Ponty

Hmmm, do they though? If that were the case they would have made a statement that the diffuser was legal, end of story. They haven't done that, in fact they (the FIA) have said that it's too late to do anything before the first race, in order to clarify it, so the only course of action is for the stewards to deal with it in Melbourne. They added that in their non-expert opinion it looks ok, but from history we know that means jack sh**. I'd suggest it's more of an attempt to destabilise the FOTA agreement, which is very strongly united against both the FIA and FOM at the moment. A bit of infighting and snitching between the teams is exactly what Max and Bernie need to push through their ridiculous budget caps and points systems for next year.

Bah.

The RSS news feed is back!

I agree with Wilts. There may be an amount of crap that, as an administrator, I'm forced to turn a blind eye to if it doesn't break any rules but, at the end of the day, I'm actually just a decent bloke with no real tolerance for those devoid of humanity. Posting ill-informed, bigotted or just downright nasty comments about anybody is neither big nor clever and when it's someone who's just died, aged 27, it's just sick. You didn't like her, we get it. We'd got it already in the last thread where you were metaphorically ****ing on her body, it really didn't need saying again. I doubt you'll find one person on here who'd claim to be a fan of her or her work - why would they? - but there are plenty who've spoken well of her final campaign to raise awareness of a terrible disease and provide for her sons, while you sit their raining your sick judgement from your high horse. If you think I shouldn't have an opinion because I'm an administrator, that's fine, I don't care what you think about it. If my peers feel the same, that's fine too because my principles count for more to me than having the ability to lock a thread or two.

I locked the thread because it had run its course. Yes, my post was "for real", whatever you mean by that. No, it's not some regime you've imagined up, and therefore it won't be applied across the forum or the main board. There's simply a thing called decency. You might have heard of it, although I'm not going to take that for granted, and I think it was missing from that thread. I was hardly being self-centred, after all I'm not the one starting a new thread to whine about it.

Whoever added that last sentence: It's the 24th.

Not much else going on at the moment then?

If you lot don't stop it I'm turning this car around and we're going home.

We have to assume it's by close of business. 5.30 maybe? FTR, I don't believe we'll be volunteering for anything and nor should we be.

Or he could speculating as much as anybody else. We'll see in about 40 hours.

Might as well, Full Member.

I cannot believe some of the callous, heartless people that our society has bred. If you've got nothing positive to contribute, don't bother contributing at all. What's the point? No one gives a toss what you've got to say anyway, you're just making yourselves look like ****s. A mother died and cervical cancer awareness was raised. Neither of those things seem particularly refutable to me, so why bother trying?

Can I just say, there's a bit of a difference between a fire engine and an ambulance, dimensionally as much as anything else.

I expected nothing less from you, however.

Ahhhh disappointing. I thought better of you WS.

I'll be back tonight to infract any subsequent puns on this thread.

I hate puns. Sarcasm may be called the lowest form of wit but it's a hell of a lot better than the use of puns.

Don't start.

So he is capable of saying the right things then...

If only I'd have known that's all it took. Seriously though, Windass? Really?

Not Wideass, that's for sure.

I had no idea things were that bad.

Arsehole.

Good news.

So educating people that those letters really shouldn't be ignored is not worthwhile then?