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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Russian on February 12, 2007, 04:33:31 PM
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Did anyone watch latest episodes of Top Gear? I can’t belief they actually did that…. That was the best episode, in the world. :D
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Youtube link?
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Originally posted by Dos Equis
Youtube link?
I don't think it's there yet. It was released on BBC last night...
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Yea, that was great! Remember that time?
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Originally posted by eskimo2
Yea, that was great! Remember that time?
Nah I thought the time before was better.
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The redneck bit was a bit contrived... most people I've talked to think it was staged.
Very funny though. 'Hilary for President' and 'Nascar Sucks'. Hehehe.
Glad to see our American cousins are enjoying the output of the BBC. It must be weird to see quality programmes without ad breaks every 5 minutes to remind you what essentials you don't need to buy next time you go shopping. Aren't commercial channels crap?
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Originally posted by Vulcan
Nah I thought the time before was better.
Oh yea! THAT time! I know exactly the time you're talking about.
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Here's part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJwX0MfFIE4
The other 6 parts are there too, but you must search for them yourselves.
Great episode!
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Originally posted by Dowding
The redneck bit was a bit contrived... most people I've talked to think it was staged.
Very funny though. 'Hilary for President' and 'Nascar Sucks'. Hehehe.
Glad to see our American cousins are enjoying the output of the BBC. It must be weird to see quality programmes without ad breaks every 5 minutes to remind you what essentials you don't need to buy next time you go shopping. Aren't commercial channels crap?
I don't know, it was quite convincing to me. I was actually surprised that they managed to runaway from rednecks in one piece.
(Also, I do not own a working television, so I'm at liberty of getting what I want without extras)
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Originally posted by eskimo2
Oh yea! THAT time! I know exactly the time you're talking about.
No I think you're mixed up. Its not the time your thinking of, but the one before the one after it.
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Originally posted by Dowding
Glad to see our American cousins are enjoying the output of the BBC. It must be weird to see quality programmes without ad breaks every 5 minutes to remind you what essentials you don't need to buy next time you go shopping. Aren't commercial channels crap?
Umm, have you seen BBC America? They have more commercials per hour than the Home Shopping Channel. PBS used to be the main outlet for commercial free BBC programming, but the BBC/Lionheart has put a stop to that prefering to use BBC America for 1st run programmes and loading them with commercials. Even PBS runs commercials now, but they block them between the shows.
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Here you go (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6MJVzXbqRU)
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I think that was possibly the funniest episode i have seen, the way they were ramming eachother, fat stig... the bit where they were sabotaging james may's air con had me in stitches. Oh and "Turning right on a red light... the only thing that America has given western society" :lol
If any americans take offence to having a bit of fun poked at them, i wouldnt watch that episode.
New Orleans was a bit of a shock, never hear about what is happening there anymore.
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LMAO!
Has to be staged but still :D
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we can watch whatever we want in America and a lot is commercial free. If you want.. you can record a commercial one and play it latter zipping past the commercials.. and... you won't go to jail for not paying the government a TV tax.
when I was in england the shows were crap... mostly talking heads with studmuffin accents and grown men kicking balls around in the mud.
For car shows I watch the ones where they build cars and run em on the dyno as they add new parts like cams and heads and such. You can't really learn anything from "top gear" it is a comedy show and not for auto enthusiasts.
lazs
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Originally posted by lazs2
You can't really learn anything from "top gear" it is a comedy show and not for auto enthusiasts.
lazs
Are you implying that 'car enthusiasts' , whatever that is, cannot enjoy car humor? They have to learn something constantly about cars? Right..... and Hilary For President!
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My wife and I watched the episode last night; it was pretty funny and entertaining. I’m sure that much of their stuff is scripted and set-up but I wonder about the gassing up the “Man-Love-Rules” truck and NASCAR SUCKS Caddy in the hick town… Think the hicks were set-up too?
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One of my favorite Top Gear episodes was the Toyota Hilux.
The question: Exactly how much abuse can a Toyota 4x4 take?
Answer: http://paultan.org/archives/2006/01/11/jeremy-clarkson-tests-the-toyota-hiluxs-hardiness/
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Originally posted by Chairboy
One of my favorite Top Gear episodes was the Toyota Hilux.
The question: Exactly how much abuse can a Toyota 4x4 take?
Answer: http://paultan.org/archives/2006/01/11/jeremy-clarkson-tests-the-toyota-hiluxs-hardiness/
That's still my favorite too.
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Thanks, Pei. The Alabama Redneck attack? Talk about a stupid stunt. In-your-face provocation of any group eventually can trigger reaction.
Brits making fun of America is ancient. And vice versa.
One of my oldest favorite quick reads is USA for Beginners by Alex Atkinson and Ronald Searle (Penguin, 1963), two Brits driving across across the United States. Every paragraph is classic droll, e.g.:
"In Chicago I saw very little of the underworld gangs (or Trade Unions, as they are now called), but there was some sporadic shooting as I drove north on State Street, the great street, and in the burlesque houses, strip shows, honky tonks and other dens of iniquity which abound to ensnare the gullible traveler (I must have visited at least thirty) I thought I caught sight of some gorillas, mugs, goons, hatchet-men, footpads and politicians from time to time, but I couldn't be sure, because Chicago citizens tend to look alike."
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russian.. no.. I am saying that a car guy wouldn't watch the show to learn anything.. I have watched it and laughed myself.. it is a comedy show. It happens to have a little to do with cars and the guys in it are not incompetent drivers.
lazs
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Well, if they went ahead to the garage and let them in on the joke, I'm pretty sure they could find someone to play a part.
Besides, if you were likely to get your head kicked-in, deep in some god-forsaken corner of a foreign country, you'd not take the time to find the jump-leads for a $1000 Cadillac.
Maybe for the pick-up truck, but definitely not the Caddy.
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Loved it - great episode...I'm leaning to not a setup...
Tronsky
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Man, I had a $100 caddy that ran better than that thing. It didn’t have any exhaust but it did have six cigarette lighters.
Here’s a movie of it being driven like a 4X4:
http://hallbuzz.com/movies/alaska/cadillac_style.wmv
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Originally posted by eskimo2
Man, I had a $100 caddy that ran better than that thing. It didn’t have any exhaust but it did have six cigarette lighters.
Here’s a movie of it being driven like a 4X4:
http://hallbuzz.com/movies/alaska/cadillac_style.wmv
That looked like fun. :aok
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Clarkson at the end " Man has intergrated with Vegtable":D
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Originally posted by Halo
Thanks, Pei. The Alabama Redneck attack? Talk about a stupid stunt. In-your-face provocation of any group eventually can trigger reaction.
Brits making fun of America is ancient. And vice versa.
One of my oldest favorite quick reads is USA for Beginners by Alex Atkinson and Ronald Searle (Penguin, 1963), two Brits driving across across the United States. Every paragraph is classic droll, e.g.:
"In Chicago I saw very little of the underworld gangs (or Trade Unions, as they are now called), but there was some sporadic shooting as I drove north on State Street, the great street, and in the burlesque houses, strip shows, honky tonks and other dens of iniquity which abound to ensnare the gullible traveler (I must have visited at least thirty) I thought I caught sight of some gorillas, mugs, goons, hatchet-men, footpads and politicians from time to time, but I couldn't be sure, because Chicago citizens tend to look alike."
Ohhh, careful, Halo. I remember this board catching fire about the violences following the publications of the Mahomet cartoons. A lot of you (and me) were shocked by it and thought that the islam religion needed to evolve and give less importance to symbols.
Here we have blatant provocation but, i'm sure that you've noticed, not aimed at the most touchy subject: religion. And it triggers a reaction which could have been violent.
Maybe the western world should take a second look at this perspective and clean its own backyard before criticizing his neighbour's.
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Wonder what would happen if say......
An american bought a late 80s Jag write "soccer is for homos" "the queen is a man in drag" . Then take said Jag ad drive through say.......... Liverpool.
What would the outcome would be?
Bronk
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Originally posted by Bronk
Wonder what would happen if say......
An american bought a late 80s Jag write "soccer is for homos" "the queen is a man in drag" . Then take said Jag ad drive through say.......... Liverpool.
What would the outcome would be?
Bronk
Scousers would probably be more interested in stealing the car.
No one really cares about royalty here, and we dont call it soccer.
Or you would get arrested for "disturbing the peace".
Drive through glasgow with a flag of st george and you would soon see some violence ;)
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Originally posted by Ball
Drive through glasgow with a flag of st george and you would soon see some violence ;)
LMAO
:aok
Bronk
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Huh, deSelys? I don't see any connection with my post about a funny book by two Brits reporting their observations from a drive across the United States.
My main point about the video is that it was a dumb stunt that eventually evoked the adverse reaction it was looking for.
The book was not looking for a bad encounter. It was just the usual snide superiority complex humor afterward when the protagonists were safely out of range.
Generally speaking, we Americans can take a joke about ourselves and don't go tearing everything up. It's called freedom of speech. But when that reckless TV stunt deliberately provoked people face to face, that's just dumb and a recipe for unhappy results.
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the flag of SAINT george, that sounds like religion to me.
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Saw the programme, thought it was very amusing. Painting the slogans on the cars was very funny and it reminded me of a movie. Can't think of the name but in it John Candy drives into Canada in a truck with slogans like 'Canada sucks' and other insults painted all over it. He gets stopped by a Canadian cop (Dan Ackroyd) who shakes his head and says it won't do. Then goes on to tell Candy to paint the slogans in French too because those are the rules in Canada. :lol
Incidentally I do think the 'attack' was a set up. Whether the three protagonists knew it was I don't know. I have a feeling someone went on ahead and hired a crowd. I've seen how supposedly documentary TV shows are made. 'Spontaneous' events are often rehearsed.
Bronk, a better suggestion for a way to upset Liverpudlians would be to drive through Liverpool with Liverpool FC sucks and Man UTD are the best painted all over the car. Not that would get you stoned. :furious
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:rofl
(http://xbc.xanga.com/193d24f002333106728384/w75546006.jpg)
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Originally posted by cpxxx
Incidentally I do think the 'attack' was a set up. Whether the three protagonists knew it was I don't know. I have a feeling someone went on ahead and hired a crowd. I've seen how supposedly documentary TV shows are made. 'Spontaneous' events are often rehearsed.
Don't think so... those Top Gear guys are a bit nuts. And did you see the looks they were getting while driving. Plus there was the stones at the camera crew. If it was staged they woulda left the camera crew and their rentals alone.
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The writers were probably in charge of finding the right spot for Clarkson et al. to drive their slandermobiles into, unprepared.
But when that reckless TV stunt deliberately provoked people face to face, that's just dumb and a recipe for unhappy results.
So, what about the Oclub baiting PETA boards?
You have to admit Clarkson's treatment of the car is just bad taste, right? Worth a lawsuit maybe...
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I'm American.. I would have ignored em. ball is limey and he would have ignored a pos english ford with "the queen is queer" painted on it in limeyland but... a bunch of really silly looking and dumb toothless limey guys would have made fools of themselves shaking their fists and yelling.
You will get the reaction you want from a small percentage of any populatation.
lazs
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That should read 'cow', not 'car'.