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> top gear boys about met thier maker, p car in episode
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post Jan 4 2015, 12:34 AM
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bad shit happens at the end of part 2 http://topgearspecials.com/top-gear-season...special-part-1/
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post Jan 4 2015, 07:33 AM
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Wow, so they cannot assume to be arrogant everywhere.

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post Jan 4 2015, 12:25 PM
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Is that where Clarkson gets rocks hurled at him in the 928 for the Falkland Islands license plate? I remember reading about that a couple months back.
http://www.businessinsider.com/bbcs-top-ge...gentina-2014-10
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post Jan 4 2015, 12:49 PM
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was this ever officially released? i dont remember ever seeing it. pretty crazy
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post Jan 4 2015, 01:17 PM
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new episodes for the latest season 22
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post Jan 4 2015, 03:36 PM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) Brits in Argentina?? Do they not remember the Falklands war? Did the producers of this show do ANY research? Did they not consult with the embassy? Or was most of it just a staged TV event? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif)
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post Jan 4 2015, 03:55 PM
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QUOTE(Elliot Cannon @ Jan 4 2015, 01:36 PM) *

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) Brits in Argentina?? Do they not remember the Falklands war? Did the producers of this show do ANY research? Did they not consult with the embassy? Or was most of it just a staged TV event? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif)


I don't think most of Argentina has a problem with Brits. The Argentinians I know don't have a problem with me, and I have good English friend's that live in Buenos Aires and love it.

I think the bigger problem is that Clarkson (love him or loath him) never hides from an opportunity to antagonize. Allegedly obviously, because, you know, like they said, the license plate was a pure coincidence... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)
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post Jan 4 2015, 03:58 PM
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That was very different, especially for being Top Gear. That Lotus outright won the contest though, which is really mind blowing. Wonder whatever happened to the cars?


edit- found out about the cars here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-28...Gear-stunt.html



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rkw_N9pNms
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post Jan 4 2015, 05:27 PM
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now they know what it's like to be an American traveling in pretty much most of the world.... act like an ass and display inflammatory things (IMG:style_emoticons/default/slap.gif)
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post Jan 4 2015, 08:29 PM
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Great episode. Glad they were not killed!
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post Jan 4 2015, 09:26 PM
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I lived in Brazil during the Malvinas war. I never lived in Argentina but went there frequently for business and still have Argentine friends. Later worked for an English company and those Argentine friends never had a problem with my English friends. One thing that's true is that the memory of the Belgrano is still painful to Argentines. I suspect from their past shows that Clarkson and the show's producers went out of their way to stir things up, similar to what they did driving through the U.S. South. It makes for good TV so that's their job, after all. I seriously doubt that Clarkson and friends were surprised by the reaction or ever in any real danger. Good TV but totally tasteless.
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post Jan 5 2015, 02:20 AM
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It's also clear that in this instance Top Gear victimized themselves. If you're an avid TG viewer like myself, you know perfectly well that over their many adventures that the cars shown often have deliberately funny number plates. Clarkson himself points out on the show many time how number plates are used, intentionally or not, to make funny anagrams. If this was never the case it would still beggar belief that a car with "H982FKL" plates was unintentionally purchased. It seems to me that a more like scenario would be that someone on the TG staff saw the car, recognized the number plate as joke material, and swiftly bought the car. Or at least obtained the plates.

Taken another way, if everyone at TG claims innocence as they surely will, it seems quite unlikely that anyone on the TG cast or crew on working on that episode didn't notice the plates and take advantage. Or think for one moment about the potential consequences and remove the plates.

In my humble opinion they got what they deserved. There's something enjoyable about this to me because I rather enjoy watching snotty loudmouth cocks meeting with instant justice. Not just the BBC issuing a half-ass apology on in small print on page 32 of The Telegraph just underneath the tide schedules.
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post Jan 5 2015, 08:41 AM
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They did an episode a while back where they drove into Alabama with lots of liberal slogans/bumper stickers on their cars. Ended with a bunch of good ol' boys in a pickup with rifles chasing them north. Might have been a little dramatized, but makes me think this was not entirely unplanned. Maybe the local reaction was just a little more than they anticipated.
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post Jan 5 2015, 09:11 AM
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Did any one else notice in the credits everyone was named Leroy ?
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post Jan 5 2015, 09:20 AM
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Did any one else notice in the credits everyone was named Leroy ?

Robert Leroy & yes I noticed
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post Jan 5 2015, 10:01 AM
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There's something enjoyable about this to me because I rather enjoy watching snotty loudmouth cocks meeting with instant justice. Not just the BBC issuing a half-ass apology on in small print on page 32 of The Telegraph just underneath the tide schedules.

Ha ha ha, spoken like an Englishman!
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