Cortese's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

Have a safe flight .................

 

Sky going crazy and signing long contracts with different sporting events. Wouldn't surprise me if they try and bid big for the next Prem rights.

 

As long as they have signed one for NFL coverage, don't really care about anything else (except perhaps cricket).

 

Driving.

 

In other news, looks like Red Bull are having a spot of bother at the F1 testing. Shame, that. #schadenfreude

 

Early days .

GBS will be along soon I imagine

 

You called?

I for one welcome the fact that Red Bull have had a troubled start to testing Losing pretty much three days of running is gonna leave them on the back foot for a while yet I imagine.

 

Aaaahhh it's easily recoverable. Williams were all dominant in testing a couple of years ago....and.....well, it just tends to make fools of us all when predictions are made like that. McLaren and Mercedes both look strong (no coincidence that it's the same power-plant) but to read anything at all into what's happening currently would be madness.

RBR have the nous and ability to sort their problems out. Not ideal, no, but I wouldn't start getting excited just yet.

 

Spot the typo.

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Those blooming polytechnics

 

I dunno...in an age where testing is key, losing a quarter of that to what appears to be a fundamental problem does not bode well for them at all. They haven't even had the chance to go through all the install procedures that most of the other teams have already completed.

Where the other teams can go to the tests in Bahrain and continue with their testing progress, Red Bull will be at square one. That said, so will Lotus. So who knows...

 

Those polytechnics are all getting above themselves, calling themselves universities. They'll be inciting nursery schools to call themselves seminaries next, you just wait.

 

Haha, the politics begin. Apparently there's going to be protests to the FA about McLaren's fat rear wishbones - rivals think they're there for aero purposes. Seems somebody's rattled already.

 

The FIA approved those last summer. The only way they'll get banned is if Ferrari are protesting.

 

Reddit's imaginary internet points are strange - I submit one (non-original content) link and get more points in a few hours than all of my amazing insightful comments combined. People should like me more.

 

What sort of a thing did you post? I actually haven't posted anything myself and therefore have no link karma.

 

There are already questions about the legality of Renault's twin tusk front nose. Tell you what, the cars look ugly as ****, but it's gonna be a very interesting season!

 

Big story developing in the Copa del Rey tonight. Racing Santander's players are striking on the pitch after going half a year without pay...

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They forfeited the game against Real Sociedad too, who now go through to the Semi Final.

 

I posted the Hernanes video, it's among the top things in /r/soccer at the moment. Nobody else had posted it and I thought it was pretty interesting. (my internet secrecy is gone, you can find the wealth of interesting things I've posted now)

 

27 hours a day? You were lucky..... etc.