What ever happened to the time when if you were shit people just ignored you?
The anonymity of the internet has made it easier for people to vent their hatred and score points for being cynicool than ever before, and now it seems promoters and businessmen have even managed to harvest and exploit this hate for profit.
Instead of celebrities championed for their talent there are now hate figures thriving off negative attention, and all the while the money keeps rolling in, if the culture of faceless internet hate didn't exist, Rebecca Black would be long gone and forgotten.
You might be a bit on the eccentric side but your posts are on the whole well meaning, harmless and at least try to raise some kind of debate, unlike the majority of this forum's members whose idea of wit is unwarranted sarcasm, quoting memes and point scoring by insults. I'd sooner read a slightly muddled post on current affairs than see someone repost the latest pictures from Reddit or /b/ for the 500th time that week...
Why not let the constructors decide on engine configuration? It'd be interesting to see a variety of set ups with varied benefits in terms of aerodynamic packaging, weight distribution or power, vibration and heat characteristics et cetera. I see nothing wrong with teams adopting an inline four design, centre of gravity might be slightly higher and a single turbo would make for a slightly less driver friendly engine, but think of the aerodynamic benefits of such a narrow engine, particularly if the underfloor aerodynamic regulations that were proposed at one point were to be adopted too.
I think the main issue is that top level rallying has become too efficient and clinical. Modern cars do their job so well that there is a general lack of drama in their performance, but then that opens up the debate as to whether you think motorspport should be about excitement and driving skill or pushing the technological envelope, as these two things have begun pulling the sport in opposite directions more than ever in the last 20 years.
Of course its also important to consider how rallies have been shortened and night stages essentially outlawed too, economic and commercial pressure is probrably to blame, which of course is another not entirely popular force pulling on top level motorsport/rallying.
Clubbing was kind of fuelled by drugs originally, so I often wonder if its still relevant now that drugs are cracked down upon, or whether most of us still do it just because its become tradition, and whether we really enjoy it without being bombed on something or are we just kidding ourselves?
Like anything its about balance, there is the sweet spot where it's genuinely liberating and you can approach people you never would when sober, beyond which you end up just making an arse of yourself or crying into your drink, and the girls get upset because you've just vomited on their shoes/carpet/etc.
Being the merry one on a night out is the most fun, because you can laugh when all your friends who don't know when to stop seriously embarrass themselves.