Random Thoughts (Top gear Edition)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/m...re-featuring-top-gears-james-may-9193518.html

The pin-up boy for Calibre is the Top Gear presenter James May, which the magazine describes as ?an excellent ambassador for this affluent, sophisticated and intelligent demographic?.
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In the launch edition, on sale from 1 May, the BBC petrol head ? who is described as a ?pub philosopher? and interviewed in a local hostelry - provides an ?intimate? interview in which he talks about his lifestyle and gives his views on ?what it really means to be a bloke in in his Fifties?.
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Watch from 20-32 seconds. :D

 
The Sweeney episode really is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on television.

Back when it first aired, I wasn't in the mood for this type of Top Gear.
But for some reason I couldn't stop laughing at how ridiculous the whole things was.

- Clarkson driving around the mobile home site like a madman, whilst his Ray Winstone wig is flopping up and down.
- Hammond setting off an explosion in the wrong mobile home.
- Clarkson telling the actors how to speak with a Balkans (?) accent.
- The director losing his nerve around Hammond and Clarkson, who come up with ideas suited for a $100,000,000 Hollywood film. xD

awesome
 
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Sandy106 said:
Isn't James 5' 10" and Hammond is 5' 7"? Shouldn't be that big of a difference unless one of them is out of proportion for whatever reason.
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I believe James is between 5' 11" and 6' 1" and Richard must be around 5' 6" hence the difference.
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...-money-mistake-was-turning-down-Top-Gear.html

And your worst decision?

Years ago, when TV was about to bring Top Gear back and rebrand it with Jeremy [Clarkson], James [May] and Richard [Hammond], I sat down and talked to Andy Wilman, the series producer, about joining them. I remember thinking, ?I might be out of my depth and it might not be a good idea?, instead of grabbing the opportunity. Looking back, I may have made a large error, but it?s not like I didn?t work for the next 15 years. I don?t regret it ? but it was probably a bad decision
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rafa31181 said:
I would love to see a woman on TG someday and I think she would make a good presenter, but these days it's hard to see the show different than it currently is.
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Vicki Butler-Henderson does an excellent job in Fifth Gear. It would change the show dynamics for sure.
 
93Flareside said:
Vicki Butler-Henderson does an excellent job in Fifth Gear. It would change the show dynamics for sure.
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And the good thing about Vicki is that I don't think she would mind the boys' jokes about women or anything else, but lately I've started to see TG like the last refuge of this male obsession which is the car. Maybe it's too sacred for a woman to join in now. Who knows about the future, when Jeremy retires (which shouldn't be long now) and also James, maybe then on a new TG
a woman would have a place on our last male refuge on tv car shows.
 
TG already has a woman presenter and a woman producer.

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