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InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

neckbeard posted:

Don't talk about torrenting/downloading the show
Why would I need to? :smug:

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InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

Cat Terrist posted:

No it doesnt. What an unfunny twat
I don't disagree with his point, but yeah, he ain't funny. It's like watching someone who has read about stand up and humour in an encyclopedia, but never actually seen or experienced it before deciding to have a crack at it themselves.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
Not that I'm aware of. If we did, it should only really come out once we've got bored of abusing Europeans, and that's not happening any time soon.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

echoplex posted:

Stew Lee is amazing. Back to your Micheal MacIntyre DVDs, you.
Who? Billy Connolly, mate.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wXx973SkMV0#t=144s

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
Yeah, that wasn't very good. I liked Hammond's seemingly genuine enjoyment of razzing his Mini around, and did manage a good solid laugh at the sight of the Jag and Roller running Simex tyres, but that doesn't help drag up the rest of it.

I also wish they'd had the balls to have Hammond "accidentally" paint the Pakistani flag on his bonnet.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
Yeah, if they do even a small amount of what was in Long Way Round, it'd be pretty interesting.

I can see Hammond buying a Niva, May a UAZ-452, and Clarkson turning up in a 6x6 Ural :black101:

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

MrChips posted:

I don't think you understand the mentality of India very well. Doing that would literally get them torn to pieces by an angry mob, depending on where they are.
No, I think we very much understand the mentality of India.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
The Indian guys I work with found it all quite amusing, in the "Stupid white guys don't know poo poo" kind of way. Most people are pretty relaxed about it, the hand-wringling would have come from white middle classes.

Also, as it's appropriate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RPf0SpIU9M

In fact, if you're ever :ohdear: about people offending Indians with the traditional British sense of humour, just try some Goodness Gracious Me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdo79znnHl8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N17UkIrnjkI

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
I don't think he wants to know what kind of point-to-point speeds you can get out of a 1.2 Fiesta with a certain amount of determination and a willingness to utterly cook the brakes.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
Also, if there's even the slightest possibility that it might offend, the Indian government basically has to complain, even if they don't give a poo poo. It's politics.

If all the Indian guys I know thought it was dumb fun, I'll take that as a more reasonable barometer.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
The pensions thing is all bullshit anyway. Even what they're complaining about is a killer deal compared to anyone in the private sector, they need to get some drat perspective.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

cloudchamber posted:

We must all bow down before the private sector for it is our lord, our god, our saviour.
Sorry, you're going to have to do better than that if you're fishing these waters.

Back to TG-related nonsense:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index.php?Itemid=81&id=4369&option=com_content&task=view

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
One thing I am surprised about : We haven't heard a peep from anyone about them venting AC refrigerant to atmosphere. You'd have thought at least someone would have got on their high horse about it.


VVVV: Minor things like that don't seem to stop people.

InitialDave fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Jan 16, 2012

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
I enjoyed that episode, save for the SIARPC section. You know, what with him being black and everything.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
But don't you see? He's just trying to build a car using parts of other cars as the major basis, and he's doing it in some industrial-estate workshop in a "meh" part of the country.


You know, like Noble.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

Nerobro posted:

Without yaknow, the engineering prowess, or any desire to do anything but make a pretty car.
Wonder how long the clutch lasts in one? :iamafag:

Just in case I'm once again experimenting with finding the cranium/humour Kármán line, I don't like Will I Am's car, and I do like Noble - though I still regard their move from the "£60k or so" market to the "£200k or so" market as being a dubious decision.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
Probably like how The Young Ones always having a musical act allowed them the higher "entertainment" budget rather than just being "comedy". It'll be some kind of internal politics with the Beeb.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
Hmmm, anyone else think LeBlanc looks a little... Hammondy?

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

Sprat Sandwich posted:

Wait, it's over?

I thought it started now :(
Watch Bomber Boys on BBC1 instead, then.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
Jeremy's obsession with technical accuracy and TC button rant made me all :3:.

God knows what it would have been like if it'd been James. :spergin:

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
Isn't that the point?

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

echoplex posted:

Nick Love is a man without a point; a man without a purview to live; a man who should not be employed by anyone; a man who should have his kneecaps taken away from him.
Never heard of him before this. Google tells me that he specialises in CorBlimeyBobHoskinsKneecapTheMuppetMyOldSon Mockney films?

And that he'll properly gently caress up a Sweeney movie? And probably not have a Cameo from Waterman?

Arse.

Payndz posted:

But then nope, got to get in the horribly telegraphed and overlong scripted buffoonery where the presenters play up their personas as if they are literally retarded!
Hammond, yes, is just plain annoying, but Clarkson seemed to be playing it straight, and I liked that side of it.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
For a picture of how a Ford vs Jag chase should look, this is the equivalent scene from Stoppo Driver: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFeJAe4f9g0

I'm surprised none of the UK goons have mentioned Nissan's Sweeney pisstake back in the nineties:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9K_EkU9KZE

Not entirely convinced the new film will be able to do better than that, frankly.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
I've been rewatching the episode on iPlayer, and I'm pretty comfortable that, had Hammond just hosed off like he was told to at the start, the chase stuff would have been pretty watchable.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

echoplex posted:

I'm confused now - you're talking like everything that happened wasn't pre-arranged? You know the stuff they shot won't actually be part of the film? I'm sure you do... I'm just confused.
I'm mixing my fourth wall a bit, yes. What I mean to say is that it's the stupid Hammond shite that annoyed me, the rest was ok. You know when the director tells them to do it properly or gently caress off? I'm jokingly suggesting that, had their script then involved Hammond doing either of those things, everything would have been hunky-dory.

Of course it's all scripted, but Clarkson's scripted stuff was enteraining and Hammond's scripted stuff was shite, so I would have preferred a different script. I still get the distinct impression that I'm going to enjoy the film less than the TG stuff regardless.

An' I don' fin there's enfink that'll storp me farnding fackin' Mocknay hackcents irritatin' as all 'ell, tha.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
"I can't dumb it down to your level because I'm scared of heights".

Also, Brian Johnson makes everything better.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
Yeah, that was a really good episode, and I can't say there was anything in it I didn't enjoy.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

Cakefool posted:

Why were the lights on the ff flashing? It wasn't just the slo-mo shots or I would have thought it was pwm brightness controls.
LEDs, I don't think they film well.

Here's something that should probably be posted in here, what with the "modified mobility scooters" thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy5rkw4SeP4

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

kimbo305 posted:

I'm assuming that's why TG ran it with the tires it had on -- because the agreement with Ferrari was to use those and only those tires.
I'm amazed they were allowed to show it ending up in a snowbank. I wouldn't be surprised if they were told, in no uncertain terms, that the Bentley, too, must end up off-piste.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

Cat Terrist posted:

Henessey and SSC are more about OMG look at my dick 1200 horsepowaaaaas!
Is Henessey the one with the really bad reputation for ripping people off on tuning work for Vipers etc?

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

ColHannibal posted:

It's just hazard lights when accelerating or braking past a certain rate right? Not some fancy science dick waving explanation.
No. Cakefool is correct.

The automatic hazards, or flashing of brake lights, under heavy braking is a thing with new cars, but that's not what you're seeing here.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
What the gently caress? That's not Tom Baker!

Edit: RAARGH 9000 MOTHERFUCKING AERO :awesome:

InitialDave fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Feb 26, 2012

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

Tomarse posted:

My saab 99 turbo has 2 EXTRA buttons :smug:
Read all about it!

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
It's RWD.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

G-Dub posted:

Hammond is a wank again for his hard on with certain manufacturers. If it isn't Porsche it's Morgan.
The important difference being that the Morgan 3-wheeler is really cool.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

Understeer posted:

Can anyone explain the ITV jab during the SIARPC lap?
ITV are a commercial station, and have a history of editing things for length to fit their schedule and advert breaks.

I once watched Die Hard With A Vengeance on ITV, and they cut out the entire conversation in the police van where you find out about the dump trucks, the police-badge-lottery-number etc.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
Fjords always make me think of Slartibartfast.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
May's four hundred quid MR2 lasted longer than my mate's four hundred quid MR2 did (oil leak > starvation > seizure).

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InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

OptimusMatrix posted:

May talking with the Ferrari owner about wanting to drive that car didn't seem like it was scripted. The guy looked genuinely scared to let him drive it. God what a beautiful car.
"The guy" is Chris Evans, he's been on TG before as a SIARPC. He's either a brilliant radio/tv host or a massive twathammer depending on personal taste.

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