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Its getting stupid now:
Lemonade_Pockets
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I don't know if anyone watched the BBC news this morning but there was a particularly baffling story.
To summise:
Roadsaftey groups are calling programmes like Topgear irresponsible for glamourising speed. In their research they have found that people watching these types of problems are more likely to speed and therefore crash. Because of this they are calling for a review on how these programmes conduct their tests!
The BBC interviewed a ambassador for one of these groups whose daughter had been killed in a tragic accident. Daughter of 17 plus young guy of 18 go driving. Guy drives at 80mph in a 40 goes round a bend, crashes into a tree - two youngsters dead. Sad story, by all accounts but the mother was claiming that watching programmes like topgear causes/encourages this sort of behavior.
This has got to stop. That guy was going to drive like a d!ckhead topgear or no topgear. A sad but true fact.
This is the problem with things like the speed campaign and the recently proposed 50mph limit. It's giving rise to all sorts of pressure group who think they can strike while the irons hot and further sanitise our society.
We'll have Spec's camera's on the gantries in F1 next.
To summise:
Roadsaftey groups are calling programmes like Topgear irresponsible for glamourising speed. In their research they have found that people watching these types of problems are more likely to speed and therefore crash. Because of this they are calling for a review on how these programmes conduct their tests!
The BBC interviewed a ambassador for one of these groups whose daughter had been killed in a tragic accident. Daughter of 17 plus young guy of 18 go driving. Guy drives at 80mph in a 40 goes round a bend, crashes into a tree - two youngsters dead. Sad story, by all accounts but the mother was claiming that watching programmes like topgear causes/encourages this sort of behavior.
This has got to stop. That guy was going to drive like a d!ckhead topgear or no topgear. A sad but true fact.
This is the problem with things like the speed campaign and the recently proposed 50mph limit. It's giving rise to all sorts of pressure group who think they can strike while the irons hot and further sanitise our society.
We'll have Spec's camera's on the gantries in F1 next.
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dont run with scissors, wash your hands, finish all of your dinner0
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hehe. Its not far away is it.0
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I'm afraid the d!ckheads are on Top Gear. What started as a consumer car programme is now all about how fast cars can go and about wacky stunts (usually involving making cars go as fast as possible).
No wonder people think it's OK to emulate them.0 -
Yes, it's exactly the same with violent computer games. These quangos & busybodies never seem to realise that people who commit acts of violence after playing Grand Theft Auto already have a predisposition to violence, way before they ever even picked up a copy of the game.
I'm just silently hoping Dave shuts down all these quangos and reverses their draconian measures when he gets in next year, it might be a Labour phenomenon. I hope it is."The only man who makes money from a gold rush is the one selling the shovels..."0 -
I'm afraid the d!ckheads are on Top Gear. What started as a consumer car programme is now all about how fast cars can go and about wacky stunts (usually involving making cars go as fast as possible).
No wonder people think it's OK to emulate them.
I agree that top gear is naff now, but to say that people emulate on the roads what they see on top gear?
When thinking like that gets top gear banned, what next?0 -
hewhoisnotintheknow wrote: ».......finish all of your dinner
No you are confused its finish half your dinner else you will get fat!
As always its chicken or egg, do people who watch TG speed or to people who speed watch TG. Has anyone got the stats on how many people have tried to get across the channel in their car since TG showed us how?0 -
*BUT* how many stories are in the news of people trying to make a robin reliant rocket causing injury.I'm afraid the d!ckheads are on Top Gear. What started as a consumer car programme is now all about how fast cars can go and about wacky stunts (usually involving making cars go as fast as possible).
No wonder people think it's OK to emulate them.
There is a difference between wacky stunts, racing on a race track, and racing on the public highway. Plus on top gear they never drive like idiots on the public roads. Most of the public roads they go on are in places like South Wales with single track national limit roads, so the cars will look like they are going fast as they are.
The idiots would have raced anyway. 18 year old showing off to a member of the opposite sex thinking he's gunna "get some" but gets a whole lotta tree instead and dies. I doubt he saw anyone on top gear doing 80mph in a 40mph limit.0 -
Right, I'm going to ring up and say I'm an avid viewer of songs of praise, and then blast down the M1 at 150mph. God told me to do it.0
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I'm afraid the d!ckheads are on Top Gear. What started as a consumer car programme is now all about how fast cars can go and about wacky stunts (usually involving making cars go as fast as possible).
No wonder people think it's OK to emulate them.
This is the typical response I have come to expect from people today. I saw a guy wielding a knife and threatening others in a movie, I didn't try to emulate him. I saw a guy engaging in a sexual relationship with another guy in a movie, I didn't try to emulate him. I saw a guy beating up his kids, I didn't try to emulate him. I saw that John Wilkes Booth shot Abe Lincoln, I have never thought about assassinating Obama.
We aren't all insidious enough to try to copy everything we read about or see on TV/cinema. Only a tiny minority of society are, why should everyone else have to suffer the consequences of these few? It's ludicrous. Do I speed? Occasionally. Would I drive at 60mph in a 30mph? Not in a million years. Please stop dumbing everything down, it's offensive."The only man who makes money from a gold rush is the one selling the shovels..."0 -
Lemonade_Pockets wrote: »Sad story, by all accounts but the mother was claiming that watching programmes like topgear causes/encourages this sort of behavior.
You think? I saw the interview and the woman in question really didn't seem to be saying that a whole lot - she seemed quite reasonable about it all. I thought it was another case of the BBC trying to put words in people's mouths to get a better story...
They did their best, they got someone who was unfortunate enough to have lost her daughter due, in part, to speeding...they got a motoring journalist to fight the other corner...but there was no sign of fighting, the two guests just agreed with each other too much.
The way the BBC presents "debates" these days really is best likened to Jerry Springer - and on that score, today's was a total flop...0
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