When I was younger (like, 1999 or so) I used to watch Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson was tres cool, and that James May guy was a dork. However, nowadays James May is the coolest guy on Television .. laconic, relaxed, nothing to prove, secure in himself. A gentle man, and a gentleman.
Amazing how the world changes as I get older. Food has gone from Ick to Delicious, while staying the same item of food. My parents have somehow stopped talking crap, while still saying the same things. And Jeremy Clarkson has become rather oafish .. while still being the same old Jeremy Clarkson.
Weird.
August 1, 2007 at 12:13 am
This all seems very sage…. except for the “parents have stopped talking crap” bit, I am not looking forward to the day I start agreeing with their ill informed, xenophobic, homophobic, good morning television educated cliched pseudo knowledge.
Or is this just something that happens to everyone?
Tell me I’m not going to get a biomag wooly underlay start buying pants with a stretchy wasteband and listen to talk back radio, say it aint so!
August 1, 2007 at 5:11 am
Oh c’mon, talkback radio is a riot. It’s laugh a minute territory. And stretchy waistbands are comfy. Totally not sucked into the biomag though, that’s just hokum.
August 1, 2007 at 6:26 am
Yeah I notice there are no doctors or scienticians on their TV ads explaining how they work, I have no doubt they have a placebo effect, but how a bunch of magnets will make me feel better I’m can’t imagine.
The whole “magnets make you feel better” quackery went out in the Victorian era, then they called them electric, you buy a hairbrush with magnets in the handle and it’s called an Electric Hairbrush, this kind of thing was popular at the same time as Mesmerism so I am yet to be convinced.
August 1, 2007 at 9:30 am
I was more thinking of things that they’d say to me like “Perhaps you shouldn’t spend that money on the first shiny thing that catches your eye?”
Rather than the really stupid stuff like “If you sit inside tinkering with that computer all day, you’ll never learn anything that’ll get you a good job.”
August 1, 2007 at 12:47 am
Only a man could get through that first paragraph without mentioning Richard Hammond at all.
I still find Jezza amusing, even when he’s being a twat, but I wouldn’t want to be stuck in a lift with him.
August 1, 2007 at 5:07 am
I completely agree here. Richard Hammond is obviously a woman-thing.
Maybe I happen to be really hot for short, sweet, funny guys with dark hair and a cute smile.
And yeah, Clarkson tires on one after a while.
August 1, 2007 at 5:27 am
Heh, oddly after I wrote that, I thought, I should have said ‘straight man’, because I’m fairly sure the Hamster has ‘cross-over appeal’.
August 1, 2007 at 5:58 am
Yay the Hamster! specially after his 2.5 hour run home to his daughter birthday after abandoning his Porsche 911 🙂
August 1, 2007 at 6:27 am
You guys lust after Doctor Who for the same reason, you make me sick:-)
August 1, 2007 at 9:09 am
Sweet, funny, dark hair, boyish grin, cross-over appeal? Guilty. And don’t forget Captain Jack. Either of them.
August 1, 2007 at 9:24 am
Hell even I fancy Captain Jack and I’m straight.
August 1, 2007 at 9:32 am
Richard “Organ” Hammond wasn’t on Top Gear in 1999/2000 etc. He didn’t show up until a few years later.
So I guess you COULD cope with being stuck in a lift with the Hamster?
August 1, 2007 at 10:08 am
*sighs, looks into middle distance*
If I really, really had to.
August 1, 2007 at 12:04 pm
I feel like I have to make some kind of comment about Hammond’s organ…