Top Gear Christmas special
Discussion
LeighW said:
MartG said:
Three nice, reasonably rare cars - hope they don't do their usual trick and wreck them 
You can pretty much guarantee that they'll be wrecked. What a shame. 
More photos here: http://patagoniad.com/2014/09/28/graban-escenas-de...
yonex said:
This sort of crap is wearing a bit thin.
worn thin by the sounds of ithttp://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/517859/Jeremy-Cla...
looks like people will actively try and find offence totally bloody pathetic - I thought that us and the Yanks were the only ones to have a 'professionally offended' class. Seems like there are f-wits everywhere
irocfan said:
yonex said:
This sort of crap is wearing a bit thin.
worn thin by the sounds of ithttp://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/517859/Jeremy-Cla...
looks like people will actively try and find offence totally bloody pathetic - I thought that us and the Yanks were the only ones to have a 'professionally offended' class. Seems like there are f-wits everywhere
Crossflow Kid said:
You're assuming yonex is referring to the criticism, and not the worn-thin content?
Yes, the content is so weak that the show sets out to cause offence, free publicity, jack up the ratings. What was once a bit of a laugh is now a piece of contrived drivel which doesn't deserve the funding. Crossflow Kid said:
irocfan said:
yonex said:
This sort of crap is wearing a bit thin.
worn thin by the sounds of ithttp://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/517859/Jeremy-Cla...
looks like people will actively try and find offence totally bloody pathetic - I thought that us and the Yanks were the only ones to have a 'professionally offended' class. Seems like there are f-wits everywhere
Tycho said:
IMO the numberplate was chosen to wind the Argies up and to get Top Gear in the news. What are the chances that you'd get 982 and FKL referring to 1982 and FalKLands on the car they wanted for the show?
But... but..."Top Gear bosses insisted the plate had not been chosen deliberately and was a pure coincidence."
I really like Top Gear but they seem to be insulting the viewer's intelligence with that statement.
garycat said:
But... but...
"Top Gear bosses insisted the plate had not been chosen deliberately and was a pure coincidence."
I really like Top Gear but they seem to be insulting the viewer's intelligence with that statement.
Agreed. As if the producers would not have run that past the BBC controllers? "Top Gear bosses insisted the plate had not been chosen deliberately and was a pure coincidence."
I really like Top Gear but they seem to be insulting the viewer's intelligence with that statement.
garycat said:
Tycho said:
IMO the numberplate was chosen to wind the Argies up and to get Top Gear in the news. What are the chances that you'd get 982 and FKL referring to 1982 and FalKLands on the car they wanted for the show?
But... but..."Top Gear bosses insisted the plate had not been chosen deliberately and was a pure coincidence."
I really like Top Gear but they seem to be insulting the viewer's intelligence with that statement.
From t'other thread, that registration appears to have been on the car from new. It wasn't a transfer for the show.
It was a coincidence.
Apparently they (the argenines) are trying to put other tenuous links between the numbers on the other two vehicles being "close" to the number of losses or some such nonsense.
Utter imbeciles - the argentines who are "complaining".
According to latest reports the Top Gear team have been asked to leave the country and are now in Chile.
Ludicrous idea going in the first place in my opinion. With their current track record it was bound to end like this. However the Argentines justification for it with the numbers on the plates is equally insane.
Personally, I think Clarkson is looking ill and I would think he may well use this as an excuse to walk away or at least stop doing the foreign trips. He didn't look like he was enjoying the Burma thing at all and with all his funds why keep doing things that you don't enjoy.
And as I mentioned, I think he is not well and hasn't been for a while.
Ludicrous idea going in the first place in my opinion. With their current track record it was bound to end like this. However the Argentines justification for it with the numbers on the plates is equally insane.
Personally, I think Clarkson is looking ill and I would think he may well use this as an excuse to walk away or at least stop doing the foreign trips. He didn't look like he was enjoying the Burma thing at all and with all his funds why keep doing things that you don't enjoy.
And as I mentioned, I think he is not well and hasn't been for a while.
The Hypno-Toad said:
And as I mentioned, I think he is not well and hasn't been for a while.
I sort of agree except replace "not well" with chronically fatigued from years of the proverbial jet set lifestyle that TG has evolved in to.The first few Euro trips in the single-digit series seemed pretty massive undertakings at the time, and here his is/they are, ten years older and going global.
Perhaps they need to admit they're not twenty five, or even thirty five any more. Hammond is the only one who doesn't look totally drained at the end of each special nowadays.
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