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Cojawfee posted:He looks like he is pregnant. He's wants to be an American.
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Sep 22, 2014 22:56
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How do they go to Argentina and not spend the whole trip making Falklands jokes? It'd be like going to the Middle East and not packing it full of Bible puns.
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Sep 22, 2014 23:07
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Data Graham posted:How do they go to Argentina and not spend the whole trip making Falklands jokes? As someone on the Jalopnik thread said, they should do the same thing they did in the US South and paint "We own the Falkland Islands" on the sides of their cars.
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Sep 22, 2014 23:23
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Kenshin posted:As someone on the Jalopnik thread said, they should do the same thing they did in the US South and paint "We own the Falkland Islands" on the sides of their cars. That will get them actually murdered.
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Sep 22, 2014 23:30
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Kenshin posted:As someone on the Jalopnik thread said, they should do the same thing they did in the US South and paint "We own the Falkland Islands" on the sides of their cars. Ummmm...... wow that's one way to commit suicide
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Sep 22, 2014 23:34
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Powershift posted:He should learn how to properly use the satnav so it stops taking him to all of the fast food restaurants every meal time. Meh. Leave the tired old maa... wait. He's 54? gently caress me.
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Sep 22, 2014 23:39
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The funny thing is that the only people in the world who care THAT MUCH about the Falkland Islands are Argentinians and Brits. Nobody else cares, or even really understands the level of anger about it. I certainly don't!
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Sep 22, 2014 23:58
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Kenshin posted:The funny thing is that the only people in the world who care THAT MUCH about the Falkland Islands are Argentinians and Brits. Nobody else cares, or even really understands the level of anger about it. I certainly don't! It would be like Japan invading Guam with barley any army and holding the entire population hostage and then America carpet bombing the piss out of them (again) Well sorta anyway. Preoptopus fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Sep 23, 2014 |
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Sep 23, 2014 00:04
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Preoptopus posted:It would be like Japan invading Guam with barley any army and holding the entire population hostage and then America carpet bombing the piss out of them (again) Well sorta anyway. The current rise in tensions has less to do about the absurdity of the Empire holding sway over some sheep shaggers many kms away from anything or Argentinan national pride and more with there's a fair bit of money to be had for whom has the rights to exploit oil. http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2014/02/oil-and-gas-falklands
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Sep 23, 2014 00:30
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See I just learned something.  I love AI. That sucks if they start drilling in and around Patagonia tho.
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Sep 23, 2014 03:10
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I fully expect May and Hammond to go on about the Falklands war with the shots carefully framed to emphasise how Clarkson is nowhere near.
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Sep 23, 2014 06:17
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"Tonight! We drive British military vehicles across Argentina and start a war!"
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Sep 23, 2014 06:20
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Preoptopus posted:It would be like Japan invading Guam with barley any army and holding the entire population hostage and then America carpet bombing the piss out of them (again) Well sorta anyway. It would be like Japan invading Guam after the USA had been told by the UN to negotiate a handover 17 years ago and then after failing to make any real headway after effectively 2 decades the USA declared that people living on Guam weren't actually US citizens while the US was pulling all its military assets out of the western Pacific.
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Sep 23, 2014 06:24
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Isn't it a bit inevitable that SOMETHING goes down after they visit? Look what happened with Syria and Ukraine.
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Sep 23, 2014 06:34
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They're gonna use Low Rider in the soundtrack and that'll be it.
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Sep 23, 2014 07:07
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Only the power of denim is keeping him from melting completely.
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Sep 24, 2014 16:06
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Top gear is back! by which i mean there was a new episode of top gear Us they beaters and trash them in the desert. edit: really need a gif of tanner passing rut on the highway. Powershift fucked around with this message at 08:41 on Oct 1, 2014 |
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Oct 1, 2014 08:27
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When I am elected overlord I will make it punishable by death for any of those three guys to use the word "really?"
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Oct 1, 2014 13:24
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I don't care what you guys say. I still like my Top Gear US.
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Oct 1, 2014 13:31
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Powershift posted:Top gear is back! that was their best challenge idea they've had yet. great episode
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Oct 1, 2014 15:52
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Why didn't they just unplug the electric fan instead of cutting the alternator belt? * if that played in later, I fell asleep about 20 minutes in, though I did DVR it.
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Oct 1, 2014 16:33
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Another episode where they shoehorn Tanner into the car at the end for no real reason. For the upcoming episode, my DVR cut out in the middle of it, was Tanner in a GTI or Golf R or what? How are they going to get him to win this time??
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Oct 1, 2014 19:37
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Worth it just for tanners car
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Oct 1, 2014 20:20
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pik_d posted:no real reason. 
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Oct 1, 2014 20:22
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If the other two presenters really can't do this they shouldn't be hosting a show called Top Gear
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Oct 1, 2014 21:01
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There are many other things they ought to be able to do in order to host a show called Top Gear, including "be funny". But that hasn't stopped them.
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Oct 1, 2014 23:23
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"Have general car knowledge outside of 1977 Detroit" would be a start.
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Oct 2, 2014 00:12
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Jusupov posted:Worth it just for tanners car Cool, at first. Not cool that they didn't show the fuel cell/bodging it took to get it to run like that.
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Oct 2, 2014 00:14
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FogHelmut posted:"Have general car knowledge outside of 1977 Detroit" would be a start. I've always liked Ferrara's unashamed love of 70s era Detroit Steel. It reflects a lot of people I work with out here in the boonies. It's a perspective I've grown up around my entire life - "New cars are rubbish, this obscure GM product from 1975 is the best car ever and also I am never wrong!"
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Oct 2, 2014 14:22
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I was pretty surprised they let him run the barrel race with a chopped off roof on his Jeep.
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Oct 2, 2014 14:28
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CornHolio posted:I've always liked Ferrara's unashamed love of 70s era Detroit Steel. It reflects a lot of people I work with out here in the boonies. It's a perspective I've grown up around my entire life - "New cars are rubbish, this obscure GM product from 1975 is the best car ever and also I am never wrong!" Yes, I realize how many people out there are really proud of their Dodge Omni, and the day they went down to the dealership to hit a Honda with a sledgehammer. But it's more predictable than Hammond choosing the Porsche. I just want my presenter to be more than that.
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FogHelmut posted:Yes, I realize how many people out there are really proud of their Dodge Omni, and the day they went down to the dealership to hit a Honda with a sledgehammer. But it's more predictable than Hammond choosing the Porsche. I just want my presenter to be more than that. You're generally not going to get that, because people have deep personal biases when it comes to cars. I'd rather the presenter be genuine and pick the cars that he's passionate about and can talk for hours about off-script rather than... well, whatever is the other thing than that. Rutledge Wood has a huge hard-on for VWs, especially old, slow ones. I don't care that he's predictable. I like that. It's more authentic than if he showed up in a 1995 Honda Civic.
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Biases are fine. I like that we can predict that Hammond will pick the Porsche; it's the source of much good humor. The problem is when they forget the "humor" part.
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Oct 2, 2014 16:47
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Data Graham posted:Biases are fine. I like that we can predict that Hammond will pick the Porsche; it's the source of much good humor. The problem is when they forget the "humor" part. It became a pretty funny and fun show when I stopped comparing it to UK Top Gear and gave it a chance on it's own merits.
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Oct 2, 2014 16:57
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GutBomb posted:It became a pretty funny and fun show when I stopped comparing it to UK Top Gear and gave it a chance on it's own merits. To be completely honest, I think I like US slightly more. Top Gear UK is great but it's really starting to repeat itself too much and the humor is becoming really forced. The joke is typically just "lol bumbling old man lol." But the recent Top Gear US challenge where they had to get a celebrity photo with their car, and Ferarra shows up not with a photo but with Dolph Lundgren actually in his car, that was loving aces.
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Oct 2, 2014 17:07
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So someone called it earlier (and yes it's a horrible UK rag but I stumbled across the picture about an hour after reading the last couple of weeks of this thread): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...klands-War.html
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Oct 2, 2014 17:28
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LoopyJuice posted:So someone called it earlier (and yes it's a horrible UK rag but I stumbled across the picture about an hour after reading the last couple of weeks of this thread): quote:'To suggest that this car was either chosen for its number plate or that an alternative number plate was substituted for the original, is completely untrue.' haha bullshit, that plate is way too specific to be coincidental. I can't wait for this episode, seriously. Mostly for the 928, but this looks like it could be pretty good if it's pissing people off already.
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Seriously, why else would they even go there? Also I'm very much looking forward to the Esprit. 
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