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RillAkBea posted:The GT 40 film was amazing. I've recently taken a more active interest in car racing heritage so this couldn't have come at a better time. Why can't companies today be quite so awesomely petty? You mean like Ford going all out to win Le Mans this year (in GTE) with the new Ford GT 50 years after their first win?
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Data Graham posted:
I can only imagine that's why there wasn't an "Oh Cock" condom.
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How the gently caress do you even trademark catchphrases. The BBC can burn in hell if it thinks preventing James May from saying "What a pillock" on air is somehow critical to preserving the integrity of new new Top Gear.
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anatoliy pltkrvkay posted:How the gently caress do you even trademark catchphrases. "Oh cock" Should be in the realms of "Let's get ready to RUMBLE!!!!!!" who ever spoke it, owns it.
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anatoliy pltkrvkay posted:How the gently caress do you even trademark catchphrases. Corporations even trademark colours and poo poo. Hell, Bethesda tried to sue Mojang for using the word "Scrolls" in the title of a boardgame. e: Let us not forget the original Amazon "1-Click" patent, which in it's ur-form claimed that Amazon held the patent for buying things by clicking hyperlinks. DPM fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Dec 26, 2016 |
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Dec 26, 2016 12:34
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Or Apple's in-app purchasing, in which you use some computer software to purchase something, as opposed to just sending electrical signals directly from your brain to the phone network.
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One of the fun things about East Asia is they give no shits about intilectual property. You'd get poo poo like an incredibly off-model spiderman shilling a local popcorn chicken chain. Korean theme parks shamelessly steal from Disney, it's awesome.
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Dec 26, 2016 16:52
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Clear solution: Season 2 of The Grand Tour, coming to you from Hong Kong, Seoul and Bangkok!
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I was really hoping for a My Summer Car segment in which they dump the 3 at a remote Finnish cottage with pile of Datsun parts and a dozen crates of cheap beer and just let the magic happen.
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Polikarpov posted:I was really hoping for a My Summer Car segment in which they dump the 3 at a remote Finnish cottage with pile of Datsun parts and a dozen crates of cheap beer and just let the magic happen. 
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So I hear there's some uproar over a joke I didn't even catch on the new episode of Grand Tour. Something about eating ice cream is gay or whatever.
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Dec 27, 2016 20:26
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How did you not catch that when they spent two or three minutes on it.
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My Lovely Horse posted:How did you not catch that when they spent two or three minutes on it. Apparently I was distracted during that part and missed everything before they started comparing the candy bars and how much they crumbled. I see it now. Yeah, I can see why people would be mad about that.
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Dec 27, 2016 22:33
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Yeah, it wasn't even funny, so no idea what they were doing there.
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InitialDave posted:Yeah, it wasn't even funny, so no idea what they were doing there. This, incidentally, is my review of every episode so far.
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Dec 27, 2016 23:21
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At no point in my life has ice cream been referred to as a thing for gay men so either it wasn't funny or I'm missing some part of the joke. Either way I wrote it off as an awkward segment to be forgotten because the GT stuff was so good.
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Dec 27, 2016 23:57
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It was a lame joke and now the newspapers get to be Real Mad about it.
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Gotta give the daily mail something to be offended about now they cant bitch to anyone about it any more, because amazon will just tell them to pound sand. Does a streaming service actually have to answer to the OFCOM?
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It's on the internet, I don't see how they could have any oversight.
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To be fair looking back on top gear of old Hammond does say sudo homophobic poo poo. But then again Hammond is very rarely funny.the caravan episode comes to mind when James says the sound ofnthe train is romantic and Hammond freaks out cause theyre in the same "bed"
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Is James the legitimate best drive, I noticed recently when they have something really expensive it's James that drives it.
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I think he's the most careful driver.
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sbaldrick posted:Is James the legitimate best drive, I noticed recently when they have something really expensive it's James that drives it. Which one would you trust?
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Budgie posted:At no point in my life has ice cream been referred to as a thing for gay men so either it wasn't funny or I'm missing some part of the joke. Either way I wrote it off as an awkward segment to be forgotten because the GT stuff was so good. I thought it was a lame joke we used to make about these as kids: 
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sbaldrick posted:Is James the legitimate best drive, I noticed recently when they have something really expensive it's James that drives it. Jeremy apparently couldn't drive the GT40 because he's too tall/fat, and Richard is too boring solo.
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Rated PG-34 posted:Jeremy apparently couldn't drive the GT40 because he's too tall/fat, and Richard is too boring solo. Didn't Jeremy drive the GT40 with the Gurney Bubble some years ago? I really enjoyed May's segment on the GT40 and P3, I wish it would have gone on for longer. Racing and car manufacturing in general these days is really lacking in petty feuds and rivalries like that. Ferrari vs. Ford, Ferrari vs. Lamborghini... The only one that's really left is the decades long rivalry between Ferrari and McLaren. I'm beginning to see a common thread. We should resurrect old Enzo and have him piss off some more people. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 11:21 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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Rated PG-34 posted:Jeremy apparently couldn't drive the GT40 because he's too tall/fat, and Richard is too boring solo.
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I got a laugh when James looked in the camera while driving the p3. It was a look of absolute joy and sheer terror at the same time.
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InitialDave posted:Yeah, it wasn't even funny, so no idea what they were doing there. "It wasn't even funny" describes about 45 minutes of each show right now. I'm literally hate watching it at this point.
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drgitlin posted:"It wasn't even funny" describes about 45 minutes of each show right now. I'm literally hate watching it at this point. There is more humor in five minutes of the cheap Alfa challenge than an entire episode of TGT. I wanted it to be good, but it isn't. It's not even bad in an interesting or amusing way. It's just tedious and boring. If you need car TV, you can always watch old episodes of Top Gear. Or if you haven't seen it, try Roadkill. The Stubby Bob wheelie episode is more entertaining than every episode of TGT combined.
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I always thought the whole point was seeing stodgy geriatric Brits put in uncomfortable positions. Have I been watching the show wrong this whole time?
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That's the thing, they don't seem that uncomfortable anymore. I think the last two episodes have been very decent and the show seems to be finding its stride, implying that it hasn't 100% got it yet. This weekend's the Namibia special, I feel that's gonna be the moment of truth.
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InitialDave posted:There was an old episode where he had the opportunity to drive a GT40, but really it was just to demonstrate his head stickign several inches above the roofline while attempting to close the door, and Noel Edmonds did the actual segment (because he owns one). There's a GT40, where the roof is modified slightly so the tall driver could fit inside (Dan Gurney, as mentioned). Clarkson definitely drove this. I cannot find the video on YouTube. It may have been for one of his DVDs separate from Top Gear. 
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Toe Rag posted:There's a GT40, where the roof is modified slightly so the tall driver could fit inside (Dan Gurney, as mentioned). Clarkson definitely drove this. I cannot find the video on YouTube. It may have been for one of his DVDs separate from Top Gear. I remember seeing it, the problem now is Jeremy is some few kilos heavier nowadays.
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InitialDave posted:Yeah, it wasn't even funny, so no idea what they were doing there.  Numbers aren't where Amazon want them to be so they got told to go out and be 'controversial' for some more free press.
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Had to recapture that old "Mexican sportscar" magic. Do the gays have a new car he wants to review?
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Data Graham posted:Do the gays have a new car he wants to review? Their original advert tagline was "The Gayest Economy Sedan Ever!"
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We're getting a two parter this week  https://twitter.com/thegrandtour/status/814440850713284609
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