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LeClerc is dog slow on the main straight. To think Enzo Ferrari said aerodynamics is for people who can't build engines...

Bottas jammed the pack in classic IndyCar fashion. This is what happens when the leader slows everyone down and the back of the pack takes off.

Old fashioned melee with cars beached in gravel. Thank God for MotoGP runs offs!

Verstappen and Gasly out.

Leaving the tabloid press...

Franco Morbidelli wins at Misano but the Yamaha 1-2-3-4 goes nowhere after Quartararo had two falls in the race and Vinales was utterly useless. Bagnaia gets his first podium (after the Jerez nightmare) and Joan Mir passed both Rossi and Rins on the final lap to take 3rd.

Dare I say this could be the result that gives Bagnaia the works Ducati deal alongside Miller (with Zarco moving to Pramac as Enea Bastianini was already announced at Avintia for 2021).

Dovizioso who finished down in 8th leads the championship but let's be honest, Marquez would be pissing all over this field. Quartararo keeps choking even without #93 around him and Vinales does his best Pedrosa impression of looking not good enough to be a MotoGP champion anytime soon.

Classic WTA. Osaka blows 4 BP to go 5-1 up and basically kill the show and 10 minutes later we're 4-3 and back on serve...

25 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

one of Osaka's big advantages is that she doesn't yell like the others 

Japanese people usually don't yell at anything and are mild-mannered (yeah, I know she lived most of her life in USA but the upbringing culture comes from the family). She didn't even lose her temper much when the whole stadium booed her during the Serena USO final.

Azarenka wins first set 6-1 but since it's WTA I expect this to finish 7-5 in the third

New York Post run the teleprompter story as well

https://nypost.com/2020/09/11/biden-rep-dodges-question-about-whether-his-teleprompter-use/

1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

That’s true in lots of languages though.  Also for cyrillic names transcribed to western languages.

Even that transcription has changed over the years.

First it was Alexei Mikhailichenko and now even the English wikipedia has him as Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (which is more true to his Ukrainian ethnicity)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksiy_Mykhaylychenko

Also the Belarussian names are translated as "anaou" rather than the Russian "anov"

The infamous Ivan Tikhon (hammer thrower) became Ivan Tsikhan over the years.

12 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

How on earth is there a special exception in the law for specifically Chinese and not for example Spanish?

The suffix would be longer than the name itself - imagine Li Na being Liova Na. It even looks bad on paper

1 minute ago, hckosice said:

haha that random club who played once 1-1 with FC Barcelona ?

 

Obviously the club exist and play in our 2nd tier if I am not wrong. but not under this name anymore, Matador left the club in 2006.

 

Matador is the biggest Slovak Tires brand https://www.matador.tires/car/the-brand , located in the city Púchov, 

Yeah, I remember Matador Puchov from many moons ago. I suppose their place in the spotlight was even shorter than Artmedia Bratislava

I always wondered about that name since I wasn't aware of bull fighting traditions in Czechoslovakia

2 minutes ago, hckosice said:

yep, all male surnames finishing by - ý, like Novotný, Nový, Černý, Surový, Hrubý etc... = female surname Novotná, Nová, Černá, Surová, Hrubá etc..

 

 

Jana Novotnová would be only if her husbands/fathers surname would be like Novotna, Novotno, Novotn for example

Yeah, I had that figured out. I suppose it's the same in Spanish were names are derived from male or female forms (hence matador and torrero with torreador being an incorrect word). Btw, does the club Matador Puchov still exist? 

@hckosice I thought the Cerna or Sucha comes from the adjective form (which might always end with 'y" in Czech like it usually does in Polish ). I mean there's a reason Jana Novotna wasn't Jana Novotnova

41 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I'm not much of a movie person anyway, I prefer series  

We've had over 20 "official" Bonds plus two unofficial Casino Royales and Sean Connery's 'Thunderball' remake from 1983 (with Kim Basinger). So you can treat that as two hour per episode TV series already

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

The one with the invisible car drifting on ice. Die Another Day I think that is?

 

Much like Star Wars/Trek I just never got the appeal of the series.

You should start with the classics, Connery and early Moore. 'Die Another Day' isn't exactly Top 10 Bond tbh

4 hours ago, heywoodu said:

The one Bond movie I saw was way too much of a generic boring action movie to be interested in watching any more.

Which one was it?

13 minutes ago, rybak said:

He is male version of Karo Pliskova  

He's won more big tournaments than Pliskova who can't find consistency even in non-GS events

Zverev's GS choking bug is alive and well... 0-2 down to Carreno Busta...

The Wiesbaden roller skate event is still on? (September 27th). Italian federation prevented Wierer & Hofer from taking part (travel ban outside Italy). T.Boe & Hammerschmidt have been invited in their place.

We get to see the Osaka vs Azarenka final after all.

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

It won't ever be less, since there are simply more and more famous people and so more and more famous people die. I had never heard of half these people by the way, including Diana Rigg (and yes, I've seen Game of Thrones entirely, twice).

Yeah, I imagine The Avengers are usually linked to modern superhero movies but British crime/spy shows of the 60s/70s were a lot better than these computer-generated gimmicks. And I suppose you didn't follow the James Bond franchise either, after all Diana Rigg was like the only woman character who married Bond during its run. I also remember her from 'Evil Under the Sun' - the 1982 Ustinov version.

I'm in for the sport, not a national anthem (which isn't even mine  ) or clothes.

Chiefs beat Texans 34-20. Clyde Edwards-Helaire will get plenty of OROY buzz given how the rookie QBs will presumably struggle without OTAs (and the fact only Joe Burrow will probably play 16 games in the defensively toughest division of the lot).

Sex always sells. Even when the 'sex' is focused on underage Muslim lolitas

Vladimir Nabokov would be proud of this stunt!

Who cares about the Game of Thrones?

The Avengers were much better

Very much the best of Diana Rigg.

28 minutes ago, mrv86 said:

This will depend on the current populist shitty dictatorship in power. If they and the Mexican Army can get part of the booty of the Grand Prix, it will stay.

I'm not into Mexican politics, isn't Telmex big enough that anyone in political power considers them acceptable? I mean, you're not driving the drug cartels out of business so what's the point of making more enemies?