good luck, Top Gear/Brainiac dude

i really hope we don't have a steve irwin on our hands

Let's not get premature, huh?

(though I did just remark to the mister that I think the stupid stunts on Top Gear may be coming to an end now)

Hammond seemed to be the least reactionary of the three and a genuinely pleasant sort. I hope he makes a full recovery.

but it's some other dude i've not heard of. pity.

i can't help but wonder how many people have been mown down by retard top gear viewers though, i suspect it's not zero

Some of the japes are fairly amusing, the cars into boats one was pretty good.

Can't stand Top Gear. It is sad that somebody has been hurt, but I still haven't been able to stop thinking cynical uncharitable thoughts about this since I heard about it.

haha otm. seriously, it's not like i want anyone to get killed in horrible accidents, but it couldn't happen to a nicer person than the presenter of a fuckawful car programme, though it would have been HEAVENLY if it were clarkson. still, i really can't really feel sad about this. i'm smiling, look.

for what it's worth, i find his presenting style (and top gear in general) very enjoyable - but jarlr'mai's comment above is absolutely spot-on.

i wish him and his family all the best. that said: if he doesn't pull through ... well, it's probably exactly how he wanted to go, innit?

"out of my way NANNY STATE! no-one tells ME how fast to drive! OH NOOOOOOES!"

I had a lift with a regular Top Gear viewer some time ago and it was stupidly hair-raising. I was seriously unamused, and embarrassed for that matter, as we took roundabouts the wrong way and went in and out of traffic as though the other cars were harmless traffic cones.

That said, I don't wish any ill on the bloke who's fighting for his life in hospital.

as soon as he is okay i'll feel less guilty about thinking LOL he managed to crash his car in an airfield (aren't airfields just a big flat place?)

they said this about albert speer! apart from the top gear bit obv

I think a lot of this thread views that as similar to being the nice one from those three melty guys at the end of Raiders. And to be honest I agree - Top Gear is an incredibly well made and innovative program, but (as a result of these qualities making it a success) have become a symbol for All That Is Bad in driving culture.

Shame about the actual guy, but if this shuts Top Gear down then fair enough.

xpost - DG in there before me:)

People have got themselves killed attempting to go faster than other people before. What makes Richard Hammond any different, other than that he was doing it in front of TV cameras (oh, and that he's not actually dead)?

I imagine the next series of Top Gear will feature a sequence JUST LIKE THAT if Hammond is around to present it. Or probably even if he isn't.

him and tickle blowing things up on brainiac:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=m55kgyApYrY

good luck, Top Gear/Brainiac dude (Sugababes to sing for him!)

Anyway, I've just been watching Hammond's first stint back on Top Gear, and wondered if all you cockfarmers were a bit pissed off that he's OK now and you can't laugh am genuinely amazed at the recovery he made. His interview on Jonathan Ross just before Christmas was one of the loveliest bits of telly I've seen for a long time.

And I'm glad Top Gear's back :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqWFK8GB1Hc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=772KpokzjdE

pwned

Great thread

brilliant thread. almost as much fun as trying to break the land-speed record in a nissan micra. i've just spent 20 happy minutes re-reading it.

(hammond had a minor crash the other day, apparently, but wasn't hurt at all.)

stet never did get that car :( but his hysteria is a lol :)

why didn't I post on this thread

because it was crazy enough?

who teh fuck was cappacappa?

haha!

this episode is showing next monday on BBC America :?!>!!@>??

ok I am fully aware this probably makes me a complete rube with abysmal standards of comedy but I am laughing my ass off at the american road trip episode where they go looking for sub-$1000 cars in Miami and drive up through to Nawlins in them. The cheap murder jokes, the fat Stig who lives in a trailer, driving though Alabama with HILLARY FOR PREZ and MAN LOVE RULES OK painted on the sides, this for some reason is my idea of gold. Especially the part where they actually get chased by a lynch mob of sleeveless absolute rednecks in trucks with guns.

Tom, I just watched this last night - your standards are only abysmal if you think that laughing at some really funny shit is abysmal.

The "our television show became a radio show" portion was HILARIOUS.

And they should have been scared for their lives. Rednecks only get even more pissed off by a showing of liberal politics when they feel like its being rubbed in their faces.

RIP

Can't believe he's been gone eighteen months already

oh look stet^^^ you're going to kill me! on the internet!

no, lookit, CONTROVERSIAL ABUSE OF MOD POWERS

blaargh these headlines really didn't help my mood today at all but anyway

Program-makers said Hammond was airlifted to hospital with a fractured knee. The Rimac Concept One electric supercar was reduced to a twisted, blackened mess after it crashed and caught fire.

The program said in a statement that Hammond crashed after completing a climb of Hemburg Hill in the east of the alpine country.

"Richard was conscious and talking, and climbed out of the car himself before the vehicle burst into flames," it said. "He was flown by air ambulance to hospital in St. Gallen to be checked over, revealing a fracture to his knee."

legendary thread, DG urgently required for latest bump

too many xmases in one weekend

yeah, remember when "slow days in darfur" was a funny way to respond to a popular person being in critical condition?

should have just started a new thread.

not read restof thread but support making new one to laugh at terrible person fucking his knee up doing something idiotic

Heeeeeere we go again! [audience laughter]

that initial run of posts into DG's entrance is one of the best things on ILX

top lad

I wouldn't complain if the whole cast of this show were to take up dangerous pursuits like getting tied to cruise missiles and seeing if you can die messier than D Campbell!

the world water speed record has i think an 85% mortality rate for attempts? surely a challenge worthy of the top gear name

God keeps trying

If you guys hate fun this much why is ILM such a wasteland these days

I'll get me coat

We’re actually really looking forward to his new series on Amazon Prime that starts at the end of the month.

With Tory Belleci from Mythbusters too!

I hadn't thought about this show or any of the spin-offs since the last time I posted here 17 years ago but...

‘Top Gear’ Host Chris Harris Tells Joe Rogan - I Warned BBC “Someone Is Going To Die” Before Freddie Flintoff Crash Forced Show Off Road

Top Gear presenter Chris Harris has ripped open the bonnet on one of the darkest chapters in the motoring show’s history — and it makes ugly listening for the BBC.

Appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience, Harris revealed that he warned the BBC that “someone is going to die” on Top Gear unless health and safety standards were improved.

Harris said he made his concerns known months before co-host Freddie Flintoff suffered serious facial injuries during an accident at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey on December 13, 2022.

Classic Top Gear travel episodes and the early Grand Tours are a guilty pleasure but I haven’t been able to get more than a half hour into the last 3-4. Can’t believe Amazon would keep funding them phoning it in so blatantly.

Bizarre thread lol

I wonder if any of the top gear loving melts itt ever saw Stewart Lee’s routine on this & if so did they pop their monocles as embarrassingly then too

yeah it's great! people do change you know, quite a few of these 'melts' still post. this written having stared through fingers at my own first contribution itt ffs lol

oh god I kept going. oh god oh no. ban. ban hard

there could at least have been one poster with the strength of character to wish death upon the cunt!

It's the older, meaner ilx

Appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience, Harris revealed that he warned the BBC that “someone is going to die” on Top Gear unless health and safety standards were improved.

Hehe imagine if that fuckin Clarkson Oh No Anyway gif had been around in 2006

I don't find it difficult to reconcile agreeing with the Stewart Lee bit, wishing fiery death on all three principals of the show AND enjoying the trek across Mongolia in a souped up ATV.

That’s nice but there were other posts in the thread before yours. Give it a skim, it’s some very silly stuff!

a disquieting glimpse back into a past version of ILX where it was somehow considered acceptable to disparage an attempt to break [weeping, saluting] The World Land Speed Record

Come for the esoteric music chat, stay for the confusingly spirited defences of the spiteful and reactionary presenters of the Vroom Vroom Dumbfuck Show

Stewart Lee routine worth posting in full

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7CnMQ4L9Pc