Oh girls, here I thought it was bad enough when a guy didn't know the difference between open wheeled racing and NASCAR.  LOL.  Exile from Guyville for sure.

Just remember, the leaders of the community don't write blogs.  Nor do they tend to reply to them.  They are doing real leader things, you know drawing org charts, having meetings, eating doughnuts.  The blogs are for the people not doing that.

Trans people seem so touchy about stereotypes, perceived or actual.

I don't see every black man in the country witchin a fit when Ice Cube is on the radio rappin his junk about shooting cops and white people and tappin whores and snorting cocaine.

Just because they don't agree with it, doesn't mean they're overly sensitive to the point of being obnoxious.  I'm sure a lot of people laughed at that commercial, the ones who weren't disgusted by seeing fat guys running around in skimpy stripper getups.

I wanna make a commercial about fat ugly people... and diet soda.

Quote from: tekla on June 17, 2009, 08:45:07 AM
Oh girls, here I thought it was bad enough when a guy didn't know the difference between open wheeled racing and NASCAR.  LOL.  Exile from Guyville for sure.

Just remember, the leaders of the community don't write blogs.  Nor do they tend to reply to them.  They are doing real leader things, you know drawing org charts, having meetings, eating doughnuts.  The blogs are for the people not doing that.

I've got better things to do than watch cars turn left. 

Personal Opinion (of course)

American commercials appear to be so tame. Very conservative.

This commercial wouldn't register on the radar in Oz.

Don't understand the "joy" of Nascar. Just seem to go around in circles. No chicanes etc. Then again I don't watch motor sport anyway

So my opinion on car racing is pretty well crap really.

Cindy

Not all NASCAR event are turn left, this weekend we do the famous "beer and Bordeaux" race at a road course in the heart of wine country.

Personally, I love the classic weekend at Laguna Seca in Monterey where all the old Dino Ferraris, the bathtub Porches, the old Shelby GTs get hauled out of the garages and car shows and really run. 

And yes Cindy, it is very tame stuff, but we have a soft underbelly of whiners here that is amazingly loud and shrill.  We try to ignore them however.

Quote from: CindyJames on June 18, 2009, 03:26:08 AM
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Don't understand the "joy" of Nascar. Just seem to go around in circles. No chicanes etc. Then again I don't watch motor sport anyway

So my opinion on car racing is pretty well crap really.

I have to agree that oval racing leaves me somewhat cold.

The most enjoyable for me are the MotoGP motorcycle racing.  It could be the 125cc's with no-fear teens 6-abreast around corners, or the big bores with folks like Rossi et al doing their thing.  Personally, even F1 gets dull compared to a good m'bike race.

-J

Nothing beats a high speed cop chase.  Think of how much more interesting NASCAR could be with guns blazing and pit crews running out to put down spike strips in front of their competitors.  Now, that's excitement.

lol!

Mind you, please please can we not have that really annoying retired sheriff (John Bunnell) with his exaggerated melodramatic narrative?  I think he narrates on World's Wildest Police Videos.

Drive fast; turn left.

Ahh the Games.  Now that was sport.  "Those who are about to die salute you!"  Most excellent entertainment, the original circus.  I mean, even in the filming of the Ben Hur race someone died - and you have to love Hollywood - they left it in the film so we can see him die over and over still today.  Hard way to go, but hey, even if the stagehand died, no reason to scrap the print eh?

Still, most film buffs find the Ben Hur race a pale copy and rip-off of the 1925 race staged for Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ staring Ramon Novarro.  Over 200,000 feet of film was shot for that sequence.  Pretty amazing stuff.

You can see it here.
http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/ben-hur-chariot-race-clip/

NA$CAR isn't racing anymore, it's TV entertainment.

Give me short track open wheel racing anyday (sprints, super modifieds, midgets etc)

Quote from: tekla on June 18, 2009, 09:42:54 AM
Personally, I love the classic weekend at Laguna Seca in Monterey where all the old Dino Ferraris, the bathtub Porches, the old Shelby GTs get hauled out of the garages and car shows and really run. 

Saw a bit of that last year.  Pretty neat.

NA$CAR isn't racing anymore, it's TV entertainment.

Not even good entertainment at that.  Once they tossed out the stock cars and put custom engines in them so fast they needed restrictor plates, they turned the suck up 3000%.   It's just not the same.  However I lived off and on near Knoxville Iowa, and every year they had the sprint car championships there, and that stuff was rock and roll each and every second.

OMG one of these days I'm going to the Knoxville Nationals. I'd love to see that in person

Even people who think racing is go fast turn left are blown away by Knoxville.