It’s Hard to Get by Just Upon a Smile
I’ve had quite a bad day over here at Sidepodcast Towers, and in order to release some of the tension, I’m gonna pick on a couple of news stories that have wound me up today.
More Stories From Nothing
As ever, Autosport has managed to extract as much as possible out of a single situation to make as many stories as possible. In this case, Hamilton’s reaction to questions about whether he’s expecting a bad reception in Spain.
Hamilton: “No.”
Autosport: “That’s all we needed to know.”
Wonders Will Never Cease
Danica Patrick won a race last weekend, which is brilliant for her, for motorsport, for womankind, etc, etc. But apparently, the BBC think she may not be worthy of a namecheck.
Woman.
A woman did it.
I’m assuming they thought writing Patrick would lead readers to think it was a man, and they’d be less inclined to click. So they chose woman.
I Thought of it First
Flavio is getting married between the Canadian and the French GP.
I just want it noted that Sidepodcast was planning their wedding between races before Briatore had even thought about it.
Thanks for listening. I feel better now.
April 24th, 2008 at 20:48 #1 - Scott Woodwiss said:
Don’t worry, Christine, we’re all here for you
By the way, here’s something that might cheer you up! This has to be one of the funniest stories of the year. McLaren decided to hold a “tea party” in their Brand Centre and invited their new neighbours Force India and Super Aguri along! LMAO!
http://www.autosport.com/news/grapevine.php/id/66814
April 24th, 2008 at 20:57 #2 - lou said:
aww im sorry you have had a bad day christine. These kinda things annoy the hell out of me too. Re the ‘Woman makes IndyCar History’ headline, when i first saw it on their website ealier it really annoyed me! Surely they could come up with a better title than that!! A slightly less sexist one would have been nice. Perhaps ‘Danica Makes IndyCar History’ anything is better than ‘Woman’. Im sure others can come up with better headlines than i can. Your rant is completly justified
April 24th, 2008 at 20:59 #3 - Christine said:
Thanks Scott.
A tea-party? That sounds a bit… naff? Although I could be tempted by cake.
Also, isn’t it sweet how Davidson was oh-so impressed with the apple juice? Never been in the giant brand centre before, but boy the apple juice was good
April 24th, 2008 at 21:00 #4 - Christine said:
Absolutely, Lou. Any word but woman and I probably wouldn’t even have noticed.
It’d never say “Man takes debut podium,” would it?
April 24th, 2008 at 21:05 #5 - Scott Woodwiss said:
I just thought it was so funny that instead of calling it a social get-together or something like that, they referred to it as a tea party! I can just imagine it…
Ron: More tea, Giancarlo?
Fisi: Oh yes, how delightful. I must say, this cake is simply divine.
Davidson: My gosh! This apple flavoured beverage is rather scrumptious. And this establishment is just splendid.
Do you think that maybe Ron did it just to show Super Aguri what they’ll never be able to afford?
April 24th, 2008 at 21:12 #6 - me said:
the party was their ‘last request’.
April 24th, 2008 at 21:18 #7 - lou said:
AHAHAHAHAHA!!! Hilarious!! I love it! So Macca are trying to fit in with the neighbours. Aww bless!
April 24th, 2008 at 21:21 #8 - Scott Woodwiss said:
Super Aguri’s “Last Supper”
April 24th, 2008 at 21:22 #9 - SteveintheUK said:
McLaren called it a ‘Tea Party’ because how more English came you get than inviting your neighbours around for afternoon tea. And what better neighbours could you ask for than two teams who home countries hold tea in as high a status as the English do?
April 24th, 2008 at 21:26 #10 - lou said:
Lol I would laugh if it did! But sadly as you say it never will. If it did it could be immediatly changed because of the number of complaints!
April 25th, 2008 at 00:07 #11 - brendan stallard said:
Christine,
You are perfectly entitled to be angry, I’m angry too. Danica Patrick’s achievement was a rare and wonderful thing: to be enjoyed mightily, good on her. To have a cruddy link line like that would have Virginia Woolf howling with rage, rightly.
It was a rotten shoddy bit of reporting, and the sub editor should be taken out and shot.
Cripes: sports reporting has a fair way to go, eh?
brendan
April 25th, 2008 at 00:29 #12 - Dan Brunell said:
What percentage of Super Aguri employees were handing out their CV’s to McLaren and Force India staffs while at the team party? I have it at about all of them.
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April 25th, 2008 at 16:49 #14 - Jordan Allen said:
Christine, I have not checked their web site, but did ITV cover Danica’s win in Japan? I mean, with Lewis Hamilton not racing in th eIRL series I would have found it shocking that ITV noticed that there are other open-wheel racing series out there than what Hamilton raced in……
At least the BBC did cover the race, snd in fairness to them. I guess the word “Woman” as used to draw you into the story, just in case the reader could not figure out that Danica is the female form of …. of … What is “Danica” the female equalivent to? Daniel (Danny) would be Daniella, right? Michael is Michelle, Christopher is Christine, Samuel and Samanthra, and Jonathan is Jacqueline: but what is Danica?
Jordan (F1)
April 25th, 2008 at 16:57 #15 - me said:
that’s okay, in the name of poor journalism, i resolve to call christine “woman”, throughout the entire of this weeks show!
April 25th, 2008 at 20:13 #16 - Steven Roy said:
Aren’t women tempramental? Some man decides to highlight that a woman has finally managed something men have been doing for decades and gets a load of grief about it.
April 25th, 2008 at 20:19 #17 - me said:
but, as i said on twitter earlier. the weekends bbc headline:
“man wins driving car”
journalism is on a great big downward spiral if you ask me. bbc should be ashamed.