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wood

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  1. LOL yeah I used to do stuff like that when my boys were little, then I'd forget about 'em and find 'em years later (the gifts, not the boys).
  2. WTF was up with the refs late? We score & then after the faceoff Borque is going after the puck behind the goal. He gets tackled from behind within seconds and is on his back with a guy on top of him the entire time. He gets 4 minutes for Roughing. What in the actual fuck? Then, there's the guy taking down one of our guys on the boards, then starts throwing fists outta the blue after he has him on the ice. Ref is literally standing there watching the whole thing for 5-10 seconds and just stands there & does nothing. It was truly bizarre.
  3. 3 or 4 of those cars aren't ugly at all in race trim.
  4. So I've been wondering for a while what Renault was doing re: F1, thinking it looked a lot like they're winding their F1 participation down. Now there is a rumor that GM/Andretti are buying the team, engines included. This is great re: getting Andretti into F1 and getting rid of a shitty team, but I hate the idea of F1 being limited to 10 teams going forward. Unreal.
  5. Went to the Texas Stars game tonight vs Rockford (Blackhawks). Fun game. Won 5-3. Uh ... interesting reffing. Late in the first period we had 5 guys in the box - at the same time. That'll probably be the only time I'll ever see that. Good time.
  6. Yep, and he and Fernando have already been talking about racing WEC together. That team would be just a little loaded.
  7. And now we can add in a 'Max to AM' rumor. https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/why-aston-martin-could-beat-mercedes-f1-race-sign-verstappen/10587065/
  8. Yup. But who knows ... Would be cool to see Max at Merc, Lewis and Chuck fucking with each other at Ferrari, Alonso at RBR, and maybe Albon at AM.
  9. In the box score it said it was to CF. Was it over the monster?
  10. Huh? The car's race pace was dreadful in Bahrain, but it was improved in Jeddah, and with that came better defense by Alonso. He held George out of DRS range for the last 37 laps of the race, keeping him behind by 1.0 to 1.5 seconds almost the entire time. Put him in a quick car, and watch him go. Racecraft is not a problem for Fernando.
  11. And Alonso to slide nicely into his car at RBR. I could go for that ...
  12. The tires are quite vanilla. There's no reason they can't mix things up by separating the compounds by more than just 1 step, varying the compound choices at each track from year to year etc. It's stupid and just adds predictability rather than variability, which is what they should be trying to add. Same thing with the engine reliability rules.
  13. Indeed. He was stationary on that stop for 42 seconds, dropping him from P14 to last on the track. Huge hit to his race that he had no control over. With even a decent stop, he'd have left the pits ahead of Sargeant, Bottas, and Ocon, and very likely would have finished right behind Yuki at worst. Yep and last year he was parachuted in mid-season, to a car he'd never driven in anger. Raced 2 races and then broke his hand and returned while rehabbing that. That crash wasn't his fault as he simply had nowhere to go when Piastri crashed in front of him. I'm not saying he's back yet, but IMHO he's done a lot more to warrant a further look than some others out there have.
  14. I'm not so sure he was still in the box. It looked like he was out of it to me, but I guess the transponder says he wasn't. It adversely affected his start. The problem is that whether he was out of the box, and whether he stopped or not, and whether or not he gained an advantage, he clearly moved before the lights were out which is a clear no-no according to the rulebook, because of how other drivers can react to the jumped start, etc. He moved before the lights went out and was moving when they went out. He didn't stop until after they went out.
  15. I just saw the ruling. They said that even though they could see that he moved early, the transponder didn't indicate a jumped start. Idiotic rule. So even though we can see that he jumped the start, our machinery that's less sensitive than our eyes says it didn't happen, so we're gonna go with what it tells us. It's happened before, too. So stupid. Don't remember Alonso getting away with it. He did get penalized in China 2010. I was thinking Bottas had gotten away with it on this basis though, and Vettel, and Lewis in Brazil last year.
  16. Haven't had a chance to look anything up yet. Was it ever explained why Norris got no penalty for an obvious jumped start? Oh, and apparently RB botched RIC's pit stop, dropping him from 14th to last, and it was never even mentioned.
  17. Yep. I saw somewhere that this AM would win last year's Bahrain GP by 53 seconds, yet they're still 4th or 5th quickest this year on Sunday. The improvements by all of the top 5 teams over the offseason was amazing. Yeah, man. He's impressed both days. Yeah, like years ago. I really enjoyed watching Fernando toy with George all day, like when a cat sits next to the lizard he just caught, pretending to ignore it, making it think it has a chance to escape but having no intention of letting it get away. Funniest quote was Russell saying if he had 2 more laps he would have been on the podium. LOL. Sure, George. 30 laps weren't enough, but 32 would've done the trick! Ya! Fersure! Youbetcha! He didn't say he intended to do it, but he said recently he thinks he could go close to 50 yo. He said his preseason physical testing results this year were as good as 10 years ago. I think he'll probably go beyond 50, just not all of it in F1.
  18. Yep, and we used to hear this kind of thing about Lewis and Vettel too.
  19. Well, see, (1) you didn't say you were in a class or left a class. You said you heard stuff around training during 'classes 125 and 126', which makes it unclear, and (2) nobody here has said we chase down fires all day, but we get a lot more fires, even serious, active structure fires, etc than the way you're characterizing it. Fires aren't all we do though, by a long shot. 60-70% of our calls are medical, and the fire department gets all the calls nobody else wants or knows how to handle. And nobody's disagreeing that there are some not-so-shining examples of 'the perfect employee' working in the fire service or in AFD, but you're taking your very small sampling of AFD that you got at training and a handful of incidents across several years, and applying it to the entire department and the entire fire service. Every department has those people going against the values of the profession, as does every profession, and we're always trying to keep them out or get them out if they get in. Training is Training, but what you experience there is not what you experience out in the 'real world' of the fire department. I'm not astonished and wasn't acting that way. What's weird is you projecting onto the entire fire service your narrow view that you formed in what was apparently not even an entire training academy term. Yeah I know about Devon Coney's death, which was horrible. A lot of AFD people knew Devon before he got in the academy. As Bob Nicks said in the article you linked, even though he was screened per fire service standards for incoming cadets, AFD learned from that and set about doing more than the national standard - which is typical of how AFD and some other departments work. I know about the crap that happened 7 years ago at station 15 at the hands of one bad actor, etc. That was all beyond despicable, but once he was found out, he was dealt with and was drummed out of the fire service because of it. In the old days, nobody would have ever heard about it. Painting the whole fire department and/or fire service with a broad brush based on your extremely limited experience and the actions of a handful of individuals is idiotic. If you're going to do that, you'll never find a single line of work that isn't 40-60-70% assholes in your mind. But hey, maybe you're right and we're all wrong.
  20. Interesting. I've never seen or even heard of any such behavior in nearly 30 years in AFD. Can you shed any light on your reason for being around all of those folks out at Shaw Lane and why these people would tell you any of these things? I can't tell if you're in the FD, or PD, work out there in some other capacity, or what. There aren't many FD personnel actually assigned to Training, so that's a very small sampling from a department with more than a thousand people in it. Also, most of the white shirts who would go to fires, ie Operations Battalion Chiefs, Shift Commanders, the Safety Chief, and the like aren't hanging out at Training much. All of them have multiple stations to oversee and plenty of fires to respond to. Any who are saying they can't remember when they went to a fire are almost certainly working an admin position running a support division.
  21. And me and my kid last night were talking about Newey. He's 65. Who knows how much longer he does this. When he goes, it'll be his proteges all battling each other. Could be cool.
  22. That's just F1. It's like this way more often than not. It's been similar to this for all but 2 or 3 of at least the last 15 seasons. It's not for everyone though. For me, it beats the alternatives, like BoP, success ballast, spec racing (which is fine but not in a constructor series), the lottery that NASCAR has become on big tracks, etc.
  23. OBTW that Alonso guy seems pretty good.
  24. I honestly think they stopped trying (again) sometime early last year. There have been rumors that Renault won't commit enough funding since before that. Embarrassing performance for a works team. I wonder if they're on their way out again.
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