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09-24-2006, 04:33 AM
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What a gay bitch. :roll:
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09-24-2006, 09:26 AM
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#182
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Originally Posted by BBC.co.uk/topgear
...We're keeping every message of support, and will make sure Richard gets to see them all. If you'd like to add your support, you can email us your message.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/richard_hammond.shtml
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09-24-2006, 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by BADMIHAI
What a gay bitch. :roll:
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Stupid gay bitch ...
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09-25-2006, 06:44 AM
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Some updates ...
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Originally Posted by The Observer
The fate of Top Gear, the BBC motoring show, depends on whether presenter Richard Hammond can recover from last week’s high-speed car crash, its executive producer said yesterday.
Andy Wilman, the man credited with turning Top Gear into BBC2’s most popular programme, said he could not imagine the series returning without Hammond. Wilman also threatened to quit if the corporation attempts to “tone down” the programme’s irreverent attitude and relish for speed. Presenter Jeremy Clarkson said he, too, would defy critics who “don’t like Top Gear and would love to see it off the screens”.
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_ne...879669,00.html
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Road safety minister BACKS Top Gear! 
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Originally Posted by Times Online
The road safety minister has defended the high-octane stunts performed on the BBC’s Top Gear programme and described the presenter Richard Hammond as an “adventurer” after he was seriously injured in a 300mph crash.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...372255,00.html
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09-26-2006, 03:55 AM
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09-26-2006, 06:48 AM
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Originally Posted by jakaracman
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Originally Posted by BADMIHAI
What a gay bitch. :roll:
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Stupid gay bitch ... |
Stupid, gay, COLD bitch!
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09-27-2006, 02:40 PM
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Brilliant article with some really good points in it...
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/art...2412_1,00.html
The summary below is of this article, thanks to a site which is apparently in the banned list of words!
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Originally Posted by Times Online
It therefore seems likely that soon, in a matter of weeks maybe, the Hamster will be back on his feet and ready to start work. The question is: will he have a show to go back to?
As I write, swarms of bureaucratic bluebottles are nibbling away at the crash site on a York airfield, desperately trying to find some reason why Top Gear should be banished from the screens.
Well, contrary to reports that he was put there by ratings-hungry producers, it was his idea. He wanted to know what it would be like to go really fast. And I know exactly why.
If he’d been interested in flowers and vegetables since a young age, he might very well now be standing in a pair of wellingtons on Gardeners’ World, talking about compost. But he isn’t interested in compost — he’s interested in speed.
Some people are born with a physical need to take risks. Steve Irwin was one. Christopher Columbus was another. And Ellen MacArthur is a classic case in point too. Telling her to stop sailing round the world is as daft as telling a black person to be white, or a blind person to look where
they’re going.
But of course, we have a whole industry nowadays designed to do just that. To ensure that nobody ever falls over, that nobody ever hurts themselves, that nobody ever dies. And that if someone does, then the system must have failed and a head must roll…
How can this be a problem for anyone other than Mrs Hammond and their children? Because he crashed and tied up the emergency services? Oh come on. Are we to tell DIY enthusiasts who fall off a stepladder that no ambulance will be forthcoming because they should have called in a professional plumber? Perhaps you might argue that Hammond is setting a bad example and that kids might try to copy him. What? In their jet cars? On their airfields?
In the last series, while attempting to build an entire car from scratch in one day, the nearly completed project fell from its stands onto the floor.
“Who’s fault was that?” I barked.
“Oh for God’s sake, how’s that going to help?” said Hammond.
He’s right. How can blaming someone help? We just need to make sure the little guy keeps getting better and that when he does, he can get back in a car, get back into Top Gear, and go 316mph.
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Another article:
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news_detail.html?sku=470
And another:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5384400.stm
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09-27-2006, 03:10 PM
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Great news, why cancel Top Gear, it's become an integral part of sunday evening for millions. The have an ME to prove it.
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09-28-2006, 09:54 AM
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a smiling Hammond beeing transferred to another hospital closer to his home in Cheltenham in Gloucestershire.
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09-28-2006, 11:08 AM
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Good news. It's good that he is on the mend.
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09-29-2006, 06:44 AM
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For those of you who don't know, this was taken outside Earls Court in London, it's a big arena used for various shows including motor shows.
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09-29-2006, 07:19 AM
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Photoshop ?
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09-29-2006, 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Skaala
a smiling Hammond beeing transferred to another hospital closer to his home in Cheltenham in Gloucestershire.
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That pic just made my day! very nice to see his new expensive teeth 
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09-29-2006, 08:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Jabba
Photoshop ?
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You think?
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