Lewis Hamilton-Hypocrite

[roofman]

There was nothing wrong with our home grown F1 driver in my books until.....he started putting a diamond on each ear then it all went down hill Why have we not got a aerosol paint tin shaking smiley in our collection for guys that wear diamonds on each ear

 

[Greeves246]

I don't suppose Hamilton knows the reason for men wearing a gold earring, but here it is. When sailors on old sailing ships went about their daily business they wore very little and it wasn't unknown for a man to fall overboard and be drowned. Now when he arrived at the underworld and had to cross the River Styx to get to the other side and he needed to pay the ferryman to take him over ( sure there's a song in there somewhere ). Not carrying any money he could take out his gold earring to pay the ferryman and not be trapped in limbo. Doubt there is any chance of Hamilton falling overboard. Greeves 246

 

[ronan]

And if memory serves me, those things are vat free - why?

Because they are owned by the mega-rich and they can lobby to have them vat free ?

 

[roofman]

I get all the gold thing on mens ears as i had a go myself in the 70,s..but i don't get the single diamond on each lobe bit but there again i don't understand a lot of things these days.

 

[ronan]

I don't suppose Hamilton knows the reason for men wearing a gold earring, but here it is. When sailors on old sailing ships went about their daily business they wore very little and it wasn't unknown for a man to fall overboard and be drowned. Now when he arrived at the underworld and had to cross the River Styx to get to the other side and he needed to pay the ferryman to take him over ( sure there's a song in there somewhere ). Not carrying any money he could take out his gold earring to pay the ferryman and not be trapped in limbo. Doubt there is any chance of Hamilton falling overboard. Greeves 246

Nah it was a misunderstanding with a pirate.

 

[ronan]

I get all the gold thing on mens ears as i had a go myself in the 70,s..but i don't get the single diamond on each lobe bit but there again i don't understand a lot of things these days.

You and me both.

 

[stuvy]

The question is "Why does he live in Monaco and not here?"

If you had the money you’d stay here in rainy Blighty and not some sunny place with girls in bikinis not tracksuits?

 

[ronan]

If you had the money you’d stay here in rainy Blighty and not some sunny place with girls in bikinis not tracksuits?

Depends where in rainy Blighty though. A lot of these sunspots have their own problems, filthy diseases, crappy health care, dodgy governments, corruption, serious violent crime, actually i am going to stop now as i think i have just described Ireland.

According to this site, there is nowhere good to live in the UK

https://www.ilivehere.co.uk

 

[stuvy]

If I had the money I’d be off with no tax paid here

This time next years Rodney

 

[ronan]

If I had the money I’d be off with no tax paid here

This time next years Rodney

Right, you have just scored the lotto, where would you go ?

 

[brightspark]

Right, you have just scored the lotto, where would you go ?

a house abroad and still live where I am now how boring a hot country with no friends just booze and sand and restaurants .rather live here a few racing cars for track days etc

 

[stuvy]

Right, you have just scored the lotto, where would you go ?

The money would be off shore, I’d tell mum n dad to pack up there stuff and my sister too one or two mates I’d look after then start in Spain and have a wander really

I guess it depends on the level of a win

I could blow through £20million in no time

 

[stuvy]

a house abroad and still live where I am now how boring a hot country with no friends just booze and sand and restaurants .rather live here a few racing cars for track days etc

I would come back but no long enough to pay tax here

Gf’s sister has the same thing as there residents of Dubai and have been for 15 years now.

Her sister is part time and her brother in-law is now retired

 

[ronan]

I would come back but no long enough to pay tax here

I believe most of the big houses in London are empty 8 months of the year, as the residents can only live there that long over the tax laws. But then if you are not paying in, you cannot complain about services etc. Michael Caine was complaining about the tax rates in the UK being too high, but then when he found his disabled brother in bad circumstances, he was moaning about that too. Cannot have it both ways.

 

[Parm]

l am a big motorsport fan, motorcycle first then car but when I read this https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/50061569
I thought what a hypocrite. He has made millions from possibly the most ungreen sport In the world, flew a private jet, which he avoided paying tax on by buying it through the Isle of Man, all over the world between races and then says WE should go vegan to save the planet. Lost all respect for the man. Greeves 246 (avid meat eater)

I read the same yesterday and thought exactly the same thing.

What a complete ****

 

[Parm]

Gigantic

It’s more than gigantic, today I was with some folk from the Environment Agency, data centres are a humongous producer of pollution and have an enormous carbon footprint. I wonder if anyone knows why?

I only learned today

 

[daleyd]

It’s more than gigantic, today I was with some folk from the Environment Agency, data centres are a humongous producer of pollution and have an enormous carbon footprint. I wonder if anyone knows why?

I only learned today

cooling?

 

[Parm]

cooling?

Nope

 

[ronan]

All these supposidely green "celeb's" are all the same, the old catholic church mantra of "Do as i say, not as i do" really rings through with them. The seem to have a messiah complex, the Obama's, De caprio's, geldof's, Bono's etc, all live a jet set lifestyle, burn plenty of fossil fuels, yet blather on about everyone being green. Yeah everyone except them.

 

[Screwdriver]

cooling?

yep.

cooling is the byproduct of creating information. Those chips get hot. That’s the real energy hog but it is true to say a very similar amount of energy is required to cool things off or the processor chips will melt.