Frankly Mr Shankly Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Hmmm. I want to know what they get out of it, and why there is a waiting list. This is a very interesting mystery. I can't stand fishing. You sit there, for 2 days, and oooh, you catch something. And then once you've caught it, you take a snap of it for a fishing vvanking website and then put it back!! Eh??? What on earth do people see in that? WHY!!???!! But it is popular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danoafc Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Hmmm. I want to know what they get out of it, and why there is a waiting list. This is a very interesting mystery. Do people just want to be close to Richard Hammond because his brain may have been damaged in that high-speed, near-death accident experience a while back? Is the thrill derived from that proximity sexual and/or violent? Is James May's "Christian Driving" reputation a kind of motor vehicular emasculation? Is he the eunech of the show, or its monk, because he does not use motor vehicles for sexual pleasure? The reputations of the other two are clearly enhanced by his presence. Is Jeremy Clarkson the leader of the motoring nation? Do we look to him to form our attitudes to driving? Do we subconsciously seek the approval of the great leader? Do people who get close to him better know his mind? I might have answered my own question. Maybe some people think it's funny and entertaining, and enjoy the out-takes/banter whatever? "The Office" was a massive success. People raved about it for months, even re-enacting some of the scenes in work the day after it was screen (Keeerrrraaaaazzzeeeee or what) . I personally thought it was abso:censored:inglutely piss-awful, but it takes all sorts I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24hoursfromtulsehill Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Maybe some people think it's funny and entertaining, and enjoy the out-takes/banter whatever? No. Why do they enjoy the banter? "The Office" was a massive success. People raved about it for months, even re-enacting some of the scenes in work the day after it was screen (Keeerrrraaaaazzzeeeee or what) . I personally thought it was abso:censored:inglutely piss-awful, but it takes all sorts I suppose. Love it or hate it, "The Office" has some sort of historical form; namely, broadly, fiction. Where does Top Gear fit in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stitch_KTF Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 No. Why do they enjoy the banter? Love it or hate it, "The Office" has some sort of historical form; namely, broadly, fiction. Where does Top Gear fit in? Your girl has run away with the producer of Top Gear, hasn't she? Maybe it grew out of her love for the show..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danoafc Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 No. Why do they enjoy the banter? What sort of a ridiculous question is that? Why do they enjoy the banter? Why do people listen to Chris Moyles in a morning? Why do people watch non league/premiership? Why do people trainspot? Why do some people enjoy S&M? Cos they do. It takes allsorts. What is it that you don't get about that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stitch_KTF Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 What sort of a ridiculous question is that? Why do they enjoy the banter? Why do people listen to Chris Moyles in a morning? Why do people watch non league/premiership? Why do people trainspot? Why do some people enjoy S&M? Cos they do. It takes allsorts. What is it that you don't get about that? I must say, this is the most bizarre topic I have ever known on this board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeslover Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Your girl has run away with the producer of Top Gear, hasn't she? Maybe it grew out of her love for the show..... I find that to be an extremely unlikely prospect! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stitch_KTF Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 I find that to be an extremely unlikely prospect! Well, it was a joke..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeslover Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Well, it was a joke..... I've never discussed Top Gear with Mrs Tulsehill, but I think she would be less keen on it than he would to win a season ticket for the show's audience! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24hoursfromtulsehill Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 (edited) What sort of a ridiculous question is that? Why do they enjoy the banter? Why do people listen to Chris Moyles in a morning? Why do people watch non league/premiership? Why do people trainspot? Why do some people enjoy S&M? Cos they do. It takes allsorts. What is it that you don't get about that? Blimey. I was only asking. I just think its new and interesting is all. When I have watched the show with Mrs. Tulse Hill, who enjoys it, I can't take my eyes off the audience. I have never known anything like it in all my life. You could easily imagine that programme without the audience - and I don't think there'd be much loss or gain from a production point of view. It might even be a bit funnier. What do I see when I look at the audience? I see people at the end of a pilgrimage, undergoing a barely concealable transition to motoring holiness, in the presence--no less--of the high priests and the eunuch. Does the Mazda go faster than the Merc? Who cares when you can marvel at people transforming spiritually before your eyes, on TV? I see people who crave motoring holiness achieving their life's desire. They receive the blessing of the great man, and go out in the world with an air of invincibility, as if no amount of sex or violence can be enough for them any more. I also do not watch the person reading the news, but the one doing the facial expressions next to him or her. Can't we sometimes look at things and ask out loud, "Why?"? Edited November 7, 2008 by 24hoursfromtulsehill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJBlue Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 (edited) The basics of the Clarkson thing are: He shouldn't have repeated it. A one off comment was fine annd funny but it's when you re-enforce it people will remember it and be annoyed about it. In the current bbc climate you have to question wether or not it would have been smarter to edit it out of the programme. Saying that i don't know how they'd do that because he made the comments in long dialogue pieces. If the BBC are worried about the complaints they are recieving, wouldn't it be best if they withdrew the programme from the public domain. i.e. BBCi player. They didn't do that. In fact when i was reading about the story on the bbc news website, soon after it broke they actually had a link to the incident so you could watch just the offensive bit. Abit brainless as far as i'm concerned. The BBC must be going abit off the rails at the moment because there have been two of these incidents over the last couple of weeks (admittadley Brand/Russel was alot worse) and in a time of economic and social insecurity the beeb don't need us to be questioning why we pay the £135 license fee year in year out, yet they continue to make mistakes like this. More heads will roll in the coming months you can be sure of that. Edited November 10, 2008 by BJBlue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outoftheblue Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Last night's 'Apology' was a typically disgraceful slap in the face for those who were upset by the previous week's comments. Which is one of the reasons I love the show, and piss myself laughing between 8pm and 9pm every sunday. Keep it going Jeremy - fabulously un-pc!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outoftheblue Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 the question i would like to know is who is the stig? Last week I was sure I caught the occasional glimpse of a beak through his visor? And the odd feather that remained on the seat of that Fiat 500 was suspicious too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueJazzer Posted November 14, 2008 Author Share Posted November 14, 2008 Apparently its a bloke called Ben Collins. Not like im a stalker or owt........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafc_ok Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Am I the only one who watches Top Gear shouting "It's only a f****** car!!!!!" at the screen. Sometimes I'm not sure whether they are going to drive it or shag it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikejh45 Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 Clarkson for Prime Minister!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJBlue Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 Clarkson for Prime Minister!!! nah he's from Doncaster isn't he? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikejh45 Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 nah he's from Doncaster isn't he? It's fine, he clueless about Rovers!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmr Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 My problem with the Clarkson joke was that it was funny the first time, but not the fifteenth. If you're generally not funny and tell a funny joke by accident, the temptation, I suppose, is to keep on telling the same joke again and again. My complaint to the BBC over Clarkson will centre on unnecessary repetition. Also, can anyone really say what the audience get out of the filming of an edition of Top Gear? Are you serious? Top Gear is one of the few programmes worth paying the license fee for. If you don't think its entertaining then why the hell are you watching it? Do muslims watch songs of praise every week and complain? If you don't like it or his sense of humour then simply don't watch it. Truck drivers murdering prostitutes actually has more truth in it than any religion. It would be more worthwhile to complain about the brainwashing of kids by showing things on tv like santa, the easter bunny and the terminator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24hoursfromtulsehill Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 Are you serious? Top Gear is one of the few programmes worth paying the license fee for. If you don't think its entertaining then why the hell are you watching it? Do muslims watch songs of praise every week and complain? If you don't like it or his sense of humour then simply don't watch it. Truck drivers murdering prostitutes actually has more truth in it than any religion. It would be more worthwhile to complain about the brainwashing of kids by showing things on tv like santa, the easter bunny and the terminator. It's true I don't find it entertaining, but that's no reason not to watch. I watch it for the studio audience. Can't take my eyes off them. Strange crowd. You feel almost as if you have been in a car crash, and that you are staring right back out at the rubberneckers. What did religion have to do with it? Nothing at all unless you are talking about the proto-religion that is car culture, and its God Clarkson. Telling a half decent joke 15 times is not funny, but it is interesting. He told it in the truck to provide the studio audience with a taster. When he told it again in front of them, there was rapture - nothing less than a mass-market transcendental event. When he told a joke about the joke in the next programme, I swear that some in the audience starting crying with joy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stitch_KTF Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 It's true I don't find it entertaining, but that's no reason not to watch. I watch it for the studio audience. Can't take my eyes off them. Strange crowd. You feel almost as if you have been in a car crash, and that you are staring right back out at the rubberneckers. Good god, it seems to me you need to find something else to do with your time. There must be something more entertaining/constructive for you to do than not only keep watching a programme you clearly hate but then also to come on a Latics website to whinge about it. Surely? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24hoursfromtulsehill Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 Good god, it seems to me you need to find something else to do with your time. There must be something more entertaining/constructive for you to do than not only keep watching a programme you clearly hate but then also to come on a Latics website to whinge about it. Surely? Are you seriously talking to me about wasting time? Lord help us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stitch_KTF Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 Are you seriously talking to me about wasting time? Lord help us. Best you can do? I notice we both average 2 posts per day! At least I'm here to talk about Latics....rather than the f*****g Top Gear audience, you square. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboafc Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 and that is ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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