Gumball 2007

[Gast]

Je DENKT dat je logisch nadenkt, there is fine line




Soit, gasten, om te vermijden dat de boel hier weer wordt dichtgesmeten, laten we een einde breien aan dat arm vs rijk en strafmaatregelen-gedoe.
WimRS4 gaf het goede voorbeeld, ik volg alvast ....


Heeft iemand dit spel al geprobeerd eigenlijk? Suckt wsl marginaal hard?

De playstation in mijn vrachtwagen is verbonden met een Hirschmann digitale tv ontvanger en die is dus al 5 maand stuk. maw. Tijdens mijn wachturen ben ik dus weer een modale trukker, die niets zit te doen.
zuigt lekker ja. Nee ik speel geen playstation terwijl ik rij, ge gaat me niet hebben deze keer. WACHTUREN zijn uren terwijl je staat te wachten op een of andere magazijnier die geen goesting heeft om je te laden.

[Beta]

Ne mens probeert den boel on-topic te trekken met een leuk filmpje en wedden dat de helft het hier weer niet eens gaat terugvinden tussen al dat gezwets over straffen en boetes.
Boetes volgens inkomen laten varieren, ok, maar daar zal dan wel rap iets aan gebeuren, auto op naam van de vrouw en madam heeft geen inkomen, huwelijks contract strikte scheiding van goederen. Bij wie gaat de boete komen? en op wie gaat ze berekend worden. Soit dit gezegd zijnde.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3583681171890090634&q=ruby+wax+gumball

Ruby wax in de 2001 Gumball, heersen!!!

Tja, die situatie bestaat nu al bij tal van uitkeringen e.d.m. (bv. bij studiebeurzen).
In theorie is dat allemaal ideaal, maar in de praktijk kan je het systeem nooit perfect laten werken, maar dat had ik al een keer of drie gezegd, geloof ik.
Trouwens, de uitwerking van zo'n idee is niets voor mij. Ten eerste omdat ik mij totaal geen wereldverbeteraar voel (ik haat zulke mensen) en ten tweede omdat ik niet zinnens ben om in de politiek te gaan (tenzij moest ik zeker zijn dat ik erdoor rijk kan worden zonder veel te moeten doen ).

Edit:
Ik denk zéér logisch na, LL. Als je dat niet ziet, dan scheelt er iets. Voel je gewoon niet zo aangevallen.

[Gast]

ik wist niet dat damon hill ooit nog had deelgenomen aan de gumball

[Bralo20]

Een stukje uit de Times:

Focus: It was meant to be a ‘good laugh’. But now with two dead no one is smiling
John Arlidge on how the Gumball rally went tragically wrong
The £120,000 Porsche 911 Carrera, with a top speed of over 170mph, was cruising a few miles from the border between Macedonia and Albania. Behind the wheel was Cheshire-based property developer Nick Morley, 29, and next to him his entrepreneur friend Matthew McConville, 32.

The pair, who had left Athens that morning, were competing in a rally known as the Gumball 3000 and were running late. They had invitations to a gala dinner that evening, hosted by the prime minister of Albania in the presidential palace in Tirana.

They never made it. Around 6pm the Porsche slammed into a red Volkswagen Golf and both cars spun off the road and into a ditch. The VW driver, Vladimir Cepuljoski, 67, died near the scene and his wife Margarita died later in hospital.

The two Britons walked away badly shaken but unhurt.

How Wednesday’s accident happened remains contested. Locals say the Porsche was speeding along the wrong side of the road and that the two Britons left the scene. Morley and McConville insist they were cruising at a legal 40mph and that the VW pulled out of a T-junction into their path. They deny leaving the scene.

Either way, police arrested both men, at the Albanian border, and charged Morley with “heavy violation of traffic safety” and “failure to provide help to an injured person”. McConville was released on bail, but yesterday Morley remained in custody.

As the police set about establishing the truth, one thing that everyone agrees on is that the Gumball 3000 was an accident waiting to happen. Every May, jet-setters, trustafarians, royals, Middle Eastern movers and sheikhers and eccentrics of every stripe fuel up with testosterone and God knows what else to race their Porsches, Lamborghinis and Ferraris 3,000 miles across continents.

The rally is the go-faster creation of 34-year-old British former model and wannabe playboy Maximillion Cooper and is now being variously referred to as the “Dumball” and “Scumball” on the internet.

Competitors, supposedly vetted by Cooper, pay nearly £30,000 for the privilege of driving all day and partying all night. After each day behind the wheel there’s a swanky dinner, including hot’n’cold running babes. The race has a reputation for rock’n’roll style excess. Every year there is mangled metal, arrests, fines and trashed hotel rooms. Yet every year the drivers come back for more. Living dangerously is – they say – “a good laugh”.

No one is laughing now. As relatives of the Cepuljoskis grieved, Cooper cancelled the rest of this year’s race. A victory parade in central London, followed by a party with US hip-hop star Xzibit, Jamiroquai frontman Jay Kay and model Caprice, that was due to take place last night, was hastily cancelled.

The main sponsor, Adidas, which backed the race to the tune of £1m, pulled out on Friday and has cancelled all future sponsorship.

It’s the end of road for this year and what many are now asking is: is the Gumball party, and indeed the wider “petrol-head” phenomenon it stands for, over for good? CRITICS say the deaths prove that the very idea of braying speed freaks careering across continents like outlaws is so outdated and dangerous that it should be consigned to the history books and the old movies that inspired it. The Gumball is a homage to films such as the 1976 Gumball Rally and the 1981 Cannonball Run, starring Burt Reynolds.

The detractors are not just the usual battalion of health and safety nannies who object to a race in which competitors stick speeding tickets to their wind-screens as badges of honour.

Car manufacturers, usually happy to lend cars to celebrities taking part in races of almost any kind, refuse to loan cars to Gumballers. Silvia Pini, of Italian superbrand Maserati, says: “It’s just too risky. There are too many unknowns.”

Style and social commentators say the “toffs’ jolly” is also out of step with the socially responsible spirit of the age. Crawford Hollingworth, executive chairman of consumer analysts Henley Centre Headlight-Vision, says: “We live in an age where some things, such as buying a fancy car, have become a little too obvious and easy to decode. For the rich, giving back and making a difference to society is the new cool.

“Look at Bono or Warren Buffett. We envy the person who takes a year’s unpaid sabbatical to travel the world more than the one who buys a new Porsche.”

Even professional petrol-heads argue the Gumball should be scrapped. Michael Harvey, editor of BBC Top Gear magazine, Britain’s biggest-selling auto title, says: “The Gumball is a bunch of overprivileged, beautiful young things showing off in front of anyone bored enough to watch – or tragically, it turns out, get in their way. It’s elitist and silly.”

The Gumball is not the first road race to hit controversy of course: the Mille Miglia, which takes place next week from Brescia to Rome and back, was stopped in 1957 after a crash that killed two drivers and 11 spectators. But in less than a decade the Gumball has become the most notorious.

It began in 1999 when the well-connected Cooper invited his celebrity friends, including actors Jason Priestley and Billy Zane, and singer Dannii Minogue, to take part in a six-day trans-European road trip, a modern-day grand tour fuelled on parties.

The first race was incident-free. In the second, in which 85 cars left London and went to Spain, France, Italy and Germany, there were two accidents, a £6,000 fine for overtaking a police car, and a £10,000 bar bill. It was the third Gumball to Russia that got really crazy, with crashes, car-jack-ings and arrests.

By the time of the 2005 race from London to Morocco and back, the racers’ motto had become “Death or Glory” and bets on who would win had reached £1m. One German racer, Kim Schmitz, promised to give two of the hottest female drivers £500,000 each if they beat him. If he won, he got a threesome. He won.

The rally’s supporters praise its no-limits ethos and camaraderie. Regular Richie Warren,a 41-year-old Briton who owns underground record label Fuel, spoke about it last year in a way that now seems eerily prophetic. “You live on the edge,” he told Vanity Fair. “Yeah, someone might get killed. Some silly bastard . . . could go over on the wrong side of the road and total a f****** wife and children in their little car. It could happen .. . I couldn’t give a flying f***.”

Cooper claims he makes every effort to ensure participants stick to speed limits. But critics say his pleas fall on deaf ears. The wilder the Gumball has got, the faster it has grown.

Cooper was on his way to achieving his goal of making the race a mass-market brand. He recently launched dozens of spin-offs: Gumball clothing, records, TV and film. The race generates £10m a year and the spin-offs a larger figure. Advertising and marketing giant WPP valued the brand at £150m.

The cancellation of this year’s race means Cooper will lose money. Will he lose his business altogether? Some would love to see the back of him and are already doing their best to run him off the road. GERMAN police effectively banned the rally this year. Drivers were pulled over as they entered the country from Holland and forced to drive slowly on the autobahn – the one place where they could have legally driven at 200mph – behind a police escort.

Turkey refused the race access altogether. The Gumballers were forced to divert to Athens.

Cooper says he is shocked by Wednesday’s accident and insists he is doing everything he can to help the Cepuljoskis. He and his wife, Danish beauty Julie Brangstrup, flew to Skopje yesterday to pay their respects to the family.

Cooper told The Sunday Times last night: “This is the first time anything like this has happened in nine years.” That’s strictly true, but somewhat misleading. In Morocco two years ago a Lamborghini rammed a small car and injured the woman driver.

Cooper insists he wants to continue with next year’s race, which is due to begin in London and take in Moscow and North and South Korea before ending in Sydney.

“We bring amazing entertainment and enjoyment to drivers and to the people in the cities to which we go,” he said. “Whatever it takes to make it 100% safe, we will do, including having police escorts.”

Police escorts for would-be outlaws living a rock star life? Surely the millionaires and mad hatters who “go Gumball” would rather take the bus.

Bron: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1752271.ece

[Gast]

ik wist niet dat damon hill ooit nog had deelgenomen aan de gumball

Tot in Calais dan keerde hij terug, het was een publiciteitsstunt, maar kweet niet meer voor wat.

[Gast]

Tot in Calais dan keerde hij terug, het was een publiciteitsstunt, maar kweet niet meer voor wat.

ah ok, ik vond 't al raar dat ik van niets wist

die ruby is er trouwens wel over... haar ogen al toe doen omdat ie eens accelereert

[Gast]

ah ok, ik vond 't al raar dat ik van niets wist

die ruby is er trouwens wel over... haar ogen al toe doen omdat ie eens accelereert

Het is TV, dus ze acteert wel een beetje, een beetje veel zelfs. maar ze is zo zalig...

[Gast]

Die ruby wax is ook maar een zeikwijf hoor...

"Richest man in Europe" nu toch niet meer dan

Calmos tegen Ruby Wax!!!
Zalige presentatrice!

[Gast]

Ik vraag me af hoe alles gaat aflopen want tussen Alex en Max Cooper gaat het momenteel hard tegen hard ...

[Gast]

Ik vraag me af hoe alles gaat aflopen want tussen Alex en Max Cooper gaat het momenteel hard tegen hard ...

Cooper was on his way to achieving his goal of making the race a mass-market brand. He recently launched dozens of spin-offs: Gumball clothing, records, TV and film. The race generates £10m a year and the spin-offs a larger figure. Advertising and marketing giant WPP valued the brand at £150m.

Wat zou het motief nu toch zijn, ik weet het. Naastenliefde!

[Gast]

Héhé, ergens klopt het hele Gumball verhaal niet hé.

Een evenement waar er van langs alle kanten kritiek op komt dan toch nog zo verder gaan uitbouwen met allerlei gadgets. Chapeau dat Max het risico heeft willen nemen. Echt waar, er zouden dat velen niet durven.
Nu gaat het mis en nu zit hij daar hé ... met een nog slechtere naam en Alex, die wil volgens mij gewoon de waarheid naar boven brengen ...

[Porker]

Het is TV, dus ze acteert wel een beetje, een beetje veel zelfs. maar ze is zo zalig...

Die Lambo staat nochtans precies aan die checkpoint in Polen?

Kunnen natuurlijk meerdere gele Diablos tussenzitten

[Gast]

Die Lambo staat nochtans precies aan die checkpoint in Polen?

Kunnen natuurlijk meerdere gele Diablos tussenzitten

Ze zegt daar ergens : " At calais he bailed out." In dat magazine had ik gelezen dat hij enkel meedeed als publiciteitsstunt;
Dateert van 2001, kweet met moeite nog wat ik gisteren heb gegeten, dus kan wel ne keer mis zijn.
Kben maar ne achterlijke kamionchauffeur he.

[Gast]

Ranatjen!!

Ook spellingsregels horen gerespecteerd te worden!

Typo's.

Dus hou je bek maar

mod-edit : en jij ook

[Gast]

Tja, die situatie bestaat nu al bij tal van uitkeringen e.d.m. (bv. bij studiebeurzen).
In theorie is dat allemaal ideaal, maar in de praktijk kan je het systeem nooit perfect laten werken, maar dat had ik al een keer of drie gezegd, geloof ik.
Trouwens, de uitwerking van zo'n idee is niets voor mij. Ten eerste omdat ik mij totaal geen wereldverbeteraar voel (ik haat zulke mensen) en ten tweede omdat ik niet zinnens ben om in de politiek te gaan (tenzij moest ik zeker zijn dat ik erdoor rijk kan worden zonder veel te moeten doen ).

Edit:
Ik denk zéér logisch na, LL. Als je dat niet ziet, dan scheelt er iets. Voel je gewoon niet zo aangevallen.

Mattheuseffect... ach maatschappelijke advisering.

[Gast]

Typo's.

Dus hou je bek maar.

De vriendelijkheid zelve weer ...

[Gast]

De vriendelijkheid zelve weer ...

Ik vind ook dat ik vandaag vriendelijk ben.

Zoals steeds dus.

[Porker]

Typo's.

Dus hou je bek maar.

Sinds wanneer kunnen -dt fouten afgedaan worden als typo's?

DIT is een typo: Rzna is een aangenaam type

[Alexanderr]

Neen, dat is een leugen

[Gast]

Vrolijke vrolijke vrienden
Vrolijke vrienden, dat zijn wij
Vrolijke vrolijke vrienden
Vrolijke vrienden, dat zijn wij

En nu met z'n allen