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well,
the big 2 are back on our screen, and top gear too.

watched a bit of fifth gear last night and wasn't that impressed except for the bit where vicky butler henderson was giving a new tvr some beans in a quarry. must have been cold though as they weren't the only beans on display either. other than that tiff and the other twonks review of super mini's was dire so i went and got some dinner.

top gear though is definately back on form. the porsche gt3 was duly ragged round the track to the third fastest time yet - in the wet! i'm not a porsche fan and i was impressed. clarkson was his usual ascerbic self grugingly praising a diesel lupo! and insulting the italians whilst explaining the history of the ford gt. all in all a good start to the season if you like that kind of thing. oh yes and they shot the stig in a jag off the hms invincible with a steam cannon, what more could you want.
it's not pc, it's not clever but it's entertaining and certainly better than toddler big brother 9 or insulting wannabe entertainment whores 37.
cheers


julian
 
Top gear is just a back slapping mundane lads show now - i'm surprised they haven't had any topless women on there yet, ala Max Power, or a bar with some guy named Big Dave serving pints only.

I didn't mind seeing a GT3 thrown about a bit, but honestly, all the twaddle in between.........:rolleyes: . They used to review cars on Top Gear.......and J.C. seems to think he is the 'guvner' these days. And is there any episode where he doesn't manage to get his Merc in the shot. :rolleyes:

I think they should rename it 'Top Blokes', would be more appropriate.

Sorry, maybe i need to grow a sense of humour, but generally i think the programme is shit. Its neither about cars, nor is it particularly funny or entertaining. (Jag off an aircraft carrier - sorry but it was hardly enthralling - they'll be burning ants with magnifying glasses next, in between rounds of british bulldog). It dabbles in both, but is mainly focused on some lanky middle aged bloke thinking he is Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder, with the wit of a dozen comedians in a barmcake. Sadly neither...

Loaded magazine on the telly....i wouldn't mind, but i don't think it is even particularly entertaining....

They are just all trying to act too cool. And who is that dodgy new bloke who drives a clapped out rolls royce (bentley?) they seem to have recruited. He's even more stinky than J.C....



oh dear....am i turning into Roy Cropper.
 
ahhh the green, cyclist, pc backlash.
sorry but i happen to like fast cars, pretty women and watching people do stupid things.
as for the 'new bloke' he was there all last season so pay more attention.
i'm sure you'd be much happier watching the latest episode of changing rooms, eating a rice cake drinking a wheat grass smoothie in your cycling shorts.
each to their own i say.
cheers


julian
 
Originally posted by cookiemonster
It dabbles in both, but is mainly focused on some lanky middle aged bloke thinking he is Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder, with the wit of a dozen comedians in a barmcake.
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Oh dear, I rather like it now :o. It's far more fun that the old days, even if the car reviews are perhaps a little less detailed. Frankly though you're going to test drive a car you're seriously interested in.

Highlight of last series for me was the one where JC ended up trying to drive a car from the back seat using a number of Heath Robinson levers. Fantastic! He was very unfair on the car, claiming there was no point having a fridge or some such in the back because cars never have rear passengers, despite it clearly being aimed at families, but it still brightenend up my Sunday evening :D .
 
Who's Roy Cropper?
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A geeky bloke on Corrie who carries a handbag.

ahhh the green, cyclist, pc backlash.
sorry but i happen to like fast cars, pretty women and watching people do stupid things.
as for the 'new bloke' he was there all last season so pay more attention.
i'm sure you'd be much happier watching the latest episode of changing rooms, eating a rice cake drinking a wheat grass smoothie in your cycling shorts.
each to their own i say.
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Jules - i've never entertained a pair of cycling shorts in my life, and unless they sell rice cakes and 'wheat grass smoothies' :D in Burger King, then i'm not sure what you are on about.

I honestly find the programme a patronising and mundane tour de force. I like fast cars and pretty women as much as the next fella, but unfortunately 'Top Blokes' and their boorish, egoistic banter fail to give me an erection.

It is also yet a further sector of the media which seems to deify the 'celebrity' at every given opportunity, and endlessly regurgitated tales of 80s pop shenanigans and multiple Porsch purchases bring me no closer to buying a copy of Heat magazine.

Sorry, maybe if they could just illustrate the fast cars and cut all the other crap.......

cheers
 
the celebrity bit can be a bit tedious especially when they are b-listers like the guy from spandau ballet they had on recently. however tales of jk driving his car into a moat or jodie kidd's tales of the gumball rally or even captain picard trying to pronounce jaguar instead of jagwar all have entertainment value (to me, ymmv of course). the real funny bit is watching their faces when they learn how well or badly they've done round the track.
the creation of a bond car from an old rover and 400 quid was tops, the review of the paris dakkar land rover was insane, the back seat driving bit that was mentioned above was ludicrous and michael gambon should be in an institution.
i guess you guys are just too mature to find this kind of thing entertaining. i feel sorry for you.
cheers


julian
 
LOL,

I am afraid I am on the side of the PC brigade. I find JC and his cronies rather cringe-making.

Maybe I just dont get the humour. Are they trying to be ironic?
 
Jules, you drive an 80ft Lexus mate - if i ever got that mature my feet would drop off.
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damn, hoist by my own set of wheels. perhaps if i get all the chrome gold plated, the windows blacked out some mortar style exhausts, it slammed by 4 inches, some ho's in the back and a 9 in the glove compartment i can retain my anti - pc cool.... naaah didn;t think so.

cheers


julian
 
i got fluffy dice :D and a 200W Focal sub in the boot :D
think you guys are taking Top Gear a bit too seriously- its meant to be entertainment, not a documentary

Britain's Worst Driver was sheer class- theres a celebrity version next week, with Nicholas Parsons :confused:

5th gear was excellent, if not only for a bit of the ol' nips action from Ms. Butler-Henderson :p :D . Although I have to say Tiff giving that Daihatsu a bit of a good ragging around that test track was highly amusing :D
Great stuff :)
 
think you guys are taking Top Gear a bit too seriously- its meant to be entertainment, not a documentary
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Sadly, i find it as equally 'entertaining' as you guys, just from a different perspective. If i took any of this stuff mildly seriously, i would have hacked my head off with a large sword long ago.
 
pennance, unfortunately they don't do a marge in a bikini 'magic tree' in halfords or i'd have one in a flash. i'm now going to retire to the broom cupboard after revealing my perverted lust for marge... oh god the shame...

cookiemonster,
where have i given the impression that i find top gear anything other than entertainment? it's all the pc / cyclists who are up in indignation about it all.
i find the programme slightly teenagerish (or grown adultish after 5 pints on a friday night - you've been there discussing idiotic subjects prompted by beer) however that doesn;t stop me from finding it entertaining, if fact that's probably why i find it entertaining.

cheers


julian
 

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