Top Gear - USA

[gouldy]

I was just watching the Jonathon (christ knows how he spells his name) Ross Show, the equivalent would be something like Jay Leno I would guess, anyway, Jeremy Clarkson was on talking about Top Gear and he said some stuff that I didn't know.

Did you know that Top Gear is broadcast all over the world, countries like russia, japan etc etc, but the only country that it had to be translated for, was America ..... which I found stupendously amuzing. Jeremy Clarkson had been in the paper about that, saying how he hated America because of things like that, he said things like how he hated the fact that you aren't allowed to say anything on American TV that may offend people etc etc... and because of that, they have taken Top Gear off the TV in America, is that true? If it is, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA [:)]

Just thought I'd mention it, because I seem to remember a few of you saying that you were into Top Gear and I never knew before that they had to translate it in America. You know, translate it all from "petrol" to "gas" and things like that.

Yeah they did have to take it off that air, which is a sad thing because it was a great show. On right after my favorite show Mythbusters, Wendsdays at 10:00 PM.

^Exact same thing here. Every wednesday: Mythbusters at 7 pm and Top Gear at 8pm. It's just funny listening to those guys describe the cars.


Gouldy, I don't remember them having to translate "petrol" to "gas" but I know they did do MPH which I thought was weird for it being a British show. I think they should have just kept it all British which would have definitely made it better.

Thats really pathetic they had to translate a few words. lol. I love Top gear but i always end up missing it. Im not into cars, i just think its such a good funny program. [:D] Thats what i like about Jeremy Clarkson, he gets away wih saying whatever he thinks, even if it isnt politically correct

Whenever I saw Top Gear on tv here it had words like petrol and stuff...

[gouldy]

why did they take it off though? We have Americans on our TV taking the piss out of England all the time, and rightly so, doesn't mean we never show anything to do with them on our TV's ever again, we just laugh . You have to be able to take a bit of criticsimcitsmsmsms (I've never known how to spell that word). Just seems a bit stupid to me that they'd take his show off TV completely just because he told you the truth, ahwell

Are you not from Canada FN?

[gouldy]

Originally posted by Woodie Man

Gouldy, I don't remember them having to translate "petrol" to "gas" but I know they did do MPH which I thought was weird for it being a British show. I think they should have just kept it all British which would have definitely made it better.

er, we use MPH here dude, it's those crazy ass europeans that use KPH

Why the hell would you called Petrolium Distolate, gas anyway? This seems like another bulls up by some American guy..."Hey whats this petrol like liquid stuff? Oh, it's gas!" Idiots

^^Well, I thought you guys were switching to metric, but I guess not. Maybe where you are it's MPH.

Yeah I am from Canada but alot of the shows here come from the USA along with alot of the Tv stations.

[gouldy]

no one in this country ever uses the term Kilometres per hour, apart from german exchange students and perhaps some stale bread or something. Although the government is trying to make our country more european all the time, introducing 24 hours drinking as if we didn't drink enough here . Stupid idiots haven't got a clue what they're doing, we don't want to become european, we like being Great Britain, it's why no one bothers to vote anymore, because no one actually cares or listens to what the government does anymore. The government may want us to change to metric, but we're not going to.

We're still half assed when it comes to measurements. Some people use Imperial some use Metric...i use both. I'd measure speed in MPH, distance in meteres, height in feet, weight in lbs. Just to piss the physics teachers off, we'll usualy convert our answers from Metres to Inches, just to piss the teacher off as they have to check it....we also play around in stand forms, giving a distance of 100km, in micometres is also good fun

Here in the US everything in science classes has to be metric which is really out of place because nothing here is metric.

[gouldy]

Originally posted by Edge

We're still half assed when it comes to measurements.

We're still half assed when it comes to anything surely? That's why it's such a great country, no one gives a crap about anything, except old people, but everyone knows how much they suck.

I quote from an email I got overnight from the Discovery Channel:

"Thank you for contacting Discovery Channel. We appreciate you taking the
time to share your thoughts and concerns with us regarding ?????????Top Gear.?????????
Your comments will be forwarded to our program management and executives
and will be taken into consideration.

The "Top Gear" show was not "taken off the air" but rather ran its pattern.
It is being revamped for a U.S. audience and will return later this year.
Look for it in December."

Maybe thats why I don't see the American version, I watch it on Speed Network (Speedvision..whatever it is..) and notDiscovery...then again I don't get the same American Discovery channel either.

[gouldy]

"revamped for a U.S. audience", in other words they're gonna make it poop?