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MustardFacial posted:Driving a manual in a big city or in rush hour stop and go traffic is so awful MustardFacial posted:I've never actually done it with a sensible car. Manual wins / fatality. Call bernie tell them to have the manditory 5 speed H pattern ready by 2018. MustardFacial posted:Go to the junkyard and hack a working automatic out of another car and replace your broken one. Do not open that box of whispers and shadows. Like i said, it treats amazing machines like dixie cups. (with a side of dumpster diving)
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This conversation is very American. I believe trends are shifting with new cars but in the UK manual has always been the norm and anyone wishing to drive an automatic has had the traditional sneering "automatic gearboxes are far more expensive to replace you know" thrown at them. Mother, this car is a £400* G reg Ford Mondeo I am not planning on changing the gearbox. *in 2002, it died in 2010 and it was the big end, not the gearbox which was still working fine.
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learnincurve posted:This conversation is very American. I believe trends are shifting with new cars but in the UK manual has always been the norm and anyone wishing to drive an automatic has had the traditional sneering "automatic gearboxes are far more expensive to replace you know" thrown at them. Mother, this car is a £400* G reg Ford Mondeo I am not planning on changing the gearbox. English please.
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# ? Apr 6, 2016 23:17 |
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the number of americans who buy a car and take into consideration the cost to replace the transmission is perilously close to zero
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# ? Apr 6, 2016 23:23 |
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Has anyone brought up that Nico Rosberg was named in the Panama Papers thing? This is the source: http://www.focus.de/sport/formel1/panama-papers-formel-1-star-nico-rosberg-verwickelt_id_5406688.html edit: jarno trulli is listed too keevo fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Apr 6, 2016 |
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keevo posted:Has anyone brought up that Rosberg was named in the Panama Papers thing? nico, you live in a tax haven...
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# ? Apr 6, 2016 23:26 |
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Yeah it seems pretty daft that the man born in a loving tax haven needs more assistance in not paying tax.
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# ? Apr 6, 2016 23:54 |
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learnincurve posted:This conversation is very American. How dare you. 1500quidporsche posted:Yeah it seems pretty daft that the man born in a loving tax haven needs more assistance in not paying tax. Nvm, this is wrong. residents don't pay income tax. MustardFacial fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Apr 7, 2016 |
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I don't think we care about foreigners not paying tax but are OUTRAGED when people in our own countries do it. Turns out the guy who was in charge of the rich people avoiding tax investigation was part of it, as was our prime minister's father, and in a staggering twist of irony the tax man rents it's headquarters from people up to their necks in it. Britney is rather low on our newspapers agenda.
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learnincurve posted:Turns out the guy who was in charge of the rich people avoiding tax investigation was part of it who? gerard ryle most certainly was not
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be nice wicka posted:who? gerard ryle most certainly was not Wrong country. I forget the name of the chap but there are 6 members of the house of lords who have been busted and he's one of them.
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 00:19 |
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Would just like to point out that AMERICA in its second ever race finished ahead of EVERY BRITISH TEAM. Except for the fake British teams owned by Germans. America is amazing, I pity the United Kingdoms that are not United Stateses.
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 00:20 |
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learnincurve posted:Wrong country. I forget the name of the chap but there are 6 members of the house of lords who have been busted and he's one of them. i'm not sure what they had to do with it. the documents were leaked to a german newspaper who then shared them with the international consortium of investigative journalists.
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be nice wicka posted:i'm not sure what they had to do with it. the documents were leaked to a german newspaper who then shared them with the international consortium of investigative journalists. No no you misunderstand, Britain is involved with a big anti tax haven summit which is happening in June and a report on off shore tax avoidance was commissioned by the house of lords to be presented in may and the guy in charge of this report/investigation is up to his neck in it. I cannot even begin to describe what the house of lords is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 00:32 |
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Get this crap outta here.
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 00:34 |
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A question was asked Formula 1 news: Unless Bernie and Todt stop cocking about with quali and give them test details and dates Pirrelli may pull out http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/pirelli-warns-2017-testing-plans-must-be-finalised-this-month-685124/
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 00:37 |
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My problem with automatics is that I habitually ride the clutch when I'm sat in traffic, driving an automatic leaves me feeling bad for blinding the poor sod behind me with my brake lights because I'm too lazy to take it out of 'drive' and put it into 'park' to stop the inevitable crawl forward if I'm not also sitting on the brakes. I also suffer from 'phantom clutch pedal' when driving automatics. My left foot just doesn't know what the gently caress to do with itself. Automatics are just weird. In F1 news!...... erm.. Haas are doing rather well aren't they?
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 01:41 |
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Oh look, its the 2020 F1 car after we adopt canopies and 20 inch wheels http://www.topgear.com/car-news/modified/lamborghini-huracan-f1-car
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 01:46 |
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MattD1zzl3 posted:Oh look, its the 2020 F1 car after we adopt canopies and 20 inch wheels That's a loving cool concept. Just not a cool f1 concept.
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 02:01 |
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Yeah, but it's a Lamborghini so also not a great GT3 concept.
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Norns posted:That's a loving cool concept. Just not a cool f1 concept. I'm pretty sure its about a foot too wide to work on any road, visibility concerns aside.
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 02:41 |
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MattD1zzl3 posted:I'm pretty sure its about a foot too wide to work on any road, visibility concerns aside. Yeah I'm trying to figure out how what the track is from the pics because it seems like they want to mount the wheels outside of the main width of the body which 1) will look weird and 2) surely make it handle weird because wide track does not magically equal better handling
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 03:23 |
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Autosport released a table showing how much money every team got from last year's results. Kind of curious what Sauber's budget is like if they can't survive with this prize money and their pay drivers.
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 03:41 |
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Williams's accountant must be shaking because they are definitely getting beat by Haas this season and their payout is gonna drop even further
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 03:50 |
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Shaking with fear at the coming of the righteous American juggernaut.
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 04:23 |
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keevo posted:Has anyone brought up that Nico Rosberg was named in the Panama Papers thing? Given that he's already actively and openly practicing tax avoidance by residing in Monaco, surely this would be a legitimate extension of this behaviour? Even if the sum of his behaviour is probably considered somewhat illegitimate by Germany or Finland or wherever the gently caress he's from. Unless he's using Mossack Fonseca to fund ISIS I'll let Sky F1 draw that conclusion.
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 05:15 |
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That kinda reminds me of those bonkers time attack cars.
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 05:23 |
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French citizens btw have to pay French taxes in Monaco;no tax dodging for them!
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 06:07 |
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Reminder that the vote between new bad quali and old bad quali with some modifications is happening today.
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Whitey Ford posted:Given that he's already actively and openly practicing tax avoidance by residing in Monaco, surely this would be a legitimate extension of this behaviour? Even if the sum of his behaviour is probably considered somewhat illegitimate by Germany or Finland or wherever the gently caress he's from. idk why either of those countries would care considering he's literally never lived in finland and only spent parts of his childhood in germany. the guy is basically monegasque.
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 11:26 |
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He's a German national, and for comedy value also a Finland national. But like you say, neither country would care. Only a few countries tax an individual's worldwide income on the basis of nationality - the USA definitely does, and I think Mexico does too (sorry Sergio). Almost every other country taxes on a residence basis. This is one reason why rich Europeans often gently caress off to Monaco or Dubai, but rich Americans rarely do.
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 11:46 |
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http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/123649/formula-1-team-payments-for-2016-revealed LMFAO at the long standing 70m bonus for Ferrari, literally the villains of F1.
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 13:00 |
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http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-teams-demand-return-to-2015-qualifying-format-685351 All the teams have sent a letter to Bernie demanding the 2015 system back.
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Whitey Ford posted:Given that he's already actively and openly practicing tax avoidance by residing in Monaco, surely this would be a legitimate extension of this behaviour? Even if the sum of his behaviour is probably considered somewhat illegitimate by Germany or Finland or wherever the gently caress he's from. He's Tax Havenese.
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runoverbobby posted:He's a German national, and for comedy value also a Finland national. But like you say, neither country would care. Only a few countries tax an individual's worldwide income on the basis of nationality - the USA definitely does, and I think Mexico does too (sorry Sergio). Almost every other country taxes on a residence basis. I believe it's literally the USA, North Korea and Eritrea. Good company to be keeping guys.
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njsykora posted:http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-teams-demand-return-to-2015-qualifying-format-685351 Oh this is wonderful It's a not only but also as well, they are refusing to vote on the aggregate quali idea, or the modified new quali idea, so unless Bernie and Todt cave it will be elimination qualifying again in china. It's the sport which keeps on giving, it really is.
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be nice wicka posted:idk why either of those countries would care considering he's literally never lived in finland and only spent parts of his childhood in germany. the guy is basically monegasque. He holds dual nationality to both countries. Evidently only third world countries enforce this.
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# ? Apr 7, 2016 13:28 |
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lol this is getting better and better, Kimi of all people has sobered up, noticed what is going on and put several coherent sentences together which pretty much perfectly sum everything up. For those new to the sport, Kimi has never had an opinion on F1 politics in his life and usually mutters gibberish until the question goes away. http://www.crash.net/f1/news/229185/1/raikkonen-f1-politics-and-bullshit-is-crazy.html
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learnincurve posted:Oh this is wonderful It's a not only but also as well, they are refusing to vote on the aggregate quali idea, or the modified new quali idea, so unless Bernie and Todt cave it will be elimination qualifying again in china. It's the sport which keeps on giving, it really is. To be fair this is the only way we get things back to normal.
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1500quidporsche posted:To be fair this is the only way we get things back to normal. Honestly I feel like Bernie lives (literally) for power plays like this.
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