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Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#176: Mar 28th 2015 at 1:54:47 PM

According to the poll most people want him to either be a DT, Science or History teacher.

Apparently no-one noticed the fact that he's got a degree in music.

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TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#177: Mar 28th 2015 at 2:00:23 PM

[up]I've known that for ages, since I watch the show. And saw Clarkson wreck one of his pianos with an artic. But his passion seems to be technology. Just look at all the stuff he does like build full-sized houses out of legos or racetracks out of Scalextric.

Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
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#178: Mar 28th 2015 at 2:27:24 PM

[up]The two can be combined. One of my oldest friends is a giant tech nerd who's also in several bands - he does the synth stuff, and once built a laser-harp in his garage.

What's precedent ever done for us?
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
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#179: Mar 28th 2015 at 2:34:30 PM

I loved all of James May's Man Lab and other shows like that, I think he'd be an amazing teacher.

Oh really when?
Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#180: Mar 28th 2015 at 4:35:30 PM

I imagine he'd be great fun to have as a teacher,as long the class of people he's teaching have never heard of Top Gear

edited 28th Mar '15 5:08:48 PM by Ultimatum

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#181: Mar 28th 2015 at 7:07:19 PM

James May can easily make a piano of out lego.

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#182: Mar 28th 2015 at 9:54:22 PM

If he started teaching in an British University I'd try my damndest to get into one of those study abroad programs. tongue

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Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
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#183: Mar 29th 2015 at 2:01:15 AM

Secondary school seems more his speed, given the tone and direction of his documentary work.

What's precedent ever done for us?
TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#184: Mar 29th 2015 at 6:17:35 AM

I've met some university students who should never have left primary school. tongue

I wonder what Hammond will do next? Teeth whitening adverts or Warwick Davis' understudy for R2-D2 spring to mind.

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#185: Mar 29th 2015 at 6:21:40 AM

He's their stunt guy. I can easily see him taking the Ben Fogle route.

What's precedent ever done for us?
Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#187: Mar 29th 2015 at 9:48:32 AM

Yeah, I saw that earlier on. It's stupidity. Using death threats only makes Clarkson's case look worse because it allows the BBC to go "Look, those fans of Clarkson are so violent they've threatened to kill our boss." and splash it all over their headlines like a rash. Even though the vast majority of us wouldn't go along with anyone taking violent action or threatening murder...

Telling someone you're going to kill them on the school playground or in the pub is one thing, doing it on a public forum where people outside your circle take notice and hence action is quite another thing entirely these days. People tend to take it seriously, and there's prison cells full of idiots who do stuff like that, get caught, get put on trial and sent to gaol for it.

What these fools are doing should stop immediately.

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#188: Mar 29th 2015 at 12:29:52 PM

I think that May could be good doing educational programs, he's pretty good at those. Also props to Clarkson for telling people to leave the guy alone, so far he seems to be dealing with it all in a pretty adult manner.

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#189: Mar 31st 2015 at 8:30:08 AM

just felt the need to share this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBi_h282p8[lol][lol][lol]

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#190: Mar 31st 2015 at 8:59:31 AM

I could imagine the Power Trio doing exactly that stuff if the leashes were ever slipped off. evil grin Good find.

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#191: Apr 10th 2015 at 10:03:14 PM

Been a bit since anyone posted so here's some news that I was fully expecting to hear. Jeremy Clarkson has pulled out of his scheduled and fully BBC-sanctioned ritual humiliation at the hands of that disgusting duo of Merton and Hislop, that would have masqueraded as a "comedy" news based programme. (Ya know, exactly the same kind of ritual humiliation that the disgusting duo dealt out to Angus Deayton when he annoyed the BBC bosses.)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/jeremy-clarkson-pulls-out-of-have-i-got-news-for-you-appearance-10166363.html?icn=puff-4

Well. Done. Jeremy. Clarkson.

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
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#192: Apr 22nd 2015 at 3:29:21 AM

Jeremy had a cancer scare just before the fracas. Oh, and both James and Richard are making YouTube videos now.

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TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#193: Apr 22nd 2015 at 4:54:44 AM

Yeah I noticed that. There was a particularly good article in yesterday's i newspaper (not a typo, that's what it's called, the "i"), by Grace Dent, which laid into the critics who took to twitface in their droves to pour scorn on Jeremy and of his explaining some of the reasons behind the blow-up which cost him his career.

It's available online here:

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/jeremy-clarkson-is-brave-in-opening-up-so-dont-sneer-at-him-10190468.html

I love this bit the most:

“I’ve had ... *insert miscellaneous terrible life threatening illness here* ... and I was never violent!” tweeted angry throngs of Clarkson despisers, to which I thought quietly, “Oh well, whoopy-doo for you. You were probably a massive pain in the arse in other ways.” Because none of us are faultless, selfless, above reproach at all times beings. None of us are above being absolute dicks under the correct tricky set of circumstances."

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#194: Apr 23rd 2015 at 1:12:15 PM

OK, so James and producer Andy have both said they're not coming back either.

At what point does the BBC just give up and can it all?

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TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#195: Apr 23rd 2015 at 3:06:12 PM

There's too much money at stake for that. At least that's what the gin-swillers in W 1 A think anyway.

Reminds me of a verse from one of my favourite Pogues songs, "Transmetropolitan"

"and when we've done those bastards in we'll storm the BBC!"

I can understand the thought process that led to writing that one.

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#196: Apr 23rd 2015 at 8:43:56 PM

James has suggested that the trio may still return sometime later, though. Apparently "at least one" of the hosts have no-compete clauses in their contracts.

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MarkVonLewis Since: Jun, 2010
#197: Apr 24th 2015 at 11:30:37 AM

But May and Hammond's contracts expired last month. At least that's what I've heard.

I almost want to see a rebooted Top Gear, if anything to watch it's ratings tank. But who knows, maybe they'll get lucky and pick people that have similar comical chemistry as the original three.

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#198: Apr 24th 2015 at 2:28:41 PM

They were due for renegotiation, but no-one was saying when.

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TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#199: Apr 24th 2015 at 3:15:29 PM

I think the renegotiation died on its backside when Clarkson allegedly put Tymion on his.

A re-booted Top Gear might be a good watch - I remember when it happened the last time. No-one would have predicted that the show would end up being as big as it was when the original Top Gear was a penny ante show reviewing Austin Allegros, Vauxhall Novas and other such rot and had no international appeal whatsoever. Or celebrity laptimes. Or the Stig. Or races between a Bugatti Veyron and a Cessna. Or anything else that a fan of the show now would recognize as being "Top Gear". I grew up watching the original show so I know of what I speak.

But the new Top Gear had a season that they were allowed to throw under the bus - the first one with Jason Dawes instead of James May, of which I have not seen a single episode since first transmission. It's never been on Dave, so you know it must have sucked. The new new Top Gear isn't going to get that luxury even if they get the casting spot on.

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#200: Apr 25th 2015 at 5:33:09 AM

It's also not on the show You Tube channel aside from small segments (possibly just the budget bond car skit) whereas all of seasons 2-4 are up as full episodes either.

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