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Where's my Top Gear Canada? One season would use up the CBC's budget for the next ten years.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Can you speak and/or understand French? Do you like Top Gear? 
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Mar 17, 2015 10:09
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Delsaber posted:Where's my Top Gear Canada? Today on Canadian Top Gear: We build a mid engine car! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLBDqchND0s
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Mar 17, 2015 11:13
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Cojawfee posted:Hey how about that US Top Gear. Right guys? Jeremy should go host TGUS, problem solved. edit mrking posted:Today on Canadian Top Gear: We build a mid engine car! Yeah for real, just bring back Red/Green. Sir Tonk fucked around with this message at 13:04 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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Mar 17, 2015 13:01
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S1E01: Bricklin S1E02: not aired due to the show going into receivership
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Mar 17, 2015 13:19
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S01e03: Nova Scotia-made Volvo special. (10 minutes)
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Mar 17, 2015 13:58
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Top Gear has been cleared today... ...of using an 'offensive' term in Feb http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31922773 quote:The BBC Trust has overturned a complaint about the use of term "pikey" in an episode of Top Gear. EDIT: for the septics reading this and wondering what 'pikey' means: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7446274.stm quote:When used now in urban circles, it usually means a person is beyond the class system, someone without an identity who doesn't matter, and is off the social radar, Thorne suggests. Only in the villages is it likely to have retained its ethnic association with the traveller or gypsy community. spog fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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Mar 17, 2015 14:08
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'Ya like dags?'
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Mar 17, 2015 14:13
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Delsaber posted:Where's my Top Gear Canada?
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Mar 17, 2015 14:41
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Ika posted:What are they going to say now that france is no longer the one country in the world that doesn't get top gear. apart from the uk
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Mar 17, 2015 15:01
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Welcome to Top Gear: Wales, with your hosts, Jeremy Cwyncorwyg, James Maestegnwyd, and Richard Haberystwyth-Machynlleth. And also the Stywyg.
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Mar 17, 2015 17:26
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Delsaber posted:Where's my Top Gear Canada? Just as well. Now that Rogers has all the rights to show hockey, it's not like they're doing gently caress all else of any use.
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Mar 17, 2015 18:43
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Yup. The etymology relates to the concept of being itinerant, and so is commonly used as a term for "travellers", but it has nothing to do with the Romani. You can call anyone you like a pikey all day long and it doesn't magically become a racist term, and nor does any number of people thinking it's one make it so. At worst you can say it's classist.
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Mar 17, 2015 19:25
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hopterque posted:Uhhhhh. Do you know something i don't?
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Mar 17, 2015 19:42
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Mooseykins posted:Do you know something i don't? It's Hayley Williams.
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Mar 17, 2015 19:44
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holocaust bloopers posted:It's Hayley Williams. Oh right. The Paramore girl? Yeah, she hot.
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Mar 17, 2015 21:47
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captainOrbital posted:Welcome to Top Gear: Wales, with your hosts, Jeremy Cwyncorwyg, James Maestegnwyd, and Richard Haberystwyth-Machynlleth. Top Gear does mid-Wales, A487 and A470 in something quick would make for an excellent episode.
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Mar 17, 2015 22:20
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mrking posted:Today on Canadian Top Gear: We build a mid engine car! please don't mock scrapheap challenge, the best programme ever to have been made ever (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9fOmTTfJUM)
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Mar 17, 2015 22:41
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IceAgeComing posted:please don't mock scrapheap challenge, the best programme ever to have been made ever Scrapheap Challenge was loving awesome. What people made out of poo poo, and what they did with it, was fantastic. Never has so much been done, by so few, with little, for no real point at all.
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Mar 17, 2015 22:49
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I still love that show.
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Mar 17, 2015 22:55
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I know the scrapheap they used was obviously seeded with lots of usable parts for each episode, but doing anything else would just have made for boring TV. And the stuff they managed to bodge up from random parts was always amazing. And of course, everyone should love The Barley Pickers. Proper job!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv1VLtvz7T8
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Mar 17, 2015 22:58
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I'd love to see the Top Gear guys in a scrapheap challenge episode. I can just see James completely flipping out because Jeremy won't listen to his perfectly engineered plans and instead just hacks poo poo to pieces.
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Mar 18, 2015 00:22
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spog posted:Top Gear has been cleared today...  (Which, predictably... ) nmfree fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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Mar 18, 2015 00:30
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Haven't they used "pikey" before and in a more obvious manner? I distinctly remember James May referring to the hammer as the "took of a pikey" when jeremy looked way too enthusiastic about it.
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Mar 18, 2015 01:27
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mobby_6kl posted:Haven't they used "pikey" before and in a more obvious manner? I distinctly remember James May referring to the hammer as the "took of a pikey" when jeremy looked way too enthusiastic about it. Start at 3:55: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWGf0Dy-FE4
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Mar 18, 2015 01:50
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KozmoNaut posted:I know the scrapheap they used was obviously seeded with lots of usable parts for each episode, but doing anything else would just have made for boring TV. And the stuff they managed to bodge up from random parts was always amazing. The Barley pickers were great but Bowser will always have my heart  Also the host of that show looked like he loved his job so much 8ender fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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Mar 18, 2015 05:20
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Isn't romani far more racist than pikey? As it lumps all travellers together with one European ethnic group?
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Mar 18, 2015 06:46
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8ender posted:The Barley pickers were great but Bowser will always have my heart Oh yeah, Bowser was always a hit, and so was Colonel Dick, who went on to replace Robert Llewellyn as the main host of the show. 
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Mar 18, 2015 10:18
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Cakefool posted:Isn't romani far more racist than pikey? As it lumps all travellers together with one European ethnic group? Yes, but it's not offensive as it is never used as a perjorative - mainly because of outside the Guardian, no-one had ever heard of the word. Mooseykins posted:Scrapheap Challenge was loving awesome. The first host, Cathy Rogers (who created SC) was gloriously enthusiastic. There was also such chemistry between her and Robert that in the the official SC book, he basically wrote 'we are not screwing each other, stop asking' in the introduction.
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Mar 18, 2015 10:39
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I can't imagine what it was like to be the insurance risk assessor for that show, maybe equal parts wonderful and terrifying. Every time they got to the competition section at the end the machines had what was obviously hours of installing cages, harnesses and other misc safety gear. It was glorious.
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Mar 18, 2015 11:54
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Cakefool posted:Isn't romani far more racist than pikey? As it lumps all travellers together with one European ethnic group? I always thought Pikeys were specifically Irish travellers, but that's petty much based on Guy Ritchie movies as I'd never really heard the term before then. Romani or Romany more specifically refers to eastern European gypsys We call them Tinkers and Knackers here in Ireland, the terms are seen as pejorative now despite originally referring to a time when travellers did pot mending and post mortem horse processing, instead of just badly tarmacking driveways and stealing anything with scrap metal value. Top Gear missed out on a great Pikey challenge idea though, Police Car vs Transit Van vs Sulky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH3DHhuGBBU
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Mar 18, 2015 12:54
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London cabs driven by foreigners smell of sick, says Clarkson (according to the Guardian).Clarkson posted:You have a chap who has just arrived from a country you’ve never heard of, whose car smells faintly of lavender oil and sick, who doesn’t know where he’s going and can’t get there anyway because he never puts more than £2 worth of fuel in the tank of his car. This is some tabloid level reporting. I always thought the Guardian was a serious, somewhat left-leaning paper, not a some clickbait shithouse. I mean, I know they hate Clarkson, but now they're just being willfully (I hope) dense in order to be offended. It's on the same level as the people who get all, "You calling me an idiot?" when you tell them that something they said or did was idiotic.
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Mar 18, 2015 14:05
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Scherloch posted:London cabs driven by foreigners smell of sick, says Clarkson (according to the Guardian). It looks like a HuffPo/Gawker copy for rich white people, full of garbage articles to reinforce their beliefs and give them something to tut tut. Maybe they were a decent paper at one point, but then clicks drop so they turn to yellow journalism to get people to look at ads. It's a race on all sides to the bottom as far as internet "journalism" goes.
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KozmoNaut posted:I know the scrapheap they used was obviously seeded with lots of usable parts for each episode, but doing anything else would just have made for boring TV. And the stuff they managed to bodge up from random parts was always amazing. There was one where they were making boats or something, and needed loads of polythene sheeting. Guy opens the boot of a scrap car and WOW! An entire brand new roll of polythene sheeting! What a bit of luck to find that in a scrapyard!  KozmoNaut posted:And of course, everyone should love The Barley Pickers. Proper job! They were great. My favourite was when there were a few teams competing, and they had an old ERF truck or something, and turned the engine governor up a bit and the fucker ran away. oo-arr, proper job. spog posted:The first host, Cathy Rogers (who created SC) was gloriously enthusiastic. She was awesome. Kinda disappointed they weren't gettin' it on. 
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Mar 18, 2015 16:14
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"Jeremy Clarkson gets into a cab and you won't believe what happens next!"
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Mar 18, 2015 16:18
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Scherloch posted:London cabs driven by foreigners smell of sick, says Clarkson (according to the Guardian). Yeah, if you look at the quote, it says that London cabs are often driven by foreigners (true in almost every city I've ever seen, it's not a great job so it's often done by immigrants), and cabs often smell of sick (which they do because drunks throw up in them and they don't get cleaned properly). I mean, if you're disagreeing with Clarkson's criticisms about taxis (and they all apply in other cities too, in my experience) you're just willfully ignoring reality.
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echomadman posted:I always thought Pikeys were specifically Irish travellers Scherloch posted:This is some tabloid level reporting. I always thought the Guardian was a serious, somewhat left-leaning paper, not a some clickbait shithouse Ariza posted:It looks like a HuffPo/Gawker copy for rich white people, full of garbage articles to reinforce their beliefs and give them something to tut tut. Edit: As for "Clarkson also criticised the north": He is from the north you moronic fuckstick. Same town as I am, actually. InitialDave fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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Mar 18, 2015 18:16
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InitialDave posted:In general it's used as such, but more because most travellers in the UK are of that ilk, rather than it being a hard rule. Of the various terms in play, it is interesting to note that "gypsy" is the only one that could actually be construed as racist, as it is rooted in the mistaken concept of Romani being of Egyptian descent, thus being a term for what people are (or look like) rather than what they do. Not sure how anyone managed to get a statement from the pikeys about them being offended, they're pretty hard to understand. Not helped by them blasting you with a load of verbal poo poo, split up with "d'yknow what i mean?" at least once a sentence. InitialDave posted:Edit: As for "Clarkson also criticised the north": He is from the north you moronic fuckstick. Same town as I am, actually. Eh up, Doncaaasteh?
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Mar 18, 2015 18:25
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Mooseykins posted:Eh up, Doncaaasteh? gently caress Rotherham.
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Mooseykins posted:There was one where they were making boats or something, and needed loads of polythene sheeting. Guy opens the boot of a scrap car and WOW! An entire brand new roll of polythene sheeting! What a bit of luck to find that in a scrapyard! There's that one that they jointly did with the US version where they had to build a plane in 20 hours using technology available from the time of the original Wright flyer where conveniently they found three nice new propellers in the scrapyard It also happens to be probably the most impressive episode of the thing ever; because the design that everyone was making GBS threads on through the entire thing actually worked very well and was a proper plane while the other two flew a few feet at most.
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