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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Rob52240 on January 12, 2012, 11:44:18 AM
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Add India to the list after the Indian government formally complained yesterday.
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They shot their Christmas Special in India this year.
So far they've been extremely offensive to:
Americans
Mexicans
Germans
Russians
French
Eastern Europeans
Germans again
Australians
That's all I can come up with off the top of my head.
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Gotta love the guys though :D
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I'm an American, or an American't as soon as they hear someone else say that little joke. And I usually laugh out loud at their cracks about americans, or whatever other country they're taking a jab at. I nearly lost it when they hosted the cast of Top Gear Australia and sent a prison bus to pick them up at the airport.
I liked these Jabs at my country quite a bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40XspbWmTbA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WYaJIDQEQM
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Of course they offend, only 2 counties on that list know how to make a car that's worth driving.
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Loved their 3 Kings episode...
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Strong words from a citizen country that hasn't learned what a toothbrush is for, yet.
I didn't hear them complaining about our gear when they used it to storm beaches in Normandy.
Perhaps I wasn't listening hard enough...
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Hmmm, a Dodge Ram and an Atom. lots of similar things to compare, there ... :rolleyes:
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You left out the Koreans. Or those industrious little fellows...
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Loved their 3 Kings episode...
That was truly hilarious. :aok
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My Jag doesn't have a trunk crapper or a boot pooper. :cry
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Add India to the list after the Indian government formally complained yesterday.
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They shot their Christmas Special in India this year.
So far they've been extremely offensive to:
Americans
Mexicans
Germans
Russians
French
Eastern Europeans
Germans again
Australians
That's all I can come up with off the top of my head.
of course they do. it's a large part of what sells their show.
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Of course they offend, only 2 counties on that list know how to make a car that's worth driving.
I didn't see the episode but if Top Gear made some unbelievable claims about India, they were probably spot on true. And that's why they were offended.
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Kinda funny how the most blindly-patriotic of us will tell everyone else in the world to get thicker skin and deal with however else we decide to treat the world..
But, when a television show in another country says things that are pretty much true, people get offended.... :cry
Go figure.....
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It's entertainment, and good entertainment. It's also all in good fun! God bless them for not being afraid to be funny, or make fun of their own country from time to time.
"There is one thing about this Audi that doesn't work right, the trip odometer. And that's not good because it was installed by a German, who will be shot at dawn for his mistake" Jeremy Clarkson
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I thought the guy in the new Sherlock Holmes movie was the guy from Top Gear. Apparently that's incorrect, but damn, they look similar.
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I thought the guy in the new Sherlock Holmes movie was the guy from Top Gear. Apparently that's incorrect, but damn, they look similar.
I haven't seen it but I think it might be because Richard Hammond is a closeted American.
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So far they've been extremely offensive to:
Americans
Mexicans
Germans
Russians
French
Eastern Europeans
Germans again
Australians
That's all I can come up with off the top of my head.
That's ok. :)
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Strong words from a citizen country that hasn't learned what a toothbrush is for, yet.
I didn't hear them complaining about our gear when they used it to storm beaches in Normandy.
Perhaps I wasn't listening hard enough...
Wow! You must be really old to have been around to listen back then.
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You ought to list the brits on the list as well. They go off on brit products / roads / government programs all the time. They are equal oportunity country insulters. Damn funny too. I loved the homemade RV show.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WYaJIDQEQM
After watching this... that guy is a freaking moron. May I hit him please? It's a TRUCK, you idiot. It's not designated a car, because IT ISN'T A CAR. It's designed to haul things, it's designed to be comfortable to sit in because it's marketed towards farmers or people who spend the whole damn day working with their hands and hauling big heavy things around. It is not designed to race, it is not designed to go fast around a track. It is not designed to be nimble, or maneuverable. It's big, it's comfortable, and I'll wager it eats less fuel per mile than your zippy little sports cars.
And yes, compared to most other vehicles driven by the public, a large truck like that is fast. It has a lot of horsepower behind it. I'd like to see that little piece of junk sports-car you compared it to on a race track haul a camper around. Or yank a tree trunk out of the ground, or go off-roading or mudding.
No wonder people complain about these guys. I don't mind people taking jabs at my Country, or insulting my lifestyle or what American's buy, but at least do it with some actual wit. Not another foreigner going "derp derp I'ma marry ma sister paw 'cuz sheez cute derp". That just isn't funny anymore because comedians have kind of done that to death over here.
There's taking a jab, in which everyone can laugh at, and then there's this bonehead.
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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'
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You ought to list the brits on the list as well. They go off on brit products / roads / government programs all the time. They are equal oportunity country insulters. Damn funny too. I loved the homemade RV show.
i enjoyed this episode immensely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohkAxbeMxVo
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Strong words from a citizen country that hasn't learned what a toothbrush is for, yet.
I didn't hear them complaining about our gear when they used it to storm beaches in Normandy.
Perhaps I wasn't listening hard enough...
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Hmmm, a Dodge Ram and an Atom. lots of similar things to compare, there ... :rolleyes:
Lighten up, Francis.
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Wow! You must be really old to have been around to listen back then.
Well, my great uncle, who is 91 and still alive was there and I've never heard it in any of his stories so perhaps I wasn't listening long enough.
He has mentioned, on many occasions however, the lack of French citizens that could have lent an opinion. :aok
Carry On :salute
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Don't take it personally. He just can't figure out why americans love pickup trucks, so he thinks it stupid.
Not really, England, Aussie, and NZ all use 'pickups' quite heavily... we call them Ute's. Each seems to have their preferences. In NZ we love toyotas, they're the right size, robust, good 4wd for getting through sticky spots etc. Aussies seem to like holden utes (technically a car). Poms have a thing for rangi's (Range Rovers). The thing about the RAM is it would be shocking for the average NZ farm, it's to big, it'd get stuck, wouldn't be able to get through tight spots etc. Plus most farmers prefer diesel engines, they give more torque etc.
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Plus most farmers prefer diesel engines, they give more torque etc.
and most only have a diesel bowser.
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Not really, England, Aussie, and NZ all use 'pickups' quite heavily... we call them Ute's. Each seems to have their preferences. In NZ we love toyotas, they're the right size, robust, good 4wd for getting through sticky spots etc. Aussies seem to like holden utes (technically a car). Poms have a thing for rangi's (Range Rovers). The thing about the RAM is it would be shocking for the average NZ farm, it's to big, it'd get stuck, wouldn't be able to get through tight spots etc. Plus most farmers prefer diesel engines, they give more torque etc.
No self respecting yank pickup owner would use the loose Australian definition of a Ute as any vehicle with a bed for hauling things. We do not classify Pickup Trucks in the same category as a car. They are not based on cars, they are not built like cars. They are trucks, not cars.
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After watching this... that guy is a freaking moron. May I hit him please? It's a TRUCK, you idiot. It's not designated a car, because IT ISN'T A CAR. It's designed to haul things, it's designed to be comfortable to sit in because it's marketed towards farmers or people who spend the whole damn day working with their hands and hauling big heavy things around. It is not designed to race, it is not designed to go fast around a track. It is not designed to be nimble, or maneuverable. It's big, it's comfortable, and I'll wager it eats less fuel per mile than your zippy little sports cars.
And yes, compared to most other vehicles driven by the public, a large truck like that is fast. It has a lot of horsepower behind it. I'd like to see that little piece of junk sports-car you compared it to on a race track haul a camper around. Or yank a tree trunk out of the ground, or go off-roading or mudding.
No wonder people complain about these guys. I don't mind people taking jabs at my Country, or insulting my lifestyle or what American's buy, but at least do it with some actual wit. Not another foreigner going "derp derp I'ma marry ma sister paw 'cuz sheez cute derp". That just isn't funny anymore because comedians have kind of done that to death over here.
There's taking a jab, in which everyone can laugh at, and then there's this bonehead.
Nice tooth
:lol
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Don't take it personally. He just can't figure out why americans love pickup trucks, so he thinks it stupid.
Hell. Im an American and I cant figure out why half the clowns that have pick ups love them
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Not really, England, Aussie, and NZ all use 'pickups' quite heavily... we call them Ute's. Each seems to have their preferences. In NZ we love toyotas, they're the right size, robust, good 4wd for getting through sticky spots etc. Aussies seem to like holden utes (technically a car). Poms have a thing for rangi's (Range Rovers). The thing about the RAM is it would be shocking for the average NZ farm, it's to big, it'd get stuck, wouldn't be able to get through tight spots etc. Plus most farmers prefer diesel engines, they give more torque etc.
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.
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Hoffman, the main Top Gear presenter just really likes to troll people (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15999234) :D
don't let them get your panties in a bunch
*disclaimer - I do not watch Top Gear/care about cars whatsoever
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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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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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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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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.