Glow worm
Legendary Member
- Location
- Near Newmarket
No worries JJ- I've just had one of them days at work reading through no end of incomprehensible acronyms . Reckon I finally just cracked!
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No worries JJ- I've just had one of them days at work reading through no end of incomprehensible acronyms . Reckon I finally just cracked!
Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
It has just been pointed out that more people have signed the petition to reinstate Clarkson than signed the petition to end Female Genital Mutilation.
Brilliant, just feckin brilliant.
Well, Clarkson is a complete fanny so there is some connection between the two petitions.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
The trouble with the oaf is that his humour is almost always tendentious, often at the expense of some eeny-miny-minority or foreigner. Either that or it's along the I'm above the law lines. There's another thread bobbing up and down at the moment about a driver defending an 120mph in a 70mph and an 80mph in a 40mph charge of dangerous driving. Speed isn't dangerous, you see. I wonder whether he's a Top Gear watcher.
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
- Location
- Bristol
Didn't Top Gear used to be a rather boring show about reviewing cars?. I seem to recall it was, until Clarkson turned it into a laddish tabloid-esque farce with dumb stunts. Frankly, I thought they'd stopped all that when Hammond nearly bought the farm. Clarkson is an utter ******* in my opinion and past his sell by date. He's certainly made his opinions known about cycling and cyclists over the years, so I'm (hopefully) going to enjoy his demise
. I do like May & Hammond though. Hammond is apparently a keen cyclist and I loved the one where he beat Clarkson to London City airport on a road bike. James May does some interesting sciencey-engineering stuff as well.
. I do like May & Hammond though. Hammond is apparently a keen cyclist and I loved the one where he beat Clarkson to London City airport on a road bike. James May does some interesting sciencey-engineering stuff as well.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
[QUOTE 3583593, member: 9609"]Interestingly (and I only know this as a TG devotee
) Clarkson explained in this current series how safe speed limits on motorways should be raised to 115mph, the logic was on the lines of; the 70mph limit was derived in the 60s(? )from what a typical driver in a typical car could stop within the length of a football field - as of now the modern car with modern brakes could stop with the same distance from 115mph. So yep, according to TG 115mph is entirely safe. (and btw that is not my view)[/QUOTE]
Yes, stopping a 2 tonne Bentley, and a couple of other cars, in under the Highway Code stopping distance was used, if I remember correctly.
) Clarkson explained in this current series how safe speed limits on motorways should be raised to 115mph, the logic was on the lines of; the 70mph limit was derived in the 60s(? )from what a typical driver in a typical car could stop within the length of a football field - as of now the modern car with modern brakes could stop with the same distance from 115mph. So yep, according to TG 115mph is entirely safe. (and btw that is not my view)[/QUOTE]Yes, stopping a 2 tonne Bentley, and a couple of other cars, in under the Highway Code stopping distance was used, if I remember correctly.
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
- Location
- Bristol
[QUOTE 3583593, member: 9609"]Interestingly (and I only know this as a TG devotee) Clarkson explained in this current series how safe speed limits on motorways should be raised to 115mph, the logic was on the lines of; the 70mph limit was derived in the 60s(? )from what a typical driver in a typical car could stop within the length of a football field - as of now the modern car with modern brakes could stop with the same distance from 115mph. So yep, according to TG 115mph is entirely safe. (and btw that is not my view)[/QUOTE]
I've done huge amounts of work-motorway driving over the years and I've seen some awful accidents where the car ends up like a drinks can peeled with a can opener. TG thinking that 115mph is safe is just dumb.
) Clarkson explained in this current series how safe speed limits on motorways should be raised to 115mph, the logic was on the lines of; the 70mph limit was derived in the 60s(? )from what a typical driver in a typical car could stop within the length of a football field - as of now the modern car with modern brakes could stop with the same distance from 115mph. So yep, according to TG 115mph is entirely safe. (and btw that is not my view)[/QUOTE]I've done huge amounts of work-motorway driving over the years and I've seen some awful accidents where the car ends up like a drinks can peeled with a can opener. TG thinking that 115mph is safe is just dumb.
david k
Hi
- Location
- North West
He was taking the pee, it's an entertainment programme, anyone who watches this for driving advice is dumb, IMO
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
- Location
- Bristol
I quite agree. Although, unfortunately, we do seem to live in a world where some cannot tell the difference. I don't really watch TG although my lodger does (she wants an Aston Martin).
pawl
Legendary Member
- Location
- Desford Leicestershire
Come on tits are useful ,Clarkson isn't .
flake99please
We all scream for ice cream
- Location
- Edinburgh
You only have to look at Jimmy Saville to see how the BBC have turned a blind eye to 'problems'.
byegad
Legendary Member
- Location
- NE England
Point taken, how's about we make it Tits on a bull?
swee'pea99
Squire
"Tits on a boar hog" was the expression my dear old gran always used.