On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:31:18 +0000, The Reid <[email protected]>
wrote:

>I dont suppose theres much point asking if you saw Hamsters 300mph
>crash on Top Gear last night? Thought not.

Cars beat racist old bollox, cant be bad, even to you? And
they has Saint Jamie Oliver, surely you like him?

"Top Gear won the battle of the ratings on Sunday, with more watching
dramatic footage of Richard Hammond's car crash than the Celebrity Big
Brother final.
At its peak, the BBC Two motoring show was seen by 8.6 million - 1.3
million more than the 7.3 million who watched Shilpa Shetty win the
Channel 4 show."

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On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:47:04 +0000, The Reid <[email protected]>
wrote:

>. I wonder if a
>lot of people will be doing the same?

strikes off.
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The Reid <[email protected]> wrote:
[]
> I dont suppose theres much point asking if you saw Hamsters 300mph
> crash on Top Gear last night? Thought not.

I thought the existence of the programme was pretty disgusting, so no, I
wouldn't watch it. I unfortunately caught the very end as I was going to
watch the next programme. I take it the "speed kills" bit was ironic?

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The Reid <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:31:18 +0000, The Reid <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >I dont suppose theres much point asking if you saw Hamsters 300mph
> >crash on Top Gear last night? Thought not.
>
> Cars beat racist old bollox, cant be bad, even to you? And
> they has Saint Jamie Oliver, surely you like him?
>
> "Top Gear won the battle of the ratings on Sunday, with more watching
> dramatic footage of Richard Hammond's car crash than the Celebrity Big
> Brother final.
> At its peak, the BBC Two motoring show was seen by 8.6 million - 1.3
> million more than the 7.3 million who watched Shilpa Shetty win the
> Channel 4 show."

Do these kinds of statistics impress you?

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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:35:34 +0000, [email protected] (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

> I take it the "speed kills" bit was ironic?

you actually watched it!!!! I think it was a comment on the accuracy
of the road safely slogan.
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:35:34 +0000, [email protected] (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

>> "Top Gear won the battle of the ratings on Sunday, with more watching
>> dramatic footage of Richard Hammond's car crash than the Celebrity Big
>> Brother final.
>> At its peak, the BBC Two motoring show was seen by 8.6 million - 1.3
>> million more than the 7.3 million who watched Shilpa Shetty win the
>> Channel 4 show."
>
>Do these kinds of statistics impress you?

I'd rather people watch Top Gear than Big Brother.
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The Reid <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:35:34 +0000, [email protected] (David Horne,
> _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>
> >> "Top Gear won the battle of the ratings on Sunday, with more watching
> >> dramatic footage of Richard Hammond's car crash than the Celebrity Big
> >> Brother final.
> >> At its peak, the BBC Two motoring show was seen by 8.6 million - 1.3
> >> million more than the 7.3 million who watched Shilpa Shetty win the
> >> Channel 4 show."
> >
> >Do these kinds of statistics impress you?
>
> I'd rather people watch Top Gear than Big Brother.

I don't watch either.

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The Reid <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:35:34 +0000, [email protected] (David Horne,
> _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>
> > I take it the "speed kills" bit was ironic?
>
> you actually watched it!!!!

No, I was waiting for another programme.

> I think it was a comment on the accuracy
> of the road safely slogan.

What a typically tasteless point of him to make then. His colleague is
lucky to be alive. And the arsehole who presents the programme is
extremely lucky to still have this piece of shit programme.

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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:44:57 +0000, [email protected] (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

>> you actually watched it!!!!
>
>No, I was waiting for another programme.

am I going to choose to believe that :-)

>> I think it was a comment on the accuracy
>> of the road safely slogan.

>What a typically tasteless point of him to make then.

Not at all, that's their style of humour and fair comment on
simplistic sloganeering. The three of them had a bet that if one
crashed and burned, they would run it as "as you may have heard X was
killed last week at Y, right, this weeks new car is......"

>His colleague is lucky to be alive.

they all know that, don't they. You don't drive a jet car at 300mph+
if you are risk averse.

>And the arsehole who presents the programme is
>extremely lucky to still have this piece of shit programme.

Its popular, I keep getting an uncomfortable feeling you don't really
like JC, dunno why. Is it his haircut?
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:44:56 +0000, [email protected] (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

>> I'd rather people watch Top Gear than Big Brother.
>
>I don't watch either.

I was entertaining that possibility, my favourite recent TV has
actually been "Coast"
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The Reid <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:44:57 +0000, [email protected] (David Horne,
> _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>
> >> you actually watched it!!!!
> >
> >No, I was waiting for another programme.
>
> am I going to choose to believe that :-)
>
> >> I think it was a comment on the accuracy
> >> of the road safely slogan.
>
> >What a typically tasteless point of him to make then.
>
> Not at all, that's their style of humour and fair comment on
> simplistic sloganeering.

How clever they are! Speed doesn't kill. Brilliant. I wish I'd thought
of that. What wit.

> The three of them had a bet that if one
> crashed and burned, they would run it as "as you may have heard X was
> killed last week at Y, right, this weeks new car is......"
>
> >His colleague is lucky to be alive.
>
> they all know that, don't they. You don't drive a jet car at 300mph+
> if you are risk averse.

I wasn't thinking he was risk averse exactly.

> >And the arsehole who presents the programme is
> >extremely lucky to still have this piece of shit programme.
>
> Its popular, I keep getting an uncomfortable feeling you don't really
> like JC, dunno why. Is it his haircut?

Because he's a big pig.

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The Reid <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:44:56 +0000, [email protected] (David Horne,
> _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>
> >> I'd rather people watch Top Gear than Big Brother.
> >
> >I don't watch either.
>
> I was entertaining that possibility, my favourite recent TV has
> actually been "Coast"

Is that the nature programme? I think I caught a bit once- I like that
kind of thing. BTW, don't think I don't like trashy TV- I like some of
it- various soaps for instance. Especially fun, as I can never catch all
the episodes, so get a trunkated version of storylines. I just find
stuff like Big Brother and that stoopid car programme for the
size-impaired unwatchable!

BTW, I never saw the resemblance, but a lot of people thought I looked
like the scouser who won Big Brother the first time. People would
actually stare at me- and I'd just moved back to the UK. Very
disconcerting!!

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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:49:55 +0000, [email protected] (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

>> Not at all, that's their style of humour and fair comment on
>> simplistic sloganeering.
>
>How clever they are! Speed doesn't kill. Brilliant. I wish I'd thought
>of that. What wit.

If you just nearly got killed in a high speed crash and you are aware
the government has a "speed kills" slogan which ignores the concept of
"inappropriate speed" and your audience shares that knowledge and view
then laughing at death in that way was indeed funny. Of course if you
hate cars...

>> Its popular, I keep getting an uncomfortable feeling you don't really
>> like JC, dunno why. Is it his haircut?
>
>Because he's a big pig.

What was it you said about wit? :-)
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:24:19 +0000, [email protected] (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

>> I was entertaining that possibility, my favourite recent TV has
>> actually been "Coast"
>
>Is that the nature programme? I think I caught a bit once- I like that
>kind of thing.

Nicholas Crane of umbrella, walking round the coast with lots of
asides on various things. No cars, so you should be alright.

>BTW, don't think I don't like trashy TV- I like some of
>it- various soaps for instance. Especially fun, as I can never catch all
>the episodes, so get a trunkated version of storylines. I just find
>stuff like Big Brother and that stoopid car programme for the
>size-impaired unwatchable!

Give me car programme over a soap any day!
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:12:33 +0000, The Reid <[email protected]>
wrote:

>>Because he's a big pig.

Actually David, I don't think he's as blokey as he makes out, in
having an anti-organic rant he let on his hobby is birdwatching and he
had planted a field of barley to encourage some bird or other.
You know they say we are connected to any celeb via three people? I'm
connected to JC via one. The opinion I got was great laugh, dont marry
him (not that I would). He may not vote Lib-Dem though? I dont know
his view on smoking.


Terrible warning: Copying your vinyl to MP3 leaves lots of time to
contemplate past tastes
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