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And five gears is just so last century, isn't it?
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Either we are all getting old or this forum is filling up with wipper snappers who have been fed a diet of big bruvver and all other purile reality shows and they think 5th and top is quality TV - £135 or whatever for total rubbish most of time - bring back "what's my line" and in B/W
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>>>bring back "what's my line" and in B/W
And the Grove Family !
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And TWTWTW with cheeky Millicent and Lance Percival who I once had as a punter in my minicab in Clapham (he eyed me narrowly and addressed me as 'Sir' throughout the journey)...
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Showing my age... never saw TWTWTW but for some reason thought I wonder if this stood for "That Was The week That Was". 8 years before I was born.
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Quite right rtj. But you are very young.
I don't suppose you've even seen a monochrome TV set except in a cheap Chinese takeaway, have you? :o)
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Used to have a BW portable actually. And with the old ZX-80 computer we even had (for goodness knows what reason) a stick-on plastic green screen at one point! Why?
I might be (only) nearly 37 but due to an irregular heart beat at times on beta blockers at the moment though! Had other pills recently too.
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"I don't suppose you've even seen a monochrome TV set except in a cheap Chinese takeaway"
Er, Lud - isnt that Monosodium Glutemate?!
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Quite right rtj. But you are very young. I don't suppose you've even seen a monochrome TV set except in a cheap Chinese takeaway have you? :o)
"We want Muffin, Muffin the mule. Dear old Muffin playing the fool. We want Muffin, everybody sing. We want Muffin the Mule.
Now that is old - remember watching it, in the very early fifties, on a 9" b/w TV with a magnifying lens over the screen. That was television at its best.
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early fifties on a 9" b/w TV with a magnifying lens over the screen. That was television at its best.
Not sure I can really agree there og, have to say I welcomed 625 lines and the Sony Trinitron tube on one level, and sixties and seventies drama, satire and current affairs on another.
In the fifties my parents scorned television as a timewaster for vacuous idiots (an attitude not uncommon among the middle classes in those days), so we didn't have one. I used to envy people with more relaxed parents who conversed at school about matters closed to me, and quoted many catchphrases I didn't really get. No doubt this early deprivation explains the hours I spend now yawning in front of schlock movies and scrolling irritably through the channels of carp looking for something to keep me awake.
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We did not own that TV. It was a neighbour or rather a nice family's, whose mother used to 'do for us' and look after me and my sister. We were too poor to own the TV but my father did eventually succumb and we rented TVs for the next 30 years or so from the now extinct Radio Rentals.
Sob, sob, sob.....................
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"television as a timewaster for vacuous idiots "
So what's changed?
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a magnifying lens over the screen. That was television at its best.
I bought one of those in the sixties with lots of springs to hold it onto the tv,it worked quite well till a tv presenter came on with a suit with stripes in the material,then the picture went crazy
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Lance Percival who I once had as a punter in my minicab in Clapham (he eyed me narrowly and addressed me as 'Sir' throughout the journey)...
Yes, I think it's called irony ; - )))
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The last series was quite an improvement over the series before, entertaining and watchable. Won't bother with it on Monday though but I'll catch the repeat on Saturday morning while I'm rotting away in bed.
I thought Tim Lovejoy was ok who's that bloke they replaced him with? Seems completely bereft of any kind of personality.
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In fairness there were some half decent tests on it (see YouTube for clips) Plato can't half drive. I feel its a more worthwhile watch than TG which is aimed at a different type of audience. I enjoy bits of TG as well by the way.
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And TWTWTW ..
Referred to as TW3 if you're 'kewl' , or as it was the 60's, 'groovy'.
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Not sure how to show right on here properly but mathematically TWTWTW = TW^3. TW3 is three times TW whereas TW * TW * TW is TW raised to the power of three. So yes years before I was born it was referred to as TW3 but that was incorrect ;-) Groovy/Cool maybe but incorrect.
Again before I was born but is this the same series/programme with Clease and the two Barkers (before Two Ronnies) with the "I look up to him" scetch?
Fifth gear... must watch that to make a comment. I thought VBH a little foxy on TG on BBC1 on know.... mmmm no.
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rtJ70. Your maths does not count.
It was *at the time* called "that was the week that was", and only years later was it refered to by psuedo intelectuals who want to be cool, as TW3
Yes the barker corbet cleese sketch of "I look up to him but down on him, I know my place" was indeed first aired on that prog. And classic comedy it remains.
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My response to TW3 was because that is not correct. It was TWTWTW :-)
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mathematically TWTWTW = TW^3
Erm ... TWTWTW is (TW)^3: TW^3 would be the same as TWWW
Anybody seen my coat?
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I thought Tim Lovejoy was ok who's that bloke they replaced him with?
Tom Ford, who's been a presenter on 5th gear for quite some time now.
Tim Lovejoy had no interest in cars, and IIRC, mentioned it on a couple of occasions.
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Tim Lovejoy had no interest in cars and IIRC mentioned it on a couple of occasions
And so wooden that he made my fence posts seemed animated by comparison - truly awful but well meaning to give him some credit!
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For me, the problem with Fifth Gear is that it is so childish.
Oh dear! Am I really that old?
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tim lovejoy wooden? and self centred and smarmy, cant stand the soft southern geezer
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>>tim lovejoy
TL did Soccer am on Sky for a long time and without him, it's now rubbish. Same goes for the All Sports show.
He has a particular kind of humour that either you "get" or you don't. When's he's doing football (or Soccer now) he's brilliant, imho he's pretty good on the Sunday breakfast thing with Simon Rimmer too.
But Lovejoy the chatshow was poor and he didn't suit 5G.
>>self-centered and smarmy
He spends a lot of time laughing at himself, it's the humour of the terraces
VBH is completely useless (again imho) - can't drive and gurns her way through the show. Thought Tom Ford was good as a main presenter, Plato is quite full of himself but Tiff is great. Oh, and that gel-bloke gets on my nerves too. What's that 3-2 against the presenters? Will Sky+ it and fast forward through 60%
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>>tim lovejoyTL did Soccer am on Sky for a long time and without him it's now rubbish. Same goes for the All Sports show.
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Well, that's football for you!!
VBH is completely useless (again imho) - can't drive and gurns her way through the....
That woman is beginning to look ugly now - who knows what she'll look like in twenty years time, not that I will be around to witness it!
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That woman is beginning to look ugly now
At least I'm not the only one saying that - thought it must've been my imagination when nobody agreed with my previous post.
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It was *at the time* called "that was the week that was", and only years later was it refered to by psuedo intelectuals who want to be cool, as TW3
Ned Sherrin (its creator) always referred to it as 'TW3' - common practice in kewl TV circles to use an acronym. Can you imagine how tedious it would be to say 'We've got a run-through for Thatwastheweekthatwas in 20mins, Julian/Lance/Milly' a hundred times a day. Just as, I'm sure, the Monty Python crew never said 'What shall be do this week on Monty Python's Flying Circus, any ideas?' . It was always Python.
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Woodbines, you're too hip, baby...
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Woodbines, you're too hip, baby...
Sadly, nearer to hip replacement than hip...(sigh-creak)
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"That woman is beginning to look ugly now"
Oh well so that's the decider then, let's not focus on the objective reasons as to why it might be a poor programme. JC's soooooooooo handsome !
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SNIPQUOTE ONCE AGAIN for the lazy person who doesn't read the message that appears on his screen when he clicks the 'the Quote original message button'. The message that says "please keep this thread as readable as possible by EDITING the quote to INCLUDE ONLY RELEVANT TEXT"
JC's soooooooooo handsome !
i know who i,d roll over in bed for!!!
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Oh well so that's the decider then let's not focus on the objective reasons as to why it might be a poor programme. JC's soooooooooo handsome !
Well a cynic might imply that the only reason she was given the top on old TG was that she was a bit of eye-candy for the average bloke who wanted a change from Quentin Wilson and Tiff Needell(!!). She no longer serves this purpose.
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My view of 5th Gear is 1: it's rubbish
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2: It's not worth arguing about
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3: VBH is the kind of presenter better suited to programs for the under 5s..
madf
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Well I watched it. No need to fast forward through the carp bits (like I have to with TC) anyone who didn't watch missed not least what was a real petrol head's soundtrack, BMW 335, A racing JAG (oh yes I want one), and a Maserati test and also old Tiff driving and hammering a Veyron. Better than Corrers......but that Jag WOW !
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i was pleasntly surprised. it was nowhere near as bad as the last series.
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Well I watched it. No need to fast forward through the carp bits (like I
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To my mind, it's Top Gear that needs recording and then one can FF through at least 50% of the programme. It has pink fluffy dice to do with motoring.
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Sorry oldgit my inept articulation meant to convey exactly what you said.
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watched it all and, have to say, it was suddenly worth an hour's prog time. All very motoring connected, again only spoiled somewhat for me by VBH's constant and extremely irritating facial contortions to camera
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I watched the start. Confirmed my prejuices.
Load of rubbish.
madf
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it's become watchable again, but i'll obviously be hovvering throughout the series ready to cancel again
'er indoors didn't like it (never has done) although she quite enjoys TG.
p.s. I think PU is a secret Jag man.
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Reckon I might have skipped through too much of it at 30x...
Absolutely hated the camera on a pogo stick filming, just can't watch it. And why on earth film the ace cafe bits from other tables, behind the deep fat fryer, under people's coats. All this edgy stuff, for me, is unwatchable.
Tiff was great in the Veryon, Tom Ford was good in the bits I saw him.
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Absolutely hated the camera on a pogo stick filming,
Spot on! Hilarious stuff. I thought the cameraperson must have accidentally sat on the griddle when I saw it, but maybe the director/producer has just graduated from St Martins & needed to show their film school 'credentials'.
Unfortunately, they seem to be picking up TG habits - the 2-storey Smart 'idea' was just plain daft & looked genuinely risky for the bloke doing it - the safety glass shattered all over the place & he wasn't even wearing a full-face safety helmet! The other irritation was the estate car review, all 2 mins of it - if they're going to the trouble of doing it, why not at least give a bit more depth. But maybe that wouldn't have given the-geatest-driver-in-the-history-of-the-planet-and-then-some, his chance to walk around the pine sheds where they make the Bugattis & get all Tiffy about stuff.
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All in all, then, I think that it was a quite good programme. Not as polished as TG but a damn sight more interesting. The former needs a makeover; some of its content is very tired now and the JC + two stooges format has become tiresome in extremis.
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I couldn't get into it to be honest and turned over to watch Nigella instead - how sad is that - I'm told I missed the best bit with the Veyron but I find Nedell a bit of a plonker so probably would not have enjoyed it anyway.
What on earth were they doing with that estate car test - how pointless was that bit. I learned nothing new at all in what they said.
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I was trying to sort out a failed phone line with some Indian bod whilst it was on - he didn't listen to me, but I knew what the problem was and sure enough it's fixed this morning.
What I was impressed with was the show actually featured a number of cars!
Audi A5 (although I think this feature was premature - the eyt to be made available 3.2 V6 is probably more of a comparison to the 335 coupe)
BMW
Veyron
Misubishi I
smart
Volvo
Mondeo
Merc
Maserati
Jag
Palmer Audi
Surely this is one element a car show should have plenty of?
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Mmmm that Jag - I get a strange hankering...
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