Call me a hypocrite....

**Bob Riebe** · 5th April 2010, 05:01

Originally Posted by anthonyvop

It is all a matter of perspective.

Correct before President Obama entered politics, and to some degree after, his friends called him Barry.

**Roamy** · 5th April 2010, 05:05

Hobbs is a certified idiot. Let St Devote say anything he wants and quit your fag whining. Take him on that is what forums are about. Seriously the whole world is racist and if you can't figure it out by now you are a lost soul. Politicians make a big freaking deal all the time out of racism and they are probably the worse.

**Jag_Warrior** · 5th April 2010, 05:39

Originally Posted by Daniel

Ah come on. It's clear enough to see. No one else feels the need to bring someone's race into a discussion about motorsport. Now if Lewis did actually get away with murder due to racial sensitivities I could understand it but this wasn't justified at all.

We're talking about the same character who compared the USF1 effort to Nazi Germany. So...

I skip over most any post where I see his name. I figure he'll get himself banned sooner than later, because he wants/needs attention. And to get it, he'll eventually step way over the line.

Til then, I can wait. He's just a garden variety troll who has managed to hang around past his due date.

**harsha** · 5th April 2010, 05:41

surely this could have been better communicated over PM

**anthonyvop** · 5th April 2010, 05:42

Originally Posted by Bob Riebe

Correct before President Obama entered politics, and to some degree after, his friends called him Barry.

Yes, but Barry is a nickname that he approves of.

My fist name is Anthony but my friends call me Tony. That is cool by me.

I sincerely doubt that Fernando Alonso told Hobbs it was ok to call him "Fred"

BTW Fred is short for Fredrick which in Spanish is Federico not Fernando. The English version of Fernando is Ferdinand.

**Daniel** · 5th April 2010, 08:18

Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior

We're talking about the same character who compared the USF1 effort to Nazi Germany. So...

I skip over most any post where I see his name. I figure he'll get himself banned sooner than later, because he wants/needs attention. And to get it, he'll eventually step way over the line.

Til then, I can wait. He's just a garden variety troll who has managed to hang around past his due date.

Exactly. He's just an out and out troll. Sure most people in this thread are guilty of saying things for effect from time to time, but this guy does it with pretty much every post

**Eki** · 5th April 2010, 10:25

Hypocrite!

**odykas** · 5th April 2010, 11:38

Hypocrite...

**Lousada** · 5th April 2010, 11:52

Originally Posted by Daniel

Ah come on. It's clear enough to see. No one else feels the need to bring someone's race into a discussion about motorsport.

And there was me thinking this was a race forum

**BDunnell** · 5th April 2010, 14:09

Originally Posted by anthonyvop

Last year I had an issue with the US F1 broadcast. Particular David Hobbs's insistence on call Felipe Massa "Phil" and Fernando Alonso "Fred". Why did he feel the need to angloize their names? Being Latin myself I found it a bit degrading.

I certainly agree with your view as expressed there and in your subsequent post.