View Poll Results: Has Top Gear influenced your language?
This thread is RUBBISH!!! I agree I do use it now
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40.00%
No you bloke I don't use it. What is Top Gear.
1
10.00%
I use it not all the time but when I'm riding in an Estate with my car buds
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10.00%
I stopped talking I only text now
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20.00%
I'm from the U.K and you guys are behind the times
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10.00%
I dislike their language!!
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30.00%
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Spin-off from the E-class thread....Do u talk like Top Gear?
07-21-09, 08:03 PM
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Spin-off from the E-class thread....Do u talk like Top Gear?
Och, Fay and myself agree..
I seem to use it not just for cars for for other items.
How about u?
I seem to use it not just for cars for for other items.
How about u?
Other than that, nope.
07-21-09, 08:29 PM
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Clarkson's car reviews have virtually no bearing on how I do (and write up) mine. His style and mine are as different as night and day. He seems to write about cars as an extension of his own personality, his politics, and how they intertangle with his thoughts, injecting similes/metaphors and humor. I, conversely, aim to do car reviews as an objective history and review of the vehicle, in detail, from stem to stern, describing exactly what you get for your money. Of course, to be honest, I myself am not beyond adding comments based on my own particular views, like my often-criticizing dull paint colors, underhood prop-rods, confusing/complex dash controls, and cheap substitutes for real spare tires.
07-21-09, 09:05 PM
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"That's not gone well at all"
Just finished watching this week's episode. I was horrified when Clarckson tossed Hammond's roof over the cliff! I love the 300zx, & up until then that car was just brilliant.
Just finished watching this week's episode. I was horrified when Clarckson tossed Hammond's roof over the cliff! I love the 300zx, & up until then that car was just brilliant.
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07-21-09, 09:16 PM
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ive always loved the british version of english
common ones that i picked up
vacation = holiday
hood = bonnet
gas = petrol
garbage = rubbish
i cant think of anymore at this point
common ones that i picked up
vacation = holiday
hood = bonnet
gas = petrol
garbage = rubbish
i cant think of anymore at this point
07-21-09, 09:55 PM
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07-21-09, 10:09 PM
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Bonnets, lorries, roundabouts, mind the gap, love that British lingo. I spent over a year there in high school, and visited several times as an adult. Always enjoyed driving there too.
I spent over a year there in high school, and visited several times as an adult. Always enjoyed driving there too.
07-21-09, 10:19 PM
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I still remember one of my English teacher from UK told us not to learn those English from American movies, "that's American SLANG", she said 
07-22-09, 10:45 PM
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I have been influenced by Top Gear. I am always saying " SOD IT" , " Damn and Blast", and "BMW drivers are *****". I think as a car enthusiast there is no TV program that I have ever seen that is as entertaining. sod it I am hooked
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