James May: The Reassembler

[CooperD]

Enjoyed that episode. Perhaps James should have enlisted Edd China to help him with the brake drums!!!

[Vocal Minority]

227bhp said:

MercScot said:

Then don't fking watch it then! fk me, some people

How was I going to find out how boring it was without watching it?

Some people.

You are perfectly entitle to your opinion of course. I think the point is being made is that it doesn't seem to serve a function to arrive somewhere purely to say 'that thing you all like is total ste'.

Just an opinion

[eldar]

peterg1955 said:

hahaha somehow managed to completely miss those! I blame old age....

I know the feeling

[FiF]

Anyway the bit where he talked about driving along an empty road and thinking if it was possible to remove and replace the steering wheel reminded me of this, Ravers classic Memoirs of a Matelot thread on ARRSE. Page 9, top post by Wordsmith, expand the text box that starts "Pull up a sack of spuds..."

The rest of the thread makes for an amusing, albeit depraved read, RN life in the raw, not for the easily offended.

[bexVN]

Walked into the lounge and this was on (monkey bike), within a couple of mins I found myself sat down to watch the rest of it, I really enjoyed it, this does mean I will have to watch the rest now!!

[227bhp]

Vocal Minority said:

227bhp said:

MercScot said:

Then don't fking watch it then! fk me, some people

How was I going to find out how boring it was without watching it?

Some people.

You are perfectly entitle to your opinion of course. I think the point is being made is that it doesn't seem to serve a function to arrive somewhere purely to say 'that thing you all like is total ste'.

Just an opinion

Except that isn't what I said, some people just don't like it when you don't conform.
The thing is I thought I would like it as I like fixing mechanical stuff (it's my job), so i'm wondering why I find it dull.
Maybe it's because I do what he does except on a higher level with greater knowledge and everyone else who likes it just works in an office.

Edited by 227bhp on Saturday 14th January 23:10

[FidoGoRetroGo]

I watched my first one of these yesterday, where he rebuilt a model of The Flying Scotsman.

Really wanted to like it, I think James May is pretty good, but it was the TV equivalent of music in a lift.

I'll give it another go but I suspect it isn't for me.

[coppice]

227bhp said:

Except that isn't what I said, some people just don't like it when you don't conform.
The thing is I thought I would like it as I like fixing mechanical stuff (it's my job), so i'm wondering why I find it dull.
Maybe it's because I do what he does except on a higher level with greater knowledge and everyone else who likes it just works in an office.

Edited by 227bhp on Saturday 14th January 23:10

If you really , really think this programme is some useful practical guide to how to wild a socket set you are missing the point I'd suggest . It's about a very articulate, borderline OCD bloke , who seems to know (and care about )lots of trivial stuff most of us don't, and riffing on in his trademark self deprecating way, about what he's doing to some forgotten piece of tat , without the befit of autocue or tight script . That's why we office types (who have our uses, as I am sure you do too) enjoy it .

[waynecyclist]

I am really enjoying the series so far.

[boxst]

coppice said:

If you really , really think this programme is some useful practical guide to how to wild a socket set you are missing the point I'd suggest . It's about a very articulate, borderline OCD bloke , who seems to know (and care about )lots of trivial stuff most of us don't, and riffing on in his trademark self deprecating way, about what he's doing to some forgotten piece of tat , without the befit of autocue or tight script . That's why we office types (who have our uses, as I am sure you do too) enjoy it .

This

[Vocal Minority]

What coppice said.

You may be right 227bhp. Not the most tactful presentation if you want to get people to appreciate your point - but I do see it.

[AMG Merc]

I felt this worthy of a post to itself but, although it's about assembling and not disassembling, this is a good home for it. And I'm sure May would like it. Someone should hire this guy

https://youtu.be/tbKGjRoSofA

[gtidriver]

AMG Merc said:

I felt this worthy of a post to itself but, although it's about assembling and not disassembling, this is a good home for it. And I'm sure May would like it. Someone should hire this guy

https://youtu.be/tbKGjRoSofA

Not sure how to link to here but look for the video where he shot him self in he head with a ball bearing, ouch..

Edited by gtidriver on Tuesday 17th January 00:31

[anonymous-user]

watched a cracker about the record player tonigh
great programme great guy and great at bringing back memories

[American iv]

AMG Merc said:

I felt this worthy of a post to itself but, although it's about assembling and not disassembling, this is a good home for it. And I'm sure May would like it. Someone should hire this guy

https://youtu.be/tbKGjRoSofA

I can't help but watch that and think of Drax from Guardians of the Galaxy:

[Halmyre]

techiedave said:

watched a cracker about the record player tonigh
great programme great guy and great at bringing back memories

Yes; we had a Dansette exactly like that (don't remember the Bermuda name though). At some point we acquired a second one and they both ended up in the loft. Some years ago when prices of such things perked up I mentioned them to my mum. 'Oh, I threw them out a while back'. Mothers, eh?

Never did trust the multi-play gimmick - the whole stack would occasionally come crashing down.

The Dansette was replaced by this beast:

[GetCarter]

My Dansette was replaced by a 'Van der Molen stereo with two speakers'

er....

[generationx]

Another good episode but, once again and like all of them this series, could easily have been an hour.

Will we get a series 3?

[The Don of Croy]

Never seen a 16 rpm setting before - we had 33, 45 and 78 (with discs to use at all settings!) on our Bush gramophone, but what was 16 rpm used for...? (I'm resisting googling because it's somehow out of keeping with the ethos of this subject).

When he referred to 'tape' was he meaning the Philips' compact cassette? Other tapes had been going for yonks by then, no?

I'm tempted to retrieve some of my singles from the loft. Nothing to play them on - might get them mounted as artwork.

[Halmyre]

ste record to play at the end. Despite James's protestations, he knew a bit too much about King Crimson's 'Lizard' (i.e. 'Prince Rupert') to be truly dismissive of prog rock. Don't be in denial Mr May, say it loud, I'm prog and proud!