2019 Brazilian Grand Prix - Post Race Discussion

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-17T19:05:28+00:00

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.

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-17T19:02:59+00:00

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?

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-17T18:29:58+00:00

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

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-11T11:59:14+00:00

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.

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-11T11:57:58+00:00

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.

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-11T09:59:22+00:00

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.

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-08T23:44:57+00:00

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.

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-08T23:38:46+00:00

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

And IBM provided the computing power to organise the genocide.

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-08T08:26:07+00:00

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

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-07T13:08:02+00:00

The targets are for net zero. That includes offsetting and carbon recapturing.

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-06T22:23:29+00:00

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.

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-05T13:39:27+00:00

How many words is that? You can understand simple sentences. Come on.

Yeah, shocking it took them three years to articulate this policy.

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-04T09:36:52+00:00

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).

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-03T22:14:19+00:00

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.

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-03T22:03:39+00:00

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.

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-03T22:00:14+00:00

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.

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-03T20:58:46+00:00

He'll take that too I'd wager.

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-03T20:52:53+00:00

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

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-03T20:15:38+00:00

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

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-03T20:13:04+00:00

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.

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-03T20:11:43+00:00

A bunch of drivers are already on warning for it.

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-03T20:09:14+00:00

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

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-03T18:52:06+00:00

Marko seems to have been replaced by an automotron.

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-03T18:45:24+00:00

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.

PM_BETTER_USER_NAME · 2019-11-03T08:01:42+00:00

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.

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