Top Gear 2016 Official TV show thread *contains spoilers*

[r11co]

AdeTuono said:

Nope, didn't think you would.....

I repeat..

r11co said:

The program is broken, largely because of (Chris Evans') involvement. That was my last point, so what are your suggestions going forward....?

In 18 months your contributions to these threads have amounted to the square root of fk all. So now's your chance - the stage is yours. Give us your pearls of wisdom regarding what direction the show should go.

[Halmyre]

jbudgie said:

r11co said:

AdeTuono said:

For 10 years CE has run Carfest, one of the bigger UK events, has owned a fantastic selection of motors, from exotica to odd-ball by way of every-day, has spent millions of his own money, and is obviously a total petrol-head, yet he knows nothing about them? That is patently untrue.

Yet Evans still made a complete horses' hunt of the show. So what if he 'spent millions of his own money' on his car collection. I know guys who spend millions of their own money so they can pootle around in old F1 cars - doesn't make them anywhere near as good as Lewis Hamilton.

I say it again - Evans spends loads of his own money in Michelin-starred restaurants, but that doesn't make him a cordon-bleu chef either.

He does however like to project the image that because he can buy his way into these circles he is in some way equal to the people who belong there through merit, and numbnuts believe it.

If at some point in his lifetime Evans had made a living because of his knowledge of cars then I would concede the point.

Edited by r11co on Tuesday 6th September 13:04

Well, he certainly proved that he didn't have any idea on how to run Top Gear.
Only on how to ruin it.

It was destined to fail. It's as if when Fawlty Towers finished, the BBC carried on with Bruce Forsyth and Anthea Redfern as Basil and Sybil.

[r11co]

Halmyre said:

It's as if when Fawlty Towers finished, the BBC carried on with Bruce Forsyth and Anthea Redfern as Basil and Sybil.

Or if Alan Sugar was to chuck 'The Apprentice', put Ricky Gervais in his place because he knows about business because, well, he did 'The Office' and he's clearly minted because of it.

Ricky Gervais - now there's another briefly super-shining star who's ability to self-promote far exceeds his talent.

Edited by r11co on Tuesday 6th September 20:21

[MarshPhantom]

AdeTuono said:

durbster said:

Dog Star said:

... For a start there really was nothing wrong with Chris Evans ...

But there was: he didn't know anything about cars so had no authority to talk about them.

It's as simple as that.

How do you define someone who 'knows about' cars then?

For 10 years CE has run Carfest, one of the bigger UK events, has owned a fantastic selection of motors, from exotica to odd-ball by way of every-day, has spent millions of his own money, and is obviously a total petrol-head, yet he knows nothing about them? That is patently untrue. Do you compare him to JC, who continued to get facts wrong about many of the vehicles they tested on TG, but is plainly both 'into' and knowledgeable?

I figure I 'know' a bit about the subject, but I've never been employed as a journalist or racing driver. What criteria should be used?

Well he paid way over the odds for Coburn's Ferrari and his recent sale raised about one tenth of what he was hoping.

So he isn't even good at collecting cars.

The trouble is he can't make cars sound interesting and no one likes him.

[AdeTuono]

r11co said:

AdeTuono said:

Nope, didn't think you would.....

I repeat..

r11co said:

The program is broken, largely because of (Chris Evans') involvement. That was my last point, so what are your suggestions going forward....?

In 18 months your contributions to these threads have amounted to the square root of fk all. So now's your chance - the stage is yours. Give us your pearls of wisdom regarding what direction the show should go.

I think you should do it. I'm sure you'd be really entertaining. You've certainly kept me amused.

You STILL haven't said why you've got such a hard-on for Evans though.

[suffolk009]

MarshPhantom said:

Well he paid way over the odds for Coburn's Ferrari and his recent sale raised about one tenth of what he was hoping.

So he isn't even good at collecting cars.

The trouble is he can't make cars sound interesting and no one likes him.

I hadn't realised his car sold so badly! Of the few that sold, even they barely scratched the low estimate.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/c...

[ClockworkCupcake]

Jesus, could you two get a room? Nobody gives a flying toss about your petty little tit-for-tat war against each other. All it does is pollute the thread.

[r11co]

AdeTuono said:

I think you should do it. I'm sure you'd be really entertaining.

Top trolling.

AdeTuono said:

You STILL haven't said why you've got such a hard-on for Evans though.

Evans is old news (except insofar as the lasting damage he has done to the show - there's a clue!). Your question is off topic. Now talk about the show going forward or fk off and stop 'polluting the thread'.

Edited by r11co on Wednesday 7th September 09:34

[suffolk009]

I have to agree with Mr Cupcake.

[ClockworkCupcake]

[ClockworkCupcake]

suffolk009 said:

I have to agree with Mr Cupcake.

[Quickmoose]

ClockworkCupcake said:

suffolk009 said:

I have to agree with Mr Cupcake.

Another room required...

[suffolk009]

Quickmoose said:

ClockworkCupcake said:

suffolk009 said:

I have to agree with Mr Cupcake.

Another room required...

Don't start.

[r11co]

suffolk009 said:

Don't start.

Moose, Cake and Ade - The trolling trio. Time for the banhammer.

[Quickmoose]

wow... sense of humour failure.....

[r11co]

Quickmoose said:

wow... sense of humour failure.....

Hilarious.

[Quickmoose]

r11co said:

Quickmoose said:

wow... sense of humour failure.....

Hilarious.

maybe if I give you 'adults' a thumbs up and say bad things about people you don't like you'll like me? and I can be part of the 'this'?
god I hope so!!!

Not.

ya grumpy fk.

And there was me hoping this thread would actually 'move on' as you'd suggested... tell you what, have the last word r11co..we can see how much prestige it holds for you..

[r11co]

Quickmoose said:

And there was me hoping this thread would actually 'move on' as you'd suggested...

You and Ade are the ones that keep bringing this back to me?

Every fecking time I post you are in here with your schoolboy humour and backchat about 'hard-ons' (the 'ex-missus' line has been trotted out f'k knows how many times now). It could be weeks or even months, but sure enough I say something, anything, and there you are within minutes.

Time to move on....?! Practice what you preach - the stage is yours.

I posed the question before you and your troll buddies came along - should the BBC cut their losses and licence the brand to Amazon?

Considering there is no presenter currently signed to a contract (except Evans), no pre-production work being carried out, what should be their next move?

Edited by r11co on Wednesday 7th September 12:52

[r11co]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

His talent is very one-dimensional though. I'm not a fan either, but the point I was making was that his ability to self-promote and cultivate an undeserved image results in him being another celeb people pen for roles he really isn't suited too. He has a reputation as being a 'funny guy', yet despite repeated attempts he just doesn't cut it as a stand-up comedian.

Another similarity with a person I won't name for fear of rousing the trolls is that Gervais keeps resorting to re-treads of long-past successes placed in new settings and doesn't know how to re-invent himself.

Edited by r11co on Wednesday 7th September 14:53

[r11co]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Critics have not been kind to Gervais recently and I have to agree with them.