Top Gear under fire

[Spunkey]

BBC1 - 9:30pm - 3rd Gear (Episode 1)
In tonights episode, the Reverend James Whippet will be driving down to Burton Menswear in his new Toyota Corolla 1.4. After buying his beige cardigan and tartan bootie slippers, he`ll be revealing ways to make your car look faster without having to go faster, with such items as go-faster stripes, a 'turbo' badge, a 'my other car is a Porsche' sticker and 2 Jesus fish thrown in for good measure.
Meanwhile romance novellist Mrs. May Brake will be teaching the female drivers that the best time to apply makeup using the rear view mirror is at traffic lights, and also how to change gear with your other hand while on your cellphone. For avid cellphone users we`ll be examining some of the latest automatic cars.
Lastly, also for women, we will test 3 of the top mum-trucks for their double-parking ability. The schoolrunner favourites, Mitsubishi Montero, Nissan Pathfinder and for the rich-bitches, the Hummer H2. For this we`ll use our own test track - Tesco's car park.
(Subtitles available for women)

[eUphoria]

Top Gear is an utterly crap program but glamorising bad driving? Nah. Glamourising laddish idiocy and rubbish humour, maybe.

Rave you are spot on buddy. Clarkson, urrrgghhhhh (shudder) what a prat. Much prefer 5th gear with real DRIVERS like Tiff Needel on.

[Skii]

Top Gear is fun, and pure fantasy. It bears no reflection to real life and driving, after all most of the show is always devoted to cars that most of us are never going to be able to afford or even see, driving at breakneck speeds on runways and race tracks (when was the last time you drove on one of them?)

It fantasy and fun, an hour of enjoyment but nothing to be taken seriously, I do find it immensly entertaining and funny, which is a rare thing these days unfortunatley.

[Stringent]

Top Gear is brill. Love it. I enjoy it and it makes me laugh which is always good.

[dureth]

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All traffic lights and roundabouts should have that gritty stuff on them.
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Just thought I'd point out that the gritty stuff is a bitch and very dangerous, to me at least anyway. I ride a motorbike and that stuff is like marbels, smooth tarmac (without any diesel spills on it, damn lorries over filling) is one of the grippiest surfaces you can get. Theres no need to go covering it in gravel and glue.

This stuff also decays rather quicky. It's been laid in several areas near me and after a mere year or two its being torn up by braking and accelerating. This leaves the road bumpy and not a good surface for grip at all.

Rant over.

[Devilman]

Just thought I'd point out that the gritty stuff is a bitch and very dangerous, to me at least anyway. I ride a motorbike and that stuff is like marbels, smooth tarmac (without any diesel spills on it, damn lorries over filling) is one of the grippiest surfaces you can get. Theres no need to go covering it in gravel and glue.

This stuff also decays rather quicky. It's been laid in several areas near me and after a mere year or two its being torn up by braking and accelerating. This leaves the road bumpy and not a good surface for grip at all.

Rant over.

Agreed, that stuff is damn leathal, when its new they always put too much down so its like riding on marbles, when its old its got polished to hell and like glass and when its wet, hell, dont even get me started on when its wet!

I do however agree with the concensus of this topic, which is that the PC pencil pushers of our (rapidly becoming) nanny state need to take a long hard look at themselves and what they are promoting before they start moaning at programs like TG.

Example... "lets open the pubs 24hrs to combat binge drinking".

Yeh ok, to a moron this makes perfect sense, if there is no kicking out time, there is no need for people to down 3 drinks before the place shuts. But what about the 3 they down before they have to go home anyway? did they ever think of that?

Bloody people.