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Post by dit on Dec 28, 2010 18:32:58 GMT
Just thought there was space for those comments people make about James that are enlightening, perceptive and/or witty.
I like this from Dean Andrews of 'Life on Mars' amd 'Ashes to Ashes' fame. It's from the Top Gear official site Q&A page:
"And the final question Dean, what famous people did you go to school with?"
"James May. He was really posh and straight-laced. While all the rest of us had sports bags, James walked around with a briefcase."
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Post by katdaddy on Dec 29, 2010 5:58:52 GMT
Doesn't that just make you love him more. So confident in himself. Didn't need to be like everybody else.
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Post by xjsarah on Dec 30, 2010 1:12:30 GMT
I rather like this comment by Richard, in his TG Magazine column almost a year ago, when he was talking about learning to fly a helicopter:-
James May will, of course, have undertaken exactly the same ground training in the course of gaining his pilot's licence....the book-learning part of it is broadly similar. James will have coasted through this bit, his massive brain bulging just the tiniest bit more to accommodate a mere million or so new facts. The experience for me was more of a strain.
There's definitely a compliment in there somewhere! ;D
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Post by jacqui on Dec 30, 2010 13:21:21 GMT
I've always laughed at this from in interview in the Independant last year
He is crumpled and slightly ramshackle in the flesh, almost donnish. Spend any amount of time with him, and you are ultimately struck by a curious thought: that he will one day make for a terribly nice old windbag. Perhaps this is due to his habit of rambling, of endeavouring earnestly to explain scientific and technological tidbits to you when you didn't request it of him. Pleasingly, he never seems to mind when it becomes clear to the both of you that you stopped listening several minutes earlier.
In other words adorable ;D
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Post by katdaddy on Dec 30, 2010 19:53:24 GMT
Agreed Jacqui!
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Post by From Afar on Dec 30, 2010 22:40:38 GMT
Definitely adorable I would also like to add a comment made about James by one of my mates a few months ago, a 39 year old male friend "When I grow up I want to be James May, he's fantastic" to which MOH replied "Yeah me too!"
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Post by antonia on Feb 7, 2012 17:11:04 GMT
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Post by dit on Feb 8, 2012 0:56:49 GMT
Absolutely my sense of humour. I laughed uproariously!
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Post by missburlo on Feb 8, 2012 16:28:28 GMT
Jonathan Ross "You wouldn't want to be stuck in a lift with James May"
Wanna bet Wozza?
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Post by rx7 on Feb 8, 2012 17:23:45 GMT
Nice quotes here! I always thought that James was the kind of person who would take sex too seriously for one...
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Post by adrianmay on Feb 8, 2012 22:48:41 GMT
Nice quotes here! I always thought that James was the kind of person who would take sex too seriously for one... OK gotta know what that means. Do you mean he'd have charts and graphs or that he'd just over study the situation and lack spontaneity?
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Post by FizzyLogician on Feb 8, 2012 22:56:58 GMT
Nice quotes here! I always thought that James was the kind of person who would take sex too seriously for one... OK gotta know what that means. Do you mean he'd have charts and graphs or that he'd just over study the situation and lack spontaneity? Or maybe he's never in his life had a casual fling? Come on, rx7, what did you mean? (And why?) ;D
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Post by dit on Feb 8, 2012 23:01:44 GMT
Taking my thoughts over to the NC......
(I seem to remember that this is a public thread!)
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Post by cockney on Feb 8, 2012 23:14:40 GMT
Nice quotes here! I always thought that James was the kind of person who would take sex too seriously for one... Hmmmm? Sex for one? How about for two?
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Post by ElerVim on Feb 9, 2012 6:15:33 GMT
Nice quotes here! I always thought that James was the kind of person who would take sex too seriously for one... Hmmmm? Sex for one? How about for two? I'd wager a guess that behind closed doors it is no holds barred. Out in public it is all seriousness (he has an image to uphold, after all), but shut the door and you have a totally different animal you never knew existed. And before I get too carried away, I should be following that taxi of Dit's which has mysteriously sped away and completely disappeared from view...
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Post by dit on Feb 9, 2012 10:25:42 GMT
All my taxi drivers are Formula 1 trained and know a lot of shortcuts.....
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Post by missburlo on Feb 11, 2012 17:37:30 GMT
Hmmm, James in the bedroom?
I bet he's on a strict procedure where it's all done. Perhaps in similar steps each time, timed to the precise moment.
Then there will be the aircraft puns as he's doing the job. "The Spotsworth Camel is about to leave the ground" sort of thing.
And then at the climax, the immense "Oh Bloody Nora"
Yep, bet that's what he's like!
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Post by dit on Jun 30, 2012 10:15:25 GMT
This is quite a long post but I've been following the blog of an author called Jennifer Armintrout, who has been most amusingly taking the p*ss out of “50 Shades”, chapter by chapter. This is from her most recent entry " Christian is playing piano, so she puts on her robe and goes to listen to the "melodic lament" he's playing. Doesn't this guy know any happy songs? Oh sh*t, that's right, he couldn't know any happy songs, because he's tortured.
That's probably the only piano piece he knows, and he just plays it when women are over to like, impress them. Once, I saw some youtube clip where James May was talking about how even guys who can't play the piano could learn to play this one, impressive sounding piece, and it would get them ladies. Let me see if I can't rustle that clip up and post it here for all my James May lovin' sisters and brothers:www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iV0ciUOk63gOkay, I may have confused this clip with the one from Man Lab where he teaches the guy to cheat on guitar. But in any case, that's what happened. Christian Grey only knows how to play one song on the piano, and I'm sticking with that theory, because it's hilarious.
Full disclosure, I had to share that link because I love all of you who have come out to me with your James May crushes and I thought we should share this moment before the fickleness of the internet forces us apart. Know that I will forever remember your excellent taste in over-forty hotties."Jennifer's blog can be found on jenniferarmintrout.blogspot.co.uk/
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Post by amie8 on Jun 30, 2012 21:53:34 GMT
Crikey! She's a real author. I assumed that Armintrout must be a made up name for the internet, but she has a number of books to her credit.
Her blog's a little hard to follow - I probably need to spend a bit more time with it, but I tend to lose focus when reading long stuff on a computer screen.
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Post by dit on Oct 23, 2012 23:13:27 GMT
I was watching a Stewart Lee video posted on twitter (thank you, hintofvanilla) which I don't intend posting as I don't like the guy in general (I much prefer his original partner, Richard Herring) and I know he's performed some really unpleasant stuff about TG, especially Hammod.
However, this bit was clearly from the very beginning of the routine and is innocuous and amused me. Lee compares the TG3 relationship to the Three Bears, firstly saying that Hammond is quite clearly Baby Bear, then goes on to say that everyone assumes that would make Clarkson Daddy Bear. However, he goes on to say,
"I bet you think Clarkson is Father Bear, the alpha male, but stop! James May is the alpha male in that group, not Jeremy Clarkson. James May - strong. Silent. Cos you know, if he wanted to, James May could tear Jeremy Clarkson's face off. With a single blow of his enormous paw."
Which image has really made me smile, on a number, as they say, of different levels.
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Post by dit on Jan 22, 2013 22:25:43 GMT
I'm watching the Sarah Millican Show and she's just been interviewing Noel Edmonds. She's come up with this little sequence to Noel
"How do you feel about James May stealing your hair? Cos you used to present Top Gear, didn't you? Do you ever look at James May, and his hair and his shirts and think 'hang on...'?"
Edmonds was hysterical.
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Post by amie8 on Mar 1, 2013 0:38:51 GMT
I received the following text message from my service provider today:
Tickets ONLY £20 for HORMONAL HOUSEWIVES starring TOYAH WILCOX and JULIE COOMBE! Is your man more James May than Christian Grey? Then this is the show for you! Catch it while you can at....etc etc
So who's this Christian Grey, then?
And why do I suspect that - in this context - your husband being more like James May is not supposed to be a good thing?
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Post by xjsarah on Mar 1, 2013 1:20:14 GMT
I think he's the protagonist of that novel, ie. "Fifty Shades of [Christian] Grey". Therefore, I'm afraid your suspicions are likely to be correct.
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Post by FizzyLogician on Mar 1, 2013 1:25:45 GMT
I think he's the protagonist of that novel, ie. "Fifty Shades of [Christian] Grey". Err, yes. And for those who haven't read it, Mr. Grey is a control freak with an overactive libido and notable BDSM tendencies.
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Post by xjsarah on Mar 1, 2013 1:29:10 GMT
I haven't read it, so I stand duly educated. I think I'll probably give it a miss....
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Post by dit on Mar 1, 2013 1:32:48 GMT
Miss it, it's appallingly written.
50 Sheds of Grey though is an absolute hoot, especially on Twitter. Well worth a try.
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Post by melly on Mar 1, 2013 9:10:15 GMT
I have fifty shades of grey and i liked the beginning but not the end. Way too romantic for me.
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Post by crumbs on Mar 1, 2013 9:24:03 GMT
More James May than Christian Grey? Good grief! Rather shockingly, I found that book on my daughter's bookshelf (she is a student) and scanned it for 15 minutes. Which was 15 minutes wasted. Whilst the mother in me baulked at the fact she had bought a sexually explicit book (as she's an adult, it's her choice of course) I was more upset she had bought a book of such poor quality! I'm not averse to sexual content - I just want it to be written well and with depth.
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Post by melly on Mar 1, 2013 10:05:25 GMT
I think a lot af people bought the book because everyone was talking about it. I bought it for that reason.
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Post by Vivienne on Mar 1, 2013 13:33:18 GMT
I do like the 50 sheds of grey on twitter. Naturally a movie is going to be made of 50 Shades of Grey and the candidates are being thrown out there. I could go with Ryan Gosling, he's one I've heard or Ryan Reynolds, both Canadians.
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