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SystemSystem Posts: 11,002
edited December 2021 in General
Expectations management – politicalbetting.com

IMHO he knows it’s already gone https://t.co/7WL9gozH8v

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  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    I don't expect this post to be better than 3rd
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    I am not hearing mismanaged expectations management from the LDs, I am hearing nothing of any kind at all. Silence. Nada.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 50,752
    Verstappen not closing fast enough at the moment.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 47,080
    Second like the Tories
  • Not first like Lewis Hamilton....
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    I can't watch, so nervous.
  • I hope everybody did their LFT and showed their vaccine passport before entering the new thread.....
  • Fucking back markers.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 50,752
    MaxPB said:

    I can't watch, so nervous.

    It's really tight now. Could go to last lap
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 47,080
    What these comments about bad expectations management don’t appreciate is that, coming from a GE third place and with little presence locally, the LibDems desperately need to manage UP expectations in order to maximise the anti-Tory vote they can gather in. The more people are talking about a likely LibDem win, the better for them. If they fall short, the by-election will quickly be forgotten about anyway.
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 5,779
    C'mon Lewis.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    edited December 2021
    Come on Danny, get out of the way!
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    At least Max will have dodge round these guys too.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 50,752
    MaxPB said:

    At least Max will have dodge round these guys too.

    It's cost Lewis almost 2 seconds.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    edited December 2021
    DavidL said:

    MaxPB said:

    At least Max will have dodge round these guys too.

    It's cost Lewis almost 2 seconds.
    Glad he's through now. 9 laps, 11 seconds to save.
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  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 50,752
    MaxPB said:

    DavidL said:

    MaxPB said:

    At least Max will have dodge round these guys too.

    It's cost Lewis almost 2 seconds.
    Glad he's through now. 9 laps, 11 seconds to get.
    He would need a major fall off of his tyres but its not over till its over.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    DavidL said:

    MaxPB said:

    DavidL said:

    MaxPB said:

    At least Max will have dodge round these guys too.

    It's cost Lewis almost 2 seconds.
    Glad he's through now. 9 laps, 11 seconds to get.
    He would need a major fall off of his tyres but its not over till its over.
    Or a puncture.
  • MaxPB said:

    DavidL said:

    MaxPB said:

    DavidL said:

    MaxPB said:

    At least Max will have dodge round these guys too.

    It's cost Lewis almost 2 seconds.
    Glad he's through now. 9 laps, 11 seconds to get.
    He would need a major fall off of his tyres but its not over till its over.
    Or a puncture.
    Which is what Norris has just experienced.

    Feck.
  • pigeonpigeon Posts: 4,087
    I'm still trying to comprehend that astonishing report about the academic spat in New Zealand mentioned in the previous thread. If there are so many allegedly smart people in that country who genuinely can't perceive any qualitative difference between the scientific method and Maori mythology then they're done for. They'll be having Pakistani-style blasphemy lynchings for those who profane the indigenous deities a few years further down the line. Total madness.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 47,080
    Harris: If politics and power were the right way up, those at the top would at least do an impression of being serious and consistent in order to rein in any irresponsible parts of the population. But in England, we seem to have ended up with the exact opposite: a dutiful public boggling at a clique at the top who are, to coin a currently ubiquitous phrase, “taking us for fools”: shallow, reckless, and apparently contemptuous of the sacrifices people are still making.

    For all the hype surrounding levelling up, the absence of any emotional connection with, or serious plans for, the places the government says it wants to help is striking. Once again, the overwhelming impression is of contempt and condescension, and people being blithely offered something Johnson has no serious intention of delivering. Worse still, as proved by the national insurance hike, the end of the universal credit uplift and his regressive plans for funding social care, things that he actually has done will make lives in so-called “left behind” places even harder.

    I recently read Sad Little Men, the writer Richard Beard’s eloquent book about private schools and the kind of leaders they produce. In his experience, contempt for the lower orders began with the idea that “everyone else was less special and often stupid”, and blurred into indifference: “We saw from car windows the petrol stations and primary schools and Bovis homes in which less privileged lives played themselves out, but the hopes and dreams of these people didn’t meaningfully exist for us, nor their disappointments and pain.” The story of a public enduring the worst effects of the pandemic while Downing Street partied on gives those words an awful potency: somewhere in that sentence, in fact, lies one explanation for both the mess this government is in, and the mire the rest of us have been dragged into
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603

    MaxPB said:

    DavidL said:

    MaxPB said:

    DavidL said:

    MaxPB said:

    At least Max will have dodge round these guys too.

    It's cost Lewis almost 2 seconds.
    Glad he's through now. 9 laps, 11 seconds to get.
    He would need a major fall off of his tyres but its not over till its over.
    Or a puncture.
    Which is what Norris has just experienced.

    Feck.
    7 laps. This is the best F1 season we've had in years.
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 4,784
    Verstappen just needs to catch, not necessarily to pass.

    Hamilton needs to retain at least a 2-3 second cushion at the chequered flag.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 113,956
    edited December 2021
    MaxPB said:

    MaxPB said:

    DavidL said:

    MaxPB said:

    DavidL said:

    MaxPB said:

    At least Max will have dodge round these guys too.

    It's cost Lewis almost 2 seconds.
    Glad he's through now. 9 laps, 11 seconds to get.
    He would need a major fall off of his tyres but its not over till its over.
    Or a puncture.
    Which is what Norris has just experienced.

    Feck.
    7 laps. This is the best F1 season we've had in years.
    I want to pee and vomit.

    Not even 1994 was like this.
  • Safety car.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 50,752
    Full safety car. Hamilton fucked.
  • Fuck.
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 5,779
    Fucking hell!!!!
  • Who said F1 was boring ......
  • Verstappen pits.

    Hamilton doesn't.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    Fuck
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    Wonder if we finish under the safety car. Not many laps left and they have to remove the car and debris.
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 5,779
    It might just finish?!?!
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 50,752
    MaxPB said:

    Wonder if we finish under the safety car. Not many laps left and they have to remove the car and debris.

    That's Hamilton's only chance now.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 113,956
    edited December 2021
    Bottas needs to take one for the team and crash his car as well now.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 50,752

    Bottas needs to take one for the team and crash his car as well now.

    He'd miss.
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 4,784
    DavidL said:

    MaxPB said:

    Wonder if we finish under the safety car. Not many laps left and they have to remove the car and debris.

    That's Hamilton's only chance now.
    Reduction in speed will at least help a little with the marginality of the tyres, if not the gap.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    Should have red flagged the race.
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  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 50,752
    Pro_Rata said:

    DavidL said:

    MaxPB said:

    Wonder if we finish under the safety car. Not many laps left and they have to remove the car and debris.

    That's Hamilton's only chance now.
    Reduction in speed will at least help a little with the marginality of the tyres, if not the gap.
    Against new softs he has no chance whatsoever if they go racing.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    Two laps, Verstappen with a bunch of traffic
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 50,752
    Not letting them through means Verstappen has to overtake. Christ what a finish.
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 5,779
    Oh phew. Unless Max does something remarkable.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    Who said F1 was boring ......

    I did. It's like listening to the traffic annoucements on radio 2. In what other sport do cock ups by the lower field randomly affect the placings at the top?
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 61,547
    .
    IshmaelZ said:

    Who said F1 was boring ......

    I did. It's like listening to the traffic annoucements on radio 2. In what other sport do cock ups by the lower field randomly affect the placings at the top?
    Life.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    Fuck so nervous.
  • Such whiny bitches....
  • What a farce.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 50,752
    That is so fucking unfair.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 27,835
    The winner of this.
    M' learned friends...
  • What a race
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    Bullshit.
  • I hope Michael Masi gets fucked to death by a kangaroo.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    Literally a farce
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    How can be allowed to happen. Mercedes need to take this all the way to CAS.
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 20,901
    Dodgy as.
  • Such whiny bitches....

    Indeed
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    edited December 2021
    Fuck Michael Masi.
  • I'm done with F1.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 75,837
    Oh my.
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 19,072
    F1 what a load of grade A bullshit
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 38,836
    God I feel for Lewis there.
  • GadflyGadfly Posts: 1,191
    Unbelievably unfair.
  • Going to be fisty cuffs...then court cases ...
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    What a farce.

    Who said F1 was boring?

    it was almost possible to stay awake for the whole of that final lap, mind. Why not make the last 4 GPs, say, limited to the top 5 so they are less likely to be traffic management exercises?
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 23,926
    edited December 2021
    Lewis Hamilton 200 to win SPotY so the market thinks he will not be nominated.
  • RazedabodeRazedabode Posts: 2,973
    FIA are absolute bellends. Gave Verstappen the win
  • Mercedes are going to pull out of F1 after this aren't they?
  • Ridiculous car twats game.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 50,752
    An absolute joke.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 27,835
    Gadfly said:

    Unbelievably unfair.

    F1 is fundamentally designed to be unfair.
  • LostPasswordLostPassword Posts: 14,772
    In terms of expectations management the difficulty for the Lib Dems is that playing down their chances will doom them to defeat. They have to ramp up their chances in order to build the momentum of a campaign and give themselves the best chance of victory.
  • I was supporting Verstappen all race, but that is ridiculous. He was clean beaten for 55/58 laps, Perez helped him out with two.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    They literally just gave it to Verstappen. What a joke.
  • FIA are absolute bellends. Gave Verstappen the win

    Were the Indian bookmarkers on the phone ...
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  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 38,517
    And... PB explodes. ;)
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 25,164
    Not all lapped cars went by...
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 5,779
    An amazing race.

    Will Merc appeal?
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 39,111
    edited December 2021

    I hope Michael Masi gets fucked to death by a kangaroo.

    Now, now. Not nice. And what if it happens?

    My late mum used to say - never wish someone died, it might happen and then how would you feel?
  • tlg86 said:

    Not all lapped cars went by...

    Fixxxxxxxxxxx
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    tlg86 said:

    Not all lapped cars went by...

    Yup, would have taken way more time for that and then not a lot of the lap left. Race control gave the title to Verstappen.
  • "Lewis Hamilton is still sat in his Mercedes, just looking directly ahead. Motionless."
  • I hope Sky have the bleep button ready when they interview Mercedes team.
  • FenmanFenman Posts: 1,047
    Perhaps the Tories should ask the FIA to act as Returning Officer on Thursday.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    Eabhal said:

    An amazing race.

    Will Merc appeal?

    I think they have to.
  • BigRichBigRich Posts: 3,489

    New daily record for boosters

    530,086 booster vaccinations in United Kingdom exc Wales yesterday (448,975 the previous Friday)

    England 483,361
    Scotland 40,144
    NI 6,581

    The daily average is now above 400k for the first time.


    https://twitter.com/HugoGye/status/1470034339949789194?s=20

    That's good
  • Lewis Hamilton 200 to win SPotY so the market thinks he will not be nominated.

    He might get a sympathy vote after this.

    My only bet so far was my £100 at evens with @Sandpit on Raducanu. I've just bet £4 @ 50 on Hamilton in case he gets a sympathy vote.

    So I'm now +96 on Raducanu, +100 on Hamilton, -104 on the field.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    Fenman said:

    Perhaps the Tories should ask the FIA to act as Returning Officer on Thursday.

    It doesn't matter how many votes you get, it's who's counting them, clearly.
  • Max Verstappen really has no class.

    He didn't thank Michael Masi or the FIA in his victory speech.
  • darkagedarkage Posts: 4,746
    pigeon said:

    I'm still trying to comprehend that astonishing report about the academic spat in New Zealand mentioned in the previous thread. If there are so many allegedly smart people in that country who genuinely can't perceive any qualitative difference between the scientific method and Maori mythology then they're done for. They'll be having Pakistani-style blasphemy lynchings for those who profane the indigenous deities a few years further down the line. Total madness.

    This is evidence of how identity politics, intersectionality and what may be described as 'woke' thinking have infiltrated the establishment. And the problem is that there are no signs at all that the establishment will correct itself, even when forced to defend key principles on which modern civilisation has been built, for instance the scientific method. It is yet another example of how the west is committing suicide. When you discard your reflexive progressive assumptions and faith in the estalishment; and really see what is happening, the inescapable conclusion is that it all simply has to be stopped before we descend in to the type of problems you describe. We are fast approaching the point where it is politically impossible for the status quo to change course, because even if they can see the madness their supporters do not; so your only option is to vote for a Zemmour or a Trump.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 27,835
    Carnyx said:

    I hope Michael Masi gets fucked to death by a kangaroo.

    Now, now. Not nice. And what if it happens?

    My late mum used to say - never wish someone died, it might happen and then how would you feel?
    Either omnipotent. Or that it was a total coincidence?
  • Lewis Hamilton 200 to win SPotY so the market thinks he will not be nominated.

    He might get a sympathy vote after this.

    My only bet so far was my £100 at evens with @Sandpit on Raducanu. I've just bet £4 @ 50 on Hamilton in case he gets a sympathy vote.

    So I'm now +96 on Raducanu, +100 on Hamilton, -104 on the field.
    A nice book.
  • To the people saying how unfair. Letting lapped cars past in *normal*.

    Sensational race. Brazil 2008...
  • CharlesCharles Posts: 35,758

    tlg86 said:

    Not all lapped cars went by...

    Fixxxxxxxxxxx
    I told everyone that back in Belgium
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  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603

    To the people saying how unfair. Letting lapped cars past in *normal*.

    Sensational race. Brazil 2008...

    Yes, all of them. Thet chose to only let a few past.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 25,164

    To the people saying how unfair. Letting lapped cars past in *normal*.

    Sensational race. Brazil 2008...

    Letting only some lapped cars is very much NOT normal!
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