'Flawed Genius'

Well, he paid the ultimate price, a lot of f1 champions are still alive. But whatever.

He dies because of a fault with his car not his mistake.

on 13 April 2007, the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation delivered its own verdict (number 15050) stating that: “It has been determined that the accident was caused by a steering column failure. This failure was caused by badly designed and badly executed modifications. The responsibility for this falls on Patrick Head, culpable of omitted control”.

He dies because of a fault with his car not his mistake.

Yes, that’s right, but imo he was flawed. In your opinion he wasn’t.
I see a little problem here.
He knew the cars were dangerous, he said the cars were dangerous, he said there would be accidents. And there were accidents.
He had to win.

what Spin said on page 1

Tim Buckley
Lou Reed.

Oh, and Van Morrison.

You figure out the flaw.

Linus Pauling

I’m not saying he is a genius. A colossal t**t yes. But is there some genius in his plans…

Trump !

😈

Very much flawed. Though he is a billionaire, so he’s good at something.

Though he is a billionaire, so he’s good at something.

He was born a billionaire.

One seriously complex and broken dude, but man could he climb a mountain, even without “assistance”

Oliver Reed.
RM.

One seriously complex and broken dude, but man could he climb a mountain, even without “assistance”

Considering he was on the hot sauce even as an amateur, I don’t think thats a conclusion that can be drawn.

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Unfortunately in his case his biggest flaw was being a ****. Unfortunately, so much of one that the flaws overrode his talent to the point where ten other people wouldn’t be in the same team as him.

If whoever that^ is forgets how the tune goes he’ll need a mirror to see his cheat-notes* and then, surely, play it backwards.

Not well thought out – is this his flaw?

*I see what I did there

Colin McRae

Gene Middlebrooks

Who?

William Blake
Oliver Cromwell

yunki – Member
His flaws?

Participating in THE least entertaining sport on earth
What, he played darts?
Anyway, it isn’t the particular enterprise that a person is involved with that makes them flawed, it’s the fact that they were particularly good at whatever they did, despite having significant character flaws that went against their abilities, so I’d say Spike Milligan and Tony Hancock.

Woody Allen
John Martyn

Whose the guitarist?

Kurt Gödel.

Overturned the foundations of mathematics, then starved to death because he was too paranoid of being poisoned to eat anything.

bikebouy – Member
Whose the guitarist?

John Martyn

Ain’t that the truth! So sad, he could be brilliant, but he could be embarrassingly bad; saw him once when he was so drunk he was almost incoherent.
Gerry Rafferty had similar problems with the drink, too.
Has anyone said Alan Turing? A true genius, whose flaw wouldn’t make a bit of difference today, but led to his untimely death back then.
One wonders what else he could have brought to light in computer/mathematics science had he lived.

Hicksy – Member
Gene Middlebrooks

Good read, that

Jimmy Savile?

In you own head you must be hilarious

Jay Adams.

Going back through some climbing books lately and had forgotten these chaps.

John Redhead

and also Derek Hersey aka Dirty Derek

George Best

Mark E Smith

Agree with John Martyn and John Redhead.
How about Doug Moller?

Jim Morrison.
Eric Morecambe.
Bill Hicks.
Peter Cook.

Diego Maradonna
Mike Tyson

Oh, Peter Green of course.

Nikolai Tesla

Sir Isaac Newton

Edward Tellar

Casey Stoner

Has to be Hunter S Thompson for me, a genius (but character flawed) wordsmith

3:00 p.m. rise

3:05 Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills

3:45 cocaine

3:50 another glass of Chivas, Dunhill

4:05 first cup of coffee, Dunhill

4:15 cocaine

4:16 orange juice, Dunhill

4:30 cocaine

4:54 cocaine

5:05 cocaine

5:11 coffee, Dunhills

5:30 more ice in the Chivas

5:45 cocaine, etc., etc.

6:00 grass to take the edge off the day

7:05 Woody Creek Tavern for lunch-Heineken, two margaritas, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of fried onion rings, carrot cake, ice cream, a bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home, a snow cone (a glass of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jig­gers of Chivas.)

9:00 starts snorting cocaine seriously

10:00 drops acid

11:00 Chartreuse, cocaine, grass

11:30 cocaine, etc, etc.

12:00 midnight, Hunter S. Thompson is ready to write

12:05-6:00 a.m. Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, clove cigarettes, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin, continuous pornographic movies.

6:00 the hot tub-champagne, Dove Bars, fettuccine Alfredo

8:00 Halcyon

8:20 sleep

Hang on, nobody seems to have mentioned this chap:

I’m not sure I’d ever describe a cyclist (not a road cyclist anyway) as a sporting genius. It seems to be an accolade more usually applied in sports with a strong technical aspect.

Maybe Jimi Hendrix should’ve had a mention by now…