Things I Like (Outside Of F1)
#1
Posted 26 February 2012 - 05:45 AM
Post your sporting/interests highlights packages here, and share what tickles your fancy.
(No Andre, you can't film your head and post it for people to "virtually" rub it)
#3
Posted 26 February 2012 - 05:54 AM
My boys:
#4
Posted 26 February 2012 - 06:11 AM
Can you spot us in the crowd (big hint, she has a pink blanket)? (this being the meeting I took her to)
The guy in the white car here is Tiger Wood's ex-caddy...NZ's Steve Williams
#5
Posted 26 February 2012 - 04:26 PM
#6
Posted 26 February 2012 - 04:38 PM
#7
Posted 26 February 2012 - 06:16 PM
Also, Ken Block's Gymkhana videos are pretty sweet but I imagine most people here know about those.
#8
Posted 26 February 2012 - 08:08 PM
Music: lots of indie and hunting for those rare covers that really make you enjoy a well known song in a different way.
Reading:
Non fiction: History, mainly ancient Greek/Roman/biblical age books, some of the less covered aspects of the middle ages, the two great wars and Agentinian history of the XXth century. Science, as long as it is delivered in a comprehensible language (Asimov like)
Fiction: currently reading "House of Leaves by M.Z. Danielewski. Deliciously unsettling. Don't you just think it's just the book version of The Blair Witch Project (they were more or less contemporary, it's a pity I watched the rather ordinary movie and the thousand copycats first instead of reading this book, the impact would have been greater).
Other books in the same vein (I call them "Non-Euchlidean books" or, if you prefer, "WTF are these about?"): Murakami books. I know he is so fashionable now, but the guy has an undeniable talent, just like Garcia Marquez in his days. "Magic for Beginners" by Kelly Link, and "The Raw Shark Texts" by Steven Hall (which I havent started yet, along with "253: a Novel" and "Double or Nothing"...will tell you when I get there)
"Great drivers are the ones who win the races they're not supposed to" - K.Chandhok
"On the rare occasions that I play a racing game I often think ‘you know what this needs? A boss battle or two.’ A Formula One game in which, suddenly, everybody else has a monster truck and their sole desire is to squash you. A street racing game with a tank or two blowing the roads and buildings to bits. A Nascar game with a track that occasionally bends to the right" (Adam Smith - RPS)
#9
Posted 26 February 2012 - 09:23 PM
Quiet One, on 26 February 2012 - 08:08 PM, said:
Music: lots of indie and hunting for those rare covers that really make you enjoy a well known song in a different way.
Reading:
Non fiction: History, mainly ancient Greek/Roman/biblical age books, some of the less covered aspects of the middle ages, the two great wars and Agentinian history of the XXth century. Science, as long as it is delivered in a comprehensible language (Asimov like)
Fiction: currently reading "House of Leaves by M.Z. Danielewski. Deliciously unsettling. Don't you just think it's just the book version of The Blair Witch Project (they were more or less contemporary, it's a pity I watched the rather ordinary movie and the thousand copycats first instead of reading this book, the impact would have been greater).
Other books in the same vein (I call them "Non-Euchlidean books" or, if you prefer, "WTF are these about?"): Murakami books. I know he is so fashionable now, but the guy has an undeniable talent, just like Garcia Marquez in his days. "Magic for Beginners" by Kelly Link, and "The Raw Shark Texts" by Steven Hall (which I havent started yet, along with "253: a Novel" and "Double or Nothing"...will tell you when I get there)
“We keep on working, we do our thing,” Vettel shouts over the team radio, “We are who we are!”
"Vettel is a champion. That’s not referring to his achievements, but rather to his approach to everything he does. He wins. All the time. His preparation is meticulous, his attention to detail reminiscent of Michael Schumacher at his peak, and his performance on the track is almost always flawless. Vettel is capable only of domination. He knows no other way... Vettel is not in Formula One to be liked. He is there to win. And in the words of Ayrton Senna, perhaps the greatest of all Formula One drivers, “Nice men don’t win.”"
Chris Cameron-Dow
#10
Posted 27 February 2012 - 02:20 PM
#46, on 26 February 2012 - 06:16 PM, said:
Zidane is among the GOATs with Di Stefano, Pelé, Maradona, Zidane... And few others.
Fray Luis de León said:
Tradition has it that he began his lecture the first day after returning from four years' imprisonment with the words "as we were saying yesterday..."
#11
Posted 27 February 2012 - 05:03 PM
AleHop, on 27 February 2012 - 02:20 PM, said:
Zidane is among the GOATs with Di Stefano, Pelé, Maradona, Zidane... And few others.
Ah yes, thanks Ale, that's pretty much what I'd thought. I see what you mean too, about Zidane and Federer, they certainly have/had that kind of elegance which makes it look easy, which is always an appealing quality in a sportsmen. Another example of that which springs to mind is Ronnie O'Sullivan in snooker (whose sporting idol happens to be Ayrton Senna):
#12
Posted 27 February 2012 - 05:24 PM
Everything else is irrelevant.
#13
Posted 27 February 2012 - 06:48 PM
#46, on 27 February 2012 - 05:03 PM, said:
LabradoRacer, on 27 February 2012 - 05:24 PM, said:
Everything else is irrelevant.
Fray Luis de León said:
Tradition has it that he began his lecture the first day after returning from four years' imprisonment with the words "as we were saying yesterday..."
#14
Posted 01 March 2012 - 12:47 AM
#15
Posted 01 March 2012 - 02:49 AM
A cold beer in the summer, all kind of prison films, a sunny and warm day, tripes a la Madrileña, kindle eBooks, rice a la paella, my new WP7 phone, Real Madrid beat Barça, discovering good songs of the past, Bethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Forrest Gump, etc.
Fray Luis de León said:
Tradition has it that he began his lecture the first day after returning from four years' imprisonment with the words "as we were saying yesterday..."
#16
Posted 01 March 2012 - 04:04 AM
- The United States, or at least the people, or maybe just the U.S. on paper, or the U.S. that's supposed to be. Whatever it is I like it a lot.
- Any place that's usually busy when it's empty. Bring one other person along and just talk etc. Everything is better at 3 AM.
- Summers. Early summer mornings, late summer nights.
- People who do not take themselves seriously. You can take your goals etc. seriously, but never yourself. Play your strengths, make fun of your weaknesses, admit your mistakes, just lighten up.
- New wave music (80s into the early 90s). Tears For Fears being my all-time favorite.
- When females in my age group call me a d**k/flirting. Used to hate that, then I figured out how to do it, now it's my only hobby.
- Going to auto races and ice hockey games.
- Terrible school dances in school cafeterias.
- Short, easy commutes, by car, never by anything else. Private transit all the way. #AMERICA!
- Cuddling with pretty girls with messy hair wearing sweatpants. Easy on the makeup, brunettes preferred, must smell nice because I smell nice, and never, NEVER, NEVER painted nails. They freak the **** out of me, so weird, agggh, no.
- Solid color v-neck t-shirts, usually size small.
- The look on people's faces when they hear my voice for the first time.
- Band of Brothers, Glory, Primal Fear, and Up.
- When people ask "are you from Philadelphia?"
- Decisive people, because I am not one.
- Personal hygiene. Every aspect of it. Very into hygiene.
- Being both c*cky and self-deprecating simultaneously...and when people pick up on that.
- People who dress well. If you can't tie a tie properly, I have no respect for you, unless you can't tie a tie because you think it's a woman's job to tie your tie for you, then I respect you again, though I personally tie my own ties, and never that four-in-hand kid stuff.
- Twitter, and not having a Facebook account.
- Cat's Cradle.
- High school and everything I did there, though it's been over for quite some time now.
- Peer mentoring, peer tutoring, all that stuff.
- Air-conditioning in my car in winter.
- Being the sober guy at a party where everyone else is sober.
- People who take me seriously when I'm not being serious.
- Kardashians reruns on E!.
- Small groups, small institutions, small networks, etc.
- Giving presentations.
- Spandex shorts as underwear...and as outerwear for sleeping.
- The one steak-and-cheese sandwich I eat in a year.
- Lists.
Things I don't like:
- Painted nails, obviously.
- Timepieces. Very thin wrists; watches just look dumb on me because of it.
- Cities.
- Days when I shave. Clean-shaven is the worst. Two or three days after is the best.
- Winter mornings.
- Clothes shopping as a thin-waisted male in a beer-bellied world.
- Quoting movies.
That's not everything but that should cover most of it.
#17
Posted 01 March 2012 - 10:14 PM
Painting.
Vidja games (currently the Star Wars MMO).
Drinking distilled and fermented grains.
Watching super hero flicks ('cause they're rad).
Books about most everything, specifically history of the 1700s, religion (all varieties), and the Crusades (Templars and Hospitaller in specific).
Conspiracy theories. I love them. Eat them up like candy corns. Nom Nom.
Piña Coladas.
Getting caught in the rain.
Making love at midnight.
I'm into Champagne.
sing it, bro.

______
Give me a roof over my head, some food to eat and a fast car. That's all I need.
That's all I'll ever need.
----Robert Kubica
"Gilles was the last great driver. The rest of us are just a bunch of good professionals."
----Alain Prost
The only true sports are motor racing and mountain climbing; everything else is just a game.
TF1 Blogs: be afraid, be very, very afraid..........
#18
Posted 01 March 2012 - 11:33 PM

Music connects people through the unspoken appreciation of something that sounds right. Something that taps into the deepest corners of your soul, making you feel alive. When someone else gets it too and you know they do, it feels beautiful.
"To be brutal and honest I don't have a thin skin and others who whine over every little thing will not curry favour. I'm just going to try to keep this place fun, as it has been for all of these years." Pumpdoc, 8th Decemeber 2010.
#19
Posted 02 March 2012 - 01:53 PM
To play: women, football, running, skiing, slot cars, table tennis
hobbies: amateur part time car designer, watch collector.
#20
Posted 02 March 2012 - 02:16 PM
Massa, on 01 March 2012 - 04:04 AM, said:
Massa, on 01 March 2012 - 04:04 AM, said:
“We keep on working, we do our thing,” Vettel shouts over the team radio, “We are who we are!”
"Vettel is a champion. That’s not referring to his achievements, but rather to his approach to everything he does. He wins. All the time. His preparation is meticulous, his attention to detail reminiscent of Michael Schumacher at his peak, and his performance on the track is almost always flawless. Vettel is capable only of domination. He knows no other way... Vettel is not in Formula One to be liked. He is there to win. And in the words of Ayrton Senna, perhaps the greatest of all Formula One drivers, “Nice men don’t win.”"
Chris Cameron-Dow
#21
Posted 02 March 2012 - 02:18 PM
Autumnpuma, on 01 March 2012 - 10:14 PM, said:
Painting.
Vidja games (currently the Star Wars MMO).
Drinking distilled and fermented grains.
Watching super hero flicks ('cause they're rad).
Books about most everything, specifically history of the 1700s, religion (all varieties), and the Crusades (Templars and Hospitaller in specific).
Conspiracy theories. I love them. Eat them up like candy corns. Nom Nom.
Piña Coladas.
Getting caught in the rain.
Making love at midnight.
I'm into Champagne.
sing it, bro.
“We keep on working, we do our thing,” Vettel shouts over the team radio, “We are who we are!”
"Vettel is a champion. That’s not referring to his achievements, but rather to his approach to everything he does. He wins. All the time. His preparation is meticulous, his attention to detail reminiscent of Michael Schumacher at his peak, and his performance on the track is almost always flawless. Vettel is capable only of domination. He knows no other way... Vettel is not in Formula One to be liked. He is there to win. And in the words of Ayrton Senna, perhaps the greatest of all Formula One drivers, “Nice men don’t win.”"
Chris Cameron-Dow
#22
Posted 02 March 2012 - 07:03 PM
dribbler, on 01 March 2012 - 11:33 PM, said:
Ah, you're a stilton fan.

______
Give me a roof over my head, some food to eat and a fast car. That's all I need.
That's all I'll ever need.
----Robert Kubica
"Gilles was the last great driver. The rest of us are just a bunch of good professionals."
----Alain Prost
The only true sports are motor racing and mountain climbing; everything else is just a game.
TF1 Blogs: be afraid, be very, very afraid..........
#23
Posted 03 March 2012 - 09:38 AM
Candlelight dinners with my wife
The sea - anywhere
Al Laboriel Jnr drumming
Jimi H playing
Keith Richards talking
Doodling on my 60-year-old Telecaster
Walking for miles with my dogs
Anything made by Apple
Edited by Insider, 03 March 2012 - 09:41 AM.
I put down something rude - sorry!
“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain”
#24
Posted 03 March 2012 - 09:31 PM
I love the apple pie I ate today (and enjoying good food, I think I found a new hobby
I really love spring, now is the nicest time of year ^^
I enjoy making plans - and having them ruined in a nice way
Staying home, going out
Reading a completely childish book and being told that I'm childish
Japanese manga (childish and not, but parents don't get the difference)
Music (although I definitely like reading more, and my musical likes are varied, meaning I'm still looking for the best for me)
Scott Pilgrim!

#25
Posted 03 March 2012 - 10:28 PM
John Henry Bonham
#26
Posted 05 March 2012 - 12:14 PM
Insider, on 03 March 2012 - 09:38 AM, said:
Doodling on my 60-year-old Telecaster
Is that a euphamism?

Music connects people through the unspoken appreciation of something that sounds right. Something that taps into the deepest corners of your soul, making you feel alive. When someone else gets it too and you know they do, it feels beautiful.
"To be brutal and honest I don't have a thin skin and others who whine over every little thing will not curry favour. I'm just going to try to keep this place fun, as it has been for all of these years." Pumpdoc, 8th Decemeber 2010.
#27
Posted 06 March 2012 - 02:30 PM
#28
Posted 08 March 2012 - 03:47 PM
AleHop, on 01 March 2012 - 02:49 AM, said:
A cold beer in the summer, all kind of prison films, a sunny and warm day, tripes a la Madrileña, kindle eBooks, rice a la paella, my new WP7 phone, Real Madrid beat Barça, discovering good songs of the past, Bethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Forrest Gump, etc.
I guess you must have seen Celda 211. I liked that movie; gave it 8/10.
#29
Posted 08 March 2012 - 04:39 PM
...now I just need to convince my parents to let me unload some of this stuff instead of keeping it in boxes "in case we ever need it again" or "you have children someday and they want this terrible old crap."
#30
Posted 08 March 2012 - 04:47 PM
LabradoRacer, on 08 March 2012 - 03:47 PM, said:
Fray Luis de León said:
Tradition has it that he began his lecture the first day after returning from four years' imprisonment with the words "as we were saying yesterday..."
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