No they have the media for that.

#ProfessorF LOL

That was the most staged, awful, pathetic Top Gear I have ever seen (Bolivia special, courtesy if iPlayer). Only the scenery rescued it back into the realm of watchable. The days of the silly antics and group pranks being entertaining has passed.

Top Gear, I'm leaving you. It's not me, it's you

I'm giving it one episode next series - if that's good, it'll be an episode by episode basis... If the initial episode's bad, on goes the PS3

There were loads of moments that really annoyed me last night, but the absolute worst was Hammond's jeep supposedly going down the dune just after he got out of it

I'd have less trouble with it all if we could get back to proper race challenges and mad engineering feats (the rocket Mini in the snow challenge, the car/rocket)...

What I enjoyed:

The real races like the train vs GTR
The insane competitions (e.g Apache vs Lotus, military vs Porsche/Merc)
The silly car tests e.g. Aygo 5-a-side football or the bus racing
The shorts on different driving like rallying with Ken Block or the Scandinavian rallying James did
the celebs in the Chevvy/f1 in the suzuki (would like more other drivers e.g. touring car drivers especially as they use people like Tom Chiltern a lot)

What I don't enjoy:
All the 'excitement' that was clearly planned
The episode long "watch us take the piss out of each other as we do something in things we clearly have no experience of in cars that clearly aren't suitable"
The staged 'accidents' like James flying into airspace in the hot air balloon

I reckon Top Gear has jumped the shark in this last series, they're not comedy actors, their acting isn't good enough, what they are is funny journalists who get along well and should play to their strengths. They've also all become Jeremy Clarkson.

I find it worrying I not only get that reference, but have seen the episode in question

I get the HD reference, but haven't seen it. Must 'Tube it

'Screw the pooch' is one that seems to crop up in quite a few comics and games I've noticed, wherever that started...

Was wondering what you meant by HD until I realised you didn't mean High Definition...

Doesn't he ?

Happy Days

Groans Loudly

Since popping out to lunch my shoulder has started giving me grief again. It might be gods way of telling me that I should have worn the scarf that Mrs. V. got me for Xmas, (I don't like scarves) but whatever the cause it really bloody hurts. Even typing this is making me wince.

It seems that a few of the mobile phone shops are now giving out this gem of advice... If your Samsung Tocco keeps dropping calls try lock the screen after you press the dial button, as calls are being dropped due to the heat from the callers head causing some sort of electroradiogramaphonicradiotronicismal* type thing that the phone doesn't like... sounds like testes to me

* made up word... they told this to the wife, and that was a close(ish) approximation of what she told me.