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Data Graham posted:No. They, uh, seldom speak English. They speak English. They just pretend that they don't for the most part.
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Holy poo poo. How dangerous is it to drive past Chernobyl?! How long would it take to get a lethal dose??
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Zlatan Imhobitch posted:Holy poo poo. How dangerous is it to drive past Chernobyl?! How long would it take to get a lethal dose?? They do guided tours around Pripyat it's that safe.  I didn't realise you drove right past the reactor building though, that's cool. *E* Haha holy poo poo, topical photos: http://www.tourkiev.com/chernobyltour/
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jammyozzy posted:They do guided tours around Pripyat it's that safe. It's safe in some areas, and it's mostly only really safe to stay on the concrete (because radioactive particles are washed away by the rains). In the summer, it's especially important not to go anywhere you could stir up dust.
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Feb 17, 2014 00:59
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What happens if you sniff a bit of the dust??
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Zlatan Imhobitch posted:What happens if you sniff a bit of the dust?? Cancer risk going up basically. how exactly depends on what isotopes are still lingering around.
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I'm surprised how they didn't showcase how even on the larger highways, the speed limit slows down to 70kph every 3 fuckin miles just for gas stations. Or maybe that's just normal to them.
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I'm assuming that the manufacturers give new cars to the show to use. What happens to them afterward?
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Mister Kingdom posted:I'm assuming that the manufacturers give new cars to the show to use. What happens to them afterward? They are usually press cars and the older rare stuff is usually private owners lending it to them.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I'm assuming that the manufacturers give new cars to the show to use. What happens to them afterward? Press cars, and they get crushed.
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You mean pressed.  That was the funniest episode in a drat long time. Miles beyond the last couple. Richard biting off the corner of his visor, WTF had me in stitches. And James Blunt is a funny guy. The one thing I can't convince myself was an actual clever reference, though, was them receiving a written message from the producers on the overlook above the Valley of Death. Please, please tell me that that was intentional, because if it was just a coincidence I don't think I want to live anymore.
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Feb 17, 2014 02:12
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Loved all the cold war stuff--great episode. Kinda wish I could watch 13 hours of May driving through the Ukraine and talking about the history of wars, Chernobyl, etc.
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Feb 17, 2014 02:53
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I'll go ahead and be that guy: what the hell was this all about?
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Feb 17, 2014 03:38
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I think it's an english thing for limp dick.
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Feb 17, 2014 03:44
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I wasn't really digging the first two episodes of this series but I think they knocked it out of the park with this last episode. Every segment was fantastic, and the review of that flaming 800k 1000Hp "Supercar" was hilarious.
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Samu posted:I wasn't really digging the first two episodes of this series but I think they knocked it out of the park with this last episode. Every segment was fantastic, and the review of that flaming 800k 1000Hp "Supercar" was hilarious. It was so fast it caught fire!
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Feb 17, 2014 05:01
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But it's okay, they "fixed" it again!
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Feb 17, 2014 05:11
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2 episodes in a row to use scores from Goldeneye. 
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jammyozzy posted:They do guided tours around Pripyat it's that safe. 
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Falken posted:2 episodes in a row to use scores from Goldeneye. I knew I wasn't crazy! That Chernobyl segment was -awesome-.
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That last episode felt more like the Top Gear I really like. A fun adventure, reviewing a misfit super car, some annoying dude as the star in a reasonably priced car.
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And the sheer absurdity of whatever it is they're doing in some inappropriate place. Hammond weaving all over the road in that aerial shot  I also liked those long establishing shots of them driving across the flat Crimean landscape, shot from across like half a mile of swamp. "Hey camera crew, guess what?  "
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Falken posted:2 episodes in a row to use scores from Goldeneye. StarcraftM posted:I knew I wasn't crazy! e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGeYcXcTuU8 Tsuru fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Feb 17, 2014 |
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StarcraftM posted:I knew I wasn't crazy! It was actually pretty tense too, with the background chatter of the geiger counter slowly getting more insistent.
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Tsuru posted:Surely this time it was Enemy at the Gates? Maybe but Goldeneye music was used while they were looking at the missiles. I remember that one sound from playing the facility level of Goldeneye on N64.
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Feb 17, 2014 16:11
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Oh god, James flicking his lighter on the terminals/bolts/things on the base of the missile. Jesus, that felt like an ad-lib that they were just lucky to catch on camera.
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Cojawfee posted:Maybe but Goldeneye music was used while they were looking at the missiles. I remember that one sound from playing the facility level of Goldeneye on N64. One of these, this one maybe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc9YHcKVT7A
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Tsuru posted:I love how it almost seemed like they spent longer staring gleefully into that valley and remembering a war no-one outside of Chelsea cares about, and then driving through a nightmarish radioactive hellscape going "oh right yeah and there is that exploded nuclear power plant thing too!" Honestly, It was a super important war to the modern world which no one learned any lessons from.
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I've been waiting for the Zenvo to be on Top Gear since Top Gear Magazine had it on the front page back in 2010, was sad that it had to do it's lap in the rain. Kinda wondering if they put off the McLaren P1's lap hoping there would be drier conditions later on
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I was impressed to Hammond's commitment to lift off oversteer down those mountains he was fully committed and if it went wrong he was in a stone wall.
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Feb 17, 2014 16:35
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I was hoping they would show a little more in around Pripyat. Or maybe drive by the massive yards of abandoned service vehicles that were left there because they are too irradiated.
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Zlatan Imhobitch posted:I was impressed to Hammond's commitment to lift off oversteer down those mountains he was fully committed and if it went wrong he was in a stone wall. Hell yeah. His whole twisty-road segment was actually really impressive driving. Far more intense and eye-opening to watch than all the high-powered AWD cars that normally dominate those kinds of clips.
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sbaldrick posted:Honestly, It was a super important war to the modern world which no one learned any lessons from. At the risk of another derail, I'd love to know why the Crimean war was so important. Tsuru fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Feb 17, 2014 |
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Clarkson actually listed off a number of fairly pertinent "firsts". Introduction of modern battlefield medicine, war correspondents/reporting, telegraph communications... In terms of geopolitical history, though, that's another question.
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Data Graham posted:In terms of geopolitical history, though, that's another question. Well one of the obvious answers would be the poem "Charge of the Light Brigade" by ALT, which lead to the seminal Iron Maiden song, The Trooper.
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Feb 17, 2014 18:42
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 Easily Hammond's best work in a while.
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Data Graham posted:Clarkson actually listed off a number of fairly pertinent "firsts". Introduction of modern battlefield medicine, war correspondents/reporting, telegraph communications... This is arguable, but I'd say it was the first war in which a significant coalition of nations acted concertedly - the Napoleonic Wars were more a detached series of smaller campaigns by various armies of individual nations. The Crimean War really laid the foundation for the kind of interdependent treaties and mutual assistance ideas that would enable the First World War. The other thing people forget is that the Charge, while a mistake and a colossally poor military decision did actually reach the guns - the allies didn't follow up, being understandably and perhaps laudably loath to reinforce a mistake that would radically change the shape of the battlefield, but they achieved their immediate aim (of charging over some gunners).
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Yeah, and the Charge being such a big part of (especially) British cultural history is why I really want to know, in light of this:quote:Lucan received an order from the army commander Lord Raglan stating that "Lord Raglan wishes the cavalry to advance rapidly to the front, follow the enemy, and try to prevent the enemy carrying away the guns. Troop horse artillery may accompany. French cavalry is on your left. Immediate." What Raglan wanted was for the light cavalry to prevent the Russians from successfully withdrawing the naval guns from the redoubts that they had captured on the reverse side of the Causeway Heights, the hill forming the south side of the valley. This was an optimum task for the Light Brigade, as their superior speed would ensure the Russians would be forced to either quickly abandon the cumbersome guns or be cut down en masse while they attempted to flee with them. ... whether the producers' written note, delivered to them on the overlook, was meant to be read as a direct reference to the unclear note that sparked the battle, or whether a British audience would immediately recognize it as such. Or whether it was a complete and unbelievable coincidence of TG tropes.
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Powershift posted:Press cars, and they get crushed. Sometimes. Chris Harris famously bought a used S4, noticed that a few things were a bit off about it, and discovered it was the very same press car he had thrashed the poo poo out of in a drifting video some time prior.
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