I must confess to being one of the people who enjoys watching the people driving around in circles and occasionally explode into flame. I go every few years. Only in Indy, tho... another race would be disloyal.
I admit, it's positively weird, and shouldn't be any kind of fun. Two things help: A) The stealth bomber. ANY event is cool when a stealth bomber flies overhead. It's just one of those things. THey're like boobs - insert them, and suddenly, everything is much niftier AND B) It's a Roman thing. I'm such a classics geek, I like to pretend i'm at the chariot races. I mean, all the plebes go down to the circus, we watch the Parade of our Civic and Martial Might (see comment A) and then we watch people go really fast in circles and occasionally have horrible accidents.
I take comfort in the fact that very little ever changes.
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I admit, it's positively weird, and shouldn't be any kind of fun. Two things help: A) The stealth bomber. ANY event is cool when a stealth bomber flies overhead. It's just one of those things. THey're like boobs - insert them, and suddenly, everything is much niftier AND B) It's a Roman thing. I'm such a classics geek, I like to pretend i'm at the chariot races. I mean, all the plebes go down to the circus, we watch the Parade of our Civic and Martial Might (see comment A) and then we watch people go really fast in circles and occasionally have horrible accidents.
I take comfort in the fact that very little ever changes.