To be appalled by Top Gear 02/02/14

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I am watching with my head in my hands and with a sick feeling. The 'team' are driving around a closed supermarket in small hot hatchbacks . The idea is for them to go round as quickly as possible

The amount of food that is wantonly destroyed is just sickening.There are families who have no food to eat today because of a variety of reasons and these idiots are finding it hilarious to drive over perfectly edible food for fun.

Surely there must be a better way to spend our TV license money than pay these old men and the programme makers who dream up this stuff.

BTW I knew someone who knew the guys and they said the guys are some of the nicest people in the world. even Jeremy!also knew the old Stig, Ben Collins.

We watch Top Gear, and love it, so we might be cunts.

BTW I knew someone who knew the guys and they said the guys are some of the nicest people in the world. even Jeremy

I read that Richard Hammond once ran 16 miles to get to home for his daughter's birthday after he had been stuck in traffic. If that's true, I think it's pretty sweet. I have a crush on him, anyway, that would just add to his dreaminess.

One of my dreams is to drive the track like the "stars in the reasonably priced car," do.

Shock horror! Top Gear has a puerile sense of humour and not everything on it is absolutely real and exactly as it happened! Their stated aim is to think "what would a 9 yr old find funny". We think it is hilarious a lot of the time. It's entertainment, not a serious motoring programme.

OP you are being really oversensitive, it was obviously not a genuine supermarket.

Clarkson is clearly not everybody's cup of tea, I think he would drive me nuts after about an hour in his company, but don't underestimate him. Thank goodness there are people like him who rail against the world a bit.

If you don't like TG, don't watch it, there are tens of millions of others who do.

I love it. I does also subsidise quite a lot of the BBC output too.

Yes it does warm the cockles of my heart that something good will be made and shown on BBC 4 with the money raised by Top Gear.

What is doubly pleasing is that the Daily Mail reading, boorish, 'PC gone mad' foreigner/gay/ lefty bashing little Englanders who watch the show and regard Clarkson as some sort of spiritual guru will probably absolutely loathe whatever it is.

Does anyone watch this and actually think it's real. Really?

My dd thinks it's all real. I haven't got the heart to tell her otherwise - it would be like telling her Father Christmas isn't real!

I just threw some out of date melon in the bin, OP. And I am 47. Hopefully, this causes you to hold your bigoted head in your hands and feel sick again.

YABU.

Have you ever thought about how much food is wasted on Television Cookery Shows?

You just have a chip on your shoulder about Top Gear.

No no no not a chip, that would be a waste of food that could feed the population of York for a month. How dare you waste a perfectly good chip!

Ummmmm it's a set and probably not even real food!!!

Steff Id also LOVE to go round the track in the RPC !!

me and DC 'play' TG when were out (no I don't drive fast) and when we go round a corner we say 'round Chicago/Hammerhead/Gambon.......'.

yes, saddo but fun!

Try working in a grocery shop and you'll know true wastage :) Now that is appaling. Top Gear's silly ideas are insignificant and does not matter. You could always go and make a vegetable garden to make up for food waste, instead of watching tv ;)

Seriously?

The whole fecking thing was staged!

I saw soap powder, various other boxed and canned products but no 'fresh produce' - I may have had my eyes shut from pissing myself laughing - but the producers set these things up!

It wasn't even in a real supermarket FFS! You can hardly get a trolley round a supermarket, never mind a Golf GTI!

At least not the ones here!

We all know that thousands of supermarkets each and every day chuck tonnes of food out. FACT

But they are getting more aware of how to reduce waste. Top Gear is not your beef here OP......

There is no excuse for it, they could pass it onto food banks, something that I personally donate to each week when I see we have something coming close to it's 'use by' date.

Top Gear is a fave in this house, a bunch of middle aged men, who should know better, rolling a Nova in a field, driving in an orange velvet golf and having a reet laugh..... isn't all about taking things a bit less seriously sometimes? Just for an hour?

If you don't approve, don't watch it. :)

'isn't life all about'........ apologies.

And thanks brook :)

me and DC 'play' TG when were out (no I don't drive fast) and when we go round a corner we say 'round Chicago/Hammerhead/Gambon.......'.

I may or may not do the same thing, around the unoccupied areas of grocery store parking lots....

Rather looking forward to next weeks 'appalled by Top Gear' thread. There's bound to be one

Top Gear is one of my guilty pleasures.

There is so much wrong with it I don't know where to start. It is guilty of sexism and xenophobia and glamourises an irreverent, irresponsible approach to life.

And yet I love it. I particularly like Jeremy Clarkson for some strange, unfathomable reason, although I am aware that if I met him in real life I'd almost certainly consider him a complete and utter tosser.

I did laugh at the driving in a supermarket item because I am childish.

TG has given up all pretense of realism.
It's the only programme to make me wheeze with laughter, I love it. The bits talking about cars spoil it .