The European Grand Prix

[RallyRaider]

I'm just going to pick out this bit of your last post because the multiple quotes have reached the point of diminishing return.

Originally Posted by ales

Don't you get the ITV feed and commentary? That's not your fault, I suppose, getting influenced by their bitterness also isn't I suppose. You're just an unfortunate victim of circumstances

Yes we get the ITV feed here as well as some insipid comments and local "colour" by a couple of Australian clowns. Are they bitter? Wouldn't know because I hardly ever listen to them, cause they very rarely have anything interesting to say. I just watch the pictures and the laptimes, means I have to form my own opinions - is that unusual?

Is your assumption that I blindly follow the opinions of the talking heads on the idiot box based on your personal experience? Does that mean you blindly follow your national know nothing commentators? Wouldn't happen to be of Germanic extraction would they? Explains a lot Alex.

[Layla's Keeper]

Originally Posted by RallyRaider

The fair "weather Ferrari fan" jibe was a dig at LK who likes to big note himself for predicting the bleeding obvious.

I was 'effin weaned from my mother's teat while watching the Cavaillano Rampante take a beating while Alboreto and Berger were driving, and you call me a fair weather fan? I watched all the lean years. I watched as men like Mairesse, Berger, Alesi, and Alboreto (always my favorite, I cried when he died testing that Audi) struggled with a Ferrari team that had lost all direction, all focus, all sense of self. God, they were NOTHING without Il Commendatore up until Montezemolo brought Schumacher on board and surrounded Schumacher with the best team money could buy.

And the team wasn't much for the few years that Enzo Ferrari was still alive after Gilles Villeneuve died. I may not have been born early enough to have seen him run, but my father told me just how important the man Il Commendatore called "his favorite" was.

Hell, I grew up watching Ferraris get 7th and 11th while the only interesting thing going on up front was wondering if Senna and Proust would crash into each other, or if Mansell could stick it to them both. I love Ferrari for being Ferrari. And I love that I finally get to see Ferrari winning the way my father told me they used to win when he was a kid. It was tough for a while, growing up around dad's tales of Lauda, Schekter, Pironi, and Villeneuve. But finally I see the Prancing Horse my father saw. And I love it.

So, from the bottom of my diehard Ferrari heart, shove it.

[RallyRaider]

You watched Mairesse? Explain to us just when you did that and we'll talk. Until then I have to assume everything else is a lie too.

[ales]

I thought you'd be able to figure out that Estonian commentators are almost as much Mclaren (mostly Mika and Kimi) fans and supporters as the Finnish ones. They hate Schumacher's guts too, not as much as you, probably, but enough to make your supposition laughable.

Pick another part, preferably the one asking for your opinion.

[RallyRaider]

Originally Posted by ales

I thought you'd be able to figure out that Estonian commentators are almost as much Mclaren (mostly Mika and Kimi) fans and supporters as the Finnish ones. They hate Schumacher's guts too, not as much as you, probably, but enough to make your supposition laughable.

Pick another part, preferably the one asking for your opinion.

How the hell would I be able to fugure out what Estonian commentators talk about Alex? See the question marks in my post? Do you know why I went through the effort of typing them? - It's you and your assumptions that are laughable.

Why should I bother to give my opinion? Seems guys like you and LK are quite happy to assign me one without consultation

[ales]

Well, after your question marks I also see an answer that you yourself give.

I have been asking you for your opinion, or evaluation, for a good dozen of posts now, if you don't feel like giving it, just say so and we'll end this.

[RallyRaider]

I answered those questions? That does explain a lot Alex.

Come on Alex, You have asked me the same question over and over. I have already answered. If you are unobservant enough to have noticed that, I am not interested in repeating myself.

Okay so we end it.

[ales]

I just reread all the posts here, didn't find your answer to the question, sorry. Again, I'm a blind follower, so I guess it makes sense. Whatever, Phil.

[RallyRaider]

Knew you couldn't end it

[ales]

Trying to put in the last word?

[RallyRaider]

In every discussion we have ever had it seems you always have to have that Alex. I seriously doubted it would be different this time. Once again, go ahead and whore it up, be my guest.

[ales]

Only happy to oblige. If you stop trying to end the discussion with something that needs answering, then perhaps I won't feel the need to reply to that. Had you said: "I don't feel like answering your question" I wouldn't have said a word.