Top Gear

I like the challenges as well. The race to oslo with JC in his Mercedes was very entertaining.

With no offence to Ford Fiesta owners I don't want to see reviews of them I want to see the TVR's the Aston Martins etc thats what entertainment is about!

Regards

PB

But do false people look for real life ?

If Car Nation is anything to go buy most of the drivers of statement cars are cardboard cut-outs of real people with the car the only thing remotely interesting about them. (but only if you find their car interesting in the first place)

I was just going to begin a new thread about the brilliant invention of CD Marker pens, and how useful they've been to me at least, but I thought it might be rather rhubarbish, innit ? Talking of cars though (I do like them honnist) I recall and old railway colleague many moons afore who often used to give me a lift home in his beloved immaculate MG ( BR green convertable naturally) and how much I would have liked to have had one myself. Lovely motor, strangely enough many colleagues there were very serious Hifi bods, though I won't bore you with that stuff, coming home in anothers TR6 was always so very bumpy in comparison, more like a Bedford 4 tonner God bless em.

Fritz Von I'm just gonna play a brand new CD from some very talented people of which I won't bore you with, on my brand new speakers (which the Chief reckons are quite good !) though that's boring too, innit.

P.S. If you store CD marker pens on their sides they last a whole lot longer, as no doubt any teacher or taxi driver will tell yers

Jeremy poor chap has fallen foul of being too tall .

hence 2 slipped discs lots of morphine and probable surgery which has a 5% chance of leading to a life in a wheel chair.

Poor Sod.

Poor old hammond the hamster now has a reason to be proud of his lack of physical stature.

I watched top gear again tonight to watch the loverly Sabine cream Porsches bikes et all in a tranny van with 130 Diesel HP.

A Blast to watch her overtake all kinds of supercars.

I hope she does do the occassional program as she has a great sense of humour.

She must have got it from teaching rich tossers to drive their prize penile extensions faster than they do over speed bumps in Congestion Charging Livingston Land.

Yes i am jealous as i cant stretch to 60K for a decent 911.

regards David

I can't find an image of this Sabine character using all the obvious search terms and the TG website. I'm too old to survive the 100Meg download at that bløødy speed! Somebody somewhere must have one of her secreted about their hard drive.

Sorry guys, it was not a wind up the video. I did a quick googling and got the link. Appologies again if it did not work. I did not get it to work either at my other computer, thinking it was the fault of my computer, maybe not!

Yeah, does someone have it on their hard drive eh?

quote:

Originally posted by DAVOhorn:
Jeremy poor chap has fallen foul of being too tall .

hence 2 slipped discs lots of morphine and probable surgery which has a 5% chance of leading to a life in a wheel chair.

People with longer spinal columns are very slightly more likely to develop back problems (Adams et al 1999). It is a minor effect and to say Clarkson's back problem is a result of his height is an oversimplification.

Spinal surgery is very much not to be undertaken lightly, but the complication rate is nothing like as bad as you suggest. Nerve injury is around 0.05% for the non-elderly (Deyo et al 1992). Nerve injury includes both peripheral and spinal nerves and most of the 0.05% will not be paralised as you imply.

Some of the most significant predictors of developing a disabling problem, far more important than being tall, are inappropriate beliefs about back injuries. In particular, excessive anxiety about movement or re-injury and 'catastrophising' (fearing the worst) make it much more likely that a back injury will develop into a long-lasting, semi-permanent problem.

I'm posting all this because well-meaning but unhelpful comments like the above tend to reinforce both theraputic nihilism and the belief that back problems are dangerously serious and likely to result in long-term disability. Ironically, taking too much care over your back is likely to make the problem worse rather than better.

quote:

Originally posted by djc:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by DAVOhorn:
Jeremy poor chap has fallen foul of being too tall .

hence 2 slipped discs lots of morphine and probable surgery which has a 5% chance of leading to a life in a wheel chair.

People with longer spinal columns are very slightly more likely to develop back problems (Adams et al 1999). It is a minor effect and to say Clarkson's back problem is a result of his height is an oversimplification.

Spinal surgery is very much not to be undertaken lightly, but the complication rate is nothing like as bad as you suggest. Nerve injury is around 0.05% for the non-elderly (Deyo et al 1992). Nerve injury includes both peripheral and spinal nerves and most of the 0.05% will not be paralysed as you imply.

Some of the most significant predictors of developing a disabling problem, far more important than being tall, are inappropriate beliefs about back injuries. In particular, excessive anxiety about movement or re-injury and 'catastrophising' (fearing the worst) make it much more likely that a back injury will develop into a long-lasting, semi-permanent problem.

I'm posting all this because well-meaning but unhelpful comments like the above tend to reinforce both therapeutic nihilism and the belief that back problems are dangerously serious and likely to result in long-term disability. Ironically, taking too much care over your back is likely to make the problem worse rather than better.

quote:

Originally posted by MichaelC:
But who is the Stig?

try this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/essex/features/essex_celeb/stig.shtml

Any the wiser?
Hmm i think not

Well, somebody had to do it!

http://www.jwhubbers.nl/ring/sabine/taxi_vid.php

And there is the news many of us knew all along, she is a bit of a moose.

Did someone say moose?



I hope they were serious about bringing Sabine in for the next series.

Does anybody have an image of garyi?

(I'm just wondering what a male moose looks like)

They say it takes one to know one.

Dear DJC,

What i have written is what Clarkson said on the program.

It was not meant to be information as such on spinal injuries.

He also stated that the level of pain was comparable to childbirth and passing a kidney stone. He forgot to mention the joy of Gallstones.

regards David

I think JC is an entertainer first and a journo second. Lets face it, most people watch the program and then go and buy a Golf Tdi

Mildly off topic, spinal surgery has evolved alot in the last couple of decades. Key-hole surgery, microsurgery, MRI scans etc etc all mean lower risks and better outcomes.

Simon (Neurosurgeon and spinal surgeon)

I guess TG is a mirror on our increasingly aspirational society.

Our parents aspired to and were happy with a boring but reliable car.

What really pisses me off is the oh so clever twats who present themselves, doing ever more ludicrous things in exotic cars.

They get right up my pipe!

Statler.

And another thing ...............

I caught a bit of TG the other night. A red penis extension was being driven sideways round corners on a test track by Stig Of The Dump as usual.

Clearly if your car will not go round corners sideways on a test track; it's farkin useless on the road innit?

Then Clarkson insulted some chap in the audience he has called upon for his opinion, by saying that an open top car was not for him, as his face looked 'horrid'.

I'd have been sorely tempted to deck the twat.

Statler.

quote:

Originally posted by J.N.:
And another thing ...............

I caught a bit of TG the other night. A red penis extension was being driven sideways round corners on a test track by Stig Of The Dump as usual.

Clearly if your car will not go round corners sideways on a test track; it's farkin useless on the road innit?

Then Clarkson insulted some chap in the audience he has called upon for his opinion, by saying that an open top car was not for him, as his face looked 'horrid'.

I'd have been sorely tempted to deck the twat.

Statler.

Top Gear is about enertainment not information - well, not primarily information anyway. They do feature the odd boring but reliable car.

I like to see the exotic cars driven hard on Top Gear and I like it that if the presenters don't like the car they say so. Reading car magazines is like reading advertising brochures - all wonderful but with some tiny flaw - to give it the appearance of journalism.

quote:

Originally posted by J.N.:
And another thing ...............

I caught a bit of TG the other night. A red penis extension was being driven sideways round corners on a test track by Stig Of The Dump as usual.

Clearly if your car will not go round corners sideways on a test track; it's farkin useless on the road innit?

Then Clarkson insulted some chap in the audience he has called upon for his opinion, by saying that an open top car was not for him, as his face looked 'horrid'.

I'd have been sorely tempted to deck the twat.

Statler.

I think that we are all entiltled to our own opinions but if you think he is a twat and that a red supercar is a penis extension then don't watch it. Why not record Songs of Praise or Heartbeat and watch it when TG is on.

I think that TG is one of the best programmes on the box, it can give the average joe a bit of an insight into a car that might cost £200k and it will be the closest they will ever get to it. Is there a problem with that???

Damien

By the way, STIG is former racing driver Perry Mcarthy.
His name came out in court when TG were sued for being a bit too rough on a Jaguar D-type by the disgruntled owner. I don`t know what the outcome was.

Perry isn't the Stig. Perry drove for Top Gear until about 2 series ago. Then it all ended as abrubtly as his F1 career.
I've heard all sorts of names mentioned from 'those in the know', but don't care. He's good, but obviously not as good as Damon!

Tony

Did you know TG has the same initials as Throbbing Gristle?

DS

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