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| leeds_manc wrote: "hey I'm world champion, that's the best thing ever". Perhaps because he has the emotions of a cyborg imitating human behaviour. | |
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He competes with Froome and Murray in my eyes.
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| Author: | pcernie [ Mon Nov 24, 2014 9:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Lewis Hamilton’s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black? |
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... 1-champion Er, no, not likely. I don't even watch sport and I could name you any number of popular black competitors. |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Mon Nov 24, 2014 10:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lewis Hamilton’s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black? |
I'd say a major fact is most of the races aren't live on terrestrial TV any more. If it's a sport people only see about once month nobody doing it is going to be that popular. |
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| Author: | big_D [ Tue Nov 25, 2014 5:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lewis Hamilton’s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black? |
Over here it is because he isn't Nico Rosberg... F1 is on terrestrial TV over here, although I think I've watched maybe 2 minutes of F1 this year. |
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Tue Nov 25, 2014 8:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lewis Hamilton’s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black? |
His lack of popularity could be because he acts like a blingy little chav. However, I supported him because he's a) British and b) one of the best drivers I've seen. |
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| Author: | leeds_manc [ Wed Nov 26, 2014 1:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lewis Hamilton’s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black? |
"hey I'm world champion, that's the best thing ever". Perhaps because he has the emotions of a cyborg imitating human behaviour. |
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| Author: | TheFrenchun [ Wed Nov 26, 2014 8:48 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Lewis Hamilton’s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black? | |||||||||
He competes with Froome and Murray in my eyes. |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lewis Hamilton’s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black? |
Here's the thing : generally very highly strung emotional people don't get to be F1 world champions. To win at a massively technical sport where the margin between victory and defeat is sometimes fractions of a second requires an analytical personality not an emotional one. |
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Sun Dec 14, 2014 5:53 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Lewis Hamilton’s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black? | |||||||||
True, but that is justification for being the way he is. It doesn't mean that he's any more likeable because he has a "reason" not to be emotional etc... |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lewis Hamilton’s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black? |
So much for that then. 
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| Author: | JohnSheridan [ Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lewis Hamilton’s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black? |
I would like him more if he actually lived in Britain and paid taxes like the rest of us instead of living in tax exile thus avoiding tax, whilst at the same time "claiming" to be British. |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lewis Hamilton’s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black? |
Well he's just won Sports Personality Of The Year, so he can't be that unpopular. EDIT Doh! Didn't notice jonbwfc had beat me to it. 
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Mon Dec 15, 2014 5:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lewis Hamilton’s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black? |
Voting numbers Hamilton 209,920 McIlroy 123,745 Pavey 99,913 Dujardin 75,814 Gallagher/Evans 35,871 Yarnold 23,188 Whitlock 17,219 Bale 13,747 Froch 11,616 Peaty 9,899 Lewis got 50% more votes than the second place. |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Mon Dec 15, 2014 6:19 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Lewis Hamilton’s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black? | |||||||||
Lewis Hamilton’s popularity: is it cos he is black? 
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| Author: | JohnSheridan [ Mon Dec 15, 2014 8:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lewis Hamilton’s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black? |
Not many voted then - about 600,000 out of a population of 60+ million. |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Mon Dec 15, 2014 8:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lewis Hamilton’s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black? |
So that about 1% of the population. That's not bad to a TV phone in of no real importance. |
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