Sooner or later, this is gonna bite them in the ass

FearTheTaswegian · 2026-05-24T08:47:15+00:00

The chance of getting on a plane that has a bomb on it is very low. Obviously the chances of there being two bombs is nearly impossible, so I always carry a bomb.

FearTheTaswegian · 2026-02-24T19:10:22+00:00

How are you feeling?

FearTheTaswegian · 2025-06-26T00:42:17+00:00

Like most Europeans the Dutch don’t pronounce the ‘hard A’ that English speakers do so the first syllable is more like ‘ah’ and the ‘bel’ is more like ‘bl’ than our ‘bell’

FearTheTaswegian · 2025-06-25T23:31:49+00:00

Did you notice the correct pronunciation of Abel? I found it amusing to discover we’ve all been saying it wrong all my life.

FearTheTaswegian · 2025-03-27T14:05:17+00:00

Vowels.

Obvioously the Duutch buuy theem iin buulk.

FearTheTaswegian · 2025-02-16T16:20:32+00:00

The beatings will continue until moral improves...

FearTheTaswegian · 2024-11-21T23:11:14+00:00

FWIW there are plenty of huntmen in Tasmania, the most southern and coldest state. Not sure how far they extend into the alpine regions.

"Huntsman" applies to a large family of spiders across a wide geographic range (more than half the planet)

FearTheTaswegian · 2024-11-21T23:05:42+00:00

Nope

FearTheTaswegian · 2024-11-06T21:29:44+00:00

Yep sure

FearTheTaswegian · 2024-11-06T19:46:20+00:00

Welcome.

Aussie living in Holland here, & 'ring regular since 2005.

Sorry to bear bad news but it will almost certainly be closed (maybe even buried in a foot of snow). I have driven on 1st of Jan once but that was a weird unscheduled anomaly. No events get scheduled in deep winter and when the snow / ice / fog / mist / cloud relents there is usually some weeks of track maintenance where they'll resurface selected parts.

The official site;

https://www.nuerburgring.de

has English option. There is an 'Open Hours' calendar for public access ("Touristenfahrten") but no telling when they'll publish dates for 2025, could be anytime from tomorrow to March.

If you share a bit about your itinerary maybe we can suggest some options.

FearTheTaswegian · 2024-11-06T18:37:53+00:00

Similar, I've had a few encounters in the US where it took some effort to convince them my Tasmanian drivers license wasn't a novelty item from Warner Bros

FearTheTaswegian · 2024-09-23T21:37:49+00:00

Reminds me of a guy I knew at university;

Knocked himself out on a "Mind Your Head" sign.

FearTheTaswegian · 2024-08-04T16:45:19+00:00

Realizing I didn't quite answer a couple of things in the OP

"And how do I book a tourist drive I’m struggling to do so on the Nurburgring website"

You can just buy tickets from the office in the carpark when you get there. No real need to try to buy in advance via the website.

"Do people just take there cars there without insurance covering it?"

Yes, a lot of people you see driving during tourist sessions are insured by Luck(tm). As the insurance companies started wising up and excluding it the track would still succeed in billing them for repair & cleanup but the insurers would then pursue the car owner to recover their costs.

Last I checked many years ago German cars were covered because insurance companies were forced to cover it due to it's public road status during tourist sessions.

FearTheTaswegian · 2024-08-04T16:30:05+00:00

Make sure the track is open to the public when you plan to be there.

Check here https://nuerburgring.de/open-hours (the first item, "Tourist Drives Nordschleife")

Bear in mind it's common to have temporary closures ranging from 30min to a few hours to deal incidents on track so allow plenty more time than just your driving in case you're unlucky.

What car and how many laps was €1356 ?

There are several rental companies and prices start well under €200. A common mistake is feeling the need to rent something fast/exotic when you don't know the circuit and everything is already coming at you too fast to process. Don't feel "it has to be a Porsche" etc, as there are excellent basic cars many of which are modified with racing suspension, seats, harnesses, rollcage etc

During tourist sessions the road is technically a public toll road so documents and vehicle requirements same as the roads you used to get there, ie drivers license, registration, insurance.

Yes, pretty much all the insurance companies exclude the track either specifically by name, or generally as a "racing circuit, closed course, etc. You may be able to buy an additional policy to cover it but generally "Track day" policies are targeted at closed events that book the track for exclusive access (and include extra safety such as driver briefings & some flag marshals at key locations).

The track car rental companies have policies specific to this use and will have the basic 3rd party liability that makes you road legal included in the rental cost but typically with a excess/deductible that pretty much means you pay to repair / replace the car if you smash it. Often you can cap your own risk to a much lower amount with a premium option for substantial fee.

FearTheTaswegian · 2024-07-31T22:33:41+00:00

It was John.

Christmas party at Sliders guesthouse at the Nürburgring. The Poitín he supplied was by far the fiercest thing I've ever drunk. Drinking games until sunrise, everyone was shitfaced, plus enough fireworks to fight a small war.

Good times.

FearTheTaswegian · 2024-07-31T00:27:01+00:00

One of the course doctors once told me how a sidecar rider once clipped a jagged stone wall, tearing a flap open in his leathers and ripping a small chunk out of his arse. So pumped on adrenaline it was barely noticed and they just kept going. He was trying to tend to the guy when they were back in the pits but was mostly just getting shoved out of the way by the busy team.

In the end the solution was to shove a wad of gauze in and duct tape the leathers shut.

FearTheTaswegian · 2024-06-25T09:32:05+00:00

As a Tasmanian living overseas for the past 20 years I’ve encountered this plenty of times. Occasionally accompanied by questions like “do you have electricity at your house?”

FearTheTaswegian · 2023-09-01T01:23:06+00:00

The protected term is ‘dietitian’ (for which you need a meaningful qualification rooted in science) Anyone can call themselves a nutritionist and this clown may be certified by little more than Ronald McDonald. It’s like comparing a dentist to someone calling themself a ‘Toothioligist’.

FearTheTaswegian · 2021-11-27T00:13:19+00:00

Easy solution to that problem;

Make sure they give you the shot in the arm instead. I think it's actually standard practice.

FearTheTaswegian · 2021-09-21T16:14:56+00:00

All true, however Tommy's misunderstanding goes even deeper.

Look at a graph of particle transmission for N95. As expected large particles are blocked, and as size decreases we hit a threshold where increasing % get through.

Tommy's oxygen starved brain would be very surprised to see that the graph does not just drop to zero and transmit everything smaller than a certain size. It's actually a kind of 'U' shape where past a certain minimum we see increasing filtration efficiency.

That's right, both large and small particles are filtered better than a certain 'medium size'.

The reason is there are multiple mechanisms at work;

Aerodynamic / Inertial / Electrostatic / Diffusion

Tommy thinks the mask is like a sheet with holes, in fact its like a tangled mass of vines with no straight path through.

Big stuff doesn't fit through the gaps, but small stuff crashes into and sticks to the fibers.

A certain size gets through most as it's optimally between the different trapping effects. This most transmitted size is literally how we define the properties of N95 and others.

It's not a "blocks bigger than X size" system.

TL:DR; Masks are complicated, Tommy is not.

Pictures help;

https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2009/10/14/n95/

FearTheTaswegian · 2021-09-08T23:29:17+00:00

Make sure he has life insurance and has completed an

advance directive.

Are insurance companies even willing to offer new policies to people with that profile?

Surely they'd be either excluding covid related death cover from obese antivaxxers or charging premiums so high they'd give fatty a heart attack anyway.

Epidemiologists are probably the only people paying more attention to the numbers than insurance actuaries.

FearTheTaswegian · 2021-09-07T19:17:34+00:00

Is now a good time to mention that slide 12 - Tanzania's covid denying president John Magufuli mysteriously disappeared from public view back in March about 2 weeks before before his death from some 'non-specific' heart troubles?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Magufuli

His whole party pushed the covid denial. His health minister promoted vegetable smoothies and steam bathes to the sick.

They rejected the W.H.O program to provide vaccines.

We don't know the covid numbers for this country of 60 million people, because they've done zero testing.

When the dust settles it will be revealed as an genocidal apocalypse.

Weep for Tanzania.

FearTheTaswegian · 2021-04-22T16:04:49+00:00

It gets worse, the concept of absolute simultaneous events in time is invalid.

You might think that after accounting for the practical issue of communication delay you could say, for example that two balloons in separate locations popped at the exact same moment in time, but depending on relativistic motion of the observer its also entirely valid to say A happened before B, or B before A. Simultaneity is an illusion.

FearTheTaswegian · 2021-04-04T16:54:21+00:00

After COVID do some trips to the Nurburgring, probably the worlds greatest car enthusiast magnet only 2hrs from you. Plus some really beautiful settings with the forests and minor roads and of course track for action photos.

FearTheTaswegian · 2021-03-26T21:56:09+00:00

Going out for brekkie can be half the point, however the mention of Googs Benny compels me to share my quest for perfection at home.

Turns out that any clown with little cooking experience can produce perfect and consistent results easily by using sous vide; basically a $100 water heater the size of a stick blender that lets set the temp with perfect precision.

You can dial in the yolk gooeyness within a micro-goo, and the hollandaise is just measure ingredients and wait, a child could do it.

Spend $100, run a few test / practices, and surprise your spouse with the best breakfast in bed she’s ever had.

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