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James May's Christmas toy fair

skylock — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:55:09 GMT

http://www.jamesmaystoyfair.com/

28th November 2009

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A fun-filled day that includes:
A Meccano model building competition
Marvel at Hornby's fantastic model railway layout
Make your own Airfix model
A collection of amazing Lego models
Create your own Plasticine Morph
Q&A with James May
And a chance to race against James May at Scalextric!
Many of the experts from the show will be on hand to discuss the history of each toy, offer technical advice and show some examples of their collections. You'll also see some of the amazing projects featured on James May's Toy Stories including fittings from the incredible Lego House. And don't forget to get your book signed! Call 02076 051400 for more details.

does BBC HD broadcast Top Gear in 1920x1080 or 1440x1080?

af250xxl — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:21:20 GMT

does BBC HD broadcast Top Gear in 1920x1080 or 1440x1080?

thanks! :)

Do you skip 'star in reasonably-priced car' segment when watching Top Gear?

af250xxl — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:09:13 GMT

Do you skip 'star in reasonably-priced car' segment when watching Top Gear?

unless the celeb is a hot female or Kristin Scott Thomas, I usually skip it.... :D

just wondering.... :)

[14x01] Stats

upyourego — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:39:40 GMT

So anyone for some Top Gear stats?

Yes I know I'm nearly a week late with these viewing figures but have had a bit of an insane week with a Swine Flu outbreak.

So Top Gear at its later time of 9pm got 5.5 million viewers with a share of 19.1%. Up against the might of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, this isn't bad.

I'm a Celebrity in the same slot got 9.8 million with a share of 36.1% which put TG second in its slot - followed by Garrow's Law on BBC One with 4.5 million (share 15.5%).

It wasn't the MOST watched show of the night and to be honest didn't even get into the top five - but did get a respectable rating for a later timeslot on a very busy tv night.

1. The X-Factor with 14.3 million (47.9% share)
2. I'm a celeb with 9.8 million (36.1% share)
3. Doctor Who with 9.1 million (33.9% share)
4. Antiques Roadshow 5.8 million (19.5% share)
5. All Star Family Fortunes 6.1 million (22.4% share)
6. Countryfile 5.7 million (26.0% share)
7. Top Gear 5.5 million (19.1% share)
8. ITV News & Weather at 10:30 5.3 million (29.8% share)

Top Gear opened series 13 with an audience of 7.1 million and a 30.4% share.

Clarkson vs May in honorary degree

puer2 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:15:08 GMT

As I was watching a show today, I was wondering why has Clarkson received an honorary PhD in engineering 2x, while James May who is the more mechanically inclined never received one?

Top Gear Changing Rooms Anyone???

macnerd93 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:23:10 GMT

I'm sure most of you will remember when Top Gear did "Top Ground Gear Force" for sports relief back last year in which they altered Steve Redgrave's garden.

Anyway to the point the BBC should do a Top Gear changing rooms (you know the god awful decorating program where friends/neighbours decorated each of there houses), it would be hilarious watch them decorate each others house's LOL, be good idea for children in need or something :) too bad its kinda too late for that, but you never know next year lol.

Some say that he lives in Texas, and that his Pontiac has Holden badges on it...

tone76 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:08:33 GMT

.. all we know is, he's probably an FG member!

http://jalopnik.com/5408546/

:lol::lol:

Clarkson...Am I going Mad ?

Maxwellsh68 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:19:57 GMT

Can someone please help me out...I am sure I read or heard somewhere that Jezza was going to be on the Radio this Friday but I cant find it anywhere...am I going mad ???

Military defending filming with TG

skylock — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:29:53 GMT

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...ar-stunts.html

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Military personnel have spent the equivalent of more than 140 days taking part in stunts on Jeremy Clarkson's hit BBC motoring show Top Gear.

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''The filming utilised scheduled training hours and resources which would have been consumed irrespective of the BBC filming or not, and were therefore used at no additional cost to MoD,'' he said.

''Having these events appear on one of the most popular television programmes in the UK was an excellent opportunity to raise public awareness of the Armed Forces and enable greater understanding and support for our sailors, soldiers and aircrew.''

Did anyone lose A black 8gb iPod Nano in Cepen Park North

skylock — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:27:50 GMT

http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/ne...in_Chippenham/

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Soldiers who met the Top Gear presenters while fighting in Afghanistan could lead police officers to the owner of a mystery iPod found in Chippenham.

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Officers think the clue to the owner lies in the hundreds of photos of soldiers in Afghanistan stored on the mp3 player, some of which feature a visit by Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson.

It was found approx 1 month ago.

No more free JC articles from next year - The Times will charge for online usage

ahpadt — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:28:36 GMT

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James Harding, the editor of the Times, today gave the clearest indication yet of how News International is going to start charging for its journalism online.

Pledging to "rewrite the economics of newspapers", Harding said the Times would charge for 24-hour access to that day's edition of the paper alongside a subscription model, but dismissed the idea of micro-payments for individual articles.

Harding said the newspaper business had to avoid the mistakes of the music industry – and call time on free distribution.

"We created a culture of free, and we absolutely were party to that," he told an audience of senior editors and executives at the Society of Editors conference in Stansted, Essex.

"In the last few years, we have talked with great pride – we believed advertising would sustain us – about unique users.

"These people were window shopping down Oxford Street – they were not coming into our shops."

He contrasted the Times's 20 million-plus unique users with the 500,000 readers who had developed a "genuine digital newspaper habit".

He confirmed that the Times – in common with other newspapers in Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation empire – would introduce online charging.

"From spring of next year we will start charging for the digital edition of the Times. We're working on the exact pricing model, but we'd charge for a day's paper, for a 24-hour sign-up to the Times. We'll also establish a subscription price as well."

The paper's recent decision to end the free distribution of bulk copies was in line with this strategy, he said.

"We think it's good for us and good for business to stop encouraging the trickery and fakery of the ABCs. We want real sales to real customers – that's what our advertisers want too."

He said the Times would also enhance its relationship with its most loyal readers through home delivery and a reward programme through the recently launched Times+ membership venture.

"Historically, newspapers have treated their best customers worst and their worst customers best," he said.

"We give the paper away to people who could not care less and we pay little or no attention to people who love it and read it every day."

He said newspapers should be wary of micro-payments for individual articles.

"You have to be very careful with article-only economics," he said. "You will find yourself writing a lot more about Britney Spears and a lot less about Tamils in northern Sri Lanka."

Indicating the costs of quality journalism, he said it had cost the Times £1.5m to run a Baghdad bureau for the duration of the Iraq war and £10,000 to send a correspondent to report on violence in northern Sri Lanka.

"We keep investing in journalism, we believe that's what our readers want. We're not dumbing down, we're dumbing up."

He said people were prepared to pay for news and cited the 270m books bought in Britain a year as evidence of an "enormous appetite for the written word and for news".

Harding said newspapers had been undervalued for years, pointing out that when the Times was founded in the 18th century it had cost more than double a coffee or a tumblerful of gin.

"We are going to rewrite the economics of the newspaper, newsgathering and delivery business," he said. "We have to do that, we are in the fight of our lives."

Harding said the newspaper industry was fighting for the "business of reporting".

"We have to make sure we have professional reporting to check the powerful and investigate the powerful on an economic, sustainable footing."

Harding struck a more conciliatory note on Google than Murdoch, who last week threatened to take content from News Corp's papers off the search engine's index.

He suggested that the Times could find a compromise solution that would exploit Google's reach while keeping its paywall intact.

"[The question is] is there a way we can move to a model where we charge people to buy the Times but enable them to source that through Google," he said.

Martin Newland, the former editor of the Daily Telegraph and now editorial director of the Abu Dhabi paper the National, said the Times itself had played a role in the undervaluing of newspapers by slashing its cover price to 10p in the 1990s.

"That first lodged in the mind of the consumer the fact that newspapers and content can be cheap," he said.

"I was smiling to see Mr Murdoch sought to re-establish value by shutting the gate well after the horse had bolted."

He said the Telegraph had "responded suicidally with a cut-price subscription scheme".

He said from reading British newspapers online he saw an "enormous, implacable dumbing down".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009...nline-charging

:(

S.14 Preview Montage Songs

ssreverb — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:07:55 GMT

Since there was no preview montage for Season 14 (at least as of yet), what songs do guys think would have been good choices for a montage? For me it might be something driving and grandiose along the lines of "Elephant Song" by The Enemy ERROR: You do not have Flash installed.

What are some of your song suggestions?

Who cares about a shirt....

jlmeyer420 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:06:40 GMT

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Top-Gear-Lap-w...item35a4d0a2f2

We all know THIS is what we REALLY want! :D

James' shirt up for Children in Need auction!

LindenChase — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:52:50 GMT

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=230398387094

James has donated one of his shirts to the Children in Need auction. Much as I love the man, £350.00 is bit too much, so I won't be bidding for this one. Shame it isn't one of the ghastly ones, I would have been happy to know he wouldn't be wearing it anymore. ;)

help! ISP forwarded DMCA warning letter for downloading Top Gear S14E01 today!

af250xxl — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:19:43 GMT

HELP!

My ISP sent me an email this morning notifying me that they received a DMCA violation warning letter. According
to the letter, the offending material was Top Gear S14E01.

What should I do now? :(

Who on the forums is surprised the majority of TG jokes are scripted?

edkwon — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:13:26 GMT

While the majority of experienced viewers seem to understand most of the physical humour and gags on the TG films and studio segments are scripted, I still read posts by random members, especially those who are new to the show that genuinely believe many of the slapstick gags happened by accident and were lucky enough to be caught on the film. What is the percentage of members here that believe that?

2 Random clips I found.

CrazyRussian540 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:07:06 GMT

I don't know if these have ever been posted here, but heres the Stig getting a SLR clamped.

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Anyone know the story behind that?

Also, this really confused me.

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Is that his Dino from the cheap super car challenge? And that couldn't have been real? Did they really just make him do that to his own car? Once again, an explanation would be great. Thanks

Art Exhibition

Maxwellsh68 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:25:42 GMT

Hi All.....James mentioned that TG will be filming the Art Exhibition this coming weekend...does anybody know where the exhibition will be ???

Captain Slow vs. The Stig for Number 1 Christmas T-shirt

TurnerGTX — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:59:22 GMT

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With Top Gear back on the telly and the show’s iconic ‘I am the Stig’ T-shirt charting at No.1 on Amazon this week, could Captain Slow take up the challenge to outperform the mystery driver this Christmas?

The much anticipated ‘Captain Slow’ t-shirt launches today, along with a brand new design for the nation’s favourite mystery driver, the shirt being named simply ‘Stig Standing’. Who will take pole position in the race to win over fans and make it under the Christmas tree this year?

In honour of Top Gear's not-so-fast presenter, James May, a new t-shirt design has been created to celebrate the careful driving attributes of his show nickname, ‘Captain Slow’. A must for both the careful driver and speed king alike!

Or pay homage and stay true to His Stigness with the brand new design, ‘Stig Standing’. Despite the last series ‘unveiling’ of Schumacher as The Stig, we always knew that the real identity of the driver would remain a mystery, so the intrigue continues!

Both of the new t-shirts cost £16.95 and are available in men’s sizes Small through to XXL. Children’s sizes are also available for the ‘Stig Standing’ t-shirts at £12.75. The UK’s only official Top Gear t-shirts are available online at www.officialproducts.co.uk along with a great selection of high quality 100% cotton T-shirts, each with a unique design as well as many other Top Gear gift ideas.

Top Gear fans, it’s up to you, will you let Captain Slow overtake The Stig this Christmas?

Last minute shoppers are advised to ensure their orders are in by Sunday 20th December for guaranteed delivery before Christmas.

http://www.responsesource.com/releas...hp?relid=51792

Daccia Sandero

avusilvia — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:03:34 GMT

What is the boy's obsession with the Sandero? I hope Im right by reading sarcasm into this.

Why are the series 14 outtakes removed ?

emil_t — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:48:12 GMT

look at the videos (scroll down) and you see "TG14: Romania outtake one" and "TG14: Romania outtake two" but the links don't work

Series 14 DVD Cover

Vicious Viper — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:37:24 GMT

With series 14 just starting, I figured I'd do something constructive. This is the first custom dvd style cover I made for use with XBMC, which is the media player i use to organize my videos because of its flexibility and use of meta-data which make for slick display of you collection in a home theater.

This being first draft, only screen captures from episode 1 are being used as place holders, and I plan to make one in for every series. I haven't decided whether or not to make back covers yet depending on how much interest there is for them, criticism would greatly be appreciated

what happens when a pelican meets a veyron?

jedd_kenobi — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:57:50 GMT

i found this on the daily mail website and while not its Top Gear related i did find it fairly humorous.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...g-pelican.html

Here's the actual article itself

The owner of the most expensive car in the world has been forced to write off his $1m Bugatti Veyron after crashing into a lagoon.
Shocked Andy House has had calls from car enthusiast and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to commiserate about his very expensive loss.
The millionaire car collector skidded off a road in Galveston, Texas, and plunged into a saltwater lagoon.
He told police he had dropped his mobile phone as he sped alongside the lagoon while taking his newly delivered car out for a test drive.
When he looked up from picking up the phone he was startled by a low flying pelican which cause him to swerve off the road.
House escaped unhurt from the wreckage but could do nothing to stop his car - one of only 15 in the US - from submerging in the water up to its door handles.
Video footage of the crash was posted on YouTube (included below) by two car enthusiasts who had filmed the car on their mobile phone.
House has said since the crash his phone has not stopped ringing with people offering their sympathy.
He had paid £750,000 for the car last month from a dealer in Arkansas and it only had 500 miles on the clock.
Gilbert Harrison of MCH Truck and Auto,who was called out to tow the vehicle, said House was taking his loss in his stride.
'He was calm,' Harrison said. 'If it had been me, I'd have been cussing, but he was calm. I imagine inside he was probably pretty upset.'
As well as being the most expensive road car in the world it is also the fastest with a top speed of 253 miles an hour.
X-Factor judge Simon Cowell is among one of the 300 owners of the super car.

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the first video makes me laugh when he says "i'm pretty sure thats a lambo"

Jezza live on 2fm Ireland

jack_christie — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:38:13 GMT

Jezza live on 2fm Ireland, doing a TGLive plug.

http://2fm.rte.ie/

Click the listen button.

Sandra Bullock "I am the Stig"

jack_christie — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:47:34 GMT

TG got a brief mention from Sandra Bullock when she appeared on The Jay Leno Show, 11th Nov.

http://www.thejaylenoshow.com/video/...-plug/1174846/ (might be geo blocked)

James on Simon Mayo show 16-11-09

LindenChase — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:59:34 GMT

James will be on the Simon Mayo show tomorrow (Monday). :) The show (Radio 5) start at 1.00 pm, but I have no idea what time James will be on.

Season 14 High Definition?

a_strann — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:20:02 GMT

Hi there!
I've searched the forum without finding any answer, and maybe i'm just a fool for not entering the correct words or whatever.

Anyways, I'm just wondering if Season 14 of TG will be ripped in 720, 1080 or both? Really looking fwd to the new series!! :rolleyes:
Thanks you guys!

Unknown rally episode

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:09:11 GMT

Which episode shows Clarkson forcing a rally driver to stand outside the studio? Toward the end they cut back to this person standing in the cold and covered in mud. It is one of the earlier shows when they were recording at night.

Someone must know this episode.

James on HIGNFY - December 11 2009

LindenChase — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:33:12 GMT

According to the BBC website, James will be one of the guests on Have I Got News for You on December 11. :)

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Have I Got News For You
BBC One
Friday 11 December, 9.00pm. Regular team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton are joined by guest host Dominic West and guest panellists James May and Reginald D Hunter

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pro...ts/index.shtml

topgear.com countdown

nuntius_deorum — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:38:53 GMT

Is it just me or is the new-series-start countdown wrong on TopGear.com? The new series is supposed to start at 9pm tomorrow, not 8pm.
I wouldn't mind if they anticipated it, though :P

Jezza on Jonathon Ross 28-11-09

jack_christie — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:35:14 GMT

Just a headsup that Jezza is due on Jonathon Ross 27th of Nov.

Don't make Captain Slow angry....Telegraph article Nov 13, 2009

skylock — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:22:36 GMT

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...-Top-Gear.html

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

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James May, one third of the crack presenting trio on Top Gear, the latest series of which returns tonight on BBC Two, is talking about the time he shot his printer

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In your office? ‘Oh yes,’ he says. May also shot his mobile phone for a similar crime – though he took it to the garden for the execution.

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Yet that would miss the point. May got angry at how badly engineered the devices were. It was a high-tempered crime of purest geekdom.

13x01 News Segment Clarification.

scull20 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:49:30 GMT

I was re-watching episode 1 from series 13 the other day and I never really understood the joke that James says about the service on Jeremy's Mercedes. To me it sounds like he's saying something along the lines of, "coola, three weeks" and I can't really make out what he's saying after that because of the laughter. Only thing that somewhat rang a bell as far as what he was talking about was 'the war', but I still couldn't figure it out.

The part of the episode I'm talking about starts at 21:22.

Any insight or clarification on this would be greatly appreciated, its driving me nuts!!

-Ryan

Top Gear @ Gumball 3000 !

MI55ILE — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:18:32 GMT

:D:D:D

Join the project!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=335355255499

Interview James - telegraph 13-11-09

LindenChase — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:44:10 GMT

Nice interview with James in the Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...James-May.html

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“I conceived Toy Stories as a sort of science and engineering programme, but once we started doing it, we discovered a fantastic community element to doing stunts with big toys – it’s a great leveller.”

He also loves the thought that his programme actually results in a product: “In Top Gear, everything goes wrong, because you have Jeremy Clarkson, so any practical activity ends in a pile of bits. In Toy Stories we try to make things work.”

All the controversy in one article

matskulainen — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:09:16 GMT

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/EDITORIA...r_moments.html

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Top Gear has been in trouble again – this time for screening a spoof advertisement for Volkswagen that showed a man committing suicide by shooting himself in the head.

But this is unlikely to worry the Top Gear team too much – the popular trio are no strangers to controversy and have been in trouble with TV regulators Ofcom on several occasions before.

Here are some of Clarkson and company’s more notorious moments, and who and how they managed to offend.

All the "hot water" moments compiled.

Top Gear's Stig immortalised in Lego.

skylock — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:31:09 GMT

http://www.theage.com.au/drive/motor...1112-iaix.html

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Earlier this year, Top Gear crew members Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May were immortalised in Lego as a stunt. But it appears Stig Lego figures will actually go on sale.

Yes, I will be buying bf one. If not for Christmas, his birthday comes up shortly.

Hotties in the background, shooting schedule.

BentAxel — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:46:46 GMT

Hi, new to the site.

Just curious if anyone else finds it funny and distracting the show always puts some sultry smokin' woman just left of the guest or the hosts in the background. Jeremy will be talking to the Guest, I always have to ask"what did he just say, I was distracted by the breasts in the background."

Very nice site btw. Great information.

Also, is it posted when they shoot here in the states? They have been in my neighborhood three times over the years, I would like to watch them shoot an episode.

Thanks

Something I saw in the season trailer (spoilers possible)

starfox07 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:00:40 GMT

Spoiler Text: (Click here to toggle display)

There was a short clip of an in-car view of what *appeared* to be a Lancia Stratos being driven by James and Jeremy. This should be good.

:cool:

Top Gear 14, episode 1: rehearsals

Aces High — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:10:26 GMT

if somebody is interested to this:

http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/top...e-1-rehearsals

http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/top...live-recording

How did James not make this list?

skylock — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:38:56 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009...-micropayments

I love Jeremy's column because it is usually pants wetting funny, but I read James's because it is more thought provoking.

I would read both of their columns even if I did not watch TG.

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Top 10 national newspaper columnists people would be most likely to pay for online:

1. Jeremy Clarkson, the Sun, Sunday Times

2. Charlie Brooker, the Guardian

3. Richard Littlejohn, Daily Mail

4. Giles Coren, the Times

5. Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph

6. Gordon Smart, the Sun

7. Lorraine Kelly, the Sun

8. Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday

9. Jane Moore, the Sun

10. Melanie Phillips, Daily Mail

Is Clarkson's Top Gear running out of gas?

skylock — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:23:38 GMT

Yes/No?

It seems it matters who you ask.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...ut-of-gas.html

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Originally Posted by Matt Warman - NO

So let’s not get caught up with thinking that Top Gear is bad for the planet, or bad for Britain’s carbon footprint – it’s entertainment that plays on the fact that we desperately need more people who are brave enough to say that trains will never really work until they actually do take you from your own house to where you want to go, and that bicycles simply aren’t compatible with steep hills.

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Originally Posted by Andrew Pettie - YES

The point my subconscious is trying to make – aside from the fact that it finds Clarkson naff, smug and repetitive – is that the most irritating thing about Top Gear is the people who watch it.

new guardian article about TG

pink piranhas — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:42:42 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-rad...eremy-clarkson

A few inaccuracies, but not too bad- I like how JC is described as a "professional stirrer":lol:

Free DVD with magazine

camelfarmer — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:47:32 GMT

Behind the scenes of Duel. :-( I thought or was the actual DVD till I got home.

R8 V10 and ZR1 in season 13 montage

lipscomb88 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:04:57 GMT

in 13x01, during the montage there was a corvette zr1 and an audi r8 v10, as well as hammond driving an airport vehicle, but i cannot find any of those segments in any episode. anyone know whats up?

Top Gear Scirocco Ad breached guidelines

Amanaman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:40:27 GMT

Remember the fictional Scirocco adverts from last series? Well, Ofcom isn't too happy with the one that featured a man committing suicide by shooting himself in the head:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8350222.stm

I must admit though that I too was surprised this was aired before the watershed at the time.

Jezza, Hamster, Schumi and Stephen Hawking Going into Space

TurnerGTX — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:47:00 GMT

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THE boss of the world’s first space travel firm has revealed how a film producer attempted to hire the world’s most advanced space craft – to make a porn movie.

Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn has said he was baffled when he was approached by someone interested in hiring the whole spacecraft – only to find out he was a porn baron.

The Scots-born boss, who heads-up Virgin’s space tourism arm for Richard Branson, said that he didn’t know how much was on offer, but that money was clearly no object.

The 49-year-old said: “We hot approached by someone who turned out to be a porn-film maker who wanted to hire the whole ship.

“They wanted to make a sex movie in space. I had to turn him down.”

Each place on SpaceShipTwo – which must be launched into the atmosphere by its powerful carrier WhiteKnightTwo – costs £120,000 per seat.

With six passenger seats on the spacecraft, the production would have brought the costs to a massive £720,000, making it one of the most expensive adult films to date.

The most expensive porn movie to date is Pirates II: Stagnetti’s revenge which cost just under £5,000,000 in 2008.

However that doesn’t compare to sleazy 1978 brit flick Caligula, which cost a staggering £10,500,000.

The flights are expected to commence in 2011, have already had a lot of interest from enthusiasts, including X-Men director Bryan Singer, physicist Stephen Hawking, F1 legends Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello and Top Gear presenters Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson.

http://deadlinescotland.wordpress.co...08/11271-2116/

What music will Stig listen to this series?

A7XFan22 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:08:22 GMT

I personally hope he listens to the techno/rave/whatever that May listened to in his Golf. :)

Series 14 trailer

capra — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:49:39 GMT

Just a heads up:

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:w00t:

EDIT: Yes, I see it's already in the pre-episode discussion. Curses. :P

Rampant sexism?

diti — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:07:30 GMT

I've just noticed this letter in the Radio Times from last week, referring to some comments from James in their interview for the first "Toy Stories".

"ANYTHING YOU CAN DO
So "the point of being a man" is to "be able to have a go at anything"? Well, James May (RT, 24 October) the point of being a woman is to have a go at anything too...including sexist blokes!
(Sandra from Birmingham)"

Were James' comments sexist? Is TG sexist? (Do bears take Charmin to the woods? Do we girlies love it like that? Does anyone care?)