Author Topic: Jeremy Clarkson-The Good The Bad The Ugly (Read 10219 times)

eagl · « **Reply #405 on:** January 20, 2007, 10:56:44 AM »

Yea, you got it

eagl · « **Reply #406 on:** January 20, 2007, 11:00:12 AM »

Why the ignore sub-topic is actually ON topic...

The original thread is about some a tv personality who plays up anti-american sentiment to make his auto review tv show more popular in the UK. The idea that his opinion is worth less, possibly to the point of ignoring him entirely, is relevant. By extension, that's pretty much what we're talking about with forum ignores.

No, this isn't back-seat moderation

I'm just saying...

moot · « **Reply #407 on:** January 20, 2007, 11:46:30 AM »

Lucidity is such a curse, huh ?

Bronk, "efficient" was the key word.
Were a car's design such that extracting performance from it was not only counter-intuitive (which proper pilot-craft takes care of), but counter-productive, it would make for a pretty odd "driver's car".
e.g. a well-handling mini-car on a fast, sweeping road, or a TVR Speed12 in Monaco or San Francisco.
A realistic example for me, is powerful FF cars, but that's just me.

lazs2 · « **Reply #408 on:** January 21, 2007, 09:58:23 AM »

eagl... I guess it was the informing everyone in your sig thing that got me.. I see nothing wrong with ignoring someone but... nothing right about it either.

I mean... I can see who is posting.. I can skim through it in a sec. There might be a neat pic or cartoon or link... why not check it out?

Thank you for reading what I have to say from time to time. I admit that I am somewhat pragmatic and tend to distill things to their basic black and white. It just works for me.

I do tend to get a little angry with the academics who talk about gun control from a position of thousands of miles away from here and as a subject of some ancient royalty system.... or people talking about cars who drive a honda or whatever... telling me that I don't know what is good for me or that my experiance is less worthy than their research.

They have never been in a situation where a gun saved them or someone around em.. One time and it all becomes crystal clear what it is all about...

they have never drifted a muscle car unto the freeway sideways at 70 mph... they have never rode in a 32 ford with a big block in it. till you have... you don't know what is meant when we talk about the experiance... till you built one... you can't talk to me about the modified scene here. we can discuss it but... gonna have to take the word of the people who have done it on what it is all about.

Maybe it is smug to say that living 5 decades gives you some perspective on what it was like when people minded their own business more and whether that was good or not... on whether it is evil to have creeping socialism and the loss of indivduality...

oh... I admit that my spelling and punctuation is just plain terrible. Hopefully.. enough gets through that I make my point.

lazs