Top Gear - loaded with irony

jamespir

i thought the whole show was great and i love the challenges cant believe shows come to end of series

RichGold

"Top Gear, loaded with irony"

They are certainly loaded with something. Its turned into the television equivalent of the daily sport now as far as I'm concerned. 8 minutes spent with a "celebrity", 46 minutes of 3 aging men arsing about, setting fire to things and falling over then around 6 minutes of interesting car stuff (that is the point of the show after all).

Bring back William Woolard, Angela Rippon and Noel Edmonds.

I'd like to see them make a convertible people carrier.

George_Michael

They used disabled parking bays, but they were given permission for this by the owner of the car park and the newspaper reports stated that during the time that the filming was taking place there were another 3 disabled bays available the whole time.

Originally Posted by Yorksclare
Top Gear used to be a decent car programme - now it is just a junket where three middle-aged and not very clever men use our licence fees to fund their own narcissistic fantasies.

So why do you watch it if it's so bad?

geordieracer

YorksClare wrote: »

Top Gear used to be a decent car programme - now it is just a junket where three middle-aged and not very clever men use our licence fees to fund their own narcissistic fantasies. The cars get more and more expensive the more the drivers need this metal equivalent of Viagra...

The bizzare thing of your arguement of using licence fee money is that it actually generates more income for the BBC then it actually spends and is one of the Beebs highest overseas earners..

So there you go.Ignorance is bliss.

custardy

YorksClare wrote: »

Shows the Top Gear team are a bunch of muppets. I noticed that they had used the Disabled spots, and AFAIK there is supposed to be a massive fine for that. Who would pay, d'you think? Bet they'd claim it back off the BBC even if anyone had the gumption to fine them. Those spots are rare enough as any disabled driver will tell you. It is simply wrong to use them fraudulently.

Top Gear used to be a decent car programme - now it is just a junket where three middle-aged and not very clever men use our licence fees to fund their own narcissistic fantasies. The cars get more and more expensive the more the drivers need this metal equivalent of Viagra...

So yes it was nice to see the injured servicemen overcoming their difficulties to apply themselves and show that they are still capable of quite amazing things, but I would rather have had a full programme about them, and no sign of the Top Gear team at all!

BTW - the best sign I ever saw in a car park was in France at the equivalent of a massive out of town Tescos. It read (and I paraphrase - it was in French!) - "If you take my disabled parking space, you can take also my disability". Damn right!

George_Michael wrote: »

They used disabled parking bays, but they were given permission for this by the owner of the car park and the newspaper reports stated that during the time that the filming was taking place there were another 3 disabled bays available the whole time.


So why do you watch it if it's so bad?

so whats the fine for parking in a private car park with permission?

Keith

Told where to park?

You'll be telling me next that they ran out of electricity in an area they knew had no power points.

s_b

monstrous:rotfl:

geordieracer

RichGold wrote: »

"Top Gear, loaded with irony"

They are certainly loaded with something. Its turned into the television equivalent of the daily sport now as far as I'm concerned. 8 minutes spent with a "celebrity", 46 minutes of 3 aging men arsing about, setting fire to things and falling over then around 6 minutes of interesting car stuff (that is the point of the show after all).

Bring back William Woolard, Angela Rippon and Noel Edmonds.

I'd like to see them make a convertible people carrier.

Yet they managed to get as many as 11 million people tuning in to watch them do all these things.

Makes you think

Kite2010

You never know, some disabled drivers might have wanted to make used of a closed restaurant.

Phils_debt

Topgear best thing on tv by far.


One thing i hate about it and they should sort it out is....it should be on everyday ;if you dont like it dont watch it that is why i dont watch emmerdale cause i cant stand it ....how is seth anyways