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Old Mar 25, 2015 | 05:01 PM
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Person Not even close to being into cars: Dude, did you watch this week's TopGear?!
Me: I don't watch TopGear
Person Not even close to being into cars: Really? But you are into cars!
Me: That show is not about cars

That's like the last 15 years for me on the subject.
Again, relative. Tog Gear is just as much about cars as, let's say, NFL is about actual game play or athletics...what's the latest statistics? 17 minutes of play per 4-5 hour broadcast? Played by guys with enough criminal offenses to rival most gangs? And yet you are an avid watcher...

Anyway, whatever floats your boat homie
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Again, relative. Tog Gear is just as much about cars as, let's say, NFL is about actual game play or athletics...what's the latest statistics? 17 minutes of play per 4-5 hour broadcast? Played by guys with enough criminal offenses to rival most gangs? And yet you are an avid watcher...

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Haters gonna hate, right?
Old Mar 26, 2015 | 07:14 AM
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Haters gonna hate, right?
You are the one that started hating I just been playing devil's advocate
Old Mar 26, 2015 | 09:18 AM
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You are the one that started hating I just been playing devil's advocate
I know, that's what I mean. I gotta play my part. I can't change it up now to be sympathetic!

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Top Gear producer punched by Jeremy Clarkson does NOT want to press charges | Daily Mail Online
studio already being dismantled
Old Mar 28, 2015 | 10:22 AM
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Clarkson is gone, what more could anyone want?

I don't think jail time helps, BBC probably just wants to move on now.
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Hmmmm... Netflix eh? I think that could work.
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BBC close to Top Gear dream team: Philip Glenister, Jodie Kidd and Guy Martin | Showbiz | News | Daily Express

BBC close to signing Philip Glenister, Jodie Kidd and Guy Martin as Top Gear 'dream team
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Guy Martin... Are they going to start talking about bikes too now?
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So a nothing, a nobody and a very ugly chick...some dream team.
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Well, to be fair, James May and Richard Hammond was a nobody before Top Gear.
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Originally Posted by Overbear
So a nothing, a nobody and a very ugly chick...some dream team.
Pretty much my first thought...unless they are a big deal across the pond and we just don't know it?

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Well, to be fair, James May and Richard Hammond was a nobody before Top Gear.
Except Top Gear was also a relatively unknown show at the time, unlike the 11nthbillion$$$$!!! worldwide household name it is today. So would it be not more fitting to actually get some known intellectual properties witn international credentials to continue the gravy train?

Don't get me wrong, for all I know those 3 might be a decent lot...but it might be a big gamble handing the show over to them
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And I can just see it now...Hipster Gagan re-watching old 80s Top Gear episodes on an old VHS players talking about "good ol' days" of motoring journalism...and how he watched it before anyone else thought it was cool
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Originally Posted by LxJLthr
And I can just see it now...Hipster Gagan re-watching old 80s Top Gear episodes on an old VHS players talking about "good ol' days" of motoring journalism...and how he watched it before anyone else thought it was cool
Nope.

I'm just going to watch THIS topgear. And when in 6-8 years everyone else jumps on board, they will call me a hipster, yet, they are the ones jumping on bandwagons.

Anyways... a Clarkson-less TopGear is definitely worth watching!



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