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     Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.71 |
Michael Schumacher's returning to Formula One, standing in for Massa for the rest of the season! Could be an anticlimax, as Nigel Mansell's short-lived return as Damon Hill's teammate didn't work out all that well. But even so. Stunning news. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.71 |
Why do I suspect I'm talking to myself here? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
I'm listening, mate. Ah, no, sorry, I'm now . . . er, uh, zzzzzzzzzzzz. Zzzzzzzz! Zzzzzzzz! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Could be worse, tho: I could start talking about the new footbal season. Or the cricket. | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
Excellent news.  Just wish that Schuey had a truly competitive car... | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.73 |
Yay! Someone who knows what I'm talking about! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>I could start talking about the new football season.<< That'd be fine (yep, a girl who likes football!) - but not cricket or F1 please. Sooooooooo boring - zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.68 |
Sigh. Look, then. Put it this way. Schumacher's return is like, say, a soccer club's greatest ever player returning after retiring. George Best putting on a Man U shirt again, or Shearer coming out of retirement and saving Newcastle from relegation... Uh, well. You know what I mean. F1 is not boring. There's race tactics, weather, driver ability, tyre degredation, fuel weight, loads of things to consider... Clever stuff, you know. And it's got glamour too, exotic locations, beautiful women, and with (usually) articulate sportsmen... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
>>>or Shearer coming out of retirement and saving Newcastle from relegation... You see, if you knew your football, you'd have realised that this was attempted last year. Right, Caroline? Go on, tell these philistines. >>>F1 is not boring. There's race tactics, weather, driver ability, tyre degredation, fuel weight, loads of things to consider... And going round and round and round and round and round and round the same effing track. It's a bit like watching the seconds' hand of a clock ticking. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
"And going round and round and round and round and round and round the same effing track. It's a bit like watching the seconds' hand of a clock ticking." But put several of them on at varying speeds and try to guess which one will finish first... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Or maybe take the clock off the wall and repaint the space behind it. Then watch it dry. Tough choice: both have similar attractions. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.70 |
Oh, you poor, poor people. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
My interest in F1 starts and ends with Max Mosley, I'm afraid. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.74 |
Ho ho. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
Mark, Auntie Climax is coming for tea: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8186319.stm | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Oh Anti-Climax! For a good long and rather chucklesome while there I thought it was some utterly bizarre porn thing. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
Your mind's a cesspit, sir. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.71 |
What a ponce. A bad neck... I drove from the south coast to Yorkshire the other week deaf in one ear, with one eye closed and weeping with conjunctivitis, and the usual hammering pain of ME and the fatigue of total exhaustion. And in a knackered 12-year-old Peugeot, not the latest Ferrari. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
says he after posting that bottom joke on the cold prey thread. Shame on you, you hypocrite | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
That was for GF, it seems I crossed posts with mr Lynch | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
And before anyone from the other side of the pond tries to point out that GF posted a willy joke not a bottom joke, Bottom is the name of the programme GF lifted it from | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
Bottom is far too sophisticated for non-British viewers. I fear they wouldn't understand the complex wit and subtle imagery. Here's just one example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/stage/2003/11/images/bottom_270.jpg | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.118.49 |
...and here's another example - chatting by the washing line:-  | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>and the usual hammering pain of ME and the fatigue of total exhaustion.<< Mark - are you an ME/chronic fatigue sufferer too? So am I! Well, I was - until I started getting lots of pain too and they rediagnosed me with fibromyalgia last year. In fact, I'm not sure if it's a rediagnosis or a new diagnosis. Maybe I have ME/CFS and FM? Just think how many letters I could put after my name with that lot! Seriously, nice to meet a fellow sufferer - well, I don't realy mean "nice" as it's not nice to suffer at all, but you know what I mean.  | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.72 |
I do, Caroline. Had it since I was a kid, spent most of my early and mid-twenties in bed. Not fun times. I'm walking with a stick these days, on and off, but getting by, sort of. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.68 |
Incidentally, Caroline, I take capsule form propollis, find it of enormous benefit. when I don't take it I disintegrate. It's especially good for keeping colds away. Without it I have a new cold every other week. Other folk I've put onto it find it's helped them. Uh, sorry for turning this into an ailments thread, other folk! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>Incidentally, Caroline, I take capsule form propollis<< Never heard of that - I'll google it and see if I can find some! Jeeze, that must be awful to have had it since you were a kid. At least I had an active childhood/youth and didn't get it till I was in my 30's. I've never been housebound/bed-ridden with it either thankfully, but it still affects my quality of life constantly. Hey, maybe we should have a special ailments thread? This is your thread anyway, Mark, so we're not highjacking anyone else's. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.68 |
'I've never been house-bound/bedridden' Ah, you're one of those softies, then. ;-) Actually, my fave folk who get ME are celebs. It's convenient they get it for 6 months, during the end of which time they suddenly have pert new boobs and a tighter face... I figure, having had it many moons, I'll come out of it looking three years old if that's how it works. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>'I've never been house-bound/bedridden' Ah, you're one of those softies, then. ;-) << On the contrary, I've kept going when others would have crumbled!  >>Actually, my fave folk who get ME are celebs. It's convenient they get it for 6 months, during the end of which time they suddenly have pert new boobs and a tighter face...<< Hmmmm, it definitely hasn't worked that way for me then! BTW just ordered some of that propolis. Thanks for that tip. I see it's from bees, so I couldn't help but think of that Tales of the Unexpected story "Royal Jelly" which starred Timothy West. Anyway, we'll have to see if it helps. It might stop me from getting swine flu anyway! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.73 |
Yup, keep taking the propolis. It's not an immediately obvious effect. More cumulative. But you'll notice if you stop taking it after a while. I initially tried it 6 months, didn't think it'd had any effect. Then I stopped taking it and really felt its impact. Good luck! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.71 |
It has to be said that the race that decided the championship this year was a belter. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Mark - it was YOU who put me on to the propolis then! I knew it was on a thread here somewhere, but I couldn't remember which thread, or who it was who told me about it until you resurrected this. Anyway, I have to say a big "thanks" to you. By this time of year I'm usually laid low with flu, yet I've not had a sniffle at all this year. Anyway, back to motor racing. Although I'm bored silly by it, it was nice to see another Brit become the world champ again this year .. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.71 |
Hey, that's great, Caroline. It keeps me going. The moment I stop taking it, you can bet a sniffle's on the horizon. It's not invincible, but the difference it's made to me is immense. | ||
| Alexicon (Alexicon) Username: Alexicon Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 88.106.84.212 |
One for Mark Lynch - who could well be a petrolhead. Mark,go to YouTube and type 'Westfields held up by BMW driver' into the search box. Play it full-screen and full volume and watch the Beemer brick out into a layby. An enjoyable 8 minutes,methinks... | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.70 |
Ha! Thanks for that! |