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Post by Ben on Sept 10, 2017 12:43:36 GMT
I think it was on the old place where we had a thread about weird automotive-related dreams. Anyway I had one recently so I thought I'd bring it up.
The dream kinda went like this:
It was an episode of Top Gear/Grand Tour (whatever those three monkeys were doing). And they had a challenge, which was to build an animal-inspired vehicle.
May built a motorbike out of crab shells, which for some reason I found immensely hilarious. His introduction narration was done using the lyrics of the song "Love Me" by Collin Raye (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love,_Me), over shots of May building his bike. Which, while bizarre and inappropriate, only added to the ridiculousness, the implication being that May REALLY loved his creation.
Hammond also had a motorbike, with the front end fashioned to look like an otter's head (why not a hamster, I don't know)
Clarkson turned up in a lorry with a front cab shaped like a monkey's face. And the trailer painted with bananas.
For some reason I never got to any actual challenges. The last I remembered of the dream was the three of them arguing and then getting yelled at by a topless lady (?!). And that was it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2017 14:08:25 GMT
Disturbing. But not as disturbing for the licence fee payer as the notion that the Beeb might start to screen The Grand Tour, as I read a day or two ago. Upshot would be that if this happens, TG will have gone from cash cow for Beeb 2 to net cost, having been given away when better solutions seemed available. To me at least.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2017 14:08:49 GMT
Double post. Or double hijack?
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Post by johnc on Sept 11, 2017 9:53:39 GMT
Disturbing. But not as disturbing for the licence fee payer as the notion that the Beeb might start to screen The Grand Tour, as I read a day or two ago. Upshot would be that if this happens, TG will have gone from cash cow for Beeb 2 to net cost, having been given away when better solutions seemed available. To me at least. I think you're right. The BBC were far too quick to publicise the punch (when no-one but them knew about it) and some with long held grudges decided to put the knife in and get rid of JC. They have cost the BBC many millions to satisfy their own dislike of JC. What JC did was wrong but it could have been handled so much better.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2017 13:46:00 GMT
Disturbing. But not as disturbing for the licence fee payer as the notion that the Beeb might start to screen The Grand Tour, as I read a day or two ago. Upshot would be that if this happens, TG will have gone from cash cow for Beeb 2 to net cost, having been given away when better solutions seemed available. To me at least. I think you're right. The BBC were far too quick to publicise the punch (when no-one but them knew about it) and some with long held grudges decided to put the knife in and get rid of JC. They have cost the BBC many millions to satisfy their own dislike of JC. What JC did was wrong but it could have been handled so much better. To Quote speech therapy services for Kent, "Sounds normal for Sheppey" which is consistent going back to Roman times. The beeb being wasteful and ignorant could really be their theme tune. Perhaps it should be, along with televised events where the grand management are put in the stocks for license fee payers to educate them.
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Post by PetrolEd on Sept 11, 2017 14:30:44 GMT
Wouldn't bother, the latest series of Top Gear kicked hell out of The Grand tour which looked old and tired even though it was a new show.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2017 15:44:32 GMT
Our opinions don't affect the logic of the argument though, do they?
And with viewing figures of diidly/squat, the Beeb can hardly flog new TG to an expectant world.
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