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Oct 23, 2008 17 Replies

I prefer this.

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Whilst the car is cool - I hate 'videos' that are just scrolling stills. If you want to show me pictures Mr slide show maker, just put them in a gallery.

I'm hoping the Stig will have one very soon.

New Top Gear starts a week on Sunday, 8 episodes this time, and they get a Veyron on the track...

On the subject of Top Gear - Lawn Bowls??? I nearly died laughing!

Agh, what date is that I might be in Whitby. Need to find a pub full of chavs showing it as I can't believe a goth pub would show it with the volume up.

I believe there are various devices sold eg at high street electrical shops designed to solve this problem - people used to use "Video Tape Recorders", but nowadays the hard disk equivalents are proving more popular.

You do know that the world isn't just chavs and goths don't ya?

Although, having said that, a Goth pub has to be the most miserable place to watch TG. "Oh look a car", "I don't have a car, they're chariots of evil", "Cars are awfully middle class, my parents have one. I use the bus", "Cars make me want to slash my wrists"...

Pete M gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

The world might not be, but have you ever been to Whitby?

Yeah, charming little town during the daytime. It's at night when the black make-up brigade come out that it turns miserable.

Chavs are no problem, just tell them to f*ck off and they normally do - unless you're dressed as a goth, in which case they'll probably put you in hospital.

We have sky+. But I might forget to set it, and the missus won't bother. Especially if there are two other things she wants to record.

Ah see there you would be wrong. Biting whit, back stabbing and bitching someone next to you for a giggle is what top gear does so well.

I know a couple of Merc 124 and 123 owners, a whole bunch of PT cruiser owners (seems they are better on fuel than hearses) and the statuatory hearse crowd. There is even one that looks like a cross between a victorian horse drawn hearse and chitty chitty bang bang and it is a one off custom build based on the proper original VPD Princess chassis. Modified if there ever was one.

A lot of the older goths tend to go for hotrods and are big in the rockabilly/pinup side of hotrodding and then there are quite a few the large Cadillac/Buick/Chrysler land yachts of the 70s. Some drive them as they are, others just slam them, but a few go for full on lowrider builds.

The average age of a goth is about 35, there a couple of great grandparents that attend whitby with all the generations. Most, like me are approaching or at least 40. But there is always a new generation. And kids from goth families don't tend to rebel to be different. They tend to be happy (with the odd exception of course) to fit in with the rest of the family, go to school, uni, get reasonable jobs/careers and spawn the next generation.

Surely the most appropriate goth transport. Have a modified Princess Hearse.

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Set it now then! Just set it for BBC2 Sunday 2 Nov, repeating weekly, 7-10pm and you'll be fine. You can make it more accurate when you know the actual answer. And it'll probably be repeated during the week too.

And there's iPlayer....

Or, just go to

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an hour or so after it's been shown, and download it :-)

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