Be Excellent To Each Other

Please be Hammond. I used to like him, but in the last couple of years he's becoming really annoying.

He's watchable in Top Gear, just. But he's my least favourite presenter and does nothing of note outside the show.

Neither does Clarkson, unless you count his terrible newspaper columns and paperback compilations thereof.

Total Wipeout is AWESOME!

Indeed, but Top Gear without Clarkson wouldn't be the same. Hammond, I could take or leave.



Heh. Hammond is shite on it, though. The American one is much better.

I guess, James May is probably my favourite of the three, though. In fact I probably prefer the shows he does on his own to Top Gear.

I reckon they'll introduce a new character to boost the flagging ratings. How about a magic space elf that only Clarkson can see?

Ironically, when away from the other two, May becomes more like Clarkson. I know they're just playing characters, but when he's with Oz, he's anything but Captain Slow

Wedding after wedding after wedding...

I haven't actually seen that show, he doesn't seem like Clarkson on the stuff he does about toys and whatnot, though.

I was in the pub and having a chat with a lass who was on Total Wipeout on Christmas Eve. Forgot to ask her about it, though.

A magic space elf with the face of Chris Goffey.

I met a contestant from Interceptor once. BEAT THAT!

My mate's brother was on Deal or No Deal where he actually met Noel Edmunds. I once met Les Dawson. I think you'll find I win.

I got drunk with Tosh from The Bill, in the pub in which he later died of Alcohol poisoning.

I'm sure that I could enjoy Top Gear with the same three presenters, just different scriptwriters.

Me too, although I found the 'war speech' pep talks during toy stories to be a little bit grating, but apart from that a great series.

I do still enjoy top gear, but nowhere near as much as I used to, I think it's just become a bit little tyred, and seems to be re-treading old ground.

I hereby nominate not Sir Taxalot.

But he's wheelie good!

I hope you're not revving up for a pun-fest!

I'm assuming DavPaz is talking about his tendency to adopt a bit of a blokish-oaf persona on the Oz Clarke things, because there needs to be some sort of regular-bloke-down-the-pub character to counterbalance Oz's Poncy Wine Snob persona.

And yes, I'd tend to agree I like James May's stuff away from Top Gear more than Top Gear itself these days. Whilst I'd broadly agree that crashing things and blowing stuff up never gets old, they do seem to be testing this hypothesis to its absolute limit at the moment. And Clarkson is getting on my tits, too.

Re-watched the Arctic special over Christmas. Really good fun, amazing photography, dipped just a little too often into "Come On, That's Obviously Bloody Scripted" territory and I could really, really, REALLY have done without the climate-change-denial bullshit. Ten times better than the Bolivia episode, in any case.

Well I guess it's a choice between that or the rampant hypocracy of talking about the environment being under threat whilst tanking all over the place in supercars.

Or just not talking about it at all.

It irks me that this programme is still made. And irks me even more that it's classified under "factual" in the BBC listings.

You should deffo write a letter, man.

Why?

I'm not even sure what it was.

I did. They defended it, poorly.

Captain Slow has apparently bought a 4 year old F430

Indeed: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/col ... -F430.html

With the exception of my wife on her wedding day and the consistently glorious Frauline Willoughby, that new E-Type is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

Nah, the old one is much prettier. The new one's front end is too blunt and the bright red interior is just vulgar.

It's a lovely looking thing and they were right to not even attempt to put a roof on it.

As for Top Gear, the humour seems to be more forced with each passing series. Time for a reboot and for Clarkson to fuck off soon I think.

I hadn't even realised Grim... had been married before.

John Squire cleaned our kitchen when he was at the height of his powers with The Stone Roses. (I think I have mentioned this before. He was our next door neighbour at the time). If this isn't a winning bid, it must be very close.

John who? The Stone whats?

I have to remind myself that some of you are nobbut nippers.

/trots out the blind Kevin Spacey story

Man, I wish.

Hardly, the speedster actually has proportions that don't make it look like a bar of soap with 4 pennies stuck in the bottom...

Not a fan of the original e-type, purely down to the ludicrous wheelarches and massively inset wheels.

The original e-type looks like a morris marina kit car.
Pootling down the road on its spindly little wheels.

I've never known anyone slag off an E-type. They're beautiful.

There are more of us out there than you think, i'm certainly not alone in my opinion!

Neither was Hitler.

And Hitler was a huge fan of the e-type*, so what does that tell you!



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It tells me you're worse than Hitler.

Hitler > Trooper > Boosh ?

What what what what what.... WHAT?

You don't like the original (and best of course) 6-cyl E-Type, Trooper....?

Good God man. If that car was a bird, it'd be Joanna Lumley at the height of her considerable powers: think 'Purdey' in The Avengers (together with squirty cream, honey and baby oil), and then some. FILTH!

Pffffffffffffffffffffffffft. No wonder you don't like the 997 GT3-RS, you sick puppy!

You'll be saying you don't like the Ferrari Daytona coupe next!

Before my time, grandad...



Now that I like.

Best looking car in the world? Lamborghini Miura.