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wilfredmerriweathr posted:If you want to talk about bad taste, I think Argentina has shown themselves to be just as ridiculous as Top Gear - except one is a humorous car show and one is, you know, an actual country. Argentina have spent the last 50 years demanding islands 200 miles from their coast and who the natives don't want anything to do with them belong to them because a Dutch man sailed past 200 years ago in the pay of the Spanish.
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Foxtrot_13 posted:Argentina have spent the last 50 years demanding islands 200 miles from their coast and who the natives don't want anything to do with them belong to them because a Dutch man sailed past 200 years ago in the pay of the Spanish. A curious situation where Britain is completely in the right. I don't know how many Argentinians actually care about those islands though, it's mainly a way for the government to distract them from the terrible economy.
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Plucky Brit posted:A curious situation where Britain is completely in the right. They can go gently caress themselves. If you take any of their inane arguments as to holding claim to the Falklands to hold water, the same arguments mean their entire population should piss off out the country, save for anyone who can trace their entire lineage back to the fifteenth century.
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InitialDave posted:They don't give a gently caress about the islands, but there be oil in them there waters, matey. Which is rapidly becoming worthless anyway. No one's gonna drill that stuff out now.
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i started watching top gear again from the start and it's certainly not terrible back then but you can see it needed some work, the cinematography has improved endlessly though
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The Polar Special is the first one in HD and man it's a clear improvement. They also got their structure down. I do love early on though that Jezza doesn't draw out the lap times, and starts to do it as he realized how much the stars care and are on the edge of their seats. You can really see a lot of things evolve. I do love that May's first appearance he's promoting an old, slow, impractical car. That he owns. And has to ride his folding bike 7 miles to drive, because he has to rent a garage outside London to keep it in. And it's his only car.
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Riven posted:The Polar Special is the first one in HD and man it's a clear improvement. They also got their structure down. I do love early on though that Jezza doesn't draw out the lap times, and starts to do it as he realized how much the stars care and are on the edge of their seats. You can really see a lot of things evolve. it's really pretty interesting how they play may as the doddering old professor type, when if you watch any of his other stuff he's actually a really fascinating guy who is passionate about an enormous amount of things, everything from music to beer and wine to home handymanning actually jason dawe wasn't bad to be honest, and i kind of enjoyed his whole 'this is what you can get a deal on' segment... but man, it wasn't the right place for it
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Nov 11, 2015 06:20
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I haven't rewatched them in a long time but seasons 4-8ish were always my favorites. A big part of it might just be that a bunch of great cars were coming out, I always remember the segments for the Porsche GT, the McLaren SLR, and the Enzo for example. And stuff like the original DB9 race and the Jaguar at the Nurburgring was done around that time too. And all that killer Pendine Sands footage, I really wish there was HD of that stuff.
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Reading the new behind-the-scenes Top Gear book, they knew Jason Dawe wasn't a television personality and he would have gotten better with time. But BBC sacked him and replaced him with May, which turned out well.
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Nov 11, 2015 06:26
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It'd a be a great joke if they rehired him for the new series.
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Nov 11, 2015 07:51
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They've been filming for the new series in China
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Logikv9 posted:Reading the new behind-the-scenes Top Gear book, they knew Jason Dawe wasn't a television personality and he would have gotten better with time. But BBC sacked him and replaced him with May, which turned out well. May was actually on old Top Gear in 99.
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Talking of James May, the documentary where he goes up in a U-2 is on iplayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00lc5ph/james-may-at-the-edge-of-space It's great.
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Preoptopus posted:May was actually on old Top Gear in 99. Oh he was, along with Clarkson (but you already knew that). The New Top Gear just came with Wilman and Clarkson, everybody else was an audition tape.
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My first episode of Top Gear wasn't until series 5, episode 6 with the 1500 pound used Porsches. The part I remember most was they had to get dates in the singles section of the newspaper by describing their car and Jeremy placed his in the gay section and mentioned his was a V8. From there I was hooked.
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Now the little bitch that couldn't take a punch is suing Clarkson. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/bbc-top-gear-producer-suing-jeremy-clarkson-and-bbc-for-racial-discrimination-a6733181.html
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Reminder: Said "little bitch" was verbally abused with strong bigoted references to his Irish heritage and then punched in the face. By his boss. Over the fact that he was not able to supply a hot meal to said boss and his mates. Because the chef had to leave work and go home. Because it was getting very late. Because the boss and his mates had been out drinking. Oisin Tymon deserves every pound he can wring from Clarkson.
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KozmoNaut posted:Reminder: Said "little bitch" was verbally abused with strong bigoted references to his Irish heritage and then punched in the face. By his boss. Over the fact that he was not able to supply a hot meal to said boss and his mates. Because the chef had to leave work and go home. Because it was getting very late. Because the boss and his mates had been out drinking. This has been hashed and rehashed. Guy was a little bitch for not doing his job, arguing with the boss, and running to the hospital for a split lip delivered from an out-of-shape, 55 year old man. To try to get money because his lineage was disparaded is simply another bitch move.
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meatpimp posted:This has been hashed and rehashed. Guy was a little bitch for not doing his job, arguing with the boss, and running to the hospital for a split lip delivered from an out-of-shape, 55 year old man. To try to get money because his lineage was disparaded is simply another bitch move. So in other words, it's perfectly fine if your boss attacks you physically and verbally because you did the best job you could under the circumstances? Circumstances that were actually Clarkson's fault because he stayed out to drink more instead of coming to the hotel at the agreed time. I'm pretty sure Tymon's contract with BBC/Top Gear didn't have a "little bitch" clause allowing his boss to attack him if his job was not done to 100% satisfaction. This continuing attack on Tymon from all sides is completely mindboggling and the worst kind of victim blaming. Don't let the fact that you like Clarkson's show cloud your judgement. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Nov 13, 2015 |
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I think we've gone over this already in the thread multiple times. What does surprise me is that he's willing to make himself pretty-much unemployable in this industry for such a small amount. If he gets all he's claiming for, he stands to walk away with 75k. Definitely better than a punch in the face, but not enough to retire on.
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Nov 13, 2015 17:09
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meatpimp posted:This has been hashed and rehashed. Guy was a little bitch for not doing his job, arguing with the boss, and running to the hospital for a split lip delivered from an out-of-shape, 55 year old man. To try to get money because his lineage was disparaded is simply another bitch move. No. That isn't how employment works.
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Oh good, this again. Can we instead argue about how Jay Leno said he didn't want to be a member of American Top Gear because he didn't want to turn his hobby into a job but now Jay Leno's Garage has been picked up by CNBC? Of course this wouldn't be the first time that Leno changed his mind when faced with not being on TV anymore.
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meatpimp posted:This has been hashed and rehashed. Guy was a little bitch for not doing his job, arguing with the boss, and running to the hospital for a split lip delivered from an out-of-shape, 55 year old man. To try to get money because his lineage was disparaded is simply another bitch move. I'm pretty sure your opinion of this guy and the acceptance of being punched in the face by your drunk boss for screwing up would be completely different if top gear was not canceled due to the incident.
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Cat Hatter posted:Oh good, this again. Can we instead argue about how Jay Leno said he didn't want to be a member of American Top Gear because he didn't want to turn his hobby into a job but now Jay Leno's Garage has been picked up by CNBC? Of course this wouldn't be the first time that Leno changed his mind when faced with not being on TV anymore. It's a little different in that it's still Jay showing off Jay's cars and doing what Jay wants, as opposed to... well, Top Gear US.
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I still can't get over how punchable that guy's name is. This is the world we live in, he'll get a payout and disappear. Clarkson probably knew this was coming and can for sure afford it. Lawyer up, it's the way of the world.
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Plus, it's coming back, so it's not like Tymon ended the show. I dislike Tom Cruise but love the M:I movies. I dislike Clarkson but love Top Gear. You can admit he's a horrible person and that Tymon isn't, because people's personal lives in the end have little long-term impact on the things they make if they're talented enough.
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meatpimp posted:Now the little bitch that couldn't take a punch is suing Clarkson. poo poo, I could have been slapping the slow nurses this whole time?
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Wamsutta posted:I still can't get over how punchable that guy's name is. It's a common Irish name.
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Whiz Palace posted:It's a common Irish name. Surprise, people who are OK with workplace punching also prove to be culturally insensitive.
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meatpimp posted:This has been hashed and rehashed. Guy was a little bitch for not doing his job, arguing with the boss, and running to the hospital for a split lip delivered from an out-of-shape, 55 year old man. To try to get money because his lineage was disparaded is simply another bitch move. Source your quotes
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Source your quotes meatpimp posted:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/bbc-top-gear-producer-suing-jeremy-clarkson-and-bbc-for-racial-discrimination-a6733181.html I did. He: a) did not have food ready for Clarkson. b) argued with Clarkson about it. c) ran to the hospital for a bloody lip. d) is suing for "racial discrimination" because Clarkson used a slur against his racial lineage. What more do you need citations for?
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Nov 14, 2015 00:37
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Because Eddie Van Halen would have been justified in punching someone if he had found a brown M&M.
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Riven posted:Because Eddie Van Halen would have been justified in punching someone if he had found a brown M&M. I think it was more of David Lee Roth's idea on that contract rider
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You Am I posted:I think it was more of David Lee Roth's idea on that contract rider The idea for that was fairly ingenious. Somebody was talking about it and they pretty much said they put that in there because if there were brown M&Ms it was typically a red flag that other parts of the rider that actually needed to be met probably needed to be looked at because the staff obviously hadn't read the rider.
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1500quidporsche posted:The idea for that was fairly ingenious. Somebody was talking about it and they pretty much said they put that in there because if there were brown M&Ms it was typically a red flag that other parts of the rider that actually needed to be met probably needed to be looked at because the staff obviously hadn't read the rider. Yeah, I know. They put it in after a stage collapsed underneath them one time, because the concert hall hadn't checked the strength against what they said their kit weighed. They still shouldn't punch someone for not following it.
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1500quidporsche posted:The idea for that was fairly ingenious. Somebody was talking about it and they pretty much said they put that in there because if there were brown M&Ms it was typically a red flag that other parts of the rider that actually needed to be met probably needed to be looked at because the staff obviously hadn't read the rider. That example is used a LOT in project management training as far as I have seen. If your staff/contractors cannot read and fulfill a seemingly small and simple item on a complex list of tasks....don't trust their work for the rest of it ESPECIALLY the hard stuff.
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I've written instructions that I thought were clear enough and still have the people ask me questions that are clearly in the instructions in bold. So yes, if I saw a brown m&m, I would be pissed.
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KozmoNaut posted:So in other words, it's perfectly fine if your boss attacks you physically and verbally because you did the best job you could under the circumstances? counterpoint: Drunk Gus
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quote:Van Halen was the first band to take huge productions into tertiary, third-level markets. We'd pull up with nine eighteen-wheeler trucks, full of gear, where the standard was three trucks, max. And there were many, many technical errors whether it was the girders couldn't support the weight, or the flooring would sink in, or the doors weren't big enough to move the gear through. http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp
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KozmoNaut posted:So in other words, it's perfectly fine if your boss attacks you physically and verbally because you did the best job you could under the circumstances?
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