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Last edited by Viper007Bond; November 3rd, 2009 at 9:17 AM. Reason: Spoilers tag____________________________
For the Twitterless people amongst you: here are the first couple of questions put to James and his answers.
HodderBooks James May's thoughts on Bolivia and favourite book coming up now in his Twitter Q&A
Q: RT @TopGearBabe: With so many fabulous adventures under his belt so far... are there any achievable dreams left unfulfilled for James?
A: Oh god, yes. I'd like to go to the Moon and I'd like to be able to make a risotto.
Q: RT @beckstar2: please ask James May what book he would take to a desert island
A: The Haynes Manual for the Honda CB 754
Q: RT @ChicklitBlog: If you could put a car into a time capsule for future generations to marvel at, which would it be and why?
A: Crikey, that's a good question. I think the Ford Escort Mark 1, it's what cars are meant to be.
Q: RT @maxtortheone: Please ask James May what impressions Romania left him when he visited a couple of months ago!
A: It was much prettier than we expected, a very hospitable country. Lots of dogs.
Q: RT @LindenChase:What did James think of Bolivia (where he's just been filming with TopGear)? How bad was his vertigo?
A: The thing I remember most about Bolivia is the dust, I don't like dust. It gets in the air vents.
A: My vertigo is pretty bad everywhere, even up a 5 storey building, so in parts of Bolivia it was very bad.
Q: RT @Intheskieswith: Does James May have a favourite novel or author?
A: When I was 18 I read Free Fall by William Golding and thought 'this is about me, it's going to change my life' but that's probably rubbish
A: I also like Cecil Lewis's Sagittarius Rising. If you want something erudite and easy to read, Car Fever is an excellent book.
Last edited by LindenChase; November 2nd, 2009 at 4:51 PM.____________________________
Yay!
Aww...I wish I had known of this...
Blah! Did I miss it all?
It happened so fast
Anyway, I didn't know what to ask
Every time he talks about his vertigo, my legs start shaking.
(Yes, I have it that bad)
I kind of know what you mean. Jeremy's article on bugs this week did it to me. I could hardly read it, skimmed most of it really.
This is what happens when you live on the other side of the world
Actually this is the first i've heard about James having Vertigo. ah well, you learn something new everyday.
He said something about it in the trailer for Toy Stories
Originally Posted by Nati
During the making of the bridge thingie...
And I remember him saying something about it when he was up in that solar tower in one of the Big Ideas series.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5KKVbIPoXM[/YOUTUBE]
Just watch this clip of the Winter Olympics special, especially the bit at about 7.47. James on the ski jump, not being happy at all.
I have loved this bit of the show since it was first shown. James at 4:00 is laughing so hard at Hammond. I remember people talking about it being scripted for Hammond to build the thing in front of the wrong ramp, but I do not think James's reaction is faked in any way.
I wish they had done something like this on Facebook instead of Twitter.
on 8:48 I do believe that was the Stig laughing at Jeremy. Just a thought as I try to coax myself to sleep as its 4:07am here.
Last edited by avusilvia; November 3rd, 2009 at 9:08 AM.
^^ I daresay they told Hammond what they were doing, but not Clarkson or May. It seems that they do that a lot, which is good because their reactions are genuine. Example, when they found out that they hadn't got to the finish in Vietnam. I do think that was a genuine reaction, and off-camera, a lot of "you ARE kidding???" would have been going on. I think that's awesome, but did feel sorry for them
^ yeah, I wish we had gotten more warning too. I hate Twitter, but I check FB often for stuff like this. Damn
Last edited by brydie76; November 3rd, 2009 at 9:13 AM.____________________________
That vertigo thing - I posted this on another website....
"Acrophobia is an extreme or irrational fear of heights. It belongs to a category of specific phobias, called space and motion discomfort. Acrophobia can be dangerous, as sufferers can experience a panic attack in a high place and become too agitated to get themselves down safely.
"Vertigo" is often used, incorrectly, to describe a fear of heights, but it is more accurately a spinning sensation that occurs when one is not actually spinning. It can be triggered by looking down from a high place but, this alone, does not describe vertigo. True vertigo can be triggered by almost any type of movement or change in visual perspective . Vertigo is qualified as height vertigo when referring to dizziness triggered by heights". (Wikipedia).
Wonder which James has? A lot of people call it vertigo when it's actually acrophobia.
I have acrophobia, and it's not much fun. I have difficulty even standing on a chair and really high places are impossible. I spent 2 days as a car passenger in Crete and never saw a view, as my eyes were shut tight after the first 30 seconds. Part of the problem can include a temptation to throw yourself off the edge. To go on that "death road" in Bolivia I would have to be tranquilised, blindfolded and tied up, with a sack over my head!
^ I have acrophobia and height vertigo- the negative effects of the vertigo (i.e. damn near fainting and throwing up) makes me scared of heights because of both the fear of falling/being hurt and the symptoms.
It's really annoying, because I'm a huge commercial airliner buff and love to look at them in airports, but the heights thing just ruins being in them for me
Given what I have seen of him with the wooziness and all, I would say he has moderate vertigo at the very least.
Somehow I'm thinking acrophobia. The only way to find out for sure is for James to describe what happens to him, and/or what goes on in his head, when he's in a high place.
Originally Posted by Blind_Io
I dunno...how could he have that...and learn to fly a plane?
Or go up in the Typhoon...or go up to almost the edge of space?
I'm thinking he's probably saying he gets a bit of that 'woozy spinning' feeling...
Maybe?
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