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Post by lymaze on Nov 1, 2009 19:20:08 GMT
The Bolivians should take comfort in the fact that Jezza dislikes everywhere pretty much, and most insects, and anything green unless it's his own fields and trees. ;D At least I can now remove the rainforest from my list of places I might like to visit.
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Post by lymaze on Nov 8, 2009 12:02:25 GMT
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Post by nobody on Nov 9, 2009 19:26:34 GMT
Its been removed i heard because of complaints.
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robin
Smutty Mayhemer
Stop the revolution! It's over!
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Post by robin on Nov 9, 2009 21:27:44 GMT
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Post by chariset on Nov 9, 2009 22:21:06 GMT
Dear Jeremy,
Take your Mercedes and race around in circles for an hour as fast as you can. You'll feel better. Honest.
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Post by nobody on Dec 13, 2009 17:33:57 GMT
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Post by lymaze on Dec 13, 2009 18:03:50 GMT
I only put Dylan's song on the Christmas thread Friday night.  I can't stand Christmas songs although the Pogues and Kirsty is one of my favourites as it's nice and cynical.  In fact, I can't really stand Christmas and only today was blessed with the happy thought that in 2 weeks time it'll all be over with. Yaaay.  |
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Post by TheDaisy on Dec 13, 2009 18:36:51 GMT
In fact, I can't really stand Christmas and only today was blessed with the happy thought that in 2 weeks time it'll all be over with. Yaaay. This. Agree. ;D ;D |
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Post by inky on Dec 13, 2009 19:14:45 GMT
Jeremy seems to like the same Christmas songs as me. I will never, ever tire of hearing Merry Xmas Everybody or I wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day and I also am quite fond of the Greg Lake one  I have heard a couple of the Bob Dylan christmas tracks (one was on the radio this afternoon as I drove home). First time I heard it I thought it was a wind up, it is so bad (IMHO). Never been a big fan of old Bobs style of performing his songs but acknowledge he has written some classics that other people have delivered with much more panache. However, the Christmas stuff is just embarrassing  |
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Post by Wyvern on Dec 13, 2009 22:33:47 GMT
Jeremy's taste seems to roughly coincide with mine too (but then again, so does a lot of his wider musical taste, and my iPod is embarrassingly full of things that were released before about 1978). I like the Greg Lake song too But on the whole I'm a bit weird about Christmas. I like to have a tree, and a bit of sparkle, and I like to get together with friends - but then, I like doing that all year round - but my absolute pet hate is the ridiculous round of giving people you aren't always even that keen on things they don't like. So these days I don't do it. There are very few people I give Christmas presents to, but if I see something I know a friend of mine will like, I'll give them a 'happy random day' present instead ;D Of course, immediate family is different. Love spoiling my boys no matter what day of the year it is! |
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Post by chariset on Dec 14, 2009 2:32:42 GMT
Does this man have a setting between "Cuddly" and "Rant"?
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Post by lindenchase on Mar 1, 2010 8:03:34 GMT
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Post by nobody on Mar 26, 2010 15:58:32 GMT
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Post by jacqui on Mar 26, 2010 16:09:15 GMT
Thats should be on the BFS thread - BFS meets Nelson Mandela ;D I love the first paragraph of that article conjours up a great picture!!! ;D ;D |
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Post by dit on May 16, 2010 14:30:35 GMT
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Post by jacqui on May 16, 2010 18:58:54 GMT
"Rumour has it James May is a hybrid; part Worzil Gummidge and part James Watts". Aww thats really quite sweet and quite apt ;D |
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Post by chariset on May 21, 2010 4:10:59 GMT
Who and who? What does that mean?
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Post by dit on May 21, 2010 6:09:55 GMT
Worzel Gummidge (spelling corrected) is a character from British children's fiction, whose stories were made into a popular TV series. He is an endearing scarecrow, famous for his raggedy hair and ability to change heads depending on his mood. He also loves cake.
James Watt (spelling corrected) (1736-1819) was a famous Scottish inventor and engineer whose work on steam engines really helped bring about the industrial revolution - and we know that our James likes steam engines, cos we've seen the photos!
Hope this helps.
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Post by jacqui on May 21, 2010 12:59:36 GMT
Very well put Dit ;D definitely James ;D
I shall now picture James with a selection of heads ;D
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Post by chariset on May 21, 2010 15:25:46 GMT
A scarecrow who loves cake and steam engines...
That does sound like our James.
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Post by eshalda on Sept 26, 2010 14:43:33 GMT
Today's Sunday Times column is a hoot. Apparently all 3 have been on a Health and Safety course at a Berkshire hotel. Jeremy explains that all BBC employees have to do the course 'if they travel further than Stow on the Wold.' The Headline is;
'When one of the mourners asked for our autographs, James May shot her in the face with a water pistol.'
The funeral party were at the hotel for an after funeral tea, and James made the mistake of thinking the mourner was part of the Health and Safety exercise
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Post by Wyvern on Sept 26, 2010 16:41:06 GMT
Bah! Curse the Sunday Times and its paywall o' doom |
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Post by lymaze on Sept 26, 2010 17:41:45 GMT
I'm sure we could get them on a human rights issue.  Scanner anyone? |
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Post by nobody on Sept 26, 2010 17:47:53 GMT
Today's Sunday Times column is a hoot. Apparently all 3 have been on a Health and Safety course at a Berkshire hotel. Jeremy explains that all BBC employees have to do the course 'if they travel further than Stow on the Wold.' The Headline is; 'When one of the mourners asked for our autographs, James May shot her in the face with a water pistol.' The funeral party were at the hotel for an after funeral tea, and James made the mistake of thinking the mourner was part of the Health and Safety exercise OMG  I can see the daily fail story unfolding has we speak. And I LOL does this make me a bad person. |
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Post by eshalda on Sept 27, 2010 9:26:52 GMT
Haven't got a scanner available at the moment, but a precis of the column is:
Jeremy was seething with rage because the Health and safety course took a whole week starting at 8am to 7pm, and was unpaid.The course was run by two firemen named Baz and Tel.
.... how, in six days could they possibly cover all the hazzards as a programme such as Top Gear might face on its travels? Altitude sickness, what to do if you get a fish in your p*nis, extreme cold, road accidents, how to be beheaded with dignity and what to do while being shelled in Mogadishu.
Tel and Baz staged mock battles etc. always with some mishap (not intended,)happening;
'It was like watchingWorkingham Amateur Dramatic Society stage a version of 'Apocalypse Now, and i thought, "Holy sh*t.I've got six days of this.'
The Health and Safety programme consisted of lecture, Baz had a horrible accident. Lecture Baz fell out of trees, trod on landmines,crashed his car, got shot, blown up. 'Baz was the unluckiest fireman in history.'
They did a mock gunfire exercise, (this is where James shot thr mourner in the face with a water pistol.)
'... it's impossible to work out where gunfire is coming from. Which is why when the shooting started, Richard Hammond hid in the front of a bush and was killed.'
On Thursday afternoon Baz fell out of another tree and they were supposed to roll him onto a blanket, and move him,
'... but we couldn't move him as none of us had been on The BBC manuel labour course. I wish I was joking about that, but I'm not.'
Jeremy signs off by saying that you may think he thought the whole thing a waste of time, but it wasn't. On day one Baz had told them about a girl who had had a horrific car accident, a crowd gathered and all agreed she should not be moved as she may have a spinal injury. The girl died, but not because of a spinal injury, she died because her tongue was blocking her airway. Jeremy says,
' I know what to do in that situation. And was that one single fact a week of my time? Honestly? Yes.
That's the article in a nut shell.
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Post by eshalda on Nov 7, 2010 16:16:14 GMT
Jeremy's column in the Review section of The Sunday Times is a good one. It's entitled 'Listen class, nobody needs to know their adxe from their elbow'. It talks mainly about James being a practical man, and his new series. Jeremy openly admits to being useless at practical things, but concludes that most things today are electronic and if, for example, a router breaks down, or a satalite aeriel needs repositioning James wouldn't be able to do this because he is scared of electricity, which, in fact, he doesn't believe exists.
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Post by dit on Nov 7, 2010 21:01:49 GMT
The point about James not believing in electricity amused me when I first heard it as I'm exactly the same. It's not that I don't understand it, it's that I don't see how it can possibly happen.
I feel the same about radio and TV. How can that be? How can anything travel through the air? And don't start me on how planes can stay up there. That's the reason why I won't fly.
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Post by devil-may-care on Nov 7, 2010 21:09:32 GMT
How can anything travel through the air? And don't start me on how planes can stay up there. That's the reason why I won't fly. So, I guess this means you won't be visiting me here in the States unless the QE2 picks you up at your door? Or are ships out as well? ;D  |
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Post by Wyvern on Nov 7, 2010 23:58:35 GMT
I feel the same about radio and TV. How can that be? How can anything travel through the air? And don't start me on how planes can stay up there. That's the reason why I won't fly. To get your head around all those things, all you need to really get your head around is the difference between air and nothing. Once you understand that, you can understand how things can travel through it, and how lift works and all kinds of other interesting stuff The reason I try not to fly isn't that I'm afraid of flying; it's that I'm afraid of not flying... |
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Post by dit on Nov 8, 2010 0:16:10 GMT
Yep, it's the fear of hitting the ground very hard from a descending airoplane that has a tendency to put me off!
I've always had a wish to 'do' American on a ship/train/ship thing but I suspect it might be a bit expensive. I did manage London-Paris on the Eurostar, though!
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I can't stand Christmas songs although the Pogues and Kirsty is one of my favourites as it's nice and cynical. 
I have heard a couple of the Bob Dylan christmas tracks (one was on the radio this afternoon as I drove home). First time I heard it I thought it was a wind up, it is so bad (IMHO). Never been a big fan of old Bobs style of performing his songs but acknowledge he has written some classics that other people have delivered with much more panache. However, the Christmas stuff is just embarrassing 
I held you, you felt me, I touched you, you kissed me.......
I love a man who can handle a gun 
Scanner anyone? 
I can see the daily fail story unfolding has we speak.
