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Four-way title fight?
Topic Started: May 25 2008, 06:31 PM (1,047 Views)
John
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I don't think you'd be so calm if it was Vinnie Jones or Ray Winstone
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Can't help but think that none of the 'top' drivers have been particularly special this year... Massa, Kimi and Lewis have all had poor races and Kovi has had a lot of bad luck.

Thought Kimi would romp away with the title this year, but his performance so far has been average to good, rather than that of a dominating driver/WDC. Maybe Kimi isn't the driver everyone thought him to be ... seems not to have the consistency of a true great.

Still think Kimi will (or should) win the WDC this year .... it is hard to see Lewis having as much luck in the coming races as he had in Monaco and he has already shown this year and last that he is likely to stumble at some point in the season.

With Alonso stuck in the Renault, it feels like we've got a bunch of good drivers in great cars, rather than some great drivers in great cars. The triumph of mediocrity in F1.



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Rob,May 27 2008
06:29 PM
But how scary can the British mafia really be? Really being threatened by some one w/ a British accent isn't that intimidating....

So why do Hollywood villains always have British accents?

Must hark back to the good old days, before the War of Independence.
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John,May 27 2008
07:10 PM
I don't think you'd be so calm if it was Vinnie Jones or Ray Winstone

They're actors methinks.
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TheCompleteGuitarist,May 28 2008
12:57 PM
John,May 27 2008
07:10 PM
I don't think you'd be so calm if it was Vinnie Jones or Ray Winstone

They're actors methinks.

Vinnie was a professional footballer who made his name by being a better thug than he was a footballer.

The following photo has been edited (couldn't find the original) to change the players shirts but Vinnie was not a nice fellow:

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Yes I know he was a footie player, but he's a screen villain, not a real life one. Despite what he may have done as a footie player.
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TheCompleteGuitarist,May 28 2008
01:57 PM
John,May 27 2008
07:10 PM
I don't think you'd be so calm if it was Vinnie Jones or Ray Winstone

They're actors methinks.

yes... I know they are actors.... <doh>

but what I was alluding to was the fact Rob was saying being threatened by people with British accents was not scary...

I was merely putting the notion forward that although only actors I would feel quite intimidated by VJ or RW in full gangster mode...

ergo if actors can be intimidating... how much more so if it was say Ronnie Kray in his prime... <yikes>
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But everything else being equal, Brits don't sound that scary. Now Russians they sound scary....
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John,May 28 2008
01:57 PM
but what I was alluding to was the fact Rob was saying being threatened by people with British accents was not scary...

Maybe that's because Rob's too busy trying to work out WTF they are saying to be afraid?
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Alien_SAP_Fiend,May 29 2008
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John,May 28 2008
01:57 PM
but what I was alluding to was the fact Rob was saying being threatened by people with British accents was not scary...

Maybe that's because Rob's too busy trying to work out WTF they are saying to be afraid?

You've just hit on the fundamental essence of fear.
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TheCompleteGuitarist,May 29 2008
11:10 AM
You've just hit on the fundamental essence of fear.

True... in essence...

but you do not need to have verbal understanding to be intimidating...

ask those Westerners in Thai Jails... or those kidnapped by Insurgents in Iraq... do you think they feel less intimidated because they do not understand what their captors are saying...

actions often speak louder than words...
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No my point is that an inability to understand eachother promotes fear. Not fear in the sense that we are afraid, but that we see each other as a threat to what we believe keeps us safe.

It works on many levels, not just language, but that's where it's the most obvious. Xenophobia.
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John,May 27 2008
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AndyW76,May 27 2008
04:21 PM
Didn't you know that every WDC result after 2004 was fixed to stop schumacher winning because he'd won enough already and that it was the "British mafia" that forced him to retire.

If you can find one post from any member claiming that then we will talk conspiracy...

off you go... i'll give you a week to find one such post <thumbsup>

I'm just quoting Raw Hide Mosley's assertation that there is a "British Mafia" in F1. It was also a joke, hence the <sarcasm>
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John,May 27 2008
07:10 PM
I don't think you'd be so calm if it was Vinnie Jones or Ray Winstone

Or Ronnie and Reggie Kray?
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has to be said also that many professional footballers found Vinnie intimidating. Not least the entire Liverpool team.

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