F1, Darts, and a little bit of everything

The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice Beth, she/her, 20s, UK. Queer as in Fuck You. LGBTQ+ Rights. Anti-TERF.

[lauda4theback]

Finally watched Tip Toe last night

[1644505183]

his 106 win is breaking records and making new ones🎉

[redbullyoinksyourwiiings]

THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING TO REMIND ME WHO I AM

[anonpolls]

How much time do you spend STYLING (not including washing) your hair on a typical day?

None, because I don’t have hair

None, even though I do have hair

Less than 5 minutes

5-10 minutes

10-20 minutes

20-30 minutes

30-60 minutes

More than 60 minutes

Varies too much to call any of the above “typical”

Voting ended onApr 10

Thanks, Anon!

-submit your poll!-

[formulatrash]

right, ok, haha teehee Max insisted on a journalist being thrown out of the press conference before he'd talk. must be one of the bad guys, right? [Padme meme]

no. it's Giles Richards. he's the Guardian's F1 correspondent. Giles is one of a tiny handful of F1 journalists with any frickin principles at all and a tiny percentage of people in motorsport who's left wing.

it's literally just Max taking affront that he got asked exactly the same sort of question anyone else gets asked when they lose a championship ('do you regret a mistake that cost you points, now') Lando got asked the same thing, pretty brutally, the previous year. Lewis was even asked it in 2021 re: Baku. this is a normal fucking question.

throwing Giles out of a press conference months later is child behaviour. if Max can't take a tough (but very much predictable) question then, well, maybe time to spend six months psychoanalysing whether his head is cooked.*

there are so many genuinely bad guys in that room - like let's just take one example here but literally everyone in the F1 paddock knows who Adam Cooper is. he actually advertises the teenage girl modelling agency he runs on the back window of his car for the European rounds. he has been credibly accused of grooming and is publicly and loudly vile to any woman he meets. he's still in the fucking presser though isn't he!

*I don't think anyone should do this. but as an example of really quite unpleasant stuff he was not asked and other drivers put up with fairly serenely this is, y'know. quite a big one last year.

[abbiistabbii]

The Germans really cooked making "Hobbyless behaviour" an insult. It is both devastating, applicable to a wide range of people and behaviours, and doesn't resort to swearing.

Man ranting on the internet about the Superbowl halftime show or complaining that something is "woke"? Hobbyless Behaviour. Girls mocking another girl for not looking right? Hobbyless Behaviour. Mindless vandalism? Hobbyless Behaviour.

It is more powerful than "get a life" or the English "You're Sad" because it gets to the central point of the matter, and that is wonderful. Danke, Deutsch.

[stargazermeadow]

yall should take this face blindness test and rb with what you got bc im curious

70-75

65-70

60-65

55-60

50-55

45-50

40-45

<40

Voting ended onMar 23

Interactive measure of face memory, free, 3-6 minutes.

[xylophonetangerine]

woke (adj.) of or relating to replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver

[wejustvibing]

Q: Do you feel as though you're now back to your best after a bit of a tricky first year?

LH: I definitely feel like I'm back to both mentally and physically my best, yes. I still think there's room to improve. Training this winter has been the heaviest and the most intense that I've ever, ever had. And that probably comes hand in hand with being older. It takes longer to recover. But I've managed to pull these new tools. I've got a great new trainer, well, a great trainer that I've been working with in the past, but we were together since Christmas Day. And then the time at the factory, obviously a new engineer, and that's obviously been a real good boost as well. Great morale within the team.

And as I said, just decided on Christmas Day how I was going to start this season. I decided what I was going to do mentally. And I'm gonna to continue to tweak that. I do think there's more to come. I think I can still eke out more performance from this car. I'm still learning about it as I go, particularly with deployment and that. And then on the backside, mid to end of last year, really digging deep with the engineers and talking to them about the things that I wanted. from a car that I didn't have any part of developing last year to then developing the car with them this year. And to see them listen and put some of those things that I'd asked for on the car, I'm incredibly grateful for them for listening on that side of things. And it just makes you feel more united with everyone because you're moving in the same direction. So I'm looking forward to getting back next week to Maranello and seeing everybody. And yea, big, big push

[f4therlesssss]

this isn’t a “blog” we are having tea together. do you take sugar

[etiennelux]

reading a negative review of something you love written by a person who very clearly didn’t understand it at all

[hannahp0calypse]

reading a positive review of something you love written by a person who very clearly didn't understand it at all

[estebanbicon]

the new f1 regulations are

far superior to the previous one

neutral/nuance/i'm bald

far worse than the previous one

Voting ended onMar 19

[xalatath]

Tumblr banned porn to appeal to advertisers only to exclusively host ads for links you wouldn't touch even while wearing full PPE

[l8tof1]

GIRL WHO IS GOING TO BE OKAY!!!!!!!!!

[lauda4theback]

What I find really frightening about this start to the f1 season are the number of "fans" who think a lot of DNFs/DNSs especially at the start of a season is an awful thing/sign of something completely wrong. Like, no, this is normal, this is regular, this is how things worked most years before the cost cap neutered the sport. If you think this is bad you'd have completely shat yourself in the '90s when the season results had bits that looked like this

[pridehelmet]

fernando losing feelings in his hands is not something to celebrate btw or joke about. i do NOT care if you hate the man, we are not celebrating something developing a devastating and life altering disability

[wejustvibing]

It's been so long to get here *laughs* When I joined Ferrari, I had no idea what I was in for. You know, last year was obviously a huge struggle and whilst I had my first sprint win here in my second race, but also the rest of the season was very very tough. So to then rebound, to rebuild and come back here with the team, lots and lots of changes. Come in here.. I'm feeling fit, feeling as good as I do at 41. And racing against these young lads, you know, 19, 28, 25 year old guys, I felt like I was able to give it as good as I got today, feeling really really grateful...