Title: French riots
Post by: Flobee1kenobi on November 08, 2005, 02:24:09 pm
Are the riots spreading mainly northeast, or are they just spreading all over the place? I hope they get it all out of their system by June. I heard this morning that it has started to show up in Bel. and Ger. so hopefully it has started to move in the opposite direction of the track
and oh, btw, Hello
I'm one of the new guys that joined the same time as Hardpoint and Warlock
I believe Canada Phil met Hardpoint at Road Atlanta this year. For me, Sebring and LeMans are locked and loaded-as is the USGP. Looking forward to seeing all of you folks at the track ;)
and oh, btw, Hello
I'm one of the new guys that joined the same time as Hardpoint and Warlock
I believe Canada Phil met Hardpoint at Road Atlanta this year. For me, Sebring and LeMans are locked and loaded-as is the USGP. Looking forward to seeing all of you folks at the track ;)
Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: Fax on November 08, 2005, 02:39:48 pm
Welcome Flobee,
Like you I'm finding these riots all a bit weird. However since the French love to turn up their noses at Americans every opportunity they get, most Yanks are watching this with a grin & a giggle. Like you hoping to be at Sebring and the Sarthe, but the USGP? You'll be one of the three hundred people there. I live in Cincy just a hundred miles away from Indy and I've got better things to do than watch the F1 girls, like clean the toilet.
Fax
Like you I'm finding these riots all a bit weird. However since the French love to turn up their noses at Americans every opportunity they get, most Yanks are watching this with a grin & a giggle. Like you hoping to be at Sebring and the Sarthe, but the USGP? You'll be one of the three hundred people there. I live in Cincy just a hundred miles away from Indy and I've got better things to do than watch the F1 girls, like clean the toilet.
Fax
Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: Gilles on November 08, 2005, 05:18:20 pm
A library and a primary school and a few cars burnt here in le Mans but they didn't attack the track and the museum for the moment...
... It's not so important that all foreign medias try to show it.
It's not a civil war and duriong the last month, you only (but it's already too much) 4 people killed.
... It's not so important that all foreign medias try to show it.
It's not a civil war and duriong the last month, you only (but it's already too much) 4 people killed.
Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: amazing 1 on November 08, 2005, 05:38:35 pm
I am with you on this Fax.
You just keep calling it like you see it. ;D
You just keep calling it like you see it. ;D
Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: amazing 1 on November 08, 2005, 05:39:58 pm
Welcome Flobee,see you at Turn10 Sebring. ;D
Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: Robbo SPS on November 08, 2005, 05:54:16 pm
THe national news in the UK are running the story and they believe the groups are passing intel via the net.
I'll be looking at this with added interest over the next few days, should anything come to the uk !
Regardless of who pull their noses up, people have lost their lives and their cars !!
I'll be looking at this with added interest over the next few days, should anything come to the uk !
Regardless of who pull their noses up, people have lost their lives and their cars !!
Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: Lorry on November 08, 2005, 06:12:22 pm
A library and a primary school and a few cars burnt here in le Mans .......
Setting light to a library and a school isn't going to change the world, but this happens the same everywhere.Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: Fax on November 08, 2005, 06:29:36 pm
Thanks for getting my back Randy (nice pic of you and Great Dane too).
Robbo I wasn't making light of people being killed (cars being burned can be hilarious however) but those who often claim to be holier-than-thou should sometimes take a good hard look in the mirror.
Fax
Robbo I wasn't making light of people being killed (cars being burned can be hilarious however) but those who often claim to be holier-than-thou should sometimes take a good hard look in the mirror.
Fax
Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: Robbo SPS on November 08, 2005, 06:55:16 pm
Thanks for getting my back Randy (nice pic of you and Great Dane too).
Robbo I wasn't making light of people being killed (cars being burned can be hilarious however) but those who often claim to be holier-than-thou should sometimes take a good hard look in the mirror.
Fax
Robbo I wasn't making light of people being killed (cars being burned can be hilarious however) but those who often claim to be holier-than-thou should sometimes take a good hard look in the mirror.
Fax
yep
what goes around comes around.
Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: Steve Pyro on November 14, 2005, 10:35:17 am
Breaking weather news -
Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: Andy Zarse on November 18, 2005, 11:59:13 am
Handy French phrases if you are travelling abroad...
Ou sont les pompiers? - Where are the firemen?
Avez-vous un extincteur? - Do you have a fire extinguisher?
A quelle heure est le couvre-feu? - What time is the curfew?
Pourquoi brulez vous my voiture? - Why are you burning my car?
Avez-vous du feu pour allumer mon cocktail molotov? - Do you have a light for my petrol bomb?
Veuillez bruler mon Citroen parce que c'est merde! - Please burn my Citroen because it's crap!
Mes beaux citroen la voiture sont sur le feu! - My beautiful citroen car is on fire!
Vous avez cassez mon voiture et avez brűlure mon maison et chien, mais pourquoi pas vous tuez my épouse laide avec ses aisselles velues et dentes heurreusse? - You smashed my car and burned my house and my dog, but why didn't you kill my ugly wife with her hairy armpits and horrible teeth?
Ou sont les pompiers? - Where are the firemen?
Avez-vous un extincteur? - Do you have a fire extinguisher?
A quelle heure est le couvre-feu? - What time is the curfew?
Pourquoi brulez vous my voiture? - Why are you burning my car?
Avez-vous du feu pour allumer mon cocktail molotov? - Do you have a light for my petrol bomb?
Veuillez bruler mon Citroen parce que c'est merde! - Please burn my Citroen because it's crap!
Mes beaux citroen la voiture sont sur le feu! - My beautiful citroen car is on fire!
Vous avez cassez mon voiture et avez brűlure mon maison et chien, mais pourquoi pas vous tuez my épouse laide avec ses aisselles velues et dentes heurreusse? - You smashed my car and burned my house and my dog, but why didn't you kill my ugly wife with her hairy armpits and horrible teeth?
Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: johnevans3 on November 18, 2005, 04:13:55 pm
Why do these people hate cars so much???
Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: Fax on November 18, 2005, 05:35:43 pm
Apparently they hate them as much as the peope who live near Monza...This is a joke!
http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=206177&FS=F1
Fax
http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=206177&FS=F1
Fax
Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: jpchenet on November 18, 2005, 06:12:04 pm
What a farce!!!!
Even worse, did you read the end of the article!!
"Monza is not the only event to come under threat recently. The equally famous Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium hit financial problems last month when the promoter of the GP was declared bankrupt. Spa has a contract until 2010 and the regional government is reportedly considering Bernie Ecclestone to take over the race. "
Even worse, did you read the end of the article!!
"Monza is not the only event to come under threat recently. The equally famous Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium hit financial problems last month when the promoter of the GP was declared bankrupt. Spa has a contract until 2010 and the regional government is reportedly considering Bernie Ecclestone to take over the race. "
Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: garystout on November 18, 2005, 07:09:19 pm
Please dont confuse the Paris riots with anything else, its a different ball game for them ....
Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: Snoring Rhino on November 18, 2005, 07:21:36 pm
Its the same for Goodwood local nobs who moved it restricted the circuit to just the Revival meeting.
Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: garystout on November 18, 2005, 07:31:27 pm
The Paris riots in a nutshell is about the arabs unemployment, everything else is a bit copy cat, even to local villages hundreds of miles away :(
Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: Rhino on November 18, 2005, 11:37:20 pm
Its the same for Goodwood local nobs who moved it restricted the circuit to just the Revival meeting.
Living near Goodwood and following the build up to the revival being held, the deal was the revival was to be held using less harsh noise restrictions. The number of quiet weekends during the summer would be increased.
Some members of the local Summersdale estate created 'The enviromental protection group'.
Their aim was to stop racing at Goodwood. This coming from an estate built during the seventies. One letter to the local paper even complained about the Grace Spitfire flying overhead :o
The fact Goodwood had planning to hold events up to a certain noise level when the estate was built seemed to have been forgotten.
The Goodwood estate started up the Goodwood supporters club which had more members on the said estate than the other lot.
I suppose they would have been much happier if Goodwood was closed and a new estate was built right on there doorstep, much quieter, not.
Motto here, small group try and bully there view with mainly lies. Majority piss on their fireworks with the truth.
Need more beer ;D
Living near Goodwood and following the build up to the revival being held, the deal was the revival was to be held using less harsh noise restrictions. The number of quiet weekends during the summer would be increased.
Some members of the local Summersdale estate created 'The enviromental protection group'.
Their aim was to stop racing at Goodwood. This coming from an estate built during the seventies. One letter to the local paper even complained about the Grace Spitfire flying overhead :o
The fact Goodwood had planning to hold events up to a certain noise level when the estate was built seemed to have been forgotten.
The Goodwood estate started up the Goodwood supporters club which had more members on the said estate than the other lot.
I suppose they would have been much happier if Goodwood was closed and a new estate was built right on there doorstep, much quieter, not.
Motto here, small group try and bully there view with mainly lies. Majority piss on their fireworks with the truth.
Need more beer ;D
Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: smokie on November 19, 2005, 01:04:13 am
Near me there is a road (admottedly somewhat narrow) which has some new houses on it, and their shiny 4x4s are parked outside.
There is a council plan to build a medium size estate behimnd them which will increase the road use, and these "new" tenants are up in arms about it. How do they think the road was BEFORE they moved in?
And not only that...
Just around the corner is "Wokingham's Best Kept Secret" (as advertised on the M4). This is a new housing estate which is behind another newly occupied housing estate. The local council, despite giving permission for the estate to be built, will not allow the building company to put up even the smallest notices giving directions to the site, even on it's local roads. So the developer has had to *pay* quite serious money to some householders to have direction signs on their land. Guess what: one such house also has a sign in the window complaining about the new estate... talk about taking the pi$$...
Er...am I sounding a bit Victor Meldrew? Apols if I am... :)
There is a council plan to build a medium size estate behimnd them which will increase the road use, and these "new" tenants are up in arms about it. How do they think the road was BEFORE they moved in?
And not only that...
Just around the corner is "Wokingham's Best Kept Secret" (as advertised on the M4). This is a new housing estate which is behind another newly occupied housing estate. The local council, despite giving permission for the estate to be built, will not allow the building company to put up even the smallest notices giving directions to the site, even on it's local roads. So the developer has had to *pay* quite serious money to some householders to have direction signs on their land. Guess what: one such house also has a sign in the window complaining about the new estate... talk about taking the pi$$...
Er...am I sounding a bit Victor Meldrew? Apols if I am... :)
Title: Re: Paris riots
Post by: Kpy on November 19, 2005, 02:22:48 pm
Latest posts are nothing to do with rioting in Paris, or indeed elsewhere in France.
Smokie, please sort it out.
:)
Smokie, please sort it out.
:)
Title: Re: French riots
Post by: smokie on November 19, 2005, 02:49:40 pm
Now that's a lot of work Mr KPY!
So I simply renamed the first post in the thread to French Riots. :)
So I simply renamed the first post in the thread to French Riots. :)
Title: Re: French riots
Post by: Kpy on November 19, 2005, 04:07:44 pm
Sorry it needed work, Smokie!
I've posted the comments on the Monza thread.
I've posted the comments on the Monza thread.
