F1technical.net member meeting in Spa?

[beelsebob]

JET, I'm looking at this web-site, considering where are you planning to sit?;

http://www.spafrancorchamps.be/spa-fran ... ickets.asp

I'm thinking Gold 4 or Silver 1, but I'm not sure.

Not that I'm going, but if it were me, I'd be looking at Gold 6 or 8. By far the most likely overtaking spots, and a decent view of a large chunk of track.

[Mr Alcatraz]

This year's Spa mistress, Helena is a Stockholm lawyer btw.

She seems like a fairly attractive woman X, but IMO she is several cuts below my 30 year old daugter, and a cut below her mother. No Sh!t. What is all the hub bub about?

[JohnsonsEvilTwin]

JET, I'm looking at this web-site, considering where are you planning to sit?;

http://www.spafrancorchamps.be/spa-fran ... ickets.asp

I'm thinking Gold 4 or Silver 1, but I'm not sure.

Oh no dear X,

I wont be there I will be slumming it in Les Combes. DRS activation zone anyone....

[mep]

£3.64. I have no idea how much that is in Canadian currency, but it's not enough to buy anything!

And before anyone asks, I work in a retail shop on my local high street for one of the largest outdoor retailers in the UK. I won't name and shame them, but the hours I'm on and wage is appalling.

I would be ashamed to buy anything in this shop.


Nice Belle Xpensive.
Die kann dir ordentlich die Glocken läuten.

[bot6]

Tazio -> bring your daughter along then. I'd love to meet her.

I'd love to join you guys, lame jokes aside. I'll see if I can make it. After all, it's my home GP, kind of.

[Tozza Mazza]

£3.64. I have no idea how much that is in Canadian currency, but it's not enough to buy anything!

And before anyone asks, I work in a retail shop on my local high street for one of the largest outdoor retailers in the UK. I won't name and shame them, but the hours I'm on and wage is appalling.

I would be ashamed to buy anything in this shop.


Nice Belle Xpensive.
Die kann dir ordentlich die Glocken läuten.

Thanks. It's an injustice really, I constantly exceed my sales targets, week in, week out, do as good a selling as adult members of staff, who are paid double, and my request to work a WHOLE DAY A WEEK are snubbed. The only reason I even got the job was due to previous employment, but you'll find (In the UK at least, us younguns, especially people in my age group now, are being robbed. By the time I leave university I will have close to £100K debts)! How am I ever gonna attend a GP ever again!!!

[andrew]

Ditch Uni and find a job where you can work your way up from an apprentice to something or other. You're only 17 so you have plenty of time to get sorted out with a career.

That's what I wish I had done, instead I went and got adegree which eventually got me into a job that I put up with for 5 years. Now I am job hunting in a sector where there are very few jobs. Great ain't it(!)

Still you're getting paid a bit more than I did when I was 17, albeit I was still living with my parents at the time, and Uni is less of a financial burden in Scotland (if you don't count living costs).

Just thought I would cheer up the thread.

[Tozza Mazza]

I'm still at home, which is nice, albeit for another year or so, which is good, but it still sucks as I have no money to do anything! Thing is, and I hate to sound up myself, I'm very clever, and feel that I could get a good degree in some sort of engineering, hopefully aeromautical. The knowledge required in this field is specialised, and I doubt it would be possible to get into that area as an apprentice. There is also a lack of jobs at the moment, and everyone has a degree, so to compete for jobs, a degree is required! You Scots have it easy, free Uni, I wish. Instead we gotta suffer the Tory class seperation policy, where the clever are under the rich.

On a more positive note. Good luck with the job hunt!

[andrew]

For the root of the cause with everyone having degrees and the recession look to the previous administration.

I'm sure a job will turn up sooner or later. If you have a long term plan relevant to your degree, stick to it. It'll all come good in the end (I hope)!

Anyway, back to planning the trip to Spa, you lucky rich fellows, apologies for the off topic (and downright depressing) posts.

[Mr Alcatraz]

Tazio -> bring your daughter along then. I'd love to meet her.

I'd love to join you guys, lame jokes aside. I'll see if I can make it. After all, it's my home GP, kind of.

I'm sure she would liven things up as she is a very positive gregarious and extremely intelligent woman, a Recording Engineer for Columbia Studios in Chicago.
She would jump at going to Wimbledon. She plays and is pretty good, but does not like Auto Racing, and considering my sports background when I told her I burned out on the traditional American Sports that I participated in, she just claims I'm getting old, and contrary.

[mep]

Tozza If you want to go to study then you should go.
You don't have to ask any politicians if you can afford it.
They have no idea what damage they cause with their high tuition fees.
Those guys are not worth a peny.

[Ciro Pabón]

Sure, mep. I'd say the only thing more expensive than study is not to study.

[xpensive]

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Not that I'm going, but if it were me, I'd be looking at Gold 6 or 8. By far the most likely overtaking spots, and a decent view of a large chunk of track.

No s**t, I'm also considering the Paddock Club...

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She seems like a fairly attractive woman X, but IMO she is several cuts below my 30 year old daugter, and a cut below her mother. No Sh!t. What is all the hub bub about?

Hey Taz, I lived in the US and know all too well about California women, both size and brains, but I'll tell her you said so.

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Oh no dear X,

I wont be there I will be slumming it in Les Combes. DRS activation zone anyone....

Bronze at Les Combes, well if we be at Gold 3, then we can conveniently meet fot that Nomex snack, oh wait a minute...?

[Richard]

Tozza - Get educated while you can. The "debt" for your fees is held by the government at a low interest rate. Also, they only ask you to pay it back once you earn more than £25k, at something like £50 per month.

Not wanting to sound like too much of an old fogey, but this time of your life has more opportunity to study and discover the world than when you are older. Take that opportunity!

I also know what you mean about everyone having degrees, its really silly. In my day a 3 year BEng Hons put you in the top 10%, an upper second was gold dust. Now we look for a 4 year MEng in our graduate recruitment as a minimum, most recruits have distinctions, and many have a second degree. Also AAB at A level was enough to get to Oxbridge, now you need AAAA.

[mep]

Well xpensive its safe to say you don't need to eat that Nomex suit in the near and far future.
But I would love to see Haug getting feed with this stuff.