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Mackie The Staggie
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Again, and with great sadness, I'm unable to attend. The racing is always good and the banter/beer flows freely and with good humour. I can only assume that the fact that I'm not making it as a plus side to others who had the misfortune to be sleeping in the same room as myself in the past......apparently I snore loudly.
Mackie The Staggie
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Went to the Isle of Man again.....took my camera with me as well, good times. Have only managed to do a few photo's at the moment, still working on the rest of my efforts.

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Mackie The Staggie
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Quote from CSF :Get it up ye Mourinho and Spain. 8-1 to ze Germans.

Well I for one, welcome our new German footballing overlords.
Mackie The Staggie
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From the ugly.....to the beauty of the game

Mackie The Staggie
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Well after being toothless up front for so long, it appears that Liverpool have finally found some bite up front.....

I'll leave you all to chew over this one.
Mackie The Staggie
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BUMP

Only had a couple of votes so this may not work, but still willing to take some votes
LFS Top 50 Drivers/Riders
Mackie The Staggie
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like most of my stuff, it's shamelessly nicked from other forums...so why buck a trend I thought, lets see if this will work


The Idea


In an attempt to find the forums top 50 Drivers/Riders, I look to get a list of 20 drivers from other users on this forum, I then take those list to combine it into one super big list . With this information I look to post 4 Entries from number 50 to 10 each day, then when I come to the top 10, I'll post 1 per day with a small write up for each entry.


The Rules
  • Send me (via PM) your top 20 although anything between 10-20 is fine by me.
  • I'm limiting this to wheeled motorsport racers. It can be any discipline, be it Rally, F1, NASCAR, Superbikes, Moto GP or Road Racing, as long as it got wheels and races then it's a go. (this means no Powerboat, Hovercraft or plane racing, lets keep it to 2 or 4 wheels)
  • If you want to add reason for your selection then please do so. It will help me when I come to the point where I start doing write ups.
  • Top Driver/Rider gets 20 points, second get 19 all the way to the 20th who will be awarded a single point. In the case that you have sent me less than 20 nominees, then the point system does not change (for example, if you put in 11 Driver/Riders, then the 11th nominee still gets 10 points)
  • Top 50 is sorted by most points, in terms of a tie then the tie breaker is by number of votes for driver/rider....if still level at that time then I have desecration on what order I place them (although I will indicate the ties if/when then come across on the countdown.
  • Please title you PM accordingly and number you lists. Any list received that's not numbered will be void and not included in the list. (I will try and resend it back asking for it too be numbered, but there will be a higher chance of receiving sarcastic comments so you have been warned!!!)
  • Closing date will be the 26th of January at 23:59 GMT.....Anything after will not be included.
  • No tactical voting please. Don't vote for someone because you think everyone else will vote for them, I want your list.
  • Doesn't matter on the reasons, whether you are going for the “best” or “Favourite” route, just go with what you want
So hopefully that’s clear to all, get thinking and sending in that list. Hopefully as many people will take part and help create a diverse top 50.
Mackie The Staggie
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Quote from CSF :La Liga is not good for it's defending. It's comical at times, see last night's Madrid game and Barca 5-4 Deportivo. You do not have two teams scoring 121 and 114 goals, no other team getting past 59, like you did last season, by having a quality league. The top two were great, now Madrid are awful and its a one team show.

Which is why I said the Bundesliga is in my view the best league at the moment but it's incredibly difficult to name players who are currently plying their trade there who are better than Ronaldo/Messi/Xavi/Inestia etc. So in that respect, I can't argue against the shortlist or overall winner.
Mackie The Staggie
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Quote from Boris Lozac :But much shitier to watch then Premier League..

There's a difference between talent and entertainment. The English Premiership is an entetaining league, however the quality this season (especially defending) has been honking.

For my money, the best league at the moment is actually the Bundesliga, some quality players and some really good games. I got ESPN because some of the County games have been on there, but have kept it due to the Bundesliga and Serie A games.
Mackie The Staggie
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Got dragged to see, against my better judgement, Jack Reacher last night. The reason I was reluctant to see the film was because I have read the books. In the books they describe Jack as......and I quote the vital statistics from the book here....6 foot 5 inches tall, 220-250 lbs and with dirty blond hair, so obviously this screams Tom Cruise to everyone.
 
So with this in mind and bugging me from the very first trailer, I gave it a shot and it was ok, nothing more, nothing less just ok. The thing that bugged me the most about the film was surprisingly not the difference between the film's Reacher and the novels Reacher but there was too much emotion involved, in the book Reacher never seemed to be that kind of guy.
 
Throughout the movie, I couldn't help but think that this would have worked as another Mission Impossible or a different movie under different characters, but it just didn't seem to work for me.
If you have read the books then you probably want to give it a wide berth. However if you haven't then on it's own it's your run of the mill, tick the boxes action flick which you can tune out for a few hours. 6/10
Mackie The Staggie
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Quote from Boris Lozac :
And also, about the always mentioned Avatar. Let's get that clear once and for all, yes it's full of cliches and stupid one-liners, but at least it fckin keeps the viewer till the end with quality action scenes and visuals, nobody here can tell me that they've walked out in the middle of it? So Cameroon was definatelly present at that 'keep the viewer interested' class..

Not me...because it was full of cliches and stupid one liners but also becuase the story was lifted from 'Dances With Wolves'. Watching through it I had predicted how it was going to end and it just started becoming like every other tick the boxes movie. Sure visually it was out there, but failed in so many others.

I can honestly say it failed to keep me interested....so surely that means it failed.
Mackie The Staggie
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Quote from Boris Lozac :So what's the point in having art schools or wherever these directors and producers get educated, when everything is allowed and nothing is bad, just gooo with the flooow, it's an opinionn.. In every school there are "do's" and "not to do's", am i right? In schools and universitys you fail tests right?

 
The performing arts and by that I mean TV, Film Stage, Music and art can not be compared to the normal educational schools. Something like photography has rules, but some of them are made to be broken to provide a different take on a subject, also some genres of music (Hip hop for example) broke all the conventions of music at the time by pushing the boundaries and rules.

The same can not be said of conventional studies, I have yet to see an electrician redefine how you would wire up a house by swapping the live and neutral wires around. (I have seen what happens when a live cable end goes into a puddle, which a metal pole sticks out of and a bird lands on top of the said pole.........feathers everywhere!!!)
 
Quote :All i'm saying is that these kind of movies should be a straight "F".

What movies, what techniques....you have not given any examples so it's impossiblem for me to comment. Maybe they do deserve the 'F' rating, but without further infomation it's a mute point.
Mackie The Staggie
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Quote from Boris Lozac :Let's just make one more thing clear, if you do a math test and your result for 12x3 is 40, and teacher telling you you are wrong, that's not her opinion is it..

But that subject deals in solid fact (unless you get philosophical about it). 1 is 1 and 2 is 2, these are facts yes.
 
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That's what i'm saying here.. These directors use lame-ass techiques and sell them as 'art' for people who think that are clever (the ones who specifically watch 'films' and not movies).
I'm trying to bring facts here why i think these movies suck and not hide under an opinion. And there are a lot of facts for every movie i wass pissed after watching it..

These techniques are maybe the reasons why in your opinion the film is bad or is the reason you disliked it and without knowing examples it's hard to say otherwise, but these are not facts.

Liking something is a personal choice and comes down to the individual and resolves around a number personal feelings. Not everyone likes the same thing and thank God/Allah/Buddha and Spongebob Squarepants for that, otherwise the world would be a dull, sad place if we all liked the same things
Mackie The Staggie
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Quote from Boris Lozac :I have a problem with the phrase 'opinion', because it's beeing missused too much. How can that be an 'opinion' that these rubish films are rubish, it's a fckin fact.
Everything is hidden under a goddamn 'opinion' and directors like these are getting away with garbage like this one. It's not fckin art, it's poor, text-book poor movie making.

 
Wait....what....serios....I mean c'mon....what.
 
Words fail me here, you seem to have it all ass backwards here. Someone not liking or liking something is an opinion and nothing to do with 'Fact'
For example, lets use the film franchise Die Hard. I believe that the definitive order of the films go Die Hard 1 - Die Hard: With a Vengeance - Die Hard 2 and then we leave Die Hard 4.0 out of it because it's a blot on the memory of Hans and Simon Gruber. However in my brothers opinion he replaces Die Hard 1 with Die Hard: With a Vengeance.
 
Now this is because a number of things, but it all boils down to personal opinion. In my view he is wrong on a number of thing, but then equally in his view I have it wrong. It's all about the person.

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An opinion is "I think it will snow tomorrow"..

No, this is not an opinion....this is a prediction. Much like saying Arsenal will score 2 goals and Vettel will win a race.
Mackie The Staggie
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Quote from de Souza :So he did it, afterall. That's 86 goals in 65 matches, pretty insane stuff. I won't even dig up how many assists he did, I bet that would be insane as well.

Easily the best football player I've seen in my life.

Agreed, it's a joy at times to watch him at times. Every generation has a standout player, before hand it was Pele, Eusébio, Maradona, Cruyff, and Best who all stood above their peers at the time, Messi can easily join that group.
Mackie The Staggie
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"Bloody hell....kill it, KILL IT WITH FIRE"
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