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NickD on Tue October 23, 2007 7:59 AM User is offline

British humour at it's best with my favorite subject, cars. Found this accidently by flipping channels on American BBC, but why bleep out the good words? Not sure of the host name, think it is James something, no credits and no introductions. First show I watched was these three Brits going to the depths of Miami each trying to buy a vehicle for under a thousand bucks to make a trip to New Orleans with such rules as the only food they can eat is finding something dead along side of the road.

Doing things like painting on signs like NASCAR or country music sucks on the side of their vehicles and getting reaction from the locals in Alabama plus making comments about the unrepaired effects of Katrina in good old Mississippi. It was funny, laughed my butt off the way it was presented plus their comments on American made cars, our roads, our customs, our speed limits, and our lack of concern for each other. Most of it true, but presented in a very funny manner. Didn't quite buy an 89 DeVille was an eight ton car, actually only tips the scale at 3,500 pounds, and no poker either with 200 HP, but the one they had was purchased for 800 bucks and not in very good shape. It had working AC, that was a miracle, other two vehicles had none working AC that quite an issue was made of driving in the south.

Final words back in the UK was, don't go to America, LOL.

TRB on Tue October 23, 2007 11:22 AM User is offlineView users profile

It's certainly a favorite of mine also. But in my opinion some of the british humor is a little lame at times. The comedy "Couples" is pretty funny, but not a regular watcher. Speed channel and FOX NEWS baby! Of course The Learning Channel and Discovery! Can't stand all those freaking reality shows. Anyone that watches that crap needs to be placed in a rubber room somewhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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NickD on Tue October 23, 2007 12:11 PM User is offline

TLC and the Discovery channel have really gone to hell lately especially the learning channel, Miami Ink and Trading Spaces isn't learning anything, and is the SurvivorMan really alone with his camera taking panning shots? Why doesn't he stay in a motel?

It's weird that I can understand the guys on TopGear, but have problems listening to the newscasters on BBC news. You may or may not agree with this, I feel Bush really improved Fox News by hiring Tony Snow, he never gave news, just weirdo opinions. Doesn't the White House have a health insurance plan? Can't support a couple of kids on $160K per year, so Tony had to quit? Saw him for a moment on Larry King, he really aged a lot in a couple of years.

john,??? on Tue October 23, 2007 12:22 PM User is offlineView users profile

top gear is the only car show worth watching on tv...


I record all of them, the little guy just got back from a crash where a jet car tire came apart at 288mph and sent it rolling. the show took 4 months off while he recovered. they didn't get into to much detail on injures but seemed pretty bad. the video of the crash was good shit thou.



the stig is the man... and having a stock little enconobox car where all the cleb's(and 3 f1 drivers have turned up and lost to the stig) can come run laps and be rated on the boared is greatness that we could never do in this country of sue everyone and everything you can.

mhamilton on Tue October 23, 2007 2:25 PM User is offlineView users profile

I was expecting more from the "US roadtrip" special from the teasers last week. The first half of the episode was funny, but the 2nd half was lackluster. I wasn't expecting anyone to understand the "British" written on the sides of the cars, save for "nascar sucks"--which incidentally, is probably the only reason they got chased LOL

You have to see a "normal" episode, with various segments and test drives. Last week, James May (long hair) took the Bugatti Veyron up to its top speed of 253 mph on a VW test track. The van episode was pretty good, "top gear furriers" et al.

Clarkson's (tall, curly hair) test drives of the new cars are usually priceless (e.g. the new MB S-class... "that's the first time I ever did a power slide in a home cinema"). Then he sat there for 8 hours trying to program the voice activated phone book...

bohica2xo on Tue October 23, 2007 2:47 PM User is offline

I have grown weary of Clarkson (and others) american stereotype bs.

I guess I could just peg all of the brits with an old snapshot too - say a couple of pimply faced homosexuals sitting in a Miny Mayfair, chain smoking. Parked because they can't afford the gasoline to actually drive the car... Oh! I almost forgot the awful dental work!

I saw plenty of "Land Yachts" in the UK this year. Many, many vehicles equipped with automatic transmissions too. Most of the vehicles on the street were imports of some kind. A few Smart cars - mostly parked. I think I saw one actually in motion. Plenty of women driving around in SUV's - alone. In fact, the larger the vehicle, the more likely it was to be single occupant. Never saw a Range Rover with 2 people in it. Other than driving on the wrong side of the street, it could have been Denver.

Too bad this clown did not finish the job he was about to do:



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TRB on Tue October 23, 2007 2:59 PM User is offlineView users profile

Now that was funny!

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Karl Hofmann on Tue October 23, 2007 4:55 PM User is offlineView users profile

Now, now then Bohica.. You are showing your grumpy side LOL

Top Gear is the only show that I can be bothered to record and makes me howl every time.. Tim which British comedies do you get? I suspect that you get some of the real old stuff that was too poor to repeat here but a lot of the best British comedy I guess just wouldn't be understood over there.

If you guys ever get chance to see any of Michael Palins (From Monty Python) travels such as Around the World in eighty days, Pole to Pole or Full Circle, then I can fully recommend it, not comedy but an excellent view of the World..Excellent viewing.

Michael Palins Travels

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Edited: Tue October 23, 2007 at 5:03 PM by Karl Hofmann

TRB on Tue October 23, 2007 5:04 PM User is offlineView users profile

I get it Karl, just don't see the humor is some of it. But I tend to like watching BBC America more then the crap we put on the air.

http://www.bbcamerica.com/tvschedule.jsp

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Karl Hofmann on Tue October 23, 2007 5:21 PM User is offlineView users profile

WOW I've just had a peek at the listings, and you have an awful lot of crap there though I must admit to enjoying the new Doctor Who and Torchwood. AbFab isn't so much a comedy as real life for some of the folks that I know..and that is a scary thing to admit to lol. If I was the BBC I would be embarrassed by the amount of so called reality shows..They are cheap tat

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TRB on Tue October 23, 2007 5:24 PM User is offlineView users profile

Well you guys produced it! America will put anything on TV. We need to export "The View" for you guys to see what America is really like. LOL

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Karl Hofmann on Tue October 23, 2007 5:36 PM User is offlineView users profile

Ha Ha, just done a google search on the View, looks like standard issue daytime TV viewing.. Anesthetic for the braindead idle bastards The problem is that there are too many TV Chanels all running 24/7 and there are only so many interesting things to make TV about, the good stuff you have to search for, seems that we have sent you a super concentration of crapola with a few interesting progs..

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TRB on Tue October 23, 2007 5:40 PM User is offlineView users profile

Yep, maybe send over "JackAss" for you also. Heck that is right in line with British humor!

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Chick on Tue October 23, 2007 5:49 PM User is offlineView users profile

On PBS "Keeping up appearences" (Britt sitcom) is by far one of the funniset shows ever... Poor Richard goes thru hell with his "Queen".."Faulty Towers" is another..The humor may be different, but I do like to laugh... They just don't show them enough...

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mhamilton on Tue October 23, 2007 5:52 PM User is offlineView users profile

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I have grown weary of Clarkson (and others) american stereotype bs.

Clarkson does act a bit too childish. Just in the last episode, pushing James down the hill, wrecking the dash of his car. I think "insufferable oaf" was what James said.... I would have seen if his Camaro really needed that cotter pin on the front spindle...

Also questioned his "brilliant" assessment of the Camaro... the 305 was a paperweight from day one.

I don't really find his american stereotypes to be really insulting... Every time he gives one of those "everything's bigger" remarks, I have to ask why he insists on stating the obvious. Everything has always been bigger, that's what the market demanded up until recently. The big 3 made compact cars back in the '50s, '60s, '70s, but the full size models outsold everything else by a wide margin.

Karl Hofmann on Tue October 23, 2007 5:54 PM User is offlineView users profile

No thanks Tim, you can keep Jackass, saw it ages ago on Bravo.. I can see it appealing to some but not for me.. MASH is by far the best comedy to come from the US but for home grown comedy I do enjoy Red Dwarf, Blackadder and Bizarrely, Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, which I really don't think that you'd get at all

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Karl Hofmann on Tue October 23, 2007 6:05 PM User is offlineView users profile

Ha ha, Clarkson gets to do all of the things that most guys would love to do, only he can ask a car manufacturer to give him a car for Top Gear and then have the nerve to send it back in pieces, The Bentleys that he has had have all needed to be striped down and rebuilt. My GF has met both Hammond and Clarkson in her shop, Clarkson is a loud mouthed yob but is very funny and Hammond really is very small but ever so polite

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bohica2xo on Tue October 23, 2007 8:05 PM User is offline

I think the correct brit term for Clarkson is "Bell End". It would have been great to see him mauled (just a little) by a bear on that arctic trip. Althoughy seeing the dumbass freeze a piece of hardware to his mouth was almost as good...

I spent 3 days at Goodwood, watching Corvettes, Mustangs, Thunderbolts, etc. pound around the track. Not once did I hear a local bag on the american iron - in fact they loved the 7L fords. Some of the nicest people you will meet in motor racing.

But, back to the stereotype - Karl, are you the guy in the Reliant Robin parked behind the Mayfair shooting heroin?

B.

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~ Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi, An Autobiography, M. K. Gandhi, page 446.

mhamilton on Tue October 23, 2007 9:09 PM User is offlineView users profile

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Originally posted by: bohica2xo
I think the correct brit term for Clarkson is "Bell End".
I spent 3 days at Goodwood, watching Corvettes, Mustangs, Thunderbolts, etc. pound around the track. Not once did I hear a local bag on the american iron - in fact they loved the 7L fords. Some of the nicest people you will meet in motor racing.


I'll have to look up a translation of that...

Not sure how they have room to bash US iron, they tried the same skit in the UK with a bunch of beaters, only had to make a trip half the distance. All of their cars were boiling over, or spewing smoke down the road, along with major malfunctions of ancillary devices.


I wouldn't recommend any of today's American sitcoms. If you really want to laugh out loud:
1. The Dick Van Dyke Show
2. All in the Family
3. I Love Lucy

Karl Hofmann on Wed October 24, 2007 3:49 AM User is offlineView users profile

Bohica, Yeah I got a three wheeler...Just call me Del Boy..lol... now waddle off and scoff another lard burger. lol

My buddy has imported a Dodge Charger...Orange of course. I have no doubt that the engine and tranny will last for ever but it is like driving an aircraft carrier. The older American stuff was built to last for ever, the trick there is to make it bigger and make it heavier, lots of pig iron but your modern stuff is just as pants as ours

Del Boy

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Edited: Wed October 24, 2007 at 3:53 AM by Karl Hofmann

NickD on Wed October 24, 2007 9:14 AM User is offline

I was 13 years old when we got our first TV, for me was more fun learning how what made it tick than watching it, and keeping it ticking was a major challenge. Every 3-5 months a tube would blow, thank goodness for drug store tube testers, even though most were only good enough to tell if a tube would light up or not. Not much TV watching during the military and college days, followed by long hours at work. Things settled a bit in the 70's, would get a TV Guide, see what was on for the week, switch on the TV, watch a program, then turn it off. How things have changed today with over 200 channels, has to be something good to watch, had to replace several remotes because the rubber on the scan button wore a hole through it.

And why is cable so expensive when you are watching mostly reruns with zillions of commercials, This Old House ran for 30 minutes on PBS, commercial free, shown on the DIY channel, program was cut down to 17 minutes with 13 minutes of commercials added. I don't think I can stand to see another GEICO commercial, TV stations would get rich if they just charged GEICO a buck per commercial.

Been watching How It's Made, a Canadian production, just think, in watching a 3 minute segment, I know exactly how to build a helicopter! Have to say the British versions of Dog Eat Dog and the Weakest Link really suck. No swimming pool or bathing suits on Dog Eat Dog, just off the wall questions. Contestant on Weakest Link in the British version only wins about ten pounds and the questions are from some remote section of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Least on the American version can get one out of ten questions right, in the British version, a flat zero.

Watch the Military channel now then, should we really be telling our enemies how our new weapons work? Watched a bit of the top ten rifles last night, got to get me an AK-47, can leave it in the mud and still fires and so simple, a child can learn to use it in minutes, with over 60 million made, no wonder we have problems. But our laws say we can't own one, that's not fair since our enemies can.

We signed up for all 33 movies channels last year on a five buck per month special, but never watched it, how many times can you watch Mr. & Mrs. Smith? When I got a cable bill for 40 bucks more per month, canceled it.

Anybody here ever read a book?

bohica2xo on Wed October 24, 2007 1:49 PM User is offline

Aw come on Karl, you know better than that.

It is breakfast time here (us redneks git up late), so I gonna eat about 3 greasy pork chops, and about 4 aigs. The grease burger comes 'bout haf past 12. I don' waddle no moe - the gubmint done give me a nice lil 'lectric scooter - I done gone green! It even fit up nice n close to the buffet tables.

I will have to fire up the ol pickup & load the scooter though. Good thing gas is under 3 bucks a gallon, she will burn about 2 gallons gittin down to the Burger Shak. I thought 'bout a smaller truk, but ol blue scares the kids off the buss bench so nice an all - 'sides mah gun rack won't fit in dem little biddy trucks.


B.

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mhamilton on Wed October 24, 2007 2:34 PM User is offlineView users profile

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Originally posted by: Karl HofmannMy buddy has imported a Dodge Charger...Orange of course. I have no doubt that the engine and tranny will last for ever but it is like driving an aircraft carrier. The older American stuff was built to last for ever, the trick there is to make it bigger and make it heavier, lots of pig iron but your modern stuff is just as pants as ours

Aircraft carrier? Those mid-size, chop top wagons? Nah... haven't made a real wagon in this country since the last Roadmaster came off the line.

Don't you have Rover over there? Seems the designers have tried their best to get the highest Cd possible.

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We signed up for all 33 movies channels last year on a five buck per month special, but never watched it, how many times can you watch Mr. & Mrs. Smith? When I got a cable bill for 40 bucks more per month, canceled it.
Had HBO for a short while in the early '90s. Same rerun crap back then, canceled it in short order. Don't think I'm missing much. I wouldn't pay to see any of today's movies in a theatre. Can always get it on DVD or watch on regular cable.


Edited: Wed October 24, 2007 at 2:34 PM by mhamilton

Karl Hofmann on Wed October 24, 2007 4:43 PM User is offlineView users profile

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Originally posted by: bohica2xo
Aw come on Karl, you know better than that.



It is breakfast time here (us redneks git up late), so I gonna eat about 3 greasy pork chops, and about 4 aigs. The grease burger comes 'bout haf past 12. I don' waddle no moe - the gubmint done give me a nice lil 'lectric scooter - I done gone green! It even fit up nice n close to the buffet tables.



I will have to fire up the ol pickup & load the scooter though. Good thing gas is under 3 bucks a gallon, she will burn about 2 gallons gittin down to the Burger Shak. I thought 'bout a smaller truk, but ol blue scares the kids off the buss bench so nice an all - 'sides mah gun rack won't fit in dem little biddy trucks.





B.

Ha ha ha, Bohica.. Now that IS scary..You're starting to sound like Meaux.. Now he was a real life stereotype.

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Karl Hofmann on Wed October 24, 2007 5:00 PM User is offlineView users profile

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Don't you have Rover over there? Seems the designers have tried their best to get the highest Cd possible.



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Rover died a death a while ago and was bought by the Chinese, shipped the lot back to China where they are planning their assault on the US. Most of the Rover range weren't bad cars but they were as dull as ditch water.. The German designed 75 was just awful. Low drag is high on the must do list for all car designers as is light weight, sometimes the Europeans just push it a little too far and it comes back to bite them.

Range Rovers and other such chelsea tractors are popular as kiddy transporters and if folk want them then that is their business, just as long as they don't bellyache when the price of fuel goes up again.. If they are happy to give their money to the government then that is their choice, at least it keeps my taxes down.

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