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Author:  Pundabaya [ Thu Feb 04, 2016 18:27 ]
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*checks privilege* I've got enough to power my ultimate technique!

(Asking another white guy 'you know the rap group with Dr Dre and Ice Cube... well what DID NWA stand for?' Then refusing to look it up on Wikipedia.)

Author:  Cras [ Thu Feb 04, 2016 18:30 ]
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They stood for Truth, Freedom, and The American Way

Author:  Bamba [ Thu Feb 04, 2016 18:59 ]
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DBSnappa wrote:
Suddenly realised the wolves are likely to mean "Wolfie".


Are they? Based on what?

Author:  DBSnappa [ Thu Feb 04, 2016 20:58 ]
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Bamba wrote:
DBSnappa wrote:
Suddenly realised the wolves are likely to mean "Wolfie".


Are they? Based on what?

It's an age thing. If I have to explain, you would need to watch a lot of a 70s sitcom

Author:  MaliA [ Thu Feb 04, 2016 21:06 ]
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Mummy A used to meet Old Man Afterthought by Tooting Lido.

Author:  DBSnappa [ Thu Feb 04, 2016 21:17 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Mummy A used to meet Old Man Afterthought by Tooting Lido.

:)

Author:  Bamba [ Thu Feb 04, 2016 21:35 ]
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DBSnappa wrote:
Bamba wrote:
DBSnappa wrote:
Suddenly realised the wolves are likely to mean "Wolfie".


Are they? Based on what?

It's an age thing. If I have to explain, you would need to watch a lot of a 70s sitcom


I know what Citizen Smith is if that's what you're talking about, I just didn't see why you'd decided myp's name was a reference to that?

Author:  Grim... [ Fri Feb 05, 2016 23:38 ]
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Strong rumours about Eddie Jordan being the third presenter, which would (in my opinion) be a fucking disaster.

Author:  MaliA [ Fri Feb 05, 2016 23:40 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Strong rumours about Eddie Jordan being the third presenter, which would (in my opinion) be a fucking disaster.

5) Agree strongly

Author:  Grim... [ Fri Feb 05, 2016 23:41 ]
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It'll be a real shame if, out of all the people in the world of motorsport, they take that fucking idiot.

Author:  markg [ Sat Feb 06, 2016 8:17 ]
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I get the impression that they're really struggling with it.

Author:  TheVision [ Sat Feb 06, 2016 9:01 ]
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Grim... wrote:
It'll be a real shame if, out of all the people in the world of motorsport, they take that fucking idiot.


Why is he such an idiot?

Author:  Mr Dave [ Sat Feb 06, 2016 9:09 ]
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Have you never watched the bbc F1 coverage?

Author:  TheVision [ Sat Feb 06, 2016 9:12 ]
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Nope... Not properly but whenever I have caught a few moments of it, he doesn't seem out of the ordinary. Why is he so bad?

Author:  Mr Dave [ Sat Feb 06, 2016 9:14 ]
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The man is a clown.

And not in a good way.

Author:  Bamba [ Sat Feb 06, 2016 9:24 ]
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Mr Dave wrote:
The man is a clown.

And not in a good way.


I don't believe there is any good way to be a clown.

Author:  TheVision [ Sat Feb 06, 2016 9:32 ]
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Are you sure?

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sat Feb 06, 2016 12:33 ]
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Quote:
most cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns

https://twitter.com/skullmandible/statu ... 1131523072



Author:  DBSnappa [ Thu Feb 11, 2016 9:25 ]
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Some dude called Rory Reid, Sabine, Joey, Chris E, Chris H, Eddie and Stig

Author:  ApplePieOfDestiny [ Thu Feb 11, 2016 9:56 ]
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I sense the work of a committee.

Author:  Mr Dave [ Thu Feb 11, 2016 10:59 ]
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Any potential interest: gone.

Author:  DavPaz [ Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:45 ]
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Eddie. Sigh.

Author:  MaliA [ Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:47 ]
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A bolus of wankers

Author:  markg [ Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:51 ]
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I like how that line up positively fizzes with a total lack of any on screen chemistry whatsoever. I'm actually quite looking forward to it just for how awkward and stilted it's all going to be. That said Chris Evans does seem to know how to make popular TV and radio so who knows.

Author:  DBSnappa [ Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:58 ]
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Oh, I dunno. Chris Harris is a very good driver and a great presenter. Check out his YouTube channel Chris Harris on cars.
Sabine we know can drive and seems to have the requisite charisma to hold her own in this group.
Matt LeBlanc is a serious petrol head, but he's a bit of an unknown quantity.
Chris Evans is quite annoying as a TV presenter IMO but he's undoubtedly passionate about cars.
Eddie Jordan is just annoying.
And Rory Reid is an unknown quantity, what with him being the token member of the public who made it through the open casting.

The thing is, with six presenters it's not like anybody is going to get a lot of air time and we have no idea how they intend to put the show together.

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:31 ]
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Why have they put so many people in, I wonder?

Also, Sabine Schmitz is an incredible driver around the 'Ring, obviously, but she's also pretty incredible around any other racetrack, which makes me wonder why her and the Stig are on the same TV show.

I'm not sure you can call Rory Reid a "token member of the public" - he's worked on Sky and Radio 5 (not doing a lot, admittedly).

Author:  DBSnappa [ Thu Feb 11, 2016 13:05 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Why have they put so many people in, I wonder?


I think it's to have clear blue sky between the two iterations, at the least.

Quote:
Also, Sabine Schmitz is an incredible driver around the 'Ring, obviously, but she's also pretty incredible around any other racetrack, which makes me wonder why her and the Stig are on the same TV show.


Chris Harris is pretty handy as well, but I take your point. You'd have to think they could both worry the Stig's lap times

Quote:
I'm not sure you can call Rory Reid a "token member of the public" - he's worked on Sky and Radio 5 (not doing a lot, admittedly).

I'd never heard of him, but interesting that he isn't strictly speaking a member of the public.

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Feb 11, 2016 14:06 ]
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DBSnappa wrote:
Quote:
Also, Sabine Schmitz is an incredible driver around the 'Ring, obviously, but she's also pretty incredible around any other racetrack, which makes me wonder why her and the Stig are on the same TV show.

Chris Harris is pretty handy as well, but I take your point. You'd have to think they could both worry the Stig's lap times

Oh yeah, I didn't even think about that. That makes it even odder.[/quote]

Yeah, because they would definitely edit and report these lap times accurately.

Author:  TheCookie197 [ Thu Feb 11, 2016 16:41 ]
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DBSnappa wrote:
The thing is, with six presenters it's not like anybody is going to get a lot of air time and we have no idea how they intend to put the show together.


This was my thought too - in some of the older episodes, after Clarkson did the car test at the start of the show, and then the "Star in a reasonably priced car" it seemed like Hammond and May barely got any time on the screen. It'll be interesting to see how they try to make sure everyone gets something to do within the hour.

Author:  markg [ Thu Feb 11, 2016 16:44 ]
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They might not all be in every episode I guess, maybe a couple of them will be the studio types and the rest will contribute their films as and when.

Author:  myp [ Thu Feb 11, 2016 16:46 ]
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I strongly suspect Evans and LeBlanc will hog most of the screen time.

Author:  markg [ Thu Feb 11, 2016 16:49 ]
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Yeah, although I'd be lying if I said I cared much at all about any of it.

Author:  myp [ Thu Feb 11, 2016 16:51 ]
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markg wrote:
Yeah, although I'd be lying if I said I cared much at all about any of it.

No Clarkson and the other two simpering twats means the liklihood I'll watch it has increased x100000 fold.

Author:  KovacsC [ Wed Feb 24, 2016 14:20 ]
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Apparently paid £100,000 and apologised.

Author:  Satsuma [ Wed Feb 24, 2016 14:23 ]
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As a PI solicitor I'd love to know how that settlement was reached. Apparently he'd sued for a swollen lip and racial discrimination. The discrimination aspect might be a few thousand but the lip would be worth a couple hundred quid assuming a recovery within a week or two. Presumably he's signed a confidentiality agreement of some sort where he can only disclose the amount of settlement and been compensated to keep his gob shut.

Author:  KovacsC [ Wed Feb 24, 2016 14:37 ]
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Might be due to the abuse the poor chap had from idiot Clarkson fans.

Author:  Dr Zoidberg [ Wed Feb 24, 2016 17:14 ]
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Saturnalian wrote:
As a PI solicitor I'd love to know how that settlement was reached. Apparently he'd sued for a swollen lip and racial discrimination. The discrimination aspect might be a few thousand but the lip would be worth a couple hundred quid assuming a recovery within a week or two. Presumably he's signed a confidentiality agreement of some sort where he can only disclose the amount of settlement and been compensated to keep his gob shut.


Given that he was blamed quite loudly and vociferously (albeit by idiot members of the public) for the demise of one of the BBCs flagship programs, that must have hurt his employment prospects quite badly. If you add loss of earnings into the mix, the figure doesn't seem too bad.

Author:  Satsuma [ Thu Feb 25, 2016 11:09 ]
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/top- ... on-6833705

Says here that he was off work for 6 months on full pay before he left and got another job elsewhere. Might have been a residual earning loss/of chance then.

Author:  Grim... [ Wed May 11, 2016 16:28 ]
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The new Amazon show is going to be "The Grand Tour".

K.

Author:  LewieP [ Wed May 11, 2016 16:29 ]
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Really should gave gone with "Wacky Racists".

Author:  Zardoz [ Wed May 11, 2016 18:04 ]
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:D

Author:  Mimi [ Wed May 11, 2016 18:45 ]
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:DD

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