|
|
 |
Author |
|
| Message | |
|
mihto
Joined: 03 Feb 2008
Posts: 2520
Location: West coast of Norway
|
 Posted: Mon Nov 16, 09 9:06 pm Post subject: |
 
|
| Chez wrote: |
Okay, I will rephrase that. Everyone in the world except Jamanda is polarised about him. She can take him or leave him 
He makes my elbows tingle I'm afraid. In a bad way. |
...and people like me who live outside the real world and is clueless. From the discussion on the thread so far I seem to be the lucky one 
Last edited by mihto on Mon Nov 16, 09 9:08 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
|
|
 |
Jamanda
Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 18757
Location: North Devon
|
| Posted: Mon Nov 16, 09 9:08 pm Post subject: |
|
I get to watch him because I am the Mother of a small boy. This is the man's target audience - except some of the small boys are middle aged men. |
|
|
|
|
cricketbod
Joined: 18 Sep 2008
Posts: 146
Location: Hampshire
|
| Posted: Mon Nov 16, 09 9:37 pm Post subject: |
|
big boys can go to a world of humour, easy watching and basically a tv show that doesn't involve fly on wall documentary, B rate tv chefs or a reality show!! |
|
|
|
|
Gervase
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 7005
Location: Ceredigion, West Wales
|
| Posted: Mon Nov 16, 09 9:48 pm Post subject: |
|
Amen to that.
Clarkson is someone I'd leave a pub to avoid in the flesh, but with Hammond and May I find him amusing. James May is beginning to eclipse both of them now he's getting more of his own air-time. Of the three, he's by far the most interesting. And I'd quite happily spend an afternoon in the pub with him. |
|
|
|
|
yummersetter
Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Posts: 1412
Location: Somerset<>West London
|
| Posted: Mon Nov 16, 09 10:20 pm Post subject: |
|
so would I
and luckily he drinks at my local in London  |
|
|
|
|
sueshells
Joined: 20 Jan 2009
Posts: 184
Location: North Bucks
|
| Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 1:05 am Post subject: |
|
| Jamanda wrote: |
| I get to watch him because I am the Mother of a small boy. This is the man's target audience - except some of the small boys are middle aged men. |
......and middle-aged women, one of which is me.
I don't understand why people take Clarkson so seriously - this really is just light entertainment and not intended to be anything else. I'm just relieved that we are still able to watch something which is so un-PC. As the world crashes and burns (no pun intended) in a quagmire of rules, regulations, government databases and Big Brother (the book not the s**ding TV rubbish) CCTV cameras I am very happy to watch a bit of gratuitous fun. |
|
|
|
|
mousjoos
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 719
Location: SW France
|
| Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 6:22 am Post subject: |
|
& despite people thinking he's an arse, we're all discussing what he does for a living.
maybe we should just leave him to it, good or bad |
|
|
|
|
Millymollymandy
Joined: 23 Sep 2005
Posts: 157
Location: Brittany, France
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 19, 09 12:02 pm Post subject: |
|
I have no interest in cars whatsoever but I watch Top Gear for the entertainment factor. I think Jezza on his own is a big-headed prat but with Hamster and Captain Slow they make a brilliant team and have me in fits of laughter.
The best bit ever was JC finding out he had to drive that little moped in Vietnam, and JM wearing a colander for a helmet.  |
|
|
|
|
lottie
Joined: 11 Aug 2005
Posts: 4009
Location: ceredigion
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 19, 09 12:35 pm Post subject: |
|
I mostly enjoy the show, it's different and daft ---and I'm definitely neither male nor young---his Times column which seems to send some people apoplectic often makes me smile as well. |
|
|
|
|
Rob R
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 16821
Location: York
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 19, 09 1:07 pm Post subject: |
|
| Gervase wrote: |
Amen to that.
Clarkson is someone I'd leave a pub to avoid in the flesh, but with Hammond and May I find him amusing. James May is beginning to eclipse both of them now he's getting more of his own air-time. Of the three, he's by far the most interesting. And I'd quite happily spend an afternoon in the pub with him. |
I concur about May- perhaps it is his nick-name, Captain Slow, as I had a similar name when I was driving for a living (and even now, from Nick). |
|
|
|
|
sean
Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28915
Location: North Devon
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 19, 09 3:03 pm Post subject: |
|
His Scalextric prog this week was great I thought. Everyone involved seemed to be really enjoying themselves. |
|
|
|
|
Gervase
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 7005
Location: Ceredigion, West Wales
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 09 9:57 pm Post subject: |
|
Just watched the Scalextric programme on the iPlayer and thought it was wonderful. One of those delightful, charming, warm and generally feel-good bits of telly that you thought they didn't make any more, and which leave you feeling kindly-disposed even to the residents of a Surrey housing estate. |
|
|
|
|
alison
Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 7750
Location: North Devon
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 09 10:57 pm Post subject: |
|
All of this series have been good. |
|
|
|
|
blah
Joined: 21 Jan 2008
Posts: 17
Location: Staffordshire
|
| Posted: Sun Nov 22, 09 8:00 am Post subject: |
|
Anybody know if the Lego house that James May built is part of the same TV series that featured the Scalextric and Meccano? |
|
|
|
|
alison
Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 7750
Location: North Devon
|
| Posted: Sun Nov 22, 09 8:26 am Post subject: |
|
I believe it is. |
|
|
|
|
|
View Latest Posts