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waste of money

zinnia

Agreed, it was a stunt, it was meant to be funny and it was!

Some of you need to lighten up and stop taking it so personally.

Of course it was funny but will you all be laughing when so much bad exposure towards caravaner's starts costing you all money. When people start believing all caravans should be taxed because they are a complete nuisance on the roads.

I was screaming either with laughter or fear when Jeremy's vehicle started swaying and people were passing him.  It was hilarious and if he keeps people from taking up caravanning then i see that as a positive lol.

our household thought it was hilarious, we were in fits especially when jeremy was being overtaken by the lorry.

if you want a serious car programme, watch 5th gear, if you can't stand top gear and you know it's going to upset you there are hundreds of other channels to chose from. as for it being a waste of money it is for me one of the most entertaining shows one beeb1 at the mo, much better value for money than the football and a lot cheaper

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I used to like the programme but not any more. I want to learn about real cars for real people, not super cars for millionaires.
Ali

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I would be considerably more worried if Panorama or the like decided to run a "documentary" on caravans and their negative impact on the countryside/economy/life in general rather than three grown up adolescents being prats and entertaining people. As it is I view TG as entertaining rubbish.

And don't get me started on that waste of time known as soaps and their inherent ridiculously high death rate.

There is always the off button.

Can I send the BBC a copy of last years licence and then say I only watch repeats?

Quote: Originally posted by colinlob on 21/7/2010

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I would be considerably more worried if Panorama or the like decided to run a "documentary" on caravans and their negative impact on the countryside/economy/life in general rather than three grown up adolescents being prats and entertaining people. As it is I view TG as entertaining rubbish.

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Fortunately such a programme will never be made - imagine the impact on Cornwall's tourist industry if they closed all the caravan sites!!

Let's face it, it's 'trendy' to take the mick out of caravans and camping in general.  It's perpetuated by programmes like 'Top Gear' (altho I'm a fan), the majority of people have probably never been in a queue behind a caravan in their driving lives but find it amusing to say so among their mates.

That said the episode was very funny but I did wonder what would have happened if JC's Citroen 'mobile flat' had toppled over into oncoming traffic on that A road and caused a pile-up.   

On a separate note where did he get that (seemingly pristine) Citroen CX from?, I thought they had all gone to the great onion-field in the sky by now.