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Post by jacqui on Aug 1, 2011 12:15:48 GMT
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Post by jacqui on Aug 1, 2011 12:24:33 GMT
This had me in hysterics ;D ;D   |
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Post by Vivienne on Aug 1, 2011 15:00:03 GMT
Well there is an article in The Telegraph about the boys parking in disabled parking spaces in Lincoln. I guess there was a lack of news to fill the paper. Of course Top Gear apologized as they have to do for everything. That show has one big target on it. It's as if they were the only two people that ever did that. I know people that smoke here in the U.S. and use their spouse's disability placard to park close to the store or wherever when they are alone. One woman's husband has since died and she still uses it.
Is that really James in that picture? I was tired and didn't quite get the answer.
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Post by jacqui on Aug 1, 2011 15:33:41 GMT
Well there is an article in The Telegraph about the boys parking in disabled parking spaces in Lincoln. I guess there was a lack of news to fill the paper. Of course Top Gear apologized as they have to do for everything. That show has one big target on it. It's as if they were the only two people that ever did that. I know people that smoke here in the U.S. and use their spouse's disability placard to park close to the store or wherever when they are alone. One woman's husband has since died and she still uses it. Is that really James in that picture? I was tired and didn't quite get the answer. What about all the other people who disabled parking spaces and are NOT disabled - oh well as you say - TG Target and all that bo**ocks  No it isn't James - just a very good lookie-likie and as he said he said he was only 12years old at the time of the picture ;D Although James i think you will find you were more likely to be 13!!!  ;D but who's splitting hairs  |
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Post by lew on Aug 1, 2011 16:44:36 GMT
James and Jeremy reminisce about series 17 - oh and moan a bit too about illegal downloading - of which we know nothing..... as said often by Manuel ;D Which of course I too know nothing about........though sadly I'd wished with the official beeb dvd's the news was/is kept in, bad move I say. |
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Post by liverbird on Aug 1, 2011 20:48:17 GMT
Great last episide. Sundays are not going to be the same. Pity they don't make 8 eps per series.
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Post by amie8 on Aug 1, 2011 21:07:47 GMT
To be fair, J & J are not really moaning about illegal downloading as such, but at the fact that people download it illegally, then complain that it isn't good enough for them, which just proves they've been reading FinalGear
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Post by chariset on Aug 1, 2011 21:14:37 GMT
Give us Yanks some way to pay the license fee and we'll consider it. Until then, you know there's no legal way for us to get the same episodes the UKers enjoy. BBC America chops them up to make room for commercials, and the DVD releases often change the music (and mess up the voice/music balance) because of copyright issues.
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Post by Vivienne on Aug 1, 2011 22:41:48 GMT
The region 2 dvds are original. You can get a player from Amazon quite cheaply. $30. Whenever they play the Romania adventure here they leave out the tunnel driving which is real cool. I think it's at night.
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Post by jmsquared on Aug 2, 2011 12:25:34 GMT
Just watched this epi. Thanks again Meimichan for the download. Loved the leathers ad bit - freaky resemblance. Wonder what that bloke looks like now?? Laughed lots at the tat!!
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Post by dit on Aug 2, 2011 16:01:35 GMT
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Post by antonia on Aug 2, 2011 16:18:08 GMT
Talk about nothing to fill the page.
Tomorrows head lines.
"TG3 breathe to much air ment for somebody else"
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Post by grizabella on Aug 2, 2011 17:36:49 GMT
Just watched episodes 5 and 6 back to back and must say I feel a lot happier now than I did before watching them. That ad was amazing ;D Would like to have a closer look. Not a bad way to end a series. I don't normally follow motor sports, but now I suppose I must take a look at the news from the Dakar rally. Hope the x-factor ends soon  |
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Post by adrianmay on Aug 2, 2011 20:39:22 GMT
Give us Yanks some way to pay the license fee and we'll consider it. Until then, you know there's no legal way for us to get the same episodes the UKers enjoy. BBC America chops them up to make room for commercials, and the DVD releases often change the music (and mess up the voice/music balance) because of copyright issues. Amen. I still don't understand why we can't just run the real series and not make up some stupid Americanized version. We don't want an original series based on a show we'd just like to see in it's original format. So pathetic and insulting. Especially, when it could be running on BBCA. They have an audience that is already paying extra for a premium tier channel. Of course we want the original British version. Damn it! What am I paying for?! |
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Post by meimichan on Aug 2, 2011 20:56:11 GMT
Give us Yanks some way to pay the license fee and we'll consider it. Until then, you know there's no legal way for us to get the same episodes the UKers enjoy. BBC America chops them up to make room for commercials, and the DVD releases often change the music (and mess up the voice/music balance) because of copyright issues. Amen. I still don't understand why we can't just run the real series and not make up some stupid Americanized version. We don't want an original series based on a show we'd just like to see in it's original format. So pathetic and insulting. Especially, when it could be running on BBCA. They have an audience that is already paying extra for a premium tier channel. Of course we want the original British version. Damn it! What am I paying for?! Umm, they do run the original Top Gear on BBCA. The scheduling and airing order are both on serious drugs and the episodes are edited for music rights/time/the heck of it. So yeah, still not possible to see the original British version legally in the US.  MOH and I don't have cable. The only shows on that we regularly watch on cable are The Daily Show and The Colbert Report and they put the new episodes of those up on the website the day after they air, so we just wait a bit to watch. And I just remembered I know more than a couple people who aren't in the USA who have a similar complaint-they can't watch Jon and Stephen legally, the website player for those shows doesn't work outside of the US. Nice going all around, really. |
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Post by pie on Aug 3, 2011 12:04:05 GMT
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Post by Wyvern on Aug 3, 2011 12:48:44 GMT
Of course, the irony is that unless there's been a significant change in the state of Jeremy's hips (about five years ago he wrote about how he really needs a hip replacement but doctors aren't keen to do it until he's sixty), he'd almost certainly be considered disabled under the terms of the Disability Discrimination Act...
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Post by antonia on Aug 3, 2011 12:55:38 GMT
I so wish people would take the stick out out of there arses and learn to chill.They complain for complanings sake sometimes.If it was a huge thing they had done fair enough but they haven't.Am saying no more or it will turn all rantie.
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Post by antonia on Aug 3, 2011 18:21:39 GMT
Wayhey!they've made 5 news with the disability story.
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Post by amie8 on Aug 3, 2011 21:59:18 GMT
Did tempers really flare over Jeremy's attempt to walk on water in the Sea of Gallilee? I don't think they spotted that one over here. What a missed opportunity! |
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Post by jacqui on Aug 4, 2011 12:17:21 GMT
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Post by antonia on Aug 4, 2011 12:35:17 GMT
Go Andy!!
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Post by Heartabam on Aug 4, 2011 12:45:36 GMT
I get the feeling andy had a rather smug face and done the little clicky fingers thing after posting that article.
Go on yersel' son! Get em telt!
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Post by crumbs on Aug 5, 2011 13:43:16 GMT
A more thoughtful episode - and bravo to that. I like a balance and it's good to focus on more serious subjects occasionally.
And I liked seeing Ben - the world's a better place with a bit of forgiveness!
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Post by amie8 on Aug 5, 2011 21:51:30 GMT
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Post by Vivienne on Aug 5, 2011 23:36:48 GMT
I have come to the conclusion there's a witch hunt going on here. I read a page of the comments and they were mostly about Jeremy and financial gain along with his remarks about people. They are acting like he alone is the favored son. Top Gear is the 3 of them. I know he has a stake in the production of the show. I feel like telling these people "get a life". Don't watch if it bothers you.
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Post by dit on Aug 5, 2011 23:49:03 GMT
I wish I hadn't read that article. I'm going to go to bed angry.
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Post by amie8 on Aug 6, 2011 0:08:30 GMT
I have come to the conclusion there's a witch hunt going on here. I read a page of the comments and they were mostly about Jeremy and financial gain along with his remarks about people. They are acting like he alone is the favored son. Top Gear is the 3 of them. I know he has a stake in the production of the show. I feel like telling these people "get a life". Don't watch if it bothers you. Clarkson is like the antichrist for many of the Guardianista eco-evangelists, so they're happy to spout hate and bile without actually reading or watching whatever is in dispute. George Monbiot is something of a fanatic on environmental issues, so he and Clarkson are never likely to see eye to eye (putting it mildly). He has some equally fanatical supporters, who hang on his every word, but he also attracts a huge number of opponents who don't share his world view, so the comments section after his articles is always lively. At one point, he became convinced that anyone who didn't agree 100% with his views on climate change were actually being paid by major oil companies to discredit him. He tried to campaign for online aliases to be banned on the Guardian site to "expose" these people. He didn't succeed. That was the point at which I concluded that he was a bit of a tit. Having scanned through the comments on this article, there are many voices in support of the Top Gear piece, at least two of which are from members of this forum (mentioning no names...) I should probably mention that no political bias on my part should be construed from this post (I'm pretty apolitical). I just can't stand George Monbiot! |
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Post by Vivienne on Aug 6, 2011 0:35:43 GMT
I'm also betting that articles on Top Gear sell papers. I subscribe to the London Times because it costs less than a real paper I can buy everyday in Albuquerque. We have 500,000 people and only one newspaper. We had two but there wasn't enough circulation so they went out of business. I've posted on the Telegraph but not the Guardian. I don't know who this George is but I bet he is equal to our Ralph Nader who runs for President on the Green Ticket. You are from the UK aren't you?
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Post by amie8 on Aug 6, 2011 0:59:05 GMT
Yes I'm in the UK (and really should be in beddybies). George has shown no political aspirations yet. I think he likes the safety of journalism, rather than exposing himself in the political arena. At least on the Guardian he gets to preach to the converted. He has a posh house in Wales and (although he took a long time to admit it) a Peugeot. He berates others for using low cost airlines, but justifies his own use of air travel as "essential to his work" - he does the occasional lecture tour.
I also post on the Telegraph sometimes (under a different name), which tends to attract some extreme right wing nutters, but is usually fairly civilised. The Guardian can be a bit of a bear-pit, which is why I restrict my posting to articles about beer, food and television.
Whatever else you say about Top Gear, it certainly polarises opinion.
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I love a man who can handle a gun 
;D but who's splitting hairs 
