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Re: Top Gear offends another country
« Reply #30 on: January 13, 2012, 07:39:34 AM »
Don't take it personally.  He just can't figure out why americans love pickup trucks, so he thinks it stupid.

This is my favorite insult they've done yet (against the french and yes it is applicable to aces high humor)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oXLD3MxZOY

CAP1 you should look up their 'Assorted Airport Service Vehicles Race'


 i've seen that one too. nearly pissed myself laughing. especially when hampster decided to lighten his firetruck.....and couldn't friggin see@   :rofl
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Re: Top Gear offends another country
« Reply #31 on: January 13, 2012, 07:41:01 AM »
i've seen that one too. nearly pissed myself laughing. especially when hampster decided to lighten his firetruck.....and couldn't friggin see@   :rofl

If you are offended, as well, I suggest that you send them a picture of your toe to express your disgust  :aok
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Re: Top Gear offends another country
« Reply #32 on: January 13, 2012, 07:45:21 AM »
I just looked up what a Ute is.  That's not a truck. That's a car with a bed. Where I'm from we just call that type of vehicle an El Camino whether it is or isn't an actual El Camino.

And I don't agree with a full sized American pickup being too big for a NZ farm.  NZ is twice the size of Pennsylvania and I saw plenty of full size pickups working on the farms up in the valleys this past August.
Althouh it might have alot to do with NZ being an island.

You generaly only get a pickup stuck when you're doing something stupid with it.  Regular farmwork and most off-road driving they can handle with ease.


But still. I'm not saying the vehiclles are bad, or that the whole population there are using the wrong tool.  If that's what works than more power to them for using what works.



I dislike it, when someone takes a vehicle, any vehicle; and out of the blue compares it to something that performs a completely different task and then complain that this vehicle can't do that task as well as the specialist vehicle.
It just frustrates me when someone can make a living spouting inane and stupid things about stuff like this.  Pass it off as great knowledge, or that he's making some grand point of fact.  Which is what he was trying to do in that video.  And then throw in stupid, out-dated, tasteless, stereotypical jokes that aren't funny on top of it all.  The entire effect on me is that I feel as though he is going completely out of his way to insult me.

All in all... he just reminds me too much of my college Professors. And anything that reminds me of college has a tendancy to overly upset me.

So I apologize if I went a little batty in this thread.  Shoot me down a couple more times ingame for it.

 jeeze dood......is it "that time of month" or something?

 if you dislike people spouting bs, then you must dislike about 99.99999% of the people on tv.
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Re: Top Gear offends another country
« Reply #33 on: January 14, 2012, 11:29:20 PM »
I just looked up what a Ute is.  That's not a truck. That's a car with a bed. Where I'm from we just call that type of vehicle an El Camino whether it is or isn't an actual El Camino.

And I don't agree with a full sized American pickup being too big for a NZ farm.  NZ is twice the size of Pennsylvania and I saw plenty of full size pickups working on the farms up in the valleys this past August.
Althouh it might have alot to do with NZ being an island.

You generaly only get a pickup stuck when you're doing something stupid with it.  Regular farmwork and most off-road driving they can handle with ease.


But still. I'm not saying the vehiclles are bad, or that the whole population there are using the wrong tool.  If that's what works than more power to them for using what works.



I dislike it, when someone takes a vehicle, any vehicle; and out of the blue compares it to something that performs a completely different task and then complain that this vehicle can't do that task as well as the specialist vehicle.
It just frustrates me when someone can make a living spouting inane and stupid things about stuff like this.  Pass it off as great knowledge, or that he's making some grand point of fact.  Which is what he was trying to do in that video.  And then throw in stupid, out-dated, tasteless, stereotypical jokes that aren't funny on top of it all.  The entire effect on me is that I feel as though he is going completely out of his way to insult me.

All in all... he just reminds me too much of my college Professors. And anything that reminds me of college has a tendancy to overly upset me.

So I apologize if I went a little batty in this thread.  Shoot me down a couple more times ingame for it.

You are the type of person that makes the show's antics glow. 
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