Why do they have to cancel the shows. May and Hammond could do it easily. (And I wanted to see the Golf R / Impreza showdown...).
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They haven't cancelled the series, just Sunday's show, pending Jezza's diciplinery investigation. The show will continue without him eventually if they sack him.
I believe they were saying earlier they have scrapped the following two episodes as well at least at the moment
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i've heard that as well
Apprently he get money for each new show aired, so its probably to stop him getting paid
What am i going to watch sunday? Paint drying?
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True, I read that after I posted above. Apologies everyone for a misleading post, but it was how I understood it at that time
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There's a midwifery thing on the other channel apparently...
There's a prog about the Red Arrows scheduled now. I'll need to record that...
I feel the need to apply for a shotgun licence.
Actually I just wouldn't watch Ms William's version of Top Gear. People watch the programme because it features 3 middle aged blokes who don't mind making complete and utter dicks out of themselves. It also features fast cars that their owners will never, ever get the most out of unless they drive through parts of Germany en-route to the Nurburgring.
Obviously they will return to their home country in a coffin inside a chipboard shipping container in the cargo hold of a Lufthansa Airbus.
Despite the fact that I drive a car that will never be seen on Top Gear I have driven quite a few cars that have appeared on the programme, including an early 911 Turbo (complete with Whale Tail Spoiler) Jag XK8, Ferrari 308 GTB, Delta Integrale (guided by the late, great Pentti Arikkala), Maserati Bi-Turbo (bit of a cock-up that one), 4.2 E-Type Series II, Golf R32, Audi 200, TVR Taimar and one or two others. Oops, nearly forgot Mrs. Beard's 156.
I'm quite sure there are, and will be, some great technological strides made in the motor industry, but all those cars had something in common: Sound.
Unless electric cars come with some sort of synthesised engine sound coming through the stereo, the aural qualities of cars will never be the same and I, for one, think that would be a shame. Tunnels all over the country resound with the noise of all different kinds of engines in cars and motorbikes.One of the most evocative sounds for me was, believe it or not, the Detroit Diesel I used to have in a Bedford TM I used to drive years ago. A truck diesel? Has he gone completely bonkers? Trust me, a 9 litre, V6, 2-stroke, supercharged and turbocharged diesel revving through 2 vertical exhaust stacks was something worth hearing.
I wouldn't argue that the world's climate isn't changing, but then it's changed before. There was a little thing called an Ice Age when this septic isle was covered in ice, so much so that it shaped the countryside with valleys and rivers, and I'm sure it will change again.
When I first started work in Manchester City Centre in 1973 all the stone buildings from the Town Hall to Central Library were black from a century or more of domestic coal burning. The North West was littered with factory chimneys belching out smoke. You couldn't stand within 10 feet of an idling Leyland PD3 without having your eyes watering and your throat stinging. Today I was standing about 3 feet from a new Volvo coach that was loading passengers with its engine running and didn't even realise until the driver told me. There are also no steam engines running except on preservation lines.
Almost nobody now burns solid fuels. The number of factories still using coal can probably be counted on the fingers of two hands. Petrol cars have catalytic converters and diesels use DPFs, EGRs and more and more AdBlue. As a kid I used to visit the airport and watch the DC8s, Convair 880s and BAC 1-11s taking off and spewing exhaust fumes behind them for miles. Now they not only use less fuel and make less noise but they also put out less fumes.
You could replace 100 million petrol and diesel vehicles with electric ones and it wouldn't make one iota of difference if the earth is changing temperature as a natural progression and the Chinese keep building coal fired power stations at the rate they have been.
Cut down our emissions? Sure, why not. But logic dictates that if parts of the earth froze without us, then it can surely heat up/cool down regardless of what we do.
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What petition?
As for the BBC and its public funding, every licence fee payer has a right to expect certain things from it. My parents now in their 80s have a right to be entertained without the likes of Frankie Boyle's vitriolic, foul mouthed and abusive brand of humour.
If someone took a swing at me I could accept an apology and shake his hand afterwards; if someone rang me up and made sexually explicit comments about my grandaughter I couldn't stand to be in the same room as them yet Jonathon Ross still carries on with his unimaginative "Look-at-me" self interest programmme.
Sadly, with the possible exception of Top Gear I don't watch the Beeb's current output at all, preferring Dave and 5 USA or perhaps Robson Green warbling on about Northumberland. I can even watch John Sergeant barging around the country.
The BBCs history is littered with great entertainment programmes from Morecambe & Wise to The Two Ronnies; from The Frost Report to That Was the Week That Was; from Monty Python to The Goodies; from Open All Hours to Last of the Summer Wine; from Hancock's Half Hour to Dad's Army.
The BBC now exists for the executives and back room staff who feather their nests at our expense rather than the viewers.
One further point. If someone takes a swing at me, then I would take one of two courses of action. I'd either ignore it and move on or phone the Police. Taking a swing at someone is easily Section 4 or 4A of the Public Order Act, or even Affray. If the punch had connected then it would have been Common Assault at best or ABH/GBH at worse.
How come the Police aren't investigating this? It is what they do when all is said and done. The role of the BBC is to make television and radio programmes and print books and magazines.
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Imagine an arrogant German dude driving around London in Audi, with a German TV crew at his tail, with a plate saying something like "DN-KR 1940". Read "Dunkirk, 1940".
Right but you would have to specifically request that number plate for that car it would not be issued under normal circumstances.. whereas H986FLK had been on that car for years..so perhaps he specifically looked for an old V8 coupe within price range with an inflammatory number. Or it was entirely caused by people reading far to much into what was and is a standard uk plate.
I don't remember Germany invading the UK or indeed winning?
The Argentinians still believe they were in the right and continue to bate the UK about it, it's not exactly the peace and love between the UK and Argentina.
Top Gear is BBC's top earning programme - of course it will continue.
The knee jerk reaction to sack Clarkson (ala Jonathon Ross who then went over ITV) would be catastrophic for them.
We are not in full possesion of the facts of the "fracas" when we are perhaps a course of action will become clearer.
Top gear has probably outstayed its welcome by a couple of series yet I still watch the new episodes and lots of the repeats on Dave, perhaps they should just make a couple of specials a few times a year - they are for me the best programmes by far.
The knee jerk reaction to sack Clarkson (ala Jonathon Ross who then went over ITV) would be catastrophic for them.
We are not in full possesion of the facts of the "fracas" when we are perhaps a course of action will become clearer.
Top gear has probably outstayed its welcome by a couple of series yet I still watch the new episodes and lots of the repeats on Dave, perhaps they should just make a couple of specials a few times a year - they are for me the best programmes by far.
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Channel Islands.
No matter what happened between Uk/Argentina, I believe we are living in 2015, Thatcher is dead and there is something called "polite silence".
Actually, I am finding this stunt about as crude as something I witnessed on the beach in Spain - a bunch of drunk Russkies shouting "Hitler Kaput" at a defensive German family with two little kids. The parents were in their 30s-40s and could not reasonably remember anything before Honecker.
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Shame Clarkson didn't do his research....then he could of bought a car with H986MLV instead...that way they might have spotted the apparent cause of offense without the joys of social media, given they don't even call the place the Falklands....of course he couldn't even get being deliberately offensive right.
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http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2015/03/16/further-news-about-this-sundays-top-gear/
http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2015/03/16/further-news-about-this-sundays-top-gear/
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there contracts are due....
Hammond may will get renewed - and who knows who'll replace him
Some guy 'guy martin' - No idea who he is, has got a fan petition going as well...
Ziggy
Hammond may will get renewed - and who knows who'll replace him
Some guy 'guy martin' - No idea who he is, has got a fan petition going as well...
Ziggy
