Lewis Hamilton launches World’s first global vegan burger chain

[cybershot]

He's a tax dodger: Lewis Hamilton avoided taxes on £16.5m jet using Isle of Man scheme
currently lives in Monaco, money sheltered in various tax havens, hadn't heard of this particular plane-let tax dodge, I wonder if it's been ruled illegal by HMRC yet. The article mentions the other tax dodging he does towards the end.

I dunno about anything else.

Thought I’d read he’d got rid of the plane. He does seem to be coming across lately as giving a shit about the planet. Which is kind of ironic given the amount of pollution his industry must produce. Not just the cars at the weekend bu5 all the transportation of that kit and the amount of rubber that must get burned after every race weekend.

Wonder if he’ll move to formula E at some point if he can cope with earning less.

 

[PursuedByBears]

I usually just get chips and mushy peas.

Thread win

 

[farmerbarleymow]

UK dependencies and overseas territories (or whatever the official terms are for places like Jersey, Guernsey, IoM, British Virgin Islands and other places like that is)

IoM and Channel Islands are Crown Dependencies, the others presumably British Overseas Territories.

eta - and often tax havens.

 

[likesfish]

tbf the delivery should be impressively fast so there that

 

[Part 2]

Not sure how we got to page 4 without a mention of his crimes against poetry.

 

[klang]

Not sure how we got to page 4 without a mention of his crimes against poetry.

i find his poetry a lot more intriguing than his business ventures.

 

[cybershot]

Lewis Hamilton: Social media post says he feels 'like giving up on everything'

Still feels all a bit false while he flies around the planet to drive fast cars that pollute. Forget the emissions. The tyres alone they plough through every weekend is enough.

 

[BigTom]

Lewis Hamilton: Social media post says he feels 'like giving up on everything'

Still feels all a bit false while he flies around the planet to drive fast cars that pollute. Forget the emissions. The tyres alone they plough through every weekend is enough.

err. if you'd actually read the article, you'd see he's gone as far as selling his private jet due to his concerns about the environment!

 

[souljacker]

err. if you'd actually read the article, you'd see he's gone as far as selling his private jet due to his concerns about the environment!

Probably another tax break. Sell it to Lewis Hamilton Enterprises, then lease it back to himself. Or actually, wasn't that what he was doing anyway?

 

[eoin_k]

Let me get this right, we're now lauding the ecological/ethical ambitions of a Formula One racing driver who used to fly about in his own private jet, while all meat-eaters are held primarily responsible for killing the planet.

 

[Idaho]

Let me get this right, we're now lauding the ecological/ethical ambitions of a Formula One racing driver who used to fly about in his own private jet, but all meat eaters are responsible for killing the planet.

Yes "we" are. "We" had a meeting. Didn't you see the invite?

 

[T & P]

Let me get this right, we're now lauding the ecological/ethical ambitions of a Formula One racing driver who used to fly about in his own private jet, while all meat-eaters are held primarily responsible for killing the planet.

And a tax-dodging cunt at that.

 

[Detroit City]

Vegan burgers?!? Screw that bullshit

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Lewis Hamilton: Social media post says he feels 'like giving up on everything'

Still feels all a bit false while he flies around the planet to drive fast cars that pollute. Forget the emissions. The tyres alone they plough through every weekend is enough.

He lost a race, went to his trailer and tried to cheer himself up with a wank, however that only made him fill with greater self-loathing so he tweeted this load of old shite. He might be vegan, but if some carnist ate Hamilton and then ate a t-bone steak every day for the next 100 years the net result for the planet would be less carbon.

 

[friedaweed]

err. if you'd actually read the article, you'd see he's gone as far as selling his private jet due to his concerns about the environment!

Bless him.

 

[The39thStep]

Bless him.

He'll be getting rid of his boiler next

 

[friedaweed]

He'll be getting rid of his boiler next

That got me wondering how good it would be if they raced steam rollers instead of F1 cars.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

That got me wondering how good it would be if they raced steam rollers instead of F1 cars.

Can you imagine the fatalities if they used these? Ayrton Senna's coffin would have been flat as a pancake.

 

[friedaweed]

Can you imagine the fatalities if they used these? Ayrton Senna's coffin would have been flat as a pancake.

Fucking wheel change would be good craic

 

[8ball]

err. if you'd actually read the article, you'd see he's gone as far as selling his private jet due to his concerns about the environment!

Yep. Goes everywhere on a solar-powered boat these days.

 

[The39thStep]

That got me wondering how good it would be if they raced steam rollers instead of F1 cars.

There was a great old film called The Iron Maiden about a steam engine race also memorable for the lead actor spanking the lead actress obviously in a light hearted family comedy sort of way

 

[friedaweed]

There was a great old film called The Iron Maiden about a steam engine race also memorable for the lead actor spanking the lead actress obviously in a light hearted family comedy sort of way

Saves for later

 

[framed]

There was a great old film called The Iron Maiden about a steam engine race also memorable for the lead actor spanking the lead actress obviously in a light hearted family comedy sort of way

Who would've thought that the Dorset Steam Fair could be so exciting? Btw, the actor Alan Hale Jr. who played the scab Casey Jones in the TV series is also in that film playing the father of the spanked bottom.

 

[Marty1]

To be honest I'd love for vegans to have a MacDonald's level of restaurant.

I suspect this won't be it.

It's going to be a cash in on a current trend restaurant with some celeb glitz as the hook.
A Planet Hollywood type affair.

Probably will do well in London and other capital cities for the trendies but doubt they could branch out into working class areas and do well, unless their burgers tasted like real meat and were priced inline with McDonalds, BK etc.

 

[Idaho]

Probably will do well in London and other capital cities for the trendies but doubt they could branch out into working class areas and do well, unless their burgers tasted like real meat and were priced inline with McDonalds, BK etc.

Working class areas? Which ones do you mean?

 

[Marty1]

Working class areas? Which ones do you mean?

• 1 Stoke-on-Trent
• 2 Kingston upon Hull
• 3 Wakefield
• 4 Sunderland
• 5 Wolverhampton
• 6 Carlisle
• 7 County Durham
• 8 Leicester
• 9 Peterborough
• 10 Lincoln

The top 10 most working class areas in England and Wales revealed

From 2015 but probably still accurate enough.

 

[planetgeli]

• 1 Stoke-on-Trent
• 2 Kingston upon Hull
• 3 Wakefield
• 4 Sunderland
• 5 Wolverhampton
• 6 Carlisle
• 7 County Durham
• 8 Leicester
• 9 Peterborough
• 10 Lincoln

The top 10 most working class areas in England and Wales revealed

From 2015 but probably still accurate enough.

Not one of those is in Wales. That'll be all that gentrification the Valleys underwent.

 

[William of Walworth]

Let me get this right, we're now lauding the ecological/ethical ambitions of a Formula One racing driver who used to fly about in his own private jet, while all meat-eaters are held primarily responsible for killing the planet.

1. On this thread, there's been as much strong criticism of Lewis Hamilton as "lauding" -- probably more.
2. I haven't got time** to do the stats on animal-rearing's impact (world-wide) on the environment, but that might be worth looking at -- this academic article, published by the OUP, looks reputable (?)

**Or to get on this thread much -- apols.

 

[Idaho]

• 1 Stoke-on-Trent
• 2 Kingston upon Hull
• 3 Wakefield
• 4 Sunderland
• 5 Wolverhampton
• 6 Carlisle
• 7 County Durham
• 8 Leicester
• 9 Peterborough
• 10 Lincoln

The top 10 most working class areas in England and Wales revealed

From 2015 but probably still accurate enough.

Stoke, Leicester and Hull have a Waitrose.

 

[Marty1]

Stoke, Leicester and Hull have a Waitrose.

Then there’s hope for Lewis yet.