going rapidly downhill, I think.
Booo
Why not Montreal?
I think I have broken my stapler again. I have had three staplers over as many months. I don't think they'll get me another one.
Belgium in August seems very wrong to me. Push it back a month and increase the likelihood of rain - that's what we all want!
I am a bit confused about that entry as well ...
I don't think that Phillips game was made for laptops.
Mont-Tremblant?
ooooohhh, I like that idea
I had someone make an attempt on my pair of scissors yesterday. I had to make a determined effort to get them back.
I have to officially rule out Malaysia 2010 as an option for me because my parents are coming to Melbourne for two weeks at the start of April for my birthday :D
could they please reallty make it the last race in China ... well, wishful thinking, unless few more manufacturers quit the sport
agreeed
Me too. My birthday that is. I don't think they are coming to visit me.
I am officially in for Australia :-) malaysia stopover on the way back ? hm ... the track is right next to airport
It's a bit short isn't it?
Not too bad. Here's my notes:
Hey, they STILL start with 4 races in the first 5 weeks! :D
China - It'll be the last? So much for our plan to go to Shanghai in 2011. Korea better be around in 2011, as we're not sure we can afford going to Australia.
Spain - Does this note of a test session mean the testing ban is dead?
Turkey - I thought this race was dead?
Canada - Mont-Tremblant? We haven't been there in a while. Why not Montreal? Unless this is an FOM ploy to get the city to agree to a higher price?
Germany - if... Nurburgring agree to hold it, you mean?
Me too, as long as I can save. Malaysia perhaps not, although you never know. We might get a sidepodgroupdiscount
SPC meetup Melbourne 2010 woohoo
You may have to show us that Ferrari pub
its usually pretty busy that week, but that I can do :D
Boo from the bloggers for schedule congestion!
I don't think boo is a strong enough word!
Yeah but I didn't want to use any bad language!
Grrrrr?
Run more laps. The F1 fascination with specified circuit lengths is overrated.
But shorter circuits are tighter with less overtaking?
Oh yeah, I missed that. Does Valencia in September have a higher likelihood of rain? :D Well, they wanted October, but that's impossible (with them in Asia by then), so this is the best compromise.
Boo from the paddock for jetlag and burnout. ;)
But they get paid for it and get to be at the races, so less boo!
indeed. KLIA IS in Sepang.
If they want to stop I'd be more than happy to take over :D
Ever started doing something and you realise "why?, i just dont care"...
I just got an email from LewisHamilton.com asking me to take a survey...ok, why not....looked at the questions...
"wait...i don't care"
Is this a survey question?
Q: Do you like THAT WOMAN?
I thought you were going to say something about work there for a moment
nah, LewHam surveys are more important...apparently ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DubXTloLXZ8 be the best mantovani animation yet :D
ehehehe :D
Do you think so? I thought it was weird... but the static cartoon was funny!
i betcha the start of that cartoon was ready for a loooong time. it was just waiting for rubens to win. :D
that said - the bit about badoer being on a trike was funny! :P
I heart Barrichello monster :D
Saboteur! :D
Is that true or is that a generalisation?
Mont-Tremblant is fast and flowing, they'll have to live with it being a bit narrow and bumpy and if they have good investors they can sort that out. What is the lap length? I can't look it up right now.
This is Sidepodcast - facts should never get in the way of a good argument! ;)
Sounds like an interesting prospect... assuming Tilke doesn't have to wield his hatchet...
4.3km I think.
Brands Hatch Indy is 2km and theres always opportunitys to overtake even in the bigger series.
However this being F1.....it depends on the circuit
Very true, but it only has 5 corners?
It's small but has good overtaking....disprove the short circuit-no overtake rule? Maybe, but as i said, F1 is a different ball game
Depends if you define the Indy circuit as a full circuit in it's own right or a shortened version?
KLIA is right behind the grandstand K1 :-) you turn one way you watch the race, you turm the other way, you see the planes landing. you turn any way, you see palm oil forests :-)
I'd personall count it as a full circuit, if DTM and other larg-ish series race on it then it should be classed as full. The GP circuit dosent get used much at all
I'd love to see statistics comparing overtaking in different formulae that run at F1 tracks.
If anything, i'd class the GP circuit as a lengthened full circuit, and not indy as a shorterned version
I see an F1 Fail coming...
hey everyone. all having a good week?
Reading the Q&A with Campos's Daniele Audetto on Autosport.
Willing to put my house on it being Geoff Willis, who was rumoured to be in talks with them shortly before his departure from Red Bull.
4.3km doesn't seem too bad. Hardly Brands Indy or Lime Rock is it..
Brands Indy is great for touring cars and utterly useless for open-wheel cars. The '03 Champ Car race on it was dire.
REALLY. If that's true, that's a massive recruitment coup for them.
On the lighter side... from RealBrawnGP:
:D
And one thing that we would like is that the fourth team that is taken should have the Cosworth engine, because when we entered the only engine available was the Cosworth.
With all respect to Cosworth, but if the next team that comes has a Ferrari or Mercedes-Benz engine, then I don't think that is fair on us.
he makes we want to weep.
It's really not fair on USF1 who would have entered regardless of the cost cutting.
hey lou.
I was but now I have lurgy!
ouch. let the legal battles begin.
i have some catching up to do before saturday don't i....
oh noes!
I have so far watched two episodes of Friends and two episodes of Doctor Who...
ooh, are you back now? coool.
always a good cure. is it too late for a 'can giggles fix it?'
noo.i come back tomorrow evening. we have found ourselves in an internet cafe. wish i hadn't bothered,i opened my emails and i have so many, plus huge numbers from teachers.... i want to stay out here and not come back so i can avoid making horrible choices gr.
i wish lukeh's laptop were working, i need to see badoer in a trench coat and beret.
heheh. fair enough.
Which Friends?
thursday's suck. i shall now check for a baby panda thursday so that my day can be made a little better.
so have i missed much?
What would you like me to fix? Is this a doctor heal thyself moment?
I can look into that once I get FORIX if you like...
Which is a shame really :(
I am watching from the beginning and I've got as far as "The one with the Butt" and "The one with the blackout"
In case anyone is interested I watched the two episodes of Doctor Who (which I'm also currently starting from the beginning with) which have the scary gas mask boy in it... Mummy, mummy, are you my mummy?
oh no..i was hoping you'd be able to fix it for my sunburnt arm to not hurt so much, or for my teachers to get off my back when they know i'm on holiday.... or for jenson to win on sunday :P
buenos dias! I like you being in Spain, I can live vicariously through you.
They mentioned going after Fernando-Anando. Dream on guys!
That's quite a few things. Lets go with:
1) put lots of sun tan lotion on the arm that will help make it feel better
2) Don't worry about the teachers, you don't have to reply while you're on holiday do you? So continue to be on holiday. They have dematerialised until next week. Having the e-mail all in your inbox means that you won't have to wait for answers to stuff once you're back and all business like on your return from your hols
and
3) I'll see what I can do - heatwave in Spa?
Australians, be ashamed
hehehe :D
Er... sorry, that people protested and tried to stop the rally!
I liked the Audetto Q&A, excellent stuff. Or I will when I read it at lunchtime. 3 sites is ambitious.
Hi Lou. Aftersun, lots of.
Brilliant, absoloutly briliant!
FOM need to have the whistling going as soon as he drives out the pits!
yeah i've been using looootss of Aftersun, wonderful stuff :P
Haha, i wonder what Spanish sounds like with a New Zealand accent...
okay, time to go. i'll be back tomorrow evening. xxx
Have fun!
Katherine had watched an episode of Friends and so it was marked as watched on he iTunes. I missed it out! So I'm out of order...
I'm now watching the one with the laundry detergent.
No suds - no save.
Yay :)
On android the text seems to wrap to the width of the screen when you zoom in?
I'm worried about being out of sequence. Should I start again from the very beginning?
Chandler has just drunk like a million cups of espresso.
Could he *be* any more caffinated?
:D
uh oh ross and rachel just kissed
Not too worry if you are too sick, let us know how you are feeling this afternoon
And now ross has walked into the dryer door. Excellent!
Live commenting Friends may be the best thing the Doohickey has ever been used for.
:)
Chandler is now running around saying, "I'm free, I'm free"
I'll let you know... I feel pretty lightheaded at the moment.
Okay this episode is called, "the one where nana dies twice"
IS this friends or 'are you being served'?
You need a heavy drink
Ah Chandler's office...
Chandler's co-worker thinks Chandler might be gay... This will end well.
I think it's the sweater vests
:) should we compile a list of sidepodcast quotes for when F1 is not being discussed. this is just perfect. greetings everyone :)
So that means you've seen the blackout one already? I like that one.
Opening sequence. They'll get sick dancing in a fountain like that!
Yeah that one and the butt ones were this morning...
"Well don't we look nice all dressed up... it's stuff like that, isn't it?"
the blackout one is great :)
:)
I've had to go back to the beginning now because Katherine missed the start
Hehehe, love the way Mrs C is desperately trying to watch this through Alex :D
She's also sick
I am!! :)
Awww, you poor people.
We've been discussing how they all know each other. We think we've got it.
Ross & monica are brother and sister
Chandler is ross's room mate from college
And rachel went to school with monica (and ross)
Joey is Chandler's room mate now
And pheobie used to be Monica's
That's right, right?
Ah yes Chandler has a quality
Oh Ross and Monica's grandma is in the hospital. I guess I should have guessed from the title.
That is correct.
In future flashback episodes (that's a weird phrase), you get to see how Joey got the room, what it was like when Pheobe lived with Monica, plus lots and lots of the gang at school/college.
:)
She also dies twice.
Monica's mother is complaining about her hair! Hahahahaha!
I love those bits and chandler's other housemate the amazing Adam Goldberg.
Look what the postman brought me today: http://twitpic.com/ffq8s
Mock me all you want, for 25p plus P&P it's a bargain! Look out for me on the Antiques Roadshow in 30 years time. :-)
She's died for the first time
Allen has written some notes on the IRL race we all watched together:
Here’s about all the new info we could learn about Franck Montagny from his IndyCar Series tryout: Does not have super powers that allow him to take his car over a giant pileup.
:(
She's alive again.
"She may have died, we're looking in to it"
She's dead again now.
you have homosexual hair.
Eddie!
Hehe, cool...
Can you drink it or is it empty?
Would you like some dehydrated fruit?
Lunch! I like lunch.
I actually can't tell if there's any liquid inside. Sounds and feels rather hard, so there's something in it. The can is screwed into the base.
Monica's dad wants to be buried at sea, "it looks like fun"
Define fun!!
Best if you don't drink it really ;)
You'll make a day of it, rent a boat, pack a lunch...
...throw your body in the water.
Everyone thinks they know me, but when I die I want people to say, "Jack Geller, buried at sea, huh?"
Oh, too late... ;-)
I've never understood what that wardrobe is doing inside the closet.
Ross is trying to find shoes.
How did they get it in there!?
He's found the sweet and low... And the sad music is kicking in.
Now it's raining sweet and low.
Did you know my ears aren't my best feature?
He's done the Christine line now!
They are actually outside - they hardly ever actually go outside.
Some days it's all I can think about.
I like the one where they play football in the park for the troll trophy.
Wow - you know this really really well!
Ross just fell in the grave.
That's good. Also the bike riding of course.
Ross is about to take some medication - I love drunk Ross
The early ones I know a lot of lines too. Not so much the later ones.
I fleel grate
that'd look nice sat next to a trophy...
Everyone is at a farm show today. Very quiet in the office.
One of the directors just came in and did some photocopying while talking to his dog. (I'm behind a door out of sight),
You had a dog in the office.
Ross has keeled over.
used to know several, my sieve-like brain has lost most of 'em..
This is surprisingly common here.
Monica's mum has just realised that she's just like her own mother.
The football team just lost and Jack said, "now I'm depressed"
They've found the childhood naked pictures of ross.
I'm just trying something.
up and running in spa
my dads office used to sponsor a guide dog puppy and it used to come to visit them once a month to show them its progress.
So cuuuuuuute.
done now...
our directors are just a bit.. um.. eccentric
Since when is he called The Heikster?
what can you see that i can't?
I just looked at some of the other pictures.
http://twitpic.com/ewbuc
ahh. they clearly want shot of him :)
I tried to adopt that nickname for him for um, an hour. Couldn't come to terms with it.
It's almost as bad as Franck the Tank. Almost.
there is nothing worse than a rhyming nickname
More bear fun!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8223717.stm
Mr Noble says: Fisichella says he has had no contact with Ferrari, despite talk he is top of the list to take over from Badoer after this weekend.
Saw that earlier. Tony Hawk he is not ;)
Who replaces him then? FIF1 test driver?
Oh but there is!
From the sound of his tweeting, he has driven all the way from Valencia to Spa. That's quite a trip!
in fairness, i don't think tony hawk would fair any better if you gave him a ladder ;)
he must've come home first/
Question to all:
My dad wants to get 3G internet for his laptop, whats the cheapest with best coverage?
Fischella?
Noble drove from the UK, he tweeted that he went via the tunnel.
I used to wear shorts like these a lot, i see they are mandatory driver wear these days, now to find some! http://twitpic.com/ffm2p
Hmm actually I'm not sure - googlymaps says it's a 15-hour drive...
hehehe.
best coverage - vodafone
cheapest - three
5live are driving from the uk.
Ah so that was what the thing on the podium was about... http://twitpic.com/f4jqk
he's getting screwed with the wireless in london, so wants to see hte options.
who are you guys with?
I think the trick is not to take 'on the road' literally.
three
I love roadtrips :D I'd drive anywhere. I'm probably gonna drive my sister to Denmark at her birthday.
There coverage is very bizarre
agreed.
Denmark? Where? I live there, you know ;)
me too but I hate them as a passenger :D
Billund. She wants to go to LegoLand :P
From the UK it's a lot shorter ;)
Legoland's awesome, but why drive there? You can fly there, you know...
But passengers get to look after the snacks.... this is a very important job.
When we drove round germany it appeared i was the only one of my friends who could read a map so i was designated navigator. I was rarely sober
I tried flying to manchester instead of driving earlier this year, it wasnt quite as effective
ahh yes. Last roadtrip involved far too much junk food, and considering I get carsick just like a little kid if I'm not driving, things did not go well for me.
explain?
that would make for a rubbish road trip?
Dunno. Adventure? We used to holiday a lot in Denmark when we were kids. Fancy doing a bit of exploring. I'm not driving a hire car with the gearstick on the wrong side.....
sporadic coverage.
The gearsticks on the wrong side? surely its in the middle whatever way the car is
Did you? Ever been to Odense?
Driving to Legoland is nice - some of the towns on the backroads are cool...
It goes from very strong to noting in about 2 secs... Also some places drop down to 3g covergae when you havent even moved!
But that's in the other hand because you change sides in the car...
yeah but you don't?
I can't get my head around changing gear with my right hand. I really need to go to one of these other-side countries and observe the practice. The huge number (3) of countries I have been to in my life have all been 'normal' :D
Not if its an american car ;)
I've driven in a hire car in Sardinia. I don't think my hand's recovered from where I kept smacking the door reaching for the gearstick.
And no, I've never been to Odense.
Murray is Back! phew!
Then you haven't been to Denmark if you haven't been to the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen ;)
Where did he go?
He went on holiday then disappeared!
He has some interesting predicitions for the race...
Awww good! I was concerned that he was ill or something. He's getting on a bit :(
Isn't it on one of the islands? We never really got the hang of traveling between them. More or less stayed on the mainland after one DISASTROUS trip to copenhagen.
Was that before the bridge was built and you had to take the ferry?
Hahaha I feel old now. Yeah. Ferrytastic. You mean you can just drive across now?
Yep - or take a train. You can also drive/train to Sweden too!
It is good that Spa is so soon after Valencia :D
All drivers who seem to be on their way to Ferrari seem to claim they haven't been talking to them ;)
Wow! I'v only ever been to Sweden once. To Gothenburg, Again a ferry from Denmark. That must make traveling around Scandinavia so much easier....
Oh it does - I cross the great belt every day as part of my commute to Copenhagen...
Well I've been enlightened. Thanks :)
My dad just sent me this link:
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/enlarge/giant-panda-cobb_pod_image.html
How scary are pandas when they yawn?
They're pretty scary generally!!
Wow, that looks like something out of The Dark Knight!
what if you gave him a fridge and sent him round Ireland?
If by scary, you mean cuddly, you'd be right!
I still can't believe that guy pretended to be Tony Hawk! :P
Hahaha. That must be what I meant :P
Oh my god. I'm just watching the Spa highlights on the BBC website. Just got to 1998. I've never seen anything like it!
The biggest pile-up in F1 history. Unprecedented carnage. :D
:D
#blamecouthard
I hope Eddie thanks him on Sunday
Over on SofaF1 fourstar has found a good BMW picture:
http://www.sofaf1.com/2009/08/budget-cuts-deeper-than-we-thought.html
According to Eddie, Spa is the home of Jordan success!
he forgot last weekend.
Hahaha
I didn't understand the "fight" aspect. When Shumi marched off to deck DC, wasn't DC still in his car?
Because DC slowed to move over for him, Schumi didn't see him through the spray and hit him, then stormed down the pitlane to scream "You tried to F*** kill me!"
The undertone to this is that Schumi was under pressure as Hakkinen was monstering him that year, and had he won that race he would have gained on him...
it's not like schumi never tried to kill anyone.
:-)
Exactly.
That's why I was a little sick in my mouth when he did that BBC interview and tried to be all laughy and jokey about it.
Is that the guy who decided to pull them out of F1?
He was either in the car or just getting out - and still had his helmet on. We laughed. What was he going to do, punch the helmet?
kick the carbon tub?
burn the fireproof suit?
Physical fights are what we love to see. Tbh, anyone who wants to punch DC is popular with me ;)
No point - it was already knackered!
Boo. I would have preferred the other way around!
:)
i could go forever on these :D
We can only dream
Am still not here. I don't know how you lot aren't here when there are other people around at work, I'm alone and get jumpy whenever a delivery van turns up.
Can someone do stocktake for me tomorrow? I don't want to.
Oooh me me me! I love stocktaking.
Stocktaking what?
what?
packaging. pallets and pallets of it. other stuff as well.
I'm sat here checking a 7-page invoice and all I'm wondering is... what is Alex watching now?
I love it! I find it really relaxing. It's one of my favourite jobs to do.
I like the actual counting, agreed on that. Its just when people move things... and things don't agree to your records..and people stare at you for daring to walk around their area with a clipboard..grr..
luckily someone else does the product so i can not smell of maturing cheese/bacon and can be out of there in 3.5hrs. what do / did you count?
myself lucky.
Stuff you'd find in a coffee chain. Everything from paper cups, packaging, crockery, cleaning products, condiments, cakes, sandwiches.....
We have to do it while still trading, so yeah. Moving/selling stuff drives me mental....
heheh :-)
And I'm done, woo hoo, the weekend starts HERE!
Hey peeps
wooooooop
http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/deals/usb-modem-stick-3gb-12-month-15
Is this 3G? I'm a bit rubbish with all this stuffs
7.2Mbps is faster than standard 3G. it's more like 3.5G i believe.
Ah i see.
It is but 3gig a month isn't an awful lot. Fine for mild browsing and emails I'd imagine. Stay away from songs and video downloads
afternoon.
"up to 7.2Mbps"
hehe. sorry.
ah its not for me, tis for my dad, it'll be fine for him
I've got a Qik account Mr C
What do you need to put it on the playground?
Just make sure he has a decent 3G signal
Test it with your phone on Vodafone if poss
hey.
yay! just the url. have to add jon's too. will do this evening.
SidepodPub countdown. T -2hrs ish
I did it all with the app, maybe I should go to the Qik site and have a look see at the settings, make it public an' all
Any F1 news today?
http://qik.com/bassanoclapper
Campos has said...
"Hello Mr FIA and Mrs FOTA, you really screwed us with saying theres not going to be budget caps, but don't worry, we're still going to be competitive..
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NOOOOT!!!!!"
:D
ta.
Sounds good, Is Alex coming?
Yeah, he said 6 6:30 is good for him too.
Nick my email is [email protected]
Wow. I haven't made a Sidepodcast Diary for months.
Without 'name' of course ;)
wOOt
Sidepodcast Diary, whats that? !
Is that a good thing? :)
Do a YouTube search
awwww Nick!!! you've been missing out!!
Now i am confused! shall i DM you mine on twitter?
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Sidepodcast+Diaries
It is if you mean you've just done or are going to do another one
I have been trying to decide all afternoon... But unfortunately I think I am actually not well enough to attend - I'm really sorry guys.
Starting to feel more ill actually as the day has gone on :(
Cool
It just occurred to me.
Is that because you know Bassano is almost certainly going to try and get you drunk?
Well, to quote Rocky IV
"I will break you"
:D
There is no 'almost' or 'try' that is applicable to that sentence. It will happen. RG has foretold it. Probably
That's what I was afraid of!
As both Katherine and I are sick it seems like it might be a catching thing so it wouldn't be very fair :(
Awe, no worries, i hpoe you get better, we will have to try it again soon!
Bassano still up for 1 or 2 soft drinks?
You need to folow me BTW! I have just tweeted ya
pooop :( hopes yous boths gets betters soon
Urgh, don't infect my sunnies & make sure you ring a bell on the train home, shouting 'unclean' ;)
What about the Parade Lap, can Giggles fix Giggles?
@gmail.com? that's an awesome address.
Aye
Ok, though Tweetdeck is playing up for me
I have a reputation, I don't need a prefix ;)
I've actually been off sick all day so am at home.
I am like Phil Collins - no bell required
But with a jacket and fewer bells.
i have earache. it doesn't really affect the parade lap, but wearing headphones hurts, so i wasn't planning on saying much. doh!
Comment of the year nomination
I'll be fine by then.
Is this related to the driving comment i saw last night?
I know your game, your bunking off to watch the free screening of Moulin Rouge at the Horniman Museum tonight ;)
ace.
hehehehe.
If I lack inspiration I shall just read out loud from daily posts for an hour ;)
double live-streaming later? could be interesting.. will try and make it home in time..
Oh goodness, its just 2 men and a pub!
but its *on the internet*
we'll be watching.
iPhone fail on that one, can only upload via 3G - no live
Nick's Android phone should be fine
*scary*
would this be with no capitals or spaces?
emails have spaces?
I've DM'd you on twitter
:P underslashes... mid slashes ... hehehe
I havent gotten it yet, have tried a mail!
Replied
Secret identity foiled :P
Please tell me Bassano's name is Bassano, otherwise i will cry. Just like when i found out Mr C's name isn't 'me'
who says it isn't? i frequently call myself me.
I shall reveal nothing! (sober)
phew!!
What Nick doesn't know is that my email "name" is my secret fake identity, no one will ever guess my real name is Bassano Clapper
Doh!
I am franticly trying to clean my brawn gp shirt so i have something identifyable to wear...
Might end up in a collared shirt instead
It's Mr C, isn't it?
i really wasn't here for a bit then, stupid invoices.. got to take post for work then get myself some food, see ya later.
I want it to be, it would make me very happy. Mainly because of imagining the faces of the rest of his family when his parents said "We've named him...Mr C"
:lol:
It was extremely fortunate considering he hadn't met me yet.
You have outwitted me¬!
Is that in honour of the fallen?
That was the bit that made me even happier...
"why did you call him that..."
"because when he's older he's going to meet someone called Christine"
:D
only if he wears shorts too ;)
I think that's how it happened. We should get that on the wiki.
hehe, just had a thought that i may not get good enough signal in the camel to qik so we may have to move on... But i guess we should still meet there?
I cant go to london in the evening wearing shorts!
*tuts*
Alex would
hehe, i could but i am unsure if they will let me in!
I was thinking about it actually :)
As long as they're not football shorts. "Colors" are frowned upon in Saaf Landon!
There goes my planned millwall shorts, west ham shirt combo :(
#NobleF1: More Badoer fun this afternoon. Only a spectacular catch saved him from dropping the microphone in his press briefing
You can't make this stuff up
This is absolutely hilarious. :D
Im off to the station!
Avoid Zone 3-6...they're dangerous!!
Well my favourite T-Shirt is in the wash...
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/dsc00786-jpg
[rotational fail]
So, you're probably best to check out my pic on the wiki, I'm told it's a good likeness
This is after he forgot his pass and they weren't going to let him in at the circuit
I just can't believe he smashed into Adrian Sutil when parking up....
It now explains why he's stayed as Ferrari's test driver for so long. It doesn't explain why they kept him
did you see my Qik bid the other night? If not you Will have to guess!
You've a pic on twitter, no?
I'm in unbranded grey, kinda like a testing livery ;)
I wonder if one of the team stole it?
Maybe he was really useful at developing the car. They're hardly known to be the sentimental type down at Ferrari. Presumably he added something of value or he'd be long out the door.
I have put on weight :p
I am in jeans and a blue and white striped shirt. Dark hair, uber cool, yada yada
I get the feeling he knows something or someone important
Like the useless nephew at a Blue Chip company
I'm not carrying an Orange drill
it's like internet dating.....without the drill...
http://www.autosport.com/gallery/photo.php/id/1316315
maybe FIF1 didnt pay all their motorhome bills...
Beer tokens first, then bus, I suppose
I guess in lieu of Alex, we should at least partially live comment the journey ;)
Oh my god!
oh my god!
half a motorhome? :O
you can, raymond allen wrote the script back in the 70's.
:D
Waiting for the 176 bus now. No one here, wondering if I just missed one
does it not have one of those electronic boards that says when the next one comes?
I really should get an Oyster card. Cash price is double
No, other direction does. Which is a bit weird. Bus arrived, pic drop.io'd
Bassano's bus: http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/1-1241276800351
Did you go on the top deck?
Thanks Christine. King's College next stop
yup, front row!
Also drop.io'd
Woohoo!
wooooooooooow, biiiiiiiig
Approaching waterloo will Qik when I get there in 5-10
Probably about 20mins away
I need to get me an ambance. Quicker than buses & taxis ;)
*ambulance
train has stopped also need cash.
that's what i've always understood.
:)
I hope it's blue :)
Not good when I need to refresh!
hope you feel better soon Mr Giggles. Are you around tomorrow for spectacle collection?
I apologise. I shoulda fixed the size. I will edit.
Also, did you leave a half-eaten kiwi fruit in the drop?
hahaha
He said it was, partially anyway
Not me, I would've finished it
will be yes.
So upset to miss tonight!
Tell me you don't eat the hair too.
is it skin on or off?
It is on. 'cept for the big bite mark.
On advice of counsel, I decline to answer that question
Ugly building at Elephant & Castle drop.io'd
We'll have one or two for you, can't promise Elderflower beer though
Why are you in London Bassano?
Booo.
Sidepodpubmeetup
It was where I was born, you'd have to ask my parents
Drop.io updated
it worked? Awesome.
I just Qik'd did it work?
I will be very upset!
Here with Guinness, not many tables
I *may* have fixed my laptop
More later...
We have met!
w00t!
:) :D
1 pint down, bc getting the 2nd
it's not even 7pm yet.
what / who are you discussing?
Drinking ;)
Evening, I have returned to my abode. MD came back at 4.10pm, instead of going to his office, came upstairs and said "my coming back woke you up didn't it"
yes, yes it did
nice job!
Drinks!
jealous!
Whats behind the glowing pint?
busted :)
very jealous!
anyone else wishing they had Guinness in the fridge?
:cry:
Can anyone else get on http://www.motorsportacademy.org/
I is struggling
two random thoughts for the night.
- if the bbc really are struggling for budget. should cbeebies be the first thing to be dropped? maybe before this weekend?
- if vettel is limiting his running due to a lack of engines. the fans are being short-changed again, due to ill thought out regulations. both those in the grandstands and those watching at home on friday.
server not responding.
thought as much, thanks for trying
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/motorsportacademy.org
Cost cutting before fans says the FIA
WOW!!! thats the coolest site ever thank you :D
not better than: http://istwitterdown.com/
surely?
or
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
that is great :D
i can't top that.
Should have been dropped aagges ago.
Fans? What are they?
That really speaks to me
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/
A candle, we set a romantic scene :)
aha! A man date!
:)
I'm beginning to hate that term. Jeremy is trying to set me up on one of those too, with his brother-in-law pilot :)
i am aware... ;)
Pint 3 on it's way. Maybe we should snap the menu for the next one
what happens on qik, stays on qik?
Pub way too noisy for Qik
ha ha, not in SPC world!
I have been to Belgium a lot… but I don’t think I’ve ever driven there. {Comment #171}
I went there once in 1998, to compete in an international swimming gala. Won a gold medal and saw lots of nice stuff (plus a shopping mall under refurbishment).
Luca Badoer Update: Didn’t have a pass for the paddock this morning. Honestly. {Comment #251}
Is it just me or does Luca look like he's going to break his make-or-break weekend?
he has to improve by a great amount before he'll be kept, he has to be top 15 atleast
Heading to the Duke of Sussex next. Thinking SPC may want to get involved in the drinks choosing?
yes please!
Always!!
Qik
i see nothing?
Nick says his Qik is not uploading
boooo. does the pub have wifi?
ooh, you can comment and he can stream (sort of)....
It's not really a wifi kinda pub, in fact - I think I see sawDust
sidepodrustic?
evidence on drop.io ;)
We are thinking of moving on. Before we get killed
not rustic, more rusty
not yet...
Just rushed in to the TV room because I heard Moby's "Lift Me Up" as an intro to a Danish reality cop show. The intro footage was shot in a spookily similar style to ITV's F1 intro.
I explained to her that this was the Intro for the ITV F1 coverage and she replied "Yeah... I like the BBC intro song better"
I HEART MY WIFE! :D :D :D
i found cake for amy.
:)
Cake!!
horrah!
heheh, is there anyone who liked it?
Well I kinda did ... but mostly because of it's association for me with 2008...
Nothing beats the Chain though!
Bc and I belive Amy needs an f1 cake blog...
agreed!
I liked the song...intro not as much
you can never etc etc
What? Getting dark already?
Not dust, but pie & mash. sounds good to me
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/photo-202
apart from the liquor in it perhaps..
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78037
They did this a few years ago? And it didnt go well? I forget why
it's a dull place for a race.
Because it's a lifeless Tilke drome in the middle of nowhere as opposed to an exciting track in a cool city?
Thought as much :)
Psh atmosphere and history is overrated. Albert park has been popular for too long. Being at cool new tracks with my buddy hermann making them unsuspiciously similar in non-interesting locations is the new in thing!! I;m down with the sports fans.
/berniespeak
how's your laptop lukeh?
I has fixed it by myself!! I'm back on it now :)
Wierdly enough I fixed it by messing about with a windows update disk rather than the OS on the disk, but my brother owned it and it woke up the hard drive to re-install windows I guess. Went on the BIOS, made it read the disk drive first like I did with ubuntu yesterday but for some reason, the one that shouldnt have worked, worked. Which is perfectly fine as it's a clean install but it got the hard drive working. Seems like when the laptop was booting up it simply refused to acknowledge the hard drive.
So... hardware fail. And windows fail, kinda, for their product not doing it's job but actually helping in some bizarre paradox :P
Everytime i go on runofffarea i forget that its a comedy site....
"Heidfeld takes blame for practice crash"
WHAT?!?!? oh wait, *checks site* aah ok :D
i realy must stop doing that
wonderful :)
why does the Beeb put listings on Freeview for 301 / 302, if they aren't going to stick to them... it says "Classic Belgian GP". It shows BBC Scotland's coverage of Champions League..
nice work, I'm confused, but well done :-)
You're telling me, I've no idea how it worked but it just.... did!
Also, fancy dress day at work tomorrow. All I can find in the attic is an afro. Hmm.
This will scare you...at the weekend i was talking with my uncle as we walked towards our car to leave, we were talking about Vista and using Itunes on vista and that it's different to the mac one and we started talking about vista as a whole and he said he was suggesting something to help and as i walked off i just said "or you could get a mac"
aha...oh how i've changed.
our work here is done.
indeeed
http://runoffarea.co.uk/2009/08/15/badoers-ferrari-to-be-powered-by-disappointment/
this is amusing
i just love the subheading on that site. everytime :)
fancy dress day? is this a regular occurrence?
New pub new beer, any requests?
something in the memory of Alex?
Tis a charity week at Icelands countrywide. Wouldnt be surprised if you saw a lot of similar events tomorrow in other stores.
can i have your guinness please?
is he dead?
aha no, he's ill and so isnt there tonight
as good as. he has man flu.
Let's hope he doesn't live stream that
What was the best song of the 80's?
Was reading earlier, Katherine has it too. Get well soon Alex and Kat.
blimey...
Toto - Africa
I feel guilty though saying just 1! 80's music is awesome.
Waterloo?
oh my goodness!!! Lukeh's right!!!!
Evening all.
Sorry to hear Alex and Kat are ill. Is he live streaming it?
Bohemian Rhapsody
I was listening to a live version of that song yesterday. It's awesome!
am going with cyndi lauper and time after time.
Damnit, as soon as iTunes is installed I'm putting the Vice City soundtrack on. 80's goodiness :D
so much good music!!
You could choose something from Michael Jackson's black phase
what was the best year for 80's music?
am going for '87.
same question to the drinkers.
David Coulthard reveaveled in today's Autosport that Michael Schumacher's neck injury is genuine. Apparently he found out by putting him in a headlock on Saturday night and Schumacher didn't seem very happy afterwards.
Thanks DC
Hi Steven.
Wasn't that '78 or '79?
damn. he's gone up in my estimation now.
oooooooooh...
87 was excellent... 84 stands out for me...
also a great one.
http://www.sofaf1.com/2009/08/sofaf1-championship-2009-round-11.html
WOOHOO!
You want facts?
niiiice :D
Big fat zero for me :-(
congrats btw :-)
Dare i say it...even lou beat you....and she hasnt been around for a while...
What a weekend for you. Top the Sofa F1 competition and said something smart in the Debrief. You have a lot to live up to this weekend
:D
Bassano and I need a drink from you for each of us!
Lime Cordial
Any ales?
#sidepodspace update
STS-128 - Take 4 and still getting earlier.
Friday morning's launch attempt has been scrubbed. I don't know the reason why yet but I assume the valve that stopped attempt 2 has not performed as well as expected in tests or they need more time to be sure.
Launch attempt number 4 will be at 11:59 pm Friday evening Eastern / 4:59 am Saturday morning UK time.
There is a press conference to discuss the reasons for attempt 3 starting in half an hour.
Your lack iof suggestions we can stomach has led us to rebel..
Qik!
Lime Cordial not working for you?
I just discovered more photos of the pig-pigs: http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/09-08-19b-14-jpg
Right, Driver Consistency for Europe has been written - and it's a MEGA post as it includes an analysis on Badoer's performance ;)
Thought you said "Rig Pigs" for a moment there - they are definitely NOT cute :)
bugger.
Double round
I want to add an answer of Flock of Seagulls - I Ran to the 80's question. :P
What a song!!
Drop.io'd this round
tuuuuune!
Special prizes for the answer to "what are they drinking"?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/photo-203
magners and ...
I've found all my old bookmarks (internet not actual books) and folders from when i was an uber-nerd-motorsport-geek (more than now ;) )
I was such a geek!!!
THERES SO MUCH!!! All in the name of course research i guess ;)
the and... Is the Q
oh.
umm, champagne?
amateur!
rum
whiskey
red bull
vodka
i'm out.
ooh..
archers
bacardi
am i warm?
Tequila!
I just felt like saying it.
Why is it green?
looks like something coffee based...
nyquil?
creme de menthe with a layer of baileys. There was no butterscotch schnapps :(
Noble Tweet: Just found out the Nurburgring rollercoaster exploded recently - after a pressure tank problem - damaging a nearby hotel.
For goodness sake.
Good thing too! Are you trying to make yourself sick? :P
Forgot the linkage: http://twitter.com/NobleF1/statuses/3586922257
Just done the shot, not drunk enough!
:D :D :D
Oh man, how did we miss that? ;)
Don't forget...you have to get home too...
Ban it from the next race!!
I heard of a guy who was doing an initiation for a society and because he didnt drink decided to do it with milk....turns out you get sicker with milk than you do with alchohol...
It's not the alcohol aspect of butterscotch schnapps that'd make me sick either..... Bleurgh.
would someone like to explain this?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/mr-c-rocks-mp3
Mr C has found "The Sound."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOownOy8UT8
*cries*
(the best bit starts from 2:10)
It's not actually as bad as you were all making out.... I was expecting my ears to bleed but no!
Hehehehe.
wordless.sound.poems.
that's me!!
Am waiting for the one with the #woof, woof... woof, moooo# :)
i'm playing badly to inspire others to contribute to sidepodradio.
That reminds me of Atari ST music!
Awwww :(
Omigosh how did I forgot 99 luftballons for the 80's choice earlier? I mean, I stick with africa but...
The 80's really did have FAR too many awesome songs.
;)
you can create your own on your iphone for free. what say you?
For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GH6Bjwvl4I
5 Megabytes of Awesome!
What was the program called again?
Woo!!!
groovemaster.
This one was the first driving game I ever had - and it was bloody hard too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOaytXfqeFk&feature=related
no. soz.
groovemaker.
More shots - rules are: no whiskeys, no tequilas
There's a link in the show notes.
Red Balloons!
Got it, thanks.
i'll raise you with even more retro.
we didn't have more than two colours.
OMG. That was terrible!
if I driving game made noises like that in 2009, I think I would run out the room in fear of a nuclear catastrophre. Although the blue and the black is pretty!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKM3TSLXh4g&feature=related
This will make you feel better!
that was 3d baby. once upon a time, it was 2d or nothing.
wow!
sidepodcast northern meetup needed! Steven Roy you are required!
Just how drunk are you?
now that is a tune.
I always liked the Top Gear (not related to the series) SNES game intro music.
This opinion is absolutely 100% positively not because it inspired the sound to a Muse song. No way. No sirree.
blimey. it really did.
money must've changed hands for that right?
Their lead singer just says he heard arpeggios in a game when he was growing up and really liked them... so... everyone fell for it? :P
It probably doesn't help the cause the first time they played it live (it was ruddy awful) was with a similar sounding 8-bit kind of synthesizer.... thing....
he remembered them really well...
hehehe :D
I ain't saying nothing!
That sounds like the theme to a game I used to play called "combo racer"
Now?
Found a link here: http://www.cosine-systems.com/mp3-files/combo_racer(gb).mp3
wrapped links are always better ;)
it is similar!
Track 2 of Team Suzuki was awesome too!
F1 commentators no longer have a right to complain about Tim's pronanounciation as Everyton today announced they have signed a player called Diniyar Bilyaletdinov.
I dunno, Graham is easier to say.
Last one for the evening. Toyota Celica GT Rally!
All of the above were considered Awesome!
#mediafuturechange
Update 2 (6.15pm BST): Apple’s Cupertino spokesperson tells us it has approved the iPhone app from Spotify, the music service that many people believe represents a threat to iTunes: “The current status as of right now is it’s been approved and we hope to add the app to the more than 65,000 apps on the app store very soon. We’ve been in constant communication working with the developer and have already notified Spotify that the app will be in the app store very soon.”
Link
woah!!!
no.way!
i shall eat my words. i have no idea what i said, but it wasn't that.
same
I think the words "never" and "ever" were said.
not in a millions years featured quite heavily too.
they must've crippled it?
Have to wait and see I guess.
Why is there a scrollbar at the bottom of my LCLT?
erm, i don't have one?
morning all. I am wearing my slovenly round the house pants to work. Im so lazy (but so comfy!)
I get one if I make it too narrow
amyamyamyamyamyamyamyamyamyamyamyamy
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/cake-png
Laziness and comfortability must always come first :P
Morning Amy.
Are you wearing your furry slippers too?
Marks pose is terrifying... that is one image I shallnt photoshop for safety reasons!
then change the knife into something ;)
How do I make it too narrow? I can't alter the width. I don't understand.
ooh, lukeh. i forgot to ask...
frank spencer meets luca badoer?
could you dropio a screengrab pls?
Will get on that tomorrow night after I 'reinstall' it from my 'disk'.
Ahem.
Steven: we DEMAND yor presensce at the next SidepodDrinkUp. It just wouldn't be right If it were not so
shhhhhh....
*closes eyes*
I din't see nothin'.
I see one problem....
You guys are now drunk...but you only have a short distance to go..
If steven drinks lots....i see him ending up on atleast 1 wrong train....
Good night all ;)
See ya gavin!
niiiiiight
CAKE! I wish i was wearing my slippers. I am at work an hour early as a favour to a colleague who wanted a sleep in and getting out of my pjs and into real clothes was too traumatic for 7am. So trackpants it is.
I was just watching the classic Belgian GPs on Freeview (it finally appeared..). Faaaaantastic!
Ooh awesome!!
Why can't you just see it online? They're all on BBC F1
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/scroll-bar-jpg
cheers alison. am guessing the scrollbar goes away if you switch to a different post?
holy similarity!
looks like earlier someone wrote something too wide....or she still has the big pic of the bus embeded on her post still
something like that. i can't tell which bit is failing to wrap on mine, but something must be.
Yeah it does. Has someone just written a stupidly long word or something. That's not much of a mystery. Oh it's gone now totally.
Is it full screen? I tend to shrink the width so that it is all one column wide which is about half the screen wide but if you make it narrower than one column I get a scroll bar
Could have been my link. Sorry :(
christine posted a massive picture of bassano's buss earlier. it could've been that?
gavin, have you tried the new facebook iphone app?
'Cos I don't want to.
There's a new one? I have been using one for ages...
although i think FV shows it only available until midnight so you'll have to go to the site in a bit.
today.
If we're reminiscing about old games, I loved this on the Amstrad!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6bJnZkNSQ8&feature=related
That is odd. If I narrow the window the scroll bar never appears it just goes to one column
more on the spotify iphone app:
"[will only be available] in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France and Spain for now"
Sweden, Norway and Finland?
Ahem...
Right, I really am going to sleep now!
best old school game intro ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG9fcm195ho
(skip to 30s)
I had this in colour not green!
night
ok. explain this one?
[via BOL]
oh.my.goodness
Just had a chance to listen to Mr C's drop.io thing as i was watching a film "when it was released"
ITS AMAZING!!!
Seriously, it's better than some of the house music i've bought before!!
eh?
It was after his first run and he realised how slow he was so he decided to change the picture so that no-one who met him in future would say you look like the slowest Ferrari driver in history
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/mr-c-rocks-mp3
??
its great
he's adding "speed marks"
Why do you have to play those songs so loud?
i like it, but i thought everyone (beside alison) thought it sucked?
:P :P
nope, i love it
fom euro race edit is up. i'd link to it, but... well, it doesn't have a link,
I am quoting Billie... I must be ill!
:-D
I think you should keep at it.
i think stefano is high fiving Luca at the beginning of the race!!! its near the beginning....so thats why he's been so slow..
Do we get to pick the medecine you take like we pick your drinks?
Gavin! You're wanted on an SPC Northern drink up. Say the word, we'll be there. Steven's presence is obligatory, RG - we'll provide the fake ID
AWWWWW NO!!!!
Rob was telling Luca what to do in the pitlane when he let Grosjean by, silly boy!! ALWAYS LISTEN TO ROB!!!
Right I can't stay here hanging around in crowds, even if I do want to!
Sounds like Nick and Bassano have been having a good time. I think I better head to bed.
You can as long as it starts in Lem and ends in sip
GET BETTER SOON!!! thats an order!!
Night :D
i love the bish and steve having a discussion in the back of the garage.
i guess that's where martin's tall story came from?
I love Jock "5 qualifying laps Rubens, hamiltons has (ahem) messed up his stop"
hehe. harsh, given hamilton was the only one who didn't mess it up.
http://news.bnonews.com/xh2m
Am watching the press conference of that girl who was found after 18 years :D
I must be the only one who believed Martin. Better take my mclaren glasses off.
i have no idea where he got his figures from, but they changed everytime he repeated them. no doubt would've lost regardless, but he didn't sell it at all well.
What are we talking about? Martin's tall story?
whitmarsh, post race.
That's true he did seem to be struggling for excuses. I hate it when my team mucks things up!
This woman i'm listening too needs a pop shield....that is all....
I wish Apple would announce this new iPod event. I need a bigger ipod classic!!
Why haven't Guinness, in their 250th year, provided dispensers on London buses? What d I pay metropolitan taxes for?
who's round is it? ;)
Ah, I was thinking other Martin who had a rather different view.
Wouldn't it be more likely on Dublin buses?
:)
/09/09/09
I hope it is then.
i was sitting next to one of those, I moved
The Irish have travelled, we demand basic human rights ;)
Am wondering if Nick will fall asleep on the train. With V..Low battery he may not tell us until he fer's home tomorrow afternoon!
we'll get a message saying "AAAHH, IM IN ZONE 7!!!"
*gramar fail ^
i feel Jon's my guardian drinking angel & I feel safe
sounds good to me
videos have appeared:
http://qik.com/dubaish
I'm not sure i want to watch....i don't want to find out what Bassano looks like...
oh my gosh, he looks exactly like his wiki pic ;) just less yellow
I had a reply to my comment last night on F1B.. I'm not entirely sure I can be bothered to respond
I think if you take formula1blog, as a formula 1 blog, just like any other, then all is ok.
Home! After a reboot
Damn , bad ram ;(
todd emailed us earlier. restated his case, which is fair enough. i don't have anything against the guy, i'll vote with my rss reader as ever.
I'm leaning that way.
So, he doesn't care about the point, he just wants readershis and links
the case i put to todd, was that commenting on an alonso plane crash that featured neither alonso nor a crash, isn't giving an opinion, it's creating a fantasy.
therefore commenting on GMM stories that have a history of being very unreliable, is a bit like writing fanfiction.
there's nothing wrong with fanfiction by any means. but neither can it be considered "offering an opinion". it's simply making stuff up.
*readership
What he said
:)
Me neither. I don't have a problem with most of their stuff, just the odd bit..
In essence, laziness masquerading as journalism, I'll say it
woah! didnt know about that. right now i change my opinion!!
i don't read or know anything about F1B and by the looks of things, i wont be changing my mind soon. I have autosport for my news, and Sidepodcast for my views
hear hear.
their comments on their site are saying they aren't journalists.. they are commenting on news reported by various sources. that's not the impression i got from reading via rss but there you are.
hehe. that's just my view. i understand not everyone sees it that way.
theres the truth...the truth thats got some rumour in it, theres rumour that has some truth in it, and then theres just making it up....
I had a conversation with Nick earlier, on a general scale
I think we sorta eastablished that, while we all like to speculate, we don't tune into SPC week in, week out - to be fed bull
We respect the opinion even if, sometimes, we don't agree
On those occasions, we thrash it out in the comments, like adults
*most of the time ;)
hehe i totally agree :D
a story was published online, by a *cough* newsagency claiming alonso was injured in a plane crash. it was the off-season, predictably it spread like wildwire.
later pictures appeared showing the plane had rubbed against a perimeter fence, and later still alonso's manager said this:
"It seems that the plane took a blow while they were parking it," said Luis Garcia Abad. "Fernando wasn't even inside the aircraft."
linky
"The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera had reported that the Renault driver had escaped unhurt after being in a plane crash in Malindi, Kenya."
that wasn't the initial story that broke. i think the status was "condition unknown". it was about 6pm before the newspapers got hold of it.
Murdoch-esque, is the the term you're looking for
either one of 2 things happened...
1) they got a call from a "source" that had overheard something at a bar
2) they just plain made it up
either way, for that particular story, i dont have the words to explain my discust
This, just in - you'll all gonna die
Next, after these messages..............
"consider the source". This sort of thing is happening more and more on the internets. I think you just need to have your trusted news places, and take the rest with a grain of salt.
you've missed a possible point number three.
3) the story was originally printed on a foreign language website and translation software / user error confused some key facts.
They confirmed the rumour or they went to print with a massive headline
bingo. completely agree.
ah yes.
I'm gonna check drop.io to see where I've been. If I keep this quiet, this could be a valuable tool
hahahahaha.
Keep it down, this could help you too
At least he wasn't reported dead.
Around teh time Michael Jackson died, there was another actor (can't remember the name) who was reported dead in, I think , New Zealand. He had to tweet that he was still alive, because the story was traveling like wildfire.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/wtf-badoer-png
you went to belgium apparently...and wrote a sign and put it by badoers feet and too a picture, all without him noticing!! impressive work!
Now that Christine's in bed...
How great is this T-Shirt?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/dsc00786-jpg
[Will move directly to the naughty step upon awakening]
This really was quite a dodgy pub
I like this one, I could do something with this
awww, he really is drunk.
Link button fail
Err, it kinda does though
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/mr-c-rocks-mp3
Wanted to mock, but... respeck
yay. now i just gotta convince alex it'd make good mood music for his radioshow.
Silly me, I posted on the wrong thread. Duly moved my comment to the new daily.