You mean Mylene Klass is not of interest?
Perhaps if she was on Love Island with the two Danish speedbirds then yes however in the jungle she does not distract enough from the ongoing dross. A rose amongst too many thorns (with respect to Jason D and Faith Brown's chest!).
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Oz Clarke, iirc. Did you not read May's columns in the Telegraph Saturday motoring? He sounds like a right fool. I shall not be watching (OK, I don't own a TV).
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Mylene Klass? Who he?
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get him a bleedin' haircut!
it is so sad watching a bloke in his forties with hair like that - thinking he's young and so cool
there's a piece about him and his house in the Sunday Mail ( I found it okay!) property section
He sounds like a right old reject from Men Behaving Badly
I can just see him on his sofa with his mountain of empty Stella cans
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I hoping I can butt into SWMBO's soap watching to see this. >> get him a bleedin' haircut!
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I can just see him on his sofa with his mountain of empty Stella cans
Doubt it, he's a real ale drinker. Wouldn't touch lager with a barge-pole.
You seem to be extrapolating rather a lot from the fact that he has an unfortunate haircut.
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Despite all the apparent cans of Stella he's still a very dry and laidback character..
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">he's still a very dry and laidback character..<"
He must be if he can put up with Klaxon and Gerbil.
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"You seem to be extrapolating rather a lot from the fact that he has an unfortunate haircut."
It would be most fortunate if he had a haircut.
(nothing I like more than a sweeping generalisation)
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Haircut... what haircut? I imagine you people will soon be complaining about May's shirt needing an iron and saying corduroy trousers don't suit people with his sort of complexion... What a bunch of dogesses.
Unless they are persecuted by employers most sensible people get their hair cut when it seems to be getting too long, if they can be bothered, and wear what falls to hand.
Is the BR inhabited by secret fashion victims?
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Is the BR inhabited by secret fashion victims?
Not so secret it seems.
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As Swiss Tony would have it - " a beautiful car is like a beautiful lady"
If a chap aspires to the finest things in life, if he has a beautiful car, a beautiful lady, fine clothes, an interest in art and literature, wine and good food
well that doesn't really go with beer and bad hair
oh and may is rubbish with wine too - acts like a schoolboy in the show
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oh and may is rubbish with wine too - acts like a schoolboy in the show
Haven't seen the show, just a couple of taster clips earlier on. I got a very strong impression that he didn't get on at all well with the other chap.
Of course TV distorts everything enormously so I could be wrong, as I could be wrong about the other chap not being my sort of person either. And I could be wrong about James May being probably quite easy to get on with.
Perhaps if I saw JM in the flesh I too would start bawling 'Get yer air cut!' as I remember yobbos bawling at me around 1960. But somehow I doubt it.
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And honestly Mini 30, Swiss Toni? Very dapper. No thanks.
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I can't say that I pay much attention to the length of other men's hair, but perhaps it's more important to those of the feminine persuasion ....
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ha ha ha - a few of the Status Quo-ers in?
It's like this I wouldn't have an electrician working on my house who was using 1960's building regs
for a lot of people cars are more than just a means of transport - they are a style statement
how highly should one value the 'style' credentials of a chap who's clealy only catching up with the 80s now?
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">Status Quo<"
Ah, a popular 1960's beat combo, if I'm not mistaken. Whatever happened to them? Something unpleasant I hope.
I think the point about May is that he is a timeless Englishman, quite eccentric, self-effacing and no idea of personal style whatsoever. But he could probably build a Spitfire from matchsticks and still have time to run India, should the need arise.
So May drinking alcohol whilst attempting to converse with the other bloke and sundry French peasants should be fascinating television.
Or not as the case may be.
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He reminds me of Stephen Fry but without the intelligence and wit
I would have had Stephen Fry down as the essential Englishman
I'll probably watch the show just for the horrified look on Oz's face
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"> He reminds me of Stephen Fry but without the intelligence and wit
I would have had Stephen Fry down as the essential Englishman<"
May reminds of you Fry? Both are English and appear on television I suppose, but that's about it. Perhaps the XJS is the real star of the show?
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">May reminds of you Fry?<"
Who wrote that? Doesn't anyone check before pressing the post button days these?
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Fry May a river
Fry May a river
Oz Fryed a river over May
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Wasn't very interested but having read about it in the Radio Times, sounds like it could be very entertaining. "The beer drinker and wine ponce" as The Radio Times puts it. snipurl.com/131qr
Make mine a Theakston's!
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">one scene where he tastes some very expensive Bordeaux and declares to the hushed experts that it smells of "Trebor fruit salad" is priceless.<"
and
">May gets to brew up some wine in the back of his car: an appellation unfamiliar to the locals called "Domaine de Boot de Jaguar". <"
Priceless!! I just hope it's not scripted.
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Of course it is all scripted. Everything on tv is rehearsed and set up for maximum entertainment - it must cost that much and they will have a support crew tailing them (in case Jag breaks down) to ensure the budget isn't wasted. BBC might even sell a book on the back of the series.
Musn't spoil it though, after all it is an hour of escapism, just take it for what it is.
No too keen on that Oz bloke obsessing over wine.
May has a new shape Fiat Panda so he can't be all that bad despite the locks.
Not enough English eccentrics left, although I wouldn't rate May as a grade A example. Fry is close. Patrick Moore not long left now and Magnus Pyke RIP.
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">Of course it is all scripted. <"
Yes, I suppose you're right. Ho hum.
">although I wouldn't rate May as a grade A example<"
May is starting out on the road to true eccentricity, I think he is probably an unwilling traveller though.
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May is starting out on the road to true eccentricity,
Er... is there a definition of 'true eccentricity'? Can't help feeling that if there was it wouldn't be really, you know, eccentric.
Eccentrics come in all shapes, sizes and degrees, and quite a high proportion of them are more or less insufferable. And of course eccentricity beyond a certain point would make a person unsuitable for television. TV men like to know what they're getting. They hate surprises. Too expensive.
I was present once at the shooting of a bit of TV in Essex involving an eccentric American friend, now dead. He gave no problems - packaged eccentricity which he had been practising for years - but the shooting was out of doors near a busy railway line. The crew showed the patience of saints with the trains that passed every couple of minutes drowning all sound. What made them burst into storms of expletives was a - murder is it? - of rooks in the trees nearby, who would all start cawing and howling at once, at random intervals. The TV men really, really hated them.
It was extremely funny.
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Lud, I suspect that you may be eccentric.
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if i knew someone who was a confirmed miserable old pink fluffy dice.... what would they have to do to become eccentric.........it sounds nicer
please let me know and i'll pass it on to my 'friend'
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">Stephen Fry is Welsh.<"
Is he? I thought he was from Naarfuk. Or perhaps that's in Wales.
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Is he? I thought he was from Naarfuk. Or perhaps that's in Wales.
No Micky, but this is (non-clickable owing to content)
www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=322500&y=234500&z...&
st=OSGrid&lu=N&tl=~&ar=y&bi=~&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf
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Lud, you have warped mind. Well done!
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Lud, you have warped mind. Well done!
I'm blushing. I gather it must have worked, but it won't when I try it (from the link I posted, not the original one on a website named in the Danish speed bandits thread).
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"> Danish speed bandits<"
Danish speed bandits??!! Now that's an interesting thought. Denmark and speeding? Speeding where? Into the Baltic perhaps? Or do the Danes do all their speeding in obscure parts of Wales? I think we should be told.
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Oops.
Further research has revealed he´s actually half-Austrian, half-English, born in London.
Sorry.
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So why do I think that Fry has a Naarfuk connection? Perhaps I am confusing him with a well known nurse? Although I'm sure that Stephen Fry would look dashing in a nurse's uniform.
Stephen drives a taxi.
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Norfolk enchants - I believe
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As Swiss Tony would have it - " a beautiful car is like a beautiful lady"
If a chap aspires to the finest things in life, if he has a beautiful car, a beautiful lady, fine clothes, an interest in art and literature, wine and good food
well that doesn't really go with beer and bad hair
oh and may is rubbish with wine too - acts like a schoolboy in the show
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There is a very expensive watch shop in Hertford called Blitz. They sell Rolex, Patek Philippe, Cartier and all the other big names. Some of these watches cost £10K+. Guess who was the star attraction at the opening? Here's a link for those of you who can't guess:
www.blitzwatches.co.uk/shop.asp
Oz Clark had his own radio show about wine on R4 a year or two ago. If that show is anything to go by, he is an incredibly pompous and pretentious person, and astonishingly incapable of eloquent exposition, with a tendecy to use 10,000 words to say nothing. And why when people taste wine, do they discover linseed, leather, engine oil and other odd flavours, and yet I have never noticed one of these people notice raisin? It's the most obvious component of red wine IMO. But what do I know.
I look forward to the show. May is genial IMO. And I hope he sticks the boot in to his side kick.
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And yet as well as being a wine expert, Oz Clark is a member of the British Guild of Beer Writers:
www.beerwriters.co.uk/expertise.php
No sign of James May in that list.
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Oi you lot!
Back to motoring discussion please.
DD.
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Raisin! - ahm raisin a posse to go git 'im
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">Raisin! - ahm raisin a posse to go git 'im<"
Oi, that's not motoring. Flame 'im Dave!!
Stephen Fry drives a taxi. Possibly in Naarfuk. And Austria.
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There is a very expensive watch shop in Hertford called Blitz.
Just near Barnet I notice from the map in the link. How very appropriate.
JM appears to be wearing a white dinner jacket in the photo. Bit fashionista-celeb for broad daylight in Hertfordshire.
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">Bit fashionista-celeb for broad daylight in Hertfordshire.<"
Ah, you've obviously not visited Herts recently. I thought the jacket looked vaguely yellow in the link, I suspect that the Great James was somewhat embarrassed with the whole thing, but he clearly needs the £££s.
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(Mindless nonsense deleted.)
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as Eric Morecambe said "who's that banging the piano with their elbows?" :-)
JH
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