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Combat Pretzel posted:Hammond's tiled interior and compressed air delivery system have me in stitches every time I watch that segment. That, James's ludicrously slow back door, and Jeremy's gigantic head caught between the hatch of his Porsche and a surprisingly realistic training dong saying "trust in me, trust in meeeeeee" are the defining moments. E: If you're interested, the trio recently did an official Xbox stream of Forza Horizon 3: https://youtu.be/so9zlCrQruY projecthalaxy fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Jan 9, 2017 |
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blunt posted:This. Even if they're not allowed to do "buy a car for £500 and do x" because (people have speculated that) it's a BBC owned format/idea, surely they could do "Mr Willman has provided us with these three cars, we have to do x", where the cars just happen to be cheap pieces of poo poo. As with the Fine Brothers nonsense over "react" videos, that kind of stuff needs to be roundly mocked, and then promptly ignored as you do whatever it is you wanted to do anyway.
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Jan 9, 2017 20:36
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Yeah, if that's true, they really need to tell the BBC to gently caress off in a creative way. Maybe say they were challlenged to buy a book for $3000, and each book happened to come with a free mid 60s shitbox.
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Jan 9, 2017 20:38
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I think it's a combination of this first season being rushed out the gate and them being extra careful about legal stuff because they're not entirely sure how the BBC will respond to things. That said, it started out fine, and has been improving every episode, and the special was good and solid, if not in the top tier of the better old top gear specials. I'm still eager to watch every week and very interested to see what they do next season.
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Jan 9, 2017 20:57
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hopterque posted:That said, it started out fine, and has been improving every episode, and the special was good and solid, if not in the top tier of the better old top gear specials. I'm still eager to watch every week and very interested to see what they do next season. Agreed. This isn't bad television by a long, long shot. I enjoy every episode, even the stupid things.
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Jan 9, 2017 20:59
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Jeremy looks so ashamed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFKdSOSrexo
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Jan 9, 2017 21:29
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Monkey bike reassembler was glorious.
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Jan 11, 2017 22:35
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I loved his torque wrench, it's up there with "a knob of butter about the size of a piece of cheese" vs "a piece of cheese about the size of a knob of butter".
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Jan 12, 2017 14:42
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James May is indeed one smooth dude (from the 'classic' (pre 1982) car challenge)
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Jan 12, 2017 21:21
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The reason the photo's taken through a chainlink fence is it was the only way to keep the women away from him.
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Jan 12, 2017 21:23
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Jan 12, 2017 21:57
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I watched OZ and james's wine thing and their Britain drinking thing and the key is alcohol, you've got to get him drunk.
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Jan 12, 2017 22:34
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I just hate The American so much. All I want is for him to put on a stig helmet and never open his poo poo mouth again.
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Jan 12, 2017 22:59
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Yeah, the American and Celebrity Brain Crash(?) are the same joke over and over again, and it wasn't funny the first time.
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davebo posted:I just hate The American so much. All I want is for him to put on a stig helmet and never open his poo poo mouth again. I just want him to stop trying to play the hillbilly character complete with poorly faked accent, and just be himself. The dude's Californian, for chrissakes. It would be interesting to get (something resembling) an actual NASCAR driver's opinion on a bunch of cars, rather than a bunch of unfunny, over-written quips.
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captainOrbital posted:Yeah, the American and Celebrity Brain Crash(?) are the same joke over and over again, and it wasn't funny the first time. I don't mind Celebrity Brain Crash so much. It's a segue into cocking about and fairly short. I also love the stupid changing intro to conversation street.
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KozmoNaut posted:I loved his torque wrench, it's up there with "a knob of butter about the size of a piece of cheese" vs "a piece of cheese about the size of a knob of butter". But is it a bolt or a screw?
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Mister Kingdom posted:But is it a bolt or a screw? A bolt is secured into a hole with precut threads. A screw will cut it's own threads, and possibly its own hole as well.
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HERAK posted:A bolt is secured into a hole with precut threads. A screw will cut it's own threads, and possibly its own hole as well. Nu-uh. In mechanic courses (and maybe in mech.eng. as well?) they teach that a screw is something that screws into precut threads in the work piece but a bolt is something screws into a nut and holds two pieces together. The name is probably related to a door bolt, which slides through some holes to bind two things together. And
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Short generic answer is if it has threads all the way to the head, it's a screw. Bolts have a plain shank or waisted area. If you stick with that, you won't go far wrong.
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Ola posted:Nu-uh. In mechanic courses (and maybe in mech.eng. as well?) they teach that a screw is something that screws into precut threads in the work piece but a bolt is something screws into a nut and holds two pieces together. The name is probably related to a door bolt, which slides through some holes to bind two things together. And Wood screws?
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HERAK posted:Wood screws? A screw is something that screws directly into material, then. The distinction I've always used is that a screw has an internal drive, a bolt has an external drive that takes a socket. Doesn't hold up 100% though, because of lag screws/bolts. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 12:28 on Jan 13, 2017 |
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Jan 13, 2017 12:22
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InitialDave posted:Short generic answer is if it has threads all the way to the head, it's a screw. Bolts have a plain shank or waisted area. That's called a shoulder, and not all bolts have a shoulder. Everyone is incorrect, the difference between a bolt and a screw is that a bolt has the same diameter for the entire shank, but a screw tapers to a point. And I say this as someone who used to have to sort and count both screws and bolts at both my current and some former jobs.
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HotCanadianChick posted:That's called a shoulder, and not all bolts have a shoulder. Where do machine screws fit then?
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Jan 13, 2017 12:58
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James' definition is that a bolt is something whose primary purpose is a dowel, it just happens to be secured by threads. A screw's primary purpose is to fasten.
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We may never know the difference, or whether they can be sorted.
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Jan 13, 2017 13:18
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Anyway I don't know whether I dare imagine that any of this week's episode was unscripted, including Hammond releasing the car from 20 feet up and the Doc Brown guy in the audience.
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Jan 13, 2017 13:26
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HERAK posted:Wood screws? Should have drawn a Venn diagram. I meant to explain the difference between bolts and threaded metal things which could be called bolts but are in fact screws.
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HotCanadianChick posted:That's called a shoulder, and not all bolts have a shoulder. Ask me what I do for a living. Go on. Edit: You have done something I hate, which is using a deliberately (and very clearly stated) simplification as some kind of opening to "correct" it, and on top of that what you've said is wrong. InitialDave fucked around with this message at 13:41 on Jan 13, 2017 |
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Jan 13, 2017 13:32
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So, how about that new episode
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I'm shocked to learn that James May doesn't know his Land Rovers well enough.
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I would have liked to see the Giulia vs M3 vs XK instead of reef building.
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Jan 13, 2017 15:32
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Screw y'all. New ep was goodish but dragged in places.
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Eifert Posting posted:Screw y'all. FCA must be paying big sponsorship bucks, with all the Chrysler, Alfa and FIAT (next week) products they're featuring. Still liked the Giulia segment, the rest of the show was rather hackneyed.
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Buhbuhj posted:I would have liked to see the Giulia vs M3 vs XK instead of reef building. I thought the same thing. The reef thing was just kind of bland. The Alfa segment was pretty good though.
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The reef segment was great. The show is at its best when it's just the three of them screwing around or is it bolting around?
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taco_fox posted:The reef segment was great. The show is at its best when it's just the three of them screwing around or is it bolting around? they are called machine screws you plebian!!!
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hillo posted:they are called machine screws you plebian!!! Yeah, they're at their best when they're machine screwing around.
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I kept waiting for them to say "Thank you to the government of Barbados for sponsoring our vacation  "
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