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If you needed proof that this was staged, look at the parking lot. All of the Reliant Robins are on their wheels. At Least ONE of them should be on its side.
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Apr 11, 2016 11:08
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More trouble in paradise.
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Apr 13, 2016 18:42
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Since I'm not English, whenever I read the word "Cenotaph" I think of some terrifying Clive Barker monster. Since the Cenotaph incident, Matt LeBlanc has been trying to fuse 5 worlds together to find the rotting body of God.
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Apr 13, 2016 18:48
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That article reads like the normal entertainment gossip dribble. Not too sure how much stock I'd put in it.
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Apr 13, 2016 19:00
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1500quidporsche posted:That article reads like the normal entertainment gossip dribble. Not too sure how much stock I'd put in it. Judge for yourself... Basically, I'd liken it to Clarkson coming to Arlington and doing a donut around the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, but I don't know how important or hallowed the Cenotaph is for the English. The production staff is somewhat at fault for not realizing they were going to damage the image of so-called Top Gear by souring their relationship with the talent through poor communication and bumbling incompetence, leading to a black-eye, a round of apologies and possibly getting a host booted from the show. I notice a pattern here.
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Apr 13, 2016 19:30
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Wasabi the J posted:Basically, I'd liken it to Clarkson coming to Arlington and doing a donut around the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, but I don't know how important or hallowed the Cenotaph is for the English.
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Apr 13, 2016 19:44
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Did they actually do doughnuts around the memorial or was it just down the street from it, and the problem was it was there in the background from the angle they were shooting. If that's the case it'd be more like drifting around the circle on Memorial Ave at the end of the Arlington Memorial Bridge, which frankly would be awesome.
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Apr 13, 2016 21:43
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They did donuts down the road from it, then drove past it.
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Apr 13, 2016 21:47
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The dumb Evans/LeBlanc thing just points to how the new team will have poo poo chemistry. I know they're not trying to replicate the other 3 but Evans could have ribbed him harshly or given a tongue-in-cheek statement about him being a clueless American instead of just revealing how petty everything is behind the scenes. Sabine is great but it's worrying that she'll probably be the most entertaining because she's really not a presenter. I love Harris too but I can already see him do great videos online, so I'm interested to see if he can bring any sort of new energy into the mix or if they'll just make him keep doing what he does already.
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Apr 13, 2016 23:36
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Noel Edmonds is one of the men of Top Gear.
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Apr 13, 2016 23:37
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InitialDave posted:Noel Edmonds is one of the men of Top Gear. Mildly interesting: according to the net, Edmonds is worth more than all 3 of the TG guys combined. ($100M compared to $50M Clarkson, $25M Hamster, $13M May*) (*From a different source that also places a much lower value on JC+RH, so probably JM is worth $25M) spog fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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Apr 13, 2016 23:49
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god, Hammond's goatee looks terrible. Makes him look like he should be wearing an ill-fitting polo shirt and trying to sell me a cell phone charger.
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triple clutcher posted:god, Hammond's goatee looks terrible. Makes him look like he should be wearing an ill-fitting polo shirt and trying to sell me a cell phone charger. It is so bad I would say it was designed and dye'd to give them something to pick on him about.
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tobu posted:It is so bad I would say it was designed and dye'd to give them something to pick on him about. It's probably meant to provide a good contrast to his whitened teeth.
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Wasabi the J posted:Judge for yourself... I dunno, I feel the old group would have just made a joke about him being amerucan and not knowing what a random obelisk sitting in the middle of london was about and then cut ti james saying stuff about ~the war~ and it being won by young men tear assing around. Or you know, say you were a ways down the road filming it and ignore it from then on out. Chris evans seems like a bit of a whiny bitch.
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Elmnt80 posted:I dunno, I feel the old group would have just made a joke about him being amerucan and not knowing what a random obelisk sitting in the middle of london was about and then cut ti james saying stuff about ~the war~ and it being won by young men tear assing around. Or you know, say you were a ways down the road filming it and ignore it from then on out. Chris evans seems like a bit of a whiny bitch. Yeah it could have been handled better all around.
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Elmnt80 posted:I dunno, I feel the old group would have just made a joke about him being amerucan and not knowing what a random obelisk sitting in the middle of london was about and then cut ti james saying stuff about ~the war~ and it being won by young men tear assing around. Or you know, say you were a ways down the road filming it and ignore it from then on out. Chris evans seems like a bit of a whiny bitch. I respectfully disagree: the management would force them to issue an apology for offending grauniad readers; like they've done the past so many times. I am surprised that they didn't end up apologising for offending the Argies for that numebrplate.
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spog posted:I respectfully disagree: the management would force them to issue an apology for offending grauniad readers; like they've done the past so many times. yeah but they would have apologized sarcastically the same way they always did as opposed to being a giant weepy baby about it like chris evans.
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Speaking of lovely apologies, Jonny Depp and his lady apologising for smuggling dogs into Australia is particularly great... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORpBAIB9j64 "thanks"
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I'm sure this was discussed pages and pages ago, but holy poo poo james mays "the reassembler" is amazing and highlights my longstanding distaste for the british TV practice of "lets take an amazing idea and make 3-5 episodes of it. I want a "Dragonball Z" level episode list of this TV gold.
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hopterque posted:yeah but they would have apologized sarcastically the same way they always did as opposed to being a giant weepy baby about it like chris evans. Most likely by showing up in person and then "accidentally" doing some more donuts and elevenses, resulting in the crude approximation of the male genitalia.
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MattD1zzl3 posted:I'm sure this was discussed pages and pages ago, but holy poo poo james mays "the reassembler" is amazing and highlights my longstanding distaste for the british TV practice of "lets take an amazing idea and make 3-5 episodes of it. Go find the Telegraph review of the show and discover the problem with television.
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A man named "Gabrielle" at the Telegraph posted:The sheer tedium eventually acquired a sort of Zen quality, as the 10 hours-plus it took to put the lawnmower back together began to feel as if they were being shown in real time. I tried to follow what he was talking about but, as a man who struggles to put together a Kinder Surprise toy, had to concede that this was not the show for me, but for men exactly like May. Men who grumble about a “strangler flap” being called a “choke butterfly”. Do i want to know what a "Kinder Surprise Toy" is?
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MattD1zzl3 posted:I'm sure this was discussed pages and pages ago, but holy poo poo james mays "the reassembler" is amazing and highlights my longstanding distaste for the british TV practice of "lets take an amazing idea and make 3-5 episodes of it. I've never been one to have any desire to meet a celebrity, but James May is the exception to that. He has such a marvelous esoteric collection of knowledge, it would be great fun to pick his brain about obscure subjects for half an hour.
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It's a toy that comes inside some chocolate made in Germany.
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MattD1zzl3 posted:Do i want to know what a "Kinder Surprise Toy" is?
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which is illegal to sell to the public in the US because americans cant stop and check before shoving something into their gaping maw and choking on the small parts when the explode the plastic capsule inside their mouths...
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They were banned in the US in the 90s because American children are idiots.
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All children are stupid it's just that the english, smartly, keep their infant mortality rate high.
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The suprise is that you have one less child.
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MattD1zzl3 posted:Do i want to know what a "Kinder Surprise Toy" is? See Ashens YouTube page.
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They were banned in the US because it's real chocolate and American chocolate corporations just knew their days were numbered if the populous knew about tasty as gently caress chocolate which came with toys. I grew up in an era when Kinder toys had masses of tiny parts and you had to assemble them yourselves. I remember a tiny yellow model of a cement mixer quite fondly.     This had a steel wheel at the back and the plastic rip cord span it and off it went over the kitchen floor to disappear underneath a cabinet/fridge never to be seen again.  They also did some cool little cars over the years 
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They still sell them in Canada and they are delicious. They had a Porsche promotion thing not too long ago and I got a Carrera while reliving my childhood
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Oh my god, I hope they do an episode of the new show dressed as their 30 year younger selves with wigs, haircuts and all. It would be amazing.
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mod sassinator posted:Oh my god, I hope they do an episode of the new show dressed as their 30 year younger selves with wigs, haircuts and all. It would be amazing. Hamster looks like a stoned cover model for 1980s romance novels, Clarksons white afro is epic and May's bowl cut makes his head look like a two-tone testicle.
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