Thursday, April 20, 2006
Feeling Bullish
Why are drivers, managers, teams etc. always described as 'bullish' before the next race/season? I thought this was just a joke in the F1 Manager game, but journalists really do use it, all the time (the latest: Schumacher feeling bullish). Note that the people involved never used the word, e.g. 'I'm feeling vaguely bullish today', it is always and interpolation added by the writer, i.e. 'they're feeling bullish'.
It's an utterly horrid word, completely inappropriate to the sport (I also hate James Allen describing the cars as thoroughbred horses - they're cars, not animals), and I vote for a veto on it.
In other news, the answer to 'Guess the Race': Hungary. I think it was Massa avoiding Klien.
It's an utterly horrid word, completely inappropriate to the sport (I also hate James Allen describing the cars as thoroughbred horses - they're cars, not animals), and I vote for a veto on it.
In other news, the answer to 'Guess the Race': Hungary. I think it was Massa avoiding Klien.
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Well I guess it comes from the city. Where they have bull and bear markets.
There are loads of alleged reasons for where it comes from but the most likely is that it came from bearskin brokers who would sell bearskins before the bears had been caught, another phrase related to the etymology is "don't sell the bearskin before you've killed the bear".
And in relation to the markets of today the bears are often accused of driving a market down because they sell shares that they don't own yet and then go and buy them later when the confidence of the market has been lowered to meet the order.
Why bull is the opposite I don't know. And how it relates to F1 I have no idea.
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There are loads of alleged reasons for where it comes from but the most likely is that it came from bearskin brokers who would sell bearskins before the bears had been caught, another phrase related to the etymology is "don't sell the bearskin before you've killed the bear".
And in relation to the markets of today the bears are often accused of driving a market down because they sell shares that they don't own yet and then go and buy them later when the confidence of the market has been lowered to meet the order.
Why bull is the opposite I don't know. And how it relates to F1 I have no idea.
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