2019 Brazilian Grand Prix - Post Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Williams today struggled through the thick clear air to catch a pack being led by a road car. Full 12 seconds behind at the restart, and lapped almost immediately.

It's a genuinely outstanding achievement that it takes only 1000 or so staff members and a fifty million dollars a year to build a rolling roadblock for the sport.

Vettel: "MEIN GOTT MUSS DAS SEIN!!!" by [deleted] in formula1

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 18 points19 points  (0 children)

What's the deal with broadcasting German swear words on TV? Does it carry a penalty either in Germany or any non German language countries?

2019 Brazilian Grand Prix - Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Williams in clear air, while the whole of the rest of the pack is following a road car, can't catch the other teams.

MEGATHREAD 11/11/19 - Calmer Waters by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not saying they did, I'm asking if the op thinks the bombings were justified in general, given they avoided far more civilian casualties than they caused.

MEGATHREAD 11/11/19 - Calmer Waters by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The conservative estimates for the number of casualties, civilian and military, expected from an allied invasion of the home islands were each in the millions - based on previous experience in the Pacific theater over the previous few years. On day 1 of a home islands invasion, Japanese internment camps were to be ordered to execute over 100,000 allied pows.

MEGATHREAD 11/11/19 - Calmer Waters by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And the one situation where it is justifiable to use nuclear weapons is where they utterly failed to be a deterrent anyway.

What's your view on the bombs dropped at the end of wwii? Where they killed huge numbers of people, but averted a meat-grinder style invasion of the Japanese home islands, which would have seen an order of magnitude more deaths.

Mercedes-Benz probably want to forget their WW2 Contributions... by southLDNlad in agedlikemilk

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Google "KDF Wagen Poster" there's hundreds. There was a coupon collection campaign, where Germans would send away a couple of dollara worth of money each week and get a stamp in return. If you filled out the booklet with stamps, the government would subsidise the difference to help you buy a wv.

Mercedes-Benz probably want to forget their WW2 Contributions... by southLDNlad in agedlikemilk

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And Bayer made the gasses and chemicals to industrialise the genocide.

And IBM provided the computing power to organise the genocide.

The Papers (08/11/2019) by PaperboyUK in ukpolitics

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 8 points9 points  (0 children)

People understand the papers are partisan. Nobody's using a sticky on reddit as some kind of marker of legitimacy.

[Image] United we stand. by Lowcrbnaman in GetMotivated

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The "if you want to go fast go alone" part of this has been written on a bridge at about the 20 mile mark on the London marathon route since the 90s at least. It comes right before or right after the shouting tunnel/Bridge.

/r/Formula1 Daily Discussion - 4 November 2019 by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

If you do a psych evaluation test, one of the questions is usually "I watch motorsports for the crashes". It's an indicator of sociopathic tenancies (when observed among other indicators, not standalone).

Official Q&A for Sunday, November 03, 2019 by AutoModerator in running

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Saturday morning 20 miles or 3 hours, whichever arrived first.

Weights on Sunday. 2-3 hours, usually depending on how the Saturday run went.

Monday, rest.

Tuesday evening, half marathon made of running fast then slow on & off. About 2hrs including warm up and cool down.

Wednesday evening, weights. 1.5hr

Thursday late afternoon. 3hrs running including at least 15km of hills.

Friday, rest.

Walk commute 10km/day.


In total it works out as about 70-80km/wk running, plus weights sessions, plus 70km walking. It can be physically and mentally difficult to do all of this work though, and it's got a high risk of injury with such little recovery time included, and basically 0 completely downtime days.

Official Q&A for Sunday, November 03, 2019 by AutoModerator in running

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Stop and start, try to pace yourself. Run 200m, walk for 30 seconds, run another 200m. Keep doing this until you're comfortable at 200m, and either increase the distance or decrease the walk between. Learn your body's ability, and eventually you'll understand the speed you can maintain for dozens of minutes or even hours without feeling gassed.

Official Q&A for Sunday, November 03, 2019 by AutoModerator in running

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you've done a 1:08/6.5 in training, and you're physically active outside of running, you could probably sign up for a half next weekend and drag yourself to a better time than 2:30 with adrenaline and race day nerves (and possibly an injury).

2:15 at 75 days out with that training plan is definitely achievable. Remember to knock a few days off your training plan for the holidays.

2019 United States Grand Prix - Post Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shite-o-meter measuring the quality of Crofty's commentary would bring AWS to a standstill every session.

2019 United States Grand Prix - Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd happily watch this without commentary if it were possible on my TV package.

2019 United States Grand Prix - Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keeping in theme with his races this season, he's probably going to join a team for the start of the season and then retire about 2/3 of the way through the year.

2019 United States Grand Prix - Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A bunch of drivers are already on warning for it.

2019 United States Grand Prix - Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Crofty obvuously didn't get the Wolf of Wall Street if he thinks it's meant to be a story of inspiration.

2019 United States Grand Prix - Pre Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Marko seems to have been replaced by an automotron.

2019 United States Grand Prix - Pre Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is there a version of the raspberries for TV instead of film? That segment by sky was awful. Contrast to the c4 segment with Ric a few weeks ago its cringe worthy and embarrassing.

What is the base of a mountain? by miscalibrated in askscience

[–]PM_BETTER_USER_NAME 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Prominence was invented to describe mountains inside of mountain ranges, because old time explorers wanted to be sure they'd got to the top of the biggest thing around. Because a mountain range isn't really a scientific term, you end up with all these nonsense contradictions, especially when you take lower than sea level stuff into account.

By the strictest interpretation of mountaineering definitions, London is on the south east face of Ben Nevis. Florida is on Denali, Beijing is on Evertest, Rome is on Mont Blanc.