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Halfway through the series and I'm loving it so far; great job there by Netflix. So much "behind the scenes" coverage. Didn't expect it to be that good to be fair, and I'm also glad Ferrari and Mercedes denied access to the filming team as they'd surely steal the spotlight and now it really manages to keep things interesting with other stories of other teams.

I find subtitles distracting so I avoid them whenever possible... The bolded part is exactly how it sounds most of the time in the show for me

I can understand about every 10th word he's saying

Finally getting into that Netflix documentary tonight!

Food and beaches are hard to beat for sure, also the islands and nature, culture and brilliant nightlife and whatnot, but probably one of the main factors why Thailand has an upper hand when it comes to being a popular tourist destination in SE Asia is its superior infrastructure (close or equal to "first world") and highly developed tourism sector which caters to pretty much everyone's needs and budget. Another factor is stability; it has never been colonised and other than a few coup d'état that were more or less bloodless, the government and especially the Royal family kept the tensions in check and the country remained stable throughout the years whereas its neighbours suffered numerous civil wars, dictatorial communist regimes, economical shortages etc. This stability as well as their openness to foreign businesses starting from the 60s led to an exponential growth and that's when the country started to appear on the travel magazines as an attractive destination with a great cost to quality ratio.

Yeah, need to get your priorities straight

Don't forget the cheese and olives!!!

I like your thinking...

Yeah just noticed that Unacceptable; I'll make sure to get a bottle of Johnnie Walker tomorrow

Actually haven't had any whisky this year yet

Ran out of whisky completely...

1000 miles of Sebring starting in a few moments... 8 hours of endurance racing and then F1 Australian GP after it ends. A sleepless night for me

You'd be surprised how much of it actually comes from ignorance and fear of the unknown. The latter is part of human nature and also one of the main reasons why people resist change so I get that. What I personally struggle to understand is how some people seem to have absolutely no interest in expanding their horizons and appear to have no curiosity whatsoever.

I both agree and disagree haha. There's definitely plenty of cultural (and visual) differences between European countries; there's actually more than enough differences within each country depending on the city or region you visit. It's just that with all the globalisation the modern way of live is understandably very similar in most of the big cities within the western sphere of influence nowadays and for me personally it's a turn off too as I find it boring but then I'm not a fan of big cities altogether. Other than that, I really enjoy travelling Europe and there are so many places there that I absolutely adore. That said, I definitely agree that travelling to developing countries is great and it's something that's really close to my heart. The unknown, unfamiliar, less predictable "wilder" places and "culture shock" that challenges your world view, a certain degree of "risk" which gives you adrenaline rush, a sense of adventure, more "freedom" is something that I look for and I'm more likely to find it in the so-called third world countries so that's a natural choice for me. It's not for everyone though, and I know there are loads of people who don't get the appeal of it and would never be able to understand my reasoning. Personally I think that they are missing out on a lot of things as they never really step out of their comfort zone, but we're all wired differently and want different things in life so let's all just do that I say.

I can see your point, but I'd personally say that driving a bad car which is being a few seconds a lap slower than everyone else without any hope of improvement throughout the season is extremely frustrating and no racing driver would be happy with it whatsoever... The only thing that would be worth it is getting picked up by some other team next season but it's going to be hard to impress anyone in a car which once again seems to be undrivable. Russell at least has an opportunity to impress by performing better than Kubica. Yeah, that's definitely a concern. The only thing that might play into his cards is the fact that there are no real extraordinary supertalents (compared to the likes of Leclerc, Verstappen, Russell, etc. in recent years) in F2/F3 at the moment so even with the inevitably poor season with Williams he should be alright I think. Even more so if he manages to keep up with or even outperform Kubica.

Happy for Eggestein as it's a well deserved call-up. Too bad Löw can't pronounce his name properly. Twice

Expedition 59 has arrived and docked to the ISS successfully!

At least he kept it out of the wall

T-13 minutes until launch... Love all the little rituals that they've been doing for years before every launch; like still playing that Трава у дома song, planting trees, etc. We might one day conquer space but we'll never stop being human

Season 1 was amazing and I'm looking forward to the new one but I'm kind of getting the vibe that it's going back to Johnny being a villain and Daniel being a saint... Hope not as both of them being shown as highly nuanced and flawed characters was exactly what made Season 1 so great. Wonder where Kreese will fit into the story as well!

Didn't have any pets back then...

I don't know I thought it was quite cool...