Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

GDB2222

Ah, now I know what Tifosi means. Wikipedia says:

It has become common to use the word Tifosi to refer to the supporters of Scuderia Ferrari in Formula One. Italian motor racing fans are well-known for their love of Ferrari.
The Tifosi provide Formula One with some of its most iconic images, as a sea of red fills the grandstands at the Italian Grand Prix. A similar sight could be observed in former years during the San Marino race.
One of the most common Tifosi sights is the display of an enormous Ferrari flag in the grandstands during Formula 1 weekends at every race circuit, with especially large contingents showing up in Ferrari livery at home and nearby European tracks.
The recent increase in their ranks can be directly traced to the rise of Michael Schumacher, who drove for Ferrari from 1996 to 2006, leading the team to the Constructors' Championship from 1999-2004.

vivatifosi

GDB2222 wrote: »

Ah, now I know what Tifosi means.

MSE and Wikipedia: educational as well as entertaining;).

michaels

I don't get F1 - you can watch cars following each other round a circuit on the M25 every day. Perhaps we should reduce the size of all the commuters fuel tanks and put filling stations at every junction as well and then there would be 'over-taking' too...

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

I don't get F1 - you can watch cars following each other round a circuit on the M25 every day. Perhaps we should reduce the size of all the commuters fuel tanks and put filling stations at every junction as well and then there would be 'over-taking' too...

Do you like other sports michaels?

michaels

I get BTCC (or whatever it is now called).

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

... (hand you a form, and then you play darts to make important life decisions about what you want to be in a decades time, without really knowing the consequences of your decisions). Many people genuinely don't know what they want from life, and it would be a pity if people couldn't change their mind. On this and many other matters.

There was no advice, no consideration, no careers education, no discussions - we weren't even told what a University was (it wasn't for "our sort"). We were told "leave school, get a job" - and that was 2 years after we'd made paper darts.

Those with other experiences assume everybody got the same information, chats, etc that they did and can't imagine people being herded like sheep to pretty much be aimless and do nothing except "get a job".

No clue what jobs existed, or that there were routes/paths, that careers existed. Just "get a job" - and as there was a factory in my village that was where a lot ended up.

Then, once you've made your (non) choice, that's it as you're then on the earn/bills treadmill and it's impossible to get off or change direction unless somebody else is paying for the roof over your head... which turns out to be never for many.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

I get BTCC (or whatever it is now called).

I can't even guess what that is/means, so will now have to invent a rude phrase that it's an acronym for

That will probably be more entertaining than what it turns out to be.

PasturesNew

Today my head is buzzing with stuff about restoration techniques and Grade I/II listed buildings as I want to use the techniques they used for mouldings.

I wander far from my first Google before too long and find all this new fascinating stuff I can use to achieve what I need/want to achieve.

Yes. Restoration .... and "me stuff" .... I'm an artisan I think now, just for thinking of it.

Saw some old cr4p on t'Internet yesterday.... something that was a "piece of p155" and they'd used arty farty words and said it was artisan designed. I figured out this meant: Cut a rectangle out of wood. So, anybody's a bl00dy artist then - and an artisan. Need to bung £100 on the prices now I'm an artisan. Fact.

What a weird world that middle class place is, where you create a desire out of nothing, for ladies who lunch to coo over .... at inflated prices. I want a slice of that, so I am having to learn loads and think through processes and techniques that could be used.... just so I can talk b0llocks about something that's "p155 easy" to big it up and bung £100 on the price.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can't even guess what that is/means, so will now have to invent a rude phrase that it's an acronym for

That will probably be more entertaining than what it turns out to be.

British Touring Car Championship

Jason Plato's playground of choice.

fc123

:kisses3:

PasturesNew wrote: »

Today my head is buzzing with stuff about restoration techniques and Grade I/II listed buildings as I want to use the techniques they used for mouldings.

I wander far from my first Google before too long and find all this new fascinating stuff I can use to achieve what I need/want to achieve.

Yes. Restoration .... and "me stuff" .... I'm an artisan I think now, just for thinking of it.

Saw some old cr4p on t'Internet yesterday.... something that was a "piece of p155" and they'd used arty farty words and said it was artisan designed. I figured out this meant: Cut a rectangle out of wood. So, anybody's a bl00dy artist then - and an artisan. Need to bung £100 on the prices now I'm an artisan. Fact.

What a weird world that middle class place is, where you create a desire out of nothing, for ladies who lunch to coo over .... at inflated prices. I want a slice of that, so I am having to learn loads and think through processes and techniques that could be used.... just so I can talk b0llocks about something that's "p155 easy" to big it up and bung £100 on the price.

:kisses3: Happy Birthday PN. The above...it's called ''adding value''.

I just logged on to see of there was a thread on the Oxford St Riots.....my poor staff were terrrifiied and had to leave early (but I still paid them for the hours they couldn't work) and we lost a a serious 8 fig sum in T/O.